EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS JANUARY 3, 1961, TO JANUARY 3, 1963

FIRST SESSION-January 3, 1961, to September 27, 1961 SECOND SESSION-January 10, 1962,1 to October 13, 1962

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE -RICHARD M. NIXON,2 of ;LYNDON B. JOHNSON,2 of PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE-, of SECRETARY OF THE SENATE-FELTON MCLELLAN JOHNSTON, of SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE SENATE-JOSEPH C. DUKE, of Arizona

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-,4of Texas; JOHN W. MCCORMACK,5 of CLERK OF THE HOUSE-RALPH R. ROBERTS,6 of SERGEANT OF ARMS OF THE HOUSE-ZEAKE W. JOHNSON, JR.,6 ofTennessee DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSE-WILLIAM M. MILLER,6 of Mississippi POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSE-H. H. MORRIS,6 of

ALABAMA Barry M. Goldwater, Phoenix John E. Moss, Jr., Sacramento SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES William S. Mailliard, Lister Hill, Montgomery John J. Rhodes, Mesa John F. Shelley, San Francisco John J. Sparkman, Huntsville Stewart L. Udall,' Tucson John F. Baldwin, Martinez Morris K. Udall,8 Tucson Jeffery Cohelan, Berkeley REPRESENTATIVES George P. Miller, Alameda Frank W. Boykin, Mobile J. Arthur Younger, San Mateo George M. Grant, Troy Charles S. Gubser, Gilroy George W. Andrews, Union Springs SENATORS John J. McFall, Manteca Kenneth A. Roberts, Anniston John L. McClellan, Camden Bernice F. Sisk, Fresno Albert Rains, Gadeden J. William Fulbright, Fayetteville Charles M. Teague, Ojai Armistead I. Selden, Jr., Greensboro REPRESENTATIVES Harlan F. Hagen, Hanford Carl A. Elliott, Jasper Ezekiel C. Gathings, West Memphis Gordon L. McDonough, Los Angeles Robert E. Jones, Jr., Scottsboro Wilbur D. Mills, Kensett Alphonzo Bell, Santa Monica George Huddleston, Jr., Birmingham James W. Trimble, Berryville Cecil R. King, Los Angeles , El Dorado Craig Hosmer, Long Beach T. , Little Rock Chet Holifield, Montebello SENATORS William F. Norrell,9 Monticello H. Allen Smith, Glendale Catherine D. Norrell,'° Monticello Edgar W. Hiestand, Burbank Edward L. Bartlett, Juneau James C. Corman, Van Nuys , Juneau CALIFORNIA Clyde G. Doyle, South Gate REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE SENATORS Glenard P. Lipscomb, Los Angeles Ralph J. Rivers, Fairbanks Thomas H. Kuchel, Anaheim John H. Rousselot, San Gabriel Clair Engle, Red Bluff James Roosevelt, Los Angeles ARIZONA Harry R. Sheppard, Yucaipa REPRESENTATIVES James B. Utt, Santa Ana SENATORS Clement W. Miller,1' Corte Madera Dalip S. Saund, Westmorland Carl Hayden, Phoenix Harold T. Johnson, Roseville Robert C. Wilson, Chula Vista

'By joint resolution (Pub. Law 348, 87th Cong., 1st Died November 16, 1961. Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of his sess.), the date of assembling the second session of the Elected January 10, 1962. brother, Stewart L. Udall, and took his seat May 17, 1961. Eighty-seventh Congress was fixed for January 10, 1962. Reelected January 3, 1962. Died February 15, 1961. 'Term expired at noon on January 20, 1961. 'Resigned January 18, 1961. '° Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of her hus- Term began at noon on January 20, 1961. band, William F. Norrell, and took her seat April 25, 1961. ''Died October 7, 1962; vacancy throughout remainder of the Congress.

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COLORADO , Bedford , New Castle SENATORS SENATORS Donald C. Bruce, Gordon L. Allott, Lamar Hiram L. Fong, John A. Carroll, Denver Oren E. Long, Honolulu REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE SENATORS Byron G. Rogers, Denver Daniel K. Inouye, Honolulu Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Cedar Rapids Peter H. Dominick, Englewood Jack R. Miller, Sioux City IDAHO J. Edgar Chenoweth, Trinidad REPRESENTATIVES Wayne N. Aspinall, Palisade SENATORS Frederick D. Schwengel, Davenport Henry C. Dworshak,'2 Burley CONNECTICUT James E. Bromwell, Cedar Rapids Len B. Jordan," Boise Harold R. Gross, Waterloo SENATORS Frank Church, Boise John H. Kyl, Bloomfield Prescott S. Bush, Greenwich REPRESENTATIVES Neal Smith, Altoona Thomas J. Dodd, West Hartford Gracie B. Pfost, Nampa Merwin Coad, Boone REPRESENTATIVES Ralph R. Harding, Blackfoot Ben F. Jensen, Exira Emilio Q. Daddario, Hartford Charles B. Hoeven, Alton Horace Seely-Brown, Jr., Pomfret Center SENATORS Robert N. Giaimo, North Haven Paul H. Douglas, SENATORS Abner W. Sibal, Norwalk Everett McKinley Dirksen, Fe kin Andrew F. Schoeppel," Wichita John S. Monagan, Waterbury REPRESENTATIVES James B. Pearson,'6 Prairie Village At LargeFrank Kowaiski, Meriden William L Dawson, Chicago Frank Carison, Concordia DELAWARE Barratt O'Hara, Chicago REPRESENTATIVES William T. Murphy, Chicago William H. Avery, Wakefield SENATORS Edward J. Derwinski, Chicago Robert F. Ellsworth, Lawrence John J. Williams, Milisboro John C. Kluczynski, Chicago Walter L. McVey, Independence J. Caleb Boggs, Wilmington Thomas J. O'Brien, Chicago Garner E. Shriver, Wichita REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Roland V. Libonati, Chicago J. Floyd Breeding, Rolla Harris B. McDowell, Jr., Middletown Daniel D. Rostenkowski, Chicago Robert J. Dole, Russell Sidney R. Yates, Chicago Harold R. Collier, Berwyn KENTUCKY Roman C. Pucinski, Chicago SENATORS SENATORS Edward R. Finnegan, Chicago Spessard L. Holland, Bartow Cooper, Somerset Marguerite Stitt Church, Evanston Thruston B. Morton, Louisville George A. Smathers, Miami Elmer J. Hoffman, Wheaton REPRESENTATIVES Noah M. Mason, Ogles by REPRESENTATIVES William C. Cramer, St. Petersburg John B. Anderson, Rockford Frank A. Stubblefield, Murray Charles E. Bennett, Jacksonville Leslie C. Arends, Melvin William H. Natcher, Bowling Green Robert L. F. Sikes, Crestview Robert H. Michel, Peoria Frank W. Burke, Louisville Dante B. Fascell, Miami Robert B. Chiperfield, Canton Frank L. Cheif, Lebanon Albert S. Herlong, Jr., Leesburg , Pittsfield , Fort Thomas Paul G. Rogers, West Palm Beach Peter F. Mack, Jr., Carlinville John C. Watts, Nicholasville James A. Haley, Sarasota William L. Springer, Champaign Carl D. Perkins, Hindman Donald R. Matthews, Gainesville George E. Shipley, Olney , Williamsburg Charles , East St. Louis Kenneth J. Gray, West Frankfort SENATORS SENATORS Richard B. Russell, Winder INDIANA Allen J. Ellender, Houma Herman E. Talmadge, Lovejoy SENATORS Russell B. Long, Baton Rouge REPRESENTATIVES Homer E. Capehart, Washington REPRESENTATIVES G. Elliott Hagan, Sylvania Vance Hartke, Evansville F. Edward Hébert, John L. Pilcher, Meigs REPRESENTATIVES T. , New Orleans Elijah L. Forrester, Leesburg Ray J. Madden, Gary Edwin E. Willis, Martinville John James Flynt, Jr., Griffin Charles A. Halleck, Rennselaer ,'7 Shreveport James C. Davis, Stone Mountain , South Bend Joe D. Waggonner, Jr.," Plain , Milledgeville E. Ross Adair, Fort Wayne Dealing John W. Davis, Sumnzerville J. Edward Roush,'4 Huntington Otto E. Passman, Monroe Iris F. Blitch, Hornerville Richard L. Roudebush, Noblesville James H. Morrison, Hammond Phillip M. Landrum, Jasper William G. Bray, Martinsville T. Ashton Thompson, Ville Platte Robert G. Stephens, Jr., Athens Winfield K. Denton, Evansville Harold B. McSween, Alexandria

"Appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of Andrew "Died July 23, 1962. 14Election investigated by order of the House (H. Res. 1). H. Res. 339 declared that J. Edward Roush was entitled F. Schoeppel, and took his seat February 5, 1962. Appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of Henry C. 15Died September 16, 1961. Dworshak, and took hia seat August 7, 1962. to this seat. "Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Overton 'Died January 21, 1962. Brooks, and took his seat January 10, 1962. 432 Biographical Directory

MAINE James Harvey, Saginaw SENATORS Robert P. Griffin, Traverse City Elford A. Cederberg, Bay City SENATORS Margaret Chase Smith, Skowhegan , Missouta Edmund S. Muskie, Waterville Victor A. Knox, Sault Ste. Marie John B. Bennett, Ontonagon , Helena REPRESENTATIVES Charles C. Diggs, Jr., Detroit REPRESENTATIVES Peter A. Garland, Saco Louis C. Rabaut,23 Grosse Pointe Park Arnold Olsen, Helena Stanley R. Tupper, Boothbay Harbor Harold M. Ryan,24 Detroit James F. Battin, Billings Clifford G. Mclntire, Perham John D. Dingell, Jr., Detroit John Lesinski, Jr., Dearborn Martha W. Griffiths, Detroit SENATORS SENATORS William S. Broomfield, Royal Oak John Marshall Butler, Baltimore Roman L. Hruska, Omaha J. Glenn Beall, Frostburg Carl T. Curtis, Minden REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Thomas F. Johnson, Berlin Phillip H. Weaver, Falls City Hubert H. Humphrey, Waverly Glenn C. Cunningham, Omaha Daniel B. Brewster, Glyndon Eugene J. McCarthy, St. Paul Edward A. Garmatz, Baltimore Ralph F. Beermann, Dakota City George H. Fallon, Baltimore REPRESENTATIVES David T. Martin, Kearney Richard E. Lankford, Annapolis Albert H. Quie, Dennison Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Frederick , Hutchinson NEVADA Samuel N. Friedel, Baltimore Clark MacGregor, Plymouth SENATORS Joseph E. Karth, St. Paul Alan H. Bible, Reno MASSACHUSETTS Walter H. Judd, Howard W. Cannon, Las Vegas SENATORS Fred Marshall, Grove City H. Carl Andersen, Tyler REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Leverett Saltonstall, Dover Walter S. Baring, Reno Benjamin A. Smith Gloucester John A. Blatnik, Chisholm , Kennedy Edward M. Kennedy,2° NEW HAMPSHIRE REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Silvio 0. Conte, Pittsfield MISSISSIPPI SENATORS H. ,26 Concord Edward P. Boland, Springfield Maurice J. Murphy, Jr.,27 Portsmouth Philip J Philbin, Clinton James 0. Eastland, Doddsville Thomas J. McIntyre,28 Laconia Harold D. Donohue, Worcester John C. Stennis, De Kalb Norris Cotton, Lebanon F. Bradford Morse, Lowell REPRESENTATIVES William H. Bates, Salem REPRESENTATIVES Thomas J. Lane, Lawrence Thomas G. Abernethy, Okolona Chester E. Merrow, Center Ossipee Torbert H. Macdonald, Malden Jamie L. Whitten, Charleston Perkins Bass, Peterbo rough , West Bridgewater Frank E. Smith,25 Greenwood John Bell Williams, Raymond , Boston W. Arthur Winstead, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Cambridge William M. Colmer, Pascagoula SENATORS John W. McCormack, Dorchester Clifford P. Case, Rahway James A. Burke, Milton Harrison A. Williams, Jr., Westfield Joseph W. Martin, Jr., North Attleboro REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS MICHIGAN , Richmond Heights William T. Cahill, Collingswood Milton W. Glenn, Margate City SENATORS Edward V. Long, Clarksville James C. Auchincloss, Rumson Patrict V. McNamara, Detroit REPRESENTATIVES Frank Thompson, Jr., Trenton Philip A. Hart, Mackinac Island Frank M. Karsten, St. Louis Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen, Jr., REPRESENTATIVES Thomas B. Curtis, Webster Groves Morristown Thaddeus M. Machrowicz,2' Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, St. Louis Florence P. Dwyer, Elizabeth Hamtramck William J. Randall, Independence William B Widnall, Saddle River Lucien N. Nedzi,22 Detroit Richard W. Bolling, Kansas City Charles S. Joelson, Paterson George Meader, Ann Arbor William R. Hull, Jr., Weston Frank C. Osmers, Jr., Tenafly August E. Johansen, Battle Creek Durward G. Hall, Springfield Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Newark Clare E. Hoffman, Allegan Richard H. Ichord, Houston Hugh J. Addonizio,29 Newark Gerald R. Ford, Jr., Grand Rapids Clarence Cannon, Els berry George M. Wallhauser, Maplewood Charles E. Chamberlain, East Lansing Paul C. Jones, Kennett Cornelius E. Gallagher, Bayonne James G. O'Hara, Utica Morgan M. Moulder, Camdenton Dominick V. Daniels, Jersey City

'9Appointed December 27, 1960, to fill vacancy caused s2Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Thad- 26Died November 26, 1961. by resignation of John F. Kennedy in preceding congress. deus M. Machrowicz, and took his seat January 10, 1962. 27Appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of Styles '° Elected November 6, 1962, to fill vacancy caused by Died November 12, 1961. Bridges, and took his seat January 10, 1962. resignation of his brother, John F. Kennedy, but was Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Louis C. ' Elected November 6, 1962, to fill vacancy caused by unable to be sworn in as Congress was not in session. Rabaut and took his seat February 21, 1962. death of Styles Bridges, but was unable to be sworn in as Congress was not in session. ' Resigned September 18, 1961. Resigned November 14, 1962; vacancy throughout re- zs Resigned June 30, 1962; vacancy throughout remain- mainder of the Congress. der of the Congress. Eighty-Seventh Congress 433

NEW MEXICO A. S. Mike Monroney, SENATORS SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Dennis Chavez,30 Albuquerque Samuel J. Ervin, Jr., Morganton Page H. Belcher, Enid Edwin L. Mechem,31 Los Cruces B. Everett Jordan, Saxapahaw Edmond Edmondson, Muskogee Clinton P. Anderson, Albuquerque REPRESENTATIVES Carl Albert, McAlester REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE Herbert C. Bonner, Washington Thomas J. Steed, Shawnee Joseph M. Montoya, Santa Fe Lawrence H. Fountain, Tarboro John Jarman, Oklahoma City Thomas G. Morris, Tucumcari David N. Henderson, Wallace Victor Wickersham, Mangum Harold D. Cooley, Nashville Ralph J. Scott, Danbury SENATORS Horace R. Kornegay, Greensboro Alton A. Lennon, Wilmington SENATORS Jacob K. Javits, A. Paul Kitchin, Wadesboro Wayne L. Morse, Eugene Kenneth B. Keating, Rochester Hugh Q. Alexander, Kannapolis Maurine B. Neuberger, Portland REPRESENTATIVES Charles Raper Jonas, Lincolnton Otis G. Pike, Riverhead Basil L. Whitener, Gastonia REPRESENTATIVES Steven B. Derounian, Roslyn Roy A. Taylor, Black Mountain A. Walter Norbiad, Stayton Frank J. Becker, Lynbrook Albert C. Ullman, Baker , Forest Hills NORTH DAKOTA Edith S. Green, Portland Joseph P. Addabbo, Ozone Park SENATORS Edwin R. Durno, Medford ,32 Rego Park Milton R. Young, La Moure Benjamin S. Rosenthal,33 Elmhurst Quentin N. Burdick, Fargo James J. Delaney, Long Island City REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE SENATORS Victor L. Anfuso, Don L. Short, Medora Eugene J. Keogh, Brooklyn Hjalmar C. Nygaard, Enderlin Joseph S. Clark, Philadelphia Edna F. Kelly, Brooklyn Hugh D. Scott, Jr., Philadelphia , Brooklyn Hugh L. Carey, Brooklyn REPRESENTATIVES Abraham J. Multer, Brooklyn SENATORS William A. Barrett, Philadelphia John J. Rooney, Brooklyn Frank J. Lausche, Cleveland Kathryn E. Granahan, Philadelphia John H. Ray, Staten Island Stephen M. Young, Cleveland James A. Byrne, Philadelphia Adam C. Powell, New York City REPRESENTATIVES Robert N. C. Nix, Philadelphia John V. Lindsay, New York City Gordon H. Scherer, Cincinnati William J. Greene, Jr., Philadelphia Alfred E. Santangelo, New York City Donald D. Clancy, Cincinnati , Philadelphia , New York City Paul F. Schenck, Dayton William H. Milliken, Jr., Sharon Hill , New York City William M. McCulloch, Piqua Willard S. Curtin, Morrieville , New York City Delbert L. Latta, Bowling Green Paul B. Dague, Downingtown James C. Healey, New York City William H. Harsha, Jr., Portsmouth William W. Scranton, Dalton Jacob H. Gilbert, New York City Clarence J. Brown, Blanc hester Daniel J. Flood, Wilkes-Barre Charles A. Buckley, New York City Jackson E. Betts, Findlay Ivor D. Fenton, Mahanoy City Paul A. Fino, New York City Thomas L. Ashley, Waterville Richard S. Schweiker, Lansdale Edwin B. Dooley, Mamaroneck Walter H. Moeller, Lancaster George M. Rhodes, Reading Robert R. Barry, Yonkers Robert E. Cook,34 Ravenna Francis E. Walter, Easton Katharine St. George, Tuxedo Park Samuel L. Devine, Columbus Walter M. Mumma,36 Harrisburg J. Ernest Wharton, Richmondville Charles A. Mosher, Oberlin John C. Kunkel,37 Harrisburg Leo W. O'Brien, Albany William H. Ayres, Akron Herman T. Schneebeli, Williamsport Carleton J. King, Saratoga Springs Tom V. Moorehead, Zanesuille J. Irving Whalley, Windber Samuel S. Stratton, Schenectady Frank T. Bow, Canton George A. Goodling, Loganville Clarence E. Kilburn, Malone John M. Ashbrook, Johnstown James E. Van Zandt, Altoona Alexander Pirnie, Utica Wayne L. Hays, Flushing John H. Dent, Jeannette R. Walter Riehlman, Tully Michael J. Kirwan, Youngstown John P. Saylor, Johnstown , Auburn Michael A. Feighan, Cleveland Leon H. Gavin, Oil City Howard W. Robison, Owego Charles A. Vanik, Cleveland Carroll D. Kearns, Farrell Jessica McC. Weis, Rochester Frances P. Bolton, Lyndhurst Frank M. Clark, Bessemer Harold C. Ostertag, Attica William E. Minshall, Lakewood Thomas E. Morgan, Frederic ktown William E. Miller, Olcott James G. Fulton, Thaddeus J. Duiski, Buffalo OKLAHOMA William S. Moorhead, Pittsburgh John R. Pillion, Hamburg SENATORS Robert J. Corbett, Pittsburgh Charles E. Goodell, Jamestown Robert S. Kerr,35 Oklahoma City Elmer J. Holland, Pittsburgh

50 Died November 18, 1962. 53 Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Lester ' Died January 1, 1963; vacancy throughout remainder 5' Appointed November 30, 1962, to fill vacancy caused Holtzman, and took his seat February 28, 1962. of the Congress. Died February 25, 1961. by death of Dennis Chavez, and took his seat January 9, " Resigned December 13, 1962; vacancy throughout re- Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Walter M. 1968. mainder of the Congress. Resigned December 31, 1961. Mumma, and took his seat May 22, 1961. 434 Biographical Directory

RHODE ISLAND Jack B. Brooks, Beaumont WASHINGTON SENATORS Lindley G. Beckworth, Gladewater Sam Rayburn,47 Bonham SENATORS John 0. Pastore, Cranston Warren G. Magnuson, Seattle Claiborne Pell, Newport Herbert Ray Roberts,48 McKinney Bruce R. Alger, Dallas Henry M. Jackson, Everett REPRESENTATIVES Olin E. Teague, College Station REPRESENTATIVES Fernand J. St Germain, Woonsocket John V. Dowdy, Athens Thomas M. Pelly, Bainbridge Island John E. Fogarty, Harmony Albert Thomas, Houston Alfred John Westland, Everett Clark W. Thompson, Galveston Julia Butler Hansen, Cathlamet W. Homer Thornberry, Austin Catherine D. May, Yakima SENATORS William R. Poage, Waco Walter F. Horan, Wenatchee Olin D. Johnston, Spartanburg James C. Wright, Jr., Fort Worth Thor C. Tollefson, Tacoma James , Aiken Frank N. Ikard,49 Wichita Falls Donald H. Magnuson, Seattle REPRESENTATIVES Graham B. Purcell, Jr.,5° Wichita L. Mendel Rivers, Charleston Falls WEST John A. Young, Corpus Christi John J. Riley,38 Sumter SENATORS Joe M. Kilgore, McAllen Corinne B. Riley,39 Sumter J. T. Rutherford, Odessa , Elkins W. J. Bryan Dorn, Greenwood Robert C. Byrd, Sop hia Robert T. Ashmore, Greenville Omar T. Burleson, Anson Robert W. Hemphill, Chester Walter E. Rogers, Pampa REPRESENTATIVES John L. McMillan, Florence George H. Mahon, Lubbock Arch A. Moore, Jr., Glendale Paul J. Kilday,5' Harley 0. Staggers, Keyser SOUTH DAKOTA Henry B. Gonzalez,52 San Antonio Cleveland M. Bailey, Clarksburg 0. Clark Fisher, San Angelo SENATORS Kenneth Hechler, Huntington Robert R. Casey, Houston Maude , Bluefield Karl E. Mundt, Madison John M. Slack, Jr., Charleston Francis H. Case,4° Custer Joseph H. Bottum,4' Rapid City SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Wallace F. Bennett, SENATORS Benjamin Reifel, Aberdeen Frank E. Moss, Salt Lake City Alexander Wiley, Chippewa Falls Ellis Y. Berry, McLaughlin REPRESENTATIVES , Madison M. Blame Peterson, Ogden REPRESENTATIVES David S. King, Salt Lake City SENATORS Henry C. Schadeberg, Burlington Estes Kefauver, Lookout Mountain VERMONT Robert W. Kastenmeier, Watertown Albert A. Gore, Carthage SENATORS Vernon W. Thomson, Richland Center Clement J. Zablocki, Milwaukee REPRESENTATIVES George D. Aiken, Putney Henry S. Reuss, Milwaukee B. Carroll Reece,42 Johnson City Winston L. Prouty, Newport William K. Van Pelt, Fond du Lac Louise G. Reece,43 Johnson City REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Melvin R. Laird, Marshfield Howard H. Baker, Huntsville Robert T. Stafford, Rutland City John W. Byrnes, Green Bay James B. Frazier, Jr., Chattanooga Lester R. Johnson, Black River Falls Joseph L. Evins, Smithville VIRGINIA Alvin E. O'Konski, Mercer J. Carlton Loser, Nashville SENATORS Ross Bass, Pulaski Harry Flood Byrd, Berryville WYOMING Thomas J. Murray, Jackson A. Willis Robertson, Lexington Robert A. Everett, Union City SENATORS Clifford Davis, Memphis REPRESENTATIVES Gale W. McGee, Laramie Thomas N. Downing, Newport News J. J. Hickey,53 TEXAS Porter Hardy, Jr., Churchiand Milward L. Simpson,54 Cody SENATORS J. Vaughan Gary, Richmond REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Watkins M. Abbitt, Appomattox Lyndon B. Johnson,44 Johnson City William M. Tuck, South Boston William Henry Harrison, Sheridan William A. Blakley,45 Dallas Richard H. Poff, Radford John G. Tower,46 Wichita Falls Burr P. Harrison, Winchester COMMONWEALTH OF Ralph W. Yarborough, Austin Howard W. Smith, Broad Run REPRESENTATIVES William Pat Jennings, Marion RESIDENT COMMISSIONER Wright Patman, Texarkana Joel T. Broyhill, Arlington A. Fernós-Isern, Santurce

Died January 1, 1962. Appointed to fill vacancy caused by resignation of ' Resigned September 24, 1961. Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of her hus- Lyndon B. Johnson, and took his seat January 3, 1961. ' Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Paul band, John J. Riley, and took her seat April 12, 1962. Elected tofillvacancy caused by resignation of J. Kilday, and took his seat January 10, 1962. Died June 22, 1962. Lyndon B. Johnson, and took his seat June 15, 1961. '' Appointed to fill vacancy caused by the death of Sen- ' Appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of Francis 40 Died November 16, 1961. ator-elect Keith Thomson in the previous Congress, and H. Case, and took his seat July 11, 1962. Os Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Sam Ray- took his seat January 3, 1961. ' Died March 19, 1961. burn, and took his seat February 5, 1962. ' Elected November 6, 1962, to fill vacancy caused by '' Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of her hus- Resigned December 15, 1961. the death of Senator-elect Keith Thomson in the previous band, B. Carroll Reece, and took her seat May 23, 1961. 50Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Frank Congress, but was unable to be sworn in as Congress was Resigned January 3, 1961. N. Ikard, and took his seat January 29, 1962. not in session. EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS JANUARY 3, 1963, TO JANUARY 3, 1965

FIRST SESSION-January 9, 1963,' to December 30, 1963 SECOND SESSION-January 7, 1964,2 to October 3, 1964

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES-LYNDoN B. JOHNSON,2 of Texas PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE-CARL HAYDEN, of Arizona SECRETARY OF THE SENATE-FELT0N MCLELLAN JOHNSTON, of Mississippi SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE SENATE-JOSEPH C. DUKE, of Arizona

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-JoHN W. MCCORMACK,4 of Massachusetts CLERK OF THE HOUSE-RALPH R. ROBERTS,4 of Indiana SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE HOUSE-ZEE W. JOHNSON, JR.,4 of Tennessee DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSE-WILLIAM M. MILLER,4 of Mississippi POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSE-H. H. MoRRIs,4 of Kentucky

ALABAMA , Phoenix John E. Moss, Jr., Sacramento REPRESENTATIVES Robert L. Leggett, Vallejo SENATORS John F. Shelley,'0 San Francisco Lister Hill, Montgomery John J. Rhodes, Mesa Phillip Burton," San Francisco John J. Sparkman, Huntsville Morris K. Udall, Tucson William S. Mailliard, San Francisco George F. Senner Jr., Miami Jeffery Cohelan, Berkeley REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE George P. Miller, Alameda George M. Grant, Troy ARKANSAS , San Jose George W. Andrews, Union Springs SENATORS Charles S. Gubser, Gilroy Kenneth A. Roberts, Anniston John L. McClellan, Camden J. Arthur Younger, San Mateo Albert Rains, Gadsden J. William Fulbright, Fayetteville Burt L. Talcott, Salinas Armistead I. Selden, Jr., Greensboro REPRESENTATIVES Charles M. Teague, Ojai Carl A. Elliott, Jasper Ezekiel C. Gathings, West Memphis John F. Baldwin, Martinez Robert E. Jones, Scottsboro Wilbur D. Mills, Kensett John J. McFall, Manteca George Huddleston, Jr., Birmingham James W. Trimble, Berryville Bernice F. Sisk, Fresno Oren Harris, El Dorado Cecil R. King, Los Angeles ALASKA Harlan F. Hagen, Hanford CALIFORNIA Chet Holifield, Montebello SENATORS H. Allen Smith, Glendale Edward L. Bartlett, Juneau SENATORS Augustus F. Hawkins, Los Angeles Ernest Gruening, Juneau Thomas H. Kuchel, Anaheim James C. Corman, Van Nuys REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Clair Engle,5 Red Bluff Clyde G. Doyle,'2 South Gate ,6 San Francisco Ralph J. Rivers, Fairbanks Del M. Clawson,'3 Compton ,7 Beverly Hills Glenard P. Lipscomb, Los Angeles REPRESENTATIVES ARIZONA Ronald Brooks Cameron, Whittier Clement W. Miller,8 Corte Madera James Roosevelt, Los Angeles SENATORS Don H. Clausen,9 Crescent City Everett G. Burkhalter, North Carl Hayden, Phoenix Harold T. Johnson, Roseville Hollywood

'By joint resolution (Pub. Law 864, 87th Cong., 2d sees.), Reelected January 9, 1963. Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Clem Miller, the date of assembling the first session of the Eighty- Died July 30, 1964. and took his seat January 22, 1963. eighth Congress was fixed for January 9, 1963. Appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of Clair "'Resigned January 7, 1964. 2By joint resolution (Pub. Law 247, 88th Cong., 1st Engle, and took his seat August 5, 1964; resigned Decem- "Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of John seas.), the date of assembling the second session of the ber 31, 1964. F. Shelley, and took his seat February 18, 1964. Eighty-eighth Congress was fixed for January 7, 1964. 7Appointed January 1, 1965, to fill vacancy caused by "Died March 14, 1963. Lyndon B. Johnson became President on the death of resignation of Pierre Salinger. "Elected tofill vacancy caused by death of Clyde John Fitzgerald Kennedy November 22, 1963. Died October 7, 1962. Doyle, and took his seat June 11, 1963.

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CALIFORNIAContinued GEORGIA INDIANA REPRESENTATIVEScONTINUED SENATORS SENATORS Alphonzo Bell, Beverly Hills Richard B. Russell, Winder Vance Hartke, Evansville George E. Brown, Jr., Monterey Park Herman E. Talmadge, Lovejoy Birch E. Bayh, Terre Haute REPRESENTATIVES Edward R. Roybal, Los Angeles REPRESENTATIVES Charles H. Wilson, Los Angeles G. Elliott Hagan, Sylvania Craig Hosmer, Long Beach Ray J. Madden, Gary John L. Pilcher, Meigs Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer Harry R. Sheppard, Yucaipa Elijah L. Forrester, Leesburg Richard T. Hanna, Fullerton John Brademas, South Bend John James Flynt, Jr., Griffin E. Ross Adair, Fort Wayne James B. Utt, Santa Ana Charles L. Weltner, J. Edward Roush, Huntington Robert C. Wilson, Carl Vinson, Milledgeville , San Diego Richard L. Roudebush, Noblesville John W. Davis, Summerville William G. Bray, Martinsville Pat Minor Martin, Riverside J. Russell Tuten, Brunswick Phillip M. Landrum, Jasper Winfield K. Denton, Evansville Earl Wilson, Bedford Robert G. Stephens, Jr., Athens Ralph Harvey, New Castle SENATORS Donald C. Bruce, Indianapolis Gordon L. Allott, Lamar HAWAII Peter H. Dominick, Englewood SENATORS IOWA REPRESENTATIVES Hiram L. Fong, Honolulu Byron G. Rogers, Denver Daniel K. Inouye, Honolulu SENATORS Donald G. Brotzman, Boulder REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Cedar Rapids Jack R. Miller, Sioux City J. Edgar Chenoweth, Trinidad Thomas P. Gill, Honolulu Wayne N. Aspinall, Palisade Spark M. Matsunaga, Honolulu REPRESENTATIVES Frederick D. Schwengel, Davenport CONNECTICUT IDAHO James E. Bromwell, Cedar Rapids SENATORS SENATORS Harold R. Gross, Waterloo Thomas J. Dodd, North Stonington Frank Church, Boise John H. Kyl, Bloomfield Abraham A. Ribicoff, Hartford Len B. Jordan, Boise Neal Smith, Altoona REPRESENTATIVES Charles B. Hoeven, Alton REPRESENTATIVES Ben F. Jensen, Exira Emilio Q. Daddario, Hartford Compton I. White, Jr., Clark Fork William L St. Onge, Putnam Ralph R. Harding, Blackfoot Robert N. Giaimo, North Haven KANSAS Abner W. Sibal, Norwalk SENATORS John S. Monagan, Waterbury ILLINOIS At LargeBernard F. Grabowski, SENATORS , Concordia Bristol Paul H. Douglas, Chicago James B. Pearson, Prairie Village Everett McKinley Dirksen, Pekin REPRESENTATIVES DELAWARE REPRESENTATIVES Robert J. Dole, Russell SENATORS William L. Dawson, Chicago William H. Avery, Wakefield John J. Williams, Millsboro Barratt O'Hara, Chicago Robert F. Ellsworth, Lawrence J. Caleb Boggs, Wilmington William T. Murphy, Chicago Garner E. Shriver, Wichita REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Edward J. Derwinski, South Holland , Pitts burg Harris B. McDowell, Jr., Middletown John C. Kluczynski,'4 Chicago Thomas J. O'Brien, Chicago KENTUCKY FLORIDA Roland V. Libonati, Chicago Daniel D. Rostenkowski, Chicago SENATORS SENATORS Edward R. Finnegan,'5 Chicago , Somerset Spessard L. Holland, Bartow Harold R. Collier, Berwyn Thruston B. Morton, Louisville George A. Smathers, Miami Roman C. Pucinski, Chicago REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Robert McClory, Lake Bluff Frank A. Stubblefield, Murray Robert L. F. Sikes, Crestview , Glenview William H. Natcher, Bowling Green Charles E. Bennett, Jacksonville Elmer J. Hoffman, Wheaton M. G. (Gene) Snyder, Jeffersontown , Coral Gables Charlotte T. Reid, Aurora Frank L. Chelf, Lebanon Dante B. Fascell, Miami John B. Anderson, Rockford Eugene Siler, Williamsburg Albert S. Herlong, Jr., Leesburg Leslie C. Arends, Melvin John C. Watts, Nicholasville Paul G. Rogers, West Palm Beach Robert H. Michel, Peoria Carl D. Perkins, Hindman James A. Haley, Sarasota Robert T. McLoskey, Monmouth Donald R. Matthews, Gainesville Paul Findley, Pittsfield LOUISIANA , Aitha Kenneth J. Gray, West Frankfort Sam M. Gibbons, Tampa William L. Springer, Champaign SENATORS Edward J. Gurney, Winter Park George E. Shipley, Olney Allen J. Ellender, Houma William C. Cramer, St. Petersburg Charles Melvin Price, East St. Louis Russell B. Long, Baton Rouge

"Died April 14, 1964; vacancy throughout remainder of "Resigned December 6, 1964; vacancy throughout re- the Congress. mainder of the Congress. Eighty-Eighth Congress 437

REPRESENTATIVES August E. Johansen, Battle Creek William L. Hungate," Troy F. Edward Hébert, New Orleans Edward Hutchinson, Fennville Paul C. Jones, Kennett T. Hale Boggs, New Orleans Gerald R. Ford, Grand Rapids Edwin E. Willis, St. Martinville Charles E. Chamberlain, East Lansing MONTANA Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., Plain Dealing James G. O'Hara, Utica SENATORS Otto E. Passman, Monroe James Harvey, Saginaw Michael J. Mansfield, Missoula James H. Morrison, Hammond Robert P. Griffin, Traverse City Lee Metcalf, Helena T. Ashton Thompson, Ville Platte Elford A. Cederberg, Bay City REPRESENTATIVES Gillis W. Long, Winnfield Victor A. Knox, Sault Ste. Marie John B. Bennett,'6 Ontonagon Arnold Olsen, Helena MAINE Charles C. Diggs, Jr., Detroit James F. Battin, Billings SENATORS Harold M. Ryan, Detroit John D. Dingeil, Detroit NEBRASKA Margaret Chase Smith, Skowhegan SENATORS Edmund S. Muskie, Waterville John Lesinski, Dearborn Martha W. Griffiths, Detroit Roman L. Hruska, Omaha REPRESENTATIVES William S. Broomfield, Royal Oak Carl T. Curtis, Minden Stanley R. Tupper, Boothbay Harbor At LargeNeil Staebler, Ann Arbor REPRESENTATIVES Clifford G. Mclntire, Perham MINNESOTA Ralph F. Beermann, Dakota City MARYLAND Glenn C. Cunningham, Omaha SENATORS David T. Martin, Kearney SENATORS Hubert H. Humphrey,'7 Waverly J. Glenn Beau, Frostburg Walter F. Mondale,'8 Minneapolis NEVADA Daniel B. Brewster, Towson Eugene J. McCarthy, St. Paul SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Alan H Bible, Reno Rogers C. B. Morton, Easton Albert H. Quie, Dennison Howard W. Cannon, Las Vegas Clarence D. Long, Ruxton Ancher Nelsen, Hutchinson REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Edward A. Garmatz, Baltimore Clark MacGregor, Plymouth Village George H. Fallon, Baltimore Joseph E. Karth, St. Paul Walter S. Baring, Reno Richard E. Lankford, Annapolis Donald M. Fraser, Minneapolis Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Frederick Alec G. Olson,'9 Montevideo NEW HAMPSHIRE Samuel N. Friedel, Baltimore Odin Langen, Kennedy SENATORS At LargeCanton R. Sickles, Lanham John A. Biatnik, Chisholm Norris Cotton, Lebanon Thomas J. McIntyre, Laconia MASSACHUSETTS MISSISSIPPI REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS SENATORS Louis C. Wyman, Manchester Leverett Saltonstall, Dover James 0. Eastland, Doddsville James C. Cleveland, New London Edward M. Kennedy, Boston John C. Stennis, De Kalb REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES NEW JERSEY Silvio 0. Conte, Pittsfield Thomas G. Abernethy, Okolona SENATORS Edward P. Boland, Springfield Jamie L. Whitten, Charleston Clifford P. Case, Rahway Philip J. Philbin, Clinton John Bell Williams, Raymond Harrison A. Williams, Jr., Westfield Harold D. Donohue, Worcester W. Arthur Winstead, Philadelphia REPRESENTATIVES William M. Colmer, Pascagoula F. Bradford Morse, Lowell William T. Cahill, Collinsgwood William H. Bates, Salem MISSOURI Milton W. Glenn, Margate Torbert H. Macdonald, Malden James C. Auchincloss, Rumson Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Cambridge SENATORS Frank Thompson, Jr., Trenton John W. McCormack, Dorchester Stuart Symington, Richmond Heights Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen, Jr., Joseph W. Martin, Jr., North Attleboro Edward V. Long, Clarksville Morristown James A. Burke, Milton REPRESENTATIVES Florence P. Dwyer, Elizabeth Hastings Keith, West Bridgewater Frank M. Karsten, St. Louis William B. Widnall, Saddle River MICHIGAN Thomas B. Curtis, Webster Groves Charles S. Joelson, Paterson Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, St. Louis Frank C. Osmers, Jr., Tenafly SENATORS William J. Randall, Independence Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Newark Patrick V. McNamara, Detroit Richard Boiling, Kansas City Joseph G. Minish, West Orange Philip A. Hart, Mackinac Island William R. Hull, Jr., Weston George M. Wallhauser, Maplewood REPRESENTATIVES Durward G. Hall, Springfield Cornelius E. Gallagher, Bayonne Lucien N. Nedzi, Detroit Richard H. Ichord, Houston Dominick V. Daniels, Jersey City George Meader, Ann Arbor Clarence Cannon,'° Els berry Edward J. Patten, Perth Amboy

'Appointed December 30, 1964, to fill vacancy caused s Election unsuccessfully contested by Robert J. Ode- s Died August 9, 1964; vacancy throughout remainder gard. of the Congress. by resignation of Hubert H. Humphrey. 50Died May 12, 1964. Resigned December 29, 1964. Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Clarence Cannon, and took his seat November 3, 1964. 438 Biographical Directory

NEW MEXICO NORTH CAROLINA OKLAHOMA SENATORS SENATORS SENATORS Clinton P. Anderson, Albuquerque Samuel J. Ervin, Jr., Morganton A. S. Mike Monroney, Oklahoma City Edwin L. Mechem,22 Las Cruces B. Everett Jordan, Saxapahaw J. Howard Edmondson,27 Oklahoma Joseph M. Montoya,23 Santa Fe REPRESENTATIVES City Fred R. Harris,28 Lawton REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE Herbert C. Bonner, Washington Lawrence H. Fountain, Tarboro REPRESENTATIVES Joseph M. Montoya,24 Santa Fe David N. Henderson, Wallace Page H. Belcher, Enid Thomas G. Morris, Tucumcari Harold D. Cooley, Nashville Edmond Edmondson, Muskogee Ralph J. Scott, Danbury Carl Albert, McAlester NEW YORK Horace R. Kornegay, Greensboro Thomas J. Steed, Shawnee Alton A. Lennon, Wilmington SENATORS John Jarman, Oklahoma City Charles R. Jonas, Lincolnton Victor Wickersham, Mangum Jacob K. Javits, New York City James T. Broyhill, Lenoir Kenneth B. Keating, Rochester Basil L. Whitener, Gastonia OREGON REPRESENTATIVES Roy A. Taylor, Black Mountain SENATORS Otis G. Pike, Riverhead Wayne L. Morse, Eugene James R. Grover, Jr., Babylon NORTH DAKOTA Maurine B. Neuberger, Portland SENATORS Steven B. Derounian, Roslyn REPRESENTATIVES John W. Wydler, Garden City Milton R. Young, La Moure A. Walter Norblad,29 Stayton Frank J Becker, Lynbrook Quentin N. Burdick, Fargo Wendell Wyatt,3° Astoria Seymour Halpern, Forest Hills REPRESENTATIVES Albert C. Ullman, Baker Joseph P. Addabbo, Ozone Park Hjalmar C. Nygaard,25 Enderlin Edith S. Green, Portland Benjamin S. Rosenthal, Elmhurst Mark Andrews,26 Mapleton Robert B. Duncan, Medford James J. Delaney, Long Island City Don L. Short, Medora Emanuel Celler, Brooklyn PENNSYLVANIA Eugene J. Keogh, Brooklyn OHIO Edna F. Kelly, Brooklyn SENATORS Abraham J. Multer, Brooklyn SENATORS Joseph S. Clark, Philadelphia John J. Rooney, Brooklyn Frank J Lausche, Cleveland Hugh D. Scott, Jr., Philadelphia Hugh L. Carey, Brooklyn Stephen M. Young, Cleveland REPRESENTATIVES John M. Murphy, Staten Island REPRESENTATIVES William A. Barrett, Philadelphia John V. Lindsay, New York City Carl W. Rich, Cincinnati Robert N. C. Nix, Philadelphia Adam C. Powell, New York City Donald D. Clancy, Cincinnati James A. Byrne, Philadelphia Leonard Farbstein, New York City Paul F. Schenck, Dayton Herman Toll, Philadelphia William Fitts Ryan, New York City William M. McCulloch, Piqua William J. Green, Jr.,3' Philadelphia James C. Healey, New York City Delbert L. Latta, Bowling Green William J Green,32 Philadelphia Jacob H. Gilbert, New York City William H. Harsha, Jr., Portsmouth George M. Rhodes, Reading Charles A. Buckley, New York City Clarence J. Brown, Blanchester William H. Milliken, Sharon Hill Paul A. Fino, New York City Jackson E. Betts, Findlay Willard S. Curtin, Morrisville Robert R. Barry, Yonkers Thomas L. Ashley, Waterville Paul B. Dague, Downingtown Ogden R. Reid, Purchase Homer E. Abele, McArthur Joseph M. McDade, Scranton Katharine St. George, Tuxedo Park Oliver P. Bolton, Mentor Daniel J. Flood, Wilkes-Barre J. Ernest Wharton, Richmondville Samuel L. Devine, Columbus J. Irving Whalley, Windber Leo W. O'Brien, Albany Charles A. Mosher, Oberlin Richard S. Schweiker, Lansdale Carleton J. King, Saratoga Springs William H. Ares, Akron William S. Moorhead, Pittsburgh Clarence E. Kilburn, Malone Robert T. Secrest, Senecaville Francis E. Walter,33 Easton Alexander Pirnie, Utica Frank T. Bow, Canton Fred B. Rooney,34 Bethlehem Howard W. Robison, Owego John M. Ashbrook, Johnstown John C. Kunkel, Harrisburg R. Walter Riehlman, Tully Wayne L. Hays, Flushing Herman T. Schneebeli, Williamsport Samuel S. Stratton, Amsterdam Michael J. Kirwan, Youngstown Robert J. Corbett, Pittsburgh Frank J Horton, Rochester Michael A. Feighan, Cleveland George A. Goodling, Loganville Harold C. Ostertag, Attica Charles A. Vanik, Cleveland Elmer J. Holland, Pittsburgh Charles E. Goodell, Jamestown Frances P. Bolton, Lyndhurst John H. Dent, Jeannette John R. Pillion, Lake View William E. Minshall, Cleveland John P. Saylor, Johnstown William E. Miller, Olcott At Large-Robert Taft, Jr., Indian Leon H. Gavin,35 Oil City Thaddeus J. Dulski, Buffalo Hill Albert W. Johnson,36 Smethport

°° Appointed November 30, 1962, to fill vacancy caused °° Appointed January 7, 1963, to fill vacancy caused by 32Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of William J. by death of Dennis Chavez. death of Robert S. Kerr. Green, Jr., and took his seat April 28, 1964. °° Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Dennis °° Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Robert S. Died May 31, 1963. Chavez, and took his seat November 4, 1964. Kerr, and took his seat November 4, 1964. '° Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Francis E. °° Resigned November 3, 1964. °° Died September 20, 1964. Walter, and took his seat July 30, 1963. Died July 18, 1963. °° Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Walter Died September 15, 1963. 26Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Hjalmar C. Norblad, and took his seat November 3, 1964. o° Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Leon H. Nygaard, and took his seat October 22, 1963. 31Died December 21, 1963. Gavin, and took his seat November 5, 1963. Eighty-Eighth Congress 439

James D. Weaver, Erie John G. Tower, Wichita Falls William Pat Jennings, Marion Frank M. Clark, Bessemer REPRESENTATIVES Joel T. Broyhill, Arlington Thomas E. Morgan, Fredericktown Wright Patman, Texarkana WASHINGTON James G. Fulton, Pittsburgh Jack B. Brooks, Beaumont Lindley G. Beckworth, Gladewater SENATORS RHODE ISLAND Herbert Ray Roberts, McKinney Warren G. Magnuson, Seattle SENATORS Bruce R. Alger, Dallas Henry M. Jackson, Everett John 0. Pastore, Cranston Olin E. Teague, College Station REPRESENTATIVES Claiborne Pell, Newport John V. Dowdy, Athens Thomas M. Pelly, Seattle REPRESENTATIVES Albert Thomas, Houston Alfred John Westland, Everett Fernand J. St Germain, Woonsocket Clark W. Thompson, Galveston Julia Butler Hansen, Cathlamet John E. Fogarty, Harmony W. Homer Thornberry,45 Austin Catherine May, Yakima J. J. (Jake) Pickle,46 Austin Walter F. Horan, Wenatchee SOUTH CAROLINA William R. Poage, Waco Thor C. Tollefson, Tacoma James C. Wright, Jr., Fort Worth K. William Stinson, Bellevue SENATORS Graham B. Purcell, Wichita Falls Olin D. Johnston, Spartanburg John A. Young, Corpus Christi James Strom Thurmond, Aiken Joe M. Kilgore, McAllen REPRESENTATIVES Edgar Franklin Foreman, Odessa SENATORS L. Mendel Rivers, Charleston Omar T. Burleson, Anson Jennings Randolph, Elkins Albert W. Watson, Columbia Walter E. Rogers, Pampa Robert C. Byrd, Sophia W. J. Bryan Dorn, Greenwood George H. Mahon, Lubbock REPRESENTATIVES Robert T. Ashmore, Greenville Henry B. Gonzalez, San Antonio Arch A. Moore, Jr., Glen Dale Robert W. Hemphill,37 Chester 0. Clark Fisher, San Angelo Harley 0. Staggers, Keyser Tom S. Gettys,38 Rock Hill Robert R. Casey, Houston John M. Slack, Jr., Charleston John L. McMillan, Florence At LargeJoe Richard Pool, Dallas Kenneth Hechler, Huntington Maude Elizabeth Kee, Bluefield SOUTH DAKOTA UTAH SENATORS SENATORS WISCONSIN Karl E. Mundt, Madison Wallace F. Bennett, Salt Lake City SENATORS George McGovern, Mitchell Frank E Moss, Salt Lake City William Proxmire, Madison REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Gaylord A. Nelson, Madison Benjamin Reifel, Aberdeen Laurence J. Burton, Ogden REPRESENTATIVES Ellis Y. Berry, McLaughlin Sherman P. Lloyd, Salt Lake City Henry C. Schadeberg, Burlington Robert W. Kastenmeier, Watertown TENNESSEE VERMONT Vernon W. Thomson, Richiand Center SENATORS SENATORS Clement J. Zablocki, Milwaukee Estes Kefauver,39 Lookout Mountain George D. Aiken, Putney Henry S. Reuss, Milwaukee Herbert S. Walters,4° Morristown Winston L. Prouty, Newport William K. Van Pelt, Fond du Lac Melvin R. Laird, Marshfield Ross Bass,4' Pulaski REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Albert A. Gore, Carthage John W. Byrnes, Green Bay Robert T. Stafford, Rutland City REPRESENTATIVES Lester R. Johnson, Black River Falls Alvin E. O'Konski, Mercer James H. Quillen, Kingsport VIRGINIA Howard H. Baker,42 Knoxville Irene Bailey Baker,43 Knoxville SENATORS WYOMING William E. Brock 3d, Chattanooga Harry Flood Byrd, Berryville SENATORS Joseph L. Evins, Smithville A. Willis Robertson, Lexington Gale W. McGee, Laramie Richard H. Fulton, Nashville REPRESENTATIVES Milward L. Simpson, Cody Ross Bass,44 Pulaski Thomas N. Downing, Newport News REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Thomas J. Murray, Jackson Porter Hardy, Jr., Churchland William Henry Harrison, Sheridan Robert A. Everett, Union City J. Vaughan Gary, Richmond Clifford Davis, Memphis Watkins M. Abbitt, Appomattox COMMONWEALTH OF William M. Tuck, South Boston PUERTO RICO TEXAS Richard H. Poff, Radford RESIDENT COMMISSIONER SENATORS John 0. Marsh, Jr., Strasburg Ralph W. Yarborough, Austin Howard W. Smith, Broad Run A. Fernós-Isern, Santurce

°' Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Howard H. "Resigned May 1, 1964. 40 Appointed August 20, 1963, to fill vacancy caused by Baker, and took her seat March 10, 1964. ' Elected tofillvacancy caused by resignation of death of Estes Kefauver. '° Resigned November 3, 1964. Robert W. Hemphill, and took his seat November 3, 1964. ' Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Estes Ke- 4 Resigned December 20, 1963. ' Died August 10, 1963. fauver, and took his seat November 4, 1964. 46 Elected tofill vacancy caused by resignation of "Died January 7, 1964. Homer Thornberry, and took his seat December 21, 1963. EIGHTY-NINTHCONGRESS JANUARY 3, 1965, TO JANUARY3, 1967

FIRST SESSION-January 4, 1965,to October 23, 1965 SECOND SESSION-January 10, 1966,1to October 22, 1966

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES-HUBERTH. HUMPHREY,2 of Minnesota PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE-CARLHAYDEN, of Arizona SECRETARY OF THE SENATE-FELTON MCLELLAN JOHNSToN,8 of Mississippi; EMERY L. FRAZIER,4 of Kentucky;FRANCIS R. VALEO,5 of the District of Columbia SERGEANT AT ARMS-JOSEPH C. DUKE,6 of Arizona, ROBERTG. DUNPHY,7 of Rhode Island

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE-JOHN W. MCCORMACK,8of Massachusetts CLERK OF THE HOUSE-RALPH R. ROBERTS,8 of Indiana SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE HOUSE-ZRAKE W.JOHNSON,8 of Tennessee DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSE-WILLIAM M. MILLER,8of Mississippi POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSE-H. H. MORRIS,8 of Kentucky

ALABAMA Paul J. Fannin, Phoenix William S. Mailliard, San Francisco SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Jeffery Cohelan, Berkeley Lister Hill, Montgomery John J. Rhodes, Mesa George P. Miller, Alameda John J. Sparkman, Huntsville Morris K. Udall, Tucson Don Edwards, San Jose George F. Senner, Jr., Miami Charles S. Gubser, Gilroy REPRESENTATIVES J. Arthur Younger, San Matea Jack Edwards, Mobile ARKANSAS Burt L. Talcott, Salinas William L. Dickinson, Montgomery SENATORS Charles M. Teague, Ojai George W. Andrews, Union Springs John L. McClellan, Camden John F. Baldwin,'2 Martinez Glenn Andrews, Anniston J. William Fuibright, Fayetteville Jerome R. Waldie,'8 Antioch Armistead I. Selden, Jr., Greensboro REPRESENTATIVES John J. McFall, Manteca John H. Buchanan, Jr., Birmingham Ezekiel C. Gathings, West Memphis Bernice F. Sisk, Fresno James D. Martin, Gadsden Wilbur D. Mills, Kensett Cecil H. King, Los Angeles Robert E. Jones, Scottsboro James W. Trimble, Berryville Harlan F. Hagen, Hanford Oren 0 El Dorado Chet Holifield, Montebello ALASKA David H. Pryor," Camden H. Allen Smith, Glendale Augustus F. Hawkins, Los Angeles SENATORS CALIFORNIA James C. Corman, Van Nays Edward L. Bartlett, Juneau Del M. Clawson, Compton Ernest Gruening, Juneau SENATORS Glenard P. Lipscomb, Los Angeles Thomas H. Kuchel, Anaheim Ronald Brooks Cameron, Whittier REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE George L. Murphy, Beverly Hills James Roosevelt,'4 Los Angeles Ralph J. Rivers,9 Fairbanks REPRESENTATIVES Thomas M. Rees,'5 Los Angeles Don H. Clausen, Crescent City Ed Reinecke, Tujunga ARIZONA Harold T. Johnson, Roseville Alphonzo Bell, Los Angeles John E. Moss, Jr., Sacramento SENATORS George E. Brown, Jr., Monterey Park Robert L. Leggett, Vallejo Edward R. Roybal, Los Angeles Carl Hayden, Phoenix Phillip Burton, San Francisco Charles H. Wilson, Los Angeles

'By joint resolution (Pub. Law 89-340, 89th Cong., let Resigned December 30, 1965. "Elected November 8, 1966, to fill vacancy caused by sees.), the date of assembling the second session of the 'Term began January 14, 1966. resignation of Oren Harris, but was unable to be sworn in Eighty-ninth Congress was fixed for January 10, 1966. Reelected January 4, 1965. as Congress was not in session. Term began at noon January 20, 1965. Resigned December 30, 1966; vacancy throughout re- Died March 9, 1966. 'Resigned December 30, 1965. mainder of the Congress. "Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of John F. Elected to serve from January 1, 1966, through Sep- "Resigned February 2, 1966. Baldwin, and took his seat June 20, 1966. tember 30, 1966. 'Resigned September 30, 1965. Term began October 1, 1966. s Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of James Roosevelt, and took his seat January 10, 1966.

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Craig Hosmer, Long Beach Maston E. O'Neal, Jr., Bainbridge Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer Kenneth W. Dyal, San Bernardino Howard H. Callaway, Pine Mountain John Brademas, South Bend Richard T. Hanna, Huntington Beach James A. Mackay, Atlanta E. Ross Adair, Fort Wayne James B. Utt, Santa Ana Charles L. Weitner, Atlanta J. Edward Roush, Huntington Robert C. Wilson, San Diego John J. Flynt, Jr., Griffin Richard L. Roudebush, Noblesville Lionel Van Deerlin, San Diego John W. Davis, Summerville William G. Bray, Martinsuille John V. Tunney, Riverside J. Russell Tuten, Brunswick Winfield K. Denton,9 Evansville Phillip M. Landrum, Jasper Lee H. Hamilton, Columbus COLORADO Robert G. Stephens, Jr., Athens Ralph Harvey,9 New Castle , Jr., Indianapolis SENATORS HAWAII Gordon L. Allott, Lamar Peter H. Dominick, Englewood SENATORS IOWA REPRESENTATIVES Hiram L. Fong, Honolulu SENATORS Daniel K. Inouye, Honolulu Byron G. Rogers, Denver Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Cedar Rapids Roy H. McVicker, Wheat Ridge REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE Jack R. Miller, Sioux City Frank E. Evans, Pueblo Spark M. Matsunaga, Honolulu Patsy T. Mink, Waipahu REPRESENTATIVES Wayne N. Aspinall, Palisade John R. Schmidhauser, Iowa City CONNECTICUT IDAHO John C. Culver, Marion SENATORS Harold R. Waterloo SENATORS Bert A. Bandstra, Pella Thomas J. Dodd, West Hartford Frank Church, Boise Neal Smith, Altoona Abraham A. Ribicoff, Hartford Len B. Jordan, Boise Stanley L. Greigg, Sioux City REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES John R. Hansen, Manning Emilio Q. Daddario, Hartford Compton I. White, Jr., Clarkfork William L. St. Onge, Putnam George V. Hansen, Pocatello KANSAS Robert N. Giaimo, North Haven SENATORS Donald J. Irwin, Norwalk ILLINOIS SENATORS Frank Carlson, Concordia John S. Monagan, Waterbury James B. Pearson, Prairie Village Bernard F. Grabowski, Bristol Paul H. Douglas, Chicago Everett McKinley Dirksen, Pekin REPRESENTATIVES DELAWARE REPRESENTATIVES Robert J. Dole, Russell SENATORS William L. Dawson, Chicago Chester L. Mize, Atchison John J. Williams, Mills boro Barratt O'Hara, Chicago Robert F Ellsworth, Lawrence J. Caleb Boggs, Wilmington William T. Murphy, Chicago Garner E. Shriver, Wichita REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Edward J. Derwinski, South Holland Joe Skubitz, Pittsburg Harris B. McDowell, Jr., Middletown John C. Kluczynski, Chicago Daniel J. Ronan, Chicago KENTUCKY FLORIDA , Chicago SENATORS Daniel D. Rostenkowski, Chicago SENATORS Sidney R. Yates, Chicago John Sherman Cooper, Somerset Spessard L. Holland, Bartow Harold R. Collier, Berwyn Thruston B. Morton, Louisville George A. Smathers, Miami Roman C. Pucinski, Chicago REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Robert McClory, Lake Bluff Frank A. Stubblefield, Murray Robert L. F. Sikes, Crestview Donald Rumsfeld, Glenview William H. Natcher, Bowling Green Charles E. Bennett, Jacksonville John N. Erlenborn, Elmhurst Charles R. P. Farnsley, Louisville Claude D. Pepper, Miami Charlotte T. Reid, Aurora , Lebanon Dante B. Fascell, Miami John B. Anderson, Rockford , Tompkinsville Albert S. Herlong, Jr., Leesburg Leslie C. Arends, Melvin John C. Watts, Nicholasville Paul G. Rogers, West Palm Beach Robert H. Michel, Peoria Carl D. Perkins, Hindman James A. Haley, Sarasota Gale Schisler, London Mills Donald R. Matthews, Gainesville Paul Findley, Pittsfield LOUISIANA Don Fuqua, Altha Kenneth J. Gray, West Frankfort Sam M. Gibbons, Tampa William L. Springer, Champaign SENATORS Edward J. Gurney, Winter Park George E. Shipley, Olney Allen J. Ellender, Houma William C. Cramer, St. Petersburg Charles Melvin Price, East St. Louis Russell B. Long, Baton Rouge REPRESENTATIVES GEORGIA INDIANA F. Edward Hébert, New Orleans SENATORS SENATORS T. Hale Boggs, New Orleans Richard B. Russell, Winder Vance Hartke, Evansville Edwin E. Willis, St. Martinville Herman E. Talmadge, Lovejoy Birch E. Bayh, Terre Haute Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., Plain Dealing REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Otto E. Passman, Monroe G. Elliott Hagan, Sylvania Ray J. Madden, Gary James H. Morrison, Hammond

° Resigned December 30,1966;vacancy throughout re- 6Election unsuccessfully contested by Stephen M. Pe- mainder of the Congress. terson. 442 Biographical Directory

LOUISIANAContinued Edward Hutchinson, Fennville William L. Hungate, Troy REPRESENTATIVESCONTINUED Gerald R. Ford, Grand Rapids Paul C. Jones, Kennett Charles E. Chamberlain, East Lansing T. Ashton Thompson,'7 Ville Platte John C. Mackie, Flint MONTANA Edwin W. Edwards,'8 Crowley James Harvey, Saginaw SENATORS Speedy 0. Long, Jena Robert P. Griffin,21 Traverse City Guy A. Vander Jagt,22 Cadillac Michael J. Mansfield, Missoula MAINE Elford A. Cederberg, Bay City Lee Metcalf, Helena SENATORS Raymond F. Clevenger, Sault Ste. REPRESENTATIVES Margaret Chase Smith, Skowhegan Marie Arnold Olsen, Helena Edmund S. Muskie, Waterville James G. O'Hara, Utica James F. Battin, Billings Charles C. Diggs, Jr., Detroit REPRESENTATIVES Lucien N. Nedzi, Detroit NEBRASKA Stanley R. Tupper, Boothbay Harbor William D. Ford, Taylor William D. Hathaway, Auburn SENATORS John D. Dingell, Dearborn Roman L. Hruska, Omaha Martha W. Griffiths, Detroit Carl T. Curtis, Minden MARYLAND William S. Broomfield, Royal Oak SENATORS Billie S. Farnum, Drayton Plains REPRESENTATIVES Daniel B. Brewster, Towson Clair A. Callan, Well Joseph D. Tydings, Harve de Grace MINNESOTA Glenn Cunningham, Omaha David T. Martin, Kearney REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Rogers C. B. Morton, Easton Eugene J. McCarthy, St. Paul NEVADA Clarence D. Long, Ruxton Walter F. Mondale, Minneapolis SENATORS Edward A. Garmatz, Baltimore REPRESENTATIVES George H. Fallon, Baltimore Albert H. Quie, Dennison Alan Bible, Reno Hervey G. Machen, Hyattsville Ancher Nelson, Hutchinson Howard W. Cannon, Las Vegas Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Frederick Clark MacGregor, Plymouth REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Samuel N. Friedel, Baltimore Joseph E. Karth, St. Paul Walter S. Baring, Reno At LargeCanton R. Sickles, Lanham Donald M. Fraser, Minneapolis Alec G. Olson, Montevideo NEW HAMPSHIRE MASSACHUSETTS Odin Langen, Kennedy SENATORS SENATORS John A. Blatnik, Chisholm Norris Cotton, Lebanon Leverett Saltonstall, Dover Thomas J. McIntyre, Laconia MISSISSIPPI Edward M. Kennedy, Boston REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS J. Oliva Huot, Laconia Silvio 0. Conte, Pittsfield James 0. Eastland, Doddsville James C. Cleveland, New London Edward P. Boland, Springfield John C. Stennis, De Kalb Philip J. Philbin, Clinton REPRESENTATIVES NEW JERSEY Harold D. Donohue, Worcester Thomas G Abernethy,23 Okolona SENATORS F. Bradford Morse, Lowell Jamie L. Whitten,24 Charleston William H. Bates, Salem Clifford P. Case, Rahway John Bell Williams,25 Raymond Harrison A. Williams, Jr., Westfield Torbert H. Macdonald, Maiden Prentiss L. Walker,26 Mize Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Cambridge William M. Colmer,27 Pascagoula REPRESENTATIVES John W. McCormack, Dorchester William T. Cahill, Collings wood Joseph W. Martin, Jr., North Attleboro MISSOURI Thomas C. McGrath, Jr., Margate City James A. Burke, Milton SENATORS James J. Howard, Wall Township Hastings Keith, West Bridgewater Frank Thompson, Jr., Trenton Stuart Symington, St. Louis Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen, Morristown MICHIGAN Edward V. Long, Clarksville Florence P. Dwyer, Elizabeth REPRESENTATWES SENATORS William B Widnall, Saddle River Patrick V. McNamara,'9 Detroit Frank M. Karsten, St. Louis Charles S. Joelson, Paterson Robert P. Griffin,20 Traverse City Thomas B. Curtis, Webster Groves Henry Helstoski, East Rutherford Philip A. Hart, Mackinac Island Leonor Kretzer Sullivan, St. Louis Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Newark William J. Randall, Independence Joseph G. Minish, West Orange REPRESENTATIVES Richard Bolling, Kansas City Paul J. Krebs, Livingston , Jr., Detroit William R. Hull, Jr., Weston Cornelius E. Gallagher, Bayonne Weston E. Vivian, Ann Arbor Durward G. Hall, Springfield Dominick V. Daniels, Jersey City Paul H. Todd, Jr., Kalamazoo Richard H. Ichord, Houston Edward J. Patten, Perth Amboy

"Died July, 1965. "Resigned May 10, 1966. "Election unsuccessfully contested by Fannie Lou "Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of T. Ashton 'Elected November 8, 1966, to fill vacancy caused by Hamer. Thompson, and took his seat October 18, 1965. resignation of Robert P. Griffin, but was unable to be "Election unsuccessfully contested by Mildred Cosey, "Died April 30, 1966. sworn in as Congress was not in session. Evelyn Nelson, and Rev. Allen Johnson. ° Appointed May 11, 1966, to fill vacancy caused by s, Election unsuccessfully contested by Augusta Whea- 'Election unsuccessfully contested by Annie DeVine. death of Patrick V. McNamara, subsequently elected. don. "Election unsuccessfully contested by Victoria Jackson Gray. Eighty-Ninth Congress 443

NEW MEXICO NORTH CAROLINA Village SENATORS SENATORS OKLAHOMA Clinton P. Anderson, Albuquerque Samuel J. Ervin, Jr., Morganton B. Everett Jordan, Saxapahaw SENATORS Joseph M. Montoya, Santa Fe A. S. Mike Monroney, Oklahoma City REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE REPRESENTATIVES Fred R. Harris, Lawton Herbert C. Bonner,31 Washington Thomas G. Morris, Tucumcari REPRESENTATIVES E. S. Johnny Walker, Santa Fe Walter B. Jones,32 Farmville Lawrence H. Fountain, Tarboro Page H. Beicher, Enid David N. Henderson, Wallace Edmond Edmondson, Muskogee NEW YORK Harold D. Cooley,9 Nashville Carl Albert, McAlester SENATORS Ralph J. Scott, Danbury Thomas J. Steed, Shawnee Jacob K. Javits, New York City Horace R. Kornegay, Greensboro John Jarman, Oklahoma City Robert F. Kennedy, Glen Cove Alton A. Lennon, Wilmington Jed Johnson, Jr., Chickasha Charles R. Jonas, Lincointon REPRESENTATIVES James T. Broyhill, Lenoir OREGON Otis G. Pike, Riverhead Basil L. Whitener, Gastonia SENATORS James R. Grover, Jr., Babylon Roy A. Taylor, Black Mountain Wayne L. Morse, Eugene Lester L. Wolff, Great Neck Maurine B. Neuberger, Portland John W. Wydler, Garden City NORTH DAKOTA , Lawrence REPRESENTATIVES Seymour Halpern, Forest Hills SENATORS Wendell Wyatt, Astoria Joseph P. Addabbo, Ozone Park Milton R. Young, LaMoure Albert C. Ullman, Baker Benjamin S. Rosenthal, Elmhurst Quentin N. Burdick, Fargo Edith S. Green, Portland James J. Delaney, Long Island City REPRESENTATIVES Robert B. Duncan, Medford Emanuel Celler, Brooklyn Mark Andrews, Mapleton Eugene J. Keogh, Brooklyn Rolland Redlin, Crosby PENNSYLVANIA Edna F. Kelly, Brooklyn SENATORS Abraham J. Multer, Brooklyn OHIO Joseph S. Clark, Philadelphia John J. Rooney, Brooklyn SENATORS Hugh D. Scott, Jr., Philadelphia Hugh L. Carey, Brooklyn John M. Murphy, Staten Island Frank J. Lausche, Cleveland REPRESENTATIVES John V. Lindsay,28 New York City Stephen M. Young, Cleveland William A. Barrett, Philadelphia Theodore R. Kupferman,29 New York REPRESENTATIVES Robert N. C. Nix, Philadelphia City John J. Gilligan, Cincinnati James A. Byrne, Philadelphia Adam C. Powell, New York City Donald D. Clancy, Cincinnati Herman Toll, Philadelphia Leonard Farbstein, New York City Rodney M. Love, Dayton William J. Green, Philadelphia William F. Ryan, New York City William M. McCulloch, Piqua George M. Rhodes, Reading James H. Scheuer, Bronx Delbert L. Latta, Bowling Green G. Robert Watkins, West Chester Jacob H. Gilbert, Bronx William H. Harsha, Portsmouth Willard S. Curtin, Morrisville Jonathan B. Bingham, Bronx Clarence J. Brown,33 Blanchester Paul B. Dague,9 Downingtown Paul A. Fino, Bronx Clarence J. Brown, Jr.,34 Urbana Joseph M. McDade, Scranton Richard L. Ottinger,3° Pleasantville Jackson E. Betts, Findlay Daniel J. Flood, Wilkes-Barre Ogden R. Reid, Purchase Thomas L Ashley, Waterville J. Irving Whalley, Windber John G. Dow, Grand View Walter H. Moeller, Lancaster Richard S. Schweiker, Worcester Joseph Y. Resnick, Ellenville J. William Stanton, Painesville William S. Moorhead, Pittsburgh Leo W. O'Brien,9 Albany Samuel L. Devine, Columbus Fred B. Rooney, Bethlehem Carleton J. King, Saratoga Springs Charles A. Mosher, Oberlin John C. Kunkel,9 Harrisburg Robert C. McEwen, Ogdensburg William H. Ayres, Akron Herman T. Schneebeli, Williamsport Alexander Pirnie, Utica Robert T. Secrest,9 Senecaville Robert J. Corbett, Pittsburgh Howard W. Robison, Owego Frank T. Bow, Canton N. Neiman Craley, Jr., York James M. Hanley, Syracuse John M. Ashbrook, Johnstown Elmer J. Holland, Pittsburgh Samuel S. Stratton, Amsterdam Wayne L. Hays, Flushing John H. Dent, Jeannette Frank Horton, Rochester Michael J. Kirwan, Younstown John P. Saylor, Johnstown Barber B. Conable, Jr., Alexander Michael A. Feighan, Cleveland Albert W. Johnson, Smethport Charles E. Goodell, Jamestown Charles A. Vanik, Cleveland Joseph P. Vigorito, Erie Richard D. McCarthy, Buffalo Frances P. Bolton, Cleveland Frank M. Clark, Bessemer Henry P. Smith 3d, North Tonawanda William E. Minshall, Lakewood Thomas E. Morgan, Frederick town Thaddeus J. Dulski, Buffalo At LargeRobert E. Sweeney, Bay James G. Fulton, Pittsburgh

1966;vacancy throughout re- "Died August 23,1965. 2Resigned December 31,1965. Resigned December 30, '4Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Clarence J. '° Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of John mainder of the Congress. 10, 1966. 7, 1965. Brown, and took his seat January V. Lindsay, and took his seat February 23,1966. Died November 9 32Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Herbert C. Resigned December 30,1966;vacancy throughout re- 0Election unsuccessfully contested by James R. Fran- mainder of the Congress. kenberry Bonner, and took his seat February 10,1966. 444 Biographical Directory

RHODE ISLAND Herbert Ray Roberts, McKinney WASHINGTON SENATORS Earle Cabell, Dallas Olin E. Teague, College Station SENATORS John 0. Pastore, Cranston Warren G. Magnuson, Seattle Claiborne Pell, Newport John V. Dowdy, Athens Albert Thomas,39 Houston Henry M. Jackson, Everett REPRESENTATIVES Mrs. Lera Thomas,4° Houston REPRESENTATIVES Fernand J. St Germain, Woonsocket Clark W. Thompson,9 Galveston John E. Fogarty, Harmony Thomas M. Pelly, Seattle James J. Pickle, Austin Lloyd Meeds, Everett William R. Poage, Waco SOUTH CAROLINA Julia Butler Hansen, Cathlamet James C. Wright, Jr., Fort Worth Catherine May, Yakima SENATORS Graham B. Purcell, Wichita Falls Thomas S. Foley, Spokane Olin D. Johnston,35 Spartanburg John A. Young, Corpus Christi Floyd V. Hicks, Tacoma Donald S. Russell,36 Spartanburg Eligio de Ia Garza, Mission Brock Adams, Seattle Ernest F. Hollings,37 Charleston Richard C. White, El Paso James Strom Thurmond, Aiken Omar T. Burleson, Anson WEST VIRGINIA REPRESENTATIVES Walter E. Rogers, Pampa L. Mendel Rivers, Charleston George H. Mahon, Lubbock SENATORS Albert W. Watson,38 Columbia Henry B. Gonzalez, San Antonio Jennings Randolph, Elkins W. J. Bryan Dorn, Greenwood 0. Clark Fisher, San Angelo Robert C. Byrd, Sophia Robert T. Ashmore, Greenville Robert R. Casey, Houston REPRESENTATIVES Thomas S. Gettys, Rock Hill At LargeJoe Richard Pool, Dallas Arch A. Moore, Jr., Gkndale John L. McMillan, Florence Harley 0. Staggers, Keyser UTAH John M. Slack, Jr., Charleston SOUTH DAKOTA SENATORS , Huntington SENATORS Wallace F. Bennett, Salt Lake City , Bluefield Karl E. Mundt, Madison Frank E. Moss, Salt Lake City George McGovern, Mitchell REPRESENTATIVES WISCONSIN REPRESENTATIVES Laurence J. Burton, Ogden SENATORS Benjamin Reifel, Aberdeen David S. King, Salt Lake City William Proxmire, Madison Ellis Y. Berry, McLaughlin Gaylord A. Nelson, Madison VERMONT REPRESENTATIVES TENNESSEE SENATORS Lynn E. Stalbaum, Racine SENATORS George D. Aiken, Putney Robert W. Kastenmeier, Watertown Albert A. Gore, Carthage Winston L. Prouty, Newport Vernon W. Thomson, Richland Center Ross Bass, Pulaski REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Clement J. Zablocki, Milwaukee REPRESENTATIVES Robert T. Stafford, Rutland Henry S. Reuss, Milwaukee James H. Quillen, Kingsport John A. Race, Fond du Lac John J. Duncan, Knoxville VIRGINIA Melvin R. Laird, Mars hfield William E. Brock 3d, Chattanooga SENATORS John W. Byrnes, Green Bay Joseph L. Evins, Smithville Harry Flood Byrd,4' Berryville Glenn R. Davis, New Berlin Richard H. Fulton, Nashville Harry Floyd Byrd, Jr.,42 Winchester Alvin E. O'Konski, Mercer William R Anderson, Waverly A. Willis Robertson,43 Lexington Thomas J. Murray,9 Jackson William B. Spong, Jr.,44 Portsmouth WYOMING Robert A. Everett, Union City George W. Grider, Memphis REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Thomas N. Downing, Newport News Gale W. McGee, Laramie TEXAS Porter Hardy, Jr., Churchland Milward L. Simpson, Cody SENATORS David E. Satterfield 3d, Richmond REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Watkins M. Abbitt, Appomattox Teno Roncalio, Cheyenne Ralph W. Yarborough, Austin William M. Tuck, South Boston John G. Tower, Wichita Falls Richard H. Poff, Radford REPRESENTATIVES John 0. Marsh, Jr., Strasburg COMMONWEALTH OF Wright Patman, Texarkana Howard W. Smith, Broad Run PUERTO RICO Jack B. Brooks, Beaumont William Pat Jennings, Marion RESIDENT COMMISSIONER Lindley G. Beckworth, Gladewater Joel T. Broyhill, Arlington Santiago Polanco-Abreu, Isabela

"Died April 18, 1965. "Resigned February 1, 1965; elected as a Republican to '-' Appointed November 12, 1965, to fill vacancy caused '° Appointed April 22, 1965, to fill vacancy caused by fill vacancy caused by his own resignation snd took his by the resignation of Harry Flood Byrd; subsequently death of Olin D. Johnston. seat June 16, 1965. elected. "Elected November 8, 1966, to fill vacancy caused by Died February 15, 1966. "Resigned December 30, 1966. death of Olin D. Johnston, for term ending January 3, "Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of her hus- ' Appointed to fill vacancy caused by resignation of A. 1969, but was unable to be sworn in as Congress was not band, Albert Thomas, and took her seat March 30, 1966. Willis Robertson, but was unable to be sworn in as Con- in session. ' Resigned November 10, 1965. gress was not in Session. NINETIETH CONGRESS JANUARY 3, 1967, TO JANUARY 3, 1969

FIRST SESSIONJanuary 10, 1967,1 to December 15, 1967 SECOND SESSIONJanuary 15, 1968,2 to October 14, 1968

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATESHUBERT H. HUMPHREY, of Minnesota PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATECARL HAYDEN, of Arizona SECRETARY OF THE SENATEFRANCIS R. VALEO, of the District of Columbia SERGEANT AT ARMSROBERT G. DUNPHY, of Rhode Island

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSEJOHN W. MCCORMACK,3 of Massachusetts CLERK OF THE HOUSEW. PAT JENNINGS,4 of Virginia SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE HOUSEZEAKE W. JOHNSON,3 of Tennessee DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSEWILLIAM M. MILLER,3 of Mississippi POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSEH. H. MORRIS,3 of Kentucky

ALABAMA Paul J. Fannin, Phoenix William S. Mailliard, San Francisco REPRESENTATIVES Jeffery Cohelan, Berkeley SENATORS John J. Rhodes, Mesa George P. Miller, Alameda Lister Hill, Montgomery Don Edwards, San Jose John J. Sparkman, Huntsville Morris K. Udall, Tucson Sam Steiger, Prescott Charles S. Gubser, Gilroy REPRESENTATIVES J. Arthur Younger,7 San Mateo Jack Edwards, Mobile ARKANSAS Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.,8 Portola William L. Dickinson, Montgomery SENATORS Valley Burt L. Talcott, Salinas George W. Andrews, Union Springs John L. McClellan, Camden William Nichols, Sylacauga J. William Fulbright, Fayetteville Charles M. Teague, Ojai Armistead I. Selden, Jr., Greensboro Jerome R. Waldie, Antioch John H. Buchanan, Jr., Birmingham REPRESENTATIVES John J. McFall, Manteca Tom Bevill, Jasper Ezekiel C. Gathings, West Memphis Bernice F. Sisk, Fresno Robert E. Jones, Scottsboro Wilbur D Mills, Kensett Cecil R. King, Los Angeles John P. Hammerschmidt, Harrison Robert B. Mathias, Visalia ALASKA David H. Pryor, Camden Chet Holifield, Montebello SENATORS H. Allen Smith, Glendale CALIFORNIA Augustus F. Hawkins, Los Angeles Edward L. Bartlett,5 Juneau SENATORS Theodore F. Stevens,6 Anchorage James C. Corman, Van Nuys Thomas H. Kuchel, Anaheim Del M. Clawson, Compton Ernest Gruening, Juneau George L. Murphy, Beverly Hills Glenard P. Lipscomb, Los Angeles REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE REPRESENTATIVES Charles E. Wiggins, El Monte Howard W. Pollock, Anchorage Don H. Clausen, Crescent City Thomas M. Rees, Los Angeles Harold T. Johnson, Roseville Ed Reinecke, Tujunga ARIZONA John E. Moss, Jr., Sacramento Alphonzo Bell, Los Angeles SENATORS Robert L. Leggett, Vallejo George E. Brown, Jr., Monterey Park Carl Hayden, Phoenix Phillip Burton, San Francisco Edward R. Roybal, Los Angeles

'By joint resolution (Pub. Law 90-230, 90th Cong., 1st 'Died December 11, 1968. IBy joint resolution (Pub. Law 89-704, 89th Cong., 2d Appointed December 23, 1968, to fill vacancy caused by sessj, the date of assembling the first session of the Nine- seas.), the date of assembling the second session of the death of Edward L. Bartlett, but was unable to be sworn tieth Congress was fixed for January 10, 1967. Ninetieth Congress was fixed for January 15, 1968. in as Congress was not in session. 'Reelected January 10, 1967. 'Died June 20, 1967. Elected January 10, 1967. 'Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of J. Arthur Younger, and took his seat December 14, 1967.

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CALIFORNIAContinued Herman E. Talmadge, Lovejoy Birch E. Bayh, Terre Haute REPRESENTATIVES_CONTINUED REPRESENTATWES REPRESENTATIVES Charles H. Wilson, Los Angeles G. Elliott Hagan, Sylvania Ray J. Madden, Gary Craig Hosmer, Long Beach Maston E. O'Neal, Jr., Bainbridge Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer Jerry L. Pettis, Loma Linda Jack T. Brinkley, Columbia John Brademas, South Bend Richard T. Hanna, Huntington Beach Benjamin B. Blackburn,9 Atlanta E. Ross Adair, Fort Wayne James B. Utt, Santa Ana Fletcher Thompson,'° East Point J. Edward Roush, Huntington Robert C. Wilson, San Diego John J. Flynt, Jr., Griffin William G. Bray, Martinsville Lionel Van Deerlin, San Diego John W. Davis, Summerfield John T. Myers, Covington John V. Tunney, Riverside Williamson S. Stuckey, Jr., Eastman Roger H. Zion, Evansville Phillip M. Landrum, Jasper Lee H. Hamilton, Columbus COLORADO Robert G. Stephens, Jr., Athens Richard L. Roudebush, Noblesville Andrew Jacobs, Jr., Indianapolis SENATORS HAWAII Gordon L. Allott, Lamar Peter H. Dominick, Englewood SENATORS IOWA Hiram L. Fong, Honolulu SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Daniel K. Inouye, Honolulu Byron G. Rogers, Denver Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Cedar Rapids Donald G. Brotzman, Boulder REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE Jack R. Miller, Sioux City Frank E Evans, Pueblo Spark M. Matsunaga, Honolulu Patsy T. Mink, Waipahu REPRESENTATIVES Wayne N. Aspinall, Palisade , Davenport IDAHO John C. Culver, Marion CONNECTICUT Harold R. Gross, Waterloo SENATORS SENATORS John H. Kyl, Bloomfield Thomas J. Dodd, North Stonington Frank Church, Boise Neal Smith, Altoona Abraham A. Ribicoff, Hartford Len B. Jordan, Boise , Sioux City REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES William J. Scherle, Henderson Emilio Q. Daddario, Hartford James A. McClure, Payette William L. St. Onge, Putnam George V. Hansen, Pocatello KANSAS Robert N. Giaimo, North Haven SENATORS Donald J. Irwin, Norwalk ILLINOIS Frank Carlson, Concordia John S. Monagan, Waterbury SENATORS James B. Pearson, Prairie Village Thomas J. Meskill, New Britain Everett McKinley Dirksen, Pekin Charles H. Percy, Kenilworth REPRESENTATIVES DELAWARE Robert J. Dole, Russell REPRESENTATIVES Chester L. Mize, Atchison SENATORS William L. Dawson, Chicago , Jr., Leawood John J. Williams, Milisboro Barratt O'Hara, Chicago Garner E. Shriver, Wichita J. Caleb Boggs, Wilmington William T. Murphy, Chicago Joe Skubitz, Pittsburg REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Edward J. Derwinski, South Holland William V. Roth, Jr., Wilmington John C. Kluczynski, Chicago KENTUCKY Daniel J. Ronan, Chicago FLORIDA Frank Annunzio, Chicago SENATORS John Sherman Cooper, Somerset SENATORS Daniel D. Rostenkowski, Chicago Sidney R. Yates, Chicago Thruston B. Morton," Louisville Spessard L. Holland, Bartow Marlow W. Cook,'2 Louisville George A. Smathers, Miami Harold R. Collier, Western Springs Roman C. Pucinski, Chicago REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Robert McClory, Lake Bluff Frank A Stubblefield, Murray Robert L. F. Sikes, Crestview Donald Rumsfeld, Wilmette Don Fuqua, Altha William H. Natcher, Bowling Green John N. Erlenborn, Elmhu ret William 0. Cowger, Louisville Charles E. Bennett, Jacksonville Charlotte T. Reid, Aurora Marion G. Snyder, Jefferson town Albert S. Herlong, Jr., Leesburg John B. Anderson, Rockford Tim Lee Carter, Tompkinsville Edward J. Gurney, Winter Park Leslie C. Arends, Melvin John C. Watts, Nicholasville Sam M. Gibbons, Tampa Robert H. Michel, Peoria Carl D. Perkins, Hindman James A. Haley, Sarasota Thomas F. Railsback, Moline William C Cramer, St. Petersburg Paul Findley, Pittsfield Paul G. Rogers, West Palm Beach Kenneth J. Gray, West Frankfort LOUISIANA J. Herbert Burke, Hollywood William L. Springer, Champaign SENATORS Claude D. Pepper, Miami George E. Shipley, Olney Allen J. Ellender, Houma Dante B. Fascell, Miami Charles M. Price, East St. Louis Russell B. Long, Baton Rouge GEORGIA REPRESENTATIVES INDIANA F. Edward Hébert, New Orleans SENATORS SENATORS Hale Boggs, New Orleans Richard B. Russell, Winder Vance Hartke, Evansville Edwin E. Willis, St. Martinville

° Contested election by James A. Mackay withdrawn. "Resigned December 16, 1968. '° Appointed to fill vacancy caused by resignation of ° Election unsuccessfully contested by Wyman C. Lowe. Thruston B. Morton, but was unable to be sworn in as Congress was not in session. Ninetieth Congress 447

Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., Plain Dealing Philip E. Ruppe, Houghton NEBRASKA Otto E. Passman, Monroe James G. O'Hara, Utica SENATORS John R. Rarick, St. Francisville Charles C. Diggs, Jr., Detroit Roman L. Hruska, Omaha Edwin W. Edwards, Crowley Lucien N. Nedzi, Detroit Carl T. Curtis, Minden Speedy 0. Long, Jena William D. Ford, Taylor John D. Dingell, Dearborn REPRESENTATIVES MAINE Martha W. Griffiths, Detroit Robert V. Denney, Fairbury SENATORS William S. Broomfield, Royal Oak Glenn Cunningham, Omaha David T. Martin, Kearneu Margaret Chase Smith, Skowhegan Jack H. McDonald, Detroit Edmund S. Muskie, Waterville MINNESOTA NEVADA REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Peter N. Kyros, Portland SENATORS William D. Hathaway, Auburn Eugene J. McCarthy, St. Paul Alan Bible, Reno Walter F. Mondale, Minneapolis Howard W. Cannon, Las Vegas MARYLAND REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE SENATORS Albert H. Quie, Dennison Walter S. Baring, Reno Daniel B. Brewster, Towson Ancher Nelsen, Hutchinson Joseph D. Tydings, Havre de Grace Clark MacGregor, Plymouth NEW HAMPSHIRE REPRESENTATIVES Joseph E. Karth, St. Paul SENATORS Rogers C. B. Morton, Easton Donald M. Fraser, Minneapolis Norris Cotton, Lebanon Clarence D. Long, Ruxton John M. Zwach, Walnut Grove Thomas J. McIntyre, Laconia Odin Langen, Kennedy Edward A. Garmatz, Baltimore John A. Blatnik, Chisholm REPRESENTATIVES George H. Fallon, Baltimore Louis C. Wyman, Manchester Hervey G. Machen, Hyattsville James C. Cleveland, New London Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Frederick MISSISSIPPI SENATORS Samuel N. Friedel, Baltimore NEW JERSEY Gilbert Gude, Bethesda James 0. Eastland, Doddsville John Stennis, De Kaib SENATORS MASSACHUSETTS REPRESENTATIVES Clifford P. Case, Rahway SENATORS Thomas G. Abernethy, Okolona Harrison A. Williams, Jr., Westfield Edward M. Kennedy, Boston Jamie L. Whitten, Charleston REPRESENTATIVES Edward W. Brooke, Newton Centre John Bell Williams,18 Raymond John E. Hunt, Pitman REPRESENTATIVES Charles H. Griffin,'4 Utica Charles W. Sandman, Jr., Cape May Silvio 0. Conte, Pittsfield Gillespie V. Montgomery, Meridian James J. Howard, Wall Township Edward P. Boland, Springfield William M. Colmer, Pascagoula Frank Thompson, Jr., Trenton Philip J. Philbin, Clinton Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen, Morristown Harold D. Donohue, Worcester MISSOURI William T. Cahill, Collingswood F. Bradford Morse, Lowell SENATORS William B. Widnall, Saddle River William H. Bates, Salem Stuart Symington, St. Louis Charles S. Joelson, Paterson Torbert H. Macdonald, Malden Edward V. Long,'5 Clarksville Henry Helstoski, East Rutherford Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Cambridge Thomas F. Eagleton,'6 St. Louis Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Newark Joseph G. Minish, West Orange John W. McCormack, Dorchester REPRESENTATIVES Margaret M. Heckler, Wellesley Florence P. Dwyer, Elizabeth James A. Burke, Milton Frank M. Karsten, St. Louis Cornelius E. Gallagher, Bayonne Hastings Keith, West Bridgewater Thomas B. Curtis, Webster Groves Dominick V. Daniels, Jersey City Leonor K. Sullivan, St. Louis Edward J. Patten, Perth Amboy MICHIGAN William J. Randall, Independence Richard Bolling, Kansas City SENATORS NEW MEXICO William R. Hull, Jr., Weston SENATORS Philip A. Hart, Mackinac Durward G. Hall, Springfield Robert P. Griffin, Traverse City Richard H. Ichord, Houston Clinton P. Anderson, Albuquerque REPRESENTATIVES William L. Hungate, Troy Joseph M. Montoya, Santa Fe John Conyers, Jr., Detroit Paul C. Jones, Kennett REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE Marvin L. Esch, Ann Arbor Thomas G. Morris, Tucumcari Gary E. Brown, Schoolcraft MONTANA E. S. Johnny Walker, Santa Fe Edward Hutchinson, Fennville SENATORS Gerald R. Ford, Grand Rapids Michael J. Mansfield, Missoula NEW YORK Charles E. Chamberlain, East Lansing Lee Metcalf, Helena SENATORS Donald W. Riegle, Jr., Flint Jacob K. Javits, New York City James Harvey, Saginaw REPRESENTATIVES Arnold Olsen, Helena Robert F. Kennedy,'1 New York City Guy A. Vander Jagt, Cadillac Charles E. Goodell,'8 Jamestown Elford A. Cederberg, Bay City James F. Battin, Billinas

Appointed to fill vacancy caused by resignation of "Resigned January 16, 1968. IsResigned December 27, 1968. Edward V. Long, but was unable to be sworn in as Con- Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of John gress was not in session. Bell Williams, and took his seat March 18, 1968. 11Died June 6, 1968. 'Appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of Robert F. Kennedy, and took his seat September 12, 1968. 448 Biographical Directory

NEW YORKContinued Roy A. Taylor, Black Mountain Albert C. Ullman, Baker REPRESENTATIVES" Edith S. Green, Portland Otis G. Pike, Riverhead NORTH DAKOTA John R. Dellenback, Medford James R. Grover, Jr., Babylon SENATORS Lester L. Wolff, Great Neck Milton R. Young, LaMoure PENNSYLVANIA John W. Wydler, Garden City Quentin N. Burdick, Fargo SENATORS Herbert Tenzer, Cedarhurst REPRESENTATIVES Joseph S. Clark, Philadelphia Seymour Halpern, Jamaica Mark Andrews, Mapleton Hugh D. Scott, Jr., Philadelphia Joseph P. Addabbo, Ozone Park Thomas S. Kleppe, Bismarck Benjamin S. Rosenthal, Elmhurst REPRESENTATIVES James J. Delaney, Long Island City OHIO William A. Barrett, Philadelphia Emanuel Celler, Brooklyn Robert N. C. Nix, Philadelphia Frank J. Brasco, Brooklyn SENATORS James A. Byrne, Philadelphia Edna F. Kelly, Brooklyn Frank J. Lausche, Cleveland , Philadelphia Abraham J. Multer,2° Brooklyn Stephen M. Young, Cleveland William J. Green, Philadelphia Bertram L. Podell,2' Brooklyn REPRESENTATIVES George M. Rhodes, Reading John J. Rooney, Brooklyn Robert Taft, Jr., Cincinnati Lawrence G. Williams, Springfield Hugh L. Carey, Brooklyn Donald D. Clancy, Cincinnati Edward G. Biester, Jr., Furlong John M. Murphy, Staten Island Charles W. Whalen, Jr., Dayton G. Robert Watkins, West Chester Theodore R. Kupferman, New York William M. McCulloch, Piqua Joseph M. McDade, Scranton City Delbert L. Latta, Bowling Green Daniel J. Flood, Wilkes-Barre Leonard Farbstein, New York City William H. Harsha, Portsmouth J. Irving Whalley, Windber William F. Ryan, New York City Clarence J. Brown, Jr., Urbana Richard S. Schweiker, Worcester James H. Scheuer, Bronx Jackson E. Betts, Findlay William S. Moorhead, Pittsburgh Jacob H. Gilbert, Bronx Thomas L. Ashley, Waterville Fred B. Rooney, Bethlehem Jonathan B. Bingham, Bronx Clarence E. Miller, Lancaster Edwin D. Eshleman, Lancaster Paul A. Fino,22 Bronx J. William Stanton, Painesville Herman T. Schneebeli, Williamsport Richard L. Ottinger, Pleasantville Samuel L. Devine, Columbus Robert J. Corbett, Pittsburgh Ogden R. Reid, Purchase Charles A. Mosher, Oberlin George A. Goodling, Loganville John G. Dow, Grand View William H. Ayres, Akron Elmer J. Holland,23 Pittsburgh Joseph Y. Resnick, Ellenville Chalmers P. Wylie, Columbus Joseph M. Gaydos,24 McKeesport Daniel E. Button, Albany Frank T. Bow, Canton John H. Dent, Jeannette Carleton J. King, Saratoga Springs John M. Ashbrook, Johnstown John P. Saylor, Johnstown Robert C. McEwen, Ogdens burg Wayne L. Hays, Flushing Albert W. Johnson, Smethport Alexander Pirnie, Utica Michael J. Kirwan, Youngstown Joseph P. Vigorito, Erie Howard W. Robison, Owego Michael A. Feighan, Cleveland Frank M. Clark, Bessemer James M. Hanley, Syracuse Charles A. Vanik, Cleveland Thomas E. Morgan, Fredericktown Samuel S. Stratton, Amsterdam Frances P. Bolton, Cleveland James G. Fulton, Pittsburgh Frank Horton, Rochester William E. Minshall, Lakewood Barber B. Conable, Jr., Alexander Donald E. Lukens, Middletown RHODE ISLAND Charles E. Goodell, Jamestown SENATORS Richard D. McCarthy, Buffalo OKLAHOMA John 0. Pastore, Cranston Henry P. Smith 3d, Tonawanda Claiborne Pell, Newport Thaddeus J. Duiski, Buffalo SENATORS A. S. Mike Monroney, Oklahoma City REPRESENTATIVES NORTH CAROLINA Fred R. Harris, Lawton Fernand J. St Germain, Woonsocket SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES John E. Fogarty,25 Harmony Samuel J. Ervin, Jr., Morganton Page H. Belcher, Enid Robert 0. Tiernan,26 Warwick B. Everett Jordan, Saxapahaw Edmond Edmondson, Muskogee Carl B. Albert, McAlester SOUTH CAROLINA REPRESENTATIVES Thomas J Steed, Shawnee Walter B. Jones, Farmville SENATORS John Jarman, Oklahoma City James Strom Thurmond, Aiken Lawrence H. Fountain, Tarboro James V. Smith, Chickasha David N. Henderson, Wallace Ernest F. Hollings, Charleston James C. Gardner, Rocky Mount OREGON REPRESENTATIVES Nick Galifianakis, Durham SENATORS L. Mendel Rivers, Charleston Horace R. Kornegay, Greensboro Albert W. Watson, Columbia Alton A. Lennon, Wilmington Wayne L. Morse, Eugene W. J. Bryan Dorn, Greenwood Charles R. Jonas, Lincolnton Mark 0. Hatfield, Salem Robert T. Ashmore, Greenville James T. Broyhill, Lenoir REPRESENTATIVES Thomas S. Gettys, Rock Hill Basil L. Whitener, Gastonia Wendell Wyatt, Astoria John L. McMillan, Florence

Pursuant to H. Res. 278, Adam Clayton Powell was "Resigned December 31, 1968; vacancy throughout re- '° Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Elmer J. excluded from membership in the 90th Congress. mainder of the Congress. Holland, but was unable to be sworn in as Congress was '°Resigned December 31, 1967. "Died August 9, 1968. not in session. "Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Abra- "Died January 10, 1967, before the commencement of ham Multer, and took his seat February 28, 1968. the Ninetieth Congress, to which he had been reelected. '° Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of John E. Fogarty, and took his seat April 13, 1967. Ninetieth Congress 449

SOUTH DAKOTA Robert D. Price, Pampa Julia Butler Hansen, Cat hiamet George H. Mahon, Lubbock Catherine May, Yakima SENATORS Henry B. Gonzalez, San Antonio Thomas S. Foley, Spokane Karl E. Mundt, Madison 0. Clark Fisher, San Angelo Floyd V. Hicks, Takoma George S. McGovern, Mitchell Robert R. Casey, Houston Brock Adams, Seattle REPRESENTATIVES Abraham Kazen, Jr., Laredo Benjamin Reifel, Aberdeen WEST VIRGINIA Ellis Y. Berry, McLaughlin UTAH SENATORS SENATORS Jennings Randolph, Elkins TENNESSEE Wallace F. Bennett, Salt Lake City Robert C. Byrd, Sophia SENATORS Frank E. Moss, Salt Lake City REPRESENTATIVES Albert A. Gore, Carthage REPRESENTATIVES Howard H. Baker, Jr., Huntsville Arch A. Moore, Jr., Glen Dale Laurence J. Burton, Ogden Harley 0. Staggers, Keyser REPRESENTATIVES Sherman P. Lloyd, Salt Lake City John M. Slack, Jr., Charleston James H. Quillen, Kingsport Ken Hechier, Huntington John J. Duncan, Knoxville VERMONT James Kee, Bluefield William E. Brock 3d, Chattanooga SENATORS Joseph L. Evins, Smithfield George D. Aiken, Putney WISCONSIN Richard H. Fulton, Nashville Winston L. Prouty, Newport William R. Anderson, Waverly SENATORS Leonard R. Blanton, Adamsville REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE William Proxmire, Madison Robert A. Everett, Union City Robert T. Stafford, Rutland , Madison Dan H. Kuykendall, Memphis VIRGINIA REPRESENTATIVES Henry C. Schadeberg, Burlington TEXAS SENATORS Robert W. Kastenmeier, Watertown SENATORS Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Winchester Vernon W. Thomson, Richland Center Ralph W. Yarborough, Austin William B. Spong, Jr., Portsmouth Clement J. Zablocki, Milwaukee John G. Tower, Wichita Falls REPRESENTATIVES Henry S. Reuss, Milwaukee REPRESENTATIVES Thomas N. Downing, Newport News William A. Steiger, Oshkosh Wright Patman, Texarkana Porter Hardy, Jr., Portsmouth Melvin R. Laird, Mars hfield John V. Dowdy, Athens David E. Satterfield 3d, Richmond John W. Byrnes, Green Bay Joe Richard Pool,27 Dallas Watkins M. Abbitt, Appomattox Glenn R. Davis, New Berlin James M. Collins,28 Grand Prairie William M. Tuck, South Boston Alvin E. O'Konski, Mercer Herbert R. Roberts, McKinney Richard H. Poff, Radford Earle Cabell, Dallas John 0. Marsh, Jr., Strasburg WYOMING Olin E. Teague, College Station William L. Scott, Fairfax SENATORS George H. W. Bush, Houston William C. Wampler, Bristol Gale W. McGee, Laramie Robert C. Eckhardt, Houston Joel T. Broyhill, Arlington Clifford P. Hansen, Jackson Hole Jack B. Brooks, Beaumont James J. Pickle, Austin WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE William R. Poage, Waco SENATORS William H. Harrison, Sheridan James C. Wright, Jr., Fort Worth Warren G. Magnuson, Seattle Graham B. Purcell, Wichita Falls Henry M. Jackson, Everett COMMONWEALTH OF John A. Young, Corpus Christi PUERTO RICO Eligio de la Garza, Mission REPRESENTATIVES Thomas M. Pelly, Seattle RESIDENT COMMISSIONER Richard C. White, El Paso Santiago Polanco-Abreu, Isabela Omar T. Burleson, Anson Lloyd Meeds, Everett

' Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Joe R. Pool, ' Died July 14, 1968. and took his seat September 4, 1968. NINETY-FIRSTCONGRESS JANUARY 3, 1969, TO JANUARY 3, 1971

FIRST SESSION-January 3, 1969,to December 23, 1969 SECOND SESSION-January 19, 1970,1to January 2, 1971

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES-SpIRO T. AGNEW,2of Maryland PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE-RICHARDB. RUSSELL,3 of Georgia SECRETARY OF THE SENATE-FRANCIS R. VALEO,4 of theDistrict of Columbia SERGEANT OF ARMS OF THE SENATE-ROBERTG. DUNPHY,4 of Rhode Island

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE-JOHN W. MCCORMACK,4 of Massachusetts CLERK OF THE HOUSE-W. PAT JENNINGS,4 of Virginia SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE HOUSE-ZEAKE W. JOHNSON,4of Tennessee DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSE-WILLIAM M. MILLER,4 of Mississippi POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSE-H. H. MORRIS,4 of Kentucky

ALABAMA Morris K. Udall, Tucson Charles S. Gubser, Gilroy SENATORS Sam Steiger, Prescott Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., Portola Valley John J. Sparkman, Huntsville Burt L. Talcott, Salinas James B. Allen, Gadsden ARKANSAS Charles M. Teague, Ojai SENATORS Jerome R. Waldie, Antioch REPRESENTATIVES John J. McFall, Manteca Jack Edwards, Mobile John L. McClellan, Camden J. William Fuibright, Fayetteville Bernice F. Sisk, Fresno William L. Dickinson, Montgomery Glenn M. Anderson, Torrance George W. Andrews, Union Springs REPRESENTATIVES Robert B. Mathias, Visalia William Nichols, Sylacauga William V. Alexander, Jr., Osceola Chet Holifield, Montebello Walter Flowers, Tuscaloosa Wilbur D. Mills, Kensett H. Allen Smith, Glendale John H. Buchanan, Jr., Birmingham John P. Hammerschmidt, Harrison Augustus F. Hawkins, Los Angeles Tom Bevill, Jasper David H. Pryor, Camden James C. Corman, Van Nuys Robert E. Jones, Scottsboro Del M. Clawson, Compton CALIFORNIA Glenard P. Lipscomb,7 Alhambra ALASKA SENATORS John H. Rousselot,8 San Marino SENATORS George L. Murphy,5 Beverly Hills Charles E. Wiggins, El Monte Theodore F. Stevens, Anchorage John V. Tunney,6 Riverside Thomas M. Rees, Los Angeles Maurice R. Gravel, Anchorage , Los Angeles Ed Reinecke,9 Tujunga Barry M. Goldwater, Jr.,'° Burbank REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE REPRESENTATIVES Alphonzo Bell, Los Angeles Howard W. Pollock, Anchorage Don H. Clausen, Crescent City George E. Brown, Jr., Monterey Park Harold T. Johnson, Roseville Edward R. Roybal, Los Angeles ARIZONA John E. Moss, Jr., Sacramento Charles H. Wilson, Los Angeles SENATORS Robert L. Leggett, Vallejo Craig Hosmer, Long Beach Paul J. Fannin, Phoenix Phillip Burton, San Francisco Jerry L. Pettis, Loma Linda Barry M. Goldwater, Phoenix William S. Mailliard, San Francisco Richard T. Hanna, Huntington Beach Jeffery Cohelan, Berkeley James B. Utt,1' Santa Ana REPRESENTATIVES George P. Miller, Alameda John G. Schmitz,'2 Santa Ana John J. Rhodes, Mesa Don Edwards, San Jose Robert C. Wilson, San Diego

By joint resolution (Pub. Law 91-182, 91st Cong., 1st Resigned January 2, 1971. Resigned January 21, 1969. sess.), the date of assembling the second session of the Appointed tofill vacancy caused by resignation of Ninety-first Congress was fixed for January 19, 1970. '° Elected to fill vacancy caused by. resignation of Ed 'Term began January 29, 1969. George L. Murphy, and took his seat January 2,1971. Reinecke, and took his seat May 5, 1969. Died February 1, 1970. 'Died March 1, 1970. Elected January 3, 1969. Elected June 30, 1970, to fill vacancy caused by death Reelected January 3, 1969. "Elected June 30, 1970, to fill vacancy caused by death of Glenard P. Lipscomb, and took his seat July 6, 1970. of James B. Utt, and took his seat July 1, 1970.

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Lionel Van Deerlin, San Diego GEORGIA Donald Rumsfeld,26 Wilmette John V Tunney,'3 Riverside Philip M. Crane,27 Winnetka SENATORS John N. Erlenborn, Elmhurst Richard B. Russell, Winder Charlotte T. Reid, Aurora COLORADO Herman E. Talmadge, Lovejoy John B. Anderson, Rockford SENATORS REPRESENTATNES Leslie C. Arends, Melvin Gordon L. Allott, Lamar G. Elliott Hagan, Sylvania Robert H. Michel, Peoria Peter H. Dominick, Englewood Maston E. O'Neal, Jr., Bainbridge Thomas F. Railsback, Moline REPRESENTATIVES Jack T. Brinkley, Columbus Paul Findley, Pittsfield Benjamin B. Blackburn, Atlanta Kenneth J. Gray, West Frankfort Byron G. Rogers, Denver William L. Springer, Champaign Donald G. Brotzman, Boulder Fletcher Thompson,'9 East Point John J. Flynt, Jr., Griffin George E. Shipley, Olney Frank E. Evans, Pueblo Charles M. Price, East St. Louis Wayne N. Aspinall, Palisade John W. Davis, Summerville Williamson S. Stuckey, Jr., Eastman INDIANA CONNECTICUT Phillip M. Landrum, Jasper Robert G. Stephens, Jr., Athens SENATORS SENATORS Vance Hartke, Evansville Thomas J. Dodd, Old Lyme HAWAII Birch E. Bayh, Terre Haute Abraham A. Ribicoff, Hartford SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Hiram L. Fong, Honolulu Ray J. Madden, Gary Emilio Q. Daddario, Hartford Daniel K. Inouye, Honolulu Earl F. Landgrebe, Valparaiso William L. St. Onge,'4 Putman REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE John Brademas, South Bend Robert H. Steele,'5 Vernon E. Ross Adair, Fort Wayne Spark M. Matsunaga, Honolulu Richard L. Roudebush, Noblesville Robert N. Giaimo, North Haven Patsy T. Mink, Waipahu Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Greenwich William G. Bray, Martinsville John S. Monagan, Waterbury IDAHO John T. Myers, Covington Thomas J. Meskill, New Britain Roger H. Zion, Evansville SENATORS Lee H. Hamilton, Columbus DELAWARE Frank Church, Boise David W. Dennis, Richmond Len B. Jordan, Boise Andrew Jacobs, Jr., Indianapolis SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES John J. Millsboro IOWA William V. Roth, Jr.,17 Wilmington James A. McClure, Payette Orval Hansen, Idaho Falls SENATORS J. Caleb Boggs, Wilmington Jack R. Miller, Sioux City REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE ILLINOIS Harold E. Hughes, Ida Grove William V. Roth, Jr.,'8 Wilmington SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Everett McK. Dirksen,2° Pekin Fred Schwengel, Davenport FLORIDA Ralph T. Smith,2' Alton John C. Culver, Marion SENATORS Adlai E. Stevenson 3d,22 Chicago Harold R. Gross, Waterloo Spessard L. Holland, Bartow Charles H. Percy, Wilmette John H. Kyl, Bloomfield Edward J. Gurney, Winter Haven Neal Smith, Altoona REPRESENTATIVES Wiley Mayne, Sioux City REPRESENTATIVES William L. Dawson,23 Chicago William J. Scherle, Henderson Robert L. F. Sikes, Crestview Abner J. Mikva, Chicago Don Fuqua, Altha William T. Murphy, Chicago KANSAS Charles E. Bennett, Jacksonville Edward J. Derwinski, South Holland SENATORS William V. Chappell, Jr., Ocala John C. Kluczynski, Chicago James B. Pearson, Prairie Village Louis Frey, Jr., Winter Park Daniel J. Ronan,24 Chicago Robert J. Dole, Russell George W. Collins,25 Chicago Sam M. Gibbons, Tampa REPRESENTATIVES James A. Haley, Sarasota Frank Annunzio, Chicago William C. Cramer, St. Petersburg Daniel D. Rostenkowski, Chicago Keith G. Sebelius, Norton Paul G. Rogers, West Palm Beach Sidney R. Yates, Chicago Chester L. Mize, Atchison J. Herbert Burke, Hollywood Harold R. Collier, Western Springs Larry Winn, Jr., Overland Park Claude D. Pepper, Miami Roman C. Pucinski, Chicago Garner E. Shriver, Wichita Dante B. Fascell, Miami Robert McClory, Lake Bluff Joe Skubitz, Pittsburg

Resigned December 31, 1970; vacancy throughout re- Died September 11, 1970; vacancy throughout remain- "Resigned January 2, 1971, to become U.S. Senator by der of Congress. appointment of Governor to term ending January 3, 1971. mainder of Congress. 22 19Election unsuccessfully contested by Wyman C. Lowe. Died August 13, 1969. Died May 1, 1970. Elected November 3, 1970, to fill vacancy caused by 'Elected November 3, 1970, to fill vacancy caused by 20Died September 7, 1969. 22Appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of Everett death of Daniel J. Ronan, and took his seat November 16, death of William L. St. Onge, and took his seat November 1970. 16, 1970. McK. Dirksen, and took his seat September 18, 1969. 22Elected November 3, 1970, to fill vacancy caused by Resigned May 25, 1969. "Resigned December 31, 1970. Electedtofill vacancy caused by resignation of 'Appointed to fill vacancy caused by resignation of death of Everett McK. Dirksen, and took his seat Novem- Donald Rumsfeld, and took his seat December 1,1969. John J. Williams, and took his seat January 2, 1971. ber 17, 1970. 452 Biographical Directory

KENTUCKY William H. Bates,28 Salem Thomas F. Eagleton, St. Louis SENATORS Michael J. Harrington,29 Beverly REPRESENTATIVES John Sherman Cooper, Somerset Torbert H. Macdonald, Malden Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Cambridge William L. Clay, St. Louis Marlow W. Cook, Louisville John W. McCormack, Dorchester James W. Symington, Clayton REPRESENTATIVES Margaret M. Heckler, Wellesley Leonor K. Sullivan, St. Louis Frank A. Stubblefield, Murray James A. Burke, Milton William J. Randall, Independence William H. Natcher, Bowling Green Hastings Keith, West Bridgewater Richard Bolling, Kansas City William 0. Cowger, Louisville William R. Hull, Jr., Weston Marion G. Snyder, Jeffersontown MICHIGAN Durward G. Hall, Springfield Tim Lee Carter, Tompkinsville SENATORS Richard H. Ichord, Houston John C. Watts, Nicholasville Philip A. Hart, Mackinac Island William L. Hungate, Troy Carl D. Perkins, Hindman Robert P. Griffin, Traverse City Bill D. Burlison, Cape Girardeau LOUISIANA REPRESENTATIVES John Conyers, Jr., Detroit MONTANA SENATORS Marvin L. Esch, Ann Arbor SENATORS Allen J. Ellender, Houma Garry E. Brown, Schoolcraft Russell B. Long, Baton Rouge Michael J. Mansfield, Missoula Edward Hutchinson, Fennville Lee Metcalf, Helena REPRESENTATWES Gerald R. Ford, Grand Rapids F. Edward Hébert, New Orleans Charles E. Chamberlain, East Lansing REPRESENTATIVES Hale Boggs, New Orleans Donald W. Riegle, Jr., Flint Arnold Olsen, Helena Patrick T. Caffery, New Iberia James Harvey, Saginaw James F. Battin,3° Billings Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., Plain Dealing Guy A. Vander Jagt, Cadillac ,3' Forsyth Otto E. Passman, Monroe Elford A. Cederberg, Bay City Philip E. Ruppe, Houghton John R. Rarick, Baton Rouge James G. O'Hara, Utica NEBRASKA Edwin W. Edwards, Crowley SENATORS Speedy 0. Long, Jena Charles C. Diggs, Jr., Detroit Lucien N. Nedzi, Detroit Roman L. Hruska, Omaha William D. Ford, Taylor Carl T. Curtis, Minden MAINE John D. Dingell, Dearborn SENATORS Martha W. Griffiths, Detroit REPRESENTATIVES Margaret Chase Smith, Skowhegan William S. Broomfield, Royal Oak Robert V. Denney, Fairbury Edmund S. Muskie, Waterville Jack H. McDonald, Livonia Glenn Cunningham, Omaha REPRESENTATWES David T. Martin, Kearney Peter N. Kyros, Portland MINNESOTA William D. Hathaway, Auburn SENATORS NEVADA Eugene J. McCarthy, St. Paul SENATORS MARYLAND Walter F. Mondale, Minneapolis Alan Bible, Reno SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Howard W. Cannon, Las Vegas Albert H. Quie, Dennison Joseph D. Tyding, Havre de Grace REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Frederick Ancher Nelsen, Hutchinson Clark MacGregor, Plymouth Walter S. Baring, Reno REPRESENTATIVES Joseph E. Karth, St. C. B. Morton, Easton Donald M. Fraser, Minneapolis NEW HAMPSHIRE Clarence D. Long, Ruxton John M. Zwach, Walnut Grove Edward A. Garmatz, Baltimore Odin Langen, Kennedy SENATORS George H. Fallon, Baltimore John A. Blatnik, Chisholm Norris Cotton, Lebanon Lawrence J. Hogan, Landover Thomas J. McIntyre, Laconia J. Glenn Beall, Jr., Frost burg MISSISSIPPI REPRESENTATIVES Samuel N. Friedel, Baltimore SENATORS Gilbert Gude, Bethesda Louis C. Wyman, Manchester James 0. Eastland, Doddsville James C. Cleveland, New London MASSACHUSETTS John Stennis, Do Kalb REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS NEW JERSEY Thomas G. Abernethy, Okolona Edward M. Kennedy, Boston Jamie L. Whitten, Charleston SENATORS Edward W. Brooke, Newton Centre Charles H. Griffin, Utica Clifford P. Case, Rahway REPRESENTATWES Gillespie V. Montgomery, Meridian Harrison A. Williams, Jr., Westfield Silvio 0. Conte, Pittsfield William M. Colmer, Pascagoula REPRESENTATIVES Edward P. Boland, Springfield John E. Hunt, Pitman Philip J. Philbin, Clinton MISSOURI Charles W. Sandman, Jr., Cape May Harold D. Donohue, Worcester SENATORS James J. Howard, Wall Township F. Bradford Morse, Lowell Stuart Symington, St. Louis Frank Thompson, Jr., Trenton

28 Died June 221969. 25Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of William H. 55Resigned February 27,1969. Bates, and took his seat October 3,1969. Elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of James F. Battin, and took his seat June 27,1969. Ninety-First Congress 453

Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen, Morristown Howard W. Robison, Owego Michael J. Kirwan,36 Youngstown William T. Cahill,32 Collingswood James M. Hanley, Syracuse Charles J. Carney,37 Youngstown Edwin B. Forsythe,33 Moorestown Samuel S. Stratton, Amsterdam Michael A. Feighan, Cleveland William B Widnall, Saddle River Frank Horton, Rochester , Cleveland Charles S. Joelson,34 Paterson Barber B. Conable, Jr., Alexander Charles A. Vanik, Cleveland Robert A. Roe,35 Wayne James F. Hastings, Allegany William E. Minshall, Lakewood Henry Heistoski, East Rutherford Richard D. McCarthy, Buffalo Donald E. Lukens, Middletown Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Newark Henry P. Smith 3d, North Tonawanda Joseph G. Minish, West Orange Thaddeus J. Dulski, Buffalo OKLAHOMA Florence P. Dwyer, Elizabeth Cornelius E. Gallagher, Bayonne NORTH CAROLINA SENATORS Dominick V. Daniels, Jersey City SENATORS Fred R. Harris, Lawton Henry L. Bellmon, Billings Edward J. Patten, Perth Amboy Samuel J. Ervin, Jr., Morganton REPRESENTATIVES NEW MEXICO B. Everett Jordan, Saxapahaw REPRESENTATIVES Page H. Belcher, Tulsa SENATORS Walter B. Jones, Farmville Edmond Edmondson, Muskogee Clinton P. Anderson, Albuquerque Lawrence H. Fountain, Tarboro Carl B. Albert, McAlester Joseph M. Montoya, Santa Fe David N. Henderson, Wallace Thomas J. Steed, Shawnee REPRESENTATIVES Nick Galifianakis, Durham John Jarman, Oklahoma City Manuel Lujan, Jr., Albuquerque Wilmer D. Mizell, Winston-Salem John N. Camp, Waukomis Edgar F. Foreman, Las Cruces Lunsford R. Preyer, Greensboro Alton A. Lennon, Wilmington OREGON NEW YORK Earl B. Ruth, Salisbury SENATORS SENATORS Charles R. Jonas, Lincolnton Mark 0. Hatfield, Salem Jacob K. Javits, New York City James T. Broyhill, Lenoir Robert W. Packwood, Portland Charles E. Goodell, Jamestown Roy A. Taylor, Black Mountain REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Otis G. Pike, Riverhead NORTH DAKOTA Wendell Wyatt, Astoria James R. Grover, Jr., Babylon SENATORS Albert C. Ullman, Baker Lester L. Wolff, Great Neck Milton R. Young, LaMoure Edith S. Green, Portland John W. Wydler, Garden City Quentin N. Burdick, Fargo John R. Dellenback, Medford Allard K. Lowenstein, Long Beach REPRESENTATIVES PENNSYLVANIA Semour Halpern, Jamaica Mark Andrews, Mapleton Joseph P. Addabbo, Ozone Park Thomas S. Kleppe, Bismarck SENATORS Benjamin S. Rosenthal, Elmhurst , Philadelphia James J. Delaney, Long Island City OHIO Richard S. Schweiker, Worcester Emanuel Celler, Brooklyn Frank J. Brasco, Brooklyn SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Shirley A. Chisholm, Brooklyn Stephen M. Young, Cleveland William A. Barrett, Philadelphia Bertram L. Podell, Brooklyn William B. Saxbe, Mechanicsville Robert N. C. Nix, Philadelphia John J. Rooney, Brooklyn REPRESENTATIVES James A. Byrne, Philadelphia Hugh L. Carey, Brooklyn Robert Taft, Jr., Cincinnati Joshua Eilberg, Philadelphia John M. Murphy, Staten Island Donald D. Clancy, Cincinnati William J. Green, Philadelphia Edward I. Koch, Manhattan Charles W. Whalen, Jr., Dayton , Reading Adam C. Powell, New York City William M. McCulloch, Piqua Lawrence G. Williams, Springfield Leonard Farbstein, New York City Delbert L. Latta, Bowling Green Edward G. Biester, Jr., Furlong William F Ryan, New York City William H. Harsha, Portsmouth G. Robert Watkins,38 West Chester James H. Scheuer, Bronx Clarence J. Brown, Urbana John H. Ware,39 Oxford Jacob H. Gilbert, Bronx Jackson E. Betts, Findlay Joseph M. McDade, Scranton Jonathan B. Bingham, Bronx Thomas L. Ashley, Waterville Daniel J. Flood, Wilkes-Barre , Bronx Clarence E. Miller, Lancaster J. Irving Whalley, Windber Richard L. Ottinger, Pleasantville J. William Stanton, Painesville R. , Villanova Ogden R. Reid, Purchase Samuel L. Devine, Columbus William S. Moorhead, Pittsburgh Martin B. McKneally, Newburgh Charles A. Mosher, Oberlin Fred B. Rooney, Bethlehem Hamilton Fish, Jr., Millbrook William H. Ayres, Akron Edwin D. Eshleman, Lancaster Daniel E. Button, Albany Chalmers P. Wylie, Columbus Herman T. Schneebeli, Williamsport Carleton J. King, Saratoga Springs Frank T. Bow, Canton Robert J. Corbett, Pittsburgh Robert C. McEwen, Ogdensburg John M. Ashbrook, Johnstown George A. Goodling, Loganville Alexander Pirnie, Utica Wayne L. Hays, Flushing Joseph M. Gaydos, McKeesport

Resigned January 19, 1970. "Elected tofill vacancy caused by resignation of ' Elected November 3, 1970, to fill vacancy caused by "Elected November 3, 1970, to fill vacancy caused by Charles S. Joelson, and took his seat November 20, 1969. death of Michael J. Kirwan, and took his seat November resignation of William T. Cahill, and took his seat Novem- "Died July 27, 1970. 16, 1970. "Died August 7, 1970. ber 16, 1970. 35Elected November 3, 1970, to fill vacancy caused by ' Resigned September 4, 1969. death of C. Robert Watkins, and took his seat November 16, 1970. 454 Biographical Directory

PENNSYLVANIAContinued TEXAS William L. Scott, Fairfax SENATORS William C. Wampler, Bristol REPRESENTATWEScONTINUED Joel T. Broyhill, Arlington John H. Dent, Jeannette Ralph W. Yarborough, Austin John P. Saylor, Johnstown John G. Tower, Wichita Falls WASHINGTON Albert W. Johnson, Smethport REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Joseph P. Vigorito, Erie Wright Patman, Texarkana Warren G. Magnuson, Seattle Frank M. Clark, Bessemer John Dowdy, Athens Henry M. Jackson, Everett Thomas E. Morgan, Frederick town James M. Collins, Grand Prairie James G. Fulton, Pittsburgh Herbert R. Roberts, McKinney REPRESENTATIVES Earle Cabell, Dallas Thomas M. Pelly, Seattle RHODE ISLAND Olin E. Teague, College Station Lloyd Meeds, Everett George H. W. Bush, Houston Julia Butler Hansen, Cat hlamet SENATORS Robert C. Eckhardt, Houston Catherine May, Yakima John 0. Pastore, Cranston Jack B. Brooks, Beaumont Thomas S. Foley, Spokane Claiborne Pell, Newport James J. Pickle, Austin Floyd V. Hicks, Tacoma Brock Adams, Seattle REPRESENTATIVES William R. Poage, Waco James C. Wright, Jr., Fort Worth Fernand J. St Germain, Woonsocket WEST VIRGINIA Robert 0. Tiernan, Warwick Graham B. Purcell, Wichita Falls John A. Young, Corpus Christi SENATORS Eligio de la Garza, Mission Jennings Randolph, Elkins SOUTH CAROLINA Richard C. White, El Paso Robert C. Byrd, Sophia SENATORS Omar T. Burleson, Anson REPRESENTATIVES Strom Thurmond, Aiken Robert D. Price, Pampa Robert H. Mollohan, Fairmont Ernest F. Hollings, Charleston George H. Mahon, Lubbock Harley 0. Staggers, Keyser REPRESENTATIVES Henry B. Gonzalez, San Antonio John Slack, Charleston 0. Clark Fisher, San Angelo L. Mendel Rivers,40 Charleston Ken Hechler, Huntington Robert R. Casey, Houston James Kee, Bluefield Albert W. Watson, Columbia Abraham Kazen, Jr., Laredo W. J. Bryan Dorn, Greenwood WISCONSIN James R. Mann, Greenville UTAH Tom S. Gettys, Rock Hill SENATORS John L. McMillan, Florence SENATORS William Proxmire, Madison Wallace F. Bennett, Salt Lake City Gaylord Nelson, Madison Frank E. Moss, Salt Lake City SOUTH DAKOTA REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Henry C. Schadeberg, Burlington Laurence J. Burton, Ogden Robert W. Kastenmeier, Watertown Karl E. Mundt, Madison Sherman P Lloyd, Salt Lake City George McGovern, Mitchell Vernon W. Thomson, Richland Center Clement J. Zablocki, Milwaukee REPRESENTATIVES VERMONT Henry S. Reuss, Milwaukee Benjamin Reifel, Aberdeen SENATORS William A. Steiger, Oshkosh Ellis Y. Berry, McLaughlin George D. Aiken, Putney Melvin R. Laird,43 Mars hfield Winston L. Prouty, Newport David R. Obey,44 Wausau TENNESSEE REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE John W. Byrnes, Green Bay Glenn R. Davis, Waukesha SENATORS Robert T. Stafford, Rutland Alvin E. O'Konski, Rhinelander Albert Gore, Carthage Howard H. Baker, Jr., Huntsville VIRGINIA WYOMING SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS James H. Quillen, Kingsport Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Winchester Gale W. McGee, Laramie John J. Duncan, Knoxville William B. Spong, Jr., Portsmouth Clifford P. Hansen, Jackson Hole REPRESENTATIVES William E. Brock 3d, Chattanooga REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Joseph L. Evins, Smithville Thomas N. Downing, Newport News Richard H. Fulton, Nashville G. William Whitehurst, Norfolk John Wold, Casper William R. Anderson, Waverly David E. Satterfield 3d, Richmond COMMONWEALTH OF Leonard R. Blanton, Adamsville Watkins M. Abbitt, Appomattox Robert A. Everett,4' Union City W. C. Daniel, Danville PUERTO RICO Edward Jones,42 Yorkville Richard H. Poff, Radford RESIDENT COMMISSIONER Dan H. Kuykendall, Memphis John 0. Marsh, Jr., Strasburg Jorge L. Cóldova, San Juan

° Died December 28, 1970; vacancy throughout remain- ' Died January 26, 1969. 4' Elected to fill vacancy caused by death of Robert A. Everett, and took his seat April 1, 1969. der of Congress. Resigned January 21, 1969. "Elected tofill vacancy caused by resignation of Melvin R. Laird, and took his seat April 3, 1969. NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS JANUARY 3, 1971, TO JANUARY 3, 1973

FIRST SESSION-January 21, 1971,1 to December 17, 1971 SECOND SESSION-January 18, 1972,2 to October 18, 1972

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES-Spiao T. AGNEW, of Maryland PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE-RIcHARD B RUSSELL,3 of Georgia; ALLEN J ELLENDER,4 of Louisiana; JAMES 0. EASTIAND,5 of Mississippi SECRETARY OF THE SENATE-FRANcIs R. VALEO, of the District of Columbia SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE SENATE-ROBERT G. DUNPHY,6 of Rhode Island; WILLIAM H WANNALL,' of Maryland

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE-CARL B ALBERT,8 of Oklahoma CLERK OF THE HOUSE-W. PAT JENNINGS,8 of Virginia SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE HOUSE-ZEAKE W. JoHNSoN,9 of Tennessee; KENNETH R HARDING,'° of New York DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSE-WILLIAM M. MILLER,8 of Mississippi POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSE-H.H. MORRIS," of Kentucky; ROBERT V. ROTA,'2 of Pennsylvania

ALABAMA Barry M. Goldwater, Scottsdale William S. Mailliard, San Francisco SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Ronald V. Dellums, Berkeley John J. Rhodes, Mesa George P. Miller, Alameda John J. Sparkman, Huntsville Don Edwards, San Jose James B. Allen, Gadsden Morris K. Udall, Tucson Sam Steiger, Prescott Charles S. Gubser, Gilroy REPRESENTATIVES Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., Portola Valley Jack Edwards, Mobile ARKANSAS Burt L. Talcott, Salinas William L. Dickinson, Montgomery SENATORS Charles M. Teague, Ojai George W. Andrews,'3 Union Springs John L. McClellan, Little Rock Jerome R. Waldie, Antioch Elizabeth B. Andrews,'4 Union Springs J. William Fuibright, Fayetteville John J. McFall, Manteca William Nichols, Sylacauga Bernice F. Sisk, Fresno Walter Flowers, Tuscaloosa REPRESENTATIVES Glenn M. Anderson, Harbor City John H. Buchanan, Jr., Birmingham William V. Alexander, Jr., Osceola Robert B. Mathias, Visalia Tom Bevill, Jasper Wilbur D. Mills, Kensett Chet Holifield, Montebello Robert E. Jones, Jr., Scottsboro John P. Hammerschmidt, Harrison H. Allen Smith, Glendale David H. Pryor, Camden Augustus F. Hawkins, Los Angeles ALASKA CALIFORNIA James C. Corman, Van Nuys SENATORS Del M. Clawson, Compton SENATORS Theodore F. Stevens, Anchorage John H. Rousselot, San Marino Maurice R. Gravel, Anchorage Alan Cranston, Los Angeles Charles E. Wiggins, El Monte John V. Thnney, Riverside Thomas M. Rees, Los Angeles REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE REPRESENTATIVES Barry M. Goldwater, Jr., Burbank Nicholas J. Begich,'5 Anchorage Don H. Clausen, Crescent City Alphonzo Bell, Los Angeles Harold T. Johnson, Roseville George E. Danielson, Los Angeles ARIZONA John E. Moss, Jr., Sacramento Edward R. Roybal, Los Angeles SENATORS Robert L. Leggett, Vallejo Charles H. Wilson, Los Angeles Paul J. Fannin, Phoenix Phillip Burton, San Francisco Craig Hosmer, Long Beach

'By joint resolution (Pub. Law 91-463, 91st Cong., 2d Resigned June 30, 1972. "Elected April 4, 1972, to fill vacancy caused by death sees.)the date of assembling the first session of the Elected July 1, 1972. of her husband, George W. Andrews, and took her seat Ninety-second Congress was fixed for January 21, 1971. Reelected January 21, 1971. April 10, 1972. By joint resolution (Pub. Law 91-217, 92d Cong., 1st Reelected January 21, 1971; resigned September 30, 1s Following an airplane crash on October 16, 1972, de- seas.), the date of assembling the second session of the 1972. clared by the State of Alaska to be presumed dead Decem- Ninety-second Congress was fixed for January 18, 1972. '°Elected October 1, 1972. ber 29, 1972, before the commencement of the Ninety-third 'Died January 21, 1971. ii Reelected January 21, 1971; resigned June 30, 1972. Congress, to which he had been reelected. Vacancy in the Elected January 22, 1971; died July 27, 1972. 12 Elected July 1, 1972. Ninety-second Congress was not filled. Elected July 28, 1972. 12 Died December 25, 1971.

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CALIFORNIAContinued Claude D. Pepper, Miami Philip M. Crane, Winnetka Dante B. Fascell, Miami John N. Erlenborn, Elmhurst REPRESENTATIVEScONTINUED Charlotte T. Reid,2' Aurora Jerry L. Pettis, Loma Linda GEORGIA Cliffard D. Carlson,22 Geneva Richard T. Hanna, Fullerton SENATORS John B. Anderson, Rockford John G. Schmitz, Santa Aria Richard B. Russell,'7 Winder Leslie C. Arends, Melvin Robert C. Wilson, San Diego David H. Gambrell,'8 Atlanta Robert H. Michel, Peoria Lionel Van Deerlin, San Diego Samuel A. Nunn,19 Perry Thomas F. Railsback, Moline Victor V. Veysey,'6 Brawley Herman E. Talmadge, Lovejoy Paul Findley, Pittsfield Kenneth J. Gray, West Frankfort COLORADO REPRESENTATIVES William L. Springer, Champaign SENATORS G. Elliott Hagan, Sylvania George E. Shipley, Olney Dawson Mathis, Albany Charles M. Price, East St. Louis Gordon L. Allott, Lamar Jack T. Brinkley, Columbus Peter H. Dominick, Englewood Benjamin B. Blackburn, Atlanta INDIANA REPRESENTATIVES Fletcher Thompson, East Point James D. McKevitt, Denver John J. Flynt, Jr., Griffin SENATORS Donald G. Brotzman, Boulder John W. Davis, Summerville Vance Hartke, Evansville Frank E. Evans, Pueblo Williamson S. Stuckey, Jr., Eastman Birch E. Bayh, Terre Haute Wayne N. Aspinall, Palisade Phillip M. Landrum, Jasper REPRESENTATIVES Robert G. Stephens, Jr., Athens Ray J. Madden, Gary CONNECTICUT Earl F. Landgrebe, Valparaiso SENATORS HAWAII John Brademas, South Bend Abraham A. Ribicoff, Hartford SENATORS J. Edward Roush, Huntington Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Greenwich Hiram L. Fong, Honolulu , Kokomo REPRESENTATIVES Daniel K. Inouye, Honolulu William G. Bray, Martinsville William R. Cotter, Hartford REPRESENTATIVES John T. Myers, Covington Robert H. Steele, Vernon Spark M. Matsunaga, Honolulu Roger H. Zion, Evansville Robert N. Giaimo, North Haven Patsy T. Mink, Waipahu Lee H. Hamilton, Columbus Stewart B. McKinney, Fairfield David W. Dennis, Richmond John S. Monagan, Waterbury IDAHO Andrew Jacobs, Jr., Indianapolis Mrs Ella T. Grasso, Windsor Locks SENATORS IOWA Frank Church, Boise DELAWARE Len B. Jordan, Boise SENATORS SENATORS Jack R. Miller, Sioux City REPRESENTATIVES Harold E. Hughes, Ida Grove J. Caleb Boggs, Wilmington James A. McClure, Payette William V Roth, Jr., Wilmington Orval Hansen, Idaho Falls REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Fred Schwengel, Davenport Pierre S. du Pont W, Wilmington ILLINOIS John C. Culver, Marion Harold R. Gross, Waterloo SENATORS FLORIDA John H. Kyl, Bloomfield Charles H. Percy, Wilmette Neal Smith, Altoona SENATORS Adlai E. Stevenson III, Chicago Wiley Mayne, Sioux City Edward J. Gurney, Winter Park REPRESENTATIVES William J. Scherle, Henderson , Lakeland Ralph H. Metcalfe, Chicago REPRESENTATIVES Abner J. Mikva, Chicago KANSAS Robert L.F. Sikes, Crestview Morgan F. Murphy, Chicago SENATORS Don Fuqua, Alt/ia Edward J. Derwinski, South Holland James B. Pearson, Prairie Village Charles E. Bennett, Jacksonville John C. Kluczynski, Chicago Robert J. Dole, Russell William V. Chappell, Jr., Ocala George W. Collins,20 Chicago Louis Frey, Jr., Winter Park Frank Annunzio, Chicago REPRESENTATIVES Sam M. Gibbons, Tampa Daniel D. Rostenkowski, Chicago Keith G. Sebelius, Norton James A. Haley, Sarasota Sidney R. Yates, Chicago William R. Roy, Topeka C.W. , Seminole Harold R. Collier, Western Springs Larry Winn, Jr., Leawood Paul G. Rogers, West Palm Beach Roman C. Pucinski, Chicago Garner E. Shriver, Wichita J. Herbert Burke, Hollywood Robert McClory, Lake Bluff Joe Skubitz, Pitts burg

20 6Election unsuccessfully contested by David A. Tunno. "Elected November 7, 1972, to fill vacancy caused by Died December 8, 1972, before the commencement of "Died January 21, 1971. death of Richard B. Russell, but was unable to be sworn in the Ninety-third Congress, to which he had been reelected; Appointed February 2, 1971, to fill vacancy caused by as Congress was not in session. vacancy in the Ninety-second Congress was not filled. "Resigned October 7, 1971. death of Richard B. Russell, and took his seat the same "Elected April 4, 1972, to fill vacancy caused by resig- day. nation of Charlotte T. Reid, and took his seat April 11, 1972. Ninety-Second Congress 457

KENTUCKY Edward W. Brooke, Newton Centre John Stennis, De Kalb SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES John Sherman Cooper, Somerset Silvio 0. Conte, Pittsfield Thomas G. Abernethy, Okolona Marlow W. Cook, Louisville Edward P. Boland, Springfield Jamie L. Whitten, Charleston REPRESENTATIVES Robert F. Drinan, Newton Charles H. Griffin, Utica Frank A. Stubblefield, Murray Harold D. Donohue, Worcester Gillespie V. Montgomery, Meridian William H Natcher, Bowling Green F. Bradford Morse,33 Lowell William M. Colmer, Pascagoula Romano L. Mazzoli, Louisville Michael J. Harrington, Beverly Marion G. Snyder, Jeffersontown Torbert H. Macdonald, Malden MISSOURI Tim Lee Carter, Tompkinsville Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Cambridge SENATORS John C. Watts,23 Nicholasville , Boston Stuart Symington, St. Louis William P. Curlin, Jr.,24 Frankfort Margaret M. Heckler, Wellesley Thomas F. Eagleton, St. Louis Carl D. Perkins, Hindman James A. Burke, Milton Hastings Keith, West Bridgewater REPRESENTATIVES LOUISIANA William L. Clay, St. Louis MICHIGAN James W. Symington, Clayton SENATORS Leonor K. Sullivan, St. Louis Allen J. Ellender,25 Houma SENATORS William J. Randall, Independence Elaine S. Edwards,26 Crowley Philip A. Hart, Mackinac Island Richard Bolling, Kansas City J. Bennett Johnston, 27 Shreveport Robert P. Griffin, Traverse City William R Hull, Jr., Weston Russell B. Long, Baton Rouge REPRESENTATIVES Durward G. Hall, Springfield REPRESENTATIVES John Conyers, Jr., Detroit Richard H. Ichord, Houston F. Edward Hébert, New Orleans Marvin L. Esch, Ann Arbor William L. Hungate, Troy Hale Boggs,28 New Orleans Garry E. Brown, Schoolcraft Bill D. Burlison, Cape Girardeau Patrick T. Caffery, New Iberia Edward Hutchinson, Fennville Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., Plain Dealing Gerald R. Ford, Grand Rapids MONTANA Otto E. Passman, Monroe Charles E. Chamberlain, East Lansing SENATORS John R. Rarick, Baton Rouge Donald W. Riegle, Jr., Flint Michael J. Mansfield, Missoula Edwin W. Edwards,29 Crowley James Harvey, Saginaw Lee Metcalf, Helena John B. Breaux,3° Crowley Guy A. Vander Jagt, Cadillac Speedy 0. Long, Jena Elford A. Cederberg, Bay City REPRESENTATIVES Philip E. Ruppe, Houghton Richard G. Shoup, Missoula MAINE James G. O'Hara, Utica John Meicher, Forsyth SENATORS Charles C. Diggs, Jr., Detroit Margaret Chase Smith, Skowhegan Lucien N. Nedzi, Detroit NEBRASKA Edmund S. Muskie, Waterville William D. Ford, Taylor SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES John D. Dingell, Detroit Roman L. Hruska, Omaha Martha W. Griffiths, Detroit Carl T. Curtis, Minden Peter N. Kyros, Portland William S. Broomfield, Royal Oak William D. Hathaway, Auburn Jack H. McDonald, Detroit REPRESENTATIVES , Lincoln MARYLAND MINNESOTA John Y. McCollister, Omaha SENATORS David T. Martin, Kearney Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Frederick SENATORS J. Glenn Beall, Jr., Frostburg Walter F. Mondale, Minneapolis NEVADA Hubert H. Humphrey, Waverly REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Rogers C.B. Morton,3' Easton REPRESENTATIVES Alan Bible, Reno William 0. Mills,32 Easton Albert H. Quie, Dennison Howard W. Cannon, Las Vegas Clarence D. Long, Ruxton Ancher Nelsen, Hutchinson REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE , Golden Valley Edward A. Garmatz, Baltimore Walter S. Baring, Reno Paul S. Sarbanes, Baltimore Joseph E. Karth, St. Paul Donald M. Fraser, Minneapolis Lawrence J. Hogan, Hyattsville NEW HAMPSHIRE Goodloe E. Byron, Frederick John M. Zwach, Walnut Grove Parren J. Mitchell, Baltimore Bob Bergland, Roseau SENATORS Gilbert Gude, Bethesda John A. Blatnik, Chisholm Norris Cotton, Lebanon Thomas J. McIntyre, Laconia MASSACHUSETTS MISSISSIPPI REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS SENATORS Louis C. Wyman, Manchester Edward M. Kennedy, Boston James 0. Eastland, Doddsville James C. Cleveland, New London

23 Died September 24, 1971. 27 Appointed November 14, 1972, to fill vacancy caused '° Elected Sçptember 30, 1972, to fill vacancy caused by 24 Elected December 4, 1971, to fill vacancy caused by by resignation of Elaine S. Edwards, but was unable to be resignation of Edwin W. Edwards, and took heis seat Octo- death of John C. Watts, and took his seat December 6, sworn in as Congress was not in session. ber 12, 1972. 1971. 26 Missing in an airplane crash in Alaska on October 16, " Resigned January 29, 1971. Died July 27, 1972. 1972. By House Resolution 1, Ninety-third Congress, the 52 Elected May 25, 1971, to fill vacancy caused by resig- seat was declared empty, and Mr. Boggs presumed dead. nation of Rogers C.B. Morton, and took his seat May 27, 26 Appointed August 1, 1972, to fill vacancy caused by 1971. death of Allen J. Ellender, and took her seat August 7, ° Resigned May 9, 1972. ' Resigned May 1, 1972; vacancy throughout remainder 1972; resigned November 13, 1972. of Congress. 458 Biographical Directory

NEW JERSEY Ogden R. Reid, Purchase Charles A. Mosher, Oberlin SENATORS John G. Dow, Grand View John F. Seiberling, Akron Hamilton Fish, Jr., Milibrook Chalmers P. Wylie, Columbus Clifford P. Case, Rahway Samuel S. Stratton, Amsterdam Frank T. Bow,35 Canton Harrison A. Williams, Jr., Westfield Carleton J. King, Saratoga Springs John M. Ashbrook, Johnstown REPRESENTATIVES Robert C. McEwen, Ogdensburg Wayne L. Hays, Flushing John E. Hunt, Pitman Alexander Pirnie, Utica Charles J. Carney, Youngstown Charles W. Sandman, Jr., Cape May Howard W. Robison, Owego James V. Stanton, Cleveland James J. Howard, Wall John H. Terry, Syracuse Louis Stokes, Cleveland Frank Thompson, Jr., Trenton James M. Hanley, Syracuse Charles A. Vanik, Euclid Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen, Morristown Frank Horton, Rochester William E. Minshall, Lakewood Edwin B. Forsythe, Moorestown Barber B. Conable, Jr., Alexander Walter E. Powell, 1 airfield William B. Widnall, Saddle River James F. Hastings, Allegany Robert A. Roe, Wayne Jack F. Kemp, Hamburg OKLAHOMA Henry Helstoski, East Rutherford Henry P. Smith III, North Tonawanda Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Newark Thaddeus J. Dulski, Buffalo SENATORS Joseph G. Minish, West Orange Fred R. Harris, Lawton Florence P. Dwyer, Elizabeth NORTH CAROLINA Henry L. Belimon, Bedrock Cornelius E. Gallagher, Bayonne SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Dominick V. Daniels, Jersey City Edward J. Patten, Perth Amboy Samuel J. Ervin, Jr., Morganton Page H. Belcher, Tulsa B. Everett Jordan, Saxapahaw Edmond Edmondson, Muskogee NEW MEXICO REPRESENTATIVES Carl B. Albert, McAlester Thomas J. Steed, Shawnee SENATORS Walter B. Jones, Farmville L.H. Fountain, Tarboro John Jarman, Oklahoma City Clinton P. Anderson, Albuquerque John N. Camp, Waukomis Joseph M. Montoya, Santa Fe David N. Henderson, Wallace Nick Galifianakis, Durham REPRESENTATIVES Wilmer D. Mizell, Winston-Salem OREGON Manuel Lujan, Jr., Albuquerque Lunsford R. Preyer, Greensboro SENATORS Harold Runnels, Lovington Alton A. Lennon, Wilmington Mark 0. Hatfield, Salem Earl B. Ruth, Salisbury Robert W. Packwood, Portland NEW YORK Charles R. Jonas, Lincolnton SENATORS James T. Broyhill, Lenoir REPRESENTATIVES Jacob K. Javits, New York Roy A. Taylor, Black Mountain Wendell Wyatt, Astoria James L. Buckley, New York Albert C. Ullman, Baker REPRESENTATIVES NORTH DAKOTA Edith S. Green, Portland Otis G. Pike, Riverhead SENATORS John R. Dellenback, Medford James R. Grover, Jr., Babylon Milton R. Young, La Moure Lester L. Wolff, Great Neck Quentin N. Burdick, Fargo PENNSYLVANIA John W. Wydler, Garden City REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Norman F. Lent, East Rocka way Mark Andrews, Mapleton Hugh Scott, Philadelphia Seymour Halpern, Forest Hills Arthur A. Link, Alexander Richard S. Schweiker, Worcester Joseph P. Addabbo, Ozone Park Benjamin S. Rosenthal, Elmhurst REPRESENTATIVES OHIO William A. Barrett, Philadelphia James J. Delaney, Long Island City SENATORS Emanuel Celler, Brooklyn Robert N.C. Nix, Philadelphia Frank J. Brasco, Brooklyn William B. Saxbe, Mechanicsburg James A. Byrne, Philadelphia Shirley A. Chisholm, Brooklyn Robert Taft, Jr., Cincinnati Joshua Eilberg, Philadelphia Bertram L. Podell, Brooklyn REPRESENTATIVES William J. Green, Philadelphia John J. Rooney, Brooklyn William J. Keating, Cincinnati Gus Yatron, Reading Hugh L. Carey, Brooklyn Donald D. Clancy, Cincinnati Lawrence G. Williams, Springfield John M. Murphy, Staten Island Charles W. Whalen, Jr., Dayton Edward G. Biester, Jr., Furlong Edward I. Koch, New York William M. McCulloch, Piqua John H. Ware, Oxford Charles B. Rangel, New York Delbert L. Latta, Bowling Green Joseph M. McDade, Scranton Bella S. Abzug, New York William H. Harsha, Portsmouth Daniel J. Flood, Wilkes-Barre William F. Ryan,34 New York Clarence J. Brown, Urbana J. Irving Whalley, Windber , Bronx Jackson E. Betts, Findlay R. Lawrence Coughlin, Villanova James H. Scheuer, New York Thomas L. Ashley, Waterville William S. Moorhead, Pittsburgh Jonathan B. Bingham, Bronx Clarence E. Miller, Lancaster Fred B. Rooney, Bethlehem Mario Biaggi, Bronx J. William Stanton, Painesville Edwin D. Eshleman, Lancaster Peter A. Peyser, Irvington Samuel L. Devine, Columbus Herman T. Schneebeli, Williamsport

'Died September 17, 1972; vacancy throught remain- "Died November 13, 1972; vacancy throughout remain- der of Congress. der of Congress. Ninety-Second Congress 459

Robert J. Corbett,36 Pittsburgh Edward Jones, Yorkville William B. Spong, Jr., Portsmouth H. III,Pittsburgh Dan H. Kuykendall, Memphis REPRESENTATIVES George A. Goodling, Loganville Thomas N. Downing, Newport News Joseph M. Gaydos, McKeesport TEXAS G. William Whitehurst, Norfolk John H. Dent, Jeannette SENATORS David E. Satterfield III, Richmond John P. Saylor, Johnstown John G. Tower, Wichita Falls Watkins M. Abbitt, Appomattox Albert W. Johnson, Smethport W.C. Daniel, Danville Joseph P. Vigorito, Erie Lloyd M. Bentsen, Houston REPRESENTATWES Richard H. Poff,45 Radford Frank M. Clark, Bessemer M. Caldwell Butler,46 Winchester Thomas E. Morgan, Fredericktown Wright Patman, Texarkana J. Kenneth Robinson, Winchester James G. Fulton,38 Pittsburgh John Dowdy, Athens William L. Scott, Fairfax William S Conover,39 Pittsburgh James M. Collins, Grand Prairie William C Wampler, Bristol Herbert R. Roberts, McKinney RHODE ISLAND Earle Cabell, Dallas Joel T. Broyhill, Arlington SENATORS Olin E. Teague, College Station WASHINGTON John 0. Pastore, Cranston W.R. Archer, Houston Claiborne Pell, Newport Robert C. Eckhardt, Houston SENATORS Jack B. Brooks, Beaumont Warren G. Magnuson, Seattle REPRESENTATIVES James J. Pickle, Austin Henry M. Jackson, Everett Fernand J. St Germain, Woonsocket William R Poage, Waco Robert 0. Tiernan, Warwick REPRESENTATIVES James C. Wright, Jr., Fort Worth Thomas M. Pelly, Seattle Graham B. Purcell, Wichita Falls Lloyd Meeds, Everett SOUTH CAROLINA John A. Young, Corpus Christi SENATORS Julia Butler Hansen, Cat hlamet Eligio de la Garza, Mission Mike McCormack, Richland Strom Thurmond, Aiken Richard C. White, El Paso Ernest F. Hollings, Charleston Thomas S. Foley, Spokane Omar T. Burleson, Anson Floyd V. Hicks, Tacoma REPRESENTATIVES Robert D. Price, Pampa Brock Adams, Seattle Mendel J. Davis,40 North Charleston George H. Mahon, Lubbock , Lexington Henry B. Gonzalez, San Antonio WEST VIRGINIA W.J. Bryan Dorn, Greenwood 0. Clark Fisher, San Angelo James R. Mann, Greenville Robert R. Casey, Houston SENATORS Tom S. Gettys, Rock Hill Abraham Kazen, Jr., Laredo Jennings Randolph, Elkins John L. McMillan, Florence Robert C. Byrd, Sop hia UTAH REPRESENTATIVES SOUTH DAKOTA SENATORS Robert H. Mollohan, Fairmont SENATORS Wallace F. Bennett, Salt Lake City Harley 0. Staggers, Keyser Karl E. Mundt, Madison Frank E. Moss, Salt Lake City John M. Slack, Jr., Charleston George McGovern, Mitchell REPRESENTATIVES Ken Hechler, Huntington James Kee, Bluefield REPRESENTATIVES K. Gunn McKay, Huntsville Frank E. Denholm, Brookings Sherman P. Lloyd, Salt Lake City , Rapid City WISCONSIN VERMONT SENATORS TENNESSEE SENATORS William Proxmire, Madison SENATORS Gaylord Nelson, Madison George D. Aiken, Putney Howard H. Baker, Huntsville Winston L. Prouty,4' Newport REPRESENTATIVES William E. Brock III, Lookout Robert T. Stafford,42 Rutland City , Racine Mountain REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Robert W. Kastenmeier, Watertown REPRESENTATIVES Vernon W. Thomson, Richland Center James H. Quillen, Kingsport Robert T. Stafford,43 Rutland Clement J. Zablocki, Milwaukee John J. Duncan, Knoxville Richard W. Mallary,44 Bradford Henry S. Reuss, Milwaukee LaMar Baker, Chattanooga William A. Steiger, Oshkosh Joseph L. Evins, Smithville David R. Obey, Wausau Richard H. Fulton, Nashville VIRGINIA John W. Byrnes, Green Bay William R. Anderson, Waverly SENATORS Glenn R. Davis, New Berlin Leonard R. Blanton, Adamsville Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Winchester Alvin E. O'Konski, Mercer

Died April 21, 1971. o Elected April 27, 1971, to fill vacancy caused by death Resigned September 16. 1971, having been appointed "Elected November 2, 1971, to fill vacancy caused by of Representative-elect L. Mendel Rivers, in the previous United States Senator. death of Robert J. Corbett, and took his seat November 4, Congress, and took his seat April 29, 1971. "Elected January 7, 1972, to fill vacancy caused by 4'Died September 10, 1971. resignation of Robert T. Stafford, and took his seat Janu- 1971.' ary 18, 1972. Died October 6, 1971. Appointed September 16, 1971, to fill vacancy caused s Resigned August 29, 1972. Elected April 25, 1972, to fill vacancy caused by death by death of Winston L. Prouty, and took his seat Septem- ° Elected November 7, 1972, to fill vacancy caused by of James G. Fulton, and took his seat May 24, 1972. ber 17, 1971; subsequently elected. resignation of Richard H. Poff, but was unable to be sworn in as Congress was not in session. 460 Biographical Directory

WYOMING COMMONWEALTH OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA47 SENATORS PUERTO RICO DELEGATE Gale W. McGee, Laramie RESIDENT COMMISSIONER Clifford P. Hansen, Jackson Wafter E. Fauntroy,48 Washington REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Jorge L. Cóldova, San Juan Teno Roncalio, Cheyenne

Granted a Delegate in Congress by Public Law 91- °-° Elected March 23, 1971, and took his seat April 19, 409, September 22, 1970. 1971. NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS JANUARY 3, 1973, TO JANUARY 3, 1975

FIRST SESSION-January 3, 1973, to December 22, 1973 SECOND SESSION-January 21, 1974,1 to December 20, 1974

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES-SPIRO T. AGNEW,2 of Maryland; GERALD R FORD,3 of Michigan; NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER,4 of New York PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE-JAMEs 0. EASTLAND, of Mississippi SECRETARY OF THE SENATE-FRANcIs R. VALEO, of the District of Columbia SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE SENATE-WILLIAM H WANNALL, of Maryland

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE-CARL B. ALBERT,5 of Oklahoma CLERK OF THE HOUSE-W. PAT JENNINGS,5 of Virginia SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE HOUSE-KENNETH R. HARDING,5 of Virginia DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSE-WILLIAM M. MILLER,6 of Mississippi; JAMES T. MOLLOY,' of New York POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSE-ROBERT V. ROTA,5 of Pennsylvania

ALABAMA Barry M. Goldwater, Scottsdale Robert L. Leggett, Vallejo REPRESENTATIVES Phillip Burton, San Francisco SENATORS William S. Mailliard,'° San Francisco John J. Sparkman, Huntsville John J. Rhodes, Mesa John L. Burton,1' San Francisco James B. Allen, Gadsden Morris K. Udall, Tucson Ronald V. Dellums, Berkeley Sam Steiger, Prescott Fortney H. Stark, Danville REPRESENTATIVES John B. Conlan, Phoenix Don Edwards, San Jose Jack Edwards, Mobile Charles S. Gubser,'2 Gilroy William L. Dickinson, Montgomery ARKANSAS Leo J. Ryan, South San Francisco William Nichols, Sylacauga SENATORS Burt L. Talcott, Salinas Tom Bevill, Jasper John L. McClellan, Little Rock Charles M. Teague,'3 Santa Paula Robert E. Jones, Jr., Scottsboro J. William Fulbright,9 Fayetteville Robert J. Lagomarsino,'4 Ojai John H. Buchanan, Jr., Birmingham REPRESENTATIVES Jerome R. Waldie, Antioch Walter Flowers, Tuscaloosa William V Alexander, Jr., Osceola John J. McFall, Manteca Wilbur D. Mills, Kensett Bernice F. Sisk, Fresno ALASKA John P Hammerschmidt, Harrison Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., Portola Valley , Sheridan Robert B. Mathias, Tulare SENATORS Chet Holifield,'5 Montebello Theodore F. Stevens, Anchorage CALIFORNIA Carlos J. Moorhead, Los Angeles Maurice R. Gravel, Anchorage Augustus F. Hawkins, Los Angeles SENATORS James C. Corman, Van Nuys REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Alan Cranston, Los Angeles Donald E. Young,8 Fort Yukon Del M. Clawson, Downey John V. Tunney, Riverside John H. Rousselot, San Marino REPRESENTATIVES Charles E. Wiggins, West Covina ARIZONA Don H. Clausen, Crescent City Thomas M. Rees, Los Angeles SENATORS Harold T. Johnson, Roseville Barry M. Goldwater, Jr., Burbank Paul J. Fannin, Phoenix John E. Moss, Sacramento Alphonzo Bell, Los Angeles

By joint resolution (Pub. Law 93-196, 93d Cong., let 4Nominated by the President and confirmed by the Con- Resigned December 31, 1974; vacancy throughout re-- gress, December 19, 1974, to fill vacancy when Vice Presi- mainder of Congress. sees.), the date of assembling the second session of the 10 Resigned March 5, 1974. Ninety-third Congress was fixed for January 21, 1974. dent Gerald H. Ford assumed the office of the Presidency. 11 Elected June 4, 1974, to fill vacancy caused by resig- 2 Term began January 20, 1978; resigned October 10, 'Reelected January 3, 1973. 1973; resigned December 31, nation of William S. Mailliard, and took his seat June 25, 1973. 6 Reelected January 3, 1974. Nominated by the President and confirmed by the 1974. 'Resigned December 31, 1974. Congress December 6, 1973, to fill vacancy caused by the 7 Acted as Doorkeeper during the interim. "Died January 1, 1974. resignation of Spiro T. Agnew, and assumed office the Elected March 6, 1973, to fill vacancy caused by the 'Elected March 5, 1974, to fill vacancy caused by death same day; became President upon the resignation of Rich- death of Representative-elect Nick Begich, in preceding of Charles M. Teague, and took his seat March 13, 1974. ard M. Nixon, August 9, 1974. Congress, and took his seat March 14, 1973. "Resigned December 31, 1974.

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CALIFORNIAContinued Don Fuqua, Aitha Edward J. Derwinski, Flossmoor REPRESENTATIVESCONTINUED Charles E. Bennett, Jacksonville John C. Kluczynski, Chicago William V. Chappell, Jr., Ocala Harold R. Collier, Riverside George E. Danielson, Los Angeles , Orlando ,20 Chicago Edward R. Roybal, Los Angeles C.W. Bill Young, St. Petersburg Daniel D. Rostenkowski, Chicago Charles H. Wilson, Torrance Sam M. Gibbons, Tampa Sidney R. Yates, Chicago Craig Hosmer,'6 Long Beach James A. Haley, Sarasota Samuel H. Young, Glenview Jerry L. Pettis, Lonza Linda Louis Frey, Jr., Winter Park Frank Annunzio, Chicago Richard T. Hanna,'T Anaheim L.A. Bafalis, Palm Beach Gardens Philip M. Crane, Mount Prospect Glenn M. Anderson, Harbor City Paul G. Rogers, West Palm Beach Robert McClory, Lake Bluff William M. Ketchum, Paso Robles J. Herbert Burke, Hollywood John N. Erlenborn, Elmhurst Yvonne B. Burke, Los Angeles William Lehman, North Miami Beach Leslie C. Arends,2' Melvin George E. Brown, Jr., Colton Claude D. Pepper, Miami John B. Anderson, Rockford Andrew J. Hinshaw, Mission Viejo Dante B. Fascell, Miami George M. O'Brien, Joliet Bob Wilson, San Diego Robert H. Michel, Peoria Lionel Van Deerlin, San Diego GEORGIA Thomas F. Railsback, Moline Clair W. Burgener, Rancho Santa Fe Paul Findley, Pittsfield Victor V. Veysey, Brawley SENATORS Herman E. Talmadge, Lovejoy Edward R. Madigan, Lincoln Samual A. Nunn, Perry George E. Shipley, Olney COLORADO Charles M. Price, East St. Louis SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Kenneth J. Gray,22 West Frankfort Peter H. Dominick, Englewood Ronald Ginn, Millen Floyd K. Haskell, Littleton Dawson Mathis, Albany INDIANA REPRESENTATIVES Jack T. Brinkley, Columbus Benjamin B. Blackburn, Atlanta SENATORS Patricia Schroeder, Denver , Atlanta Vance Hartke, Evansville Donald G. Brotzman, Boulder John J. Flynt, Jr., Griffin Birch E. Bayh, Terre Haute Frank E. Evans, Pueblo John W. Davis, Summerville REPRESENTATIVES James P. Johnson, Fort Collins Williamson S. Stuckey, Jr., Eastman William L. Armstrong, Aurora Ray J. Madden, Gary Phillip M. Landrum, Jasper Earl F. Landgrebe, Valparaiso CONNECTICUT Robert G. Stephens, Jr., Athens John Brademas, South Bend SENATORS J. Edward Roush, Huntington HAWAII Elwood Hillis, Kokomo Abraham A. Ribicoff, Hartford SENATORS Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Greenwich William G. Bray, Martinsville Hiram L. Fong, Honolulu John T. Myers, Covington REPRESENTATIVES Daniel K. Inouye, Honolulu Roger H. Zion, Evansville William R. Cotter, Hartford Lee H. Hamilton, Columbus Robert H. Steele, Vernon REPRESENTATIVES Spark M. Matsunaga, Honolulu David W. Dennis, Richmond Robert N. Giaimo, North Haven William H. Hudnut III, Indianapolis Stewart B. McKinney, Fairfield Patsy T. Mink, Waipahu Ronald A. Sarasin, Beacon Falls Mrs Ella T. Grasso, Windsor Locks IDAHO IOWA SENATORS SENATORS DELAWARE Frank Church, Boise Harold E. Hughes, Ida Grove SENATORS James A. McClure, Payette , Marion William V. Roth, Jr., Wilmington REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Wilmington Steven D. Symms, Caidwell , Iowa City REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Orval Hansen, Idaho Falls John C. Culver, Cedar Rapids Pierre S. du Pont IV, Rockland Harold R. Gross, Waterloo ILLINOIS Neal Smith, Altoona FLORIDA SENATORS William J. Scherle, Henderson SENATORS Charles H. Percy, Wilmette Wiley Mayne, Sioux City Edward J. Gurney,'8 Winter Park Adlai E. Stevenson III, Chicago Richard (Dick) Stone,'9 Tallahassee REPRESENTATIVES KANSAS Lawton Chiles, Lakeland Ralph H. Metcalfe, Chicago SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Morgan F. Murphy, Chicago James B. Pearson, Prairie Village Robert L.F. Sikes, Crestview Robert P. Hanrahan, Homewood Robert J. Dole, Russell

'Resigned December 31, 1974. '9Appointed January 1, 1975, to fill vacancy caused by '° Elected June 5, 1973, to fill vacancy caused by death 'Resigned December 31, 1974. resignation of Edward J. Gurney, but was unable to be of her husband, George W. Collins, Representative-elect, in 'Resigned December 31, 1974. sworn in as Congress was not in session. preceding Congress, and took her seat June 7, 1973. °' Resigned December 31, 1974. °° Resigned December 31, 1974. Ninety-Third Congress 463

REPRESENTATIVES Clarence D. Long, Rux ton William S. Broomfield, Birmingham Keith G. Sebelius, Norton Paul S. Sarbanes, Baltimore William R. Roy, Topeka Marjorie S. Holt, Severna Park MINNESOTA Larry Winn, Jr., Overland Park Lawrence J. Hogan, Landover SENATORS Garner E. Shriver, Wichita Goodloe E. Byron, Frederick Joe Skubitz, Pittsburg Parren J. Mitchell, Baltimore Walter F. Mondale, Minneapolis Gilbert Gude, Bethesda Hubert H. Humphrey, Waverly KENTUCKY REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS MASSACHUSETTS Albert H. Quie, Dennison Marlow W. Cook,23 Louwville SENATORS Ancher Nelsen,37 Hutchi neon Wendell H. Ford,24 Owensboro Edward M. Kennedy, Boston Bill Frenzel, Golden Valley Walter (Dee) Huddleston, Edward W. Brooke, Newton Centre Joseph E. Karth, St. Paul Elizabeth town REPRESENTATIVES Donald M. Fraser, Minneapolis REPRESENTATIVES John M. Zwach, Walnut Grove Silvio 0. Conte, Pittsfield Bob Bergland, Roseau Frank A Stubblefield,25 Murray Edward P. Boland, Springfield John A. Blatnik,38 Chisholm William H. Natcher, Bowling Green Harold D. Donohue,3° Worcester Romano L. Mazzoli, Louisville Robert F. Drinan, Newton Marion G. Snyder, Jefferson County Paul W. Cronin, Andover MISSISSIPPI Tim Lee Carter, Tompkinsville Michael J. Harrington, Beverly SENATORS John Breckinridge, Lexington Torbert H. Macdonald, Malden James 0. Eastland, Doddsville Carl D. Perkins, Hindman Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Cambridge John Stennis, Be Kalb John Joseph Moakley, Boston LOUISIANA REPRESENTATIVES Margaret M. Heckler, Wellesley Jamie L. Whitten, Charleston SENATORS James A. Burke, Milton David R. Bowen, Cleveland Russell B. Long, Baton Rouge Gerry E. Studds, Cohasset Gillespie V. Montgomery, Meridian J. Bennett Johnston, Shreveport Thad Cochran, Jackson REPRESENTATIVES MICHIGAN Trent Lott, Pascagoula F. Edward Hébert, New Orleans SENATORS Hale Boggs,26 New Orleans Philip A. Hart, Mackinac Island MISSOURI Robert P. Griffin, Traverse City Corinne C. Boggs,27 New Orleans SENATORS David C. Treen, Metairie REPRESENTATIVES Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., Plain Dealing Stuart Symington, St. Louis John Conyers, Jr., Detroit Thomas F. Eagleton, St. Louis Otto E. Passman, Monroe Marvin L. Esch, Ann Arbor John R. Rarick, Baton Rouge Garry E. Brown, Schoolcraft REPRESENTATIVES John B. Breaux, Crowley Edward Hutchinson, St. Joseph William L. Clay, St. Louis Gillis W. Long, Alexandria Gerald R. Ford,31 Grand Rapids James W. Symington, Clayton Richard F. Vander Veen,32 Grand Leonor K. Sullivan, St. Louis MAINE Rapids William J. Randall, Independence SENATORS Charles E. Chamberlain,33 East Richard Bolling, Kansas City Edmund S. Muskie, Waterville Lansing Jerry Litton, Chillicothe William D. Hathaway, Auburn Donald W. Riegle, Jr., Flint Gene Taylor, Sarcoxie REPRESENTATIVES James Harvey,34 Saginaw Richard H. Ichord, Houston Bob Traxler,35 Saginaw William L. Hungate, Troy Peter N. Kyros, Portland Bill D. Burlison, Cape Girardeau William S. Cohen, Bangor Guy A. Vander Jagt, Cadillac Elford A. Cederberg, Midland MARYLAND Philip E. Ruppe, Houghton MONTANA James G. O'Hara, Utica SENATORS SENATORS Charles C. Diggs, Jr., Detroit Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Frederick Michael J. Mansfield, Missoula Lucien N. Nedzi, Detroit Lee Metcalf, Helena J. Glenn Beall, Jr., Frostburg William D. Ford, Taylor REPRESENTATIVES John D. Dingell, Trenton REPRESENTATIVES William 0. Mills,28 Easton Martha W. Griffiths,36 Detroit Richard G. Shoup, Missoula Robert E. Bauman,29 Easton Robert J. Huber, Troy John Melcher, Forsyth

57Elected March 20, 1973, to fill vacancy by death of ' Resigned December 6, 1973; having been nominated Resigned December 27, 1974. and confirmed as Vice President of the United States. "Appointed December 28, 1974, to fill vacancy caused her husband, Hale Boggs, and took her seat March 27, 32 by resignation of Marlow W. Cook, but was unable to be 1973. Elected Febuary 18, 1974, to fill vacancy caused by Died May 24, 1973. resignation of Gerald R. Ford, and took his seat February sworn in as Congress was not in session. 21, 1974. 25Resigned December 31, 1974. Elected August 21, 1973, to fill vacancy caused by "Resigned December 31, 1974. Died January 3, 1973, pursuant to House Resolution death of William 0. Mills, and took his seat September 5, "Resigned January 31, 1974. 1, 93d Congress. 1973. "Elected April 16, 1974, to fill vacancy caused by resig '° Resigned December 31, 1974. nation of James Harvey, and took his seat April 23, 1974. '° Resigned December 31, 1974. "Resigned December 31, 1974. 35Resigned December 31, 1974. 464 Biographical Directory

NEBRASKA NEW YORK Lunsford R. Preyer, Greensboro Charles Rose, Fayetteville SENATORS SENATORS Earl B. Ruth, Salisbury Roman L. Hruska, Omaha Jacob K. Javits, New York James G. Martin, Davidson Carl T. Curtis, Minden James L. Buckley, New York James T. Broyhill, Lenoir REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Roy A. Taylor, Black Mountain Charles Thone, Lincoln Otis G. Pike, Riverhead John Y. McCollister, Omaha James R. Grover, Jr., Babylon NORTH DAKOTA David T. Martin,39 Kearney Angelo D. Roncallo, Massapequa SENATORS Norman F. Lent, East Rockaway Milton R. Young, La Moure NEVADA John W. Wydler, Garden City Quentin N. Burdick, Fargo SENATORS Lester L. Wolff, Great Neck REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Joseph P. Addabbo, Ozone Park Alan Bible,4° Reno Benjamin S. Rosenthal, Elmhurst Mark Andrews, Mapleton ,4' Carson City James J. Delaney, Long Island City Howard W. Cannon, Las Vegas Mario Biaggi, Brooklyn OHIO REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Frank J. Brasco, Brooklyn SENATORS David Towell, Gardnerville Shirley A. Chishoim, Brooklyn William B. Saxbe,5' Mechanics burg Bertram L. Podell, Brooklyn Howard M. Metzenbaum,52 Cleveland NEW HAMPSHIRE John J. Rooney,46 Brooklyn , Jr.,53 Columbus SENATORS Hugh L. Carey,47 Brooklyn Robert Taft, Jr., Cincinnati , Brooklyn REPRESENTATIVES Norris Cotton,42 Lebanon Louis C. Wyman,43 Manchester John M. Murphy, Staten Island William J. Keating,54 Cincinnati Thomas J. McIntyre, Laconia Edward I. Koch, New York Thomas A. Luken,55 Cincinnati Charles B. Rangel, New York Donald D. Clancy, Cincinnati REPRESENTATIVES Bella S. Abzug, New York Charles W. Whalen, Jr., Dayton Louis C. Wyman,44 Manchester Herman Badillo, Bronx , Findley James C. Cleveland, New London James H. Scheuer, New York Delbert L. Latta, Bowling Green Jonathan B. Bingham, Bronx William H. Harsha, Portsmouth NEW JERSEY Peter A. Peyser, Irvington Clarence J. Brown, Urbana SENATORS Ogden R. Reid, Purchase Walter E. Powell, Fairfield Clifford P. Case, Rahway Hamilton Fish, Jr., Millbrook Thomas L. Ashley, Maurnee Harrison A. Williams, Jr., Westfield Benjamin A. Gilman, Middlebrook Clarence E. Miller, Lancaster Howard W. Robison, Candor J. William Stanton, Painesuille REPRESENTATIVES Samual S. Stratton, Amsterdam Samuel L. Devine, Columbus John E. Hunt, Pitman Carleton J. King,48 Saratoga Springs Charles A. Mosher, Oberlin Charles W. Sandman, Jr., Cape May Robert C. McEwen, Ogdensburg John F. Seiberling, Akron James J. Howard, Wall Donald J. Mitchell, Herkimer Chalmers P. Wylie, Columbus Frank Thompson, Jr., Trenton James M. Hanley, Syracuse Ralph S. Regula, Navarre Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen, Morristown William F. Walsh, Syracuse John M. Ashbrook, Johnstown Edwin B. Forsythe, Moorestown Frank Horton, Rochester Wayne L. Hays, Flushing William B. Widnall,45 Saddle River Barber B. Conable, Jr., Alexander Charles J. Carney, Youngstown Robert A. Roe, Wayne Henry P. Smith III, North Tonawanda James V. Stanton, Cleveland Henry Helstoski, East Rutherford Thaddeus J. Dulski,9 Buffalo Louis Stokes, Cleveland Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Newark Jack F. Kemp, Hamburg Charles A. Vanik, Euclid Joseph G. Minish, West Orange James F. Hastings, Rushford Lake, William E. Minshall,56 Lakewood Matthew J. Rinaldo, Union Caneadea Joseph J. Maraziti, Boonton OKLAHOMA Dominick V. Daniels, Jersey City NORTH CAROLINA SENATORS Edward J. Patten, Perth Amboy SENATORS Henry L. Bellmon, Billings NEW MEXICO Samuel J. Ervin, Jr.,5° Morganton Dewey F. Bartlett, Tulsa , Raleigh REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES James R. Jones, Tulsa Joseph M. Montoya, Santa Fe Walter B. Jones, Farmville Clem Rogers McSpadden, Claremore Pete V. Domenici, Albuquerque L.H. Fountain, Tarboro Carl B. Albert, McAlester REPRESENTATIVES David N. Henderson, Wallace Thomas J. Steed, Shawnee Manuel Lujan, Jr., Albuquerque Ike F. Andrews, Siler City John Jarman, Oklahoma City Harold Runnels, Lovington Wilmer D. Mizell, Winston-Salem John N. Camp, Waukomis

Resigned December 31, 1974. 44 Resigned December 31, 1974, having been appointed '° Appointed January 4, 1974, to fill vacancy caused by °° Resigned December 17, 1974. United States Senator; vacancy throughout remainder of resignation of William B, Saxbe, but was unable to be 'Appointed December 18, 1974, to fill vacancy caused Congress. sworn in as Congress was not in session; took his seat January 21, 1974; resigned December 23, 1974. by resignation of Alan Bible, and took his seat the same Resigned December 31, 1974. Appointed December 24, 1974, to fill vacancy caused day. 46 Resigned December 31, 1974. by resignation of Howard M. Metzenbaum, but was unable ' Resigned December 31, 1974. -' Resigned December 31, 1974. to be sworn in as Congress was not in session. ' Appointed January 1, 1975, to fill vacancy caused by ' Resigned December 31, 1974. ' Resigned January 3, 1974. resignation of Norris Cotton, but was unable to be sworn Resigned December 31, 1974. °' Elected March 5, 1974, to fill vacancy caused by resig- in as Congress was not in session. °° Resigned December 31, 1974. nation of William J. Resting, and took his seat March 7, ' Resigned January 3, 1974. 1974. s6 Resigned December 31, 1974. Ninety-Third Congress 465

OREGON W.J. Bryan Dorn,6' Greenwood UTAH SENATORS James R. Mann, Greenville Tom S. Gettys,62 Rock Hill SENATORS Mark 0. Hatfield, Salem Edward L. Young, Florence Wallace F. Bennett,64 Salt Lake City Robert W. Packwood, Portland E.J. (Jake) Garn,65 Salt Lake City REPRESENTATIVES SOUTH DAKOTA Frank E. Moss, Salt Lake City Wendell Wyatt, Gearhart REPRESENTATIVES Albert C. Ullman, Baker SENATORS George McGovern, Mitchell K. Gunn McKay, Huntsville Edith S. Green,57 Portland , Salt Lake City John R. Dellenback, Medford James Abourezk, Rapid City REPRESENTATIVES VERMONT PENNSYLVANIA Frank E. Denholm, Brookings SENATORS SENATORS James Abdnor, Kennebec George D. Aiken, Putney Hugh Scott, Philadelphia Robert T. Stafford, Rutland Richard S. Schweiker, Worcester TENNESSEE REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS William A. Barrett, Philadelphia Howard H. Baker, Jr., Huntsville Richard W. Mallary, Bradford Robert N.C. Nix, Philadelphia William E Brock III, Lookout Mountain William J. Green, Philadelphia VIRGINIA Joshua Eilberg, Philadelphia REPRESENTATIVES John H. Ware, Oxford James H. Quillen, Kingsport SENATORS Gus Yatron, Reading John J. Duncan, Knoxville Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Winchester Lawrence G. Williams, Springfield LaMar Baker, Chattanooga William L. Scott, Fairfax Edward G. Biester, Jr., Furlong Joseph L. Evins, Smithville REPRESENTATIVES E.G. Shuster, Everett Richard H. Fulton, Nashville Thomas N. Downing, Newport News Joseph M. McDade, Scranton Robin L. Beard, Brentwood G. William Whitehurst, Norfolk Daniel J. Flood, Wilkes-Barre Edward Jones, Yorkville David E. Satterfield III, Richmond John P. Saylor,58 Johnstown Dan H. Kuykendall, Memphis Robert W. Daniel, Jr., Spring Cove John P. Murtha, Jr.,59 Johnstown W.C. Daniel, Danville R. Lawrence Coughlin, Villanova M. Caldwell Butler, Winchester William S. Moorhead, Pittsburgh TEXAS SENATORS J. Kenneth Robinson, Winchester Fred B. Rooney, Bethlehem Stanford E. Parris, Fairfax Station Edwin D. Eshleman, Lancaster John G. Tower, Wichita Falls Lloyd M. Bentsen, Houston William C. Wampler, Bristol Herman T. Schneebeli, Williamsport Joel T. Broyhill,°6 Arlington H. John Heinz III, Pittsburgh REPRESENTATIVES George A. Goodling, Loganville Wright Patman, Texarkana Joseph M. Gaydos, McKeesport WASHINGTON Charles Wilson, Lufkin SENATORS John H. Dent, Ligonier James M. Collins, Irving Thomas E. Morgan, Fredericktown Herbert R. Roberts, McKinney Warren G. Magnuson, Seattle Albert W. Johnson, Smethport Alan Steelman, Dallas Henry M. Jackson, Everett Joseph P. Vigorito, Erie Olin E. Teague, College Station REPRESENTATIVES Frank M. Clark,6° Bessemer W.R. Archer, Houston Joel Pritchard, Seattle Robert C. Eckhardt, Harris County Lloyd Meeds, Everett RHODE ISLAND Jack B. Brooks, Beaumont Julia Butler Hansen,67 Cathiamet SENATORS James J. Pickle, Austin Mike McCormack, Richland John 0. Pastore, Cranston William R. Poage, Waco Thomas S. Foley, Spokane Claiborne Pell, Newport James C. Wright, Jr., Fort Worth Floyd V. Hicks, Tacoma REPRESENTATIVES Robert D. Price, Pampa Brock Adams, Seattle Fernand J. St Germain, Woonsocket John A. Young, Corpus Christi Robert 0. Tiernan, Warwick Eligio de la Garza, Mission WEST VIRGINIA Richard C. White, El Paso SENATORS SOUTH CAROLINA Omar T. Burleson, Anson , Houston Jennings Randolph, Elkins SENATORS George H. Mahon, Lubbock Robert C. Byrd, Sophia Strom Thurmond, Aiken Henry B. Gonzalez, San Antonio REPRESENTATIVES Ernest F. Hollings, Charleston 0. Clark Fisher,63 San Angelo Robert H. Mollohan, Fairmont REPRESENTATIVES Robert R. Casey, Houston Harley 0. Staggers, Keyser Mendel J. Davis, North Charleston Abraham Kazen, Jr., Laredo John Slack, Charleston Floyd Spence, Lexington Dale Milford, Grand Prairie Ken Hechler, Huntington

"Resigned December 31, 1974. "Resigned December 31, 1974. ' Appointed December 21, 1974, to fill vacancy caused "Died October 28, 1973. "Resigned December 31, 1974. by resignation of Wallace F. Bennett, but was unable to be '° Elected February 5, 1974, to fill vacancy caused by 62 Resigned December 31, 1974. sworn in as Congress was not in session. death of John P. Saylor, and took his seat February 20, 65 Resigned December 31, 1974. 66 Resigned December 31, 1974. 1974. Resigned December 20, 1974. "Resigned December 31, 1974. 466 Biographical Directory

WISCONSIN WYOMING DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SENATORS SENATORS DELEGATE William Proxmire, Madison Gaylord Nelson, Madison Gale W. McGee, Laramie Walter E. Fauntroy, Washington Clifford P. Hansen, Jackson REPRESENTATIVES 70 Les Aspin, Racine REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Robert W. Kastenmeier, Sun Prairie Teno Roncalio, Cheyenne DELEGATE Vernon W. Thomson,68 Richland Center Antonio Borja Won Pat,7' Sinajano Clement J. Zablocki, Milwaukee COMMONWEALTH OF Henry S. Reuss, Milwaukee PUERTO RICO VIRGIN ISLANDS7° William A Steiger, Oshkosh David R. Obey, Wausau RESIDENT COMMISSIONER DELEGATE Harold V. Froehlich, Appleton Jaime Benitz, Carey Ron de Lugo,72 St. Croix Glenn R. Davis,69 Waukesha

°Resigned December 31, 1974. ° Granted a Delegate in Congress by Public Law 92- 'Elected and took his seat January 3, 1973. '5Resigned December 31, 1974. 271, dated April 10, 1972. "Elected and took his seat January 3, 1973. NINETY-FOURTH CONGRESS JANUARY 3, 1975, TO JANUARY 3, 1977

FIRST SESSION-January 14, 1975,'to December 19, 1975 SECOND SESSION-January 19, 1976,2 to October 1, 1976

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES-NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER, of New York PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE-JAMES 0. EASTLAND, of Mississippi SECRETARY OF THE SENATE-FRANCIs R. VALEO, of the District of Columbia SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE SENATE-WILLIAM H. WANNALL,3 of Maryland; F. NORDY HOFFMANN,4 of Maryland

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE-CARL B. ALBERT,5 of Oklahoma CLERK OF THE HOUSE-W. PAT JENNINGS,6 of Virginia; EDMUND L. HENSHAW, JR.,7 of Virginia SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE HOUSE-KENNETH R. HARDING,5 of Virginia DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSE-JAMES T. MOLLOY,8 of New York POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSE-ROBERT V. ROTA,5 of Pennsylvania

ALABAMA Sam Steiger, Prescott Don Edwards, San Jose John B. Conlan, Phoenix Leo J. Ryan, South San Francisco SENATORS Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey, Jr., Menlo John J. Sparkman, Huntsville ARKANSAS Park James B. Allen, Gadsden SENATORS Norman Y. Mineta, San Jose REPRESENTATIVES John L. McClellan, Little Rock John J. McFall, Manteca Jack Edwards, Mobile Dale Bumpers, Charleston B.F. Sisk, Fresno William L. Dickinson, Montgomery Burt L. Talcott, Salinas Bill Nichols, Sylacauga REPRESENTATIVES John Krebs, Fresno Tom Bevill, Jasper Bill Alexander, Osceola William M. Ketchum, Bakersfield Robert E. Jones, Scottsboro Wilbur D. Mills, Kensett Robert J. Lagomarsino, Ojai John Buchanan, Birmingham John P Hammerschmidt, Harrison Barry Goldwater, Jr., Woodland Hills Walter Flowers, Tuscaloosa Ray Thornton, Sheridan James C. Corman, Van Nuys Carlos J. Moorhead, Glendale ALASKA CALIFORNIA Thomas M. Rees, Los Angeles SENATORS SENATORS Henry A. Waxman, Los Angeles , Anchorage Alan Cranston, Los Angeles Edward R. Roybal, Los Angeles , Anchorage John V. Tunney,9 Riverside John H. Rouselot, San Marino S.I. 0 Mill Valley REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Alphonzo Bell, Los Angeles REPRESENTATIVES , Los Angeles Donald E. Young, Fort Yukon Harold T. Johnson, Roseville Augustus F. (Gus) Hawkins, Los ARIZONA Don H. Clausen, Crescent City Angeles John E. Moss, Sacramento George E. Danielson, Monterey Park SENATORS Robert L. Leggett, Vallejo Charles H. Wilson, Hawthorne Paul J. Fannin, Phoenix John Burton, San Francisco Glenn M. Anderson, Harbor City Barry Goldwater, Scottsdale Phillip Burton, San Francisco Del M. Clawson, Downey REPRESENTATIVES George Miller, Martinez Mark W. Hannaford, Lakewood John J. Rhodes, Mesa Ronald V. Dellums, Berkeley Jim Lloyd, West Covina Morris K. Udall, Tucson Fortney H. (Pete) Stark, Oakland George E. Brown, Jr., Colton

'By joint resolution (Pub. Law 93-553, 93d Cong., 2d Resigned December 31, 1975. ° Appointed acting Clerk of the House of Representa- sess.), the date of assembling the first session of the ° Elected effective January 1, 1976. tives November 16, 1975; elected Clerk December 17, 1975. 'Reelected January 14, 1975. o Elected January 14, 1975. Ninety-fourth Congress was fixed for January 14, 1975. ° Resigned January 1, 1977. By joint resolution (Pub. Law 94-186, 94th Cong., 1st o Reelected January 14, 1975; resigned November 15, Appointed January 2, 1977, to fill vacancy caused by sess.), the date of assembling the second session of the 1975. resignation of John V. Tunney, but was unable to be Ninety-fourth Congress was fixed for January 19, 1976. sworn in as Congress was not in oession.

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CALIFORNIAContinued GEORGIA , Carbondale REPRESENTATIVESCONTINUED SENATORS INDIANA Jerry L. Pettis," Loma Linda Herman E Talmadge, Lovejoy Shirley N. 12 Loma Linda , Perry SENATORS Jerry M. Patterson, Santa Ana REPRESENTATIVES Vance Hartke, Evansville Charles E. Wiggins, Fullerton Bo Ginn, Millen Birch E. Bayh, Terre Haute Andrew J. Newport Beach Dawson Mathis, Albany REPRESENTATIVES Bob Wilson, San Diego Jack Brinkley, Columbus Ray J. Madden, Gary Lionel Van Deerlin, Chula Vista Elliot H. Levitas, Atlanta Floyd J. Fithian, Lafayette Clair W. Burgener, Rancho Santa Fe Andrew Young, Atlanta John Brademas, South Bend John J. Flynt, Jr., Griffin J. Edward Roush, Huntington COLORADO Larry McDonald, Marietta Elwood Hillis, Kokomo SENATORS W.S. (Bill) Stuckey, Jr., Eastman David W. Evans, Indianapolis Floyd K. Haskell, Littleton Phil M. Landrum, Jasper John T. Myers, Covington , Denver Robert G. Stephens, Jr., Athens Philip H. Hayes, Evansville REPRESENTATIVES Lee H. Hamilton, Columbus HAWAII Philip R Sharp, Muncie Patricia Schroeder, Denver Andrew Jacobs, Jr., Indianapolis Timothy E. Wirth, Denver SENATORS Frank E. Evans, Beulah Hiram L. Fong, Honolulu James P. (Jim) Johnson, Fort Collins Daniel K. Inouye, Honolulu IOWA William L Armstrong, Aurora REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Spark M. Matsunaga, Honolulu Dick Clark, Marion CONNECTICUT Patsy T. Mink, Waipahu John C. Culver, Cedar Rapids SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Abraham A. Ribicoff, Hartford IDAHO Edward Mezvinsky, Iowa City Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Greenwich SENATORS Michael T. Blouin, Dubuque REPRESENTATIVES Frank Church, Boise Charles E. Grassley, New Hartford William R. Cotter, Hartford James A. McClure, Payette Neal Smith, Altoona Christopher J. Dodd, North Stonington , Ames REPRESENTATIVES , Spirit Lake Robert N. Giaimo, North Haven Steven D. Symms, Caldwell Stewart B. McKinney, Fairfield George Hansen, Pocatello Ronald A. Sarasin, Beacon Falls KANSAS Toby Moffett, Unionville ILLINOIS SENATORS SENATORS James B. Pearson, Shawnee Mission DELAWARE , Russell SENATORS Charles H. Percy, Wilmette REPRESENTATIVES William V Roth, Jr., Wilmington Adlai E. Stevenson, Hanover Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Wilmington REPRESENTATIVES Keith G. Sebelius, Norton Ralph H. Metcalfe, Chicago , Manhattan REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Larry Winn, Jr., Overland Park Pierre S. du Pont IV, Rockland Morgan F. Murphy, Chicago Garner E. Shriver, Wichita Martin A. Russo, South Holland Joe Skubitz, Pittsburg FLORIDA Edward J. Derwinski, Flossmoor John C. Kluczynski,'4 Chicago SENATORS John G. Fary,'5 Chicago KENTUCKY Lawton Chiles, Lakeland Henry J. Hyde, Park Ridge SENATORS Richard (Dick) Stone, Tallahassee Cardiss Collins, Chicago Walter (Dee) Huddleston, REPRESENTATIVES , Chicago Elizabethtown Robert L.F. Sikes, Crestview Sidney R. Yates, Chicago Wendell H. Ford,'7 Owensboro Don Fuqua, Altha Abner J. Mikva,'6 Evanston REPRESENTATIVES Charles E. Bennett, Jacksonville Frank Annunzio, Chicago Carroll Hubbard, Jr., Mayfield , Jr., Ocala Philip M. Crane, Mount Prospect William H Natcher, Bowling Green Richard Kelly, Holiday Robert McClory, Lake Bluff Romano L. Mazzoli, Louisville C.W. Bill Young, Clearwater John N. Erlenborn, Glen Ellyn M.G. (Gene) Snyder, Louisville Sam M. Gibbons, Tampa Tim L. Hall, Dwight Tim Lee Carter, Tompkinsville James A. Haley, Sarasota John B. Anderson, Rockford John Breckinridge, Lexington Louis Frey, Jr., Winter Park George M. O'Brien, Joliet Carl D. Perkins, Hindman L.A. (Skip) Bafalis, Fort Myers Beach Robert H. Michel, Peoria Paul G. Rogers, West Palm Beach Thomas F. Railsback, Moline J. Herbert Burke, Hollywood Paul Findley, Pittsfield LOUISIANA William Lehman, North Miami Beach Edward R. Madigan, Lincoln SENATORS Claude D. Pepper, Miami George E. Shipley, Olney Russell B. Long, Baton Rouge Dante B. Fascell, Miami Melvin Price, East St. Louis J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., Shreveport

"Died February 14, 1975. ° Electionunsuccessfully contested by RoderickJ. "Elected July 8, 1975, to fill vacancy caused by death Elected April 29, 1975, to fill vacancy caused by death Wilson. of John C. Kluczyski, and took his seat July 15, 1975. of her husband, Jerry L. Pettis, and took her seat May 6, "Died January 26, 1975. '° Electionunsuccessfullycontested by Samuel H. Young. 1975. '° Election unsuccessfully contested by Peter N. Kyros. Ninety-Fourth Congress 469

REPRESENTATIVES MICHIGAN Thad Cochran, Jackson Trent Lott, Pascagoula F. Edward Hébert, New Orleans SENATORS Corinne C. (Lindy) Boggs, New Orleans Philip A. Hart,2' Mackinac Island David C. Treen, Metairie Donald W. Reigle, Jr.,22 Flint MISSOURI Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., Plain Dealing Robert P. Griffin, Traverse City SENATORS Otto E. Passman, Monroe W. ,'8 Baton Rouge REPRESENTATWES Stuart Symington,26 St. Louis John B. Breaux, Crowley John Conyers, Jr., Detroit John C. Danforth,'7 Jefferson City Gillis W. Long, Alexandria Marvin L. Esch, Ann Arbor Thomas F. Eagleton, St. Louis Garry E. Brown, Schoolcraft REPRESENTATIVES MAINE Edward Hutchinson, St. Joseph William (Bill) Clay, St. Louis SENATORS Richard F. Vander Veen, Grand Rapids James W. Symington, Ladue Edmund S. Muskie, Waterville Bob Carr, East Lansing Leonor K. (Mrs. John B.) Sullivan, St. William D. Hathaway, Auburn Donald W. Riegle, Jr.,23 Flint Louis REPRESENTATIVES Bob Traxier, Bay City Wm.J. Randall, Independence David F. Emery, Portland Guy Vander Jagt, Luther Richard Boiling, Kansas City William S Cohen, Bangor Elford A. Cederberg, Midland Jerry Litton,28 Chillicothe Philip E. Ruppe, Houghton E. Thomas Coleman,29 Kansas City MARYLAND Gene Taylor, Sarcoxie James G. O'Hara, Utica Richard H. Ichord, Houston SENATORS Charles C. Diggs, Jr., Detroit Lucien N. Nedzi, Detroit William L Hungate, Troy Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Frederick Bill D. Burlison, Cape Girardeau J. Glenn Beall, Jr., Frostburg William D. Ford, Taylor REPRESENTATIVES John D. Dingell, Trenton William M. Brodhead, Detroit MONTANA Robert E. Bauman, Easton James J. Blanchard, Pleasant Ridge SENATORS Clarence D. Long, Ruxton William S. Broomfield, Birmingham Paul S. Sarbanes, Baltimore Mike Mansfield, Missoula Marjorie S. Holt, Severna Park MINNESOTA Lee Metcalf, Helena Gladys Noon Speilman, Laurel SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Goodloe E. Byron, Frederick Walter F. Mondale,'4 Minneapolis , Helena Parren J. Mitchell, Baltimore John Melcher, Forsyth Gilbert Gude, Bethesda Wendell R. Anderson,25 Minneapolis Hubert H. Humphrey, Waverly MASSACHUSETTS REPRESENTATIVES NEBRASKA SENATORS Albert H. Quie, Dennison SENATORS Edward M. Kennedy, Boston , Truman Roman L. Hruska,3° Omaha Edward W. Brooke, Newton Bill Frenzel, Golden Valley ,31 Omaha Joseph E. Karth, St. Paul Carl T. Curtis, Minden REPRESENTATIVES Donald M. Fraser, Minneapolis Silvio 0. Conte, Pittsfield Richard Nolan, Waite Park REPRESENTATIVES Edward P. Boland, Springfield Bob Bergland, Roseau Charles Thone, Lincoln Joseph D. Early, Worcester James L. Oberstar, Chisholm John Y. McCollister, Omaha Robert F. Drinan, Newton Virginia Smith,32 Chappell Paul E. Tsongas, Lowell MISSISSIPPI Michael J. Harrington, Beverly SENATORS NEVADA Torbert H. Macdonald,'9 Malden Edward J. Markey,2° Malden James 0. Eastland, Doddsville SENATORS Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Cambridge John C. Stennis, De Kalb Howard W. Cannon, Las Vegas John Joseph Moakley, Boston REPRESENTATIVES Paul Laxalt, Carson City Jamie L. Whitten, Charleston Margaret M. Heckler, Wellesley REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE James A. Burke, Milton David R. Bowen, Cleveland Gerry E. Studds, Cohasset G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery, Meridian Jim Santini, Las Vegas

Resigned December 27, 1976. 8 Elected November 5, 1974, but election was contested Appointed December 30, 1976, to fill vacancy caused Appointed December 27, 1976, to fill vacancy caused and result was vacated by the Louisiana Courts; elected by death of Philip A. Hart, but was unable to be sworn in by resignation of Stuart Symington, but was unable to be January 7, 1975. as Congress was not in session. sworn in as Congress was not in session. "Died May 21, 1976. Resigned December 30, 1976, having been appointed Died August 3, 1976. ° Elected November 2, 1976, to fill vacancy caused by United States Senator; vacancy throughout remainder of ° Elected November 2, 1976, to fill vacancy caused by death of Torbert H. Macdonald, but was unable to be Congress. death of Jerry Litton, but was unable to be sworn in as sworn in as Congress was not in session. Resigned December 30, 1976. Congress was not in session. Died December 26, 1976. Appointed December 30, 1976, to fill vacancy caused Resigned December 27, 1976. by resignation of Walter F. Mondale, but was unable to be Si Appointed December 28, 1976, to fill vacancy caused sworn in as Congress was not in session. by resignation of Reman L. Hruska, but was unable to be sworn in as Congress was not in session. Election unsuccessfully contested by Wayne Ziebarth. 470 Biographical Directory

NEW HAMPSHIRE Elizabeth Holtzman, Brooklyn Tennyson Guyer, Findley SENATORS John M. Murphy, Staten Island Delbert L. Latta, Bowling Green Thomas J. McIntyre, Laconia Edward I. Koch, New York William H. Harsha, Portsmouth Norris Cotton,33 Lebanon Charles B. Rangel, New York Clarence J. Brown, Urbana John A. Durkin,34 Manchester Bella S. Abzug, New York Thomas N. Kindness, Hamilton Herman Badillo, Bronx Thomas L. Ashley, Toledo REPRESENTATIVES Jonathan B. Bingham, Bronx Clarence E. Miller, Lancaster Norman E. D'Amours, Manchester Peter A. Peyser, Irvington J. William Stanton, Painesville James C. Cleveland, New London Richard L. Ottinger, Pleasantville Samuel L. Devine, Columbus Hamilton Fish, Jr., Millbrook Charles A. Mosher, Oberlin NEW JERSEY Benjamin A. Gilman, Middletown John F. Seiberling, Akron SENATORS Matthew F. McHugh, Ithaca Chalmers P. Wylie, Columbus Clifford P. Case, Rahway Samual S. Stratton, Amsterdam Ralph S. Regula, Navarre Harrison A. Williams, Jr., Bedminster Edward W. Pattison, West San Lake John M. Ashbrook, Johnstown REPRESENTATIVES Robert C. McEwen, Ogdens burg Wayne L. Hays,39 Flushing James J. Florio, Camden Donald J. Mitchell, Herkimer Charles J. Carney, Youngstown William J. Hughes, Ocean City James M. Hanley, Syracuse James V. Stanton, Cleveland James J. Howard, Spring Lake William F. Walsh, Syracuse Louis Stokes,4° Cleveland Frank Thompson, Jr., Trenton Frank Horton, Rochester Charles A. Vanik, Euclid Millicent Fenwick, Bernardsville Barber B. Conable, Jr., Alexander Ronald M. Motti, Parrna Edwin B. Forsythe, Moorestown John J. LaFalce, Tonawanda Henry J. Nowak, Buffalo OKLAHOMA Andrew Maguire, Ridgewood Jack F. Kemp, Hamburg Robert A. Roe, Wayne James F. Hastings,35 Caneadea SENATORS Henry Helstoski, East Rutherford Stanley N. Lundine,36 Jamestown Henry L. Bellmon,4' Red Rock Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Newark Dewey F. Bartlett, Tulsa Joseph G. Minish, West Orange Matthew J. Rinaldo, Union NORTH CAROLINA REPRESENTATIVES Helen S. Meyner, Phillipsburg SENATORS James R. Jones, Tulsa Dominick V Daniels, Union City Jesse Helms, Raleigh Theodore M. (Ted) Risenhoover, Edward J. Patten, Perth Amboy Robert Morgan, Lillington Tahlequah REPRESENTATIVES Carl Albert, McAlester NEW MEXICO Tom Steed, Shawnee Walter B. Jones, Farmville John Jarman, Oklahoma City SENATORS L.H. Fountain, Tarboro Glenn English, Cordell Joseph M. Montoya, Santa Fe David N. Henderson, Wallace Pete V. Domenici, Albuquerque Ike F. Andrews, Suer City OREGON REPRESENTATIVES Stephen L. Neal, Winston-Salem Richardson Preyer, Greensboro SENATORS Manuel Lujan, Jr., Albuquerque Charles Rose, Fayetteville Mark 0. Hatfield, Newport Harold Runnels, Lovington W.G. (Bill) Hefner, Concord Bob Packwood, Portland NEW YORK James G. Martin, Davidson REPRESENTATIVES James T. Broyhill, Lenoir Los AuCoin, Forest Grove SENATORS Roy A. Taylor, Black Mountain Jacob K. Javits, New York Al Uliman, Baker James L. Buckley, New York Robert Duncan, Gresham NORTH DAKOTA James Weaver, Eugene REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Otis G. Pike, Riverhead Milton R. Young, La Moure PENNSYLVANIA Thomas J. Downey, West Islip Quentin N. Burdick, Fargo Jerome A. Ambro, East Northport SENATORS REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Hugh Scott, Philadelphia Norman F. Lent, East Rockaway Mark Andrews, Mapleton John W. Wydler, Garden City Richard S. Schweiker, Worcester Lester L. Wolff, Great Neck OHIO REPRESENTATIVES Joseph P. Addabbo, Ozone Park William A. Barrett,42 Philadelphia Benjamin S. Rosenthal, Elmhurst SENATORS Michael 0. Myers,43 Philadelphia James J. Delaney, Long Island City Robert Taft, Jr.,37 Cincinnati Robert N.C. Nix, Philadelphia Mario Biaggi, Bronx Howard M. Metzenbaum,38 Cleveland William J. Green, Philadelphia James H. Scheuer, Neponsit John Glenn, Columbus Joshua Eilberg, Philadelphia Shirley A. Chisholm, Brooklyn REPRESENTATIVES Richard T. Schulze, Paoli Stephen J. Solarz, Brooklyn Willis D. Gradison, Jr., Cincinnati Gus Yatron, Reading Frederick W. Richmond, Brooklyn Donald D. Clancy, Cincinnati Robert W. Edgar, Broomall Leo C. Zeferetti, Brooklyn Charles W. Whalen, Jr., Dayton Edward G. Biester, Jr., Furlong

'' Appointed August 8, 1975, to fill vacancy until succes- Elected September 16, 1975, to fill vacancy caused by '5Appointed December 29, 1976, to fill vacancy caused sor is elected, and took his seat September 3, 1975; re- resignation of Norris Cotton, but was unable to be sworn by resignation of Robert Taft, Jr., but was unable to be signed September 18, 1975; due to the contested election of in as Congress was not in session. sworn in as Congress was not in session. November 5, 1974, between Louis C. Wyman and John A. Resigned January 20, 1976. Resigned September 1, 1976; vacancy throughout re- Durkin, the undecided seat for the six-year term corn- Elected March 2, 1976, to fill vacancy caused by resig- mainder of Congress. mencing January 3,1975, was declared vacant as of nation of James F. Hastings, and took his seat March 8, ° Election unsuccessfully contested by William Mack. August 8, 1975, pursuant to S. Res. 54, 94th Congress. 1976. 4i Election unsuccessfully contested by Edmond A. Ed- Resigned December 28, 1976. mondson. Died April 12, 1976. '-' Elected November 2, 1976, to fill vacancy caused by death of William A. Barrett, but was unable to be sworn in as Congress was not in session. Ninety-Fourth Congress 471

E.G. (Bud) Shuster, Everett William E. Brock III, Lookout Allan T. Howe, Salt Lake City Joseph M. McDade, Scranton Mountain Daniel J. Flood, Wilkes-Barre REPRESENTATWES VERMONT John P. Murtha, Johnstown James H. Quillen, Kingsport SENATORS Lawrence Coughlin, Villanova John J. Duncan, Knoxville Robert T. Stafford, Rutland William S. Moorhead, Pittsburgh Marilyn Lloyd, Chattanooga Patrick J Leahy, Burlington Fred B. Rooney, Bethlehem Joe L. Evins, Smithville Edwin D. Eshleman, Lancaster Richard H. Fulton,46 Goodlettsville REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Herman T. Schneebeli, Williamsport Clifford R. Allen,47 Nashville James M. Jeffords, Rutland H. John Heinz III, Pittsburgh Robin L. Beard, Franklin William F. Goodling, Jacobus Ed Jones, Yorkville VIRGINIA Joseph M. Gaydos, McKeesport Harold E. Ford, Memphis John H. Dent, Ligonier SENATORS Thomas E. Morgan, Frederick town TEXAS Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Winchester Albert W. Johnson, Smethport SENATORS William Lloyd Scott, Fairfax Joseph P. Vigorito, Erie REPRESENTATIVES Gary A. Myers, Butler John G. Tower, Wichita Falls Lloyd M. Bentsen, Houston Thomas N. Downing, Newport News RHODE ISLAND REPRESENTATWES G. William Whitehurst, Virginia Beach SENATORS Wright Patman,48 Texarkana David E. Satterfield III, Richmond Sam B. Hall, Jr.,49 Marshall Robert W. Daniel, Jr., Spring Cove John 0. Pastore,44 Cranston W.C. (Dan) Daniel, Danville John H. Chafee,45 Warwick Charles Wilson, Lufkin James M. Collins, Dallas M. Caidwell Butler, .Roanoke Claiborne Pell, Newport J. Kenneth Robinson, Winchester REPRESENTATIVES Ray Roberts, McKinney Alan Steelman, Mesquite Herbert E. Harris II, Alexandria Fernand J. St Germain, Woonsocket Olin E. Teague, College Station William C. Wampler, Bristol Edward P. Beard, Cranston Bill Archer, Houston Joseph L. Fisher, Arlington SOUTH CAROLINA Bob Eckhardt, Houston Jack Brooks, Beaumont WASHINGTON SENATORS J.J. (Jake) Pickle, Austin SENATORS Strom Thurmond, Aiken W.R. Poage, Waco Ernest F. Hollings, Charleston Warren G. Magnuson, Seattle James C. Wright, Jr., Fort Worth Henry M. Jackson, Everett REPRESENTATIVES Jack Hightower, Vernon Mendel J. Davis, Charleston Heights John Young, Corpus Christi REPRESENTATIVES Floyd Spence, Lexington E (Kika) de la Garza, Mission Joel Pritchard, Seattle , Edgefield Richard C. White, El Paso Lloyd Meeds, Lake Stevens James R. Mann, Greenville Omar Burleson, Anson Don Bonker, Olympia Kenneth L. Holland, Camden Barbara Jordan, Houston Mike McCormack, Richland John W. Jenrette, Jr., North Myrtle George H. Mahon, Lubbock Thomas S. Foley, Spokane Beach Henry B. Gonzalez, San Antonio Floyd V. Hicks, Tacoma Robert (Bob) Krueger, New Braunfels Brook Adams, Seattle SOUTH DAKOTA Bob Casey,5° Houston SENATORS ,5' Lake Jackson WEST VIRGINIA Abraham Kazen, Jr., Laredo George McGovern, Mitchell SENATORS James Abourezk, Rapid City Dale Milford, Grand Prairie Jennings Randolph, Elkins REPRESENTATIVES UTAH Robert C. Byrd, Sophia Larry Pressler, Humboldt James Abdnor, Kennebec SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Frank E. Moss, Salt Lake City Robert H. Mollohan, Fairmont TENNESSEE Jake Garn, Salt Lake City Harley 0. Staggers, Keyser SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES John Slack, Charleston Howard H. Baker, Jr., Huntsville K. Gunn McKay, Huntsville Ken Hechler, Huntington

"Elected June 19, 1976, to fill vacancy caused by death "Resigned December 28, 1976. "Elected November 25, 1975, to fill vacancy caused by of Wright Patman, and took his seat June 28, 1976. Appointed December 29, 1976, to fill vacancy caused resignation of Richard H. Fulton, and took his seat Decem- "Resigned January 22, 1976. by resignation of John 0. Pastore, but was unable to be ber 2, 1975. i Elected April 3, 1976, to fill vacancy caused by resig- sworn in as Congress was not in session. "Died March 7, 1976. nation of Bob Casey, and took his seat April 7,1976. Resigned August 14, 1975. 472 Biographical Directory

WISCONSIN Robert W. Kasten, Jr., Thiensville DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SENATORS William Proxmire, Madison WYOMING DELEGATE Gaylord Nelson, Madison SENATORS Walter E. Fauntroy, Washington, D.C. REPRESENTATIVES Gale W. McGee, Laramie Les Aspin, Racine Clifford P. Hansen, Jackson GUAM REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Robert W. Kastenmeier, Sun Prairie DELEGATE Alvin Baldus, Menomonie Teno Roncalio, Cheyenne Antonio Borja Won Pat, Agana Clement J. Zablocki, Milwaukee Henry S. Reuss, Milwaukee COMMONWEALTH OF William A. Steiger, Oshkosh PUERTO RICO VIRGIN ISLANDS David R. Obey, Wausau RESIDENT COMMISSIONER DELEGATE Robert J. Cornell, DePere Jaime Benitez, Cayey Ron de Lugo, St. Croix NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS JANUARY 3, 1977, TO JANUARY 3, 1979

FIRST SESSION-Januaiy 4, 1977,1 to December 15, 1977 SECOND SESSION-January 19, 1978,2 to October 15, 1978

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES-NELsoN A. ROCKEFELLER,3 of NewYork; WALTER F. MONDALE,4 of Minnesota PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE-JAMES 0. EASTLAND,5 of Mississippi DEPUTY PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE-HUBERT H.HUMPHREY,6 of Minnesota SECRETARY OF THE SENATE-FRANcIs R. VALEO,7 of the District of Columbia; J.STANLEY KIMMITr,8 of Virginia SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE SENATE-F. NoRDY HOFFMANN, of Maryland

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE-THoMAs P. O'NEILL, JR.,9 of Massachusetts CLERK OF THE HOUSE-EDMUND L. HENSHAW, JR.,'° of Virginia SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE HOUSE-KENNETH R. HARDING,'° of Virginia DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSE-JAMES T MOLLOY,'0 of New York POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSE-ROBERT V. R0TA,'° of Pennsylvania

ALABAMA ARIZONA CALIFORNIA SENATORS SENATORS SENATORS Alan Cranston, Los Angeles John J. Sparkman, Huntsville Barry Goldwater, Scottsdale S.!. Hayakawa, Mill Valley James B. Allen," Gadsden Dennis DeConcini, Tucson REPRESENTATIVES Maryon Allen,'2 Gadsden REPRESENTATIVES Harold T. Johnson, Roseville Donald Stewart,'3 Anniston John J. Rhodes, Mesa Don H. Clausen, Crescent City REPRESENTATIVES Morris K. Udall, Tucson John E. Moss,'6 Sacramento Jack Edwards, Mobile Robert L. ggett,'7 Vallejo , Tolleson John Burton, San Francisco William L. Dickinson, Montgomery Eldon Rudd, Scottsdale Bill Nichols, Sylacauga Phillip Burton, San Francisco Tom Bevill, Jasper George Miller, Martinez ARKANSAS Ronald V. Dellums, Berkeley Ronnie G. Flippo, Florence Fortney H. (Pete) Stark, Oakland John Buchanan, Birmingham SENATORS Don Edwards, San Jose Walter Flowers, Tuscaloosa John L. McClellan,'4 Little Rock Leo J. Ryan,18 Belmont Kaneaster Hodges, Jr.,'5 Newport Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey, Jr., Menlo ALASKA Dale Bumpers, Charleston Park Norman Y. Mineta, San Jose SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES John J. McFall,'9 Manteca Ted Stevens, Anchorage Bill Alexander, Osceola B.F. Sisk, Fresno Mike Gravel, Anchorage James G. Tucker, Jr., Little Rock Leon E. Panetta, Carmel Valley REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE John P. Hammerschmidt, Harrison John Krebs, Fresno Donald E. Young, Fort Yukon Ray Thornton, Sheridan William M. Ketchum,2° Bakersfield

Appointed December 10, 1977, to fill vacancy caused 1 By joint resolution (Pub. Law 94-494, 94th Cong. 24 'Resigned March 31, 1977. by death of John L. McClellan, and took his seat Decem- sess.), the date of assembling the first session of the O Elected April 1, 1977. ber 15, 1977. Ninety-fifth Congress was fixed for January 4, 1977. Elected January 4, 1977. s Resigned December 31, 1978; vacancy throughout re- 2 By joint resolution (Pub. Law 95-221, 95th Cong., 1st 10 Reelected January 4, 1977. mainder of Congress. seas.), the date of assembling the second session of the tiDied June 1, 1978. 1 Election unsuccessfully contested by Albert Dehr. Ninety-fifth Congress was fixed for January 19, 1978. is Appointed June 8, 1978, to fill vacancy caused by a Died November 18, 1978, before commencement of the 5 Term expired at noon on January 20, 1977. death of her husband, James B. Allen, and took her seat Ninety-sixth Congress, to which he had been reelected; 4 began at noon on January 20, 1977. June 12, 1978; resigned November 7, 1978. vacancy in the Ninety-fifth Congress not filled. Resigned December 27, 1978. 's Elected November 7, 1978, to fill vacancy caused by 1 Resigned December 31, 1978; vacancy throughout re-- Office of Deputy President Pro Tempore was estab- death of James B. Allen, but was unable to be sworn in as mainder of Congress. lished January 5, 1977, pursuant to Senate Resolution 17, Congress was not in session. 20 Died June 24, 1978; vacancy throughout remainder of Ninety-fifth Congress; Hubert H. Humphrey died January IS Died November 28, 1977. Congress. 13, 1978. [473] 474 Biographical Directory

CALIFORNIAContinued FLORIDA Adlai E. Stevenson, Hanover REPRESENTATIVESCONTINUED SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Robert J. Lagomarsino, Ventura Lawton Chiles, Lakeland Ralph H. Metcalfe,25 Chicago Barry Goldwater, Jr., Woodland Hills Richard (Dick) Stone, Tallahassee Morgan F. Murphy, Chicago James C. Corman, Van Nuys REPRESENTATIVES Martin A. Russo, South Holland Carlos J. Moorhead, Glendale Robert L.F. Sikes, Crestview Edward J. Derwinski, Flossmoor Anthony C. Beilenson, Los Angeles Don Fuqua, Altha John G. Fary, Chicago Henry A. Waxman, Los Angeles Charles E. Bennett, Jacksonville Henry J. Hyde, Park Ridge Edward R. Roybal, Los Angeles Bill Chappell, Jr., Ocala Cardiss Collins, Chicago John Rousselot, San Marino Richard Kelly,22 New Port Richey Dan Rostenkowski, Chicago Robert K. Dornan, Santa Monica C.W. Bill Young, St. Petersburg Sidney R. Yates, Chicago Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, Los Angeles Sam M. Gibbons, Tampa Abner J. Mikva,26 Evanston Augustus F. (Gus) Hawkins, Los Andrew P. Ireland, Winter Haven Frank Annunzio, Chicago Angeles Louis Frey, Jr., Winter Park Philip M. Crane, Mount Prospect George E. Danielson, Monterey Park L.A. (Skip) Bafalis, Fort Myers Beach Robert McClory, Lake Bluff Charles H. Wilson, Hawthorne Paul G. Rogers, West Palm Beach Glenn M. Anderson, Harbor City John N. Erlenborn, Glen Ellyn J. Herbert Burke, Hollywood Thomas J. Corcoran, Ottawa Del M. Clawson,21 Downey William Lehman, Miami Mark W. Hannaford, Lakewood John B. Anderson, Rockford Claude D. Pepper, Miami George M. O'Brien, Joliet Jim Lloyd, West Covina Dante B. Fascell, Miami George E. Brown, Jr., Colton Robert H. Michel, Peoria Shirley N. Pettis, Loma Linda GEORGIA Thomas F. Railsback, Moline Jerry M. Patterson, Buena Park Paul Findley, Pittsfield Charles E. Wiggins, Fullerton SENATORS Edward R. Madigan, Lincoln Robert E. Badham, Newport Beach Herman E. Talmadge, Lovejoy George E. Shipley, Olney Bob Wilson, San Diego Sani Nunn, Perry Melvin Price, East St. Louis Lionel Van Deerlin, Chula Vista REPRESENTATIVES Paul Simon, Carbondale Clair W. Burgener, Rancho Santa Fe Bo Ginn, Millen Dawson Mathis, Albany INDIANA COLORADO Jack Brinkley, Columbus SENATORS Elliot H. Levitas, Atlanta SENATORS Floyd K. Haskell, Littleton Andrew Young,23 Atlanta Birch E. Bayh, Terre Haute Gary Hart, Denver Wyche Fowler, Jr.,24 Atlanta Richard G. Lugar, Indianapolis REPRESENTATIVES John J. Flynt, Jr., Griffin REPRESENTATIVES Patricia Schroeder, Denver Larry McDonald, Marietta Billy Lee Evans, Macon Adam Benjamin, Jr., Hobart Timothy E. Wirth, Denver Floyd J. Fithian, Lafayette Frank E. Evans, Pueblo Edgar L. Jenkins, Jasper D. Douglas Barnard, Jr., Augusta John Brademas, South Bend James P. (Jim) Johnson, Fort Collins J. Danforth Quayle, Huntington William L. Armstrong, Aurora HAWAII Elwood Hillis, Kokomo SENATORS David W. Evans, Indianapolis CONNECTICUT John T. Myers, Covington SENATORS Daniel K. Inouye, Honolulu David L. Cornwell, Paoli Abraham A. Ribicoff, Hartford Spark M. Matsunaga, Honolulu Lee H. Hamilton, Columbus Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Greenwich REPRESENTATIVES Philip R. Sharp, Muncie REPRESENTATIVES Cecil Heftel, Honolulu Andrew Jacobs, Jr., Indianapolis William R Cotter, Hartford Daniel K. Akaka, Honolulu Christopher J. Dodd, Norwich IOWA Robert N. Giaimo, North Haven IDAHO Stewart B. McKinney, Fairfield SENATORS SENATORS Ronald A. Sarasin, Beacon Falls Frank Church, Boise Dick Clark, Marion Toby Moffett, Unionville James A. McClure, Fayette John C. Culver, Cedar Rapids REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES DELAWARE Steven D. Symms, Caldwell SENATORS James A.S. Leach, Davenport George Hansen, Pocatello Michael T. Blouin, Dubuque William V. Roth, Jr., Wilmington Charles E. Grassley, New Hartford Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Wilmington ILLINOIS Neal Smith, Altoona REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE SENATORS Tom Harkin, Ames Thomas B. Evans, Jr., Wilmington Charles H. Percy, Wilmette Berkley Bedell, Spirit Lake

' Resigned December 31, 1978; vacancy throughout re- "Elected April 5, 1977, to fill vacancy caused by resig- "Died October 10, 1978; vacancy throughout remainder mainder of Congress. nation of Andrew Young, and took his seat April 6, 1977; of Congress. "Election contested by JoAnn Saunders. election unsuccessfully contested by Wyman C. Lowe. 16Electionunsuccessfullycontested by Samuel H. "Resigned January 29, 1977. Young. Ninety-Fifth Congress 475

MARYLAND William D. Ford, Taylor KANSAS John D. Dingell, Trenfrn SENATORS SENATORS William M. Brodhead, Detroit James B. Pearson,27 Prairie Village Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Frederick James J. Blanchard, Pleasant Ridge Nancy L. Kassebaum,28 Wichita Paul S. Sarbanes, Baltimore William S. Broomfield, Birmingham Bob Dole, Russell REPRESENTATIVES MINNESOTA REPRESENTATIVES Robert E. Bauman, Easton Clarence D. Long, Ruxton SENATORS Keith G. Sebelius, Norton Barbara A. Mikuiski, Baltimore Hubert H. Humphrey,35 Waverly Martha Keys, Manhattan Marjorie S. Holt, Severna Park Larry Winn, Jr., Overland Park Muriel Humphrey,36 Waverly Gladys Noon Speilman, Laurel ,37 Minneapolis Daniel R. Glickman, Wichita Goodloe E. Byron,32 Frederick Joe Skubitz,29 Pitts burg Wendell R. Anderson,38 St. Paul Parren J. Mitchell, Baltimore ,39 Plymouth Newton I. Steers, Jr., Bethesda KENTUCKY REPRESENTATIVES MASSACHUSETTS Albert H. Quie, Dennison SENATORS Tom Hagedorn, Truman Walter (Dee) Huddleston, SENATORS Bill Frenzel, Golden Valley Elizabeth town Edward M. Kennedy, Hyannis Port Bruce F. Vento, St. Paul Wendell H. Ford, Owens boro Edward W. Brooke, Newton Donald M. Fraser, Minneapolis REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Richard Nolan, Waite Park Carroll Hubbard, Jr., Mayfield Silvio 0. Conte, Pittsfield Bob Bergland,4° Roseau William H. Natcher, Bowling Green Edward P. Boland, Springfield ,4' Barnesville Romano L. Mazzoli, Louisville Joseph D. Early, Worcester James L. Oberstar, Chisholm M.G. (Gene) Snyder, Louisville Robert F. Drinan, Newton Tim Lee Carter, Tompkinsville Paul E. Tsongas, Lowell MISSISSIPPI John Breckinridge, Lexington Michael J. Harrington, Beverly SENATORS Carl D. Perkins, Hindman Edward J. Markey, Malden James 0. Eastland,42 Doddsville Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Cambridge Thad Cochran,43 Jackson LOUISIANA John Joseph Moakley, South Boston John C. Stennis, De Kalb Margaret M. Heckler, Wellesley SENATORS James A. Burke, Milton REPRESENTATIVES Russell B. Long, Baton Rouge Gerry E. Studds, Cohasset Jamie L. Whitten, Charleston J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., Shreveport David R. Bowen, Cleveland G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery, Meridian REPRESENTATIVES MICHIGAN SENATORS Thad Cochran,44 Jackson Richard A. Tonry,3° Arabi Trent Lott, Pascagoula Robert L. Livingston,3' New Orleans Robert P. Griffin, Traverse City Corinne C. (Lindy) Boggs, New Orleans Donald W. Riegle, Jr., Flint MISSOURI David C. Treen, Metairie REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., Plain Dealing John Conyers, Jr., Detroit Thomas F. Eagleton, St. Louis Thomas J. Huckaby, Ringgold Carl D. Pursell,33 Plymouth John C. Danforth, Flat W. Henson Moore, Baton Rouge Garry E. Brown, Schoolcraft John B. Breaux, Crowley David A. Stockman, St. Joseph REPRESENTATIVES Gihis W. Long, Alexandria Harold S. Sawyer, Rockford William (Bill) Clay,45 St. Louis Bob Carr, East Lansing Robert A. Young, St. Ann MAINE Dale E. Kildee, Flint Richard A. Gephardt, St. Louis Bob Traxier, Bay City , Lexington SENATORS Guy Vander Jagt, Luther Richard Boiling, Kansas City Edmund S. Muskie, Waterville Elford A. Cederberg,34 Midland E. Thomas Coleman, Kansas City William D. Hathaway, Auburn Philip E. Ruppe, Houghton Gene Taylor, Sarcoxie REPRESENTATIVES David E. Bonior, Mount Clemens Richard H. Ichord, Houston David F. Emery, Rockland Charles C. Diggs, Jr., Detroit Harold A. Volkmer, Hannibal William S. Cohen, Bangor Lucien N. Nedzi, Detroit Bill D. Burhison, Cape Girardeau

contested by Edward C. '5 Appointed December 30, 1978, to fill vacancy caused 2 Resigned December 23, 1978. "Election unsuccessfully by resignation of Wendell R. Anderson, but was unable to Appointed December 23, 1978, to fill vacancy caused Pierce. be sworn in as Congress was not in session. by resignation of James B. Pearson, but was unable to '4 Resigned December 31, 1978; vacancy throughout re- 40 Resigned January 22, 1977. sworn in as Congress was not in session. mainder of Congress. 4' Elected February 22, 1977, to fill vacancy caused by 25 Resigned December 31, 1978; vacancy throughout re- ' Died January 13, 1978. resignation of Bob Bergland, and took his seat March 1, mainder of Congress. "Appointed January 25, 1978, to fill vacancy caused by 1977. 30 Resigned May 4, 1977. death of her husband, Hubert H. Humphrey, and took her Resigned December 27, 1978. "Elected August 27, 1977, to fill vacancy caused by seat February 6, 1978; resigned November 7, 1978. "Appointed December 27, 1978, to fill vacancy caused resignation of Richard A. Tonry, and took his seat Septem- '7 Elected November 7, 1978, to fill vacancy caused by by resignation of James 0. Eastland, but was unable to be ber 7, 1977. death of Hubert H. Humphrey, but was unable to be sworn in as Congress was not in session. ' Died October 11, 1978; vacancy throughout remainder sworn in as Congress was not in session. "Resigned December 26, 1978, having been appointed " Resigned December 29, 1978. United States Senator; vacancy throughout remainder of of Congress. Congress. "Election unsuccessfully contested by Elsa Debra Hill and Felix J. Panasigui. 476 Biographical Directory

MONTANA Harrison H. Schmitt, Silver City Charles 0. Whitley, Sr., Mount Olive SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Ike F. Andrews, Research Triangle Lee Metcalf,46 Helena Manuel Lujan, Jr., Albuquerque Park Paul Hatfield,47 Great Falls Harold Runnels, Lovington Stephen L. Neal, Winston-Salem Max Baucus,48 Missoula Richardson Preyer, Greensboro John Meicher, Forsyth NEW YORK Charles Rose, Fayetteville REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS W.G. (Bill) Hefner, Concord Max Baucus,49 Missoula Jacob K. Javits, New York James G. Martin, Davidson , Scobey Daniel P. Moynihan, New York James T. Broyhill, Lenoir V. Lamar Gudger, Asheville REPRESENTATIVES NEBRASKA Otis G. Pike, Riverhead SENATORS Thomas J. Downey, West Islip NORTH DAKOTA Carl T. Curtis, Minden Jerome A. Ambro, East Northport SENATORS Edward Zorinsky, Omaha Norman F. Lent, East Rockaway Milton R. Young, LaMoure REPRESENTATIVES John W. Wydler, Garden City Quentin N. Burdick, Fargo Charles Thone, Lincoln Lester L. Wolff, Great Neck John J. Cavanaugh, Omaha Joseph P. Addabbo, Ozone Park REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Virginia Smith, Chappell Benjamin S. Rosenthal, Elmhurst Mark Andrews, Mapleton James J. Delaney,5' Long Island City NEVADA Mario Biaggi, Bronx OHIO SENATORS James H. Scheuer, Neponsit Howard W. Cannon, Las Vegas , Brooklyn SENATORS Paul Laxalt, Carson City Stephen J. Solarz, Brooklyn John Glenn, Columbus Frederick W. Richmond, Brooklyn REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Howard M. Metzenbaum, Shaker Leo C. Zeferetti, Brooklyn Heights Jim Santini, Las Vegas Elizabeth Holtzman, Brooklyn John M. Murphy, Staten Island REPRESENTATIVES NEW HAMPSHIRE Edward I. Koch,52 New York Willis D. Gradison, Jr., Cincinnati SENATORS S. William Green,53 New York Thomas A. Luken, Cincinnati Thomas J. McIntyre, Laconia Charles B. Rangel, New York Charles W. Whalen, Jr., Dayton John A. Durkin, Manchester , New York Tennyson Guyer, Findley REPRESENTATIVES Herman Badillo,54 Bronx Delbert L. Latta, Bowling Green Norman E. D'Amours, Manchester Robert Garcia,55 Bronx William H. Harsha, Portsmouth James C. Cleveland, New London Jonathan B. Bingham, Bronx Clarence J. Brown, Urbana Bruce F. Caputo, Yonkers Thomas N. Kindness, Hamilton NEW JERSEY Richard L. Ottinger, Pleasantville Thomas L. Ashley, Toledo SENATORS Hamilton Fish, Jr., Milibrook Clarence E. Miller, Lancaster Clifford P. Case, Rahway Benjamin A. Gilman, Middletown J. William Stanton, Painesville Harrison A. Williams, Jr., Bedminster Matthew F. McHugh, Ithaca Samuel L. Devine, Columbus Donald J. Pease, Oberlin REPRESENTATIVES Samuel S. Stratton, Amsterdam Edward W. Pattison, West Sand Lake John F. Seiberling, Akron James J. Florio, Camden Robert C. McEwen, Ogdensburg Chalmers P. Wylie, Columbus William J. Hughes, Ocean City Donald J. Mitchell, Herkimer Ralph S. Regula, Navarre James J. Howard, Spring Lake Heights James M. Hanley, Syracuse John M. Ashbrook, Johnstown Frank Thompson, Jr., Trenton William F. Walsh, Syracuse , Steubenville Millicent Fenwick, Bernardsville Charles J. Carney, Youngstown Edwin B. Forsythe, Moorestown Frank Horton, Rochester Andrew Maguire, Ridgewood Barber B. Conable, Jr., Alexander , Cleveland Robert A. Roe, Wayne John J. LaFalce, Buffalo Louis Stokes, Cleveland Harold C. Hollenbeck, East Rutherford Henry J. Nowak, Buffalo Charles A. Vanik, Euclid Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Newark , Hamburg Ronald M. Motti, Parma Joseph G. Minish, West Orange Stanley N. Lundine, Jamestown Matthew J. Rinaldo, Union OKLAHOMA Helen S. Meyner, Phillipsburg NORTH CAROLINA Joseph A. Le Fante,'° Bayonne SENATORS SENATORS Edward J. Patten, Perth Amboy Jesse Helms, Raleigh Henry L. Beilmon, Red Rock Robert Morgan, Lillington Dewey F. Bartlett, Tulsa NEW MEXICO REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Walter B. Jones, Farmuille James R. Jones, Tulsa Pete V. Domenici, Albuquerque L.H. Fountain, Tarboro Ted Risenhoover, Tahlequah

Died January 12, 1978. 48Resigned December 14, 1978, having been appointed Resigned December 31, 1977. Appointed January 22, 1978, to fill vacancy caused by United States Senator; vacancy throughout remainder of ' Elected February 74, 1978, to fill vacancy caused by death of Lee Metcalf, and took his seat January 23, 1978. Congress. resignation of Edward I. Koch, and took his seat February 48Appointed December 15, 1978, to fill vacancy caused ° Resigned December 14, 1978; vacancy throughout re- 21, 1978. by resignation of Paul Hatfield, but was unable to be mainder of Congress. Resigned December 31, 1977. Elected February 14, 1978, to fill vacancy caused by sworn in as Congress was not in session. Resigned December 31, 1978; vacancy throughout re-- mainder of Congress. resignation of Herman Badillo, and took his seat February 21, 1978. Ninety-Fifth Congress 477

Wesley W. Watkins, Ada Floyd Spence, Lexington UTAH Tom Steed, Shawnee Butler Derrick, Edgefield SENATORS Mickey Edwards, Oklahoma City James R. Mann, Greenville Glenn English, Cordell Kenneth L. Holland, Lugoff Jake Garn, Salt Lake City John W. Jenrette, Jr., North Myrtle Orrin G. Hatch, Salt Lake City OREGON Beach REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS K. Gunn McKay, Huntsville Mark 0. Hatfield, Newport SOUTH DAKOTA David D. Marriott, Salt Lake City Bob Packwood, Portland SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES George McGovern, Mitchell VERMONT Les AuCoin, Forest Grove James Abourezk, Rapid City SENATORS Al Uliman, Baker REPRESENTATIVES Robert T. Stafford, Rutland Robert Duncan, Portland Patrick J, Leahy, Burlington James Weaver, Eugene Larry Pressler, Humboldt James Abdnor, Kennebec REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE PENNSYLVANIA James M. Jeffords, Rutland SENATORS TENNESSEE Richard S. Schweiker, Worcester SENATORS VIRGINIA H. John Heinz III, Pittsburgh Howard H. Baker, Jr., Huntsville SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES James R. Sasser, Nashville Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Winchester Michael 0. Myers, Philadelphia REPRESENTATIVES William Lloyd Scott,6' Fairfax Robert N.C. Nix, Philadelphia James H. Quillen, Kingsport John W. Warner,62 Middleburg Raymond F. Lederer, Philadelphia John J. Duncan, Knoxville REPRESENTATIVES Joshua Eilberg, Philadelphia Marilyn Lloyd, Chattanooga Paul S. Trible, Jr., Tappahannock Richard T. Schuize, Malvern Albert A. Gore, Jr., Carthage Gus Yatron, Reading G. William Whitehurst, Virginia Beach Clifford R. Allen,56 Nashville David E. Satterfield III, Richmond Robert W. Edgar, Broomall Robin L. Beard, Franklin Peter H. Kostmayer, Solebury Robert W. Daniel, Jr., Spring Cove Ed Jones, Yorkville W.C. (Dan) Daniel, Danville H.G. (Bud) Shuster, Everett Harold E. Ford, Memphis Joseph M. McDade, Clarks Summit M. Caldwell Butler, Roanoke J. Kenneth Robinson, Winchester Daniel J. Flood, Wilkes-Barre TEXAS John P. Murtha, Johnstown Herbert E. Harris II, Alexandria Lawrence Coughlin, Villanova SENATORS William C. Wampler, Bristol William S. Moorhead, Pittsburgh John G. Tower, Wichita Falls Joseph L. Fisher, Arlington Fred B. Rooney, Bethlehem Lloyd M. Bentsen, Houston Robert S. Walker, East Petersburg REPRESENTATIVES WASHINGTON Allen E. Ertel, Montoursville SENATORS Doug Waigren, Pittsburgh Sam B. Hall, Jr., Marshall William F. Goodling, York Charles Wilson, Lufkin Warren G. Magnuson, Seattle Joseph M. Gaydos, McKeesport James M. Collins, Dallas Henry M. Jackson, Everett John H. Dent, Ligonier Ray Roberts, McKinney REPRESENTATIVES James A. Mattox, Dallas Austin J. Murphy, Charleroi Joel Pritchard, Seattle Joseph S. Ammerman, Curwensville Olin B. Teague,57 College Station Bill Archer, Houston Lloyd Moods, Lake Stevens Marc L. Marks, Sharon Don Bonker, Olympia Gary A. Myers, Butler Bob Eckhardt, Houston Jack Brooks, Beaumont Mike McCormack, Richland J.J. (Jake) Pickle, Austin Thomas S. Foley, Spokane RHODE ISLAND Norman D. Dicks, Bremerton SENATORS W.R. Poage,58 Waco James C. Wright, Jr., Fort Worth Brock Adams,63 Seattle Claiborne Pell, Newport John (Jack) Cunningham,64 Seattle John H. Chafee, Warwick Jack Hightower, Vernon John Young, Corpus Christi REPRESENTATIVES E (Kika) de la Garza, Mission WEST VIRGINIA Fernand J. St Germain, Woonsocket Richard C. White, El Paso SENATORS Edward P. Beard, Cranston Omar Burleson,59 Anson Jennings Randolph, Elkins Barbara Jordan, Houston Robert C. Byrd, Sophia SOUTH CAROLINA George H. Mahon, Lubbock SENATORS Henry B. Gonzalez, San Antonio REPRESENTATIVES Strom Thurmond, Aiken Robert (Bob) Krueger, New Braunfels Robert H. Mollohan, Fairmont Ernest F. Hollings, Charleston Robert A. Gammage,6° Houston Harley 0. Staggers, Keyser REPRESENTATIVES Abraham Kazen, Jr., Laredo John Slack, Charleston Mendel J. Davis, Charleston Dale Milford, Grand Prairie Nick J. Rahall 2d, Beckley

51Resigned January 1, 1979. 5'Died June 18, 1978; vacancy throughout remainder of I.esigned December 31, 1978; vacancy throughout re-- Appointed January 2, 1979, to fill vacancy caused by Congress. mainder of Congress. resignation of William Lloyd Scott, but was unable to be Resigned December 31, 1978; vacancy throughout re- ° Resigned December 31, 1978; vacancy throughout re-- sworn in as Congress was not in session. mainder of Congress. mainder of Congress. °' Resigned January 22, 1977. '° Election unsuccessfully contested by Ron Paul. ' Elected May 17, 1977, to fill vacancy caused by resig- nation of Brock Adams, and took his seat May 23, 1977. 478 Biographical Directory

WISCONSIN WYOMING DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SENATORS SENATORS DELEGATE William Proxmire, Madison Clifford P. Hansen,66 Jackson Walter E. Fauntroy, Washington, D.C. Gaylord Nelson, Madison Alan K. Simpson,6 Cdy REPRESENTATIVES Malcolm Wallop, Big Horn GUAM Les Aspin, Racine Robert W. Kastenmeier, Sun Prairie REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE DELEGATE Alvin Baldus, Menomonie Teno Roncalio,68 Cheyenne Antonio Borja Won Pat, Agana Clement J. Zablocki, Milwaukee Henry S. Reuss, Milwaukee COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGIN ISLANDS William A. Steiger,65 Oshkosh PUERTO RICO David R. Obey, Wausau DELEGATE Robert J. Cornell, DePere RESIDENT COMMISSIONER Ron de Lugo, St. Croix Robert W. Kasten, Jr., Brookfield Baltasar Corrada, San Juan

Died December 4, 1978, before the commencement of °' Resigned December 31, 1978. °' Appointed January 1, 1979, to fill vacancy caused by the Ninety-sixth Congress, to which he had been reelected; resignation of Clifford P. Hansen, but was unable to be vacancy in the Ninety-fifth Congress not filled. sworn in as Congress was not in session. "Resigned December 30, 1978; vacancy throughout re- mainder of Congress. NINETY-SIXTH CONGRESS JANUARY 3, 1979, TO JANUARY 3, 1981

FIRST SESSIONJanuary15, 1979,1to January3, 19802 SECOND SESSIONJanuary3, 1980,to October15, 1980

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATESWALTER F. MONDALE, of Minnesota PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATEWARREN G. MAGNUSON,3 of Washington SECRETARY OF THE SENATEJ.S. KIMMIrI, of Virginia SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE SENATEF. N0RDY HOFFMANN, of Maryland

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSETHoMAs P. O'NEILL, JR.,4 of Massachusetts CLERK OF THE HOUSEEDMuND L. HENSHAW, JR.,4 of Virginia SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE HOUSEKENNETH R HARDING,5 of Virginia; BENJAMIN J. GUTHRIE,6 of Virginia DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSEJAMES T MOLLOY,4 of New York POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSEROBERT V. ROTA,4 of Pennsylvania

ALABAMA Morris K. Udall, Tucson Don Edwards, San Jose William Royer,9 Redwood City SENATORS Bob Stump, Tolleson Eldon Rudd, Scottsdale Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey, Jr., Menlo Donald W. Stewart,7 Anniston Park Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr.,8Mobile ARKANSAS Norman Y. Mineta, San Jose Howell T. Heflin, Tuscumbia SENATORS Norman D. Shumway, Stockton REPRESENTATIVES Dale Bumpers, Charleston Tony Coelho, Merced Jack Edwards,Mobile David H. Pryor, Camden Leon E. Panetta, Carmel Valley William L. Dickinson, Montgomery REPRESENTATIVES Charles Pashayan, Fresno Bill Nichols, Sylacauga William M. Thomas, Bakersfield Tom Bevill, Jasper Bill Alexander, Osceola , Searcy Robert J. Lagomarsino, Ventura Ronnie G. Flippo, Florence John P. Hammerschmidt, Harrison Barry Goldwater, Jr., Woodland Hills John Buchanan, Birmingham Beryl F. Anthony, Jr., El Dorado James C. Corman, Van Nuys Richard C. Shelby, Tuscaloosa Carlos J. Moorhead, Glendale ALASKA CALIFORNIA Anthony C. Beilenson, Los Angeles SENATORS Henry A. Waxman, Los Angeles SENATORS Alan Cranston, Los Angeles Edward R. Roybal, Los Angeles Ted Stevens, Anchorage S.I. Hayakawa, Mill Valley John Rousselot, San Marino Mike Gravel, Anchorage REPRESENTATIVES Robert K. Dornan, Santa Monica REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Harold T. Johnson,Roseville , Los Angeles , Fort Yukon Don H. Clausen, Crescent City Augustus F. (Gus) Hawkins, Los Angeles ARIZONA Robert T. Matsui, Sacramento Vic Fazio, Sacramento George E. Danielson, Monterey Park SENATORS John L. Burton, San Francisco Charles H. Wilson, Hawthorne Barry Goldwater, Scottsdale Phillip Burton, San Francisco Glenn M. Anderson, Harbor City Dennis DeConcini, Tucson George Miller, Martinez Wayne R. Grisham, La Mirada REPRESENTATIVES Ronald V. Dellums, Berkeley , LongBeach John J. Rhodes, Mesa Fortney H. (Pete) Stark, Oakland Jun Lloyd, West Covina

By joint resolution (Pub. Law 95-594, 95th Cong., 2d Reelected January 15, 1979. Appointed to fill vacancy caused by resignation of 'Reelected January 15, 1979; resigned February29, Donald W. Stewart, and took his seat January 2, 1981. seas.), the date of assembling the first session of the Elected April 3, 1979, to fill vacancy caused by death Ninety-sixth Congress was fixed for January 15, 1979. 1 'The Senate adjourned sine die December 20, 1979. Acted as Sergeant at Arms during the interim. of Representative-elect Leo J. Ryan, in preceding Con- Elected January 15, 1979. Resigned January 1, 1981. gress, and took his seat April 9, 1979.

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CALIFORNIAContinued William Lehman, North Miami Beach Thomas F. Railsback, Moline REPRESENTATIVES.CONTINUED Claude Pepper, Miami Paul Findley, Pittsfield Dante B. Fascell, Miami Edward R. Madigan, Lincoln George E. Brown, Jr., Riverside Daniel B. Crane, Danville Jerry Lewis, San Bernardino GEORGIA Melvin Price, East St. Louis Jerry M. Patterson, Santa Ana SENATORS Paul Simon, Carbondale William E. Dannemeyer, Fullerton Herman E. Talmadge, Lovejoy Robert E. Badham, Newport Beach INDIANA Bob Wilson, San Diego Sam Nunn, Atlanta Lionel Van Deerlin, Chula Vista REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Clair W. Burgener, Rancho Santa Fe Bo Ginn, Millen , Terre Haute Dawson Mathis, Albany Richard G. Lugar, Indianapolis COLORADO Jack Brinkley, Columbus REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Elliot H. Levitas, Atlanta Adam Benjamin, Jr., Hobart Gary Hart, Denver Wyche Fowler, Jr., Atlanta Floyd J. Fithian, Lafayette William L. Armstrong, Aurora , Carrollton John Brademas, South Bend Larry McDonald, Marietta , Huntington REPRESENTATIVES Billy Lee Evans, Macon Elwood Hillis, Kokomo Patricia Schroeder, Denver Edgar L. Jenkins, Jasper David W. Evans, Indianapolis Timothy E. Wirth, Denver D. Douglas Barnard, Jr., Augusta John T. Myers, Covington Raymond P. Kogovsek, Pueblo H. Joel Deckard, Evansville James P. (Jim) Johnson, Fort Collins HAWAII Lee H. Hamilton, Columbus Kenneth B. Kramer, Colorado Springs SENATORS Philip R. Sharp, Muncie Daniel K. Inouye, Honolulu Andrew Jacobs, Jr., Indianapolis CONNECTICUT Spark M. Matsunaga, Honolulu SENATORS IOWA REPRESENTATIVES Abraham A. Ribicoff, Hartford SENATORS Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Stonington Cecil Heftel, Honolulu Daniel K. Akaka, Honolulu John C. Culver, Cedar Rapids REPRESENTATIVES Roger W. Jepsen, Davenport William R. Cotter, Hartford IDAHO REPRESENTATIVES Christopher J. Dodd, North Stonington SENATORS , Davenport Robert N. Giaimo, North Haven Thomas J. Tauke, Dubuque Stewart B. McKinney, Fairfield Frank Church, Boise James A. McClure, Payette Charles E. Grassley, New Hartford William R. Ratchford, Danbury Neal Smith, Altoona Toby Moffett, Unionville REPRESENTATIVES Tom Harkin, Ames Steven D. Symms, Caldwell Berkley Bedell, Spirit Lake DELAWARE George Hansen, Pocatello SENATORS KANSAS William V. Roth, Jr., Wilmington ILLINOIS SENATORS Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Wilmington SENATORS Bob Dole, Russell REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Charles H. Percy, Wilmette Nancy L. Kassebaum, Wichita Adlai E. Stevenson, Chicago Thomas B. Evans, Jr., Wilmington REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Keith G. Sebelius, Norton FLORIDA ,'2 Chicago Jim Jeffries, Atchison SENATORS Morgan F. Murphy, Chicago Larry Winn, Jr., Overland Park Lawton Chiles, Lakeland , Chicago , Wichita Richard (Dick) Stone,'° Tallahassee Edward J. Derwinski, Flossmoor , Augusta ," Winter Park John G. Fary, Chicago Henry J. Hyde, Bensenville KENTUCKY REPRESENTATIVES Cardiss Collins, Chicago , Panama City Dan Rostenkowski, Chicago SENATORS Don Fuqua, Altha Sidney R. Yates, Chicago Walter (Dee) Huddleston, Charles E. Bennett, Jacksonville Abner J. Mikva,'3 Evanston Elizabethtown Bill Chappell, Jr., Ocala John E. Porter,'4 Evanston Wendell H. Ford, Owens boro Richard Kelly, Holiday Frank Annunzio, Chicago REPRESENTATIVES C.W. Bill Young, St. Petersburg Philip M. Crane, Mount Prospect Carroll Hubbard, Jr., Mayfield Sam M. Gibbons, Tampa Robert MClory, Lake Bluff William H. Natcher, Bowling Green , Winter Haven John N. Erlenborn, Glen Ellyn Romano L. Mazzoli, Louisville , Melbourne Tom Corcoran, Ottawa M.G. (Gene) Snyder, Browns boro Farms L.A. (Skip) Bafalis, Fort Myers Beach John B. Anderson, Rockford Tim Lee Carter, Tompkinsville Daniel A. Mica, West Palm Beach George M. O'Brien, Joliet Larry J. Hopkins, Lexington Edward J. Stack, Fort Lauderdale Robert H. Michel, Peoria Carl D. Perkins, Hindman

'° Resigned December 81,1980. "Election unsuccessfully contested by A.A. Sammy "Elected January 22,1980,to fill vacancy caused by "Appointed to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Rayner, Jr. resignation of Abner J. Mikva, and took his seat January Richard (Dick) Stone, and took her seat January 1,1981. "Resigned September 26,1979. 24,1980. Ninety-Sixth Congress 481

LOUISIANA Carl Levin, Detroit Richard H. Ichord, Houston REPRESENTATIVES Harold A. Volkmer, Hannibal SENATORS Bill D. Burlison, Cape Girardeau Russell B. Long, Baton Rouge John Conyers, Jr., Detroit J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., Shreveport Carl D. Pursehl, Plymouth Howard E. Wolpe, Lansing MONTANA REPRESENTATIVES David A. Stockman, St. Joseph SENATORS Robert L. Livingston, New Orleans Harold S. Sawyer, Rockford John Meicher, Forsyth Corinne C. (Lindy) Boggs, New Orleans Bob Carr, East Lansing Max Baucus, Missoula David C. Treen,'5 Metairie Dale E. Kildee, Flint REPRESENTATIVES W.J. (Billy) Tauzin,'6 Thibodaux Bob Traxier, Bay City Claude (Buddy) Leach, Jr.,'7 Leesville Guy Vander Jagt, Luther Pat Williams, Helena Thomas J. Huckaby, Ringgold Donald J. Albosta, St. Charles Ron Marlenee, Scobey W. Henson Moore, Baton Rouge Robert W. Davis, Gaylord John B. Breaux, Crowley David E. Bonior, Mount Clemens NEBRASKA Gihis W. Long, Alexandria Charles C. Diggs, Jr.,22 Detroit SENATORS George W. Crockett, Jr.,23 Detroit Edward Zorinsky, Omaha MAINE Lucien N. Nedzi, Detroit J. James Exon, Lincoln SENATORS William D. Ford, Taylor REPRESENTATIVES Edmund S. Muskie,'8 Waterville John D. Dingell, Trenton George J. Mitchell,'9 Portland William M. Brodhead, Detroit Douglas K. Bereuter, Utica William S. Cohen, Bangor James J. Blanchard, Pleasant Ridge John J. Cavanaugh, Omaha Virginia Smith, Chappell REPRESENTATIVES William S. Broomfield, Birmingham David F. Emery, Rockland NEVADA Olympia J. Snowe, Auburn MINNESOTA SENATORS SENATORS MARYLAND David F. Durenberger, Minneapolis Howard W. Cannon, Las Vegas SENATORS Rudy Boschwitz, Plymouth Paul Laxalt, Carson City Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Frederick REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Paul S. Sarbanes, Baltimore Arlen I. Erdahl, West St Paul Jim Santini, Las Vegas REPRESENTATIVES Tom Hagedorn, Truman Robert E. Bauman, Easton Bill Frenzel, Golden Valley NEW HAMPSHIRE Clarence D. Long, Ruxton Bruce F. Vento, St. Paul SENATORS Martin 0. Sabo, Minneapolis Barbara A. Mikuiski, Baltimore John A. Durkin,24 Manchester Marjorie S. Holt, Severna Park Richard Nolan, Waite Park Warren B. Rudman,25 Nashua Gladys Noon Speliman, Laurel Arlan Stangeland, Barnesville James L. Oberstar, Chishoim Gordon J. Humphrey, Sunapee Beverly B. Byron,2° Frederick REPRESENTATIVES Parren J. Mitchell,2' Baltimore Michael D. Barnes, Kensington MISSISSIPPI Norman E. D'Amours, Manchester SENATORS James C. Cleveland, New London MASSACHUSETTS John C. Stennis, De Kalb SENATORS Thad Cochran, Jackson NEW JERSEY Edward M. Kennedy, Boston REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Paul E. Tsongas, Lowell Jamie L. Whitten, Charleston Harrison A. Williams, Jr., Bedminster REPRESENTATIVES David R. Bowen, Cleveland Bill Bradley, Denville Silvio 0. Conte, Pittsfield G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery, Meridian REPRESENTATIVES Edward P. Roland, Springfield Jon C. Hinson, Tylertown James J. Florio, Camden Joseph D. Early, Worcester Trent Lott, Pascagoula Wihiam J. Hughes, Ocean City Robert F. Drinan, Newton MISSOURI James J. Howard, Spring Lake Heights James M. Shannon, Lawrence Frank Thompson, Jr.,26 Trenton , Peabody SENATORS Mfflicent Fenwick, Bernard.sville Edward J. Markey, Malden Thomas F. Eagleton, St. Louis Edwin B. Forsythe, Moorestown Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Cambridge John C. Danforth, Jefferson City Andrew Maguire, Ridgewood John Joseph Moakley, Boston REPRESENTATIVES Robert A. Roe, Wayne Margaret M. Heckler, Wellesley William (Bill) Clay, St. Louis Harold C. Hollenbeck, East Rutherford Brian J. Donnelly, Dorchester Robert A. Young, St. Ann Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Newark Gerry E. Studds, Cohasset Richard A. Gephardt, St. Louis Joseph G. Minish, West Orange Ike Skelton, Lexington Matthew J. Rinaldo, Union MICHIGAN Richard Rolling, Kansas City James A. Courter, Hackettstown SENATORS E. Thomas Coleman, Kansas City Frank J. Guarini, Jersey City Dona1d W. Riegle, Jr., Flint Gene Taylor, Sarcoxie Edward J. Patton, Perth Amboy

23 25Appointed May 17, 1980, to fill vacancy caused by Elected November 4, 1980, to fill vacancy caused by 'Resigned March 10 1980. resignation of Edmund S. Muskie, and took his seat May resignation of Charles C. Diggs, Jr., and took his seat 'sElected May 17, 1980, to fill vacancy caused by resig- November 12. 1980. 19, 1980. 2 nation of David C. Treen, and took his seat May 22, 1980. 2Election unsuccessfully contested by Melvin Perkins. Resigned December 29, 1980. 'Electionunsuccessfullycontested by Jimmy H. ' Election unsuccessfully contested by Debra Hannania Appointed to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Wilson. Freeman. John A. Durkin, and took his seat December 29, 1980. 'Resigned May 7 1980. 22Resigned June 3, 1980. 26Resigned December 29, 1980. 482 Biographical Directory

NEW MEXICO Ike F. Andrews, Siler City Bob Packwood, Portland SENATORS Stephen L. Neal, Winston-Salem REPRESENTATIVES Richardson Preyer, Greensboro Pete V. Domenici, Albuquerque Los AuCoin, Forest Grove Harrison H. Schmitt, Silver City Charles Rose, Fayetteville W.G. (Bill) Hefner, Concord Al Uliman, Baker REPRESENTATIVES James G. Martin, Davidson Robert Duncan, Greshani Manuel Lujan, Jr., Albuquerque James T. Broyhill, Lenoir James Weaver, Eugene Harold Runnels,27 Lovington V. Lamar Gudger, Asheville PENNSYLVANIA NEW YORK NORTH DAKOTA SENATORS SENATORS SENATORS Richard S. Schweiker, Worcester Jacob K. Javits, New York Milton R. Young, LaMoure John Heinz, Pittsburgh Daniel P. Moynihan, New York Quentin N. Burdick, Fargo REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Michael 0. Myers,28 Philadelphia William Carney, Hauppauge Mark Andrews, Mapleton William (Bill) H. Gray III, Thomas J. Downey, West Islip Philadelphia Jerome A. Ambro, Huntington Station OHIO Raymond F. Lederer, Philadelphia Norman F. Lent, East Rockaway SENATORS Charles F. Dougherty, Philadelphia John W. Wydler, Garden City John Glenn, Columbus Richard T. Schulze, Malvern Lester L. Wolff, Great Neck Howard M. Metzenbaum, Shaker Gus Yatron, Reading Joseph P. Addabbo, Ozone Park Heights Bob Edgar, Broomall Benjamin S. Rosenthal, Elmhurst Peter H. Kostmayer, Solebury Geraldine Anne Ferraro, Forest Hills REPRESENTATIVES H.G. (Bud) Shuster, Everett Mario Biaggi, Bronx Willis D. Gradison, Jr., Cincinnati Joseph M. McDade, Scranton James H. Scheuer, Neponsit Thomas A. Luken, Cincinnati Daniel J. Flood,29 Wilkes-Barre Shirley Chishoim, Brooklyn Tony P. Hall, Dayton Raphael Musto,8° Pittston Stephen J. Solarz, Brooklyn Tennyson Guyer, Findley John P. Murtha, Johnstown Frederick W. Richmond, Brooklyn Delbert L. Latta, Bowling Green Lawrence Coughlin, Villanova Leo C. Zeferetti, Brooklyn William H. Harsha, Portsmouth William S. Moorhead, Pittsburgh Elizabeth Holtzman, Brooklyn Clarence J. Brown, Urbana Don Ritter, Coopers burg John M. Murphy, Staten Island Thomas N. Kindness, Hamilton Robert S. Walker, East Petersburg S. William Green, New York Thomas L. Ashley, Maumee Allen E. Ertel, Montoursville Charles B. Rangel, New York Clarence E. Miller, Lancaster Doug Waigren, Pittsburgh Ted Weiss, New York J. William Stanton, Painesville William F. Goodling, Jacobus Robert Garcia, Bronx Samuel L. Devine, Columbus Joseph M. Gaydos, McKeesport Jonathan B. Bingham, Bronx Donald J. Pease, Oberlin Don Bailey, Greensburg Peter A. Peyser, Irvington John F. Seiberling, Akron Austin J. Murphy, Charleroi Richard L. Ottinger, Mamaroneck Chalmers P. Wylie, Worthington William F. Clinger, Jr., Warren Hamilton Fish, Jr., Millbrook Ralph S. Regula, Navarre Marc L. Marks, Sharon Benjamin A. Gilman, Middletown John M. Ashbrook, Johnstown Eugene V. Atkinson, Aliquippa Matthew F. McHugh, Ithaca Douglas Applegate, Steubenville Samuel S. Stratton, Amsterdam , Warren RHODE ISLAND Gerald B. Solomon, Glens Falls Mary Rose Oakar, Cleveland SENATORS Robert C. McEwen, Ogdens burg Louis Stokes, Cleveland Donald J. Mitchell, Herkimer Charles A. Vanik, Euclid Claiborne Pell, Newport James M. Hanley, Syracuse Ronald M. Mottl, Parma John H. Chafee, Warwick Gary A. Lee, Dryden REPRESENTATIVES Frank Horton, Rochester OKLAHOMA Fernand J. St Germain, Woonsocket Barber B. Conable, Jr., Alexander SENATORS Edward P. Beard, Cranston John J. LaFalce, Tonawanda Henry L. Belimon, Billings Henry J. Nowak, Buffalo David L. Boren, Seminole SOUTH CAROLINA Jack Kemp, Hamburg REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Stanley N. Lundine, Jamestown James R. Jones, Tulsa Strom Thurmond, Aiken NORTH CAROLINA Mike Synar, Muskogee Ernest F. Hollings, Charleston Wesley W. Watkins, Ada REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Tom Steed, Shawnee Mendel J. Davis, Charleston Jesse Helms, Raleigh Mickey Edwards, Oklahoma City Floyd Spence, Lexington Robert Morgan, Lillington Glenn English, Cordell Butler Derrick, Edgefield REPRESENTATIVES Carroll Campbell, Jr., Greenville Walter B. Jones, Farmville OREGON Kenneth L. Holland, Gaffney L.H. Fountain, Tarboro SENATORS John W. Jenrette, Jr.,3' North Myrtle Charles 0. Whitley, Sr., Mount Olive Mark 0. Hatfield, Salem Beach

Died August 5, 1980; vacancy throughout remainder 28 Expelled by resolution of October 2, 1980; vacancy Resigned January 31, 1980. of Congress. throughout remainder of Congress. 25Elected April 9, 1980, to fill vacancy caused by resig- nation of Daniel J. Flood, and took his seat April 15, 1980. " Resigned December 10, 1980. Ninety-Sixth Congress 483

SOUTH DAKOTA Martin Frost, Dallas Robert C. Byrd, Sophia REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS UTAH George McGovern, Mitchell Robert H. Mollohan, Fairmont Larry Pressler, Humboldt SENATORS Harley 0. Staggers, Keyser Jake Garn, Salt Lake City John M. Slack, Jr.,34 Charleston REPRESENTATIVES Orrin G. Hatch, Salt Lake City John G. Hutchinson,35 Charleston Thomas A. Daschle,32 Aberdeen REPRESENTATWES Nick J. Rahall 2d, Beckley James Abdnor, Kennebec K. Gunn McKay, Huntsville TENNESSEE David D. Marriott, Salt Lake City WISCONSIN SENATORS SENATORS VERMONT Howard H. Baker, Jr., Huntsville William Proxmire, Madison James R. Sasser, Nashville SENATORS Gaylord Nelson, Madison Robert T. Stafford, Rutland REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Patrick J. Leahy, Burlington James H. Quillen, Kingsport Los Aspin, Racine John J. Duncan, Knoxville REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Robert W. Kastenmeier, Sun Prairie Marilyn Lloyd,33 Chattanooga James M. Jeffords, Montpelier Alvin Baldus, Menomonie Albert A. Gore, Jr., Carthage Clement J. Zablocki, Milwaukee William H. Boner, Nashville VIRGINIA Henry S. Reuss, Milwaukee Robin L. Beard, Franklin SENATORS Thomas E. Petri,36 Fond du Lac Ed Jones, Yorkville Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Winchester David R. Obey, Wausau Harold E. Ford, Memphis John W. Warner, Middleburg Toby A. Roth, Appleton REPRESENTATIVES F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., TEXAS Paul S. Trible, Jr., Newport News Shorewood SENATORS G. William Whitehurst, Norfolk John G. Tower, Wichita Falls David E. Satterfield III, Richmond WYOMING Lloyd M. Bentsen, Houston Robert W. Daniel, Jr., Spring Cove SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES W.C. (Dan) Daniel, Danville Malcolm Wallop, Big Horn Sam B. Hall, Jr., Marshall M. Caldwell Butler, Roanoke Alan K. Simpson, Cody Charles Wilson, Lufkin J. Kenneth Robinson, Winchester REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE James M. Collins, Dallas Herbert E. Harris 2d, Alexandria Richard B. Cheney, Casper Ray Roberts, McKinney William C. Wampler, Bristol James A. Mattox, Dallas Joseph L. Fisher, Arlington COMMONWEALTH OF , College Station Bill Archer, Houston WASHINGTON PUERTO RICO Bob Eckhardt, Houston SENATORS RESIDENT COMMISSIONER Jack Brooks, Beaumont Warren G. Magnuson, Seattle Baltasar Corrada, Rio Piedras J.J. (Jake) Pickle, Austin Henry M. Jackson, Everett J. Marvin Leath, Marlin REPRESENTATIVES DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA James C. Wright, Jr., Fort Worth DELEGATE Jack Hightower, Vernon Joel Pritchard, Seattle Joseph P. Wyatt, Jr., Bloomington Al Swift, Bellingham Walter E. Fauntroy, Washington, D.C. E (Kika) de la Garza, Mission Don Bonker, Ridgefield Richard C. White, El Paso Mike McCormack, Richland GUAM Charles W. Stenholm, Stamford Thomas S. Foley, Spokane DELEGATE , Houston Norman D. Dicks, Port Orchard Antonio Borja Won Pat, Agana Kent R. Hance, Lubbock Mike Lowry, Mercer Island Henry B. Gonzalez, San Antonio WEST VIRGINIA VIRGIN ISLANDS , Hunt DELEGATE Ronald E. Paul, Lake Jackson SENATORS Abraham Kazen, Jr., Laredo Jennings Randolph, Elkins Melvin H. Evans, St. Croix

Elected June 3, 1980, to fill vacancy caused by death 22 Election unsuccessfully contested by Leo K. Thom- 33 After election was married and name changed to of John M. Slack, .Jr., and took his seat June 10, 1980. ness. Marilyn Lloyd Bouquard. 'Elected April 3, 1979, to fill vacancy caused by death Died March 17, 1980. of Representative-elect William A. Steiger, in preceding Congress, and took his seat April 9, 1979. NINETY-SEVENTHCONGRESS JANUARY 3, 1981, TO JANUARY 3,1983

FIRST SESSIONJanuary 5, 1981,1to December 16, 1981 SECOND SESSIONJanuary 25, 1982,2to December 23, 1982

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATESWALTERF. MONDALE,3 of Minnesota; GEORGE BUSH,4 of Texas PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATESTROMTHURMOND,5 of South Carolina SECRETARY OF THE SENATEWILLIAM F HILDENBRAND,5of Washington, D.C. SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE SENATEHOWARDS. LIEBENGOOD,5 of Virginia

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSETHOMAS P. O'NEILL, JR.,6of Massachusetts CLERK OF THE HOUSEEDMUND L. HENSHAW, JR.,6of Virginia SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE HOUSEBENJAMIN J. GUTHRIE,5of Virginia DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSEJAMES T. MOLLOY,6 of NewYork POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSEROBERT V. ROTA,6 ofPennsylvania

ALABAMA Morris K. Udall, Tucson Fortney H. (Pete) Stark, Oakland SENATORS Bob Stump, Tolleson Don Edwards, San Jose Howell T. Heflin, Tuscumbia Eldon D. Rudd, Scottsdale Tom Lantos, San Mateo Jeremiah Denton, Mobile Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., Menlo Park ARKANSAS REPRESENTATIVES Norman Y. Mineta, San Jose Jack Edwards, Mobile SENATORS Norman D. Shumway, Stockton William L Dickinson, Montgomery Dale Bumpers, Charleston Tony Coelho, Merced William Nichols, Sylacauga David H. Pryor, Camden Leon E. Panetta, Carmel Valley Tom Bevill, Jasper REPRESENTATIVES Charles Pashayan, Jr., Fresno Ronnie G. Flippo, Florence Bill Alexander, Osceola William M. Thomas, Bakersfield Albert Lee Smith, Jr., Birmingham Ed Bethune, Searcy Robert J. Lagomarsino, Ojai Richard C. Shelby, Tuscaloosa John P. Hammerschmidt, Harrison Barry M. Goldwater, Jr., Woodland Beryl F. Anthony, Jr., El Dorado Hills ALASKA Bobbi Fiedler, Northridge SENATORS CALIFORNIA Carlos J. Moorhead, Glendale SENATORS Anthony C. Beilenson, Los Angeles Ted Stevens, Anchorage Henry A. Waxman, Los Angeles Frank H. Murkowski, Fairbanks Alan Cranston, Los Angeles Edward R. Roybal, Los Angeles REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE S.I. Hayakawa, Mill Valley John H. Rousselot, San Marino Don Young, Fort Yukon REPRESENTATIvES Robert K. Dornan, Los Angeles Eugene A. Chappie, Roseville Julian C. Dixon, Los Angeles ARIZONA Don H. Clausen, Crescent City Augustus F. (Gus) Hawkins, Los SENATORS Robert T. Matsui, Sacramento Angeles Barry Goldwater, Scottsdale Vic Fazio, Sacramento George E. Danielson,7 Monterey Park Dennis DeConcini, Tucson John L. Burton, San Francisco Matthew G. Martinez,8 Monterey Park Phillip Burton, San Francisco REPRESENTATIVES Mervyn M. Dymally, Compton George Miller, Martinez Glenn M. Anderson, Harbor City John J. Rhodes, Mesa Ronald V. Dellums, Berkeley Wayne R. Grisham, La Mirada

By joint resolution (Pub. Law 96-566, 96th Cong., 2d By joint resolution (Pub. Law 97-133, 97th Cong., 1st Elected January 5, 1981. sess), the date of assembling the first session of the sess.), the date of assembling the second session of the 'Reelected January 5, 1981. Ninety-seventh Congress was fixed for January 5, 1981. Ninety-seventh Congress was fixed for January 25, 1982. Resigned March 9, 1982. 'Term expired at noon on January 20, 1981. Elected July 13, 1982, to fill vacancy caused by resi - 'Term began at noon on January 20, 1981. nation of George E. Danielson, and took his seat July 1 1982.

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Daniel E. Lungren, Long Beach Claude Pepper, Miami Edward R. Madigan, Lincoln Dave Dreier, La Verne Dante B. Fascell, Miami Daniel B. Crane, Danville George E. Brown, Jr., Riverside Melvin Price, East St. Louis Jerry Lewis, San Bernardino GEORGIA Paul Simon, Carbondale Jerry M. Patterson, Santa Ana SENATORS William E. Dannemeyer, Fullerton Sam Nunn, Perry INDIANA Robert E. Badham, Newport Beach Mack Mattingly, St. Simons Island SENATORS , San Diego REPRESENTATIVES Richard G. Lugar, Indianapolis Duncan L. Hunter, Coronado Dan Quayle, Huntington Clair W. Burgener, Rancho Santa Fe Bo Ginn, Millen Charles Hatcher, Albany REPRESENTATIVES COLORADO Jack Brinkley, Columbus Adam Benjamin, Jr.," Hobart Elliot H. Levitas, Atlanta SENATORS ,12 Gary Wyche Fowler, Jr., Atlanta Floyd J. Fithian, Lafayette Gary Hart, Denver Newt Gingrich, Carrollton John Patrick Hiler, La Porte William L. Armstrong, Aurora Larry McDonald, Marietta Dan R. Coats, Fort Wayne REPRESENTATIVES Billy Lee Evans, Macon Elwood Hillis, Kokomo Patricia Schroeder, Denver Edgar L. Jenkins, Jasper David W. Evans, Indianapolis Timothy E. Wirth, Denver Doug Barnard, Jr., Augusta John T. Myers, Covington Raymond P. Kogovsek, Pueblo Joel Deckard, Evansville Greeley HAWAII Lee H. Hamilton, Columbus Kenneth B. Kramer, Colorado Springs SENATORS Philip R. Sharp, Muncie Daniel K. Inouye, Honolulu Andrew Jacobs, Jr., Indianapolis CONNECTICUT Spark M. Matsunaga, Honolulu SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES IOWA Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Stonington Cecil Heftel, Honolulu SENATORS Christopher J. Dodd, North Stonington Daniel K. Akaka, Honolulu Roger W. Jepsen, Davenport REPRESENTATIVES Charles E. Grassley, New Hartford William R. Cotter,9 Hartford IDAHO REPRESENTATIVES Barbara B. Kennelly,'° Hartford SENATORS Jim Leach, Davenport Samuel Gejdenson, Bozrah James A. McClure, Payette Thomas J. Tauke, Dubuque Lawrence J. DeNardis, Hamden Steve Symms, Boise Cooper Evans, Grundy Center Stewart B. McKinney, Fairfield REPRESENTATIVES Neal Smith, Altoona William R. Ratchford, Danbury Tom Harkin, Ames Toby Moffett, Unionville Larry Craig, Midvale George Hansen, Pocatello Berkley Bedell, Spirit Lake DELAWARE ILLINOIS KANSAS SENATORS SENATORS SENATORS William V. Roth, Jr., Wilmington Bob Dole, Russell Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Wilmington Charles H. Percy, Wilmette Alan J. Dixon, Belleville Nancy L. Kassebaum, Wichita REPRESENTATWE AT LARGE REPRESENTATIVES Thomas B. Evans, Jr., Wilmington REPRESENTATIVES , Chicago , Dodge City FLORIDA , Chicago Jim Jeffries, Atchison Marty Russo, Chic ago Larry Winn, Jr., Overland Park SENATORS Edward J. Derwinski, Flossmoor Dan Glickman, Wichita Lawton Chiles, Lakeland John G. Fary, Chicago Bob Whittaker, Augusta Paula Hawkins, Winter Park Henry J. Hyde, Bensenville REPRESENTATIVES Cardiss Collins, Chicago KENTUCKY Earl Hutto, Panama City Dan Rostenkowski, Chicago SENATORS Don Fuqua, Altha Sidney R. Yates, Chicago Walter (Dee) Huddleston, Charles E. Bennett, Jacksonville John Edward Porter, Evanston Elizabeth town Bill Chappell, Jr., Ocala Frank Annunzio, Chicago Wendell H. Ford, Owensboro Bill McCollum, Altamonte Springs Philip M. Crane, Mount Prospect C.W. Bill Young, St. Petersburg Robert McClory, Lake Bluff REPRESENTATIVES Sam M. Gibbons, Tampa John N. Erlenborn, Glen Ellyn Carroll Hubbard, Jr., Mayfield Andy Ireland, Winter Haven Tom Corcoran, Ottawa William H. Natcher, Bowling Green Bill Nelson, Melbourne Lynn Martin, Rockford Romano L. Mazzoli, Louisville L.A. (Skip) Bafalis, Fort Myers Beach George M. O'Brien, Joliet M.G. (Gene) Snyder, Browneboro Farms Daniel A. Mica, West Palm Beach Robert H. Michel, Peoria Harold (Hal) Rogers, Somerset , Fort Lauderdale Thomas F. Railsback, Moline Larry J. Hopkins, Lexington William Lehman, North Miami Beach Paul Findley, Pittsfield Carl D. Perkins, Hi nd man

'° Elected January 12, 1982, to fill vacancy caused by 'Died September 7, 1982. Died September 8, 1981. 2Elected November 2. 1982, to fill vacancy caused by death of William R. Cotter, and took her seat January 25, death of Adam Benjamin, Jr., and took her seat November 1982. 29, 1982. 486 Biographical Directory

LOUISIANA Carl Levin, Detroit Richard Bolling, Kansas City SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES E. Thomas Coleman, Kansas City Russell B. Long, Baton Rouge John Conyers, Jr., Detroit Gene Taylor, Sarcoxie J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., Shreveport Carl Duane Pursell, Plymouth Wendell Bailey, Willow Springs REPRESENTATIVES Howard E. Wolpe, Lansing Harold L. Volkmer, Hannibal Bill Emerson, DeSoto Robert L. Livingston, New Orleans David A. Stockman,'5 St. Joseph Corinne C. (Lindy) Boggs, New Orleans Mark Siljander,'6 Three Rivers W.J. (Billy) Tauzin, Thibodaux Harold S. Sawyer, Rockford MONTANA Charles Roemer, Bossier City Jim Dunn, East Lansing SENATORS Thomas J. Huckaby, Ringgold Dale E. Kildee, Flint John Melcher, Forsyth W. Henson Moore, Baton Rouge Bob Traxier, Bay City Max Baucus, Missoula John B. Breaux, Crowley Guy Vander Jagt, Luther Gillis W. Long, Alexandria Donald J. Albosta, St. Charles REPRESENTATIVES Robert W. Davis, Gaylord Pat Williams, Helena MAINE David E. Bonior, Mount Clemens Ron Marlenee, Scobey SENATORS George W. Crockett, Jr., Detroit William S. Cohen, Bangor Dennis M. Hertel, Detroit NEBRASKA George J. Mitchell, Portland William D. Ford, Taylor John D. Dingell, Trenton SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES William M. Brodhead, Detroit Edward Zorinsky, Omaha David F. Emery, Rockland James J. Blanchard, Pleasant Ridge J. James Exon, Lincoln Olympia J. Snowe, Auburn William S. Broomfield, Birmingham REPRESENTATIVES MARYLAND Douglas K. Bereuter, Utica MINNESOTA , Omaha SENATORS SENATORS Virginia Smith, Chappell Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Frederick David F. Durenberger, Minneapolis Paul S. Sarbanes, Baltimore Rudy Boschwitz, Plymouth NEVADA REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Roy Dyson, Grest Mills Arlen I. Erdahi, West St. Paul Clarence D. Long, Buxton Howard W. Cannon, Las Vegas Tom Hagedorn, Truman Paul Laxalt, Carson City Barbara A. Mikulski, Baltimore Bill Frenzel, Golden Valley Maijorie S. Holt, Severna Park Bruce F. Vento, St. Paul REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Gladys Noon Spellman,'3 Laurel Jim Santini, Las Vegas Stony H. Hoyer,'4 Berkshire Martin 0. Sabo, Minneapolis Beverly B. Byron, Frederick , St. Cloud Parren J. Mitchell, Baltimore Arlan Stangeland, Barnesuille NEW HAMPSHIRE Michael D. Barnes, Kensington James L. Oberstar, Chisholrn SENATORS Gordon J. Humphrey, Sunapee MASSACHUSETTS MISSISSIPPI Warren Rudman, Nashua SENATORS SENATORS John C. Stennis, De Kalb REPRESENTATIVES Edward M. Kennedy, Boston Norman E. D'Amours, Manchester Paul E. Tsongas, Lowell Thad Cochran, Jackson REPRESENTATIVES Judd Gregg, Greenfield REPRESENTATIVES Silvio 0. Conte, Pittsfield Jamie L. Whitten, Charleston NEW JERSEY Edward P. Boland, Springfield David R. Bowen, Cleveland Joseph D. Early, Worcester G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery, Meridian SENATORS , Newton Jon Clifton Hinson,'7 Tylertown Harrison A. Williams, Jr.,'9 James M. Shannon, Lawrence Wayne Dowdy,18 Summit Bedminster Nicholas Mavroules, Peabody Trent Lott, Pascagoula Nicholas F. Brady,2° Farhills Edward J. Markey, Malden Frank R. Lautenberg,2' Montclair Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Cambridge MISSOURI Bill Bradley, Denville John Joseph Moakley, Boston SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Margaret M. Heckler, Wellesley Thomas F. Eagleton, St. Louis James J. Florio, Camden Brian J. Donnelly, Dorchester John C. Danforth, Flat William J. Hughes, Ocean City Gerry E. Studds, Cohasset REPRESENTATIVES James J. Howard, Spring Lake Heights William L. Clay, St. Louis Christopher H. Smith, Old Bridge MICHIGAN Robert A. Young, St. Ann Millicent Fenwick, Bernardsville SENATORS Richard A. Gephardt, St. Louis Edwin B. Forsythe, Moorestown Donald W. Riegle, Jr., Flint Ike Skelton, Lexington Marge Roukema, Ridgewood

"Pursuant to H. Res. 80, passed on February 24, 1981, "Elected April 21, 1981, to fill vacancy caused by resig- "Elected July 7, 1981, to fill vacancy caused by resig- seat was declared vacant. nation of David A. Stoekman, and took his seat April 29, nation of Jon Clifton Hinson, and took his seat July 9, "Elected May 19, 1981, to fill vacancy caused by inca- 1981. 1981. pacitating illness of Gladys Noon Spellman, and took his "Resigned April 13, 1981. "Resigned March 11, 1981. seat June 3, 1981. '5Appointed April 12, 1982, to fill vacancy caused by Resigned January 27, 1981. resignation of Harrison A. Williams, Jr., and took his seat April 20, 1982; resigned December 26, 1982. "Appointed to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of Nicholas F. Brady, and took his seat December 27, 1982. Ninety-Seventh Congress 487

Robert A. Roe, Wayne NORTH CAROLINA Don Nickles, Ponca City REPRESENTATIVES Harold C. Hollenbeck, East Rutherford SENATORS Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Newark James R. Jones, Tulsa Joseph G. Minish, West Orange Jesse Helms, Raleigh John P. East, Greenville Mike Synar, Muskogee Matthew J. Rinaldo, Union Wesley W. Watkins, Ada James A. Courter, Hackettstown REPRESENTATIVES Dave McCurdy, Norman Frank J. Guarini, Jersey City Walter B. Jones, Farmville Mickey Edwards, Oklahoma City Bernard J. Dwyer, Edison L.H. Fountain, Tarboro Glenn English, Cordell Charles 0. Whitley, Sr., Mount Olive NEW MEXICO Ike Andrews, Suer City OREGON SENATORS Stephen L. Neal, Winston-Salem Eugene (Gene) Johnston, Greensboro SENATORS Pete V. Domenici, Albuquerque Mark 0. Hatfield, Salem Harrison H. Schmitt, Silver City Charles Rose, Fayetteville W.G. (Bill) Hefner, Concord Bob Packwood, Portland REPRESENTATIVES James G. Martin, Davidson REPRESENTATIVES Manuel Lujan, Jr., Albuquerque James P. Broyhill, Lenoir Las AuCoin, Forest Grove , Picacho Bill Hendon, Asheville Denny Smith, Salem Ron Wyden, Portland NEW YORK NORTH DAKOTA James Weaver, Eugene SENATORS SENATORS Daniel P. Moynihan, New York Quentin N. Burdick, Fargo PENNSYLVANIA Alfonse M. D'Amato, Island Park Mark Andrews, Mapleton SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE John Heinz, Pittsburgh William Carney, Hauppauge , Philadelphia Thomas J. Downey, West Islip Byron L. Dorgan, Bismarck Gregory W. Carman, Farmingdale REPRESENTATIVES Norman F. Lent, East Rockaway OHIO Thomas M. Foglietta, Philadelphia Raymond J. McGrath, Valley Stream SENATORS William (Bill) H. Gray Ill, John LeBoutillier, Westbury John Glenn, Columbus Philadelphia Joseph P. Addabbo, Ozone Park Howard M. Metzenbaum, Shaker Raymond F. Lederer,28 Philadelphia Benjamin S. Rosenthal, Elmhu ret Heights Joseph F. Smith,29 Philadelphia Geraldine Anne Ferraro, Forest Hills Charles F. Dougherty, Philadelphia REPRESENTATIVES Richard T. Schulze, Malvern Mario Biaggi, Bronx Willis D. Gradison, Jr., Cincinnati James H. Scheuer, Neponsit Gus Yatron, Reading Thomas A. Luken, Cincinnati Bob Edgar, Broomall Shirley Chisholm, Brooklyn Tony P. Hall, Dayton Stephen J. Solarz, Brooklyn James K. Coyne, Newtown Tennyson Guyer,24 Findley E.G. (Bud) Shuster, Everett Frederick W. Richmond,23 Brooklyn Michael G. Oxley,25 Findley Leo C. Zeferetti, Brooklyn Joseph M. McDade, Scranton Delbert L. Latta, Bowling Green James L. Nelligan, Forty-Fort Charles E. Schumer, Brooklyn Bob McEwen, Hillsboro Guy V. Molinari, Staten Island John P. Murtha, Johnstown Clarence J. Brown, Urbana Lawrence Coughlin, Villanova Bill Green, New York Thomas N. Kindness, Hamilton Charles B. Rangel, New York William J. Coyne, Pittsburgh , Toledo Don Ritter, Coopersburg Theodore S. Weiss, New York Clarence E. Miller, Lancaster Robert Garcia, Bronx Robert S. Walker, East Petersburg J. William Stanton, Painesville Allen E. Ertel, Montoursville Jonathan B. Bingham, Bronx , Columbus Peter A. Peyser, Irvington Doug Walgren, Pittsburgh Donald J. Pease, Oberlin William F. Goodling, Jacobus Richard L. Ottinger, Mamaro neck John F. Seiberling, Akron Hamilton Fish, Jr., Millbrook Joseph M. Gaydos, McKeesport Chalmers P. Wylie, Worthington Don Bailey, Greens burg Benjamin A. Gilman, Middletown Ralph S. Regula, Navarre Matthew F. McHugh, Ithaca Austin J. Murphy, Charleroi John M. Ashbrook,26 Johnstown William F. Clinger, Jr., Warren Samuel S. Stratton, Amsterdam Jean Ashbrook,27 Johnstown Gerald B. Solomon, Glens Falls Marc L. Marks, Sharon Douglas Applegate, Steubenville Eugene V. Atkinson, Aliquippa David O'B. Martin, Canton Lyle Williams, Warren Donald J. Mitchell, Herkimer Mary Rose Oakar, Cleveland RHODE ISLAND George C. Wortley, Fayetteville Louis Stokes, Cleveland Gary A. Lee, Dryden Dennis E. Eckart, Euclid SENATORS Frank Horton, Rochester Ronald M. Mottl, Parma Claiborne Pell, Newport Barber B. Conable, Jr., Alexander John H. Chafee, Warwick John J. LaFalce, Tonawanda OKLAHOMA REPRESENTATIVES Henry J. Nowak, Buffalo Jack Kemp, Hamburg SENATORS Fernand J. St Germain, Woonsocket , Jamestown David L. Boren, Seminole Claudine Schneider, Narragansett

' Elected June 29, 1982, to fill vacancy caused by death "Resjgned August 25, 1982; vacancy throughout re- ' Elected June 25, 1981, to fill vacancy caused by death of Tennyson (luyer, and took his seat July 21, 1981. of her husband, John M. Ashbrook, and took her seat July mainder of Congress. 12. 1982. 2Died April 12, 1981. Died April 24, 1982. Resigned April 29, 1981. ° Elected July 21, 1981, to fill vacancy caused by resi - nation of Raymond F. Lederer, and took his seat July 2 1981. 488 Biographical Directory

SOUTH CAROLINA Richard C. White, El Paso WEST VIRGINIA SENATORS Charles W. Stenholm, Stamford Mickey Leland, Houston SENATORS Strom Thurmond, Aiken Jennings Randolph, Elkins Ernest F. Hollings, Charleston Kent R. Hance, Lubbock Henry B. Gonzalez, San Antonio Robert C. Byrd, Sophia REPRESENTATIVES Tom Loeffler, Hunt REPRESENTATIVES Thomas F. Hartnett, Charleston Ronald E. Paul, Lake Jackson Robert H. Mollohan, Fairmont Floyd Spence, Lexington Abraham Kazen, Jr., Laredo , Lewisburg Butler Derrick, Edgefield Martin Frost, Dallas Mike Staton, South Charleston Carroll Campbell, Jr., Greenville Nick J. Rahall 2d, Beckley Kenneth L. Holland, Gaffney UTAH John L. Napier, Bennettsville SENATORS WISCONSIN SOUTH DAKOTA Jake Garn, Salt Lake City SENATORS SENATORS Orrin G. Hatch, Salt Lake City William Proxmire, Madison Larry Pressler, Humboldt REPRESENTATIVES Robert W. Kasten, Jr., Milwaukee James Abdnor, Kennebec James V. Hansen, Farmington REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES David D. Marriott, Salt Lake City Los Aspin, Racine Thomas A. Daschle, Aberdeen RObert W. Kastenmeier, Sun Prairie Clint Roberts, Presho VERMONT Steven Gunderson, Osseo SENATORS Clement J. Zablocki, Milwaukee TENNESSEE Henry S. Reuss, Milwaukee Robert T. Stafford, Rutland Thomas E. Petri, Fond du Lac SENATORS Patrick J. Leahy, Burlington David R. Obey, Wausau Howard H. Baker, Jr., Huntsville REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Toby A. Roth, Appleton James R. Sasser, Nashville James M. Jeffords, Montpelier F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., REPRESENTATIVES Shorewood James H. Quillen, Kingsport VIRGINIA John J. Duncan, Knoxville SENATORS WYOMING Marilyn Lloyd Bouquard, Chattanooga Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Winchester SENATORS Albert A. Gore, Jr., Carthage John W. Warner, Middleburg Malcolm Wallop, Big Horn William H. Boner, Nashville Alan K. Simpson, Cody Robin L. Beard, Franklin REPRESENTATIVES Ed Jones, Yorkville Paul S. Trible, Jr., Newport News REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Harold E. Ford, Memphis G. William Whitehurst, Norfolk Dick Cheney, Casper Thomas J. (Tom) Bliley, Jr., Richmond TEXAS Robert W. Daniel, Jr., Spring Cove AMERICAN SAMOA3° SENATORS W.C. (Dan) Daniel, Danville Fofo I.F. Sunia,31 Pago Pago John G. Tower, Wichita Falls M. Caldwell Butler, Roanoke Lloyd M. Bentsen, Houston J. Kenneth Robinson, Winchester COMMONWEALTH OF Stanford E. (Stan) Parris, Woodbridge PUERTO RICO REPRESENTATIVES William C. Wampler, Bristol Sam B. Hall, Jr., Marshall Frank R. Wolf, Falls Church RESIDENT COMMISSIONER Charles Wilson, Lufkin Baltasar Corrada, Rio Piedras James M. Collins, Dallas WASHINGTON Ralph M. Hall, Rockwall DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA James A. Mattox, Dallas SENATORS Henry M. Jackson, Everett DELEGATE Phil Grarnm, College Station Walter E. Fauntroy, Washington W.R. Archer, Houston Slade Gorton, Olympia , Humble REPRESENTATIVES GUAM Jack Brooks, Beaumont Joel Pritchard, Seattle J.J. (Jake) Pickle, Austin Al Swift, Bellingham DELEGATE J. Marvin Leath, Marlin Don Bonker, Ridgefield Antonio Borja Won Pat, Sinajana James C. Wright, Jr., Fort Worth Sid Morrison, Zillah Jack Hightower, Vernon Thomas S. Foley, Spokane VIRGIN ISLANDS William N. (Bill) Patman, Ganado Norman D. Dicks, Port Orchard DELEGATE E (Kika) de la Garza, Mission Mike Lowry, Seattle Ron de Lugo, St. Thomas

50Granted a delegate in Congress by Public Law 96-556, ' Elected November 4, 1980, and took his seat January October 31, 1978. 3, 1981. NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS JANUARY 3, 1983, TO JANUARY 3, 1985

FIRST SESSIONJanuary 3, 1983, to November 18, 1983 SECOND SESSIONJanuary 23, 1984,1to October 12, 1984

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATESGaoac BUSH, of Texas PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATESTROM THURMOND, of South Carolina SECRETARY OF THE SENATEWILLIAt F. HILDENBRAND, of Washington, D.C. SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE SENATEHOWARD S. LIEBENGOOD, of Virginia; LARRY E. SMrnI,2 of Virginia SPEAKER OF THE HOUSETHOMAS P. O'Ni, JR.,3 of Massachusetts CLERK OF THE HOUSEBENJAMIN J. GUTHRIE,3 of Virginia SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE HOUSEJACK Russ,3 of Maryland DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSEJAMES T MOLLOY,3 of New York POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSEROBERT V. ROTA,3 of Pennsylvania

ALABAMA Eldon D. Rudd, Scottsdale Tom Lantos, San Mateo James F. McNulty, Jr., Bisbee , Los Altos SENATORS Norman Y. Mineta, San Jose Howell T. Heflin, Tuscumbia ARKANSAS Norman D. Shumway, Stockton Jeremiah Denton, Mobile SENATORS Tony Coelho, Merced REPRESENTATIVES Dale Bumpers, Charleston Leon E. Panetta, Cannel Valley Jack Edwards, Mobile David H. Pryor, Camden Charles Pashayan, Jr., Fresno William L. Dickinson, Montgomery REPRESENTATIVES Richard H. Lehman, Sanger William Nichols, Sylacauga Robert J. Lagomarsino, Ventura Tom Bevill, Jasper Bill Alexander, Osceola William M. Thomas, Bakersfield Ronnie G. Flippo, Florence Ed Bethune, Searcy Bobbi Fiedler, Northridge Ben Erdreich, Birmingham John P. Hammerschmidt, Harrison Carlos J. Moorhead, Glendale Richard C. Shelby, Tuscaloosa Beryl F. Anthony, Jr., El Dorado Anthony C. Beilenson, Los Angeles Henry A. Waxman, Los Angeles ALASKA CALIFORNIA Edward R. Roybal, Los Angeles SENATORS SENATORS Howard L. Berman, Studio City Theodore F. Stevens, Anchorage Alan Cranston, Los Angeles Mel Levine, Santa Monica Frank H. Murkowski, Fairbanks , San Diego Julian C. Dixon, Los Angeles REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Augustus F. Hawkins, Los Angeles Matthew G. Martinez, Monterey Park Don Young, Fort Yukon Douglas H. Bosco, Occidental Eugene A. Chappie, Roseville Mervyn M. Dymally, Compton Glenn M. Anderson, San Pedro ARIZONA Robert T. Matsui, Sacramento Vic Fazio, Sacramento Dave Dreier, La Verna SENATORS Phillip Burton,4 San Francisco Esteban Edward Torres, La Puente Barry Goldwater, Scottsdale Sala Burton,5 San Francisco Jerry Lewis, San Bernadino Dennis DeConcini, Tucson , Greenbrae George E. Brown, Jr., Riverside REPRESENTATIVES George Miller, Martinez Alfred A. (Al) McCandless, Palm John McCain, Tempe Ronald V. Dellums, Berkeley Desert Morris K. Udall, Tucson Fortney H. (Pete) Stark, Oakland Jerry M. Patterson, Santa Ana Bob Stump, Tolleson Don Edwards, San Jose William E. Dannemeyer, Fullerton

By joint resolution (Pub. Law 98-179, 98th Cong., 1st 'Elected September 12, 1983. Elected June 21, 1983, to fill vacancy caused by death seas.), the date of assembling the second session of the Reelected January 3, 1983. of her husband, Phillip Burton, and took her seat June 28, Ninety-eighth Congress was fixed for January 23, 1984. Died April 10, 1983. 1983.

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CALIFORNIAContinued Tom Lewis, North Palm Beach John Edward Porter, Winnetka REPRESENTATIVESCONTINUED Connie Mack, Cape Coral Frank Annunzio, Chicago Daniel A. Mica, West Palm Beach Philip M. Crane, Mount Prospect Robert E. Badhain, Newport Beach Clay Shaw, Fort Lauderdale John N. Erlenborn, Glen Ellyn Bill Lowery, San Diego Lawrence J. Smith, Hollywood Tom Corcoran," Ottawa Daniel E. Lungren, Long Beach William Lehman, North Miami Beach Edward R. Madigan, Lincoln Ron Packard, Carlsbad Claude Pepper, Miami Lynn Martin, Rockford Jim Bates, San Diego Dante B. Fascell, Miami Lane A. Evans, Rock Island Duncan L. Hunter, Coronado Robert H. Michel, Peoria GEORGIA Daniel B. Crane, Danville COLORADO SENATORS Richard J. Durbin, Springfield SENATORS Sam Nunn, Perry Melvin Price, East St. Louis Gary Hart, Denver Mack Mattingly, St. Simons Island Paul Simon, Carbondale William L. Armstrong, Aurora REPRESENTATIVES INDIANA REPRESENTATIVES Robert Lindsay Thomas, Screven Patricia Schroeder, Denver Charles Hatcher, Albany SENATORS Timothy E. Wirth, Denver Richard Ray, Perry Richard G. Lugar, Indianapolis Raymond P. Kogovsek, Pueblo Elliot H. Levitas, Atlanta Dan Quayle, Huntington Hank Brown, Greeley Wyche Fowler, Jr., Atlanta REPRESENTATWES Kenneth B. Kramer, Colorado Springs Newt Gingrich, Carroliton Katie Hall, Gary Dan Schaefer,6 Lakewood Larry McDonald,7 Marietta Philip R. Sharp, Muncie George (Buddy) Darden,8 Marietta John Patrick Hiler, La Porte CONNECTICUT J. Roy Rowland, Dublin Dan R. Coats, Fort Wayne SENATORS Edgar L. Jenkins, Jasper Elwood Hillis, Kokomo Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Stonington Doug Barnard, Jr., Augusta , Indianapolis Christopher J. Dodd, North Stonington John T. Myers, Covington REPRESENTATIVES HAWAII Frank McCloskey, Bloomington Barbara B. Kennelly, Hartford SENATORS Lee H. Hamilton, Nashville Samuel Gejdenson, Bozrah Daniel K. Inouye, Honolulu Andrew Jacobs, Jr., Indianapolis Bruce A. Morrison, Hamden Spark M. Matsunaga, Honolulu Stewart B. McKinney, Westport REPRESENTATIVES IOWA William R. Ratchford, Danbury Cecil Heftel, Honolulu SENATORS Nancy L. Johnson, New Britain Daniel K. Akaka, Honolulu Roger W. Jepsen, Davenport Charles E. Grassley, New Hartford DELAWARE IDAHO REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS SENATORS Jim Leach, Davenport William V. Roth, Jr., Wilmington James A. McClure, Payette Thomas J. Tauke, Dubuque Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Wilmington Steve Symms, Boise Cooper Evans, Grundy Center REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE REPRESENTATIVES Neal Smith, Altoona Thomas R. Carper, New Castle Larry Craig, Midvale Tom Harkin, Ames George Hansen, Pocatcllo Berkley Bedell, Spirit Lake FLORIDA KANSAS SENATORS ILLINOIS SENATORS Lawton Chiles, Lakeland SENATORS Paula Hawkins, Winter Park Charles H. Percy, Wilmette Bob Dole, Russell Nancy L. Kassebaum, Wichita REPRESENTATIVES Alan J. Dixon, Belleville REPRESENTATIVES Earl Hutto, Panama City REPRESENTATIVES Don Fuqua, Altha Harold Washington,9 Chicago Pat Roberts, Dodge City Charles E. Bennett, Jacksonville Charles A. 0 Chicago , Topeka Bill Chappell, Jr., Ocala Gus Savage, Chicago Larry Winn, Jr., Overland Park Bill McCollum, Altamonte Springs Marty Russo, Chicago Dan Glickman, Wichita Buddy MacKay, Ocala George M. O'Brien, Joliet Bob Whittaker, Augusta Sam M. Gibbons, Tampa William 0. Lipinski, Chicago C.W. Bill Young, St. Petersburg Henry J. Hyde, Bensenville KENTUCKY , Palm Harbor Cardiss Collins, Chicago SENATORS Andy Ireland, Winter Haven Dan Rostenkowski, Chicago Walter D. Huddleston, Elizabethtown Bill Nelson, Melbourne Sidney R. Yates, Chicago Wendell H. Ford, Owensboro

o Elected March 29, 1983, to fill vacancy caused by death Elected November 8, 1983, to fill vacancy caused by °°Elected August 23, 1983, to fill vacancy caused by of Representative-elect John L. (Jack) Swigert, and took death of Larry McDonald, and took his seat November 10, resignation of Harold Washington, and took his seat Sep- his seat April 7, 1983. 1983. tember 12, 1983. Died September 1, 1983. Resigned April 30, 1983. "Resigned November 28, 1984; vacancy throughout re-- mainder of Congress. Ninety-Eighth Congress 491

REPRESENTATIVES Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Cambridge Robert A. Young, St. Ann Carroll Hubbard, Jr., Mayfield John Joseph Moakley, Boston Richard A. Gephardt, St. Louis William H. Natcher, Bowling Green Gerry E. Studds, Cohasset Ike Skelton, Lexington Romano L. Mazzoli, Louisville Brian J. Donnelly, Dorchester Alan D. Wheat, Kansas City M.G. (Gene) Snyder, Brownsboro E. Thomas Coleman, Kansas City Farms MICHIGAN Gene Taylor, Sarcoxie Harold Rogers, Somerset SENATORS Bill Emerson, Cape Girardeau Harold L. Volkmer, Hannibal Larry J. Hopkins, Lexington Donald W. Riegle, Jr., Flint Carl D. Perkins,12 Hi nd man Carl Levin, Detroit MONTANA Carl C. Perkins,'3 Leburn REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS LOUISIANA John Conyers, Jr., Detroit Carl Duane Pursell, Plymouth John Meicher, Forsyth SENATORS Howard E. Wolpe, Lansing Max Baucus, Missoula Russell B. Long, Baton Rouge Mark D. Siljander, Three Rivers REPRESENTATIVES J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., Shreveport Harold S. Sawyer, Rockford Pat Williams, Helena REPRESENTATIVES Bob Carr, East Lansing Ron Marlenee, Scobey Robert L. Livingston, New Orleans Dale E. Kildee, Flint Corinne C. (Lindy) Boggs, New Orleans Bob Traxier, Bay City NEBRASKA W.J. (Billy) Tauzin, Thibodaux Guy Vander Jagt, Luther SENATORS Charles Roemer, Bossier City Donald J. Albosta, St. Charles Edward Zorunsky, Omaha Thomas J. (Jerry) Huckaby, Ringgold Robert W. Davis, Gaylord J. James Exon, Lincoln David E. Bonior, Mount Clemens W. Henson Moore, Baton Rouge REPRESENTATIVES John B. Breaux, Crowley George W. Crockett, Jr., Detroit Gillis W. Long, Alexandria Dennis M. Hertel, Detroit , Utica William D. Ford, Taylor Hal Daub, Omaha MAINE John D. Dingell, Trenton Virginia Smith, Chappell Sander M. Levin, Southfield SENATORS NEVADA William S. Cohen, Bangor William S. Broomfield, Birmingham George J. Mitchell, Portland SENATORS MINNESOTA Paul Laxalt, Carson City REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Chic Hecht, Las Vegas John R. McKernan, Cumberland REPRESENTATIVES Olympia J. Snowe, Auburn David F. Durenberger, Minneapolis Rudy Boschwitz, Plymouth Harry M. Reid, Las Vegas MARYLAND REPRESENTATIVES Barbara F. Vucanovich, Reno Timothy J. Penny, New Richland SENATORS NEW HAMPSHIRE Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Frederick Viii Weber, St. Cloud Paul S. Sarbanes, Baltimore Bill Frenzel, Golden Valley SENATORS Bruce F. Vento, St. Paul Gordon J. Humphrey, Sunapee REPRESENTATIVES Martin 0. Sabo, Minneapolis Warren B. Rudman, Nashua Roy Dyson, Great Mills Gerry E. Sikorski, Stillwater REPRESENTATIVES Clarence D. Long, Ruxton Arlan Stangeland, Barnesville Barbara A. Mikulski, Baltimore James L. Oberstar, Chisholm Norman E. D'Amours, Manchester Marjorie S. Holt, Severna Park Judd Gregg, Greenfield Steny H. Hoyer, Berkshire MISSISSIPPI NEW JERSEY Beverly B. Byron, Frederick SENATORS SENATORS Parren J. Mitchell, Baltimore John C. Stennis, Be Kalb Michael D. Barnes, Kensington Thad Cochran, Jackson Bill Bradley, Denville Frank R. Lautenberg, Montclair REPRESENTATIVES MASSACHUSETTS REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Jamie L. Whitten, Charleston William W. Franklin, Greenwood James J. Florio, Pine Hill Edward M. Kennedy, Boston G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery, Meridian William J. Hughes, Ocean City Paul E. Tsongas,'4 Lowell Wayne Dowdy, Summit James J. Howard, Spring Lake Heights John F. Kerry,'5 Boston Trent Lott, Pascagoula Christopher H. Smith, Old Bridge REPRESENTATIVES Marge Roukema, Ridgewood Silvio 0. Conte, Pittsfield MISSOURI Bernard J. Dwyer, Edison Matthew J. Rinaldo, Union Edward P. Boland, Springfield SENATORS Joseph D. Early, Worcester Robert A. Roe, Wayne Thomas F. Eagleton, St. Louis Robert G. Torricelli, New Milford Barney Frank, Newton John C. Danforth, Flat James M. Shannon, Lawrence Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Newark Nicholas Mavroules, Peabody REPRESENTATIVES Joseph G. Minish, West Orange Edward J. Markey, Malden William L. Clay, St. Louis James A. Courter, Hackettstown

"Elected November 6, 1986, to fill vacancy caused by 'Resigned January 2, 1985. Died August 3, 1984. death of his father, Carl 0. Perkins, but was unable to be IC Appointed and took his seat on January 2, 1985 to fill sworn in as Congress was not in session. vacancy caused by resignation of Paul E. Tsongas. 492 Biographical Directory

NEW JERSEYContinued John P. East, Greenville OREGON REPRESENTATIVESCONTINUED REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Edwin B. Forsythe,16 Moorestown Walter B. Jones, Farmville Mark 0. Hatfield, Salem H. James Saxton,'T Vincentown Tim Valentine, Nashville Bob Packwood, Portland Frank J. Guarini, Jersey City Charles 0. Whitley, Sr., Mount Olive REPRESENTATIVES Ike Andrews, Siler City Los AuCoin, Forest Grove NEW MEXICO Stephen L. Neal, Winston-Salem Robin Britt, Greensboro Robert F. Smith, Burns SENATORS Charlie Rose, Fayetteville Ron Wyden, Portland Pete V. Domenici, Albuquerque W.G. (Bill) Hefner, Concord James Weaver, Eugene Jeff Bingaman, Santa Fe James G. Martin, Davideon Denny Smith, Salem REPRESENTATIVES James T. Broyhill, Lenoir Manuel Lujan, Jr., Albuquerque James McC. Clarke, Fairview PENNSYLVANIA Joe Skeen, Picacho SENATORS William B. Richardson, Santa Fe NORTH DAKOTA John Heinz, Pittsburgh Arlen Specter, Philadelphia NEW YORK SENATORS Quentin N. Burdick, Fargo REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Mark Andrews, Mapleton Thomas M. Foglietta, Philadelphia , Pindars William (Bill) H. Gray III, Corners REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Philadelphia Alfonse M. D'Amato, Island Park Byron L. Dorgan, Bismarck Robert A. Borski, Jr., Philadelphia REPRESENTATIVES Joseph P. Kolter, New Brighton William Carney, Hauppauge OHIO Richard T. Schulze, Malvern Thomas J. Downey, West Islip SENATORS Gus Yatron, Reading Robert J. Mrazek, Huntington John Glenn, Columbus Bob Edgar, Broomall Norman F. Lent, East Rockaway Howard M. Metzenbaum, Shaker Peter H. Kostmayer, New Hope Raymond J. McGrath, Valley Stream Heights , Everett Joseph P. Addabbo, Ozone Park Joseph M. McDade, Scranton REPRESENTATIVES Frank Harrison, Wilkes-Barre Benjamin S. Rosenthal,'8 Elrnhurst Thomas A. Luken, Cincinnati Gary L. Ackerman,19 Flushing John P. Murtha, Johnstown Willis D. Gradison, Jr., Cincinnati Lawrence Coughlin, Villanova James H. Scheuer, Neponsit Tony P. Hall, Dayton Geraldine A. Ferraro, Forest Hill-s William J. Coyne, Pittsburgh Michael G. Oxley, Findley Don Ritter, Coopers burg Garden Delbert L. Latta, Bowling Green Charles E. Schumer, Brooklyn Robert S. Walker, East Petersburg Bob McEwen, Hills boro George W. Gekas, Harrisburg , Brooklyn Michael DeWine, Cedarville Major R. Owens, Brooklyn Doug Walgren, Pittsburgh Thomas N. Kindness, Hamilton William F. Goodling, Jacobus Stephen J. Solarz, Brooklyn , Toledo Guy V. Molinari, Staten Island Joseph M. Gaydos, McKeesport Clarence E. Miller, Lancaster Thomas J. Ridge, Erie Bill Green, New York Dennis E. Eckart, Concord Township Charles B. Range!, New York Austin J. Murphy, Charleroi John R. Kasich, Westeroille William F. Clinger, Jr., Warren Ted Weiss, New York Donald J. Pease, Oberlin Robert Garcia, Bronx John F. Seiberling, Akron RHODE ISLAND Mario Biaggi, Bronx Chalmers P. Wylie, Worthington Richard L. Ottinger, Mamaroneck , Navarre SENATORS Hamilton Fish, Jr., Milibrook Lyle Williams, Warren Claiborne Pell, Newport Benjamin A. Gilman, Middletown Douglas Applegate, Steubenville John H. Chafee, Warwick Samuel S. Stratton, Amsterdam Edward F. Feighan, Cleveland REPRESENTATIVES Gerald B. Solomon, Glens Falls Mary Rose Oakar, Cleveland Fernand J. St Germain, Woonsocket Sherwood L. Boehlert, New Hartford Louis Stokes, Cleveland David O'B. Martin, Canton Claudine Schneider, Narragansett George C. Wortley, Fayetteville Matthew F. McHugh, Ithaca OKLAHOMA SOUTH CAROLINA Frank Horton, Rochester SENATORS SENATORS Barber B. Conable, Jr., Alexander David L. Boren, Seminole Strom Thurmond, Aiken Jack Kemp, Hamburg Don Nickles, Ponca City Ernest F. Hollings, Charleston John J. LaFalce, Tonawanda REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Henry J. Nowak, Buffalo James R. Jones, Tulsa Thomas F. Hartnett, Charleston Stan Lundine, Jamestown Mike Synar, Muskogee Floyd Spence, Lexington Wes Watkins, Ada Butler Derrick, Edgefield NORTH CAROLINA Dave McCurdy, Norman Carroll C. Campbell, Jr., Fountain Inn SENATORS Mickey Edwards, Oklahoma City John McK. Spratt, Jr., York Jesse Helms, Raleigh Glenn English, Cordell Robert M. (Robin) Tallon, Florence

Died March 29, 1984. 'Elected November 6, 1984, to fill the vacancy caused 18Died January 4, 1983. by death of Edwin B. Forsythe, but was unable to be '° Elected March 1, 1983, to fill vacancy caused by death sworn in as Congress was not in session. of Benjamin S. Rosenthal, and took his seat March 2, 1983. Ninety-Eighth Congress 493

SOUTH DAKOTA Solomon P. Ortiz, Corpus Christie Robert C. Byrd, Sophia REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS UTAH Larry Pressler, Humboldt Alan B. Mollohan, Fairmont James Abdnor, Kennebec SENATORS Harley 0. Staggers, Jr., Keyser Edwin Jacob (Jake) Garn, Salt Lake REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Robert E. Wise, Jr., Charleston City Nick J. Rahall 2d, Beckley Thomas A. Daschle, Aberdeen Orrin G. Hatch, Salt Lake City TENNESSEE REPRESENTATIVES WISCONSIN James V. Hansen, Farmington SENATORS SENATORS David D. Marriott, Salt Lake City William Proxmire, Madison Howard H. Baker, Jr., Huntsville Howard C. Nielson, Provo Jim Sasser, Nashville Robert W. Kasten, Jr., Milwaukee REPRESENTATIVES VERMONT REPRESENTATIVES James H. Quillen, Kingsport SENATORS Los Aspin, Racine John J. Duncan, Knoxville Robert T. Stafford, Rutland Robert W. Kastenmeier, Sun Prairie Marilyn Lloyd Bouquard, Chattanooga Patrick J. Leahy, Burlington Steven Gunderson, Osseo James Cooper, Shelbyville REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Clement J. Zablocki,23 Milwaukee Gerald D. Kleczka,24 Milwaukee William H. Boner, Nashville James M. Jeffords, Montpelier Albert Gore, Jr., Carthage Jim Moody, Milwaukee Donald K. Sundquist, Memphis E. Petri, Fond du Lac Ed Jones, Yorkville David R. Obey, Wausau Harold E. Ford, Memphis SENATORS , Appleton John W. Warner, Middleburg F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., TEXAS Paul S. Trible, Jr., Newport News Shorewood SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES John G. Tower, Wichita Falls Herbert H. Bateman, Yorktown WYOMING Lloyd M. Bentsen, Houston G. William Whitehurst, Norfolk SENATORS Thomas J. Bliley, Jr., Richmond REPRESENTATIVES Malcolm Wallop, Big Horn Norman Sisisky, Petersburg Alan K. Simpson, Cody Sam B Hall, Jr., Marshall Dan Daniel, Danville Charles Wilson, Lufkin James R. Olin, Roanoke REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE , Dallas J. Kenneth Robinson, Winchester Dick Cheney, Casper Ralph M. Hall, Rockwall Stanford E. (Stan) Parris, Woodbridge John W. Bryant, Dallas Frederick C. Boucher, Abington AMERICAN SAMOA Phil Gramm,2° College Station Frank R. Wolf, Falls Church Bill Archer, Houston Fofo I.F. Sunia, Pago Pago Jack Fields, Humble WASHINGTON COMMONWEALTH OF Jack Brooks, Beaumont SENATORS PUERTO RICO J.J. (Jake) Pickle, Austin Henry M. Jackson,2' Everett Marvin Leath, Marlin Daniel J. Evans,22 Seattle RESIDENT COMMISSIONER James C. Wright, Jr., Fort Worth Slade Gorton, Olympia Baltasar Corrada, Rio Piedras Jack Hightower, Vernon William N. (Bill) Patman, Ganado REPRESENTATIVES DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA E (Kika) de la Garza, Mission Joel Pritchard, Seattle Ronald Coleman, El Paso Al Swift, Bellingham DELEGATE Charles W. Stenhoim, Stamford Don Bonker, Ridgefield Walter E. Fauntroy, Washington, D.C. Mickey Leland, Houston Sid Morrison, Zillah Kent R. Hance, Lubbock Thomas S. Foley, Spokane GUAM Henry B. Gonzalez, San Antonio Norman D. Dicks, Port Orchard DELEGATE Tom Loeffler, Hunt Mike Lowry, Seattle Antonio B. Won Pat, Sinajana Ron Paul, Lake Jackson Rod D. Chandler, Redmond Abraham Kazen, Jr., Laredo VIRGIN ISLANDS Martin Frost, Dallas WEST VIRGINIA Michael A. Andrews, Houston SENATORS DELEGATE Tommy J. Vandergriff, Arlington Jennings Randolph, Elkins Ron de Lugo, St. Thomas

"Died September 1, 1983. 22Appointed September 8, 1983, to fill vacancy caused Resigned January 5, 1983, changed political parties by death of Henry M. Jackson, and took his seat Septem- and reelected February 12, 1983, and took his seat Febru- ber 12, 1983; subsequently elected. ary 22, 1983. "Died December 3, 1983. 22Elected April 3, 1984, to fill vacancy caused by death of Clement J. Zablocki, and took his seat April 10, 1984. NINETY-NINTH CONGRESS JANUARY 3, 1985, TO JANUARY 3, 1987

FIRST SESSIONJanuaiy 3, 1985, to December 20, 1985 SECOND SESSIONJanuwy 21, 1986,'to October 18, 1986

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATESGEORGE BUSH, of Texas PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATESTROM THURMOND,' of South Carolina SECRETARY OF THE SENATEJo-ANNE L. COE,2 of Virginia SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE SENATELARRy E. SMITH,3 of Virginia; ERNEST GARCIA,4 of Kansas SPEAKER OF THE HOUSETHOMAS P. O'NEILL, JR.,1 of Massachusetts CLERK OF THE HOUSEBENJAMIN J. GUTHRIE,' of Virginia SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE HOUSEJAcK Russ,' of Maryland DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSEhalEs T MOLLOY,' of New York POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSEROBERT V. ROTA,' of Pennsylvania

ALABAMA ARKANSAS Charles Pashayan, Jr., Fresno SENATORS SENATORS Richard H. Lehman, Sanger Howell T. Heflin, Tuscumbia Dale Bumpers, Charleston Robert J. Lagomarsino, Ventura Jeremiah Denton, Mobile David H. Pryor, Little Rock William M. Thomas, Bakersfield REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Bobbi Fiedler, Northridge H.L. (Sonny) Callahan, Mobile Bill Alexander, Osceola Carlos J. Moorhead, Glendale William L. Dickinson, Montgomery Tommy Robinson, Jacksonville Anthony C. Beilenson, Los Angeles Bill Nichols, Sylacauga John P. Hammerschmidt, Harrison Henry A. Waxman, Los Angeles Tom Bevill, Jasper Beryl F. Anthony, Jr., El Dorado Edward R. Roybal, Los Angeles Ronnie G. Flippo, Florence Howard L. Berman, Panorama City Ben Erdreich, Birmingham CALIFORNIA Mel Levine, Los Angeles Richard C. Shelby, Tuscaloosa SENATORS Julian C. Dixon, Los Angeles Alan Cranston, Los Angeles Augustus F. (Gus) Hawkins, Los ALASKA Pete Wilson, San Diego Angeles SENATORS Matthew G. Martinez, Montebello REPRESENTATIVES Mervyn M. Dymally, Compton Ted Stevens, Anchorage Douglas H. Bosco, Occidental Frank H. Murkowski, Fairbanks Glenn M. Anderson, San Pedro Eugene A. Chappie, Chico Dave Dreier, La Verna REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Robert T. Matsui, Sacramento Esteban Edward Torres, La Puente Don Young, Fort Yukon Vic Fazio, Sacramento Sala Burton, San Francisco Jerry Lewis, Redlande ARIZONA Barbara Boxer, Greenbrae George E. Brown, Jr., Riverside George Miller, Martinez Alfred A. (Al) McCandless, Bermuda SENATORS Dunes Barry Goldwater, Scottsdale Ronald V. Dellums, Oakland Fortney H. (Pete) Stark, Oakland Robert K. (Bob) Dornan, Garden Grove Dennis DeConcini, Tucson Don Edwards, San Jose William E. Dannemeyer, Fullerton REPRESENTATIVES Tom Lantos, San Mateo Robert E. Badham, Newport Beach John S. McCain III, Tempe Ed Zschau, Los Altos Bill Lowery, San Diego Morris K. Udall, Tucson Norman Y. Mineta, San Jose Daniel E. Lungren, Long Beach Bob Stump, Tolleson Norman D. Shumway, Stockton Ron Packard, Carlsbad Eldon D. Rudd, Scottsdale Tony Coelho, Merced Jim Bates, San Diego Jun Kolbe, Bisbee Leon E. Panetta, Carmel Valley Duncan L. Hunter, Coronado

'By joint resolution (Pub. Law 99-233, 99th Cong., 1st Reelected January 3, 1985. Elected May 16, 1985. sess.), the date of assembling the second session of the Resigned June 3, 1985. Ninety-ninth Congress was fixed for January 21, 1986.

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COLORADO Mack Mattingly, St. Simons Island Dan Quayle, Huntington SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Gary Hart, Denver Lindsay Thomas, Statesboro Peter J. Visciosky, Merrillville William L. Armstrong, Aurora Charles Hatcher, Albany Philip R. Sharp, Muncie Richard Ray, Perry John Patrick Hiler, La Porte REPRESENTATIVES Pat Swindall, Dunwoody Dan R. Coats, Fort Wayne Patricia Schroeder, Denver Wyche Fowler, Jr., Atlanta Elwood Hillis, Kokomo Timothy E. Wirth, Boulder Newt Gingrich, Jonesboro Dan Burton, Indianapolis Michael L. Strang, Carbondale George (Buddy) Darden, Marietta John T. Myers, Covington Hank Brown Greeley J. Roy Rowland, Dublin Frank McCloskey,9 Bloomington Kenneth B. Kramer, Colorado Springs Edgar L. Jenkins, Jasper Lee H. Hamilton, Nashville Dan Schaefer, Lakewood Doug Barnard, Jr., Augusta Andrew Jacobs, Jr., Indianapolis CONNECTICUT HAWAII IOWA SENATORS SENATORS SENATORS Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Greenwich Daniel K. Inouye, Honolulu Spark M. Matsunaga, Honolulu Charles E. Grassley, New Hartford Christopher J. Dodd, East Haddam Tom Harkin, Cumming REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Barbara B. Kennelly, Hartford Cecil Heftel,5 Honolulu Samuel Gejdenson, Bozrah ,6 Honolulu Jim Leach, Davenport Bruce A. Morrison, Hamden Daniel K. Akaka, Honolulu Thomas J. Tauke, Dubuque Stewart B. McKinney, Green Farms Cooper Evans, Grundy Center John G. Rowland, Waterbury IDAHO Neal Smith, Altoona Nancy L. Johnson, New Britain SENATORS , Shenandoah James A. McClure, McCall Berkley Bedell, Spirit Lake DELAWARE Steve Symms, Caldwell KANSAS SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES William V. Roth, Jr., Wilmington Larry Craig, Midvale SENATORS Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Wilmington Richard Stallings, Rexburg Bob Dole, Russell Nancy L. Kassebaum, Wichita REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE ILLINOIS Thomas R. Carper, New Castle REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Pat Roberts, Dodge City FLORIDA Alan J. Dixon, Belleville Jim Slattery, Topeka SENATORS Paul Simon, Makanda , Overland Park REPRESENTATIVES Dan Glickman, Wichita Lawton Chiles, Lakeland Bob Whittaker, Augusta Paula Hawkins, Winter Park Charles A. Hayes, Chicago Gus Savage, Chicago REPRESENTATIVES Marty Russo, South Holland KENTUCKY Earl Hutto, Panama City George M. O'Brien,7 Joliet SENATORS Don Fuqua, Altha William 0. Lipinski, Chicago Charles E. Bennett, Jacksonville Wendell H. Ford, Owens boro Henry J. Hyde, Bensenville Mitch McConnell, Louisville Bill Chappell, Jr., Ocala Cardiss Collins, Chicago Bill McCollum, Altamonte Springs Dan Rostenkowski, Chicago REPRESENTATIVES Buddy MacKay, Ocala Sidney R. Yates, Chicago Carroll Hubbard, Jr., Mayfield Sam M. Gibbons, Tampa John Edward Porter, Winnetka William H. Natcher, Bowling Green C.W. Bill Young, St. Petersburg Frank Annunzio, Chicago Romano L. Mazzoli, Louisville Michael Biirakis, Palm Harbor Philip M. Crane, Mount Prospect M.G. (Gene) Snyder, Brownsboro Andy Ireland, Winter Haven Harris W. Fawell, Naperville Farms Bill Nelson, Melbourne John E. Grotberg,8 St. Charles Harold Rogers, Somerset Tom Lewis, North Palm Beach Edward R. Madigan, Lincoln Larry J. Hopkins, Lexington Connie Mack, Cape Coral Lynn Martin, Rockford Carl C. Perkins, Leburn Daniel A. Mica, Lake Worth Lane A. Evans, Rock Island Clay Shaw, Fort Lauderdale Robert H. Michel, Peoria LOUISIANA Lawrence J. Smith, Hollywood Terry L. Bruce, Olney SENATORS William Lehman, Biscayne Park Richard J. Durbin, Springfield Claude Pepper, Miami Melvin Price, East St. Louis Russell B. Long, Baton Rouge Dante B. Fascell, Miami Kenneth J. Gray, West Frankfort J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., Shreveport REPRESENTATIVES GEORGIA INDIANA Robert L. Livingston, Metairie SENATORS SENATORS Corinne C. (Lindy) Boggs, New Orleans Sam Nunn, Perry Richard G. Lugar, Indianapolis W.J. (Billy) Tauzin, Thibodaux

'Elected September 20, 1986, to fill vacancy caused by Died July 27, 1986; vacancy throughout remainder of Resigned July 11, 1986. Congress. resignation of Cecil Heftel, and took his seat September 'Died November 15, 1986; vacancy throughout remain- 23, 1986. der of Congress. Pursuant to House Resolution 146, the House seated the Democratic candidate of the November 6, 1984 elec- tion. 496 Biographical Directory

LOUISIANAContinued Bill Schuette, Sanford Hal Daub, Omaha Robert W. Davis, Gaylord Virginia Smith, Chappell REPRESENTATIVESCONTINUED David E. Bonior, Mount Clemens Charles Roemer, Bossier City George W. Crockett, Jr., Detroit NEVADA Thomas J. (Jerry) Huckaby, Ringgold Dennis M. Hertel, Harper Woods W. Henson Moore, Baton Rouge William D. Ford, Taylor SENATORS John B. Breaux, Crowley John D. Dingell, Trenton Paul Laxalt, Carson City Gihis W. Long,'° Alexandria Sander M. Levin, Southfield Chic Hecht, Las Vegas Cathy (Mrs. Gfflis) Long," Alexandria William S. Broomfield, Birmingham REPRESENTATIVES MINNESOTA Harry M. Reid, Las Vegas MAINE Barbara F. Vucanovich, Reno SENATORS SENATORS William S. Cohen, Bangor David F. Durenberger, Minneapolis NEW HAMPSHIRE George J. Mitchell, Portland Rudy Boschwitz, Plymouth SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES John R. McKernan, Cumberland Timothy J. Penny, New Richland Gordon J. Humphrey, Chichester Olympia J. Snowe, Auburn Yin Weber, North Mankato Warren B. Rudman, Nashua Bill Frenzel, Golden Valley REPRESENTATIVES MARYLAND Bruce F. Vento, St. Paul Martin 0. Sabo, Minneapolis RObert C. Smith, Tuftonboro SENATORS Gerry E. Sikorski, Stiliwater Judd Gregg, Greenfield Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Frederick Arlan Stangeland, Barnesville Paul S. Sarbanes, Baltimore James L. Oberstar, Chisholm NEW JERSEY REPRESENTATWES SENATORS Roy Dyson, Great Mills MISSISSIPPI Bill Bradley, Denville Helen Delich Bentley, Lutherville SENATORS Frank R. Lautenberg, Montclair Barbara A. Mikulski, Baltimore John C. Stennis, De Kaib Marjorie S. Holt, Severna Park Thad Cochran, Jackson REPRESENTATIVES Steny H. Hoyer, Berkshire REPRESENTATIVES James J. Florio, Pine Hill Beverly B. Byron, Frederick Jamie L. Whitten, Charleston William J. Hughes, Ocean City Parren J. Mitchell, Baltimore William W. Franklin, Greenwood James J. Howard, Spring Lake Heights Michael D. Barnes, Kensington G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery, Meridian Christopher H. Smith, Hamilton Wayne Dowdy, Summit Marge Roukema, Ridgewood MASSACHUSETTS Trent Lott, Pascagoula Bernard J. Dwyer, Edison SENATORS Matthew J. Rinaldo, Union MISSOURI Robert A. Roe, Wayne Edward M. Kennedy, Boston Robert G. Torricelli, Hackensack John F. Kerry, Boston SENATORS Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Newark REPRESENTATIVES Thomas F. Eagleton, St. Louis Dean A. Gallo, Parsippany Silvio 0. Conte, Pittsfield John C. Danforth, Newburg James A. Courter, Hackettstown Edward P. Boland, Springfield REPRESENTATIVES H. James Sexton, Vincentown Joseph D. Early, Worcester William L. Clay, St. Louis Frank J. Guarini, Jersey City Barney Frank, Newton Robert A. Young, Maryland Heights Chester G. Atkins, Concord Richard A. Gephardt, St. Louis NEW MEXICO Nicholas Mavroules, Peabody Ike Skelton, Lexington Edward J. Markey, Maiden Alan D. Wheat, Kansas City SENATORS Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Cambridge E. Thomas Coleman, Kansas City Pete V. Domenici, Albuquerque John Joseph Moakley, Boston Gene Taylor, Sarcoxie Jeff Bingaman, Santa Fe Gerry E. Studds, Cohasset Bill Emerson, Cape Girardeau Harold L. Volkmer, Hannibal REPRESENTATIVES Brian J. Donnelly, Dorchester Manuel Lujan, Jr., Albuquerque MONTANA Joe Skeen, Picacho MICHIGAN William B. Richardson, Santa Fe SENATORS SENATORS Donald W. Riegle, Jr., Flint John Melcher, Forsyth NEW YORK Carl Levin, Detroit Max Baucus, Missoula REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Pindars John Conyers, Jr., Detroit Pat Williams, Helena Ron Marlenee, Scobey Corners Carl Duane Pursell, Plymouth Alfonse M. D'Amato, Island Park Howard E. Wolpe, Lansing NEBRASKA Mark D. Siljander, Three Rivers REPRESENTATIVES Paul B. Henry, Grand Rapids SENATORS William Carney, Hauppauge Bob Carr, Okemos Edward Zorinsky, Omaha Thomas J. Downey, West Islip Dale E. Kildee, Flint J. James Exon, Lincoln Robert J. Mrazek, Huntington Bob Traxler, Bay City REPRESENTATIVES Norman F. Lent, East Rockaway Guy Vander Jagt, Luther Doug Bereuter, Utica Raymond J. McGrath, Valley Stream

'° Died January20, 1985. "Elected March30, 1985, tofill vacancy caused by death of her husband,Gulls W.Long, and took her seat April4, 1985. Ninety-Ninth Congress 497

Joseph P. Addabbo,'2 Ozone Park OHIO Robert A. Borski, Jr., Philadelphia Joseph P. Kolter, New Brighton Alton R. Waldon, Jr.,'8 Cambria SENATORS Heights Richard T. Schulze, Berwyn John Glenn, Columbus Gus Yatron, Reading Gary L. Ackerman, Queens Howard M. Metzenbaum, Lyndhurst James H. Scheuer, Douglaston Bob Edgar, Middletown Thomas J. Manton, Queens REPRESENTATIVES Peter H. Kostmayer, Solebury Charles E. Schumer, Brooklyn Thomas A. Luken, Cincinnati Bud Shuster, Everett Edoiphus Towns, Brooklyn Willis D. Gradison, Jr., Cincinnati Joseph M. McDade, Scranton Major R. Owens, Brooklyn Tony P. Hall, Dayton Paul E. Kanjorski, Nanticoke Stephen J. Solarz, Brooklyn Michael G. Oxley, Findley John P. Murtha, Johnstown Guy V. Molinari, Staten Island Delbert L. Latta, Bowling Green Lawrence Coughlin, Villanova Bill Green, New York Bob McEwen, Hills boro William J. Coyne, Pittsburgh Charles B. Rangel, New York Michael DeWine, Cedarville Don Ritter, Coopersburg Ted Weiss, New York Thomas N. Kindness, Hamilton Robert S. Walker, East Petersburg Robert Garcia, Bronx Marcy Kaptur, Toledo George W. Gekas, Harrisburg Mario Biaggi, Bronx Clarence E. Miller, Lancaster Doug Walgren, Pittsburgh Joseph J. DioGuardi, Scarsdale Dennis E. Eckart, Mentor William F. Goodling, Jacobus Hamilton Fish, Jr., Milibrook John R. Kasich, Westerville Joseph M. Gaydos, McKeesport Benjamin A. Gilman, Middletown Donald J. Pease, Oberlin Thomas J. Ridge, Eric Samuel S. Stratton, Schenectady John F. Seiberling, Akron Austin J. Murphy, Charleroi Gerald B. Solomon, Glens Falls Chalmers P. Wylie, Worthington William F. Clinger, Jr., Warren Sherwood L. Boehlert, Utica Ralph Regula, Navarre David O'B. Martin, Canton James A. Traficant, Jr., RHODE ISLAND George C. Wortley, Fayetteville Douglas Applegate, Steubenville SENATORS Matthew F. McHugh, Ithaca Edward F. Feighan, Lakewood Claiborne Poll, Newport Frank Horton, Rochester Mary Rose Oakar, Cleveland Louis Stokes, Warrensville Heights John H. Chafee, Warwick Fred J. Eckert, Rochester REPRESENTATIVES Jack Kemp, Hamburg John J. LaFalce, Tonawanda OKLAHOMA Fernand J. St Germain, Woonsocket Henry J. Nowak, Buffalo SENATORS Claudine Schneider, Narragansett Stan Lundine, Jamestown David L. Boren, Seminole Don Nickles, Ponca City SOUTH CAROLINA NORTH CAROLINA REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS SENATORS James R. Jones, Tulsa Strom Thurmond, Aiken Jesse Helms, Raleigh Mike Synar, Muskogee Ernest F. Hollings, Charleston John P. East,14 Greenville Wes Watkins, Ada REPRESENTATIVES James T. Broyhill,'5 Lenoir Dave McCurdy, Norman Thomas F. Hartnett, Charleston Terry Sanford,'6 Durham Mickey Edwards, Oklahoma City Floyd Spence, Lexington REPRESENTATIVES Glenn English, Cordell Butler Derrick, Edgefield Carroll C. Campbell, Jr., Greenville Walter B. Jones, Farmville OREGON Tim Valentine, Nashville John McK. Spratt, Jr., York Charles 0. Whitley, Sr.,'7 Mount Olive SENATORS Robert M. (Robin) Tallon, Florence William W. (Bill) Cobey, Jr., Chapel Mark 0. Hatfield, Tigard Hill Bob Packwood, Portland SOUTH DAKOTA Stephen L. Neal, Winston-Salem REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Howard Coble, Greensboro Los AuCoin, Portland Larry Pressler, Humboldt Charlie Rose, Fayetteville Robert F. Smith, Burns James Abdnor, Kennebec W.G. (Bill) Hefner, Concord Ron Wyden, Portland REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE J. Alex McMillan, Charlotte James Weaver, Eugene Thomas A. Daschle, Aberdeen James T. Broyhill,'8 Lenoir Denny Smith, Salem Cass Ballenger,'9 Hickory William M. (Bill) Hendon, Asheville PENNSYLVANIA TENNESSEE SENATORS SENATORS NORTH DAKOTA John Heinz, Pittsburgh Jim Sasser, Nashville SENATORS Arlen Specter, Philadelphia Albert A. Gore, Jr., Carthage Quentin N. Burdick, Fargo REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Mark Andrews, Mapleton Thomas M. Foglietta, Philadelphia James H. Quillen, Kingsport REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE William (Bill) H. Gray III, John J. Duncan, Knoxville Byron L. Dorgan, Bismarck Philadelphia Marilyn Lloyd, Chattanooga

is Appointed to fill vacancy caused by death of John P. ' Resigned December 31, 1986; vacancy throughout re- 12 Died April 10, 1986. mainder of Congress. 1 Elected July 10, 1986, to fill vacancy caused by death East, and took his seat July 14, 1986. is Resigned July 13, 1986, having been appointed United of Joseph P. Addabbo, and took his seat July 29, 1986. '5Elected November 4, 1986, to fill the vacancy caused by death of John P. East, but was unable to be sworn in as States Senator. 1 Died June 29, 1986. '° Elected November 4, 1986, to fill the vacancy caused Congress was not in session. by the resignation of James T. Broyhill, but was unable to be sworn in as Congress was not in session. 498 Biographical Directory

TENNESSEEContinued David Smith Monson, Salt Lake City Nick J. Rahall 2d, Beckley REPRESENTATIVES--COImNUED Howard C. Nielson, Provo WISCONSIN James Cooper, Shelbyville VERMONT William H. Boner, Nashville SENATORS Bart Gordon, Murfreesboro SENATORS Robert P. Stafford,,Rutland William Proxmire, Madison Donald K. Sundquist, Memphis Robert W. Kasten, Jr., Milwaukee Ed Jones, Yorkville Patrick J. Leahy, Burlington Harold E. Ford, Memphis REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE REPRESENTATIVES James M. Jeffords, Rutland Los Aspin, East Troy TEXAS Robert W. Kastenmeier, Sun Prairie SENATORS VIRGINIA Steven Gunderson, Osseo Lloyd M. Bentsen, Houston SENATORS Gerald D. Kleczka, Milwaukee Phil Gramm, College Station John W. Warner, Middleburg Jim Moody, Milwaukee REPRESENTATIVES Paul S. Trible, Jr., Kilmarnock Thomas E. Petri, Fond du Lac David R. Obey, Wausau Sam B. Hall, Jr.,2° Marshall REPRESENTATIVES Toby Roth, Appleton Jim Chapman,2' Sulphur Springs Herbert H. Bateman, Newport News Charles Wilson, Lufkin F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., G. William Whitehurst, Norfolk Menomonee Falls Steve Bartlett, Dallas Thomas J. Bliley, Jr., Richmond Ralph M. Hall, Rockwall Norman Sisisky, Petersburg WYOMING John W. Bryant, Dallas Dan Daniel, Danville , Ennis SENATORS Bill Archer, Houston James R. Olin, Roanoke Jack Fields, Humble D. French Slaughter, Jr., Culpeper Malcolm Wallop, Big Horn Jack Brooks, Beaumont Stanford E. (Stan) Parris, Woodbridge Alan K. Simpson, Cody J.J. (Jake) Pickle, Austin Frederick C. Boucher, Abington Frank R. Wolf, Vienna REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Marvin Leath, Waco Dick Cheney, Casper James C. Wright, Jr., Fort Worth Beau Boulter, Amarillo WASHINGTON Mac Sweeney, Wharton SENATORS AMERICAN SAMOA E (Kika) de la Garza, Mission Slade Gorton, Olympia Fofo I.F. Sunia, Pago Pago Ronald Coleman, El Paso Daniel J. Evans, Seattle Charles W. Stenholm, Avoca REPRESENTATIVES COMMONWEALTH OF Mickey Leland, Houston PUERTO RICO , Lubbock John Miller, Seattle Henry B. Gonzalez, San Antonio Al Swift, Bellingham RESIDENT COMMISSIONER Tom Loeffler, Hunt Don Bonker, Ridgefield Jaime B. Fuster, Santurce Tom DeLay, Sugar Land Sid Morrison, Zillah Albert G. Bustamante, San Antonio Thomas S. Foley, Spokane DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Martin Frost, Dallas Norman D. Dicks, Bremerton Michael A. Andrews, Houston Mike Lowry, Seattle DELEGATE Richard (Dick) Armey, Denton Rod D. Chandler, Redmond Walter E. Fauntroy, Washington, D.C. Solomon P. Ortiz, Corpus Christie WEST VIRGINIA GUAM UTAH SENATORS DELEGATE SENATORS Robert C. Byrd, Sophia Edwin Jacob (Jake) Garn, Salt Lake , Charleston Ben Garrido Blaz, Agana City REPRESENTATIVES Orrin G. Hatch, Salt Lake City Alan B. Mollohan, Fairmont VIRGIN ISLANDS REPRESENTATIVES Harley 0. Staggers, Jr., Keyser DELEGATE James V. Hansen, Farmington Robert E. Wise, Jr., Clendenin Ron de Lugo, St. Thomas

20Resigned May 27, 1985. 51Elected August 3, 1985, to fill vacancy caused by res- ignation of Sam B. Hall, Jr., and took his seat September 4, 1985. ONE HUNDREDTH CONGRESS JANUARY 6, 1987, TO JANUARY 3, 1989

FIRST SESSIONJanuary 6, 1987,1 to December 22, 1987 SECOND SESSIONConQened on January 25, 1988,2

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATESGEORGE BUSH, of Texas PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATEJOHN C. STENNIS,3 of Mississippi SECRETARY OF THE SENATEWALTER J. STEWART,3 of Washington, D.C. SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE SENATEHENRY KUUALOHA GIUGNI,3 of Hawaii SPEAKER OF THE HOUSEJIM WRIGHT,3 of Texas CLERK OF THE HOUSED0NNALD K. ANDERSON,3 of California SERGEANT AT ARMS OF THE HOUSEJACK RUSS,4 of Maryland DOORKEEPER OF THE HOUSEJAMES T MOLLOY,4 of New York POSTMASTER OF THE HOUSEROBERT V. ROTA,4 of Pennsylvania

ALABAMA Jim Kolbe, Bisbee Norman Y. Mineta, San Jose Norman D. Shumway, Stockton SENATORS ARKANSAS Tony Coelho, Merced Howell T. Heflin, Tuscumbia Leon E. Panetta, Carmel Valley Richard C. Shelby, Tuscaloosa SENATORS Dale Bumpers, Charleston Charles Pashayan, Jr., Fresno REPRESENTATIVES David H. Pryor, Camden Richard H. Lehman, Sanger H.L. (Sonny) Callahan, Mobile Robert J. Lagomarsino, Ojai William L. Dickinson, Montgomery REPRESENTATIVES William M. Thomas, Bakersfield Bill Nichols, Sylacauga Bill Alexander, Osceola , Northridge Tom Bevill, Jasper Tommy Robinson, Jacksonville Caries J. Moorhead, Glendale Ronnie G. Flippo, Florence John P. Hammerschmidt, Harrison Anthony C. Beilenson, Los Angeles Ben Erdreich, Birmingham Beryl F. Anthony, Jr., El Dorado Henry A. Waxman, Los Angeles Claude Harris, Tuscaloosa Edward R. Roybal, Los Angeles CALIFORNIA Howard L. Berman, Studio City ALASKA SENATORS Mel Levine, Santa Monica SENATORS Alan Cranston, Los Angeles Julian C. Dixon, Los Angeles Ted Stevens, Anchorage Pete Wilson, San Diego Augustus F. (Gus) Hawkins, Los Frank H. Murkowski, Fairbanks REPRESENTATIVES Angeles REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Douglas H. Bosco, Occidental Matthew G. Martinez, Monterey Park Mervyn M. Dymally, Compton Don Young, Fort Yukon , Roseville Robert T. Matsui, Sacramento Glenn M. Anderson, Harbor City ARIZONA Vic Fazio, Sacramento Dave Dreier, La Verne Sala Burton,5 San Francisco Esteban Edward Torres, La Puente SENATORS ,6 San Francisco Jerry Lewis, Highland Dennis DeConcini, Tucson Barbara Boxer, Greenbrae George E. Brown, Jr., Colton John S. McCain III, Tempe George Miller, Martinez Alfred A. (Al) McCandless, Bermuda REPRESENTATIVES Ronald V. Dellums, Berkeley Dunes John J. Rhodes III, Mesa Fortney H. (Pete) Stark, Oakland Robert K. (Bob) Dornan, Garden Grove Morris K. Udall, Tucson Don Edwards, San Jose William E. Dannemeyer, Fullerton Bob Stump, Tolleson Tom Lantos, Hillsborough Robert E. Badham, Newport Beach Jon Kyl, Scottsdale Ernest L. Konnyu, Saratoga Bill Lowery, San Diego

'By joint resolution (Pub. Law 99-613, 99th Cong., 2d By joint resolution (Pub. Law 100-229, 100th Cong., 1st Congress had not adjourned sine die before the printing of seas.), the date of assembling the first session of the One seas.), the date of assembling the second session of the One this edition. Hundredth Congress was fixed for January 25, 1988. The Elected January 6, 1987. Hundredth Congress was fixed for January 6. 1987. Reelected January 6, 1987. Died February 1, 1987. Elected June 2, 1987, to fill vacancy caused by death of Sala Burton, and took her seat June 9, 1987.

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CALIFORNIAContinued Clay Shaw, Fort Lauderdale Lane A. Evans, Rock Island REPRESENTATWES--CONTINUED Lawrence J. Smith, Hollywood Robert H. Michel, Peoria William Lehman, North Miami Beach Terry L. Bruce, Danville Daniel E. Lungren, Long Beach Claude Pepper, Miami Richard J. Durbin, Springfield Ron Packard, Carlsbad Dante B. Fascell, Miami Melvin Price,9 East St. Louis Jim Bates, San Diego Jerry F. Costello,'0 Belleville Duncan L. Hunter, San Diego GEORGIA Kenneth J. Gray, Carbondale SENATORS COLORADO Sam Nunn, Perry INDIANA SENATORS Wyche Fowler, Jr., Atlanta SENATORS William L. Armstrong, Aurora REPRESENTATIVES Richard G. Lugar, Indianapolis Timothy E. Wirth, Denver Lindsay Thomas, Screven Dan Quayle, Huntington REPRESENTATIVES Charles Hatcher, Albany REPRESENTATIVES Patricia Schroeder, Denver Richard Ray, Perry Peter J. Visclosky, Gary David E. Skaggs, Boulder Pat Swindall, Atlanta Philip R. Sharp, Muncie , Ignacio John Lewis, Atlanta John Patrick Hiler, La Porte Hank Brown Greeley Newt Gingrich, Carrollton Dan R. Coats, Fort Wayne , Colorado Springs George (Buddy) Darden, Marietta , Brookston Dan Schaefer, Lakewood J. Roy Rowland, Dublin Dan Burton, Indianapolis Edgar L. Jenkins, Jasper John T. Myers, Covihgton CONNECTICUT Doug Barnard, Jr., Augusta Frank McCloskey, Bloomington SENATORS Lee H. Hamilton, Columbus Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., Stonington HAWAII Andrew Jacobs, Jr., Indianapolis Christopher J. Dodd, North Stonington SENATORS REPRESENTATIVES Daniel K. Inouye, Honolulu IOWA Barbara B. Kennelly, Hartford Spark M. Matsunaga, Honolulu SENATORS Samuel Gejdenson, Bozrah REPRESENTATIVES Charles E. Grassley, New Hartford Bruce A. Morrison, Hamden Patricia F. Saiki, Honolulu Tom Harkin, Ames Stewart B. McKinney,7 Westport Daniel K. Akaka, Honolulu REPRESENTATIVES Christopher Shays,8 Stamford Jim Leach, Davenport John G. Rowland, Danbury IDAHO Thomas J. Tauke, Dubuque Nancy L. Johnson, New Britain SENATORS David R. Nagle, Cedar Falls James A. McClure, Payette Neal Smith, Altoona DELAWARE Steve Symms, Boise Jim Ross Lightfoot, Shenandoah SENATORS , Sioux City REPRESENTATIVES William V. Roth, Jr., Wilmington Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Wilmington Larry Craig, Midvale KANSAS Richard Stallings, Pocatello REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE SENATORS Thomas R. Carper, New Castle ILLINOIS Bob Dole, Russell Nancy L. Kassebaum, Wichita SENATORS FLORIDA Alan J. Dixon, Belleville REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Paul Simon, Makanda Pat Roberts, Dodge City Jim Slattery, Topeka Lawton Chiles, Lakeland REPRESENTATIVES , Tallahassee Jan Meyers, Overland Park Charles A. Hayes, Chicago Dan Glickman, Wichita REPRESENTATIVES Gus Savage, Chicago Bob Whittaker, Augusta Earl Hutto, Panama City Marty Russo, South Holland Bill Grant, Madison Jack Davis, New Lenox KENTUCKY Charles E. Bennett, Jacksonville William 0. Lipinski, Chicago Bill Chappell, Jr., Ocala Henry J. Hyde, Bensenville SENATORS Bill McCollum, Altamonte Springs Cardiss Collins, Chicago Wendell H. Ford, Owensboro Buddy MacKay, Ocala Dan Rostenkowski, Chicago Mitch McConnell, Louisville Sam M. Gibbons, Tampa Sidney R. Yates, Chicago REPRESENTATIVES C.W. Bill Young, St. Petersburg John Edward Porter, Winnetka Carroll Hubbard, Jr., Mayfield Michael Bilirakis, Tarpon Springs Frank Annunzio, Chicago William H. Natcher, Bowling Green Andy Ireland, Winter Haven Philip M. Crane, Mount Prospect Romano L. Maszoli, Louisville Bill Nelson, Melbourne Harris W. Fawell, Glen Ellyn Jim Bunning, Ft. Thomas Tom Lewis, North Palm Beach J. , Oswego Harold Rogers, Somerset Connie Mack, Cape Coral Edward R. Madigan, Lincoln Larry J. Hopkins, Lexington Daniel A. Mica, West Palm Beach Lynn Martin, Rockford Carl C. Perkins, Leburn

'Died May 7, 1987. 8Elected August 18, 1987, to fill vacancy caused by o Died April 22, 1988. death of Stewart B. McKinney, and took his seat Septem- '° Elected August 9, 1988, to fill vacancy caused by the ber 9, 1987. death of Melvin Price, and took his seat August 11, 1988. One Hundredth Congress 501

LOUISIANA Carl Duane Pursell, Plymouth Max Baucus, Missoula Howard E. Wolpe, Lansing REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS , St. Joe Pat Williams, Helena J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., Shreveport Paul B. Henry, Rockford Ron Marlenee, Scobey John B. Breaux, Crowley Bob Carr, East Lansing REPRESENTATIVES Dale E. Kildee, Flint NEBRASKA Robert L. Livingston, New Orleans Bob Traxler, Bay City SENATORS Guy Vander Jagt, Luther Corinne C. (Lindy) Boggs, New Orleans Edward Zorinsky,'8 Omaha W.J. (Billy) Tauzin, Thibodaux Bill Schuette, St. Charles Robert W. Davis, Gaylord David K. Karnes,'4 Omaha Charles (Buddy) Roemer,'1 Bossier City J. James Exon, Lincoln James 0. McCrery 111,12 Shreveport David E. Bonior, Mount Clemens Thomas J. (Jerry) Huckaby, Ringgold George W. Crockett, Jr., Detroit REPRESENTATIVES Richard Hugh Baker, Baton Rouge Dennis M. Hertel, Detroit Doug Bereuter, Utica James A. Hayes, Lafayette William D. Ford, Taylor Hal Daub, Omaha Clyde C. Holloway, Forest Hill John D. Dingell, Trenton Virginia Smith, Chappell Sander M. Levin, Springfield MAINE William S. Broomfield, Birmingham NEVADA SENATORS SENATORS William S. Cohen, Bangor MINNESOTA Chic Hecht, Las Vegas George J. Mitchell, South Portland SENATORS Harry M. Reid, Las Vegas REPRESENTATIVES David F. Durenberger, Minneapolis REPRESENTATIVES Joseph E. Brennan, Portland Rudy Boschwitz, Wayzata James H. Bilbray, Las Vegas Olympia J. Snowe, Auburn REPRESENTATIVES Barbara F. Vucanovich, Reno Timothy J. Penny, New Richiand MARYLAND Vin Weber, Slayton NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATORS Bill Frenzel, Bloomington SENATORS Paul S. Sarbanes, Baltimore Bruce F. Vento, St. Paul Gordon J. Humphrey, Chichester Barbara A. Mikuiski, Baltimore Martin 0. Sabo, Minneapolis Warren B. Rudman, Nashua Gerry E. Sikorski, Stillwater REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Arlan Stangeland, Barnesville Roy Dyson, Great Mills James L. Oberstar, Chishoim Robert C. Smith, Manchester Helen Delich Bentley, Towson Judd Gregg, Greenfield Benjamin L. Cardin, Baltimore MISSISSIPPI C. Thomas McMilen, Crofton NEW JERSEY Stony H. Hoyer, Berkshire SENATORS SENATORS Beverly B. Byron, Frederick John C. Stennis, Do Kalb Bill Bradley, Denville , Baltimore Thad Cochran, Jackson Frank R. Lautenberg, Montclair Constance A. Morella, Bethesda REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Jamie L. Whitten, Charleston James J. Florio, Pine Hill MASSACHUSETTS , Yazoo City William J. Hughes, Ocean City SENATORS G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery, Meridian James J. Howard," Spring Lake Edward M. Kennedy, Boston Wayne Dowdy, McComb Heights John F. Kerry, Boston Trent Lott, Pascagoula Christopher H. Smith, Trenton Marge Roukema, Ridgewood REPRESENTATIVES MISSOURI Silvio 0. Conte, Pittsfield Bernard J. Dwyer, Edison Edward P. Roland, Springfield SENATORS Matthew J. Rinaldo, Union Joseph D. Early, Worcester John C. Danforth, Flat Robert A. Roe, Wayne Barney Frank, Newton Christopher (Kit) Bond, Kansas City Robert G. Torricelli, New Milford Chester 0. Atkins, Lawrence REPRESENTATIVES Peter W. Rodino, Jr., Newark Nicholas Mavroules, Peabody Dean A. Gallo, West Orange William L. Clay, St. Louis James A. Courter, Hackettstown Edward J. Markey, Malden Jack Buechner, Kirkwood Joseph P. Kennedy II, Boston H. James Saxton, Vincentown Richard A. Gephardt, St. Louis Frank J. Guarini, Jersey City John Joseph Moakley, South Boston Ike Skelton, Jefferson City Gerry E. Studds, Cohasset Alan D. Wheat, Kansas City NEW MEXICO Brian J. Donnelly, Dorchester E. Thomas Coleman, Kansas City Gene Taylor, Sarcoxie SENATORS MICHIGAN Bill Emerson, Cape Girardeau Pete V. Domenici, Albuquerque SENATORS Harold L. Volkmer, Hannibal Jeff Bingaman, Santa Fe Donald W. Riegle, Jr., Flint REPRESENTATIVES Carl Levin, Detroit MONTANA Manuel Lujan, Jr., Albuquerque REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS Joe Skeen, Picacho John Conyers, Jr., Detroit John Melcher, Forsyth William B. Richardson, Santa Fe

12Elected April 16, 1988, to fill vacancy caused by the "Died March 6, 1987. 1 Resigned March 14, 1988. 1 Appointed March 10, 1987, to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Charles Roemer, and took his seat April 26, death of Edward Zorinsky, and took his seat March 1.3, 1988. 1987. "Died March 25, 1988. 502 Biographical Directory

NEW YORK OHIO , Media SENATORS SENATORS Peter H. Kostmayer, New Hope Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Pindars John Glenn, Columbus Bud Shuster, Everett Corners Howard M. Metzenbaum, Cleveland Joseph M. McDade, Clarks Summit Alfonse M. D'Amato, Island Park Paul E. Kanjorski, Wilkes-Barre REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES John P. Murtha, Johnstown Thomas A. Luken, Cincinnati Lawrence Coughlin, Villanova George J. Hochbrueckner, Coram Willis D. Gradison, Jr., Cincinnati Wffliam J. Coyne, Pittsburgh Thomas J. Downey, Amityville Tony P. Hall, Dayton Robert J. Mrazek, Centerport Don Ritter, Coopersburg Michael G. Oxley, Findley Robert S. Walker, East Petersburg Norman F. Lent, East Rockaway Delbert L. Latta, Bowling Green Raymond J. McGrath, Valley Stream George W. Gekas, Harrisburg Floyd H. Flake, Queens Bob McEwen, Hills boro Doug Walgren, Pittsburgh Gary L. Ackerman, Flushing Michael DeWine, Cedarville William F. Goodling, Jacobus James H. Scheuer, Flushing Donald E. Lukens, Middletown Joseph M. Gaydos, McKeesport Thomas J. Manton, Forest Hills Marcy Kaptur, Toledo Thomas J. Ridge, Erie Charles E. Schumer, Brooklyn Clarence E. Miller, Lancaster Austin J. Murphy, Monongahela Edolphus Towns, Brooklyn Dennis E. Eckart, Mentor William F. Clinger, Jr., Warren Major R. Owens, Brooklyn John R. Kasich, Westerville Stephen J. Solarz, Brooklyn Donald J. Pease, Oberlin RHODE ISLAND Guy V. Molinari, Staten Island Thomas C. Sawyer, Akron Chalmers P. Wylie, Columbus SENATORS Bill Green, New York Claiborne Pell, Newport Charles B. Rangel, New York Ralph Regula, Navarre Ted Weiss, New York James A. Traficant, Jr., Warren John H. Chafee, Warwick Robert Garcia, Bronx Douglas Applegate, Steubenville REPRESENTATIVES Mario Biaggi,'6 Bronx Edward F. Feighan, Gates Mills Fernand J. St Germain, Woonsocket Joseph J. DioGuardi, Mamaroneck Mary Ruse Oakar, Cleveland Claudine Schneider, Narragansett Hamilton Fish, Jr., Millbrook Louis Stokes, Warrensville Heights Benjamin A. Gilman, Middletown SOUTH CAROLINA Samuel S. Stratton, Amsterdam OKLAHOMA Gerald B. Solomon, Glens Falls SENATORS SENATORS Sherwood L. Boehiert, New Hartford David L. Boren, Seminole Strom Thurmond, Columbia David O'B. Martin, Canton Don Nickles, Ponca City Ernest F. Hollings, Charleston George C. Wortley, Fayetteville REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES Matthew F. McHugh, Ithaca Frank Horton, Rochester James M. Inhofe, Tulsa Arthur Ravenel, Jr., Charleston Louise McIntosh Slaughter, Fairport Mike Synar, Muskogee Floyd Spence, Lexington Jack Kemp, Buffalo Wes Watkins, Ada Butler Derrick, Edgefield John J. LaFalce, Buffalo Dave McCurdy, Norman Liz J. Patterson, Spartanburg Henry J. Nowak, Buffalo Mickey Edwards, Oklahoma City John McK. Spratt, Jr., York Amory Houghton Jr., Corning Glenn English, Cordell Robert M. (Robin) Tallon, Florence NORTH CAROLINA OREGON SOUTH DAKOTA SENATORS SENATORS SENATORS Jesse Helms, Raleigh Mark 0. Hatfield, Salem Larry Pressler, Humboldt Terry Sanford, Durham Bob Packwood, Portland Thomas A. Daschle, Aberdeen REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Walter B. Jones, Farmville Les AuCoin, Forest Grove Tim Johnson, Vermillion Tim Valentine, Nashville Robert F. Smith, Burns Martin Lancaster, Goldsboro Ron Wyden, Portland David E. Price, Chapel Hill Peter A. DeFazio, Springfield TENNESSEE Stephen L. Neal, Winston-Salem Denny Smith, Salem SENATORS Howard Coble, Greensboro Jim Sasser, Nashville Charlie Rose, Fayetteville PENNSYLVANIA Albert A. Gore, Jr., Carthage W.G. (Bill) Hefner, Concord SENATORS J. Alex McMillan, Davidson REPRESENTATIVES John Heinz, Pittsburgh James H. Quillen, King8port Cass Ballenger, Hickory Arlen Specter, Philadelphia James McClure Clarke, Fairview John J. Duncan,'7 Knoxville REPRESENTATIVES Marilyn Lloyd, Chattanooga NORTH DAKOTA Thomas M. Foglietta, Philadelphia James Cooper, Shelbyville SENATORS William (Bill) H. Gray III, William H. Boner,'8 Nashville Philadelphia Robert N. Clement,'9 Nashville Quentin N. Burdick, Fargo Robert A. Borski, Jr., Philadelphia Bart Gordon, Carthage Kent Conrad, Bismarck Joseph P. Kolter, New Brighton Donald K. Sundquist, Memphis REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Richard T. Schulze, Wayne Ed Jones, Yorkville Byron L. Dorgan, Bismarck Gus Yatron, Reading Harold E. Ford, Memphis

"Resigned August 8, 1988. "Resigned October 5, 1987. Elected January 19, 1988, to fill vacancy caused by "Died June 21, 1988. resignation of William H. Boner, and took his seat Janu- gry 25, 1988. One Hundredth Congress 503

TEXAS Patrick J. Leahy, Burlington WISCONSIN SENATORS REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE SENATORS Lloyd M. Bentsen, Austin James M. Jeffords, Rutland William Proxmire, Madison Phil Gramm, College Station Robert W. Kasten, Jr., Milwaukee REPRESENTATIVES VIRGINIA REPRESENTATIVES Jim Chapman, Sulphur Springs SENATORS Los Aspin, Racine Charles Wilson, Lufkin John W. Warner, Middleburg Robert W. Kastenmeier, Sun Prairie Steve Bartlett, Dallas Paul S. Trible, Jr., Richmond Steven Gunderson, Osseo Ralph M. Hall, Rockwall REPRESENTATIVES Gerald D. Kleczka, Milwaukee John W. Bryant, Dallas Herbert H. Bateman, Newport News Jim Moody, Milwaukee Joe Barton, Ennis Owen B. Pickett, Virginia Beach Thomas E. Petri, Fond du Lac Bill Archer, Houston Thomas J. Bliley, Jr., Richmond David R. Obey, Wausau Jack Fields, Humble Norman Sisisky, Petersburg Toby Roth, Appleton Jack Brooks, Beaumont Dan Daniel,2° Danville F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., J.J. (Jake) Pickle, Austin Menomonee Falls Marvin Leath, Marlin Lewis F. Payne, Jr.,21 Wintergreen James R. Olin, Roanoke James C. Wright, Jr., Fort Worth WYOMING Beau Boulter, Vernon D. French Slaughter, Jr., Winchester Mac Sweeney, Ganado Stanford E. (Stan) Parris, Alexandria SENATORS E (Kika) de la Garza, McA lien Frederick C. Boucher, Abingdon Malcolm Wallop, Big Horn Ronald Coleman, El Paso Frank R. Wolf, Vienna Alan K. Simpson, Cody Charles W. Stenhoim, Avoca WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVE AT LARGE Mickey Leland, Houston Dick Cheney, Casper Larry Combest, Lubbock SENATORS Henry B. Gonzalez, San Antonio Daniel J. Evans, Seattle AMERICAN SAMOA Lamar S. Smith, San Antonio Brock Adams, Seattle Tom DeLay, Lake Jackson REPRESENTATIVES Fofo I.F. Sunia,22 Pago Pago Albert G. Bustamante, Laredo Martin Frost, Dallas John Miller, Bainbridge Island COMMONWEALTH OF Michael A. Andrews, Houston Al Swift, Bellingham PUERTO RICO Don Bonker, Vancouver Richard (Dick) Armey, Arlington RESIDENT cOMMISSIONER Solomon P. Ortiz, Corpus Christi Sid Morrison, Zillah Thomas S. Foley, Spokane Jaime B. Fuster, Rio Pièdras UTAH Norman D. Dicks, Port Orchard SENATORS Mike Lowry, Seattle DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Edwin Jacob (Jake) Garn, Salt Lake Rod D. Chandler, Belleview DELEGATE City Walter E. Fauntroy, Washington, D.C. Orrin G. Hatch, Midvale WEST VIRGINIA REPRESENTATIVES SENATORS GUAM James V. Hansen, Farmington Robert C. Byrd, Sop hia DELEGATE John D. Rockefeller IV, Charleston Wayne Owens, Salt Lake City Ben BIaz, Agana Howard C. Nielson, Provo REPRESENTATWES Alan B. Mollohan, Fairmont VIRGIN ISLANDS VERMONT Harley 0. Staggers, Jr., Keyser DELEGATE SENATORS Robert E. Wise, Jr., Charleston Robert T. Stafford, Rutland Nick J. Rahall II, Beckley Ron de Lugo, St. Thomas

"Resigned September 6, 1988. '° Died January 23, 1988. "Elected June 14, 1988, to fill vacancy caused by death of Dan Daniel, and took his seat June 21, 1988. BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES

AANDAIIL, Fred George, a Representative from North1842; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Dakota; born in Litchville, Barnes County, N.Dak., April 9,and Thirtieth Congresses (, 1843-March 3, 1849); was 1897; attended a one-room country school and Litchvillenot a candidate for reelection in 1848; resumed his former High School; was graduated from the University of Northmercantile pursuits; served as postmaster of Andover, Mass., Dakota at Grand Forks in 1921; engaged in agriculturalfrom 1849 to 1853; died in Andover, Mass., November 2, pursuits since 1921; superintendent of schools in Litchville,1868; interment in South Parish Cemetery. N.Dak., 1922-1927; member of the North Dakota Senate in the 1931, 1939, and 1941 sessions; Governor of North Dakota ABBOTT, Jo (Joseph), a Representative from Texas; born 1945-1950; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second Con-near Decatur, Morgan County, Ala., January 15, 1840; at- gress (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1953); was not acandidatetended the public schools; moved with his parents to Free-- for renomination in 1952, but was unsuccessful for the Re-stone County, Tex., in 1853; during the Civil War served in publican senatorial nomination; appointed Assistant Secre-the Confederate Army as first lieutenant in the Twelfth tary of the Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.,Regiment, Texas Cavalry; studied law; was admitted to the and served from February 10, 1953, until January 20, 1961;bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Springfield, Lime-- resumed former agricultural pursuits; died in Fargo, N.Dak.,stone Couity, Tex.; subsequently moved to Hilisboro and April 7, 1966; interment in Hillside Cemetery, Valley City,continued the practice of law; member of the State house of N.Dak. representatives in 1870 and 1871; appointed district judge of the twenty-eighth judicial district by Governor Roberts in ABBrF'r, Watkins Moorman, a Representative from Vir-February 1879; subsequently elected in November 1880 for a ginia; born in Lynchburg, Va., May 21, 1908; attended theterm of four years; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftiethand public schools; was graduated from Appomattox Agriculturalto the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3,

High School in 1925 and from the law department of the1897); was not a candidate for renomination in 1896; re-- University of Richmond, LL.B., 1931; was admitted to thesumed the practice of law in Hillsboro, Hill County, Tex., bar in 1931 and commenced practice in Appomattox, Va.; and died there February 11, 1908; interment in Old Ceme-- Commonwealth attorney of Appomattox County 1932-1948; member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1945;tery. delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1964; director of ABBOTT, Joseph Carter, a Senator from North Carolina; Farmers National Bank; delegate to Democratic State Con-born in Concord, N.H., July 15, 1825; was graduated from ventions in 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, and 1952; chairman,Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., in 1846; studied law; was Virginia Democratic State central committee, 1966-1972;admitted to the bar in 1852; owner and editor of the Daily elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth Congress, by specialAmerican, in Manchester, N.H., 1852-1857; adjutant general election, February 17, 1948, to fill the vacancy caused by theof New Hampshire 1855-1861; editor of the Boston Atlas in death of Patrick H. Drewry; reelected to the twelve succeed- 1859; member of the commission to adjust the boundary ing Congresses and served from February 17, 1948, to Janu-between New Hampshire and Canada; served in the Union ary 3, 1973; was not a candidate for reelection in 1972 to theArmy during the Civil War 1861-1865, brevetted as briga- Ninety-third Congress; is a resident of Appomattox, Va. dier general; moved to Wilmington, N.C. and was for a time ABBOT, Joel, a Representative from Georgia; born incommandant of the city; delegate to the State constitutional Ridgefiel& Conn., March 17, 1776; moved to Washington,convention in 1868; upon the readmission of the State of Ga., in 1794 and practiced medicine; member of the cityNorth Carolina was elected as a Republican to the United council, Washington, Ga.; member of the State house ofStates Senate and served from July 14, 1868, to March 3, representatives, 1799, 1802-1804, 1808, and 1811; elected as a 1871; collector of the port of Wilmington under President Republican to the Fifteenth and reelected to the three suc-Ulysses Grant; inspector of posts along the eastern line of ceeding Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1825); resumedthe southern coast under President Rutherford Hayes; estab- the practice of medicine; delegate to the convention whichlished the town of Abbottsburg, in Bladen County, N.C.; met in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1820 to prepare the first Nation-engaged in the manufacture of lumber; employed as a spe- al Pharmacopoeia; died in Lexington, Ga., November 19,cial agent in the United States Treasury Department; editor 1826; interment in Rest Haven Cemetery. of the Wilmington Post; died in Wilmington, New Hanover County, N.C., October 8, 1881; originally interred in the U.S. ABBOTT, Amos, a Representative from Massachusetts;National Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C.; reinterred in Valley born in Andover, Mass., September 10, 1786; attended theCemetery, Manchester, N.H., in 1887. district school and Bradford Academy; engaged in mercan- Bibliography: DAB. tile pursuits; highway surveyor in 1812, 1814, and 1816; clerk of the market in 1819 and 1820-1822; town clerk in 1822, ABBOTT, Josiah Gardner, a Representative from Massa- 1826, and 1828; town treasurer 1824-1829; member of thechusetts; born in Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Mass., No- school committee 1828-1829 and again in 1830; one of thevember 1, 1814; attended the common schools and Chelms- founders of the Boston & Portland (later the Boston &ford Academy; was graduated from in Maine) Railroad in 1833, serving as director 1833-1841;1832; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in member of the State house of representatives in 1835, 1836,1835 and commenced practice in Lowell, Mass., in 1837; 1837, and again in 1843; served in the State senate 1840-member of the State house of representatives in 1836; served

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in the State senate in 1841 and 1842; member of the staff ofboard of trustees, Deane College; member, board of trustees Governor Morton in 1843; master in chancery 1850-1855;of Nebraska Wesleyan College; died in Lincoln, Nebr., on member of the State constitutional convention in 1853;ap-July 30, 1966; interment in Wyuka Cemetery. pointed justice of the superior court of Suffolk County in 1855 and served until 1858, when he resigned; resumed the ABELE, Homer E., a Representative from Ohio; born in practice of law; one of the overseers of Harvard CollegeWeliston, Jackson County, Ohio, November 21, 1916; attend- 1859-1865; several times was the unsuccessful Democraticed the public schools; graduated from Wellston High School candidate for United States Senator; declined an appoint-in 1934; employed by Anchor Hocking Glass Corp., Lancas- ment to the supreme court bench in 1860; moved to Bostonter, Ohio, and the Austin Powder Co., McArthur, Ohio, 1938- in 1861 and continued the practice of law; declined the1941; member of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, 194 1-1943, Democratic nomination for attorney general in 1861;success-and for six months in 1946 after returning from military fully contested as a Democrat the election of Rufus S. Frostservice; during the Second World War enlisted as a cadet in to the Forty-fourth Congress and served from July 28, 1876,the Air Corps in May 1943 and served until discharged as a to March 3, 1877; was not a candidate for renomination inprivate first class, February 22, 1946; took prelaw studies at 1876; appointed a member of the Electoral Commissioncre-Ohio University at Athens, Ohio, 1946-1948; served in the ated by the act of Congress approved January 29, 1877, toState general assembly, 1949-1952; graduated from Ohio decide the contests in various States in the presidential elec-State University College of Law at Columbus in December tion of 1876; resumed the practice of law; also interested in1953 and was admitted to the bar in 1954; legislative counsel manufacturing and various other enterprises; died in Welles-for a special transportation committee, 1953-1957; solicitor ley Hills, near Boston, Mass., June 2, 1891; interment in St.for McArthur, Ohio; delegate to the Republican National Mary's Cemetery, Newton Lower Falls, Mass. Convention in 1956; chairman of Vinton County Republican ABBOVr, Nehemiah, a Representative from Maine; bornExecutive Committee, 1954-1957; Republican nominee for in Sidney, Maine, March 29, 1804; studied law at the Litch-Congress in 1958; elected as a Republican to the Eighty- field (Conn.) Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1836eighth Congress (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1965); unsuc- and commenced practice at Calais, Maine; moved to Colum-cessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; elected judge, Fourth District Court of Appeals of bus, Miss., in 1839 and continued the practice of law;re-- turned to Maine in 1840 and settled in Belfast, WaldoOhio, for four terms commencing in 1966 and ending Febru- County, where he resumed the practice of law; member ofary 1991, and served as presiding judge, 1977-1978, 1983 and the State house of representatives in 1842, 1843, and 1845;1984; chief justice, Ohio Court of Appeals, 1978; is a resident elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (Marchof McArthur, Ohio. 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); was not a candidate for reelection in ABERCROMBIE, James, a Representative from Alabama; 1858; engaged in the practice of his profession until hisborn in Hancock County, Ga., in 1795; attended the common death; mayor of Belfast in 1865 and 1866; died in Belfast,schools; moved to Alabama about 1812 and settled in Monroe Maine, July 26, 1877; interment in Grove Cemetery. (now Dallas) County, and later, in 1819, in Montgomery ABDNOR, James, a Representative and a Senator fromCounty; during the War of 1812 served as a corporal in Maj. South Dakota; born in Kennebec, Lyman County, S.Dak.,F. Freeman's Squadron of Georgia Cavalry; studied law; February 13, 1923; attended the public schools; graduated,member of the State house of representatives 1820-1822 and University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1945; served in the Unitedin 1824; captain in the Alabama and in command of States Army 1942-1943; worked as a farmer-rancher, teach-the cavalry at the reception for General Lafayette in 1825; er, coach; served in the South Dakota senate 1956-1968;served in the State senate 1825-1833; moved to Russell

lieutenant governor of South Dakota 1969-1970; elected asaCounty in 1834; again a member of the State house of repre-- Republican to the Ninety-third and to the three succeedingsentatives in 1838 and 1839; again served in the State senate Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1981);was not a1847-1850; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second and candidate for reelection in 1980; elected as a Republican toThirty-third Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1855); was the in 1980, and served from Januarynot a candidate for renomination in 1854; moved to Florida

3, 1981, to January 3, 1987; unsuccessful candidate forre-- in 1856 and became engaged as a Government brick contrac- election; appointed administrator of the Small Business Ad-tor; died in Pensacola, Fla., July 2, 1861; interment in Lin- ministration 1987 to present; is a resident of Kennebec,wood Cemetery, Columbus, Ga. S.Dak. ABERCROMBIE, John William, a Representative from ABEL, Hazel Hempel, a Senator from Nebraska; born inAlabama; born near Kellys Creek Post Office, St. Clair Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebr., July 10, 1888; attended theCounty, Ala., May 17, 1866; attended the rural schools; was public schools of Omaha, Nebr., graduated from the Univer-graduated from Oxford (Ala.) College in 1886 and from the sity of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1908; high school teacher oflaw department of the at Tuscaloosa mathematics and principal of high schools in Papillion, Ash-in 1888; was admitted to the bar in 1888 and practiced in land, and Crete, Nebr., 1908-1916; president of Abel Con-Cleburne County, Ala., in 1889 and 1890; high school princi- struction Co., 1937-1952; chairwoman of the board of direc-pal, city school superintendent, and college president 1888- tors of Abel Investment Co., Lincoln, Nebr., in 1952 and1898; member of the State senate 1896-1898; State superin- 1953; vice chairwoman of State Republican Central Commit-tendent of education 1898-1902; president of the University tee in 1954; elected as a Republican to the United Statesof Alabama 1902-1911; president of the Southern Education- Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3,al Association in 1906 and 1907; organizer and president of 1955, caused by the death of Dwight Griswold, and servedthe Alabama Association of Colleges 1908-1912; elected as a from November 8, 1954, until her resignation December 31,Democrat to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses 1954; delegate to Conference on Education in(March 4, 1913-March 3, 1917); was not a candidate for 1955; chairwoman of Nebraska delegation to the Republicanreelection in 1916; served as Solicitor and Acting Secretary

National Convention in 1956; member of the Theodore Roo-in the United States Department of Labor 1918-1920; ap-- seveltCentennial Commission,1955-1959;chairwoman,pointed and subsequently elected State superintendent of Biographies 509 education for the term 1920-1927; died in Montgomery, Ala.,(Ninety-fifth Congress); chairman, American Indian Policy July 2, 1940; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. Review Commission 1976; resumed the practice of Jaw and began a career in writing; is a resident of Washington, D.C. ABERCROMBIE, Neil, a Representative from Hawaii; Bibliography: Abourezk, James G. "The Congressional Veto: A Contem- born in Buffalo, N.Y., June 26, 1938; B.A., Union College, porary Response to- Executive Encroachment on LegislativePrerogative." Schenectady, N.Y., 1959; M.A., University of Hawaii, 1964;Indiana Law Journal 52 (Winter 1977): 323-43; Abourezk, James, and Ph.D., American studies, University of Hawaii, 1974; taught Hyman Bookbinder. Through Different Eyes: Two Leading Americans-A at the University of Hawaii and Leeward Community Col- Jew and an Arab-Debate U.S. Policy in the Middle East. Bethesda, Md.: lege; member, Hawaii State house of representatives, 1974- Adler and Adler, 1987. 1978; Hawaii State senate, 1978-1986; elected as a Democrat ABZUG, Bella Savitzky, a Representative from New York; to the Ninety-ninth Congress in a special election held Sep-born Bella Savitzky in New York City, July 24, 1920; attend- tember 20, 1986, to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-ed the local public schools; A.B., Hunter College, New York tion of Cecil Heftel; sworn in September 23, 1986, and servedCity, 1942; LL.B., Law School, New until January 3, 1987; was an unsuccessful candidate forYork City, 1945; graduate work at Jewish Theological Semi- nomination to the One Hundredth Congress; is a resident ofnary of America; admitted to the New York Barin 1947 and Honolulu, Hawaii. commenced practice in New York City; active in labor law; a ABERNETHY, Charles Laban, a Representative fromfounder and member, National and State New Democratic North Carolina; born in Rutherford College, Burke County,Coalition, 1968; an initiator and national legislative repre- N.C., March 18, 1872; attended the public schools, Mountsentative, Women Strike for Peace Movement, 1961-1971; Olive (N.C.) High School, and Rutherford College; moved todelegate to Democratic National Convention, 1972 and 1980; Beaufort, Carteret County, N.C., in 1893; founded the Beau-elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second and to the two fort Herald in 1893; studied law at the University of Northsucceeding Congresses (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1977); Carolina at Chapel Hill; was admitted to the bar in 1895 andwas not a candidate in 1976 for reelection tothe United commenced practice in Beaufort, N.C.; solicitor of the thirdStates House of Representatives, but was an unsuccessful (later the fifth) judicial circuit for twelve years; member ofcandidate for nomination to the United States Senate; un- the State Democratic executive committee 1898-1900; movedsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1977 in the New to New Bern, N.C., in 1913 and continued the practice ofYork mayoral primary; unsuccessful candidate for election law; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh Congress toto the Ninety-fifth Congress in a special election,February fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel M. Brinson; 14, 1978; co-chair, National Advisory Committee for Women, reelected to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeeding Con- 1978-1979; unsuccessful candidate for election to the One-- gresses and served from November 7, 1922, to January 3,hundredth Congress; is a resident of New York City. 1935; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934; re- Bibliography: Abzug, Bella (Savitzky). Bella! Ms. Abzug Goes to Wash- sumed the practice of law until his retirement in 1938; died ington. Edited by Mel Ziegler. New York: Saturday Review Press,1972; in New Bern, N.C., February 23, 1955; interment in Cedar Faber, Doris. . New York: Lothrop, 1976. Grove Cemetery. ACHESON, Ernest Francis, a Representative from Penn- ABERNETHY, Thomas Gerstle, a Representative fromsylvania; born in Washington, Washington County, Pa., Sep- Mississippi; born in Eupora, Webster County, Miss., May 16,tember 19, 1855; attended the public schools; was graduated 1903; attended the public schools, the University of Alabamafrom Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa., in at Tuscaloosa, the University of Mississippi at Oxford, and1875; studied law; was admitted to the bar in1877 and was graduated from the law department of CumberlandUni-practiced until 1879; purchased the Washington Weekly Ob- versity, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1924; was admitted to the bar inserver, of which he was editor; delegate tothe Republican 1924 and commenced practice in Eupora, Miss., in 1925; National Conventions in 1884 and 1896; established adaily mayor of Eupora 1927-1929; moved to Okolona, Miss,in 1929 edition of the Observer in 1889; elected president of the and continued the practice of law; district attorney of thePennsylvania Editorial Association in January 1893 and in third judicial district of Mississippi 1936-1942; delegate,June of the same year was chosen recording secretaryof the Democratic National Conventions in 1956 and 1960; electedNational Editorial Association; trustee of Washington and as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and tothe fourteenJefferson College 1894-1917; elected as a Republican tothe succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1973);Fifty-fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, chairman, Committee on Elections No. 1 (Seventy-eighth1895-March 3, 1909); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- Congress); was not a candidate for reelection in 1972 to thetion in 1908; resumed editorial work until his retirementin Ninety-third Congress; is a resident of Okolona and Jackson,1912; died in Washington, Pa., May 16, 1917; interment in Miss. Washington Cemetery. ABOUREZK, James George, a Representative and a Sena- ACKER, Ephraim Leister, a Representative from Pennsyl- tor from South Dakota; born in Wood, Mellette County,vania; born in Marlboro Township, Montgomery County,Pa., S.Dak., February 24, 1931; attended the Wood and MissionJanuary 11, 1827; attended the common schools and the public schools; graduated as a civil engineer from the Southacademy at Sumneytown; was graduated from MarshallCol- Dakota School of Mines, Rapid City, S.Dak., 1961; graduatedlege, Mercersburg, Pa., September 8, 1847; taught schoolfor from the University of South Dakota Law School, Vermil- University of lion, S.Dak., 1966; lawyer; admitted to the South Dakota bartwo years; was graduated in medicine from the in 1966 and commenced practice in Rapid City; served in thePennsylvania at Philadelphia in March 1852; editor and pub-- 1948-1952; elected as a Democrat to thelisher of the Norristown Register 1853-1877; superintendent Ninety-second Congress (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1973);of the schools of Montgomery County from June1854 to was not a candidate for reelection to theUnited StatesJune 1860; appointed postmaster of Norristown, Pa.,in. House of Representatives in 1972, but was elected as a Dem-March 1860 by President Buchanan and after serving eleven ocrat to the United States Senate and served from Januarymonths was removed by President Lincoln; served as inspec- 3, 1973, to January 3, 1979; was not a candidate for reelec-tor of Montgomery County Prison for three years; elected as tion in 1978; chairman, Select Committee on Indian Affairsa Democrat to the Forty-secondCongress (March 4, 1871- 510 Biographical Directory

March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872Louis & San Francisco Railroad 1907-1911; chief game to the Forty-third Congress; resumed the publication of hiswarden of the United States in 1913 and 1914; author of newspaper until 1877, when he began the study of law; wasnumerous articles on ornithology, fish culture, forestry, and admitted to the bar and practiced until his death in Norris-field sports; chairman of the State central committee on the town, Pa., May 12, 1903; interment in Norris City Cemetery,constitutional convention 1923-1927; died inNashville, Norriton Township, Montgomery County, Pa. Tenn., September 28, 1938; interment in Mount Olivet Ceme- ACKERMAN, Ernest Robinson, a Representative fromtery. New Jersey; born in New York City, N.Y., June 17, 1863; ADAIR, Edwin Ross, a Representative from Indiana; born moved with his parents to Plainfield, N.J.,very shortlyin Albion, Noble County, md., December 14, 1907; attended thereafter; educated at public and private schools andwas graduated from the Plainfield High School in 1880; engagedgrade and high schools in Albion, md.; was graduated from in cement manufacturing; member of the common council ofHillsdale (Mich.) College, A.B., 1928, and from George Wash- Plainfield, N.J., in 1891 and 1892; member of the Stateington University Law School, Washington, D.C., LL.B., senate 1905-1911, serving as president in 1911; delegate to1933; was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1933 and com- the Republican National Conventions at Chicago in 1908 andmenced the practice of law in Fort Wayne, md.; probate in 1916; member of the board of trustees of Rutgers College,commissioner of Allen County, md., 1940-1950; during the New Brunswick, N.J., 1916-1920; Federal food administratorSecond World War was called to active duty as a second for Union County during the First World War; member oflieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps Reserve in Septem- the State board of education 1918-1920; member of the Newber 1941 and served until October 1945; elected asa Republi- Jersey Geological Survey and associate of the American So-can to the Eighty-second and to the nine succeeding Con- ciety of Civil Engineers; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-gresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1971); unsuccessful can- sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served fromdidate for reelection in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress; March 4, 1919, until his death in Plainfield, N.J., October 18,ambassador to Ethiopia, 1971-1974; resumed the practice of 1931; interment in the family plot, Hillside Cemetery. law in Ft. Wayne, md., where he resided until his death there, May 5, 1983; interment in Greenlawn Memorial Park ACKERMAN, Gary Leonard, a Representative from Newand Mausoleum, Ft. Wayne. York; born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., November 19, 1942; attended New York City public schools; graduated, ADAIR, Jackson Leroy, a Representative from illinois; Brooklyn Technical High School, 1960; B.A., Queens College,born in Clayton, Adams County, Ill., February 23, 1887; at- Flushing, N.Y., 1965; attended, St. John's University, Jamai-tended public and high schools, and Illinois College at Jack- ca, N.Y., 1966; public school teacher, newspaper publisher,sonville; was graduated from the law department of the businessman; elected to the New York senate, 1979-1983; at Ann Arbor in 1911; was admitted elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth Congress, byto the bar the same year and commenced practice in Musko- special election, March 1, 1983, to fill the vacancy caused bygee, Okla.; moved to Quincy, Ill., in 1913 and continued the the death of Benjamin Rosenthal; reelected to the Ninety-practice of law; also engaged in agricultural pursuits and in ninth and One Hundredth Congresses and served fromthe manufacture of medicine for livestock; city attorney March 1, 1983, to January 3, 1989; is a resident of Flushing, 1914-1916; prosecuting attorney of Adams County 1916-1920 N.Y. and 1924-1928; member of the State senate 1928-1932; elect- ed as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth ACKLEN, Joseph Hayes, a Representative from Louisi-Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937); was not a candi- ana; born in Nashville, Tenn., May 20, 1850; educated bydate for renomination in 1936; appointed United States dis- private tutors; attended Burlington Military College,neartrict judge for the southern district of Illinois in 1937 by Burlington, N.J., in 1864 and 1865, and was graduated fromPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt and served until his death two foreign universities (Ecole de Neuilly, Paris, and Swissin Quincy, Ill., January 19, 1956; interment in South Side University, Vevay); returned to the United States andwasCemetery, Clayton, ill. graduated from the Lebanon Law School, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1871; commenced the practice of law in Nashville and later ADAIR, John, a Senator and a Representative from Ken- practiced in Memphis, Tenn.; abandoned the practice of lawtucky; born in Chester District, Chester County, S.C., Janu- and moved to Louisiana to superintend his sugar plantationsary 9, 1757; attended the public schools in Charlotte, N.C.; near Pattersonville (now Patterson), St. May Parish; colonelserved in the Revolutionary War; member of the South in the Louisiana Militia in 1876; successfully contestedas aCarolina convention that ratified the Constitution of the Democrat the election of Chester B. Darrall to the Forty-United States; moved to Kentucky in 1788; major of volun- fifth Congress; reelected to the Forty-sixth Congress andteers in an expedition against the Indians under General served from February 20, 1878, to March 3, 1881; was not aWilkinson in 1791 and 1792; was a lieutenant colonel under candidate for renomination in 1880; resumed the practice ofGeneral Scott in 1793; member of the Kentucky constitution- law at Franklin, La.; declined to accept the position of judgeal convention in 1792; member of the State house of repre- of the Federal district court of Louisiana tendered by Presi-sentatives 1793-1795, 1798, and 1800-1803, serving as speak- dent Hayes in 1880; unsuccessful candidate for election iner in 1802 and 1803; register of the United States land office 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; returned to Nashville,in 1805; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacan- Tenn., in 1885 and continued the practice of law; chairmancy caused by the resignation of John Breckinridge and of the Davidson County Democratic executive committeeserved from November 8, 1805, to November 18, 1806, when

1886-1894; member of the Nashville City Council 1900-1904; he resigned, having been an unsuccessful candidate for re-- president of the State bar association in 1901 and 1902;election; aide to Governor Shelby in the Battle of the general insurance counsel of Tennessee 1903-1907; StateThames in 1813; commander of the Kentucky rifle brigade warden of the department of game, fish, and forestry 1903-which served under General Jackson in 1814 and 1815; again 1913; general counsel of the National Association of Gamea member of the State house of representatives in 1817; and Fish Commissioners of the United States 1905-1912,appointed adjutant general with the brevet rank of brigadier when elected president; middle Tennessee counsel of the St.general; 1820-1824; elected as a Jack- Biographies 511 sonian to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-Marchthe Revolutionary War with the rank of colonel; member of 3, 1833); was not a candidate for reelection in 1832; died inthe State house of representatives 1776-1781, serving as Harrodsburg, Ky., May 19, 1840; interment in State Ceme-speaker in 1779 and 1780; Member of the Continental Con- tery, Frankfort, Ky., where a monument to his memory wasgress in 1778; signer of the Articles of Confederationin 1778; erected by the State. member of the executive council in 1789; appointed chief Bibliography: DAB; Gillig, John S. "In the Pursuit of Truth and Honor:justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1793 and served The Controversy Between and John Adair in1817." in this position until his death in Litchfield, Conn., Novem- Filson Club History Quarterly 58 (April 1984): 177-201; Leger, William G. ber 26, 1797; interment in East Cemetery. "The Public Life Of John Adair." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Ken- Bibliography: DAB. tucky, 1960. ADAMS, Benjamin, a Representative from Massachusetts; ADAIR, John Alfred McDowell, a Representative fromborn in Mendon, Mass., December 16, 1764; attended the Indiana; born near Portland, Jay County, md., December 22,public schools and was graduated from Brown University in 1864; attended the public schools and Portland High School;1788; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced engaged in mercantile pursuits; clerk of the city of Portland practice in Uxbridge; member of the State house of repre-- 1888-1890; clerk of Jay County 1890-1895; studied law; wassentatives 1809-1814; served in the State senate in 1814, admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in1815, and 1822-1825; elected as a Federalist to the Four- Portland, md.; member of the State house of representativesteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of in 1902 and 1903; engaged in banking, being elected presi-; reelected to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth dent of the First National Bank of Portland in 1904; electedCongresses and served from December 2, 1816, to March 3, as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and to the foursucceeding1821; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1820 to the Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1917); chairman, Com- mittee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Sixty-Seventeenth Congress and for election in 1822 to the Eight- third and Sixty-fourth Congresses); did not seek renomina-eenth Congress; resumed the practice of his profession; died tion in 1916 but was an unsuccessful Democratic nominee in Uxbridge, Worcester County, Mass., March 28, 1837; inter- for ; resumed the banking business inment in Prospect Hill Cemetery. Portland, md.; moved to Washington, D.C., in 1924 and ADAMS, Brockman (Brock), a Representative and a Sen- served as vice president of Southern Dairies (Inc.) until 1931;ator from Washington; born in Atlanta, Ga., on January 13, chairman of the board of the Finance Service Co., in Balti-1927; attended the public schools in Portland, Oreg.; grad- more, Md., 1933-1935; vice president of the Atlas Tack Cor-uated, University of Washington, Seattle, 1949; graduated, poration, Fairhaven, Mass., 1935-1937; director of the Art- 1952; served in the United States Navy loom Corporation, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1937; died in Port-1944-1946; admitted to the Washington State bar in 1952 land, md., October 5, 1938; interment in Green Park Ceme-- and began practice in Seattle; taught law, American Insti- tery. tute of Banking 1954-1960; United States attorney forthe ADAMS, Alva Blanchard, a Senator from Colorado; bornWestern District of Washington 1961-1964; elected as a Dem- in Del Norte, Rio Grande County, Cob., October 29, 1875;ocrat to the Eighty-ninth and to the six succeeding Congress- attended the common schools; graduated from Phillips Acad-es and served from January 3,1965, until his resignation emy, Andover, Mass., in 1893; graduated from Yale Universi-January 22,1977; chairman, Committee on the Budget ty in 1896 and from Columbia Law School in 1899; was(Ninety-fourth Congress); Secretary of Transportation in the admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced practice inCabinet of President 1977-1979; resumed the Pueblo, Cob.; county attorney of Pueblo County 1909-1911;practice of law in Washington State; elected as a Democrat member of the charter convention of Pueblo in 1911; regentto the United States Senate in 1986, for the termending of the State University of Colorado 1911 and 1912; city attor-January 3, 1993. ney of Pueblo 1911-1915; during the First World War served ADAMS, Charles Francis (son of and 1918- as major in the Judge Advocate General's Department grandson of ), a Representative from Massachu- 1919; appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senatesetts; born in Boston, Mass., August 18, 1807; spent several to ifil the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel D. Nichol-years with his parents in St. Petersburg,Russia; attended son and served from May 17, 1923, to November 30,1924, the Boston Latin School, and was graduated from Harvard when a successor was elected and qualified; unsuccessful candidate for election to fill the vacancy in 1924; resumedUniversity in 1825; studied law; was admitted to the bar on January6,1829, and commenced practicein Boston; the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Unitedmember of the State house of representatives in 1831; served States Senate in 1932; reelected in 1938, and served fromin the State senate 1835-1840; founded the Boston Whig in March 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., on De-1846; unsuccessful candidate of the Free-Soil Party for Vice cember 1, 1941; chairman, Committee on Irrigation and Rec-President of the United States in 1848; elected as a Republi- lamation (Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses), Congresses and Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Seventy-fifthcan to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh through Seventy-seventh Congresses); interment in Rose- served from March 4, 1859, to May 1, 1861, when he resigned to accept a diplomatic position; chairman, Committee on lawn Cemetery, Pueblo, Colorado. Manufactures (Thirty-sixth Congress); appointed by Presi- Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Aba B. Adams. 77th Cong., 2nd sees, 1942. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, dent Lincoln as Minister to England and served from March 1944. 20, 1861, to May 13, 1868; declined the presidency of Har- vard University but became one of its overseers in 1869; died ADAMS, Andrew, a Delegate from Connecticut; born inin Boston, Mass., November 21, 1886; interment in Mount Stratford, Conn., January 7, 1736; pursued preparatory stud-Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk County, Mass. ies; was graduated from Yale College in 1760; studied law, Bibliography: DAB; Adams, Charles Francis. Diary of Charles Francis and was admitted to the Fairfield County bar; prosecuting Adams. 6 vole. The Adams Papers, Series L Diaries. Edited by William T. attorney of Litchfield County in 1772; moved in1774 to Doherty, Marc Friedlander, and LH. Butterfield. Cambridge, Mass.: Belk- Litchfield, which thereafter remained his home; member ofnap Press of Harvard University Press,1975; Dubernian, Martin B. the Connecticut Council of Safety for two years; served in Charles Francis Adams, 1807-1886. Boston: Houghton, 1961. 512 Biographical Directory

ADAMS, Charles Henry, a Representative from Newcourt of Kentucky 1851-1856; elected as the candidate of the York; born in Coxsackie, Greene County, N.Y., April 10,Opposition Party to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1824; attended the public schools; studied law;was admitted1859-March 3, 1861); was not a candidate for renomination to the bar about 1845 and commenced practice in New Yorkin 1860; Sixth Auditor of the Treasury Department from City; moved to Cohoes, Albany County, N.Y., in 1850;ap-April 17, 1861, to October 26, 1864; resumed the practice of pointed with rank of colonel to Governor Hunt's staff inlaw in Philadelphia; died in Philadelphia, Pa., January 18, 1851; member of the State assembly in 1858; engaged in the1884; interment in West Laurel Hill Cemetery. manufacture of knit underwear, and in banking; retired from active business in 1870; served as first mayor of Cohoes ADAMS, Henry Cullen, a Representative from Wisconsin; 1870-1872; delegate to the Republican National Conventionborn in Verona, Oneida County, N.Y., November 28, 1850; at Philadelphia in 1872; served in the State senate in 1872moved to Wisconsin in 1851 with his parents, who settled in and 1873; United States commissioner from New York to theFort Atkinson, Jefferson County; attended thepublic Vienna Exposition in 1873; elected as a Republican to theschools, Albion Academy, and the University of Wisconsin at Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877);unsuc-Madison; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the cessful candidate for renomination in 1876; resumed bankingWisconsin assembly 1883-1885; State superintendent of in Cohoes, N.'9'., until 1892, when he retired from activepublic property 1884-1890; engaged in work with the Wis- business pursuits and moved to New York City, where heconsin farmers' institutes 1887-1889; president of the Wis- died December 15, 1902; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.consin Dairy Association and secretary of the State Horticul- tural Society; State dairy and food commissioner 1895-1902; ADAMS, George Everett, a Representative from Illinois;elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth born in Keene, Cheshire County, N.H., June 18, 1840; movedCongresses and served from March 4, 1903, until his death with his parents to Chicago, Ill., in 1853; attended Phillipsin Chicago, 111., July 9, 1906; interment in Forest Hifi Ceme- Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; was graduated from Harvard University in 1860; during the Civil War enlisted in thetery, Madison, Wis. First Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Artillery; attended the Bibliography: DAB. Harvard Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1865 and ADAMS, John (father of John Quincy Adams and grandfa- commenced practice in Chicago, ill.; member of the Statether of Charles Francis Adams), a Delegate from Massachu- senate from 1880 until March 3, 1883, when he resigned tosetts and a Vice President and 2d President of the United enter Congress; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighthStates; born in Braintree, Mass., October 19, 1735; was grad- and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-uated from in 1755; studied law; was admit- March 3, 1891); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelectionted to the bar in 1758 and commenced practice in Suffolk in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; resumed the practice ofCounty; joined the Sons of Liberty and argued against the his profession in Chicago, Ill., until his death at hissummerStamp Act; was elected to represent Boston in the general home in Peterborough, Hillsborough County, N.H., Octobercourt in 1768; Member of the Continental Congress 1774- 5, 1917; interment in Pine Hifi Cemetery. 1777; signed the Declaration of Independence and proposed George Washington, of Virginia, for General of the Ameri- ADAMS, George Madison (nephew of Green Adams),a Representative from Kentucky; born in Barbourville, Knoxcan Army; became a member of the Board of War, but County, Ky., December 20, 1837; received private instructionresigned to accept appointment as commissioner to the from his father and attended Centre College, Danville, KY.;Court of France; Minister Plenipotentiary to Holland 1782; studied law; clerk of the circuit court of Knox County, Ky.,first Minister to England 1785-1788; elected in 1788 as the 1859-1861; during the Civil War raised a company of volun-first Vice President of the United States with George Wash- ington as President; reelected in 1792 and served from April teers and was captain of Company H, Seventh Regiment,21, 1789, to March 3, 1797; elected President of the United Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, from 1861 to 1863; in 1864States and served from March 4, 1797, to March 3, 1801; was commissioned paymaster with the rank of major; electeddelegate to the constitutional convention of Massachusetts as a Democrat to the Fortieth and to the three succeeding1820; died in Quincy, Mass., July 4, 1826; interment under Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1875); unsuccessfulcan- didate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress;the old First Congregational Church, now called the United elected Clerk of the House of Representatives December 6,First Parish Church. Bibliography: DAB; Adams, John. The AdamsPapers.Edited by Richard 1875, during the Forty-fourth Congress, and served until the Ryerson, L.H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlander, et al.17 vols. relating to commencement of the Forty-seventh Congress, December 5,John Adams to date. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1961-; 1881; appointed register of the Kentucky land office by Gov. Guerrero, Linda. "John Adams' Vice Presidency, 1789-1797." Ph.D. disser- J. Proctor Knott and served from 1884 to 1887; appointed tation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 19'78. secretary of state for Kentucky by Gov. Simon B. Buckner and served from 1887 to 1891; appointed State railroad com- ADAMS, John, a Representative from New York; born in missioner in 1891; appointed United States pension agent atOak Hill, town of Durham, Greene County, N.Y., August 26, Louisville by President Cleveland and served from 1894 to 1778;attended the common schools;taught schoolin 1898; after retirement resided at Winchester, Clark County,Durham; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1805 and Ky., until his death April 6, 1920; interment in Lexingtoncommenced practice in Durham; appointed surrogate of Cemetery, Lexington, Ky. Greene County by Governor Tompkins in 1810; member of the State assembly in 1812 and 1813; presented credentials

ADAMS, Green (uncle of George Madison Adams), a Rep-- as a Republican Member-elect to the Fourteenth Congress resentative from Kentucky; born in Barbourville, Knoxand served from March 4 to December '26, 1815, when he County, Ky., August 20, 1812; pursued preparatory studies;was succeeded by Erastus Root, who contested his election; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; memberelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March of the State house of representatives in 1839; presidential4, 1833-March 3, 1835); was not a candidate for renomina- elector on the Whig ticket in 1844; elected as a Whig to thetion in 1834; moved to Catskill, Greene County, N.Y., and Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); was not acontinued the practice of law until his death; elected a direc- candidate for renomination in 1848; judge of the circuittor of the Catskill-Canajoharie Railroad in 1835; died in Biographies 513

Catskill, N.Y., September 25, 1854; interment in ThomsonCounty, serving in 1815 and 1816, and again from1818 to Street Cemetery. 1821; engaged in agricultural pursuits and also was a con- struction contractor on the Erie Canal; successfully contest- ADAMS, John Joseph, a Representative from New York;ed the election of Isaac Wilson to the Eighteenth Congress; born in Douglas Town, Province of New Brunswick, Domin-reelected to the Nineteenth Congress and served from Janu- ion of Canada, September 16, 1848; attended the local school;ary 7, 1824, to March 3, 1827; died inAlexander, Genesee came to the United States and settled in New York CityinCounty, N.Y., February 19, 1832. 1864; engaged as a clerk with a dry-goods firm until 1874; was graduated from Columbia Law School in 1876; wasad- ADAMS, Robert, Jr., a Representative from Pennsylvania; mitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice inborn in Philadelphia, Pa., February 26,1849; attended New York City; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighthDoctor Fairies Physical Institute, Philadelphia, Pa., and was and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887);graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadel- was not a candidate for renomination in 1886;resumed thephia in 1869; studied law; was admitted to the bar April 27, practice of law in New York City and died there February1872, and practiced; member of the United States Geological 16, 1919; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.Survey during the explorations of Yellowstone Park 187 1- ADAMS, John Quincy (son of John Adams and father of1875; member of the State militia 1881-1895; served in the Charles Francis Adams), a Senator and a RepresentativeState senate 1883-1886; was graduated from the Wharton from Massachusetts and 6th President of the United States;School of Economy and Finance of the University of Penn- born in Braintree, Mass., July 11, 1767; acquired his earlysylvania in 1884; appointed United States Minister to Brazil education in Europe at the University of Leyden; was grad-on April 1, 1889, and served untilJune 1, 1890, when he uated from Harvard University in 1787; studied law; wasresigned; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third Congress admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Boston,to fill the vacancy caused by the death of CharlesO'Neill; Mass.; appointed Minister to Netherlands 1794, Minister toreelected to the Fifty-fourth and to the five succeeding Con- 1796, Minister to Prussia 1797, and served untilgresses and served from December 19, 1893,until his death 1801; commissioned to make a commercial treaty with in Washington, D.C., June 1, 1906; interment in Laurel Hill in 1798; elected to the State senate in 1802; unsuc-Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. cessful caadidate for election in 1802 to the Eighth Congress; Bibliography: DAB. elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate and ADAMS, Robert Huntington, a Senator from Mississippi; served from March 4, 1803, until June 8, 1808, when heborn in Rockbridge County, Va., in 1792; apprenticed to the resigned; Minister to Russia 1809-1814; member of the com-cooper's trade; was graduated from Washington College (now mission which negotiated the Treaty of Ghent in 1814; Min-Washington and Lee University) at Lexington, Va., in 1806; ister to England 1815-1817 and assisted in concluding thestudied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- convention of commerce with Great Britain; Secretary oftice in Knoxville, Tenn.; moved to Natchez, Miss., in 1819; State in the Cabinet of President 1817-1825;member of the State house of representatives in 1828; elect- in 1825 the election of the President of the United States fill the fell, according to the Constitution of the United States, uponed as a Jacksonian to the United States Senate to vacancy caused by the death of ThomasB. Reed and served the House of Representatives, as none of the candidates had July secured a majority of the electors chosen by the States, andfrom January 6, 1830, until his death in Natchez, Miss., Adams, who stood second to Andrew Jackson in the electoral2, 1830; interment in Natchez City Cemetery. vote, was chosen and served from March 4, 1825, to March 3, ADAMS, Samuel (uncle of Joseph Allen and granduncle of 1829; elected to the Twenty-second and to the eight succeed-Charles Allen), a Delegate from Massachusetts; born in ing Congresses and served from March 4, 1831, until hisBoston, Mass., September 27, 1722; was graduated from Har- death; chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Twenty-vard College in 1740; received M.A. degree in 1743; engaged secondthroughTwenty-sixth,and Twenty-eighth andin the brewing business; appointed tax collector of Boston, Twenty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Indian Affairs1756-1764; drafted the instructions given by the town of (Twenty-seventh Congress), Committee on Foreign AffairsBoston to its newly chosen representatives with reference to (Twenty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate for Gov-the proposed Stamp Act in May 1764; member of thegeneral ernor of Massachusetts in 1834; died in the CapitolBuilding,court of Massachusetts 1765-1774; Member of the Continen- Washington, D.C., February 23,1848; interment in thetal Congress from 1774 to 1781; a signer of the Declarationof family burial ground at Quincy, Mass.; subsequently rein-Independence; member of the Massachusetts constitutional terred in United First Parish Church. convention in 1779; president of the State senate in 1781; Bibliography: DAB; Adams, John Quincy. The Diary of John Quincy Adams. Edited by David Grayson Allen, Robert J. Taylor, et al. 2 vols. to member of the State constitutional convention in 1788; un- date. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981-; Richards, Leon-successful candidate for election in 1788 to the First Con- ard. The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams. New York: gress; Lieutenant Governor 1789-1794;Governor 1794-1797; Oxford University Press, 1986. died in Boston, Mass., October 2, 1803; interment in Granary Burial Ground. ADAMS, Parmenio, a Representative from New York; Bibliography: DAB; Adams, Samuel. The Writings of . 4 born in Hartford, Conn., September 9, 1776; attended the vols. Edited by Harry Alonzo Cushing. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, common schools; moved in 1806 to "PhelpsCorners," then in 1904-1908; Miller, John C. Sam Adams: Pioneer in Propaganda. Boston: the township of Batavia, Genesee County (now Attica, Wyo- Little, Brown, 1936. ming County), N.Y.; held commissions in the New York State Militia from 1806 to 1816 as lieutenant of light Infan- ADAMS, Sherman, a Representative from New Hamp- try, captain of Grenadiers, second and first major,and divi-shire; born in East Dover, Windham County, Vt., January 8, sion inspector of Infantry; served in the War of 1812 as1899; as an infant moved with his parents to Providence, major and commandant of New York Volunteers for someR.I.; attended the public schools of Providence; served inthe months on the Niagara frontier and was recommended for aUnited States Marine Corps during the First World War; majority in the by Gov. Daniel D.was graduated from DartmouthCollege, Hanover, N.H., in Tompkins, of New York; twice appointed sheriff of Genesee1920; engaged in the lumber business in Healdville, Vt., in 514 Biographical Directory

1921 and 1922 and in the paper and lumber business in ADAMS, Wilbur Louis, a Representative from Delaware; Lincoln, N.H., 1923-1944; also engaged in banking; memberborn in Georgetown, Sussex County, Del., October 23, 1884; of the New Hampshire house of representatives 1941-1944,attended the public schools, Delaware College, Newark, Del., serving as speaker in 1943 and 1944; chairman of the Graf-and Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.; was graduated from the ton County Republican Committee 1942-1944; delegate tolaw department of the University of Pennsylvania at Phila- the Republican National Conventions in 1944 and 1952;delphia in 1907; was admitted to the bar the same year and elected as a Republican to the Seventy-ninth Congress (Janu- commenced practice in Wilmington, Del.; unsuccessful candi- ary 3, 1945-January 3, 1947); was not a candidate for re-date for election as attorney general in 1924; elected as a nomination in 1946 but was an unsuccessful Republicancan-Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933- didate for the gubernatorial nomination; engagedas a repre- sentative of the American Pulpwood Industry in New YorkJanuary 3, 1935); was not a candidate for renomination in City 1946-1948; Governor of New Hampshire January 1,1934, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the 1949-January 1, 1953; appointed The Assistant to PresidentUnited States Senate; moved to Georgetown, Del., in 1934 Eisenhower January 21, 1953, and served until his resigna-and continued the practice of law; acting postmaster of tion September 22, 1958; engaged in writing and lecturing;Georgetown, Del., from May 6, 1937, until his death; died in established a ski resort in 1966 and was president and chair-Lewes, Del., on December 4, 1937; interment in Union Ceme-- man of the board of Loon Mountain Corporation; was atery, Georgetown, Del. resident of Lincoln, N.H., until his death in Hanover, N.H., ADAMSON, William Charles a Representative from Geor- October 27, 1986. gia; born in Bowdon, Carroll County, Ga., August 13, 1854; ADAMS, Silas, a Representative from Kentucky; born inattended the common schools; was graduated from Bowdon Pulaski County, Ky., February 9,1839; moved to CaseyCollege in 1874; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1876 County with his parents in 1841; attended the public schools,and commenced practice in Carrollton, Carroll County, Ga.; Kentucky University at Harrodsburg, and Transylvania Uni-judge of the city court of Carroilton 1885-1889; attorney for versity at Lexington; entered the during thethe city of Carroilton for a number of years; delegate to the

Civil War as a first lieutenant, First Regiment, KentuckyDemocratic National Convention in 1892; elected as a Demo-- Volunteer Cavalry; promoted to captain, lieutenant colonel,crat to the Fifty-fifth and to the ten succeeding Congresses and colonel of the regiment; was mustered out December 31,and served from March 4, 1897, until December 18, 1917, 1864; entered Lexington Law School in 1867; was admitted towhen he resigned; chairman, Committee on Interstate and the bar and practiced; served two terms as county attorney;Foreign Commerce (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Con- member of the State house of representatives 1889-1892;gresses); appointed on December 17, 1917, a member of the unsuccessful Republican candidate for the United StatesBoard of United States General Appraisers (now the United Senate in 1892; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-thirdStates Customs Court) and served until January 20, 1928,

Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful inde- - when he resigned; resumed the practice of law in Carrollton, pendent candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourthGa.; died while on a visit in New York City, January 3, 1929; Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Liberty, Caseyinterment in City Cemetery, Carroilton, Ga. County, Ky., May 5, 1896; interment in Brown Cemetery, Humphrey, Ky. ADDABBO, Joseph Patrick, a Representative from New York; born in Ozone Park, Queens County, N.Y., March 17, ADAMS, Stephen, a Representative and a Senator from1925; attended Public School 59, Boys' High School, Brook- Mississippi; born in the Pendleton District, S.C., October 17,lyn, and City College of New York; graduated from St. 1807; moved with his parents to Franklin County, Tenn., inJohn's Law School in 1946 and commenced the practice of 1812; attended the public schools; studied law; was admittedlaw in Ozone Park, N.Y., in 1947; president of Ozone Park to the bar in 1829; member of the State senate 1833-1834;Men's Association, 1948-1959 and Fermi Welfare League of moved to Aberdeen, Miss., in 1834 and commenced the prac-Catholic Charities, 1956-1958; elected as a Democrat to the tice of law; circuit court judge 1837-1845; elected as a Demo-Eighty-seventh and to the twelve succeeding Congresses and crat to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3,served from January 3, 1961, until his death in Washington, 1847); again became judge of the circuit court in 1848;D.C., April 10, 1986; interment in St. John's Cemetery, member of the State house of representatives in 1850; dele-- Queens, N.Y. gate to the State constitutional convention in 1851; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate on February 19, ADDAMS, William, a Representative from Pennsylvania; 1852, to ifil the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jeffer-born in Lancaster County, Pa., April 11, 1777; moved to son Davis and served from March 17, 1852, to March 3, 1857;Berks County, near Reading, and served as auditor in 1813 chairman, Committee on Retrenchment (Thirty-third andand 1814; commissioner of Berks County 1814-1817; member the Thirty-fourth Congresses); moved to Memphis, Tenn. andof the State house of representatives 1822-1824; elected to resumed the practice of law; died in Memphis, Tenn., Maythe Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825- 11, 1857; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. March 3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1828; member of the committee for the Deaf and Dumb ADAMS, Thomas, a Delegate from Virginia; born in NewInstitution for the States of New York and Ohio; elected Kent County, Va., in 1730; attended the common schools;associate judge of Berks County and served from 1839 to clerk of Henrico County; journeyed to England in 1762 and1842; captain of the Reading City Troop; largely interested attended to his extensive business interests there until 1774;in agricultural pursuits; died in Spring Township, Berks returned before the Revolutionary War; member of the Vir-County, Pa., May 30, 1858; interment in St. John's Church ginia House of Burgesses and signed the Articles of Associa- tion May 27, 1774; chairman of the New Kent County Com-Cemetery, Sinking Springs, Pa. mittee of Safety in 1774; Member of the Continental Con- ADDONIZIO, Hugh Joseph, a Representative from New gress in 1778 and 1779; a signer of the Articles of Confedera-Jersey; born in Newark, Essex County, N.J., January 31, tion; moved to Augusta County, Va., in 1780; member of the1914; attended the public schools; graduated from West Side State senate 1783-1786; died on his estate, "Cowpasture," inHigh School, Newark, N.J., in 1933, St. Benedict's Prep Augusta County, Va., in August 1788. School, Newark, N.J., in 1935, and Fordham University, Biographies 515

New York City, in 1939; employed with A & C Clothing Co.,(March 4, 1857-March 3,1861); chairman, Committee on of Newark, N.J., in 1939 and became vice president in 1946;Engraving (Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses); was during the Second World War entered the United Statesnot a candidate for reelection in 1860;resumed the practice Army as a private on January 13, 1941; attended Officersof his profession; died in New Brunswick, MiddlesexCounty, Candidate School, Fort Benning, Ga., and commissioned aN.J., August 17, 1878; interment in Van LiewCemetery. second lieutenant of Infantry; served with the Sixtieth In- AGNEW, Spiro Theodore, Vice President of theUnited fantry, Ninth Division, participating in eight major cam-States; born in Baltimore, Md., November 9, 1918;educated paigns; discharged as a captain in February 1946; elected as Johns Hop- a Democrat to the Eighty-first and tothe six succeedingin the public schools of Baltimore; attended the Congresses and served from January 3, 1949, until his resig-kins University; graduated from the University of Baltimore Law School 1947; served in the United States Armyduring nation June 30, 1962; elected mayor of Newark, N.J., in 1962 practiced and reelected in 1966, serving until July 1, 1970; unsuccess- the Second World War and the Korean conflict; ful candidate for reelection in 1970; resided in Tinton Falls,law in Baltimore; elected county executive ofBaltimore County 1962; elected Governor of Maryland 1966;elected N.J., until his death in Red Bank, N.J., February 2, 1981; ticket interment in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hanover, N.J. Vice President of the United States on the Republican with President Richard M. Nixon on November 5, 1968; re- ADGATE, Asa, a Representative from New York; born insigned as Governor of Maryland on January 7, 1969; inaugu- Canaan, N.Y., November 17, 1767; in 1793 moved to whatrated 39th Vice President of the United States on January became known as Adgates Falls, on the Ausable River, then20,1969;reelected Vice President, November 7,1972; in the township of Peru, Clinton County, N.Y. (now Ausablecharged with accepting bribes and falsifying federal tax re-- Chasm, Chesterfield Township, Essex County, N.Y.), whereturns, pleaded nob contendere to the latter chargein feder- he engaged in the manufacture of iron and agriculturalal court, and resigned October 10, 1973; internationaltrade pursuits; upon the organization of the town of Peru in1793 executive. was elected town clerk and reelectedin 1794; supervisor in 1795; assessor in 1796 and 1797; commissioner of schools in AHL, John Alexander, a Representative from Pennsylva- 1798; member of the State general assembly from Clintonnia; born in Strasburg, Franklin County, Pa.,August 16, County in 1798; lieutenant of Infantry, Clinton County, New1813; moved with his parents to Newville,Cumberland York Militia, in 1798 and 1799; named by Gov. John Jay, ofCounty, Pa., in 1825; attended the public schools;taught New York, March 9, 1799, in the first commission of theschool for several terms; studied medicine and wasgraduat- peace for Essex County, as one of thejudges of the court ofed from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md.,in 1832; common pleas and served for several years;elected as apracticed his profession at Centerville, Pa., until 1856; Republican to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancymoved to Newville, Pa., in 1856 and engaged inthe real caused by the death of Benjamin Pond and served from Juneestate business; also operated a paper mill;delegate to the 7, 1815, to March 3, 1817; was not a candidate for renomina-Democratic National Convention at Cincinnati in1856; elect- tion in 1816; resumed his former occupations; again aed as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress(March 4, member of the State general assembly from Essex County,1857-March 3, 1859); declined to be a candidate forrenomi- in 1823; died at Ausable Chasm, Chesterfield Township,nation in 1858; resumed the manufacture of paperand oper- Essex County, N.Y., February 15, 1832; interment in Ausableated an iron furnace at Antietam, Md.; served as surgeonin Chasm Cemetery, Ausable Township, Clinton County, N.Y.the State militia; projector and majorbuilder of the Harris- burg & Potomac Railroad; died in Newville,Pa., April 25, ADKINS, Charles, a Representative from Illinois; born on Cemetery. a farm in Pickaway County,Ohio, near Mount Sterling,1882; interment in Big Spring Presbyterian February 7, 1863; attended the common schools; taught AIKEN, David Wyatt (father of Wyatt Aikenand cousin of school for several years; moved to Illinois in 1885 and settledWilliam Aiken), a Representative from SouthCarolina; born on a farm in Piatt County near Bement;engaged in agricul- in Winnsboro, Fairfield County, S.C., March17, 1828; re-- tural pursuits; president of the Piatt County (Ill.) Farmers'ceived his early education under private tutors;attended Institute; member of the board of education of Bement, Ill.,Mount Zion Institute, Winnsboro, and wasgraduated from 1900-1920; member of the board of supervisors of PiattSouth Carolina University, at Columbia, in1849; taught County 1902-1906; member of the State house of representa-school two years; engaged in agriculturalpursuits in 1852; tives 1907-1913, serving as speaker 1911-1913; presidentofduring the Civil War served in the ConfederateArmy as a the Illinois Livestock Breeders' Association in 1914and 1915;private; appointed adjutant and later electedcolonel of the appointed State director of agriculture during the adminis-Seventh Regiment of Volunteers; relieved fromservice by tration of Gov. Frank M. Lowden and served from 1916 toreason of wounds received onSeptember 17, 1862, at Antie- 1920; moved to Decatur, Macon County, Ill., in1918; electedtam; member of the State house ofrepresentatives 1864- as a Republican to theSixty-ninth and to the three succeed- and Mechanical unsuccessful1866; secretary and treasurer, Agricultural ing Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1933); Society of South Carolina, 1869; member, executivecommit- candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-thirdCon- served as chairman, his death there on Marchtee, National Grange, 1873-1885, and gress; resided in Decatur, Ill., until 1875; delegate to the Democratic National Convention atSt. 31, 1941; interment in Bement Cemetery, Bement, Ill. Louis in 1876; elected as a Democrat to theForty-fifth and to ADRAIN, Garnett Bowditch, a Representativefrom Newthe four succeeding Congresses (March 4,1877-March 3, Jersey; born in New York City December15, 1815; moved1887); chairman, Committee on Education(Forty-eighth and with his parents to New Brunswick, N.J.;attended theForty-ninth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomina- public schools; was graduated from Rutgers College,Newtion in 1886, being an invalid throughout his last term;died Brunswick, in 1833; studied law in the office of hisbrother;in Cokesbury, S.C., April 6, 1887; intermentin Magnolia was licensed as an attorneyin 1836 and as a counselor inCemetery, Greenwood, S.C. 1839; commenced the practice of law in NewBrunswick, Bibliography: DAB; Pritchard, Claudius Hornby, Jr. Colonel D. Wyatt N.J.; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifthCongress and Aiken, 1828-1887, South Carolina's Militant Agrarian. Privatelyprinted in as an Anti-Lecompton Democrat tothe Thirty-sixth Congress Hampden-Sydney, Va., 1970. 516 Biographical Directory

AIKEN, George David, a Senator from Vermont; born invacancy caused by the death of George W. Kipp; reelected to Dummerston, Windham County, Vt., August 20, 1892; movedthe Sixty-third Congress and served from November 7, 1911, with his parents to Putney, Vt., in 1893; attended the publicto March 3, 1915; was not a candidate for reelection in 1914 schools of Putney and Brattleboro, Vt.; engaged in fruitto the Sixty-fourth Congress; delegate to the International farming in 1912; also conducted an extensivenursery busi-Parliamentary Union for ness, and in 1926 engaged in the commercial cultivation of International Peace held at wildflowers; served as school director of Putney 1920-1937;Geneva, Switzerland, in 1912, and at The Hague in 1913; member of the State house of representatives 1931-1935 andsecretary and president of the Japanese-American group of served as speaker 1933-1935; lieutenant governor of Ver-interparliamentarians and delegate in 1914 to Tokyo, Japan, mont 1935-1937 and Governor 1937-1941; electedas a Re-and to , Sweden; resumed the practice of law in publican to the United States Senate, November 5, 1940,toMontrose, Pa.; appointed a member of the Public Service ifil the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1945, causedCommission of Pennsylvania May 20, 1915, and on August by the death of Ernest W. Gibson, but did notassume office 1915, was elected chairman; reappointed for a ten-year until January 10, 1941; reelected in 1944, 1950, 1956, 1962,term as member and chairman on July 1, 1917, and again on and 1968, and served from January 10, 1941, to January 3,July 1, 1927; appointed chairman of the Pennsylvania Fuel 1975; was not a candidate for reelection in 1974; chairman,Commission in August 1922; president of the National Asso- Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departmentsciation of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners in 1924; died (Eightieth Congress), Committee on Agriculture and Forest-in Harrisburg, Pa., September 4, 1932; interment in Mon- ry (Eighty-third Congress); died in Putney, Vt., Novembertrose Cemetery, Montrose, Pa. 19, 1984; interment in Putney, Vt. Bibliography: Aiken, George D. Aiken: Senate Diary, January 1972-Janu- AINSLIE, George, a Delegate from the Territory of Idaho; aFy 1975. Brattleboro, Vt.: The Stephen Greene Press, 1976. born near Boonville, Cooper County, Mo., October 30, 1838; attended the common schools, and St. Louis (Mo.) University

AIKEN, William (cousin of David Wyatt Aiken), a Repre-- in 1856 and 1857; was graduated from the Jesuit College at sentative from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., Jan-St. Louis; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1860 and uary 28, 1806; attended private schools; was graduated fromcommenced practice in Boonville, Mo.; moved to Colorado the College of South Carolina (now the University of Souththe same year, and in 1862 moved to that portion of the Carolina) at Columbia in 1825; engaged in agricultural pur-Territory of Washington that later became the Territory of suits; member of the State house of representatives 1838-Idaho; engaged in mining and also practiced law; member of 1842; served in the State senate 1842-1844; Governor ofthe Idaho Territorial house of representatives in 1865 and South Carolina 1844-1846; elected as a Democrat to the1866; edited the Idaho World from 1869 to 1873; district Thirty-second, Thirty-third, and Thirty-fourth Congressesattorney of the second district in 1874 and 1876; elected as a (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1857); was an unsuccessful candi-Democrat to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses date for Speaker of the House of Representatives after 133(March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for ballots in the Thirty-fourth Congress; was nota candidatereelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; built the for renominationin1856;presented credentialsas a Member-elect to the Thirty-ninth Congress February 12,first electric street railway in Boise City, Idaho; settled in 1867, but was not permitted to qualify; resumed his formerOakland, Calif., and retired from active business pursuits; pursuits near Charleston, S.C.; died at Flat Rock, Hendersondied in Oakland, Calif., May 19, 1913; the remains were County, N.C., September 6, 1887; interment in Magnoliacremated and the ashes deposited in the columbarium, Odd Cemetery, Charleston, S.C. Fellows Cemetery, San Francisco, CaliL Bibliography: DAB. AINSWORTII, Lucien Lester, a Representative from AIKEN, Wyatt (son of David Wyatt Aiken),a Representa-Iowa; born in New Woodstock, Madison County, N.Y., June tive from South Carolina; born near Macon, Ga., December 1831; attended the public schools, and the Oneida Confer- 14, 1863; reared in Cokesbury, Abbeville (now Greenwood)ence Seminary, Cazenovia, N.Y.; studied law; was admitted County, S.C.; attended the public schools of Cokesbury and ofto the bar in Madison County, N.Y., in 1854; moved to Belvi- Washington, D.C.; official court reporter for the seconddere, Ill., and commenced practice the same year; moved to South Carolina judicial circuit and, later, for the eighthIowa in 1855 and continued the practice of law in West circuit; volunteered as a private in Company A, First SouthUnion; member of the State senate 1860-1862; during the Carolina Regiment of Infantry, during the war with Spain;Civil War entered the Union Army in 1862 as captain of later appointed battalion adjutant by Governor Ellerbe, andCompany C, Sixth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and acted as regimental quartermaster during the greaterpor-served three years against the Indians in the Northwest; tion of his service; was mustered out in Columbia, S.C.,after leaving the Army returned to West Union and re-- November 10, 1898; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighthsumed the practice of law; member of the State house of and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-Marchrepresentatives 1871-1873; elected as a Democrat to the

3, 1917); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1916Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); de-- and again in 1918; lived in retirement until his death inclined to accept a renomination in 1876; resumed the prac- Abbeville, S.C., February 6, 1923; interment in Melrose Cem-tice of law in West Union, Fayette County, Iowa, and died etery. there April 19, 1902; interment in West Union Cemetery. AINEY, William David Blakeslee, a Representative from AITKEN, David Demerest, a Representative from Michi- Pennsylvania; born in New Milford, Pa., April 8, 1864; at-gan; born on a farm in Flint Township, Genesee County, tended the public schools, the State Normal School at Mans-Mich., September 5, 1853; attended the district schools and field, and Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., in 1887; stud-the local high school in Flint; taught in a district school of ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1887 and commencedGenesee County in 1871 and 1872; moved to New Jersey in practice in Montrose, Pa.; district attorney for Susquehanna1872 and was employed as a bookkeeper; studied law in New County 1890-1896; organized Company G of the Pennsylva-York City; was admitted to the bar in 1878 and commenced nia National Guard and served as captain 1889-1894; electedpractice in Flint, Mich; city clerk 1883-1886; city attorney as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress to fill the1886-1890; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and Biographies 517

Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3,1897); Ohio and West Virginia 1910-1911; elected as a Republican chairman, Committee on Mining (Fifty-fourth Congress); wasto the Seventy-fifth Congress to ff1 the vacancy caused by not a candidate for renomination, being an unsuccessful can- the resignation of Frank L. Kloeb and served from Novem- didate for Governor of Michigan in 1896; resumed the prac-ber 8, 1938, until January 3, 1939; was not a candidate for tice of law; also engaged in banking; served as mayor ofnomination in 1938 to the full term; resumed the practice of Flint in 1905 and 1906; died in Flint, Mich., May 26, 1930;law in Troy, Ohio, and died there January 21, 1942; inter- interment in Glenwood Cemetery. ment in Memorial Park Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio. AKAKA, Daniel Kahikina, a Representative from Hawaii; ALBERT, Carl Bert (cousin of Charles Wesley Vursell), a born in Honolulu, Hawaii, September 11, 1924; attended theRepresentative from Oklahoma; born in North McAlester, public schools of Hawaii; graduated, Kainehameha SchoolPittsburg County, Okia., May 10, 1908; attended Flowery for Boys (high school), 1942; University of Hawaii: B.E., edu-Mound Rural School; was graduated from McAlester High cation, 1952; professional certificate in secondary education,School in 1927, from the University of Oklahoma at Norman 1953; professional school administrator's certificate, 1961;in 1931, and (having been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship) M.E., education, 1966; served in United States Army, 1945-from Oxford University in England in 1934; studied law; was 1947; teacher, 1953-1960; vice principal,1960; principal,admitted to the bar in 1935 and commenced practice in 1963-197 1, all in Hawaii; program specialist, CompensatoryMcAlester, OkIa.; during the Second World War enlisted in Education, 1968-197 1; director, Hawaii Office of Economicthe United States Army on June 16, 1941, as a private; Opportunity, 197 1-1974; special assistant, Hawaii Office ofserved in the Pacific Theater and was discharged a lieuten- the Governor, 1975-1976; elected as a Democrat to theant colonel on February 17, 1946; awarded the Bronze Star; Ninety-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses (Januaryresumed the practice of law; delegate, Democratic National 3, 1977-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Honolulu, Hawaii.Conventions, 1952, 1956, 1964, and 1968; elected as a Demo- AKERS, Thomas Peter, a Representative from Missouri;crat to the Eightieth and to the fourteen succeeding Con- born in Knox County, Ohio, October 4, 1828; attended schoolgresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1977); majority whip in Cleveland, Ohio; was graduated from an Ohio college;(Eighty-fourth through Eighty-seventh Congresses), majority studied law; was admitted to the bar; taught school for aleader(Eighty-eighththroughNinety-firstCongresses), time in Kentucky; moved to Lexington, Mo., in 1853; profes-Speaker of the House of Representatives (Ninety-second sor of mathematics and moral philosophy in Masonic Col-through Ninety-fourth Congresses); was not a candidate for lege, Lexington, Mo., in 1855 and 1856; pastor of the localreelection in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress; is a resident Methodist Church; elected as a candidate of the Americanof McAlester, Okia. Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress tofill the vacancy ALBERT, William Julian, a Representative from Mary- caused by the death of John G. Miller and served fromland; born in Baltimore, Md., August 4, 1816; was graduated August 18, 1856, to March 8, 1857; was not a candidate forfrom Mount St. Mary's College, near Emmittsburg, Md., in reelection to the Thirty-fifth Congress; moved to New York1833; engaged in the hardware business until 1855 and, City in 1861 and became vice president of the gold board;later, in banking; was a prominent Union leader in Mary- owing to ill health moved to Utah, and shortly thereafterland and worked to prevent the secession of the State; one of returned to Lexington, Lafayette County, Mo., where he diedthe founders and directors of the First National Bank of on April 3, 1877; interment in Machpelah Cemetery. Maryland; director of several insurance companies, savings AKIN, Theron, a Representative from New York; born inbanks, and manufacturing companies; unsuccessful candi- Johnstown, Fulton County, N.Y., May 23, 1855; attended thedate for election in 1866 to the Fortieth Congress and in common schools of Amsterdam, N.Y., and also was privately1868 to the Forty-first Congress; elected as a Republican to tutored at home; engaged in agricultural pursuits; was grad- the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1878-March 3, 1875); was uated from the New York Dental College and practiced fornot a candidate for reelection to the Forty-fourth Congress twelve years in Amsterdam, N.Y.; moved to Akin (later Fortin 1874; resumed his former business pursuits; died in Balti- Johnson), N.Y., and engaged in agricultural pursuits inmore, Md., March 29, 1879; intermentin Greenmount Ceme- Montgomery County; served as president of the village oftery. Fort Johnson, N.Y.; elected as a Progressive Republican to the Sixty-second Congress (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1913); ALBERTSON, Nathaniel, a Representative from Indiana; unsuccessful candidate for renomination on the Progressiveborn in Fairfax, Fairfax County, Va., June 10, 1800; moved ticket in 1912; resumed agricultural pursuits; unsuccessfulto Salem, Washington County, md., and engaged in agricul- candidate for election to the Sixty-fourth Congress on thetural pursuits; member of the State house of representatives Progressive ticket in 1914; mayor of Amsterdam, Montgom-1838-1840; moved to Floyd County in 1835 and settled in ery County, N.Y., 1920-1923; resumed his former pursuits;Greenville, near New Albany, and resumed agricultural pur- unsuccessful candidate for the Republican and Democraticsuits; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first Congress mayoralty nomination in 1927; died in Amsterdam, N.Y.,(March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); unsuccessful candidate for March 26, 1933; interment in Pine Grove Cemetery, Tribesreelection in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; resumed Hill, Montgomery County, N.Y. agricultural pursuits; moved to Keokuk, Iowa, in 1853 and engaged in mercantile pursuits; moved to Boonville, Mo., in ALBAUGH, Walter Hugh, a Representative from Ohio;1856 and continued mercantile pursuits; settled in Central born in Phoneton, Miami County, Ohio, January 2, 1890;City, Gilpin County, Cob., in 1860 and engaged in the hotel attended the public and high schools of his native city; wasbusiness; also became interested in mining; died in Central graduated from the law department of Ohio State UniversityCity, Cob., December 16, 1863; interment in Central City at Columbus in 1914; was admitted to the bar the same year Graveyard. and commenced practice in Troy, Ohio; during the First World War served in the United States Infantry as a private ALBOSTA, Donald Joseph, a Representative from Michi- unassigned, from May 28,1918, to December 13, 1918;gan; born in Saginaw, Saginaw County, Mich.,December 5, member of the State house of representatives 1921-1925; 1925; attended Saginaw and Chesaning public schools; grad- also engaged as a civil engineer, surveying fuel lands inuated Chesaning Agricultural School; attended Delta Col- 518 Biographical Directory

lege, Saginaw, Mich.; served in the United States Navy;founder of the Mississippi levee system and was made presi- farmer; owner and developer of Misteguay Creek Farms;dent of the levee board of the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta in Albee Township Trustee; associate director, Saginaw County1858; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War Soil Conservation District; Saginaw County Commissioner,as a brigadier general; presented credentials as a United 1970-1974; served in the Michigan house of representatives,States Senator-elect in 1865 but was not permitted to take 1974-1976; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixth and tohis seat; elected Governor of Mississippi in 1869 and served the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3,from March 1870, until his resignation on November 30, 1985); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninety-1871, having previously been elected Senator; elected as a ninth Congress; is a resident of St. Charles, Mich. Republican to the United States Senate on January 18, 1870, ALBRIGHT, Charles, a Representative from Pennsylva-for the term beginning March 4, 1871, but did not assume nia; born in Bucks County, Pa., December 13, 1830; attendedthese duties until December 1, 1871, preferring to continue Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.; studied law; was admitted toas Governor; served as Senator from December 1, 1871, to the bar in 1852 and commenced practice in Mauch Chunk,March 3, 1877; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1873; Pa.; moved to the Territory of Kansas in 1854 and participat-resumed the practice of law in Friar Point; died at his ed in its early development; returned to Pennsylvania andplantation home, "Eagles Nest," in Coahoma County, Miss., resumed the practice of law in Mauch Chunk in 1856; dele- December 19, 1894; interment in the family cemetery on his gate to the Republican National Convention in 1860 andestate. 1872; during the Civil War served in the Union Army and Bibliography: DAB; Pereyra, Lillian AJames LushAlcorn: Persistent was promoted through the ranks to colonel of the One Hun- Wlzig. Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press, 1966; Tubb, Jackson McWhirter. "Senatorial Career of James Lusk Alcorn." Ph.D. dissertation, dred and Thirty-second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer University of Mississippi, 1927. Infantry; honorably mustered out May 24, 1865; recommis- sioned colonel of the Thirty-fourth Pennsylvania Militia July ALDERSON, John Duffy, a Representative from West 3, 1863, and honorably mustered out August 10, 1863; recom-Virginia; born at Nicholas Court House (now Summersville), missioned colonel of the Two Hundred and Second Regi-W.Va., November 29, 1854; attended the common schools; ment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, September 4, 1864;sergeant at arms of the State senate 187 1-1873; doorkeeper honorably mustered out August 3, 1865; resumed the prac-in 1872 and 1873; studied law; was admitted to the bar in tice of law in Mauch Chunk, Pa.; elected as a Republican to1876 and commenced practice at Nicholas Court House; ap- the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); waspointed prosecuting attorney for the counties of Nicholas not a candidate for reelection in 1874; resumed the practiceand Webster in 1876; elected prosecuting attorney for these of law and also engaged in manufacturing in Mauch Chunk,counties, reelected in 1880 and 1884, and served until Janu- Pa., until his death there September 28, 1880; interment inary 1, 1889; clerk of the State senate 1883-1887; elected as a Mauch Chunk Cemetery. Democrat to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Con- ALBRIGHT, Charles Jefferson, a Representative fromgresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful candi- Ohio; born in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa., May 9, 1816;date for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; re- moved with his parents in 1824 to Allegheny County, Pa.;sumed the practice of law in Nicholas, W.Va.; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1900 and 1908; died received a limited schooling; was employed in a harness shopin Richwood, Nicholas County, W.Va., December 5, 1910; and as a clerk in a rural store; apprenticedas a printer;interment in a private burial ground at Summersville, moved to Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1832 and settled ona farm near Cambridge; owner and publisher of the GuernseyW.Va. Times 1840-1845 and 1848-1855; served as secretary of the ALDRICH, Cyrus, a Representative from Minnesota; born Guernsey County Board of School Examiners 1841-1844;in Smithfield, R.I., June 18, 1808; attended the common elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth Congressschools; followed the occupations of sailor, boatman, farmer, (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); unsuccessful candidate forcontractor on public works, and mail contractor; moved to reelection in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; served as viceIllinois and settled in Alton in 1837; member of the State president at the Republican State convention in 1855; dele-house of representatives 1845-1847; register of deeds of Jo gate to the first and second Republican National Conven-Daviess County 1847-1849; receiver of the United States tions in 1856 and in 1860; during the Civil War served asland office at Dixon, Ill., 1849-1853; moved to Minneapolis, chairman of the Guernsey County Military Committee; in- Minn., in 1855 and engaged in the lumber business; member ternal revenue collector for the sixteenth Ohio district, byof the State constitutional convention in 1857; elected as a appointment of President Lincoln, 1862-1869; delegate to theRepublican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congress- third State constitutional convention in 1873; member of thees (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1863); chairman, Committee on State board of charities in 1875; president of the board ofIndian Affairs (Thirty-seventh Congress); was not a candi- school examiners of the Cambridge Union School 1881-1883;date for renomination in 1862; unsuccessful candidate for died in Cambridge, Ohio, October 21, 1883; interment inelection in 1863 to the United States Senate; member of the South Cemetery. State house of representatives in 1865; elected chairman of ALCORN, James Lusk, a Senator from Mississippi; bornthe board of supervisors of the town of Minneapolis in 1865; near Golconda, Ill., November 4, 1816; attended the publicappointed by President Lincoln in 1863 one of the commis- schools of Livingston County, Ky., and was graduated fromsioners to examine claims for indemnity of those who had Cumberland College,KY.; deputy sheriff of Livingstonsuffered from the Sioux War of 1862; postmaster of Minne-- County 1839-1844; member of the Kentucky house of repre-apolis, Minn., from September 11, 1867, until April 15, 1871, sentatives in 1843; studied law; was admitted to the bar inwhen a successor was appointed; died in Minneapolis, Minn., 1844 and commenced practice in Delta, Panola County, October 5, 1871; interment in Lakewood Cemetery. Miss.; member of the Mississippi house of representatives ALDRICH, James Franklin (son of William Aldrich), a 1846, 1856, and 1857; served in the State senate 1848-1854;Representative from Illinois; born at Two Rivers, Manitowoc unsuccessful candidiate for election to the Thirty-fifth Con-County, Wis., April 6, 1853; moved with his parents to Chica- gress in 1856; declined the nomination for Governor in 1857;go, Ill., in April 1861; attended the public schools and Chica- Biographies 519 go University; was graduated from RensselaerPolytechnicPalmyra, Wayne County, N.Y., October 17, 1848; attended Institute, Troy, N.Y., in 1877; engaged in the manufacture ofthe public schools, the military academy at West Chester, linseed oil and later engaged in the gas business; member ofPa., and was graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic the Cook County Board of Commissioners 1886-1888, servingInstitute, Troy, N.Y., in 1869; engaged in engineering in as president in 1887; member of the county boardof educa-New York and New Jersey; moved to Selma, Ala., in 1871; tion in 1887; commissioner of public works of Chicago fromengaged in banking and in the mining of coal, becoming vice May 1, 1891, to January 1, 1893; elected as a Republican topresident and general manager of the Tennessee Coal, Iron the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893-& Railroad Co., in 1892; founder of the Cahaba Coal Mining March 3, 1897); chairman, Committee on Accounts (Fifty-Co.; successfully contested as a Republican the election of fourth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination inOscar W. Underwood to the Fifty-fourth Congress and served 1896; appointed consul general at Havana, Cuba, in 1897, but did not reach his post to serve owing to the sinking offrom June 9, 1896, to March 3, 1897; was not a candidate for the battleship Maine and to the war with Spain which fol-renomination in 1896; served as postmaster at Birmingham, lowed; receiver of national banks, and railroad appraiser,Ala., by appointment of President Taft, from September 1, from 1898 until 1923; died in Chicago, Ill, March 8, 1933;1911, to December 15, 1915; delegate to the Republican Na- interment in Rosehill Cemetery. tional Convention at Chicago in 1904; served as a dollar-per- year man on the War Industries Board during theFirst ALDRICH, Nelson Wilmarth (father of Richard SteereWorld War; after the war was engaged as a mining engineer Aldrich, cousin of William Aldrich, grandfather of Nelsonand geologist; died in Birmingham, Ala., April 28, 1932; in- Aldrich Rockefeller, and great-grandfather of John Davison Rockefeller), a Representative and a Senator from Rhodeterment in Elmwood Cemetery. Island; born in Foster, R.I., November 6, 1841; attended the ALDRICH, William (father of James Franklin Aldrich public schools of East Killingly, Conn., and the Academy ofand cousin of Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich), a Representative East Greenwich, R.I.; entered the wholesale grocery businessfrom Illinois; born in Greenfield Center, Saratoga County, in Providence; during the Civil War enlisted as a private inN.Y., January 19, 1820; attended the common schools and Company D, First Regiment, Rhode Island National Guard,the local academy; taught school until twenty-six years of in 1862; member of the city council 1869-1874, serving as and engaged in mer- president in 1872 and 1873; member of the State house ofage; moved to Jackson, Mich., in 1846 representatives in 1875 and 1876, elected speaker in 1876;cantile pursuits; moved to Wisconsin and settled in Two elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventhRivers, Manitowoc County, in 1851; continued mercantile Congresses and served from March 4, 1879, to October 4,pursuits and also engaged in the manufacture of lumber, 1881, when he resigned to become Senator; elected as awoodenware, and furniture; superintendent of schools 1855 Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancyand 1856; chairman of the county board of supervisors1857 caused by the death of Ambrose E. Burnside; reelected 1886,and 1858; member of the State house of representatives in 1892, 1898, and 1904, and served from October 5, 1881, to1859; moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1861 and engaged in the March 3, 1911; was not a candidate for reelection in 1911;wholesale grocery business; member of the Chicago City Republican caucus chairman 1908-1909; chairman, Commit-Council in 1876, serving as chairman; elected as a Republi- tee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Forty-eighthcan to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth,and Forty-seventh Con- and Forty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Rules (Fiftiethgresses (March 4, 1877-March 3,1883); unsuccessful candi- through Fifty-second and Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Con-date for renomination in 1882; resumed his formerbusiness gresses), Select Committee on Corporations Organized in thepursuits in Chicago and was also interested in themilling District of Columbia (Fifty-third Congress), Committee on while on a Finance (Fifty-fifth through Sixty-first Congresses), Republi-business at Fond du Lac, Wis., where he died, can Conference (Sixtieth Congress); chairman,Nationalbusiness trip, December 3, 1885; interment in Rosehill Ceme- Monetary Commission (1908-19 12); retired to Providence,tery, Chicago, Ill. R.I.; died in New York City, April 16, 1915; interment in ALDRICH, William Farrington (brother of Truman He- Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I. minway Aldrich), a Representative from Alabama; bornin Bibliography: DAB; Stephenson, Nathaniel W. NelsonW. Aldrich: A Palmyra, Wayne County, N.Y., March 11, 1853; attendedthe Leader In American Politics.1930. Reprint. New York: Kennikat Press, 1971; Sternstein, Jerome L. "Corruption in the Gilded Age Senate: Nelsonpublic schools of his native city; moved with his father to W. Aldrich and the Sugar Trust." Capitol Studies 6 (Spring 1978): 13-37. New York City in 1865; attended several schools, and was graduated from Warren's Military Academy in Poughkeep- ALDRICH, Richard Steere (son of Nelson Wilmarth Al-sie, N.Y., in 1873; moved to Alabama in 1874;engaged in drich), a Representative from Rhode Island; born in Wash- mining and manufacturing; built up the town that bearshis ington, D.C., February 29, 1884; attended the public schoolsname; successfully contested as aRepublican the election of in Providence, R.I.; was graduated from Hope Street High and served School at Providence in 1902, from in 1906,Gaston A. Robbins to the Fifty-fourth Congress and from the law department of Harvard University in 1909;from March 13, 1896, to March 3, 1897; successfully contest- was admitted to the bar in 1911 andcommenced the practiceed the election of Thomas S. Plowman to theFifty-fifth of law in New York City; returned to Providence, R.I., inCongress and served from February 9, 1898, toMarch 3, 1913 and continued the practice of his profession; member of1899; again successfully contested the election of Gaston A. the Rhode Island house of representatives 1914-1916;servedRobbins to the Fifty-sixth Congress and served fromMarch in the State senate 19 16-1918; elected as a Republican tothe8, 1900, to March 3, 1901; declined to be a candidatefor Sixty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,renomination in 1900; editor, owner, and publisher of the 1923-March 3, 1933); was not a candidate for renominationBirmingham (Ala.) Times; delegate to the Republican Na- in 1932; resumed legal pursuits in Providence, R.I., until histional Convention at Chicago in 1904; engaged in thedevel- death there on December 25, 1941; interment in Swan Pointopment of mineral lands until his death inBirmingham, Cemetery. Ala., October 30, 1925; the remains were cremated and de- ALDRICH, Truman Heminway (brother of William Far-posited in the family vault in Rock Creek Cemetery,Wash- rington Aldrich), a Representative from Alabama; born inington, D.C. 520 Biographical Directory

ALESHIRE, Arthur William, a Representative from Ohio;to Buffalo, N.Y., in 1885; appointed United States attorney born near Luray, Page County, Va., February 15, 1900; at-for the northern district of New York in May 1889 and tended the rural schools; moved to Clark County, Ohio, inserved until his resignation in December 1893; elected as a 1912 with his parents, who settled on a farm near Spring-Republican to the Fifty-fifth and to the six succeeding Con- field; employed by a railway express company in 1921 andgresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1911); chairman, Committee 1922; engaged in dairy farming near Springfield, Ohio, inon Rivers and Harbors (Sixty-first Congress); unsuccessful 1922 and 1923; due to an accident in 1923 lost the use of hiscandidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Con- legs and in a wheelchair operated a filling station andgro-gress; resumed the practice of law; died in Buffalo, N.Y., cery store until elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat toJanuary 30, 1925; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery. the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3,1937-January 3, Bibliography: DAB; Alexander, De Alva Stanwood. History and Proce- 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the dure of the House of Representatives. 1916. Reprint. New York: Burt Seventy-sixth Congress; resumed his former businesspur- Franklin, 1970. suits near Springfield, Ohio; died in Springfield, Ohio, March 11, 1940; interment in Ferncliff Cemetery. ALEXANDER, Evan Shelby (cousin of Nathaniel Alexan- der), a Representative from North Carolina; born in Meck- ALEXANDER, Adam Rankin, a Representative from Ten-lenburg County, N.C., about 1767; attended the common nessee; born in Rockbridge County, Va.; became a surveyorschools; was graduated from Princeton College in 1787; stud- by profession; moved to Tennessee in 1801 and located inied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Blount County; moved to what is now Madison County,Salisbury, Rowan County, N.C.; member of the State house Tenn., about 1806 and established the town of Alexandria,of commons 1796-1803; trustee of the University of North named for him; member of the State senate in 1817; registerCarolina at Chapel Hill 1799-1809; elected as a Republican of the land office for the tenth surveyors' district; member ofto the Ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the the first county court of Madison County in 1821; elected toresignation of Nathaniel Alexander; reelected to the Tenth the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses (March 4, 1823-Congress and served from February 24, 1806, to March 3, March 3, 1827); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 18281809; died October 28, 1809. to the Twentieth Congress; moved to Shelby County, Tenn., and represented that county at the State abolitionist conven- ALEXANDER, Henry Porteous, a Representative from tion in 1834; member of the State house of representatives inNew York; born in Little Falls, Herkimer County, N.Y., 1841 and 1843; died in Jackson, Madison County, Tenn. September 13, 1801; attended the public schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Little Falls; also engaged in banking; ALEXANDER, Armstead Milton, a Representative frompresident of the village of Little Falls in 1834 and 1835; Missouri; born near Winchester, Clark County, Ky., May 26,became president of the Herkimer County Bank at Little 1834; moved to Monroe County, Mo., with his parents, whoFalls in 1839 and served until his death; unsuccessful candi- settled near Paris; attended the common schools; worked atdate for election in 1846 to the Thirtieth Congress; elected as the blacksmith trade in 1848; engaged in gold mining ina Whig to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, California in 1849; was graduated from Bethany College,1851); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1850 to the Bethany, Va. (now West Virginia), in 1853; moved to Paris,Thirty-second Congress; resumed his former business pur- Mo., and became engaged in business; served in the Confed-suits; died in Little Falls, N.Y., February 22, 1867; interment erate Army during the Civil War; studied law; was admittedin Church Street Cemetery. to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice at Paris, Mo., but did not sign the record there until 1881; prosecuting attor- ALEXANDER, Hugh Quincy, a Representative from ney of Monroe County 1872-1876; delegate to the State con- North Carolina; born on a farm near Glendon, Moore stitutional convention in 1875; elected as a Democrat to theCounty, N.C., August 7, 1911; attended the public schools; Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); unsuc-graduated from , Durham, N.C., in 1932, cessful candidate for renomination in 1884; resumed theand from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, practice of law; died in Paris, Mo., November 7, 1892; inter-N.C., in 1937; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1937 ment in Walnut Grove Cemetery. and began practice in Kannapolis, N.C.; during the Second World War served in the United States Navy 1942-1946 and ALEXANDER, De Alva Stanwood, a Representative fromhad thirty-four months overseas duty; member of North New York; born in Richmond, Sagadahoc County, Maine,Carolina house of representatives in 1947 and 1949; solicitor, July 17, 1846; attended the common schools; moved with hisCabarrus County Recorders Court, 1950-1952; State com- mother to Ohio in 1859; at the age of fifteen enlisted in themander, , 1951; elected as a Democrat to Union Army as a private in the One Hundred and Twenty-the Eighty-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (Jan- eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served fromuary 3, 1953-January 3, 1963); unsuccessful candidate for 1862 until the close of the Civil War, when he entered thereelection to the Eighty-eighth Congress; chief counsel of the Edward Little Institute, Auburn, Maine, to prepare for col-Senate Rules and Administration Committee 1963-1976; re- lege; was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick,sumed the practice of law; is a resident of Kannapolis, N.C. Maine, in 1870 and served many years as a member and president of its board of overseers; moved to Fort Wayne, ALEXANDER, James, Jr., a Representative from Ohio; md., in 1870; one of the editors and proprietors of the Dailyborn near Delta, York County, Pa., October 17, 1789; moved Gazette 1871-1874; delegate to the Republican National Con-to the Northwest Territory in 1799 with his father, who vention at Philadelphia in 1872; moved to Indianapolis, md.,settled in what is now St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio; in 1874 and became a staff correspondent of the Cincinnatiengaged in agricultural pursuits, in river transportation on Gazette; secretary of the Indiana Republican State commit-the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and, later, in mercantile tee 1874-1878; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1877pursuits in St. Clairsville; member of the State house of and commenced practice in Indianapolis, md.; appointedrepresentatives in 1830 and again in 1833 and 1834; served Fifth Auditor of the Treasury Department in 1881 andas associate judge of the court of common pleas in 1831; served until 1885; commander of the Department of theelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic, for one term; moved1837-March 3, 1839); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in Biographies 521

1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; returned to St. Clairs-gresses); served as chairman of the commissioners of the yule, Ohio, and resumed his former business pursuits; pur-United States to the International Conference on Safetyof chased a large tract of property in Wheeling, Va. (now WestLife at Sea, which met in London on November 12, 1913, and Virginia), in 1843 and moved to that city, living in retire-continued until January 20, 1914; appointed Secretary of ment until his death; was an extensive owner of farmingCommerce in the Cabinet of President Wilson and served land in the State of Illinois; died, while visiting his son, infrom December 16, 1919, until March 4, 1921; returned to McNabb, Putnam County, Iii., September 5, 1846; intermentGahlatin, Mo., in 1921 and resumed the practice of law; in Scotch Ridge Cemetery, eight miles north of St. Clairs-delegate at large to the State constitutional convention in yule, Ohio. 1922; died in Gallatin, Mo., February 27, 1936; interment in Brown Cemetery. ALEXANDER, John, a Representative from Ohio; born at Bibliography:Sponaugle, Gail Ann Kohlenberg. "The Congressional Crowsville, in the Spartanburg District, S.C., April 16, 1777; Career of Joshua W. Alexander." Master's thesis, Northeast Missouri State attended the public schools; moved to Butler County, Ohio, University, 1979. and thence to Miamisburg, Montgomery County, in 1803; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- ALEXANDER, Mark, a Representative from Virginia; tice in 1804; moved to Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, in1805 born on a plantation near Boydton, Mecklenburg County, and continued his profession there, also practicing in Colum-Va., February 7, 1792; attended the public schools; wasgrad- bus, Chihicothe, and before the Supreme Court of the Uniteduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, States at Washington, D.C.; appointed prosecuting attorneyin 1811; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- in 1808 and held that office until 1833, except during themenced the practice of law in Boydton, Va.; member of the time he was a Member of Congress; elected as a RepublicanState house of delegates 1815-1819; elected to the Sixteenth to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses(March 4,through Twentieth Congresses; elected as a Jacksonian to 1813-March 3, 1817); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inthe Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1816 to the Fifteenth Congress; resumed the practice of law1819-March 3, 1833); chairman, Committee on District of at Xenia; member of the State senate in 1822and 1823;Columbia (Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses);declined served in the State house of representatives two terms; re-to be a candidate for renomination in1832; delegate to the tired from the practice of his profession in 1834; died atStateconstitutionalconventionof1829-1830; again a

Xenia, Ohio, June 28, 1848; interment in Woodlawn Ceme-- member of the State house of delegates, 1845-1846; retired his tery. from political life and engaged in the management of large estate; died in Scotland Neck, Halifax County,N.C.,

- ALEXANDER, John Grant, a Representative from Minne-October 7, 1883; interment in the cemetery of the old Episco-- sota; born in Texas Valley, Cortland County, N.Y.,July 16,pal Church. 1893; attended the public schools; was graduated from the law department of , Ithaca, N.Y., in 1916; ALEXANDER, Nathaniel (cousin of Evan Shelby Alexan- was admitted to the New York bar the same year;moved toder), a Representative from North Carolina;born near Con- Redwood Falls, Minn., in 1916; was admitted to the Minneso-cord, Mecklenburg County, N.C., March 5, 1756;attended the ta bar in 1917 and commenced practice in Lynd, Minn.;common schools; was graduatedfrom Princeton College in engaged in the banking business 1917-1923; during the First1776; studied medicine and surgery; served inthe Revolu- World War served as a private in the Three Hundred andtionary War as a surgeon 1778-1782; afterindependence was Eighty-sixth Ambulance Company in 1918; engaged in theestablished, practiced his profession at the High Hills of insurance business and in real estate management in Minne-Santee in South Carolina; subsequently returned toChar- apolis, Minn., in 1924; member of the Minnesota Nationallotte, N.C., and continued practice; memberof the State Guard 1927-1937; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-house of commons in 1797; served in the State senatein 1801 sixth Congress (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1941); unsuccess-and 1802; elected as a Republican to the Eighthand Ninth ful candidate for renomination in 1940; unsuccessful candi-Congresses and served from March 4, 1803,until November date for Governor in 1942; resumed the business of real1805, when he resigned to become Governor;Governor of estate management and insurance; resided inMinneapolis,North Carolina 1805-1807; died in Salisbury, RowanCounty,

Minn., where he died December 8, 1971; interment in Lake-- N.C., March 7, 1808; interment in Old Cemetery,Charlotte, wood Cemetery. N.C. ALEXANDER, Joshua Willis, a Representative from Mis- ALEXANDER, Robert, a Delegate from Maryland; born souri; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 22, 1852; moved toon the family estate in CecilCounty (now part of the city of Missouri with his mother, who settled in Canton, DaviessElkton), Md., around 1740; studied law; wasadmitted to the County, in 1863; attended public, private, and highschools,bar and practiced; member of the provincialconvention of and was graduated from Christian University (now Culver-Maryland 1774, 1775, and 1776; secretary of the Baltimore Stockton College), Canton, Mo., in 1872; moved to Gallatin,committee of observation and member of thecouncil of Mo., in 1873; studied 'law; was admitted to the barin 1875safety in 1775; commissioned a first lieutenant in theBalti- and commenced practice in Gallatin; public administratorofmore militia June 6, 1776;Member of the Continental Con- Daviess County 1877-1881; served as secretary and then asgress in 1776; after thepromulgation of the Declaration of president of the board of education of Gallatin, Mo.,1882-Independence he fled from Maryland to the British Fleet, 190 1; member of the State house of representatives 1883-joined the Associated Loyalists of America, andin 1782 1887, serving as speaker in 1887; mayor of Gallatin in1891 sailed for London, England, where he remained; in 1780 he and 1892; member of the board of managers of StateHospi-was adjudged guilty of high treasonand his property was tal No. 2, 1893-1896; judge of the seventh judicial circuitofconfiscated; died in London, England, November 20, 1805. Missouri 1901-1907; elected as a Democrat to theSixtieth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March ALEXANDER, Sydenhám Benoni (cousin of Adlai Ewing resigned to acceptStevenson and John Sharp Williams), a Representativefrom 4, 1907, until December 15, 1919, when he Meck- a Cabinet portfolio; chairman,Committee on MerchantNorth Carolina; born at "Rosedale," near Charlotte, Marine and Fisheries (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Con-lenburg County, N.C., December 8, 1840; attended preparato- 522 Biographical Directory ry schools at Rocky River and Wadesboro, N.C.; was graduat-continued the practice of medicine; member of active teach- ed from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ining faculty, School of Medicine, 1860; during the Civil War enlisted in the Confederate Army 1948-1958; member of Little Rock Board of Education 1955- in 1861 as a private in the First Regiment, North Carolina 1958; delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1960; elect- Volunteer Infantry; elected captain of Company K, Forty-ed as an Independent Democrat, a write-in candidate, to the second North Carolina Regiment, in June 1862; detachedEighty-sixth and Eighty-seventh Congresses (January 3, from his company in 1864 and served as inspector general on1959-January 3, 1963); was not a candidate for reelection in the staff of Maj. Con. Robert F. Hoke; member of the State1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress but was unsuccessful for senate in 1879, 1883, 1885, 1887, and 1901; was instrumentalthe Democratic gubernatorial nomination; resumed practice in the establishment of the North Carolina Agricultural andof ophthalmic surgery; member of faculty, University of Ar- Mechanical College and served as a member of its board ofkansas School of Medicine; is a resident of Little Rock, Ark. trustees; president of the North Carolina Railroad; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses ALGER, Bruce Reynolds, a Representative from Texas; (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); was not a candidate forborn in Dallas, Tex., June 12, 1918; moved to Webster renomination in 1894; retired to his estate, "Enderly Planta-Groves, Mo., with his parents in 1924, and attended the tion," in Mecklenburg County, N.C., and engaged in agricul-public schools; graduated from in 1940; tural pursuits; moved to Charlotte, N.C., in 1906 and diedfield representative with RCA Victor Manufacturing Co., there June 14, 1921; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. 1940 and 1941; enlisted as an aviation cadet in the Army Air Corps in September 1941, served as a B-29 commander in ALEXANDER, William Vollie, Jr., a Representative from the Pacific Area, and discharged in November 1945; re-- Arkansas; born in Memphis, Shelby County, Tenn., Januaryturned to Dallas, Tex., and engaged in the real estate and 16, 1934; attended University of Arkansas; B.A., Southwest-construction business; elected as a Republican to the Eighty- ern at Memphis, 1957; LL.B., Vanderbilt University, 1960;fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, served in the United States Army, Adjutant General Corps,1955-January 3, 1965); unsuccessful candidate for reelection 1951-1953; legal research assistant to Federal Judge Marionin 1964; resumed real estate pursuits; is a resident of Car- Boyd, Memphis, Tenn., 1960-1961; associate, firm of Monte-roilton, Tex. donico, Boone, Gffliland, Heiskell & Loch, 1961-1963; part- ner, firm of Swift & Alexander, Osceola, Ark., 1963; admit- ALGER, Russell Alexander, a Senator from Michigan; ted to practice before the United States Supreme Court;born in Lafayette Township, Medina County, Ohio, February commissioner, Arkansas Waterways Commission; secretary,27, 1836; worked on a farm; attended Richfield Academy, Osceola Port Authority; member, American Academy of Po-Summit County, Ohio; taught country school; studied law in litical and Social Science; elected as a Democrat to theAkron, Ohio; was admitted to the bar in March 1859; moved Ninety-first and to the nine succeeding Congresses (Januaryto Grand Rapids, Mich., and engaged in the lumber business; 3, 1969-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Osceola, Ark. moved to Detroit; served in the Union Army during the Civil War 1861-1865; brevetted as a major general, United States ALFORD, Julius Caesar, a Representative from Georgia;Volunteers; resumed the lumber business; elected Governor born in Greensboro, Ga., May 10, 1799; attended the common of Michigan in 1884; declined renomination in 1886; presi- schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com-dential elector on the Republican ticket in 1888; was ap- menced practice in Lagrange, Ga.; also engaged in planting;pointed Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President Wil- member of the State house of representatives; commanded aliam McKinley on March 5, 1897, and resigned August 1, company in the Creek War of 1836; elected as a State Rights1899; appointed and subsequently elected as a Republican to candidate to the Twenty-fourth Congress to ifil the vacancythe United States Senate to ifil the vacancy caused by the caused by the resignation of George W. B. Towns and serveddeath of James McMillan, and served from September 27, from January 2 to March 3, 1837; unsuccessful candidate for1902, until his death in Washington, D.C., January 24, 1907; reelection in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress; elected as achairman, Committee on Coast Defenses (Fifty-ninth Con- Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congressesgress), Committee on the Pacific Railroads (Fifty-ninth Con- and served from March 4, 1839, to October 1, 1841, when hegress); interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Mich. resigned; moved to Tuskegee, Ala., and subsequently settled Bibliography: DAB; Bell, Rodney E. "A Life of Russell Alexander near Montgomery, Ala.; delegate to the Union convention at Alger." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 1975; U.S. Congress. Montgomery in 1852; resumed the practice of law; unsuccess- Memorial Addresses for Russell Alexander Alger. 59th Cong., 2nd sess., ful candidate for election in 1855 to the Thirty-fourth Con- 1907. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1907. gress; member of the secession convention in 1861; died on his plantation near Montgomery, Ala., January 1, 1863; in- ALLAN, Chilton, a Representative from Kentucky; born terment in the family cemetery on his estate near Montgom-in Albemarle County, Va., April 6, 1786; moved with his ery. mother to Winchester, Clark County, Ky., in 1797; attended the common schools, and also received private instructions; ALFORD, Thomas Dale, a Representative from Arkansas;served an apprenticeship of three years as a wheelwright, born in New Hope, Pike County, near Murfreesboro, Ark.,studying law in his leisure time; was admitted to the bar in January 28, 1916; attended the public schools of Rector,1808 and commenced practice in Winchester; member of the Ark., Arkansas State College at Jonesboro, State TeachersState house of representatives in 1811, 1815, 1822, and 1830; College at Conway, and graduated from the University ofmember of the State senate 1823-1827; elected as an Anti- Arkansas School of Medicine at Little Rock; postgraduateJacksonian to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Con- training at the University of Illinois in Chicago; during thegresses and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth Con- Second World War served in the United States Army Medi-gress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1837); chairman, Committee cal Corps with service at the Army and Navy General Hospi-on Territories cl"wenty-third Congress); was not a candidate tal, Hot Springs, Ark., 1941-1943, and in the European Thea-for renomination in 1836; appointed president of the State ter 1943-1945; private practice of medicine at Atlanta, Ga.,board of internal improvements in 1837 and served until 1946-1948, and taught at College of Medi-1839, when he resigned; resumed the practice of law; again a cine, 1947-1948; in 1948 returned to Little Rock, Ark., andmember of the State house of representatives, in 1842; died Biographies 523 in Winchester, Ky., September 3, 1858; interment in Win-1766; member of the common council of Philadelphia in chester Cemetery. 1768; member of the committee of safety in 1775 and 1776; Member of the Continental Congress in 1775 and 1776, but ALLEE, James Frank, a Senator from Delaware; born indisapproved of independence and withdrew in June 1776; Dover, Del., December 2, 1857; attended the common schools;when the Royalist Army entered New York he went within learned the trade of jeweler and watchmaker from histhe British lines, took the oath of allegiance to the King, father, whom he succeeded in business; chairman of therenouncing those he had taken as a Member of the Conti- Republican State committee 1886-1896; member of the Statenental Congress, and went to London, England; was attaint- senate from January 3, 1899, to March 2, 1903, when heed of treason and his estates confiscated; compensated by the resigned to become a United States Senator; elected as aBritish Government with a pension of £400 per annum; died Republican to the United States Senate on March 2, 1903, toin London, England, March 7, 1825. fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1901, Bibliography: DAB. caused by the failure of the legislature to elect, and served from March 2, 1903, to March 3, 1907; was not a candidate ALLEN, Asa Leonard, a Representative from Louisiana; for reelection in 1907; chairman, Committee on the Organi-born on a farm near Winnfield, Winn Parish, La., January zation, Conduct, and Expenditures of the Executive Depart-5, 1891; attended the rural schools; was graduated from Lou- ments (Fifty-eighth Congress), Committee on Indian Depre-isiana State University at Baton Rouge in 1914; taught in dations(Fifty-ninthCongress), Committee on Railroadsthe rural schools of Louisiana; principal of the Georgetown (Fifty-ninth Congress); resumed his former business pursuits,(La.) High School in 1914 and 1915 and of the Verda (La.) as well as engaging in the fruit and vegetable canningindus-High School 1915-1917; superintendent of Winn Parish try; died in Dover, Del., October 12, 1938; interment inschools 1917-1922; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Christ Church Cemetery. 1922 and commenced practice in Winnfield, La.; served as city attorney of Winnfield for several years; elected as a ALLEN, Alfred Gaither, a Representative from Ohio; bornDemocrat to the Seventy-fifth and to the seven succeeding on a farm near Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio,July 23,Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1953); chairman, 1867; attended the public schools; was graduated from Wil-Committtee on the Census (Seventy-eighth and Seventy- mington High School in 1886 and from the law school of theninth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in University of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1890; was admitted to the1952; retired and resided in Winnfield, La., until his death bar in 1890 and commenced practice in Cincinnati, Ohio; United States commissioner 1896-1900; delegate to theJanuary 5, 1969; interment in Winnfield Cemetery. Democratic State conventions at Columbus in 1901 and 1908; ALLEN, Charles (son of Joseph Allen and grandnephew of member of the city council 1906-1908; member of the boardSamuel Adams), a Representative from Massachusetts; born of the sinking-fund trustees of Cincinnati 1908-1910; electedin Worcester, Mass., August 9, 1797; attended the Leicester as a Democrat to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-Academy 1809-1811 and Yale College in 1811 and 1812; stud- fourth Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1917); declined toied law; was admitted to the bar in 1818 and commenced be a candidate for renomination in 1916; resumed the prac-practice in New Braintree; moved to Worcester in 1824 and tice of his profession in Cincinnati; delegate to the Demo-continued the practice of law; member of the State house of cratic National Convention at San Francisco in 1920; servedrepresentatives 1830, 1833, 1835, and 1840; served in the as president of the Cincinnati Bar Association in 1925 andState senate 1836 and 1837; member of the Northeastern 1926; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 9, 1932; intermentBoundary Commission in 1842; judge of the court of common in Sugar Grove Cemetery, Wilmington, Ohio. pleas 1842-1845; delegate to the Whig National Convention the ALLEN, Amos Lawrence, a Representative from Maine;at Philadelphia in 1848; elected by the Free-soil Party to born in Waterboro, York County, Maine, March 17, 1837;Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849- attended the common schools, Whitestown Seminary, Whi-March 3, 1853); was not a candidate for renomination in testown, N.Y., and was graduated from Bowdoin College,1852; resumed the practice of law; member of the State Brunswick, Maine, in 1860; studied law at Columbian Lawconstitutional convention in 1853; chief justice of the Suffolk School, Washington, D.C.; was admitted to the bar of YorkCounty Superior Court 1859-1867; delegate to the peace con- County in 1866 but never practiced; served as a clerk in thevention held at Washington, D.C., in 1861, in an effort to United States Treasury Department 1867-1870; elected clerkdevise means to prevent the impending war; died in Worces- of the courts for York County, Maine, in 1870, reelectedter, Mass., August 6, 1869; interment in the Rural Cemetery. three times, and served until January 1, 1883; member of ALLEN, Charles Herbert, a Representative from Massa- the State house of representatives in 1886 and 1887; privatechusetts; born in Lowell, Mass., April 15, 1848; attended secretary to Speaker Thomas B. Reed in Fifty-first, Fifty-public and private schools; was graduated from Amherst fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses; delegate at large to theCollege, Mass., in 1869; engaged in the manufacture of Republican National Convention at St. Louis in 1896; electedwooden boxes and in the lumber business with his father; as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress tofill the vacan-held various local offices; member of the Massachusetts cy caused by the resignation of Thomas B.Reed; reelected tohouse of representatives in 1881 and 1882; served in the the Fifty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses andMassachusetts senate in 1883; colonel and aide-de-camp on served from November 6, 1899, until his death in Washing-the staff of Governor Robinson in 1884; elected as a Republi- ton, D.C., February 20, 1911; interment in Evergreen Ceme-can to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses(March 4, tery, Alfred, Maine. 1885-March 3, 1889); declined to be a candidate for renomi- ALLEN, Andrew, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born innation in 1888; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Mas- Philadelphia, Pa., in June 1740; was graduated from thesachusetts in 1890; served as Massachusetts Prison Commis- University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1759; complet-sioner in 1897 and 1898; Assistant Secretary of the Navy ed law studies at the Temple in London, England; was ad-1898-1900; served as first civil Governor of Puerto Rico mitted to the bar in 1765 and commenced practice in Phila-1900-1902; returned to Lowell, Mass., in 1902 and became delphia; member of the provisional assembly and of thefinancially interested in banking and other enterprises, serv- provisional council 1765-1775; appointed attorney general ining as vice president of the Morton Trust Co. and of the 54 Biographical Directory

Guaranty Trust Co. of New York and as president of theState soldiers' home board 1903-1909; died in Ypsilanti, American Sugar Refining Co.; died in Lowell, Mass., AprilMich., November 25, 1909; interment in Highland Cemetery. 20, 1934; interment in Lowell Cemetery. ALLEN, Elisha Hunt (son of Samuel Clesson Allen), a ALLEN, Clarence Emir, a Representative from Utah;Representative from Maine; born in New Salem, Mass., Jan- born in Girard Township, Erie County, Pa., September 8,uary 28, 1804; attended New Salem Academy, and was grad- 1852; attended the district school and Girard (Pa.) Academy;uated from Williams College, Wffliainstown, Mass., in 1823; was graduated from Western Reserve College, then atstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced Hudson, Ohio, in 1877; moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, inpractice in Brattleboro, Vt.; moved to Bangor, Maine, and August 1881 and was an instructor in Salt Lake Academycontinued the practice of law; member of the Maine house of until 1886, when he resigned to engage in mining pursuits;representatives 1835-1840, serving as speaker in 1838; elect- member of the Territorial house of representatives in 1888,ed as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1890, and again in 1894; elected county clerk of Salt Lake1841-March 3, 1843); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in County in August 1890 and served until January 1, 1893;1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress; again elected to the studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commencedMaine house of representatives in 1846; moved to Boston, practice in Salt Lake City; unsuccessful Liberal candidateMass., in 1847 and resumed the practice of his profession; for election in 1892 as a Delegate to the Fifty-third Congress;elected to the Massachusetts house of representatives in delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892 and1849; appointed consul to Honolulu in 1850; was prominently 1896; upon the admission of Utah as a State into the Unionconnected with the government of the Hawaiian Islands as was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress andchief justice and regent, and as envoy to the United States served from January 4, 1896, to March 3, 1897; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1896; resumed his formerin 1856 and 1864; served as minister from the Kingdom of mining pursuits until 1922, when he retired from activeHawaii to the United States from 1869 until his sudden death January 1, 1883, while attending a diplomatic recep-- business and resided in Columbus, Ohio, until 1931; died intion given by President Chester A. Arthur in the White Escondido, Calif., July 9, 1932; the remains were crematedHouse at Washington, D.C.; interment in Mount Auburn and the ashes interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt LakeCemetery, Cambridge, Mass. City, Utah. Bibliography: DAB. ALLEN, Clifford Robertson, a Representative from Ten- ALLEN, Heman (of Colchester), a Representative from nessee; born in Jacksonville, Duval County, Fla., January 6,Vermont; born in Poultney, Vt., February 23, 1779; attended 1912; graduated, Friends Elementary and High School inthe common schools; was graduated from Dartmouth Col- Washington, D.C.; LL.B., Cumberland University School oflege, Hanover, N.H., in 1795; studied law; was admitted to Law, Lebanon, Tenn., 1931; admitted to the Tennessee Barthe bar in 1801 and commenced practice in Colchester, Vt.; in 1931 and commenced practice in Nashville; member, Ten-sheriff of Chittenden County in 1808 and 1809; chief justice nessee State senate 1949-1951, 1955-1959; unsuccessful can-of the county court 1811-1814; member of the State house of didate for Governor, 1950, 1952, 1956; tax assessor for Metro- politan Nashville and Davidson County, Tenn., 1960-1975;representatives 1812-1817; elected as a Republican to the president, International Association of Assessing Officers,Fifteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1817, to April 1970; president, Tennessee Association of Assessing Officers,20, 1818, when he resigned to become marshal; appointed 1971; member, Tennessee Constitutional Convention, 1971;United States marshal for the district of Vermont on Decem- elected as a Democrat, by special election, November 25,ber 14, 1818, and reappointed on December 24, 1822; United 1975, to the Ninety-fourth Congress to ifil the vacancyStates Minister Plenipotentiary to Chile from January 27, caused by the resignation of Richard H. Fulton; reelected to1823, to July 31, 1827; president of the Burlington branch of the Ninety-fifth Congress and served from November 25,the United States Bank from 1830 until the expiration of its 1975, until his death June 18, 1978, in Nashville, Tenn.;charter in 1836; resumed the practice of his profession in interment in Woodlawn Memorial Park. Highgate, Franklin County, Vt., where he died April 7, 1852; interment in Allen Cemetery, Burlington, Vt. ALLEN, Edward Payson, a Representative from Michi- gan; born in Sharon, Washtenaw County, Mich., October 28, ALLEN, Heman (of Milton), a Representative from Ver- 1839; attended the district and select schools; was graduatedmont; born in Ashfield (now Deerfield), Mass., June 14, 1777; from the State normal school in 1864; enlisted and helped toattended an academy in Chesterfield, N.H., for two years; raise a company for the Twenty-ninth Regiment, Michiganmoved to Grand Isle, Vt.; studied law; was admitted to the Volunteer Infantry; commissioned first lieutenant in Sep-bar in 1803 and commenced practice in Milton, Vt.; member tember 1864 and later, captain; mustered out with his regi-of the State house of representatives 1810-1814, 1816, 1817, ment in September 1865; was graduated from the law school1822, and 1824-1826; moved to Burlington, Chittenden of Michigan University at Ann Arbor in March 1867; wasCounty, Vt., in 1828 and continued the practice of his profes- admitted to the bar; commenced practice in Ypsilanti, Wash-sion; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second tenaw County; assistant assessor of internal revenue in 1869;and Twenty-third Congresses and as a Whig to the Twenty- prosecuting attorney of Washtenaw County in 1872; alder-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1831-March 3, man of Ypsilanti 1872-1874; elected to the Michigan house1839); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Depart- of representatives in 1876 and again in 1878, at which timement of the Treasury (Twenty-third through Twenty-fifth he was elected speaker pro tempore; mayor of Ypsilanti inCongresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to 1880; appointed United States Indian agent for Michigan inthe Twenty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law; died August 1882 and served until December 1885; elected as ain Burlington, Vt., on December 11, 1844; interment in Elm- Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (Marchwood Avenue Cemetery. 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection ALLEN, Henry Crosby, a Representative from New in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; resumed the practice ofJersey; born in Paterson, N.J., May 13, 1872; attended pri- law; member of the State board of agriculture 1897-1903;vate and public schools of his native city; was graduated again mayor of Ypsilanti in 1899 and 1900; member of thefrom St. Paul's School, Garden City, Long Island, in 1889, Biographies 525 from Yale University in 1893, and from the New York Lawpublic schools; moved to Indiana in 1830; studied law; was School in 1895; was admitted to the bar in 1895 and com-admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in menced practice in Paterson, N.J.; elected as a Republican toSullivan, md.; prosecuting attorney for the seventh judicial the Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1907); wasdistrict of Indiana 1846-1848; moved to Palestine, Ill.,in not a candidate for renomination in 1906; resumed the prac-1848 and continued the practice of law; member of the State tire of law in Paterson, N.J.; postmaster of Paterson 1926-house of representatives in 1850 and 1851; elected as a Dem- 1935; died in Mystic, Conn., March 7, 1942, while visiting hisocrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4,1853-March 3, daughter; interment in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson,1855); presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Thirty- N.J. fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1855, to July 18, ALLEN, Henry Dixon, a Representative from Kentucky;1856, when the House decided he was not entitled to the born near Henderson, Henderson County, Ky., June 24,seat; subsequently elected to ifil the vacancy thuscaused 1854; moved with his parents to Morganfield, Union County, and served from November 4, 1856, to March 3, 1857; was in 1855; attended the common schools and Morganfield Col-not a candidate for renomination in 1856; Clerk of theHouse legiate Institute; taught school in Union County 1869-1875;of Representatives in the Thirty-fifth Congress 1857-1859; studied medicine and was graduated from the Missouri Med-unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1860; elected circuit ical College, St. Louis, Mo., in 1877; practiced medicine incourt judge in April 1861 and served until he resigned in Union County from 1877 to 1878; abandoned medicine and1863; elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863- studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1878 and commencedMarch 3, 1865); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 practice in Morganfield, Ky.; county school commissionerto the Thirty-ninth Congress; resumed the practiceof law; 1879-1881; prosecuting attorney of Union County 1882-1891;reelected circuit court judge in 1873 and upon the establish- elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventhment of the appellate court was appointed its judge, occupy- Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1903); was not a candi-ing both positions and serving from 1873 to 1879; moved to date for renomination in 1902; resumed the practice of law;Olney, Richland County, ill., in 1876 and practiced law; re- also engaged in banking and agricultural pursuits; died intired from the practice of his profession in 1907; died in Morganfield, Ky., March 9, 1924; interment in Masonic Cem-Olney, Ill., January 30, 1912; interment in Olney Cemetery. etery. ALLEN, John (father of John William Allen), a Repre- ALLEN, Henry Justin, a Senator from Kansas; born insentative from Connecticut; born in Great Barrington, Mass., Pittsfield, Warren County, Pa., September 11, 1868; movedJune 12, 1763; attended the common schools; studied law at with his parents to Kansas in 1870 and settled on a farmthe Litchfield Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1786 near Clifton, Clay County; attended the publicschools,and commenced practice in Litchfield, Conn.; memberof the Washburn College, Topeka, Kans., and was graduated fromState house of representatives 1793-1796, serving as clerk in Baker University, Baldwin, Kans., in 1890; became a news- Spanish-1796; elected as a Federalist to the Fifth Congress (March 4, paper reporter and editorial writer; during the 1797-March 3, 1799); declined to be a candidate for renomi- American War served as a war correspondent in Cuba; of the member of the press galleries of the United States Congressnation in 1798; member of the State council and 19 14-1916; owner of several Kansas newspapers; served withsupreme court of errors 1800-1806;continued the practice of the American Red Cross in France as head of the homelaw in Litchfield, Conn., until his death onJuly 31, 1812; communication service during the First World War; Gover-interment in East Cemetery. nor of Kansas 1919-1923; special commissionerof the Near ALLEN, John Beard, a Delegate from the Territoryof East Relief to Armenia, Turkey, Greece, and SouthernWashington and a Senator from Washington; born in Craw- Russia in 1923 and 1924; director of publicity for the Repub-fordsville, Montgomery County, md., May 18, 1845;attended lican National Committee in the campaign of 1928; appoint-the public schools and Wabash College, Crawfordsville,md.; ed as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill theduring the Civil War served as a private; moved toRoches- vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles Curtisandter, Minn., in 1865 and engaged in business as agrain served from April 1, 1929, to November 30, 1930, when adealer; graduated from the law department of theUniversity duly elected successor qualified; unsuccessful candidate for in election to fill the vacancy; editor of the Topeka State Jour-of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and was admitted to the bar nal and chairman of the board of directors of the Wichita1869; moved to Washington Territory in 1870 and com- Beacon; died in Wichita, Kans., January 17, 1950; intermentmenced the practice of law in Olympia; appointedUnited in Maple Grove Cemetery. States attorney for the Territory of Washington byPresident Bibliography: DAB. Ulysses Grant and served from April 1875 to July1885; reporter for the supreme court of the Territory1878-1885; ALLEN, James Browning (husband of Maryon Pittmanmoved to Walla Walla in 1881; elected as aRepublican Allen), a Senator from Alabama; born in Gadsden, EtowahDelegate to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-Novem- County, Ala., December 28, 1912; attended public schools ofber 11, 1889); when the Territory was admitted as aState, Gadsden, University of Alabama, and University of Alabamaelected as a Republican to the United States Senate,and Law School; practiced law in Gadsden, Ala., from 1935 toserved from November 20, 1889, to March 3, 1893; the legis- 1968; member of the Alabama State legislature 1938-1942;lature failing to elect a Senator, was appointedby the Gov- resigned to enter active duty in the United States Naval until March 20, 1893; presented Reserve 1943-1946; member of the Alabama State senateernor to serve in the Senate 1946-1950; lieutenant governor of Alabama 1951-1955, 1963-his credentials as a Senator-designate in 1893, but was not 1967; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate,permitted to qualifr; moved to Seattle and resumed the prac- November 5, 1968; reelected in 1974, and served from Janu-ties of law; died in Seattle, Wash., January 28, 1903; inter- Gulf Shores, Ala., June 1,ment in Lakeview Cemetery. ary 3, 1969, until his death in Bibliography: Allen, John Beard. Allen's Political Essays. Walla Walla, 1978; interment in Forrest Cemetery, Gadsden, Ala. Bibliography: Gray, Robert T. "Alabama's Allen: Bucking the Anti-Busi- Wash.: Allen-Chancey Agency, 1909. ness Tide." Nation's Business 63 (January 1975):54-7. ALLEN, John Clayton, a Representative from Illinois; ALLEN, James Cameron, a Representative from illinois;born in Hinesburg, Chittenden County, Vt., February14, born in Shelby County, Ky., January 29, 1822; attendedthe1860; attended the common schools and Beeman Academy, 526 Biographical Directory

New Haven, Vt.; moved to Lincoln, Nebr., in 1881, and toTenn., and was graduated from the law department of the McCook, Redwillow County, Nebr., in 1886 and engaged inUniversity of Mississippi in 1870; was admitted to the bar mercantile pursuits at both places; member of the McCookthe same year and commenced practice in Tupelo, Lee City Council 1887-1889; mayor of McCook, Nebr., in 1890;County, Miss.; district attorney for the first judicial district secretary of state of Nebraska 1891-1895; moved to Mon-of Mississippi 1875-1879; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- mouth, Warren County, Ill., in 1896 and became president ofninth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, the John C. Allen Co. department store and of the People's1885-March 3, 1901); chairman, Committee of Expenditures National Bank of Monmouth; member of the State normalin the Department of Justice (Fifty-second Congress), Com- school board 1917-1927; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-mittee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,(Fifty-third Congress); declined to be a candidate for reelec- 1925-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection intion in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress; appointed in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress and for election in 1934March 1901 a United States commissioner to the St. Louis to the Seventy-fourth Congress; resumed his former businessExposition of 1904; resumed the practice of law in Tupelo, pursuits in Monmouth, Ill., until his death there on JanuaryMiss., and died there October 30, 1917; interment in Glen- 12, 1939; interment in Vermont Cemetery, Vermont, Ill. wood Cemetery. ALLEN, John James (brother of Robert Allen), a Repre- Bibliography: Faries, Clyde J. "The Rhetoric of Private John Allen." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Missouri, 1965; Gentry, Claude. Private sentative from Virginia; born in Woodstock, Shenandoah John Allen: Gentleman, Statesman, Sage, Prophet. Baidwyn, Miss: The County, Va., September 25, 1797; attended Dickinson Col- author, 1951. lege, Carlisle, Pa., in 1811 and 1812, and Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., in ALLEN, John William (son of John Allen), a Representa- 1814 and 1815; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1819tive from Ohio; born in Litchfield, Conn., in August 1802; and commenced practice at Campbell Courthouse; moved toattended preparatory schools; moved to Chenango County, Clarksburg, Harrison County, Va., and continued practice;N.Y., in 1818, where he received a classical education and member of the State senate 1828-1830; Commonwealth at-studied law; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1825 and contin- torney for Harrison, Lewis, and Preston Counties in 1834,ued the study of law; was admitted to the bar in 1826 and serving while a Member of Congress; elected as an Anti-commenced practice in Cleveland; president of the village Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833-183 1-1835; member of the board of directors of the Commer- March 3, 1835); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834cial Bank of Lake Erie upon its reorganization in 1832; one to the Twenty-fourth Congress; judge of the seventeenth cir-of the incorporators of the Cleveland & Newburg Railroad cuit court of Virginia 1836-1840; judge of the State supremeCo. in 1834 and an organizer of the Ohio Railroad Co. in court of appeals 1840-1865, serving as presiding justice 1852- 1836; served in the State senate in 1836 and 1837; elected as 1865; president of the executive council in 1861; author ofa Whig to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses the "Botetourt resolutions" of 1861; retired to private life(March 4, 1837-March 3, 1841); was not a candidate for and engaged in the management of his large estate; died atreelection; elected mayor of Cleveland in 1841; elected presi- Beaverdam, near Fincastle, Botetourt County, Va., Septem-dent of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad in ber 18, 1871; interment in the family burying ground in1845; delegate to the first convention on river and harbor Lauderdale Cemetery, near his estate in Botetourt County,improvement, held in Chicago in 1847; appointed postmaster Va. of Cleveland by President Grant on April 4, 1870, reappoint- Bibliography: DAB. ed April 4, 1874, and served until his resignation January ALLEN, John Joseph, Jr., a Representative from Califor-11, 1875; one of the first bank commissioners of Ohio; died in nia; born in Oakland, Alameda County, Calif., November 27,Cleveland, Ohio, October 5, 1887; interment in Erie Street 1899; attended the public schools; while a student in collegeCemetery. enlisted during the First World War in the United States ALLEN, Joseph (nephew of Samuel Adams), a Representa- Navy and served as an apprentice seaman;was graduatedtive from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., September from the University of California at Berkeley in 1920 and2, 1749; was graduated from Harvard College in 1774; en- from its law department in 1922; was admitted to the bar ingaged in business in Leicester, Mass.; moved to Worcester in 1922 and commenced practice in Oakland, Calif.; member of1776; member of the State constitutional convention of 1788; the Oakland Board of Education 1923-1943, serving severalappointed clerk of the courts and held that office until 1810, terms as president; president of the California State Schoolwhen he resigned to serve in Congress; elected as a Federal-

Trustees Association 1936-1938; member of the County Re-- ist to the Eleventh Congress to ifil the vacancy caused by publican Central Committee 1936-1944; during the Secondthe resignation of and served from October 8, World War served as a lieutenant commander in the United1810, to March 3, 1811; declined to be a candidate for reelec- States Navy 1942-1945, with twenty months in the Southtion in 1810; State councior from 1815 to 1818; died in Pacific area; vice chairman of the State commissiononWorcester, Mass., September 2, 1827; interment in Mechanic school districts in 1946 and 1947; elected as a Republican toStreet Burying Ground. the Eightieth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1959); unsuccessful for reelection in 1958 ALLEN, Judson, a Representative from New York; born to the Eighty-sixth Congress; appointed Under Secretary ofin Plymouth, Conn., April 3,1797; attended the public Commerce for Transportation January 5, 1959, serving untilschools; engaged in the lumber business; moved to Harpurs- January 20, 1961; resumed the practice of law until hisville (formerly Harpersville), Broome County, N.Y.; appoint- retirement in 196; resides in McCall, Idaho. ed postmaster of Harpursville March 19, 1830, and served until November 20, 1839; judge of the Broome County Court ALLEN, John Mills, a Representative from Mississippi;for eight years; member of the State assembly in 1836 and born in Tishomingo County, Miss., July 8, 1846; attended the1837; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress common schools; during the Civil War enlisted as a private(March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); was not a candidate for in the Confederate Army and served throughout the war;renomination in 1840; moved to St. Louis, Mo., and engaged attended the law school of Cumberland University, Lebanon,in the produce, lumber, marble, and grocery business until Biographies 527 his death in St. Louis, August 6, 1880; interment in Bellefon-for the term beginning March 4, 1853, and served from July tame Cemetery. 20, 1853, to March 3, 1859; was not a candidate for reelection in 1859; chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Thirty-third ALLEN, Leo Elwood, a Representative from Illinois; bornand Thirty-fourth Congresses); retired from active political in Elizabeth, Jø Daviess County, Ill., October 5, 1898; attend-and business pursuits; died in Providence, R.I., December 16, ed the public schools; during the First World War served as1865; interment in the North Burial Ground. a sergeant in the One Hundred and Twenty-third Field Ar- tillery 1917-1919; was graduated from the University of Bibliography: DAB. Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1923; taught school at Galena, ALLEN, Robert, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Ill., in 1922 and 1923; clerk of the circuit court of J0 DaviessAugusta County, Va., June 19, 1778; attended the rural County 1924-1932; studied law; was admitted to the bar inschools and William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.; 1930 and commenced practice in Galena, Ill.; elected as astudied law and practiced; moved to Carthage, Tenn., in 1804 Republican to the Seventy-third Congress and to the thir-and engaged in the mercantile business; clerk of Smith

teen succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1961); County many years; during the War of 1812 served as cole-- chairman, Committee on Rules (Eightieth and Eighty-thirdnel and commanded a regiment of Tennessee Volunteers Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1960;under Gen. Andrew Jackson; elected tothe Sixteenth retired and resided in Galena, Ill., where he died Januarythrough Nineteenth Congresses (March 4, 1819-March 3, 19, 1973; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. 1827); chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Nine- ALLEN, Maryon Pittman (wife of James Browning Allen),teenth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomina- a Senator from Alabama; born Maryon Pittman inMeridian,tion in 1826; engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits Lauderdale County, Miss., November 30, 1925; moved to Bir-in Carthage, Tenn.; delegate to the State convention in 1834; mingham, Ala., 1926; educated in the public schools of Bir-died in Carthage, Tenn., August 19, 1844; interment in mingham; attended the University of Alabama; journalist,Greenwood Cemetery, Lebanon, Tenn.

editor, writer, and lecturer; appointed chairwoman of the ALLEN, Robert (brother of John James Allen), a Repre-- Blair House Fine Arts Commission by President Gerald R.sentative from Virginia; born in the village of Woodstock, Ford 1974; appointed as a Democrat to the United StatesShenandoah County, Va., July 30, 1794; attended the rural Senate, June 8, 1978, to fill the vacancy caused by the deathschools, and Dickinson College at Carlisle 1811-1812; was of her husband, James B. Allen, and served from June 8,graduated from Washington College (now Washington and 1978, to November 7, 1978; unsuccessful candidate for re-Lee University), Lexington, Va., in 1815; engaged in agricul- nomination to the unexpired term ending January 3, 1981;tural pursuits in Shenandoah County; studied law; was ad- columnist, 1978-1981; public relationsmitted to the bar and commenced practice in Woodstock; and advertising director for an antique and auction firm; isprosecuting attorney of Shenandoah County; member of the a resident of Birmingham, Ala. State senate in 1821-1826; elected as a Jacksonian to the ALLEN, Nathaniel (father-in-law of Robert Lawson Rose), Twentieth,Twenty-firstand Twenty-secondCongresses a Representative from New York; born in East Bloomfield,(March 4, 1827-March 3, 1833); chairman, Committee on N.Y., in 1780; attended the common schools; worked as aAccounts (Twenty-secondCongress);moved toBedford blacksmith at Canandaigua, Ontario County, N.Y.; started aCounty and continued agricultural pursuits; died in Mount blacksmith shop at Richmond, near Allens Hill, in 1796;Prospect, Va., December 30, 1859; interment in Longwood served as an officer in the militia; appointed postmaster ofCemetery, Liberty (now Bedford City), Va. Honeoye Falls, N.Y., July 1, 1811; was commissioner and paymaster on the Niagara frontier in 1812; member of the ALLEN, Robert Edward Lee, a Representative from West State assembly in 1812; sheriff of Ontario County, N.Y.,Virginia; born in Lima, Tyler County, W.Va., November 28, 1815-1819; elected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-1865; attended the country schools, Fairmont Normal School, March 3, 1821); was not a candidate for renomination inand Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn.; was graduated from 1820; supervisor of the town of Richmond 1824-1826; en-the literary department of the University of West Virginia gaged in the prosecution of claims for money due in connec-at Morgantown in 1894 and from its law department in1895; tion with the construction of the Louisville & Portlandwas admitted to the bar in 1895 and commencedpractice at Canal; died in the Gault House at Louisville, Ky., while on aMorgantown, Monongalia County, W.Va.; member of the city business trip to that city, December 22, 1832; interment incouncil from 1895 to 1917; deputy collector of internal reve-- nue for the district of West Virginia1917-1921; judge of the the churchyard of the Episcopal Church, Allens Hill, Ontar-city court 1921-1923; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- io County, N.Y. eighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); was an un- ALLEN, Philip, a Senator from Rhode Island; born insuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Providence, R.I., September 1, 1785; received his early educa-Congress and for election in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress; tion from private tutors; attended Taunton Academy andresumed the practice of law in Morgantown, W.Va., until his Robert Rogers School at Newport; was graduated fromretirement in 1927; moved to Preston County, W.Va., and Rhode Island College (now Brown University) in 1803; en-operated a summer resort at Brookside 1929-1939; resided in gaged in mercantile pursuits and foreign commerce; whenAurora, W.Va., until his death in Mountain Lake Park, Md., shipping was suspended during the War of 1812 he engagedJanuary 28, 1951; interment in Kingwood Cemetery, King- in the manufacture of cotton goods in Smithfield, R.I.;wood, W.Va. member of the State house of representatives 1819-1821; appointed pension agent and president of the Rhode Island ALLEN, Robert Gray, a Representative from Pennsylva- branch of the United States Bank in 1827; continued thenia; born in Winchester, Middlesex County, Mass., August manufacture of cotton goods and began the printing of cali-24, 1902; moved to Minneapolis, Minn., in 1906 and attended cos at Providence, R.I., in 1831; electedGovernor of Rhodepublic and private schools; was graduated from Phillips Island in 1851; reelected in 1852 and 1853, and served untilAcademy at Andover, Mass., in 1922 and later attended July 20, 1853, when he resigned to become Senator; electedHarvard University; moved to Greensburg, Pa., in 1929 and as a Democrat to the United StatesSenate on May 4, 1853was a salesman and sales manager for a valveand fittings 528 Biographical Directory

manufacturing business until 1937; district administrator ofthe bar in 1827 and commenced practice in Chillicothe; elect- the Works Progress Administration in 1935 and 1936; electeded as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth Con-1833-March 3, 1835); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in gresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1941); was not a candi-1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; elected as a Democrat date for renomination in 1940; president of the Duff-Nortonto the United States Senate in January 1837; reelected in Manufacturing Co., Pittsburgh,Pa.,1940-1943; commis-1843, and served from March 4, 1837, to March 3, 1849; was sioned a major in the Ordnance Branch, United Statesnot a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on For- Army, in July 1942, promoted to lieutenant colonel in Febru-eign Relations (Twenty-ninth Congress); retired to his estate, ary 1943, and served until his discharge in January 1945;"Fruit Hill," near Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, and en- sales manager for the Baldwin Locomotive Works 1945-1946;gaged in farming and stock raising; Governor of Ohio 1874- vice president of Fisher Plastics Corporation, Boston, Mass.,1876; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1875; resumed 1946-1947; vice president of Great Lakes Carbon Corporationagricultural pursuits; died at "Fruit Hill," July 11, 1879; 1947-1954; president, Pesco Products,division of Borg-interment in Grand View Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ohio. Warner Corporation, 1954-1957; vice president of Bucyrus- Bibliography: DAB; McGrane, Reginald C. William Allen: A Study in Erie Co., in 1957 and 1958 and president in 1958; chairman Western Denwcracy. Columbus: Ohio State Archeological and Historical So- of the board and president of Bucyrus-Erie Co. of Canada, ciety, 1925. Ltd., and chairman of the board of Ruston-Bucyrus, Ltd., Lincoln, England; director of the First Wisconsin National ALLEN, William, a Representative from Ohio; born near Bank of Milwaukee; retired from business activities in 1962Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, August 13, 1827; attended and moved from Milwaukee, Wis.,. to Keene, Va., where hethe public schools; taught school; studied law; was admitted died August 9, 1963; interment in Christ Episcopal Church.to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Greenville, Ohio, in 1850; prosecuting attorney of Darke County 1850- ALLEN, Samuel Clesson (father of Elisha Hunt Allen), a1854; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty- Representative from Massachusetts; born in Bernardston,seventh Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1863); chair- Mass., January 5, 1772; attended the public schools of Newman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Salem, and was graduated from , Han-Interior (Thirty-seventh Congress); declined to be a candi- over, N.H., in 1794; studied theology; was ordained as adate for renomination in 1862; resumed the practice of law; minister, became pastor of the Congregational Church inafffliated with the Republican Party at the close of the Civil Northfield in 1795, and served until 1798; studied law; wasWar; appointed judge of the court of common pleas of the admitted to the bar in 1800 and practiced in New Salem;second judicial district in 1865; declined the Republican member of the State house of representatives 1806-1810;nomination for election to the Forty-sixth Congress in 1878 served in the State senate 1812-1815; elected as a Federalistbecause of failing health; interested in banking until his to the- Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the five succeed-death in Greenville, Darke County, Ohio, July 6, 1881; inter- ing Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1829); chairman,ment in Greenville Cemetery. Committee on Accounts (Seventeenth through Twentieth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1828; ALLEN, William Franklin, a Representative from Dela- member of the Governor's executive council of Massachu-ware; born in Bridgeville, Sussex County, Del., January 19, setts 1829-1830; again elected to the State senate in 1831;1883; attended the public schools at Bridgeville, and Laurel, retired from politics; engaged as a lecturer at Amherst Col-Del.; moved to Seaford, Del., and was employed as an agent lege; member of the board of trustees of Amherst Collegeand train dispatcher by a railroad company 1902-1922; and of the University of Vermont; died in Northfield, Mass., served as school commissioner at Seaford, Del., 1920-1924; February 8, 1842; interment in the Village Cemetery, Ber-delegate to the Democratic National Convention at San nardston, Franklin County, Mass. Francisco, Calif., in 1920; member of the State senate 1925- 1929, serving as president pro tempore in 1927; engaged in ALLEN, Thomas, a Representative from Missouri; born inthe manufacture of fruit packages and in the packing and Pittsfield, Mass., August 29, 1813; attended Pittsfield Acade-shipping of farm products in 1926; also engaged in the bro- my and Berkshire Gymnasium; was graduated from Unionkerage of oil and petroleum in 1926; elected as a Democrat College in 1832; studied law in New York City; was admittedto the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937-January 3, to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in New York1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the City in 1832; moved to Washington, D.c., and established theSeventy-sixth Congress; resumed the oil and gasoline distri- Madisonian in 1837; printer to the House of Representativesbution business; died in a hospital at Lewes, Del., June 14, 1837-1839; printer to the United States Senate 1839-1842;1946; interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Seaford, Del. moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1842; member of the State senate 1850-1854; was a contractor upon internal improvements ALLEN, William Joshua (son of Willis Allen), a Repre- and projected and built more than 1,000 miles of railway; insentative from Illinois; born in Wilson County, Tenn., June 1852 took the first steam locomotive across the Mississippi9, 1829; moved with his father to Franklin (now Williamson) River; president of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & SouthernCounty, ill., about 1830, and in 1839 settled in Marion; at- Railway, but subsequently sold all his railway interests andtended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to the retired from active pursuits; elected as a Democrat to thebar in 1849 and commenced practice in Metropolis; enrolling Forty-seventh Congress and served from March 4, 1881, untiland engrossing clerk of the State house of representatives in his death in Washington, D.C., April 8, 1882; interment in1849 and 1851; moved to Marion, Ill., in 1853 and continued Pittsfield Cemetery, Pittsfield, Mass. the practice of his profession; appointed prosecuting attor- Bibliography: DAB. ney for the twenty-sixth judicial circuit of Illinois in 1854; member of the State senate in 1855; elected judge of the ALLEN, William, a Representative and a Senator fromcircuit court of the twenty-sixth judicial circuit on June 24, Ohio; born in Edenton, Chowan County, N.C., December 181859, and served until 1861; elected as a Democrat to the or December 27, 1803; moved to Lynchburg, Va., and attend-Thirty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the ed private schools; moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1819; at-resignation of John A. Logan; reelected to the Thirty-eighth tended Chillicothe Academy; studied law; was admitted toCongress and served from June 2, 1862, to March 3, 1865; Biographies 529 was not a candidate for reelection in 1864; member of theman, Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Thirty- State constitutional conventions in 1862 and 1870; delegateeighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses); was not a candidate for to all Democratic National Conventions from 1864 to 1888;renomination in 1866; became connected with the Union moved to Springfield, Ill., in 1886; appointed United StatesPacific Railroad; abandoned active business pursuits in 1886 district judge for the southern district of illinois on April 18,and lived in retirement until his death in West Newton, 1887, and served until his death January 26, 1901, whileMass., January 19, 1896; interment in Pine Grove Cemetery, visiting in Hot Springs, Ark.; interment in Oak Ridge Ceme-Lynn, Mass. tery, Springfield, Ill. Bibliography: DAB. ALLGOOD, Miles Clayton, a Representative from Ala- bama; born in Chepultepec (now Allgood), Blount County, ALLEN, William Vincent, a Senator from Nebraska; bornAla., February 22, 1878; attended the common schools of his in Midway, Madison County, Ohio, January 28, 1847; movednative county and was graduated from the State Normal with his parents to Iowa in 1857; attended the commonCollege at Florence, Ala., in 1898; taught school in Blount schools and at Fayette; served as aCounty; tax assessor of Blount County, Ala., 1900-1909; private during the Civil War; studied law at West Union,member of the State Democratic executive committee 1908- Iowa; was admitted to the bar in 1869 and practiced in Iowa1910; Blount County agricultural demonstration agent 1910- until 1884, when he moved to Madison, Nebr.; judge of the 1913; State auditor of Alabama 1914-1918; State commission- district court of the ninth judicial district of Nebraska 1891- er of agriculture and industries 1918-1922; elected as a dele-- 1893; permanent chairman of the Populist State conventions in 1892, 1894, and 1896; elected as a Populist to the Unitedgate at large from Alabama to the Democratic National States Senate and served from March 4, 1893, to March 3,Convention at San Francisco in 1920; elected as a Democrat 1899; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1899; appoint-to the Sixty-eighth Congress and to the five succeeding Con- ed and subsequently elected judge of the district court of thegresses (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1935); chairman, Commit- ninth judicial district of Nebraska and served from March 9,tee on War Claims (Seventy-second and Seventy-third Con- 1899, until December 1899, when he resigned to return togresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1934; the Senate; appointed to the United States Senate to fill theserved as a member of the Farm Security Administration vacancy caused by the death of Monroe L. Hayward, andfrom September 4, 1935, until he retired on December 1, served from December 13, 1899, to March 28, 1901, when a 1943; made an unsuccessful campaign for State treasurer in successor was elected; was not a candidate for election to the1954; retired; died in Fort Payne, Ala., March 4, 1977; inter- vacancy; chairman, Committee on Forest Reservations andment in Valley Head Cemetery, Valley Head, Ala.

- Game Protection (Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses); re- ALLISON, James, Jr. (father of John Allison), a Repre-- sumed the practice of law in Madison, Nebr.; again electedsentative from Pennsylvania; born near Elkton,Cecil judge of the district court of the ninth judicial district ofCounty, Md., October 4, 1772; moved with his parents to Nebraska in 1917 and served until his death; died in LosWashington County, Pa., in 1774; at seventeen years of age Angeles, Calif., January 12, 1924; interment in Crown Hillhe enrolled in the school of David Johnson, of Beaver, Pa.; Cemetery, Madison, Nebr. saw service in the Indian warfare at YellowCreek, Bedford Bibliography: DAB. County, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1796 ALLEN, Willis (father of William Joshua Allen), a Repre-and commenced practice in Washington, Pa.; returned to sentative from Illinois; born near Roanoke, Va., DecemberBeaver in 1803 and continued the practice of law until 1822, 15, 1806; attended the common schools; taught school; movedwhen he was elected to Congress; prosecuting attorney of to Tennessee and settled in Wilson County; moved to Frank-Beaver County 1803-1809; elected to the Eighteenth and liii (now Williamson) County, ill., in 1830 and engaged inNineteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1823, until agricultural pursuits; studied law; was admitted to the barhis resignation in 1825 before the assembling of the Nine-- and commenced practice in Marion; sheriff of Franklinteenth Congress; resumed the practice of law until 1848, County 1834-1838; member of the State house of representa-after which he discontinued active pursuits and lived in tives 1838-1840; prosecuting attorney of the first judicialretirement until his death in Beaver, Beaver County, Pa., circuit in 1841; member of the State senate 1844-1847; June 17, 1854; interment in Old Cemetery. member of the State constitutional convention in 1847 and 1848; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second and Thirty- ALLISON, John (son of James Allison, Jr.), a Representa- third Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1855); was not ative from Pennsylvania; born in Beaver, Pa., August 5, 1812; candidate for reelection in 1854; resumed the practice of hisattended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to profession; elected judge of the twenty-sixth circuit court ofthe bar but did not practice extensively; engaged in the Illinois March 2, 1859, and served until his death whilemanufacture of hats; also operated a tannery; member of the holding court in Harrisburg, Saline County, Ill., April 15,State house of representatives in 1846, 1847, and 1849; elect- 1859; interment in Marion Cemetery, Marion, ill. ed as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851- March 3, 1853); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852 ALLEY, John Bassett, a Representative from Massachu-to the Thirty-third Congress; elected as a Whig to the setts; born in Lynn, Essex County, Mass., January 7, 1817;Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); de- attended the common schools; at the age of fourteen wasclined to be a candidate for renomination in 1856; delegate apprenticed as a shoemaker, but was released at nineteen;to the Republican National Convention in 1856 and nominat- moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1836; freighted merchandiseed as a candidate for Vice President; also up and down the Mississippi River; moved to Lynn,Mass., ina delegate to the Republican NationalConvention at Chica- 1838 and entered the shoe manufacturing business; estab-go in 1860; appointed Register of the TreasuryApril 3, 1869, lished a hide and leather house in Boston in 1847; memberand served until his death in Washington, D.C., on March of the first board of aldermen of Lynn in 1850; member of23, 1878; interment in Beaver Cemetery, Beaver, Pa. the Governor's council 1847-1851; served in the State senate in 1852; member of the constitutional convention of 1853; ALLISON, Robert, a Representative from Pennsylvania; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and to the threeborn near Greencastle, Franklin County, Pa., March 10, succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1867); chair-1777; attended local and private schools; moved to Hunting- 530 Biographical Directory don, Pa., in 1795; employed as a clerk in his brother's office;1860; attended the rural schools; was graduated from the studied law; was admitted to the bar in April 1798 andState Normal College, Florence, Ala., and from the law de- commenced the practice of law in Huntingdon; served as apartment of the University of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa, in captain in the Huntingdon Volunteers during the War of1883; was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced prac- 1812; at the close of the war returned to Huntingdon andtice in Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Ala.; served in the State resumed the practice of law; burgess of Huntingdon, Pa., insenate 1892-1894; judge of the circuit court of the eleventh 1815, 1817, 1819, 1821-1824, and again in 1826; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1824 to the Nineteenth Congress, injudicial circuit of Alabama 1898-1906; member of the State 1826 to the Twentieth Congress, and in 1828 to the Twenty-house of representatives 19 10-1915, serving as speaker in first Congress; elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the1911; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth and to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); wasnine succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, not a candidate for renomination in 1832 to the Twenty-until his death in Washington, D.C., June 22, 1933; chair- third Congress; continued the practice of his profession inman, Committee on Roads (Seventy-second and Seventy- Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, Pa., until his death therethird Congresses); interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Tuscum- on December 2, 1840; interment in River View Cemetery.bia, Ala. ALLISON, William Boyd, a Representative and a Senator ALMOND, James Lindsay, Jr., a Representative from Vir- from Iowa; born in Perry, Ohio, March 2, 1829; attendedginia; born in Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va., June country schools, the academy in Wooster, Ohio, and Alleghe-15, 1898; attended the graded schools in Locust Grove, Va.; fly College, Meadville, Pa.; was graduated from Western Re-law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottes- serve College, Hudson, Ohio (now in Cleveland), in 1849;ville, LL.B., 1923; was admitted to the bar the same year and studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1852 and commencedcommenced practice in Roanoke, Va.; during the First World practice in Ashland, Ohio; unsuccessful candidate for districtWar served as a private in the Students Army Training attorney in 1856; settled in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1857 andCorps at the University of Virginia in 1917 and 1918; taught resumed the practice of law; served as a lieutenant colonelschool at Locust Grove, Va., in 1919; principal of Zoar High in the Union Army during the Civil War; elected as a Re-School in 1921 and 1922; served as assistant Common- publican to the Thirty-eighth and to the three succeedingwealth's attorney of Virginia 1930-1933; judge of the Hus- Congresses (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1871); chairman, Ex-tings Court of Roanoke City, Va., 1933-1945; elected as a penditures in the Department of the Treasury (Forty-firstDemocrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination incaused by the resignation of Clifton A. Woodrum; reelected 1870, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Unitedto the Eightieth Congress and served from January 22, 1946, States Senate; resumed the practice of law in Dubuque;until his resignation on April 17, 1948, having been elected elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1872;attorney general of Virginia, in which capacity he served reelected in 1878, 1884, 1890, 1896, and again in 1902, and served from March 4, 1873, until his death on August 4,until August 28, 1957, when he resigned; elected Governor of 1908; Republican caucus chairman 1897, 1904-1906, 1907-Virginia in 1957 for the term ending January 1962; delegate 1908; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs, (Forty-fourthto Democratic National Convention, 1960; judge, United and Forty-fifth Congresses), Committee on AppropriationsStates Court of Customs and Patents Appeals; was a resident (Forty-seventh through Sixtieth Congresses, except. for theof Richmond, Va. until his death there on April 15, 1986. Fifty-third), Committee on Engrossed Bills (Fifty-third Con- ALSOP, John, a Delegate from New York; born in New gress), Republican Conference (Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-Windsor, Orange County, N.Y., in 1724; completed prepara- eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses); died in Dubuque, Iowa;tory studies; moved to New York City and engaged in mer- interment in Linwood Cemetery. cantile pursuits and importing; represented New York City Bibliography: DAB; Cooper, Vernon. "The Public Career of William in the colonial legislature; one of the incorporators of the Boyd Allison." Ph.D. dissertation, State , 1927; Sage, Leland. William Boyd Allison: A Study in Practical Politics. Iowa City: New York Hospital, serving as its governor 1770-1784; State Historical Society, 1956. Member of the Continental Congress 1774-1776; member of a committee of one hundred appointed in 1775 by the citi- ALLO11, Gordon Llewellyn, a Senator from Colorado;sons of the city to take charge of the government until a born in Pueblo, Cob., January 2, 1907; attended the publicconvention could be assembled; served as the eighth presi- schools of Pueblo, Cob.; was graduated from the Universitydent of the New York Chamber of Commerce in 1784 and of Colorado at Boulder in 1927 and from its law school in1785; died in Newtown, Long Island, N.Y., November 22, 1929; was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the1794; interment in Trinity Church Cemetery, New York practice of law in Pueblo, Cob.; moved to Lamar, Cob., inCity. 1930 and continued practicing law; county attorney of Prowers County, Cob., in 1934 and 1941-1946; director, First ALSTON, Lemuel James, a Representative from South Federal Savings & Loan Association of Lamar, Cob., 1934-Carolina; born in the eastern part of Granville (now Warren) 1960; city attorney, Lamar, Cob., 1937-1941; during theCounty, N.C., in 1760; moved to South Carolina after the Second World War served as a major in the United StatesRevolutionary War and settled near Greens Mill, which soon Army Air Corps 1942-1946; district attorney, fifteenth judi-became the town of Greenville; studied law; was admitted to cial district 1946-1948; vice chairman State Board of Parolesthe bar and commenced practice in Greenville; member of 1951-1955; lieutenant 1951-1955; elect-the State house of representatives, 1789-1790; elected as a ed as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1954;Republican to the Tenth and Eleventh Congresses (March 4, reelected in 1960 and again in 1966, and served from Janu-1807-March 3, 1811); moved in 1816 to Clarke County, Ala., ary 3, 1955, to January 3, 1973; unsuccessful candidate forand settled near Grove Hill, where he presided over the reelection in 1972; chairman, Republican Policy Committeeorphans' court and the county court from November 1816 (Ninety-first and Ninety-second Congresses); is a resident ofuntil May 1821; died at "Alston Place," Clarke County, Ala., Englewood, Colorado. in 1836. ALMON, Edward Berton, a Representative from Ala- ALSTON, William Jeffreys, a Representative from Ala- bama; born near Moulton, Lawrence County, Ala., April 18,bama; born in Milledgeville, Ga., December 31, 1800; attend- Biographies 531 ed a private school in South Carolina; moved to Alabama1928; attended Brooklyn public elementary schools; graduat- and settled in Marengo County; taught school for severaled, Grover Cleveland High School, Queens, N.Y., 1946; B.A., years; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commencedNew York University, 1955; served in the United States practice in Linden, Marengo County, in 1821; judge of theArmy, Military Police, 1951-1953; budget officer, purchasing Marengo County Court for several years; member of theand personnel director, Town of Huntington, N.Y., 1960- State house of representatives in 1837; served in the State1967; served on Suffolk County (N.Y.) Board of Supervisors, senate 1839-1842; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Con-1968-1969; elected to four terms as Supervisor, Town of Hun- gress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); was not a candidate fortington, N.Y., 1968-1974; chairman, Huntington Urban Re- renomination in 1850; resumed the practice of his profession;newal Agency and president, Freeholders and Commonalty again became a member of the State house of representa-of the Town of Huntington, 1968-1974; elected as a Demo- tives, in 1855; engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Mag-crat to the Ninety-fourth, Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth Con- nolia, Marengo County, Ala., June 10, 1876; interment ingresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1981); unsuccessful can- Magnolia Cemetery. didate for reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress; ALSTON, Willis (nephew of ), a Repre-governmental and legislative consultant, 1981 to present; is sentative from North Carolina; born near Littleton, Halifaxa resident of Huntington Station, N.Y. County, N.C., in 1769; completed preparatory studies and AMERMAN, Lemuel, a Representative from Pennsylva- attended Princeton College; engaged in agricultural pursuits;nia; born near Danville, Montour County, Pa., October 29, member of the State house of commons 1790-1792; served in1846; attended the common schools and Danville Academy; the State senate 1794-1796; elected as a Republican to thewas graduated from Bucknell University,Lewisburg, Pa., in Sixth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4,1869; taught school three years; studied law; was admitted to 1799-March 3, 1815); chairman, Committee on Revisal andthe bar in 1873 and commenced practice in Philadelphia, Unfinished Business (Thirteenth Congress); again a memberPa.; moved to Scranton, Pa., in 1876 and continued the of the State house of commons 1820-1824; elected to thepractice of law; also engaged in banking; solicitor for Lacka- Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses and reelected as a State house of Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1825-wanna County 1879 and 1880; member of the March 3, 1831); chairman, Committee on Elections (Twenty-representatives 1881-1884; elected city comptroller of Scran- first Congress); was not a candidate for reelection to theton in 1885 and 1886; reporter of the decisions of the su- Twenty-second Congress; resumed agricultural pursuits; diedpreme court of Pennsylvania in 1886 and 1887;elected as a in Halifax, N.C., April 10, 1837; interment in a private bury-Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891- ing ground on his plantation home, "Butterwood," nearMarch 3, 1893); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 Littleton, Halifax County, N.C. to the Fifty-third Congress; continued the practice ofhis profession in Scranton, Pa., until his death in Blossburg, ALVORD, James Church, a Representative from Massa-Tioga County, Pa., October 7, 1897; interment in Forest Hill chusetts; born in Greenwich, Mass., April 14, 1808; complet-Cemetery, Scranton, Pa. ed preparatory studies and was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1827; studied law; was admitted AMES, Adelbert (father of and son-in-law of to the bar in 1830 and commenced the practice of his profes- Butler), a Senator from Mississippi; born sion in Greenfield, Mass.; member of the State house ofin Rockland, Knox County, Maine, October 31, 1835;attend- representatives in 1837; served in the State senate in 1838;ed the common schools; was graduated from the United elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress and servedStates Military Academy at West Point in 1861; duringthe from March 4, 1839, until his death in Greenfield, FranklinCivil War served with the Union Army from 1861 to 1865 as County, Mass., on September 27, 1839, before the Congresslieutenant, colonel, and brigadier general; brevetted colonel; assembled; interment in Federal Street Cemetery. received the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Bull Run; captain in the Fifth Artillery ofthe AMBLER, Jacob A., a Representative from Ohio; born inRegular Army 1864-1866; lieutenant colonel of the Twenty- Pittsburgh, Pa., February 18, 1829; attended the local schoolsfourth United States Infantry from 1866 until 1870, when he of Allegheny City and also received private instruction;resigned; appointed Provisional Governor of Mississippi on moved to Salem, Ohio, and studied law in his brother's lawMarch 15, 1868; appointed to the command of the fourth office; was admitted to the bar on March 27, 1851, andmilitary district (Department of Mississippi) March 17, 1869; commenced practice in Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio;upon the readmission of the Stateof Mississippi to represen- elected to the State house of representatives in 1857 andtation was elected as a Republican to the United States served two terms; appointed judge of the ninth judicial dis- Senate, and served from February 23, 1870, untilJanuary trict in 1859 and served until 1867; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses (March 4,10, 1874, when he resigned, having been elected Governor in 1869-March 3, 1873); declined to be a candidate for renomi-1873; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Fifty-third nation in 1872; resumed the practice of law and also becameCongress); Governor of Mississippi from January 4, 1874, interested in various business enterprises in Salem, Ohio;until March 29, 1876, when he resigned; moved to New York served as vice president of a bank and of a steel and wireCity and later to Lowell, Mass.; engaged in the flour busi- nail mill corporation and also as president of a publishingness, with mills in Minnesota; alsointerested in various company; delegate to every RepublicanNational Conven-manufacturing industries in Lowell; was appointed brigadier tions between 1876 and 1896; appointed a member of thegeneral of Volunteers in the war with Spain 1898-1899; United States Tariff Commission by President Arthur indiscontinued active business pursuits and lived in retirement 1882; retired from the general practice of law in 1898 butin Lowell, Mass.; died at his winter home in Ormond,Fla., continued active business pursuits until his death in Canton,April 12, 1933; interment in Hildreth Cemetery, Lowell, Stark County, Ohio, September 22, 1906; interment in HopeMass. Bibliography: DAB; Ames, Blanche. Ad.elbert Ames, 1835-1933, General, Cemetery, Salem, Ohio. Senator, Governor. North Easton, Mass.: Argosy Antiquarian, 1964; Lord, AMBRO, Jerome Anthony, Jr., a Representative from Stuart B. ": Soldier and Politician: A Reevaluation." Maine New York; born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., June 27, Historical Society Quarterly 13 (Fall 1973): 81-97. 532 Biographical Directory

AMES, Butler (son of Adelbert Ames and grandson offaith in his integrity and petitioned the United States Con- Benjamin Franklin Butler), a Representative from Massa-gress to extend him a like acknowledgment; died in North chusetts; born in Lowell, Mass., August 22, 1871; attendedEaston, Mass., May 8, 1873; interment in Unity Cemetery. the public schools and Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, Bibliography: DAB. N.H.; was graduated from the United States Military Acade- my at West Point in 1894; resigned from the United States AMLIE, Thomas Ryum, a Representative from Wisconsin; Army after appointment as second lieutenant to the Elev-born on a farm near Binford, Griggs County, N.Dak., April enth Regiment, United States Infantry; took a postgraduate17, 1897; attended the public schools, Cooperstown (N.Dak.) course at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and wasHigh School, the University of North Dakota at Grand graduated in 1896 as a mechanical and electrical engineer;Forks, and the at Minneapolis; was engaged in manufacturing; served as a member of thegraduated from the law department of the University of common council of Lowell in 1896; enlisted during the Span-Wisconsin at Madison in 1923; was admitted to the Wiscon- ish-American War and was commissioned lieutenant andsin bar the same year and commenced the practice of law in adjutant of the Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts VolunteerBeloit, Wis.; moved to Elkhorn, Wis., in 1927 and continued Infantry; appointed acting engineer officer of the Secondthe practice of law; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- Army Corps under General Graham, in addition to hissecond Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of duties as adjutant; was promoted to lieutenant colonel inHenry Allen Cooper and served from October 13, 1931, to August 1898; served as civil administrator of the AreciboMarch 3, 1933; was an unsuccessful candidate for renomina- district of Puerto Rico until November 1898; member of thetion in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; elected as a Massachusetts house of representatives 1897-1899; elected asProgressive to the Seventy-fourth and to the Seventy-fifth a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeedingCongress (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1939); was not a candi- Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1913); was not a candi-date for renomination in 1938, but was an unsuccessful Pro-- date for renomination in 1912; resumed manufacturing pur-gressive candidate for nomination for United States Senator; suits; president of United States Cartridge Co., and treasurernominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 to be of Heinze Electrical Co. of Lowell; at time of death wasa member of the Interstate Commerce Commission but sub- treasurer and a director of Wamesit Power Co. of Lowell,sequently requested that his name be withdrawn; resumed Mass.; director of Union Land and Grazing Co., Coloradothe practice of law; author; resided in Madison, Wis., until Springs, Cob., and vice president and a director of Ameshis death there August 22, 1973; cremated; ashes interred at Textile Corp., Lowell, Mass.; died in Tewksbury, Mass., No-Sunset Memory Gardens. Bibliography: Amlie, Thomas R. Let's Look at the Record. Madison, Wis- vember 6, 1954; interment in Hildreth Family Cemetery, consin: Capital City Press, 1950; Long, Robert E. "Thomas Amlie: A Politi- Lowell, Mass. cal Biography." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1969; Rosenof, AMES, Fisher, a Representative from Massachusetts; bornTheodore. "The Political Education of an American Radical: Thomas R. in Dedham, Mass., April 9, 1758; attended the town school of Ainlie in the 1930's." Wisconsin Magazine of History 58 (Autumn, 19'14): his native city and also received private instruction; was 19-30. graduated from Harvard College in 1774; while teaching AMMERMAN, Joseph Scofield, a Representative from school, studied law; was admitted to the bar and commencedPennsylvania; born in Curwensville, Clearfield County, Pa., practice in Dedham in 1781; served in the State house ofJuly 14, 1924; attended the public schools; graduated, Cur- representatives in 1788; member of the Massachusetts con-wensville High School, 1942; Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., vention called for the ratification of the Federal Constitution 1948; Dickinson School of Law, 1950; admitted to the Penn- in 1788; elected to the First through Third Congresses and assylvania Bar in 1950 and commenced practice in Clearfield; a Federalist to the Fourth Congress (March 4, 1789-March 3,served in the United States Army, 1943-1946; district attor- 1797); chairman, Committtee on Elections (First Congress);ney, Clearfield County, 1954-1961; United States attorney was not a candidate for renomination in 1796; resumed thefor the Western District of Pennsylvania, 1961-1963; served practice of law in Dedham; member of the Governor's coun-in State senate, 1970-1977; elected to the Democratic State cil 1798-1800; chosen president of Harvard University incommittee, 1968; delegate to Democratic National Conven- 1804, but declined to accept because of failing health; died intion, 1952; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth Con- Dedham, Mass., July 4, 1808; interment in Old First Parishgress (January 3, 1977-January 3, 1979); unsuccessfulcandi- Cemetery. date for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; Bibliography: DAB; Ames, Fisher. Works of : With a Selec- judge, court of common pleas, Clearfield County, Pa., 1986 to tion from His Speeches and Correspondence. Edited by Seth Ames. 2 vols.present; is a resident of Curwensville, Pa. 1854. Reprint. New York: DaCapo Press, 1969; Bernhard, Winfred E.A. Fisher Ames: Federalist and Statesman, 1758-1808. Chapel Hill: University ANCONA, Sydenham Elnathan, a Representative from of North Carolina Press, 1965. Pennsylvania; born near Lititz, Lancaster County, Pa., No- AMES, Oakes, a Representative from Massachusetts; bornvember 20, 1824; moved to Berks County, Pa., in 1826 with in Easton, Mass., January 10, 1804; attended the publichis parents, who settled near Sculls Hill; attended public schools and Dighton (Mass.) Academy; engaged in the manu-and private schools; taught school; moved in 1856 to Read- facture of shovels in North Easton; member of the executiveing, Pa., where he entered the employ of the Reading Rail- council of Massachusetts in 1860; elected as a Republican toroad Co.; member of the board of education; elected as a the Thirty-eighth and to the four succeeding CongressesDemocrat to the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, and Thirty- (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1873); was not a candidate forninth Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1867); unsuccess- renomination in 1872; instrumental in accomplishing theful candidate for renomination in 1866; became engaged in construction of the first transcontinental railroad; receivedthe trust, fire-insurance, and relief-association businesses in the censure of the Forty-second Congress for "seeking toReading, Pa.; delegate to the Democratic National Conven- procure congressional attention to the affairs of a corpora-tion at Cincinnati in 1880; during a visit to the Capitol at tion in which he was interested," which was in connectionWashington, D.C., in 1912 was tendered a reception on the with the Credit Mobiier; in 1883 the legislature of Massa-floor of the House of Representatives, it being stated at the chusetts passed resolutions of gratitude for his work andtime that he was the last surviving Member of the Thirty- Biographies 533 seventh Congress which assembled at the extraordinary ses- ANDERSON, Carl Carey, a Representative from Ohio; sion called by Abraham Lincoln on July 4, 1861; engaged inborn in Bluffton, Allen County, Ohio, December 2, 1877; banking and in the insurance business until his death inmoved to Sandusky County in 1881 with his parents, who Reading, Pa., on June 20, 1913; interment in Charles Evanssettled in Fremont; attended the common schools; became Cemetery. employed as a traveling salesman; moved to Fostoria, Seneca ANDERSEN, Herman Carl, a Representative from Minne-County, and engaged in the manufacture of underwear; sota; born in Newcastle, Kings County, Wash., January 27,elected mayor of Fostoria, Ohio, in 1905 and again in 1907, 1897; moved with his parents to a farm near Tyler, Lincolnon each occasion for a term of two years; president of the County, Minn., in 1901; attended the rural schools; attendedcity hospital board and director in a number of manufactur- the University of Washington and later the Naval Academy;ing enterprises; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and engaged in cattle raising and agricultural pursuits 1919-Sixty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, 1925 and as a civil engineer 1925-1930; resumed agriculturaluntil his death in an automobile accident near Fostoria, pursuits near Tyler, Minu., 1930-1938; member of the StateOhio, October 1, 1912; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Fre- house of representatives in 1935; elected as a Republican tomont, Ohio. the Seventy-sixth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1963); unsuccessful candidate ANDERSON, Chapman Levy, a Representative from Mis- for renomination as an Independent in 1962 to the Eighty-sissippi; born near Macon, Noxubee County, Miss., March 15, eighth Congress; resided in Falls Church, Va.; died in Ar-1845; attended the common schools in Jackson, Miss., and lington, Va., July 26, 1978; cremated; ashes interred in Dan-the University of Mississippi at Oxford, enlisted in the Con ebod Lutheran Cemetery, Tyler, Minn. federate Army on March 5, 1862, as a private in the Thirty- ninth Regiment, Mississippi Volunteer Infantry; was pro- ANI)ERSON, Albert Raney, a Representative from Iowa;moted through the successive grades of noncommissioned born in Adams County, Ohio, November 8, 1837; moved withofficer until July 1864, when he was transferred to Brad- his parents to Galesburg, Ill.; attended the common schoolsford's cavalry corps of scouts with the rank of second lieu- and Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.; moved to Taylor County,tenant, in which capacity he served until the close of the Iowa, in 1857; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1860war; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1868 and com- and commenced practice in Clarinda, Iowa; appointed post- menced practice in Kosciusko, Miss.; mayor of Kosciusko, master of Clarinda by President Lincoln in 1861; resigned toMiss., in 1875; member of the State house of representatives enlist in the Union Army as a private in Company K,in 1879 and 1880; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and FourthRegiment, Iowa VolunteerInfantry;promotedFifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); unsuc- through the ranks to become major of his regiment; commis- sioned lieutenant colonel in 1865; mustered out in Augustcessful candidate for renomination in 1890; United States 1865 and returned to Clarinda, Iowa; moved to Sidney, Iowa,district attorney for the northern district of Mississippi in in 1866; resumed the practice of law; assessor of internal1896 and 1897; engaged in the practice of law in Kosciusko, revenue 1868-187 1; delegate to the Republican National Con-Miss., until his death, April 27, 1924; interment in Kosciusko vention at Philadelphia in 1872; district attorney 1876-1880;Cemetery. State railroad commissioner in 1881; unsuccessful candidate ANDERSON, Charles Arthur, a Representative from Mis- for election in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; elected assouri; born in St. Louis, Mo., September 26, 1899; attended an Independent Republican to the Fiftieth Congress (Marchthe public schools; was graduated from St. Charles Military 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful candidate for reelectionAcademy in 1916 and from the law school of St. Louis Uni- in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; moved to Hot Springs,versity, LL.B., 1924; during the First World War served in S.Dak., in 1892 and continued the practice of his profession;the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Field Artillery, Thirty- served as mayor of Hot Springs, Fall River County, S.Dak.,fifth Division, from April 1,1917, to July 2, 1919, with in 1895 and 1896; elected State attorney of Fall River Countynineteen months service overseas; was admitted to the bar November 8, 1898; died at Hot Springs, S.Dak., Novemberin 1924 and commenced practice in St. Louis, Mo.; prosecut- 17, 1898; interment in Sidney Cemetery, Sidney, Iowa. ing attorney of St. Louis County 1933-1937; elected as a ANDERSON, Alexander Outlaw (son of ),Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and to the Seventy-sixth Con- a Senator from Tennessee; born at "Soldiers' Rest," Jeffer-gresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1941); unsuccessful can- son County, Tenn., November 10, 1794; attended preparatorydidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Con- schools; was graduated from Washington College at Greene-gress; chairman of the Democratic State convention at St. ville, Tenn.; enlisted in the War of 1812 and fought in theLouis in 1940; resumed the practice of law in St. Louis, Mo., Battle of New Orleans; studied law in Washington, D.C., andwhere he died April 26, 1977, interment in Sunset Burial in 1814 was admitted to the bar in Dandridge, Tenn., wherePark. he practiced law; later moved to Knoxville; superintendent of the United States land office in Alabama in 1836; govern- ANDERSON, Charles Marley, a Representative from ment agent for removing the Indians from Alabama andOhio; born near Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa., January Florida in 1838; elected as a Democrat to the United States5, 1845; moved to Ohio in 1855 with his parents, who settled Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hughin Darke County; attended the common schools; was grad- L. White, and served from February 26, 1840, to March 3,uated from the Lebanon Normal School, Lebanon, Ohio, in 1841; was not a candidate for reelection; leader of an over-1868; enlisted in the Union Army and served from March 15, land company which went to California in 1849; member of1861, in Company B, Seventy-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer the State senate in 1850 and 1851; supreme court judge ofInfantry, until discharged on November 30, 1865; studied California 1851-1853; returned to Tennessee in 1853; laterlaw; was admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced prac- practiced law in Washington, D.C., before the Court oftice in Greenville, Ohio; manager of the Central Branch of Claims and before the Supreme Court of the United States;the National Soldiers' Home, Dayton, Ohio, for twenty years; during the Civil War moved to Alabama and practiced lawelected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, in Mobile and Camden; died in Knoxville, Tenn., May 23,1885-March 3, 1887); was an unsuccessful candidate for re-- 1869; interment in the Old Gray Cemetery. nomination in 1886; resumed the practice of law; Ohio State 534 Biographical Directory commissioner to the World's Fair at Chicago in 1892 andon September 3, 1861; colonel of theForty-ninth Regiment, 1893; died in Greenville, Ohio, December 28, 1908; intermentEnrolled Missouri Militia, from August 13, 1862, to January in Greenville Cemetery. 25, 1863, and from September 29 to December 1, 1864; elect- ed as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Con- ANDERSON, Clinton Presba, a Representative and a Sen-gresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1869); chairman,Committee ator from New Mexico; born in Centerville, Turner County,on Mileage (Thirty-ninth and FortiethCongresses); declined S.Dak., October 23, 1895; attended the public schools, Dakotato be a candidate for renomination in 1868;resumed the Wesleyan University, Mitchell, S.Dak., and the University ofpractice of law; died while on a visit to his brother at Rhea Michigan at Ann Arbor; moved to Albuquerque, N.Mex., inSprings, Tenn., February 26, 1902; interment in Leuty Ceme- 1917; newspaper reporter and editor at Albuquerque 1918- 19 22; engaged in the general insurance business at Albu-tery, near Rhea Springs. querque 1922-1946; served as treasurer of State of New ANDERSON, Glenn Malcolm, a Representative from Cali- Mexico 1933-1934; administrator of the New Mexico Relieffornia; born in Hawthorne, Los Angeles County, Calif., Feb- Administration 1935; field representative of the Federalruary 21, 1913; B.A., University of California, 1936;served Emergency Relief Administration 1935-1936; chairman andwith the United States Army in the Second World War; executive director of the Unemployment Compensation Com-elected mayor of Hawthorne in 1940 at the age of twenty- mission of New Mexico 1936-1938; managing director of theseven; elected to the California Stateassembly, 1942-1948; United States Coronado Exposition Commission 1939-1940;Lieutenant Governor of California, 1959-1967; chairman and elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh and to the twomember, State Lands Commission, 1959-1967; member of the succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, 1941,Board of Trustees of California State Colleges 1961-1967; until his resignation on June 30, 1945, having been appoint-elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-first and to the nine ed Secretary of Agriculture; served as Secretary of Agricul-succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1989); ture from June 30, 1945, until his resignation May 10, 1948;chairman, Committee on Public Works and Transportation elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1948;(One Hundredth Congress); is a resident of San Pedro, Calif. reelected in 1954, 1960, and again in 1966, and served from January 3, 1949, to January 3, 1973; was not a candidate for ANDERSON, Hugh Johnston, a Representative from reelection in 1972; chairman, Joint Committee on AtomicMaine; born in Wiscasset, Maine, May 10, 1801; attended the Energy (Eighty-fourth and Eighty-sixth Congresses), Jointlocal schools; moved to Belfast, Maine, in 1815 and was Committee on Construction of Building for Smithsonianemployed as a clerk in the mercantile establishment of his (Eighty-fourththrough Eighty-eighthCongresses),Jointuncle; clerk of the Waldo County courts 1824-1836; studied Committee on Navaho-Hopi Indian (Eighty-fourth throughlaw; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty- the Ninety-second Congresses), Special Committee on Preser-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1841); was not a vation of Senate Records (Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Con-candidate for reelection to the Twenty-seventh Congress in gresses), Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (Eighty-1840; Governor of Maine 1844-1847; was a candidate for seventh and Eighty-eighth Congresses), Special CommitteeUnited States Senator in 1847 but subsequently withdrew; on National Fuel Policy (Eighty-seventh Congress),Commit-moved to Washington, D.C., and served as commissioner of tee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences (Eighty-eighthcustoms in the United States Treasury Department1853- through Ninety-second Congresses); returned to Albuquerque1858; appointed head of the commission to reorganizeand and retired from active pursuits; died November 11, 1975;adjust the affairs of the United States Mint at SanFrancis- interment in Fairview Memorial Park. co, Calif., in 1857; Sixth Auditorof the Treasury 1866-1869; Bibliography: Anderson, Clinton P. Outsider in the Senate, Senator Clin- retired from public life in 1880 and settled in Portland, ton Anderson's Memoirs. New York: World Publishing Company, 1970;Oreg., where he died May 31, 1881; interment inGrove Baker, Richard Allan. Conservation Politics: The Senate Career of Clinton P. Anderson. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985. Cemetery, Belfast, Maine. ANDERSON, Isaac, a Representative from Pennsylvania; ANDERSON, George Alburtus, a Representative from Illi-born at "Anderson Place," in Charlestown Township, near nois; born in Botetourt County, Va., March 11, 1853; movedValley Forge, Chester County, Pa., November 23, 1760; as a to Illinois in 1855 with his parents, who settled in Hancock mere youth was the carrier of dispatchesbetween the head- County; attended the common schools; was graduated fromquarters of the Revolutionary Army under GeneralWash- Carthage (Ill.) College in 1876; studied law in Lincoln, Nebr.,ington at Valley Forge and the Congress then in session at and Sedalia, Mo.; was admitted to the bar in 1878 and com-York; served three terms of service in the Revolutionary menced practice in Quincy, Ill., in 1880; unsuccessful candi- ultimately date for city attorney of Quincy in 1883; elected city attor- War before attaining the age of eighteen and ney in 1884 and again in 1885; elected as a Democrat tothebecame an ensign in the Fifth Battalion of Chester County Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); declined toMilitia; commissioned on May 24, 1779, as first lieutenant, be a candidate for renomination in 1888; engaged in theFifth Battalion, Sixth Company; justice of the peace in Charlestown Township for several years; memberof the practice of law until his death in Quincy, Ill., January 31,Pennsylvania house of representatives in 1801; elected as a 1896; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. Republican to the Eighth and Ninth Congresses (March 4, ANDERSON, George Washington, a Representative from1803-March 3, 1807); was not a candidate for renomination Missouri; born in Jefferson County, Tenn., May 22, 1832;in 1806; engaged in agricultural pursuits and sawmilling; attended the public schools; was graduated from Franklindied at "Anderson Place," Charlestown Township, Pa., Octo- College, Tennessee; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1853; studiedber 27, 1838; interment in the family buryingground near law; was admitted to the bar in Louisiana, Pike County, Mo.,Valley Forge, Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pa. in 1854 and began the practice of law; member of theState house of representatives in 1859 and 1860; served in the ANDERSON, James Patton, a Delegate from the Territory State senate in 1862; during the Civil War was captainofof Washington; born near Winchester, Franklin County, Company A, Pike County (Missouri), Home Guards fromTenn., February 16, 1822; was graduated fromJefferson Col- June 12 to July 17, 1861, when he was elected colonel of thelege, Canonsburg, Pa., in 1842; moved to Kentucky;studied regiment, and served until the organization wasdisbandedlaw at Montrose Law School, Frankfort, KY.; wasadmitted Biographies 535 to the bar and practiced in Hernando, Miss., from 1842 to ANDERSON, John Bayard, a Representative from Illinois; 1846; raised a company of volunteers for the Mexican War;born in Rockford, Winnebago County, Ill., February 15, 1922; elected lieutenant colonel of the Second Battalion, Mississip-attended Rockford public schools; attended the University of pi Rifles, and served in that capacity until the close of theIllinois at Urbana and graduated from the law school of the war; member of the State house of representatives in 1850;same university in 1946 and from HarvardUniversity Law appointed United States marshal for the Territory of Wash-School in 1949; served on the faculty of Northeastern Uni- ington in 1853 and settled in Olympia; elected as a Democratversity School of Law in Boston, Mass., while attending Har- to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857);vard; during the Second World War enlisted in the United was not a candidate for renomination in 1856; appointedStates Army and served from 1943 to 1945 in the Field Governor of the Territory of Washington by President Bu-Artillery, ten months of which was in France and Germany; chanan in 1857, but declined the office; moved to his planta- tion, "Casabianca," near Monticello, Fla., the same year;admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in served in the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States; Rockford, Ill., in 1946; adviser on the staff of the United during the Civil War entered the Confederate Army as colo-States High Commissioner for Germany, 1952-1955; elected nel of the First Regiment, Florida Infantry; appointed briga-State's attorney of Winnebago County in 1956 and served in dier general February 10, 1862; promoted to major generalthat position until 1960; political author; elected as a Repub- February 17, 1864, and assigned to the command of thelican to the Eighty-seventh Congress and to the nine suc- district of Florida; after the close of the war settled in Mem-ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1981); chair- phis, Tenn., and conducted a publication devoted to agricul-man, Republican Conference, January 1969; was not acandi- ture; collector of delinquent State taxes for Shelby County;date for renomination in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Con- died in Memphis, Tenn., September 20, 1872; interment ingress; unsuccessful independent candidate forPresident of Elmwood Cemetery. the United States in 1980; visiting professor at Stanford Bibliography:DAB. University, 1981, University of Illinois College of Law, 1981, ANDERSON, John, a Representative from Maine; born inBrandeis University, 1985, Bryn Mawr College, 1985, Oregon Windham, Maine, July 30,1792; attended the commonState University, 1986, University of Massachusetts, 1986, schools; was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick,and Nova University, 1987; is a resident of Rockford, Ill. Maine, in 1813; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1816 Bibliography: Anderson, John B. The American Economy We Need-and and commenced practice in Portland, Maine; member of the won't get from the Republicans or the Democrats. New York: Atheneum, State senate in 1823; elected to the Nineteenth and Twenti- 1984. eth Congresses and elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty- ANDERSON, John Zuinglius, a Representative from Cali- first and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1833); chairman, Committee on Elections (Twentieth Con-fornia; born in Oakland, Alameda County, Calif., March 22, gress), Committee on Naval Affairs (Twenty-seàond Con-1904; moved with his parents to Santa Cruz, Calif., the same gress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1832; mayoryear, and to San Jose, Calif., in 1913,attended the public of Portland 1833-1836 and again in 1842; United States at-schools; was graduated from in 1923; torney for the district of Maine 1833-1836; collector of cus-moved to San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, Calif., in toms for the port of Portland 1837-1841 and 1843-1848; re-1925 and engaged in agricultural pursuits and fruit growing; sumed the practice of law died in Portland, Maine, Augustelected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to thesix 21, 1853; interment in Town Cemetery (then a part of thesucceeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1953); farm of his ancestors) on River Road, Windham, Maine.was not a candidate for renominationin 1952; member of ANDERSON, John Alexander, a Representative fromboard of directors of Bank of America; president of Califor- Kansas; born near Pigeon Creek, Washington County, Pa.,nia Canning Pear Association and Pacific States Canning June 26, 1834; attended public and private schools; was grad-Pear Association; with Department of Agriculture in1954 uated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1853; or-and 1955; administrative assistant to President Eisenhower dained a Presbyterian minister in 1857 and began preachingfrom December 15, 1956, to January 20, 1961; memberof in Stockton, Calif.;elected trustee of the State insanestaff of Veterans' Affairs Committee, House of Representa- asylum in 1860; appointed chaplain of the Third Regiment,tives until June 30, 1962; retired; resided in Hollister, Calif., California Volunteer Infantry, in 1862; accompanied Generalwhere he died February 9, 1981; cremated; ashes scattered at Connor's expedition to Salt Lake City in July 1862; musteredthe top of Sonora Pass, Sierra Nevada Mountains. into the Federal service March 1863; resigned June 1863; California correspondent and agent of the United States ANDERSON, Joseph (father of Alexander Outlaw Ander- Sanitary Commission 1863-1865; moved to Junction City, son), a Senator from Tennessee; born near Philadelphia, Pa., Kans., in 1868, where he erected the First PresbyterianNovember 5, 1757; studied law; served throughout the Revo- Church, of which he was pastor for five years; regent of thelutionary War and attained the rank of brevet major; was University of Kansas in 1872 and 1873; president of theadmitted to the bar and practiced in Delaware for several Kansas State Agricultural College 1873-1879; elected as ayears; appointed United States judge of the TerritorySouth Republican to the Forty-sixth and to the three succeedingof the Ohio River in 1791; member of the first constitutional Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1887); unsuccessful can-convention of Tennessee; elected in 1797 to the United didate for renomination in 1886 but was elected as an Inde-States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending March pendent Republican to the Fiftieth Congress and reelected as3, 1799, caused by the expulsion of William Blount; again a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress(March 4, 1887-elected December 12, 1798, to fill the vacancy in the term March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for renomination inending March 3, 1803, caused by the resignation of Andrew 1890; appointed United States consul general to Cairo,Jackson; reelected in 1803; appointed and subsequently re- Egypt, March 4, 1891, and remained there until shortlyelected in 1809 for the ensuing term and served continuously before his death in a hospital in Liverpool, England, May 18, 1892, en route to his home; interment in Highland Ceme-from September 26, 1797, to March 3, 1815; served as Presi- tery, Junction City, Kans. dent pro tempore of the Senate during the Eighth Congress; Bibliography:DAB. First Comptroller of the Treasury 18 15-1836; lived in retire- 536 Biographical Directory

ment until his death in Washington, D.C., on April 17, 1837;his profession; died in Mayfleld, Ky., October 18, 1898; inter- interment in the Congressional Cemetery. ment in the Anderson family cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. Bibliography: Hood, James Larry. "For the Union: Kentucky's Uncondi. tional Unionist Congressmen and the Development of the Republican ANDERSON, Joseph Haistead, a Representative from Party in Kentuëky, 1863-1865." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society New York; born in the town of Harrison, near White Plains, 76 (Ju1y 1978): 197-215. Westchester County, N.Y., August 25, 1800; attended the common schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member ANDERSON, Richard Clough, Jr., a Representative from of the State assembly in 1833 and 1834; sheriff of Westchest-Kentucky; born at "Soldiers' Retreat," near Louisville, Ky., er County 1835-1838; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-August 4, 1788; attended private schools; was graduated eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-Marchfrom William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., in 1804; 3, 1847); chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Twenty-ninthstudied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1846;tice in Louisville; member of the State house of representa- resumed farming pursuits; died in White Plains, N.Y., Junetives in 1815; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth and 23, 1870; interment in a private burying ground at "Ander-Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); chair- son Hill," near White Plains, N.Y. man, Committee on Public Lands (Sixteenth Congress); de- clined to be a candidate for reelection in 1820; again a ANDERSON, Josiah McNäir, a Representative from Ten- member of the State house of representatives, in 1821 and nessee; born near Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tenn., Novem-1822, serving as speaker the latter year; appointed the first ber 29, 1807; attended the common schools; studied law; wasUnited States Minister to the Republic of Colombia January admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Jasper,27, 1823; took his leave June 7, 1823, having been commis- Tenn.; member of the State house of representatives 1833-sioned Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to 1837, serving as speaker; member of the State senate 1843-the Panama Congress of Nations, but died, en route to his 1845, serving as presiding officer; elected as a Whig to thepost, in Turbaco, near Cartagena, Colombia, July 24, 1826; Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); unsuc-interment at "Soldiers' Retreat," near Louisville, Ky. cessful candidate for reelection in 1850 to the Thirty-second Bibliography: DAB; Anderson, Richard Clough, Jr. Diary and Journal, Congress; delegate from Tennessee to the peace convention 1814-1826. Edited by Alfred R. Tischendorf and E. Taylor Parks. Durham, of 1861, held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise N.C.: Duke University Press, 1964; Rubenstein, Asa L "Richard Clough means to prevent the impending war; colonel in the Tennes- Anderson, Nathaniel Massie, and the Impact of Government on Western see State Militia 1861; was killed at Looneys Creek, near the Land Speculation and Settlement, 1774-1830." Ph.D. dissertation, Universi- present town of Whitwell, Marion County, Tenn., November ty of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1986. 8, 1861, just after having made a secession speech; interment ANDERSON, Samuel, a Representative from Pennsylva- on a farm seven miles southeast of Dunlap, Sequatchienia; born in Middletown, Dauphin County, Pa., in 1773; com- County, Tenn. pleted preparatory studies; studied medicine; was admitted ANDERSON, LeRoy Hagen, a Representative from Mon-to practice in 1796; entered the United States Navy as assist- tana; born in Ellendale, Dickey County, N.Dak., February 2,ant surgeon in 1799; promoted to the rank of surgeon in 1906; moved with his parents to Conrad, Mont., in 1909;1800; resigned his commission and in 1801 settled in Chester, Montana State College at Bozeman, B.S. 1927; postgraduatePa., where he practiced his profession; during the War of work in mathematics and physical chemistry in 1935-1938 at1812, raised a body of volunteers known as the Mifflin California Institute of Technology in Pasadena; wheat andGuards; commissioned captain on September 10, 1814; served cattle rancher; during the Second World War served as com-in the Pennsylvania Militia and was promoted to the rank of mander of armored task force in the European Theater oflieutenant colonel in the One Hundredth Regiment, Second Operations in combat from Normandy to the Elbe River;Brigade, Third Division, on August 3, 1821; member of the separated from the service as a lieutenant colonel in 1945;State house of representatives 1815-1818 and 1823-1825; awarded Silver Star Medal and Croix de Guerre Medal withsheriff of Delaware County 1819-1823; again entered the Palm; major general in Army Reserve, commanding thenaval service in 1823 as special physician but was soon Ninety sixth Infantry Division Reserve 1948-1962, memberforced to resign because of ifi health; elected to the Twenti- of the State house of representatives in 1947 and 1948 andeth Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3,1829); again a the State senate 1949-1956, serving as Democratic floormember of the State house of representatives 1829-1835 and leader 1954-1956; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1954served as speaker in 1833; appointed inspector of customs in to the Eighty-fourth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the 1841; elected justice of the peace in 1846 and served until his Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1957-death in Chester, Chester County, Pa., January 17, 1850; January 3, 1961); was not a candidate for renomination ininterment in Middletown Presbyterian Cemetery, near 1960 but was unsuccessful for the Democratic nominationMedia, Delaware County, Pa. for United States Senator; resumed engineering pursuits; ANDERSON, Simeon II. (father of William Clayton An- member, Montana State senate, 1966-1970; is a resident ofderson), a Representative from Kentucky born near Lancas- Conrad, Mont ter, Garrard County, Ky., March 2, 1802; pursued preparato- ANDERSON, Lucian, a Representative from Kentucky;ry studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1823 and born near Mayfield, Graves County, Ky., June 23, 1824; at-commenced practice in Lancaster, Ky.; member of the State tended the public schools; studied law; was admitted to thehouse of representatives 1828, 1829, 1832, and 1836-1838; bar in 1845 and commenced practice in Mayfield; presiden-elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress and served tial elector on the Whig ticket of Scott and Graham in 1852;from March 4, 1839, until his death near Lancaster, Garrard member of the State house of representatives 1855-1857;County, Ky., August 11, 1840; interment in the Anderson elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-eighthfamily cemetery. Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); declined to be a ANDERSON, Sydney, a Representative from Minnesota; candidate for renomination in 1864; delegate to the Republi-born in Zumbrota, Goodhue County, Minn., September 18, can National Convention in 1864; resumed the practice of1881; attended the common schools; was graduated from Biographies 537 high school in 1899; attended Highland Park College, Desappointed an associate judge of the county court on January Moines, Iowa, and the University of Minnesota at Minneapo-5, 1826; resigned in 1828 to become an inspectorof customs lis; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1903 and com-in Philadelphia and served until his death in Chester,Pa., menced practice in Minneapolis, Minn.; moved to KansasDecember 16, 1829; interment in Old St.Paul's Cemetery. City, Mo., and thence to Lanesboro, Minn., and continued ANDERSON, William Black, a Representative fromilli- the practice of law from 1904 to 1911; served as a private innois; born in Mount Vernon, Ill., April 2, 1830; attendedthe Company D, Fourteenth Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer In-common schools; was graduatedfrom McKendree College, fantry, during the Spanish-American War; elected as a Re-Lebanon, Ill., in 1850; surveyor of Jefferson County in1851; publican to the Sixty-second and to the six succeeding Con-studied law; was admitted to the bar but never practiced; gresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1925);chairman of the Con-engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the Statehouse gressional Joint Commission of Agricultural Inquiry in 1921 of representatives in 1856 and 1858; during the CivilWar and 1922; declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; vice chairman of the researchentered the Union Army as a private in the Sixtieth Regi- ment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry; commissionedlieutenant council of the National Transportation Institute at Washing-colonel of the regiment February 17, 1862, and colonel, April ton, D.C., in 1923 and 1924; president of theMillers' Nation- March 13, 1924-4, 1863; brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers al Federation, Chicago, Ill., and Washington, D.C., 1865; resigned December 26, 1864; member of the constitu- 1929; vice president, secretary, and, later, member of thetional convention of Illinois in 1869; served in theState board of directors of General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn., Forty-fourth 1930-1948; president of the Transportation Association ofsenate in 1871; elected as an Independent to the 1943-1948; died in Minneapolis,Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); was not acandidate America, Chicago,Ill., for renomination in 1876; collector of internal revenuefor Minn., October 8, 1948; interment in Lakewood Cemetery.the southern district of Illinois 1885-1889;United States ANDERSON, Thomas Lilbourne, a Representative frompension agent in Chicago from November 9, 1893, toJanuary

Missouri; born near Bowling Green, Green County, Ky., De-- 17, 1898; died in Chicago, Ill., August 28, 1901;interment in cember 8, 1808; attended the rural schools; studied law; wasOakwood Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Ill. admitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced practice in Franklin, Simpson County, KY.; moved in 1830 to Palmyra, ANDERSON, William Clayton (son of Simeon H. Ander- son and nephew of Albert GallatinTalbott), a Representa- Marion County, Mo., where he continued the practice of law; Garrard County, member of the State house of representatives 1840-1844;tive from Kentucky; born in Lancaster, presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1844, 1848 andKy., December 26, 1826; attended privateschools and was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1845;stud- 1852; member of the State constitutional convention in 1845; practice in elected as a candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-ied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced fifth Congress and as an Independent Democrat to theLancaster; moved to Danville, Boyle County, in1847 and Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); wascontinued the practice of law; member of theState house of not a candidate for renomination in 1860; resumed the prac-representatives 1851-1853; presidential elector on theAmeri- can Party ticket of Fillmoreand Donaldson in 1856; unsuc- tice of law in Marion County, Mo.; died in Palmyra, Mo., Thirty-fifth Con- March 6, 1885; interment in the City Cemetery. cessful candidate for election in 1856 to the gress; elected as a candidateof the Opposition Party to the ANDERSON, Wendell Richard, a Senator from Minneso-- Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3,1861); was ta; born in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn., February1, not a candidate for renomination in1860; elected as a 1933; educated in the public schools of St. Paul; graduated,Unionist to the State house of representatives in1861, died, University of Minnesota 1954 and University of Minnesotaduring the session of the legislature, atFrankfort, Ky., De-- Law School 1960; admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1960 andcember 23, 1861, interment in Bell View Cemetery,Danville, commenced practice in St. Paul; represented United States Ky. in 1956 Olympic Games (hockey) at Cortina, ; served in ANDERSON, William Coleman, a Representativefrom the United States Army 1956-1957; member, Minnesota Greeneville, Greene house of representatives 1959-1963; member, MinnesotaTennessee; born at Tusculum, near County, Tenn., July 10, 1853; attended arural school; was senate 1963-197 1; governor of Minnesota from 1971, untilhis Tenn., in resignation in 1976; member of the Democratic Nationalgraduated from Tusculum College, Greeneville, Committee's Executive Committee 1974-1975; Democratic1876; moved to Newport, Tenn., in 1876;while studying law National Convention Platform Committee chairman 1975; was assistant clerk of CockeCounty 1877-1878; was admitted to the bar in 1878 and commencedpractice in Newport; appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate, De- 1881-1883; was cember 30, 1976, to fill the vacancy caused by theresigna-member of the State house of representatives tion of Walter F. Mondale for the term ending January3, a principal examiner inthe General Land Office at Wash- 1979, and served from December 30, 1976, until hisresigna-ington, D.C., 1889-1892; promoted tochief of the contest for electiondivision February 1, 1892, but resignedAugust 7, 1892; chief tion December 29, 1978; unsuccessful candidate 23, 1892, until in 1978; is a resident of Wayzata, Minn. of the General Land Office from November April 11, 1893; returned to Newport, Cocke County,in 1893 ANDERSON, William, a Representative from Pennsylva-and resumed the practice of law; elected as aRepublican to nia; born in Virginia in 1762; attended the commonschools;the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4,1895-March 3, 1897); during the Revolutionary War joined the ContinentalArmyunsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1896;founder at the age of fifteen and served until the endof the war; wasand editor of Plain Talk, a weekly newspaperpublished in a major on the staff of GeneralLafayette and distinguishedNewport; member of the city council at the timeof his death himself at Germantown and Yorktown; engaged in thehotelin Newport, Tenn., September 8,1902; interment in Union business as landlord of the Columbia House, Chester,Pa., inCemetery. in 1796; county auditor in 1804; county director of the poor from Ten- 1805; elected as a Republican to theEleventh, Twelfth, and ANDERSON, William Robert, a Representative 1815); elect-nessee; born in Bakerville, HumphreysCounty, Tenn., June Thirteenth Congresses (March 4, 1809-March 3, Waynesboro, Tenn., ed to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4,1817-March 3, 1819);17, 1921; attended the public schools in 538 Biographical Directory

graduated from Columbia (Tenn.) Military Academy in1939 Executive Council in 1777; elected as a Delegate to the Con- and from the United States Naval Academy in 1942;partici-tinental Congress in 1780; associate justice for the County of pated in eleven submarine combat patrols in thePacific;Liberty for several terms; died in Liberty County, Georgia, awarded the Bronze Star and other combat awards;com-about 1799. manding officer of the Nautilus, the first atomic submarine, 1957-1959; made the first transpolarvoyage under ice; ANDREW, John Forrester, a Representative from Massa- served as assistant to Vice Adin. H. J. Rickover;retired fromchusetts; born in Hingham, Plymouth County, Mass., No- active Navy duty in July 1962; consultant to President Ken-vember 26, 1850; attended private schools in Hingham and nedy for the National Service Corps in 1963; author;electedthe Phillips School and Brooks School in Boston;was grad- as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth and to the three succeed-uated from Harvard University in 1872 and from Harvard ing Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1973);unsuccess-Law School in 1875; was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1875 ful candidate for reelection in 1972 to the Ninety-thirdCon-and commenced practice in Boston; member of the State gress; chairman and CEO, Public Office Corporation, Wash-house of representatives 1880-1882; served in the State ington, D.C., 1978 to present; is a resident of Alexandria,Va.senate in 1884 and 1885; commissioner of parks for Boston 1885-1890 and again in 1894; unsuccessful Democratic candi- ANDRESEN, August Herman, a Representative from Min-date for Governor in 1886; elected as a Democrat to the nesota; born in Newark, Kendall County, Ill., October 11,Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 1890; attended the public schools; moved with hisparents to Grand Forks, N.Dak., in 1900, to Eagle Grove, Iowa, in 1902,3, 1893); chairman, Committee on Reform in the Civil Serv- and to Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn., in 1905, attendingice (Fifty-second Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelec- tion in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress; resumed theprac- the local schools in each place; was graduated fromRed Wing (Minn.) Seminary, and from St. Olaf College, North-tice of his profession; died in Boston, Mass., May 30, 1895; field, Minn., in 1912; special investigator for the Minnesotainterment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. Department of Weights and Measures 1912-1915;was grad- ANDREWS, Arthur Glenn, a Representative from Ala- uated from the St. Paul (Minn.) College of Law;was admit-bama; born in Anniston, Calhoun County, Ala., January 15, ted to the bar in 1914 and commenced practice in Red Wing1909; attended the Birmingham public schools; graduated in 1915; member of the Minnesota Home Guards in 1918andfrom Phillips High School and ; 1919; interested in financial and business enterprisesandPrinceton University, A.B., 1931; associated with National also engaged in agricultural pursuits; electedas a Republi-City Bank of New York, 193 1-1933; International Business can to the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congress- Machines, 1933-1936; district manager of an Eastman Kodak es (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate forsubsidiary, 1936-1946, and in advertising, 1946-1970; candi- reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; electedtodate for State house of representatives in 1956 and for secre- the Seventy-fourth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses,tary of state in 1958; delegate, Republican National Conven- and served from January 3, 1935, until his death inBethes-tion, 1964; elected as a Republican tothe Eighty-ninth Con- da, Md., January 14, 1958; chairman, Select Committeeongress (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1967); unsuccessful candi- Commodity Exchanges (Eightieth Congress); intermentindate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; Repub- Oakwood Cemetery, Red Wing, Minn. lican Fourth District Chairman, Alabama; unsuccessful can- didate for election in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress; ANDREW, Abram Piatt, Jr., a Representative fromMas-was a trustee in bankruptcy court, 1973-1985; is a resident sachusetts; born in La Porte, La Porte County, md.,Febru- ary 12, 1873; attended the public schools and the Lawrence-of Anniston, Ala. vile (N.J.) School; was graduated from Princeton Collegein ANDREWS, Charles, a Representative from Maine; born 1893; member of the Harvard Graduate School of Artsandin Paris, Oxford County, Maine, February 11, 1814; attended Sciences 1893-1898; pursued postgraduate studies inthe Uni-the district school; was graduated from Hebron (Maine) versities of Halle, Berlin, and Paris; moved to Gloucester,Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1837 and Mass., and was instructor and assistant professor ofeconom-commenced practiceinTurner,AndroscogginCounty, ics at Harvard University 1900-1909; expert assistantandMaine; returned to Paris, Maine; member of the State house editor of publications of the National Monetary Commissionof representatives 1839-1843, serving as speaker in 1842; 1908-1911; director of the Mint 1909 and 1910; Assistantbecame clerk of the courts for Oxford County, Maine, on Secretary of the Treasury 19 10-1912; served in Francecon-January 1, 1845, and served three years; delegate to the tinuously for four and a half years during the First WorldDemocratic National Convention at Baltimore in 1848; elect- War, first with the French Army and later with the Uniteded as a Democrat to the Thirty-second Congress and served States Army; commissioned major, United States Nationalfrom March 4, 1851, until his death in Paris, Maine, April Army, in September 1917 and promoted to lieutenant colo-30, 1852; interment in Hillside Cemetery. nel in September 1918; elected as a Republican to the Sixty- seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- ANDREWS, Charles Oscar, a Senator from Florida; born tion of Wilifred W. Lufkin; reelected to the Sixty-eighth andin Ponce de Leon, Holmes County, Fla., March 7, 1877; at- to the six succeeding Congresses and served from Septembertended the public schools and the South Florida Military 27, 1921, until his death; delegate to the Republican Nation-Institute at Bartow, Fla.; was graduated from the Florida al Conventions in 1924 and 1928; member of the board ofState Normal School at Gainesville, Fla., in 1901 and the trustees of Princeton University 1932-1936; died in Glouces- at Gainesville in 1907; during the ter, Mass., June 3, 1936; remains were cremated and theSpanish-American War served in the Florida National ashes scattered from an airplane flying over his estate atGuard; captain in the Florida National Guard 1903-1905; Eastern Point, Gloucester, Mass. secretary of the Florida State senate 1905-1907 and 1909- Bibliography: DAB. 1911; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1907 and commenced practice in De Funiak Springs, Fla.; judge of the ANDREW, Benjamin, a Delegate from Georgia; born incriminal court of record of Walton County, Fla., 1910-1911; Dorchester, S.C., in 1730; moved to Georgia in 1754 andassistant attorney general of Florida 1912-1919; circuit judge became a planter in St. John's Parish; president of Stateof the seventeenth judicial circuit 19 19-1925; general counsel Biographies 539 of the Florida Real Estate Commission 1925-1928; member of29, 1803; moved with his parents in 1813 to Reading, near the State house of representatives in 1927; attorney for Or-Dundee, Yates County; attended the district school and also lando, Fla., 1926-1929; State supreme court commissionerwas privately tutored; taught schoolfor several years; en- 1929-1932; elected as a Democrat to the United Statesgaged in mercantile pursuits in Irelandville and Watkins; Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Parkjustice of the peace and sheriff of Steuben County in 1836 Trammell; was reelected in 1940 and served from Novemberand 1837; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Con- 4, 1936, until his death in Washington, D.C., on Septembergress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); was not acandidate for 18, 1946; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Seventy-renomination in 1838; after his term in Congress retired ninthCongress),Committee onPublicBuildingsandfrom active business and settled in Dundee, N.Y.; again Grounds (Seventy-ninth Congress), Special Committee on Re-engaged in mercantile pursuits, from 1866 until 1877, when construction of the Senate Roof and Skylights (Seventy-ninthhe again retired from business pursuits to care for his per- Congress); interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Orlando, Fla. Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Seroices for Charles Oscar An-sonal estate; died in Dundee, N.Y., June 11, 1894; interment drews. 80th Cong., 1st sess., 1953. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing in Hillside Cemetery, Dundee, N.Y. Office, 1949. ANDREWS, Landaff Watson, a Representative from Ken- ANDREWS, Elizabeth Bullock (wife of George Williamtucky; born in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Ky., February Andrews), a Representative from Alabama; born Leslie Eliz-12, 1803; attended the public schools; was graduated from abeth Bullock in Geneva, Ala., February 12, 1911; attendedthe law department of , Lexington, Geneva public schools; B.S., Montevallo College, 1932; taughtKy., in 1826; was admitted to the bar the same yearand school in Livingston, Union Springs, and Coffee County,commenced practice in Flemingsburg; prosecuting attorney Ala.; elected as a Democrat, by special election, April 4,of Fleming County 1829-1839; member of the State house of 1972, to the Ninety-second Congress tofill the vacancyrepresentatives 1834-1838; elected as a Whig to the Twenty- caused by the death of her husband, George W. Andrews,sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March and served from April 4, 1972, to January 3, 1973; was not a3, 1843); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1842 to the candidate for reelection in 1972 to the Ninety-third Con- Twenty-eighth Congress; served in the State senate as an gress; is a resident of Union Springs, Ala. independent candidate in 1857; again elected a member of ANDREWS, George Rex, a Representative from Newthe State house of representatives, in 1861, and served until York; born in Ticonderoga, Essex County, N.Y., September1862, when he resigned; judge of the circuit court1862-1868; 21, 1808; attended the common schools and was graduatedresumed the practice of law in Flemingsburg, Ky., where he from the Albany Law School; was admitted to the bar indied December 23, 1887; interment in Fleming CountyCeme- 1836 and commenced the practice of law in Ticonderoga;tery. elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); moved to Oshkosh, Wis., in 1852 and ANDREWS, Mark, a Representative and a Senator from engaged in the timber and lumber business; died in Oshkosh,North Dakota; born in Cass County, N.Dak., May19, 1926; Wis., December 5, 1873; interment in Riverside Cemetery.attended the public schools; served in the UnitedStates Academy, ANDREWS, George William (husband of Elizabeth Bul-Army 1944-1946; cadet at United States Military West Point, N.Y., until receiving a disabilitydischarge in lock Andrews), a Representative from Alabama; born in Fargo, Clayton, Barbour County, Ala., December 12, 1906; attended1946; graduated, North Dakota State University, the public schools; was graduated from the University of1949; farmer and operator of a cattle feeding lot; director, Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1928; was admitted to the bar inGarrison Conservancy District 1955-1964; memberand past 1928 and commenced practice in Union Springs, Ala.; dis-president of North Dakota Crop Improvement Association; trict attorney for the third judicial circuit of Alabama 193 1-Republican national committeeman 1958-1962; elected as a 1943; during the Second World War served as a lieutenantRepublican to the Eighty-eighth Congress, byspecial elec- (jg.) in the United States Naval Reserve from January 1943tion, October 22, 1963, to fill the vacancycaused by the until his election to Congress, at which time he was servingdeath of Hjalmar Nygaard; reelected to the eightsucceeding at , Hawaii; elected as a Democrat to the Sev-Congresses and served from October 22, 1963, to January3, enty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death1981; was not a candidate for reelection in 1980 to theHouse of Henry B. Steagall; reelected to the fourteen succeedingof Representatives, but was elected to theUnited States Congresses and served from March 14, 1944, until his deathSenate and served from January 3, 1981, to January3, 1987; in Birmingham, Ala., December 25, 1971; interment in Oakunsuccessful candidate for reelection; chairman, Select Com- Hill Cemetery, Union Springs, Ala. mittee on Indian Affairs (Ninety-eighth andNinety-ninth ANDREWS, Ike Franklin, a Representative from NorthCongresses); a director of Tenneco, Inc.; established a govern- Carolina; born in Bonlee, Chatham County, N.C., Septemberment consulting firm in Washington, D.C.; is aresident of 2, 1925; attended the public schools; Fork Union MilitaryMapleton, N.Dak. Academy, Fork Union, Va., 1941-1942; B.S., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1950; LL.B., same university, ANDREWS, Michael Allen, a Representative from Texas; 1952; served in the United States Army, field artillery for-born in Houston, Harris County, Tex., February 7,1944; ward observer, 1943-1945, attained the rank of master ser-attended the public schools of Forth Worth, Tex.;graduated, geant, received Bronze Star and Purple Heart; admitted toArlington Heights High School, Fort Worth, Tex.,1962; B.A., the North Carolina Bar in 1972 and commenced practiceinUniversity of Texas, Austin, 1967; J.D., Southern Methodist Pittsboro; State senator, 1959; State representative,1961, University, School of Law, Dallas, Tex., 1970; admitted to 1967, 1969, and 1971; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-the Texas bar, 1971 and commenced practicein Houston; third and to the five succeeding Congresses (January3,law clerk for U.S. district court judge for the SouthernDis- 1973-January 3, 1985); unsuccessful candidate for reelectiontrict of Texas, 197 1-1972; assistant district attorney,Harris to the Ninety-ninth Congress; is a residentof Cary, N.C.County, Tex., 1972-1976; private practice of law, 1976-1983; ANDREWS, John Tuttle, a Representative from Newlieutenant, United States Navy Reserve, 1983;elected as a York; born near Schoharie Creek, Greene County, N.Y., MayDemocrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the two succeeding 540 Biographical Directory

Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); isa residenttary to the Governor of Nebraska in 1893 and 1894; was an of Houston, Tex. unsuccessful candidate for election in 1892 to the Fifty-third ANDREWS, Samuel George, a Representative from NewCongress; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Con- York; born in Derby, Conn., October 16, 1796; attended thegress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); was an unsuccessful public schools and a classical academy in Chester, Conn.;candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; moved to New York in 1815 with his parents, who settled inauditor for the Treasury Department, Washington, D.C., Rochester; bec me engaged in the mercantile business; clerk1897-1915; elected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Con- of the State assembly in 1831 and 1832; clerk of Monroegresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); chairman, Committee County 1834-1837; member of the board Of aldermen in 1838;on the Election of President, Vice President, and Represent- secretary of the State senate in 1840 and 1841; clerk of theatives (Sixty-seventh Congress); was an unsuccessful candi- court of errors for two years; appointed postmaster of Roch-date for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; lived ester on January 8, 1842, and served until July 18, 1845,in Washington, D.C., until his death there on January 19, when his successor was appointed; mayor of Rochester in1942; interment in Parkview Cemetery, Hastings, Nebr. 1846 and again in 1850; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859);en- ANDREWS, William Henry, a Delegate from the Terri- gaged in the milling business; died in Rochester, N.Y., Junetory of New Mexico; born in Youngsville, Warren County, 11, 1863; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery. Pa., January 14, 1846; attended the public schools; engaged ANDREWS, Sherlock James, a Representative from Ohio;in mercantile pursuits at Cincinnati, Ohio, and at Meadville born in Wallingford, New Haven County, Conn., Novemberand Titusville, Pa., 1880-1890; was also a builder of rail- 17, 1801; attended Cheshire Academy, Connecticut;was grad-roads; president of the Santa Fe Central Railway Co.; chair- uated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1821; stud-man of the Republican State committee of Pennsylvania ied law at the New Haven (Conn.) Law School;was admitted1889-1891; member of the State house of representatives to the bar and commenced practice in Cleveland, Cuyahoga1889-1893; served in the State senate in 1895; moved to the County, Ohio, in 1825; prosecuting attorney of CuyahogaTerritory of New Mexico in 1900 and engaged in the mining County, Ohio, in 1830; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-business in Sierra County; was a member of the Territorial seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); declined tocouncil in 1903 and 1904; elected as a Republican to the be a candidate for renomination in 1842; resumed theprac-Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses tice of law in Cleveland; judge of the superior court of Cleve-and served from March 4, 1905, to January 7, 1912, when, land 1848-1850; delegate to the second and third Statecon-pursuant to law, his term expired, the Territory of New stitutional conventions in 1849 and 1873; member of theMexico having been admitted as a State into the Union and village council of Cleveland, Ohio; died in Cleveland, Ohio,the Representative-elect having qualified; became engaged in February 11, 1880; interment in Lakeview Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. the development of oil in the southern part of New Mexico in 1912; died in Carlsbad, Eddy County, N.Mex., January 16, ANDREWS, Walter Gresham, a Representative from New1919; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Titusville, Crawford York; born in Evanston, Cook County, Ill., July 16, 1889;County, Pa. moved with his parents to Buffalo, N.Y., in 1902; attended the public schools of Buffalo, N.Y.; was graduated from the ANDREWS, William Noble, a Representative from Mary- Lawrenceville (N.J.) Academy in 1908 and from the lawland; born in Hurlock, Dorchester County, Md., November department of Princeton University, in 1913; coach of the 13, 1876; attended the public schools of the county and Dixon Princeton University football team in 1913 and 1915; servedCollege; was graduated from Wesley Collegiate Institute, on the Mexican border as a private, Troop I, First New YorkDover, Del., in 1898 and from the law department of the Cavalry, in 1916; commissioned second lieutenant, MachineUniversity of Maryland at Baltimore in 1903; was admitted Gun Group, First New York Cavalry, in 1917; served into the bar in 1903 and commenced the practice of law in France with the One Hundred and Seventh United StatesCambridge, Md.; served as State attorney for Dorchester Infantry, Twenty-seventh Division; promoted to major;su-County from 1904 to 1911; member of the State house of perintendent and central sales manager, Pratt & Lambert,delegates in 1914; served in the State senate from 1918 until Inc., Buffalo, N.Y., 1914-1925; supervisor of the fifteenth1919, when he resigned to enter Congress; elected as a Re- federal census for the seventh district of New York in 1929publican to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March and 1930; director of the Buffalo General Hospital; electedas3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the a Republican to the Seventy-second and to the eight succeed-Sixty-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law in Cam- ing Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1949); chairman,bridge, Md., until his death there on December 27, 1937; Committee on Armed Services (Eightieth Congress);was not a candidate for renomination in 1948; died at Daytonainterment in Washington Cemetery, Hurlock, Md. Beach, Fla., March 5, 1949; interment in Old Fort Niagara ANDRUS, John Emory, a Representative from New York; Cemetery, Youngstown, N.Y. born in Pleasantville, Westchester County, N.Y., February ANDREWS, William Ezekiel, a Representative from Ne-16, 1841; attended the local schools, and Charlotteville Semi- braska; born near Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa, Decem-nary in Schoharie County, N.Y.; was graduated from Wes- ber 17, 1854; became an orphan in early youth; workedas aleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1862; taught school farm hand, and attended the country schools in the winter;in New Jersey for four years; engaged in the manufacture of was graduated from Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, inmedicine in Yonkers, N.Y.; president of the New York Phar- 1874, and from Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, in 1875;wasmaceutical Association, and of the Palisade Manufacturing elected superintendent of schools of Ringgold County inCo. of Yonkers, Westchester County; trustee of Wesleyan 1879; member of the faculty of Hastings (Nebr.) College fromUniversity; mayor of Yonkers in 1903; elected as a Republi- January 1, 1885, to January 1, 1893; elected vice president ofcan to the Fifty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congress- Hastings College in 1889 and president of the Nebraskaes (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1913); was not a candidate for State Teachers' Association in 1890; served as private secre-renomination in 1912; resumed his former business pursuits Biographies 541 in Yonkers, N.Y., until his death there on December 26,March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1909; unsuccessful candidate for 1934; interment in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y. renomination in 1908; chairman, Committee on Coast and Bibliography: Morrill, George P. Multimillionaire Straphanger: A Lift ofInsular Survey (Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses), John Emory Andrus. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1971.Committee on Irrigation (Fifty-ninth Congress), Committee engaged ANFUSO, Victor L'Episcopo, a Representative from Newon Irrigation and Reclamation (Sixtieth Congress); York; born in Gagliano Castelferrato, Sicily, Italy, March 10,in banking in Walla Walla, Wash., until his death on March 1905; immigrated to the United States in 1914 and settled in29, 1921; interment in Masonic Cemetery. Brooklyn, N.Y.; attended elementary and Commercial High ANNUNZIO, Frank, a Representative from Illinois; born School in Brooklyn, N.Y.; preparatory courses at Columbiain Chicago, Cook County, Ill., January 12, 1915; graduated University in 1926 and 1927; was graduated from St. Law-from Crane Technical High School, Chicago, Ill., and from rence University Law School (now Brooklyn Law School) inDePaul University, B.S., 1940, and M.A., 1942; teacher, Chi- 1927; was admitted to the bar in 1928 and commenced thecago public schools, 1936-1943; assistant supervisorof the practice of law in New York City; during the Second World War served with the Office of Strategic Services in the Medi-National Defense Program at Austin High School 1942-1943; terranean Theater 1943-1945; special assistant to the Com-educational representative of the United Steelworkers of missioner of Immigration 1944-1946; elected as a DemocratAmerica, 1943-1948; chairman, War Ration Board 40-20, to the Eighty-second Congress (January 3, 1951-January 3,1943-1945; Advisory Committee to Illinois Industrial Com- 1953); did not seek renomination in 1952; appointed citymission on Health and Safety, 1944-1949; Advisory Commit- magistrate of Brooklyn, N.Y., in February 1954 and resignedtee on Unemployment Compensation, 1944-1949; director of in July 1954 to run for Congress; elected to the Eighty-fourthlabor, State of Illinois, 1949-1952; engaged in private busi- and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-ness 1954-1964; elected as a Democrat to theEighty-ninth January 3, 1963); was not a candidate for renomination inand to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965- 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress; elected a judge in theJanuary 3, 1989); chairman, Committee on House Adminis- State Supreme Court in New York in 1962; died in Newtration (Ninety-eighth, Ninety-ninth and One Hundredth York City, December 28, 1966; interment in St. Johns Ceme-Congresses), Joint Committee on Printing (Ninety-eighth and tery, Middle Village, N.Y. One Hundredth Congresses), Joint Committee on the Library (Ninety-ninth Congress); is a resident of Chicago, Ill. ANGEL, William G., a Representative from New York; born in New Shoreham, Block Island, R.I., July 17, 1790; ANSBERRY, Timothy Thomas, a Representative from moved with his parents to Litchfield, Otsego County, N.Y.,Ohio; born in Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio, December 24, in 1792; attended the common schools; began the study of1871; attended the public schools; was graduated from the medicine in 1807; studied law; was admitted to the bar andUniversity of Notre Dame, South Bend, md., in June 1893; commenced practice in Burlington, N.Y., in 1817; elected towas admitted to the bar and commencedpractice in Defi- the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1827); ance, Ohio; justice of the peace1893-1895; prosecuting attor- elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-ney of Defiance County 1895-1903; was anunsuccessful can- second Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1833); resumeddidate for election in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress; elect- the practice of law in Hammondsport, Steuben County, N.Y.;ed as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and to the threesucceeding member of the State constitutional convention of 1846; wasCongresses and served from March 4, 1907, until January 9, elected judge of Allegany County in 1847; died in Angelica,1915, when he resigned to accept a judicial position; chair- Allegany County, N.Y., on August 13, 1858; interment inman, Committee on Elections No. 1(Sixty-second Congress); Until the Day Dawn Cemetery. appointed associate judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, in

ANGELL, Homer Daniel, a Representative from Oregon;which capacity he served until his resignation in 1916; dele-- born on a farm near The Dalles, Wasco County, Oreg., Janu-gate to the Democratic National Conventions at San Francis- ary 12, 1875; attended the public schools; was graduatedco in 1920 and at NewYork in 1924; moved to Washington, from the University of Oregon at Eugene in 1900 and fromD.C., in 1916 and engaged in the practice of law until his the law school of Columbia University, New York City, indeath; died in New York City, July 5, 1943; interment in 1903; was admitted to the New York and Oregon bars theMount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C. same year and commenced practice in Portland, Oreg.; member of the State house of representatives in 1929, 1931, ANSORGE, Martin Charles, a Representative from New and 1935; served in the State senate in 1937 and 1938, re-York; born in Corning, Steuben County, N.Y., January 1, signing to become a candidate for Congress; elected as a1882; attended the public schools and the College of the City Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the seven succeedingof New York; was graduated from Columbia College in 1903 Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1955); unsuccessfuland from the Columbia Law School in 1906; was admitted to candidate for renomination in 1954; retired but remainedthe bar in 1906 and commenced practice in New York City; active in community activities for over a decade; died inchairman of the Triborough Bridge Committee 19 18-1921; Portland, Oreg., March 31, 1968; interment in Portland Me-unsuccessful Republican candidate for election to Congress morial Indoor Cemetery. in 1912, 1914, and 1916; declined the Republican nomination for Congress in 1918; during the First World War enlisted in ANKENY, Levi, a Senator from Washington; born near St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Mo., August 1, 1844; crossed thethe Motor Transport Corps; elected as a Republican to the plains to Oregon in 1850 with his parents and settled inSixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); un- Portland; attended the rural schools and Kingsley Academy,successfully contested the election in 1922 of Royal H. Portland, Oreg.; engaged in business in Lewiston, Orofino,Weller to the Sixty-eighth Congress; unsuccessful candidate and Florence, Idaho; interested in the cattle business; firstfor judge of the court of general sessions of New York City mayor of Lewiston; moved to WallaWalla, Wash., and en-in 1924; unsuccessful candidate for justice of the supreme gaged in banking; appointed a member of the Pan Americancourt of New York in 1927 and in 1928; resumed the practice Exposition Commission and became its chairman; elected asof law in New York City; director of United Air Lines 1934- a Republican to the United States Senate,and served from1961; engaged in general practice of law; died in New York 542 Biographical Directory

City, February 4, 1967; interment in Temple Israel Ceme-moved with his parents to Texas in 1859 and settled in tery, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. Brazoria County; moved to Milam County in 1867; attended ANTHONY, Beryl Franklin, Jr., a Representative fromthe common schools, and was graduated from the University Arkansas; born in El Dorado, Union County, Ark., Februaryof Georgia at Athens in 1873; studied law; was admitted to 21, 1938; attended the Union County public schools; graduat-the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in Cameron, Tex.; ed, El Dorado High School, 1956; B.S., B.A., University ofprosecuting attorney of Milam County 1876, being also ex Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1961; J.D., same university, 1963; ad-officio district attorney for his county; was appointed special mitted to the Arkansas bar in 1963 and commenced practicejudge during the illness of the regular district judge in 1886; in El Dorado; assistant attorney general, 1964-1965; deputymember of the board of aldermen of Cameron 1890-1892; prosecuting attorney, Union County, Ark., 1966-1970;pros-elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress to ifil the ecuting attorney, 13th Judicial District, 1971-1976; legalvacancy caused by the resignation of Roger Q. Mills, and counsel, Anthony Forest Products Co., 1977; private practiceserved from June 14, 1892, to March 3, 1893; unsuccessful of law, 1977; delegate to Arkansas State Democraticconven- candidate for renomination in 1892; resumed the practice of tions, 1964-1978; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixthlaw in Cameron, Tex.; died in Dallas, Tex., January 16, 1913; and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-interment in Oakland Cemetery. January 3, 1989); is a resident of El Dorado, Ark. APLIN, Henry Harrison, a Representative from Michigan; ANTHONY, Daniel Read, Jr., a Representative fromborn in Thetford Township, Genesee County, Mich., April 15, Kansas; born in Leavenworth, Kans., August 22, 1870; at-1841; moved with his parents to Flint, Mich., in 1848; attend- tended the public schools, the Michigan Military Academyed the public schools; enlisted July, 1861, in Company C, at Orchard Lake, and the University of Michigan at AnnSixteenth Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry; served Arbor; studied law; was admitted to the bar but did notuntil July 16, 1865, with the rank of second lieutenant; practice extensively; engaged in newspaper work; appointedreturned to Michigan and engaged in mercantile pursuits at postmaster of Leavenworth, Kans., on June 22, 1898, and served until June 30, 1902, when a successor was appointed;Wenona (now West Bay City); postmaster of West Bay City mayor of Leavenworth 1903-1905; became manager andfrom November 1869 to June 1886; served as township clerk editor of the Leavenworth Daily Times in 1904; electedas aand township treasurer, each for three years; delegate to the Republican to the Sixtieth Congress to fill thevacancyRepublican National Convention at Chicago in 1884; elected caused by the resignation of ; reelected to theauditor general of the State in 1886 and 1888; interested in Sixty-first and to the nine succeeding Congresses and servedthe construction of the electric railways of West Bay City from May 23, 1907, to March 3, 1929; chairman, Committeeand served as general manager until 1891; member of the on Appropriations (Seventieth Congress); was not a candi-Michigan house of representatives in 1894 and 1895; was date for renomination in 1928; resumed his former businessagain appointed postmaster of West Bay City and served pursuits; died in Leavenworth, Kans., August 4, 1931; inter-from October 1, 1898, to June 1902; elected as a Republican ment in Mount Muncie Cemetery. to the Fifty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rousseau 0. Crump and served from October ANTHONY, Henry Bowen, a Senator from Rhode Island; 20, 1901, to March 3, 1903; unsuccessful candidate for re-- born in Coventry, R.I., April 1, 1815; attendeda privatenomination in 1902; engaged in agricultural pursuits and school in Providence, R.I.; graduated from Brown Universitywas also interested in the manufacture of ice; died in West in 1833; editor of the Providence Journal in 1838, and after-Bay City, Mich., July 23, 1910; interment in Elm Lawn wards became one of its owners; elected Governor of RhodeCemetery, Bay City, Mich. Island in 1849 and reelected in 1850; declined to bea candi- date for renomination; resumed editorial pursuits; electedas APPLEBY, Stewart Hoffman (son of Theodore Frank Ap- a Republican to the United States Senate in 1858, reelectedpleby), a Representative from New Jersey; born in Asbury in 1864, 1870, 1876, and again in 1882, and served fromPark, Monmouth County, N.J., May 17, 1890; attended the March 4, 1859, until his death in Providence, R.I., on Sep-public schools of Asbury Park, and Mercersburg Academy; tember 2, 1884; served as President pro tempore of thewas graduated from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Senate during the Forty-first, Forty-second and Forty-thirdN.J., in 1913; engaged in the real estate and insurance busi- Congresses; chairman, Committee on Printing (Thirty-sev-ness; organized and served as vice president of the First enth through Forty-eighth Congresses), Committee on Revo-National Bank of Avon-by-the-Sea, N.J.; during the First lutionary Claims (Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses);World War enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on interment in Swan Point Cemetery. May 17, 1917, and served until May 17, 1921; commissioned Bibliography: DAB; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses for Henry B An- a captain in the United States Marine Corps Reserve on thony. 48th Cong., 2nd sess.,1884-1885. Washington, D.C.: Government November 24, 1925; elected as a Republican to the Sixty- Printing Office, 1885. ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his ANTHONY, Joseph Biles, a Representative from Pennsyl-father, Representative-elect T. Frank Appleby, and served vania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 19, 1795; attended thefrom November 3, 1925, to March 3, 1927; was not a candi- public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar anddate for renomination in 1926; during the Second World War practiced; member of the State senate 1830-1833; elected asserved in the United States Coast Guard, being discharged a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Con-in September 1945 as a coxswain; retired to Hallandale, Fla.; gresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); appointed judge ofdied in Miami, Fla., January 12, 1964; interment in Arling- the "Nichelson court"; engaged in the sale of titles to largeton National Cemetery, Fort Myer, Va. tracts of lands in Pennsylvania; was elected president judge of the eighth district in 1844 and served until his death in APPLEBY, Theodore Frank (father of Stewart Hoffman Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pa., January 10, 1851; in- Appleby), a Representative from New Jersey; born in Old terment in Williamsport Cemetery. Bridge, Middlesex County, N.J., October 10; 1864; moved with his parents to Asbury Park, N.J., in 1875; attended the ANTONY, Edwin Le Roy, a Representative from Texas;public schools and Pennington (N.J.) Seminary; was graduat- born in Waynesboro, Burke County, Ga., January 5, 1852;ed from Fort Edwards Collegiate Institute, Glens Falls, N.Y., Biographies 543 in 1885; engaged in the real estate and insurance business;Francestown, N.H., and Tyngsboro, Mass.; worked in a coun- member of the Asbury Park Board of Education 1887-1897;try store at Temple, Hilisboro County, N.H.,when fifteen member of the State board of education 1894-1902; delegate years of age; moved to Boston in 1807;engaged in mercantile to the Republican National Convention at St. Louis in 1896;pursuits; president of the Boston Branch of the United member of the city council 1899-1906; mayor of Asbury ParkStates Bank 1832-1836; elected as a Whig to theThirty- 1908-1912; member of the Monmouth County Board of Tax- second and Thirty-third Congresses (March 4, 1851-March3, ation 1917-1920; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh1855); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candi-Thirty-fourth Congress and for election in 1856 to the date for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; hadThirty-fifth Congress; elected as a Constitutional Unionist to been elected to the Sixty-ninth Congress but died in Balti-the Thirty-seventh Congress and served from March 4,1861, more, Md., December 15, 1924, before thecommencement ofto September 27, 1861, when he resigned because offailing the congressional term; interment in Chestnut Hill Ceme-health; died at Longwood (Brookline), Mass., February15, tery, Old Bridge, N.J. 1862; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. APPLEGATE, Douglas Earl, a Representative from Ohio; born in Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio, March 27, APSLEY, Lewis Dewart, a Representative from Massa- 1928; attended the public schools; graduated, Steubenvillechusetts; born in Northumberland, Pa., September 29, 1852; High School, 1947; engaged in real estate business; served inmoved with his parents to Lock Haven, Clinton County, Pa., the Ohio house of representatives, 1961-1969; Ohio senate,in 1861; attended public and private schools; moved toPhila- 1969-1976; delegate to Democratic National Convention,delphia and engaged in business; early identifiedhimself 1964; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth and to thewith the rubbergoods trade; moved to Massachusetts in 1877 five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1977-January 3,and became a manufacturer of rubber clothing in Hudson in 1989); is a resident of Steubenville, Ohio. 1885; president of the Apsley Rubber Co., succeeded bythe Firestone Apsley Rubber Co.; president of the Hudson Board APPLETON, John, a Representative from Maine; born inof Trade and a director of the Hudson National Bank;elect- Beverly, Mass., February 11, 1815; was graduated from Bow-ed as a Republican to the Fifty-third andFifty-fourth Con- doin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1834; studied law at thegresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897);chairman, Committee Cambridge Law School; was admitted to the Cumberland baron Manufactures (Fifty-fourthCongress); declined to be a in 1837 and commenced practice in Portland, Maine; en-candidate for renomination in 1896; resumed his former gaged in editorial work on the Eastern Argus and becamebusiness pursuits in Hudson, Mass.; served two terms asvice editor in 1838; register of probate for Cumberland County,chairman of the Republican National Congressional Commit- Maine, 1840 and 1842-1844; chief clerk of the Navy Depart-tee; died in Colon, Panama, April 11, 1925;interment in ment 1845-1848 and of the Department of State from Janu-Forestvale Cemetery, Hudson, Mass. ary 26 to April 25, 1848; Minister toBolivia from March 30, 1848, to May 4, 1849; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty- ARCHER, John (father of Stevenson Archer [1786-18481 second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); was not aand grandfather of Stevenson Archer [1827-18981), aRepre- candidate for reelection in 1852; resumed the practice of law;sentative from Maryland; born near Churchville,Harford secretary of the legation in London from February 19 to(then Baltimore) County, Md., May 5, 1741;attended the November 16, 1855; Assistant Secretary of State from AprilWest Nottingham Academy in Cecil Countyand was grad- 4, 1857, to June 8, 1860; Minister to Russia from June 1860uated from Princeton College in 1760; studiedtheology, but to June 7, 1861, when he resigned; died in Portland,Maine,owing to a throat affection abandoned the sameand began August 22, 1864; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. the study of medicine; was graduated as aphysician from Bibliography: DAB. the College of Philadelphia in 1768, receiving thefirst medi- cal diploma issued on the American continent;commenced APPLETON, Nathan (cousin of William Appleton), a Rep-the practice of his profession in HarfordCounty in 1769; resentative from Massachusetts; born in New Ipswich, N.H.,member of the Revolutionary committee 1774-1776;raised a October 6, 1779; attended the common schools, the localmilitary company during the Revolution;member of the academy in New Ipswich, N.H., and Dartmouth College,first State constitutional convention of 1776;served in the Hanover, N.H.; clerked in his brother's importing house in Revolution- ofState house of delegates 1777-1779; during the Boston; one of the founders of the cotton-mill industry ary War was aide-de-camp toGen. Anthony Wayne at Stony Waltham, Mass.; also one of the founders of the cityofPoint; June 1, 1779, was made a captain andsubsequently a Lowell in 1821; served in the Massachusetts house of repre-major in the Continental Army; elected as aRepublican to sentatives in 1815, 1816, 1821, 1823, 1824, and 1827; electedthe Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Congresses(March 4, 1801- as an Anti-Jacksoniantothe Twenty-second CongressMarch 3, 1807); founded with his son, Dr. ThomasArcher, (March 4, 1831-March 3,1833); was not a candidate forthe medical and chirurgical faculty of Marylandin 1799; renomination in 1832 to the Twenty-third Congress; electeddied at his country home, "Medical Hall," nearChurchville, as a Whig to the Twenty-seventhCongress to fill the vacan-Harford County, Md., September 28, 1810; intermentin the cy caused by the resignation ofRobert C. Winthrop andPresbyterian Cemetery, Churchville, Md. served from June 9 to September 28, 1842, when he resigned; Bibliography: DAB. engaged in mercantile pursuits; died in Boston, Mass.,July 14, 1861; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, ARCHER, Stevenson (son of John Archer andfather of Mass. Stevenson Archer [1827-18981), a Representative from Mary- Bibliography: DAB; Gregory, Francis W. , Merchant land; born at "Medical Hall," near Churchville,Harford and Entrepreneur, 1779-1861. Charlottesville: University Press ofVirginia, County, Md., October 11, 1786; attended NottinghamAcade- 1975; Winthrop, Robert Charles. Memoir of the Hon.Nathan Appleton, my, Maryland, and was graduatedfrom Princeton College in LL.D. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1969. 1805; studied law; was admitted to the barof Harford APPLETON, William (cousin of Nathan Appleton), a Rep-County in 1808 and commenced practice the same year; resentative from Massachusetts; born in Brookfield,Mass., member of the State house of delegates 1809-18 10; elected as November 16, 1786; attended schools in New Ipswich,N.H.,a Republican to theTwelfth Congress to fill the vacancy 544 Biographical Directory

caused by the resignation of John Montgomery; reelectedtodied at "The Lodge," in Amelia County, Va., March 28, 1855; the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses and served frominterment in a private cemetery at "The Lodge." October 26, 1811, to March 3, 1817; chairman, Committeeon Bibliography: DAB. Claims (Thirteenth Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Fourteenth Congress);paymas- ARENDS, Leslie Cornelius, a Representative from illinois; ter to the Fortieth Maryland Militia during the War of 1812;born in Melvin, Ford County, ill., September 27, 1895; at- appointed on March 5, 1817, by President Madisonas Unitedtended public and high schools and Oberlin (Ohio) College; States judge for the Territory of Mississippi, withpowers ofduring the First World War served in the United States Governor, holding court at St. Stephens; resigned withinaNavy in 1918 and 1919; engaged in agricultural pursuits and year and returned to Maryland and practiced law; elected tobanking; in 1935 became member of the Ford County (ill.) the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); chair-Farm Bureau and in 1938 a member of the board of trustees man, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of theof the illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington; elected Navy(Sixteenth Congress); appointed chief judge of the judi-as a Republican to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelected to cial circuit court of Baltimore and Harford Counties andthe nineteen succeeding Congresses and served from Janu- Baltimore city in 1823; in 1844 was appointed by Governorary 3, 1935, until his resignation December 31, 1974; minori- Pratt as chief justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals andty whip (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses, served until his death at "Medical Hail," near Churchville, Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses, and Eighty-fourth Harford County, Md., June 26, 1848; interment in the Pres-through Ninety-third Congresses), majority whip (Eightieth byterian Cemetery, Churchville, Md. Congress and Eighty-third Congress); was not a candidate for Bibliography: DAB. reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; was a resi- dent of Naples, Fla. until his death there, July 17, 1985; ARCHER, Stevenson (son of Stevenson Archer [1786-1848]interment i*i Melvin Cemetery, Melvin, ill. and grandson of John Archer), a Representative from Mary- land; born at "Medical Hall," near Churchville, Harford ARENS, Henry Martin, a Representative from Minnesota; County, Md., February 28, 1827; attended Bel Air Academy,born in Westphalia, Germany, November 21, 1873; attended and was graduated from Princeton College in 1848; studiedthe public schools and an agricultural school in Germany; law; was admitted to the bar in 1850 and commencedprac-immigrated to the United States in 1889 and settled near tice the same year; member of the State house of delegatesJordan, Scott County, Minn.; engaged in agricultural pur- in 1854; elected as a Democrat to the Fortieth and to thesuits in 1903; member of the board of aldermen of Jordan, three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1875);Minn., 1905-1913; served on the board of education 1913- unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1874; engaged in1919; one of the organizers of Land 0' Lakes Creamery in the practice of his chosen profession in Bel Air, Md., until1920 and a member of the board of directors for twelve years his death on August 2, 1898; interment in the Presbyterianand vice president 1927-1933; member of the State house of Cemetery, Churchville, Md. representatives 1919-1923; served in the State senate 1923- 1929; Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota 1929-193 1; elected ARCHER, William Reynolds, Jr., a Representative fromas a Farmer-Laborite to the Seventy-third Congress (March Texas; born in Houston, Harris County, Tex., March 22,4, 1933-January 3, 1935); unsuccessful candidate for reelec- 1928; attended private schools in Houston and Rice Universi-tion in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress and for election ty, 1945-1946; B.B.A. and LL.B., University of Texas, Austin,in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; resumed agricultural 1946-1951; admitted to the Texas Bar in 1951 andcom- pursuits; unsuccessful candidate in 1942 for the Farmer- menced practice in Houston; served in the United States AirLabor nomination for United States Senator; retired from Force, captain, during Korean Conflict, 1951-1953; president,active business in 1944; died in Jordan Minn., October 6, Uncle Johnny Mills, Inc., 1953-196 1; councilman andmayor1963; interment in Calvary Cemetery. pro tern, City of Hunters Creek Village, Tex., 1955-1962; director, Heights State Bank, 1967-1970; member, Texas ARENTZ, Samuel Shaw (Ulysses), a Representative from house of representatives, 1967-1970; elected as a RepublicanNevada; born in Chicago, ill., January 8, 1879; attended the to the Ninety-second and to the eight succeeding Congressespublic and high schools; was graduated from the Chicago (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Houston,Manual Training School in 1897 and from the South Dakota Tex. School of Mines at Rapid City in 1904; member of the South Dakota National Guard at Rapid City 1901-1904; moved to ARCHER, William Segar (nephew of Joseph Eggleston),aLudering, Lyon County, Nev., in 1907, and to Salt Lake City, Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born at "TheUtah, in 1912, and was engaged as surveyor, assessor, miner, Lodge," Amelia County, Va., March 5, 1789; received privateand timberman in Bear Gulch and Butte, Mont., Bingham instruction; was graduated from William and Mary College,Canyon and Stockton, Utah, and the Lake Superior copper Williamsburg, Va., in 1806; studied law; was admitted to thecountry; mining engineer and superintendent of mines in bar in 1810 and practiced in Amelia and Powhatan Counties;Idaho, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada; chief engineer of railway served four terms in the State house of delegates betweencompanies in Nevada; consulting engineer of the United 1812 and 1819; elected to the Sixteenth Congress to fill theStates Bureau of Mines; captain of Engineers, United States vacancy caused by the resignation of James Pleasants; re-Army, during the First World War; moved to a ranch in elected to the Seventeenth and to the six succeeding Con-Lyon County, Nev., near Simpson, in 1917; also engaged in gresses (January 3, 1820-March 3, 1835); unsuccessful candi-mining and irrigation projects; elected as a Republican to date for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress;the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); chairman, Committee on (Twenty-firstwas not a candidate for renomination but was an unsuccess- through Twenty-third Congresses); elected as a Whig to theful candidate in the 1922 primary election for the Republi- United States Senate and served from March 4, 1841, tocan nomination for United States Senator; elected to the March 3, 1847; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1846;Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs (Twenty-seventh4, 1925-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection and Twenty-eighth Congresses), Committee on Naval Affairsin 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; delegate to the Repub- ( Twenty-seventh Congress); resumed the practice of law;lican National Conventions in 1928 and 1932; again engaged Biographies 545

Pa., and as a rancher near Simpson; alsoresumed mining activitiesCarlisle, Pa., in 1788; moved to Muffin County, in Nevada and Utah; died in Reno, Nev., where he had gonepracticed medicine there for twelve years; wasappointed an to receive medical treatment, on June 17, 1934; intermentinassociate judge; elected to the Third Congress(March 4, Mountain View Cemetery, Reno, Nev. 1793-March 3, 1795); was not a candidate forrenomination in 1794; returned to Carlisle in 1796 andcontinued the prac- ARMEY, Richard Keith, a Representative from Texas;tice of his profession; appointed as an associatejudge of the born in Cando, Towner County, N.Dak., July 7, 1940;attend-Cumberland County Court and served fromSeptember 12, ed the public schools; was graduated from JamestownCol-1808, until his death in Carlisle, Pa., May 6,1828; interment lege, Jamestown, N.Dak. in 1963 and received an M.A. fromin the Old Carlisle Cemetery. the University of North Dakota in 1964 and a Ph.D.from the University of Oklahoma in 1968; taught economics atthe ARMSTRONG, John (father of James Armstrongand 1964-1965; assistant professor WestJohn Armstrong, Jr. [1758-1843]), a Delegate fromPennsyl- 1967-1968; assistant professorAustinvania; born in Brookbor, County Fermanagh,Ireland, Octo- College 1968-1972; associate professor North TexasStateber 13, 1717; attended school in Ireland, and became acivil University 1972-1977 and chairman of the economicsdepart-engineer; immigrated to the UnitedStates and settled in ment 1977-1983; also served as an economicconsultant andCarlisle, Cumberland County, Pa.; was presented amedal by advisor; Distinguished Fellow of the Fisher Institute, Dallas,the city of Philadelphia for destroying theKittanning Indian Tex.; elected as a Republican to theNinety-ninth and Onetowns, September 8, 1756; rendereddistinguished service in Hundredth Congresses (January 3, 1985-January 3,1989); isthe Continental Army, was commissioned abrigadier gener- a resident of Copper Canyon,Tex. al in 1776, and served until April 4, 1777; appointed amajor general of the Pennsylvania State Militiaand served ARMFIELD, Robert Franklin, a Representative fromthroughout the Revolutionary War, with theexception of North Carolina; born near Greensboro, Guilford County, of the Conti- N.C., July 9, 1829; attended the commonschools and wasthe term of his congressional service; Member studied law;nental Congress 1779-1780; died in Carlisle,Pa., March 9, graduated from Trinity College, Durham, N.C.; 1795; interment in Old Carlisle Cemetery. was admitted to the bar in 1845and began practice in Yad- Man." kinville, N.C.; enlisted in the Confederate Army in1861; Bibliography: Crist, Robert U. "John Armstrong, Sr.: Proprietary served as lieutenant and later as lieutenantcolonel of the Ph.D. dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1981. Thirty-eighth Regiment of North Carolina State troops ARMSTRONG, John, Jr. (son of John Armstrong[1717- during the Civil War; moved to Statesville, N.C., andcontin-1795] and brother of JamesArmstrong), a Delegate from ued the practice of law; State solicitor for thesixth districtPennsylvania and a Senator from New York; bornin Car- in 1862 while on furlough from the Army; memberof thelisle, Cumberland County, Pa., November25, 1758; attended State senate in 1874 and 1875, serving as presidentin 1874;Princeton College but left college to enter theRevolutionary Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina in 1875 and1876; Army; secretary of state of Pennsylvania1783-1787; adju- elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventhtant general for several years;Member of the Continental Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); was not acandi-Congress 1787-1788; moved toDutchess County, N.Y., in date for renomination in 1882; resumed the practice oflaw; 1789 and settled near Lexington Manor;elected to the appointed and subsequently elected judge of the superiorUnited States Senate to fill the vacancy inthe term ending court and served from 1889 until January 1,1895, when heMarch 3, 1801, caused by the resignationof ; retired; died in Statesville, Iredell County, N.C.,November 9,reelected in 1801, and served fromNovember 6, 1800, to 1898; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. February 5, 1802, when he resigned; was nextappointed to the term ending March 3, ARMSTRONG, David Hartley, a Senator from Missouri;the Senate to fill the vacancy in 1807, caused by the resignation of his successor,De Witt born in Nova Scotia, Canada, October 21,1812; attended in the term Maine Wesleyan Seminary; taught school in NewBedford,Clinton; subsequently elected to fill the vacancy ending March 3, 1809, caused by theresignation of Theo- Mass., 1833-1837; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1837,and then November 10, 1803, until to Lebanon, Ill., where he taught atMcKendree College;dorus Bailey, and served from school June 30, 1804, when he again resigned toenter the diplomat- returned to Missouri and was principal of the public 1804-1810; also acted as Minis- at Benton 1838-1847; comptroller of St.Louis 1847-1850;ic service; Minister to France board ofter to Spain 1806; during the Warof 1812 was commissioned postmaster of St. Louis 1854-1858; member of the Cabinet of Presi- police commissioners 1873-1876; served as amember of thebrigadier general; Secretary of War in the of St. Louis indent 1813-1814;engaged in literary pursuits; board of freeholders which framed the charter N.Y., April 1, 1843; 1876; was appointed as a Democrat to theUnited Statesdied in Red Hook, Dutchess County, of Lewis V.interment in Rhinebeck Cemetery, Rhinebeck,N.Y. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death Bibliography: DAB; Skeen, C. Edward. John Armstrong,Jr., 1758-1843; Bogy, and served from September 29,1877, to January 26, Press, 1981. 1879, when a successor was elected andqualified; was not a A Biography. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University candidate for election in 1879; died in St. Louis,Mo., March ARMSTRONG, Moses Kimball, a Delegate fromthe Terri- 18, 1893; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery. tory of Dakota; born in Milan, ErieCounty, Ohio, September and Western Reserve ARMSTRONG, James (son of John Armstrong [1717-1795]19, 1832; attended Huron Institute 58-1843]), a Repre-College, Cleveland, Ohio; moved to theTerritory of Minneso-- and brother of John Armstrong, Jr., [17 ta in 1856; elected surveyorof Mower County, and assigned sentative from Pennsylvania; born in Carlisle,Cumberland lands in 1858; moved to Yank- County, Pa., August 29, 1748; attendedthe Philadelphiato survey the United States (now Princetonton, then a small Indian village, inDakota Territory, when Academy and the College of New Jersey Minnesota Territory was admitted as a State; was amember University); studied medicine in Dr. JohnMorgan's School of the first Territorial house of representativesin 1861; re- in Philadelphia and was graduatedfrom the University of speaker in 1863; edited Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1769; commencedthe prac-elected in 1862 and 1863, serving as County, Va.; was athe Dakota Union in 1864; appointedclerk of the supreme tice of medicine in Winchester, Frederick court in 1865; elected to theTerritorial council in 1866 and medical officer during the Revolutionary War;pursued med- secretary of the ical studies in London, England, for three years;returned toin 1867 wa chosen president; acted as 546 Biographical Directory

Indian peace commission in 1867; establishedthe great me-Nebr., March 16, 1937; attended the public schools, Tulane ridian and standard lines for United Statessurveys in south-University 1954-1955, and the University of Minnesota 1956; ern Dakota and in the northern Red River Valley; againserved in the United States Army National Guard 1957- elected to the Territorial council, in 1869; electedas a Demo- crat to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses 1963; president of a radio station in Aurora, Cob.; banker; (MarchState representative 1963-1964; State senator 1965-1972; 4, 1871-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidatefor reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; movedto St. James,State senate majority leader 1969-1972; electedas a Republi- Watonwan County, Minn., and engaged in bankingand incan to the Ninety-third Congress in 1972; reelected to the the real estate business; died in Albert Lea, Minn.,on Janu-Ninety-fourth and Ninety-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1973- ary 11, 1906; interment in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis,January 3, 1979); was not a candidate in 1978 for reelection Minn. to the House of Representatives, but was elected to the United States Senate for the term commencing January 3, ARMSTRONG, Orland Kay, a Representative from Mis-1979; reelected in 1984 for the term ending January 3, 1991; souri; born in Willow Springs, Howell County, Mo.,Octoberchairman, Republican Policy Committee (Ninety-ninth and 2, 1893; Drury College, Springfield, Mo., A.B., 1916; Cumber- One-hundreth Congresses). land University Law School, Lebanon, Tenn., LL.B.,1922; University of Missouri School of Journalism at Columbia, ARNELL, Samuel Mayes, a Representative from Tennes- bachelor of journalism, M.A. in journalism, 1925;was admit-see; born at Zion Settlement, near Columbia, Maury County, ted to the bar in 1922, but did not practice;teacher ofTenn., May 3, 1833; attended Amherst College, Amherst, English and public speaking at Southwest BaptistCollege, Mass.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced Bolivar, Mo., in 1916 and 1917; during the First WorldWarpractice in Columbia; member of the constitutionalconven- served from private to lieutenant in the United StatesArmytion of Tennessee in 1865; served in the State house of Air Corps 1917-1919; Y.M.C.A. welfarerepresentative in France in 1919 and 1920; established department of representatives in 1865 and 1866; upon the readmission of journal-the State of Tennessee to representationwas elected as an ism at University of Florida at Gainesville in1925 andUnconditional Unionist to the Thirty-ninth Congress; served as director 1925-1928; author, magazine writer,and re- newspaper correspondent; secretary of Missouri Century ofelected as a Republican to the Fortieth and Forty-first Con- Progress Commission 1930,1932; delegate to Republicangresses and served from July 24, 1866, to March 3, 1871; State conventions, 1932-1945, 1950, 1952, and 1966; delegate chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of to Republican National Conventions in 1944 and1952; State (Fortieth Congress), Committee on Education and member of the State house of representatives 1932-1936andLabor (Forty-first Congress); was not a candidate for renomi- 1942-1944; member of editorial staff of Reader's Digestfromnation in 1870; resumed the practice of law in Washington, 1944 until his death; member of the staff ofthe UnitedD.C.; returned to Columbia, Tenn.; postmaster of Columbia States Senate Committee on Post Office and CivilService in1879-1884; superintendent of schools 1884-1886; died in 1947 and 1948; elected as a Republican to theEighty-secondJohnson City, Washington County, Tenn., July 20, 1903; in- Congress (January 3, l951-January 3, 1953);was not a candi-terment in Monte Vista Cemetery. date for renomination in 1952; wasa resident of Springfield, Mo., until his death there April 15, 1987;interment in ARNOLD, Benedict (brother-in-law of Matthias J. Bovee), Greenlawn Cemetery. a Representative from New York; born in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, N.Y., October 5,1780; attended the ARMSTRONG, William, a Representative from Virginia;common schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits and also born in Lisburn, County Antrim, Ireland, December 23,1782; was an extensive landowner and philanthropist; supervisor immigrated to the United States in 1792 with hisparents,of Amsterdam 1813-1816; member of the State assembly in who settled in Virginia; studied law in Winchester;United1816 and 1817; elected to the Twentyfirst Congress (March States tax collector in 1818 and 1819; member ofthe State4, 1829-March 3, 1831); was not a candidate for reelection in house of delegates in 1822 and 1823; electedto the Nine-1830; president of the board of trustees of the village of teenth and to the three succeeding Congresses(March 4,Amsterdam in 1832, did not resume active business pursuits 1825-March 3,1833); engaged in the tavern business inbut lived in retirement until his death in Amsterdam, N.Y., Romney, W.Va., until 1862; died in Keyser, W.Va., May10, March 3, 1849; interment in Green Hill Cemetery. 1865; interment in Indian Mound Cemetery, RQmney, W.Va. ARNOLD, Isaac Newton, a Representative from Illinois; ARMSTRONG, William Hepburn,a Representative fromborn in Hartwick, Otsego County, N.Y., November 30, 1815; Pennsylvania; born in Williamsport, Lycoming County,Pa.,attended the district and select schools and Hartwick Semi- September 7, 1824; attended thecommon schools, and wasnary; taught school in Otsego County 1832-1835; studied law; graduated from Princeton College in 1847; studied law;was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Williams-was admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in port, Pa.; served in the State house of representatives inCooperstown, Otsego County, N.Y.; moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1860 and 1861; declined a commission 1836 and continued the practice of law; was electedas city as president judge ofclerk of Chicago in 1837, but had served only a short time the twenty-sixth judicial circuit of Pennsylvania in 1862;when he resigned to devote his entire efforts to his law elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress(March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inpractice; delegate to the Democratic State convention in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress; declined the office of1842; member of the State house of representatives in 1842 commissioner of Indian affairs tendered by President Grant;and 1843; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in commissioner of railroads 1882-1885; resumed the practice of1844; delegate to the Free-Soil National Convention at Buffa- law in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, Pa., until 1898,lo in 1848; again a member of the State house of representa- when he retired from active business pursuits; moved totives in 1855 and was an unsuccessful candidate for speaker; Wilmington, Del., where he died on May 14, 1919; intermentunsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination to in Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery. Congress in 1858; elected as a Republican to the Thirty- seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861-March ARMSTRONG, William Lester, a Representative anda3, 1865); chairman, Committee on Roads and Canals (Thirty- Senator from Colorado; born in Fremont, Dodge County,eighth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomina- Biographies 547 tion in 1864; during the Civil War acted as aide to Colonel ARNOLD, Peleg, a Delegate from Rhode Island; born in Hunter at the Battle of Bull Run; served as Sixth Auditor ofSmithfield, R.I., June 10, 1751; attended the common schools the United States Treasury, Washington, D.C., from Apriland Brown University, Providence, R.I.; studied law; was 29, 1865, to September 29, 1866, when he resigned; resumedadmitted to the bar and practiced; elected deputy to the the practice of law and also engaged in literary pursuits;general assembly of Rhode Island, serving from October 1777 died in Chicago, Ill., April 24, 1884; interment in Gracelandto October 1778 and from May 1782 to May 1783;colonel of Cemetery. the Second Regiment of Providence County Militia in 1780; Bibliography: DAB. Member of the Continental Congress 1787-1788; keeper of ARNOLD, Jonathan (father of Lemuel Hastings Arnoldthe "Peleg Arnold Tavern," at Smithfield, R.I.; Assistant and great-great-grandfather of Theodore Francis Green), aGovernor of Rhode Island in 1790; incorporator of the Provi- Delegate from Rhode Island; born in Providence, R.I., De-dence Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1790; unsuccess- cember 3, 1741; studied medicine and practiced; member offul Anti-Federalist candidate for election to the Fourth Con- the general assembly of Rhode Island from Providence ingress in 1794 and also an unsuccessful Republicancandidate 1776; served in the Revolutionary Army as surgeon; directorfor election to the same Congress to fill the vacancy caused of the Army hospital in Providence; Member of the Conti-by the resignation of Benjamin Bourne in 1796; chief justice nental Congress 1782-1783; moved to St. Johnsbury, Vt., inof the supreme court of Rhode Island from June 1795 to 1787 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; appointed aJune 1809 and again from May 1810 to May 1812; president member of the Governor's council; was appointed judge ofof the Smithfield Union Bank in 1803; president of Smith- Orange County and served until his death in St. Johnsbury,field Academy in 1810; again served as deputy to the general Caledonia County, Vt., February1,1793; interment inassembly of Rhode Island from October 1817 to May 1819; Mount Pleasant Cemetery. died in Smithfield, R.I., February 13, 1820; interment in Bibliography: DAB. Union Cemetery, opposite the Friends Meeting House, in Union Village, near Woonsocket, R.I. ARNOLD, Laurence Fletcher, a Representative from Illi- nois; born in Newton, Jasper County, Ill., June 8, 1891; ARNOLD, Samuel, a Representative from Connecticut; attended the public and high schools of his native city andborn in Haddam, Conn., June 1, 1806; attended the local the University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.; studied law; engagedacademy at Plainfield, Conn., and Westfield Academy, Mas- in banking and in the wholesale hay and grain business atsachusetts; devoted most of his life to agricultural pursuits; Newton, Ill., in 1916; served in the State house of represent-acquired a controlling interest in a stone quarry and became atives 1923-1927 and 1933-1937; delegate to the Democraticowner of a line of schooners operating betweenNew York National Convention at New York in 1924; elected as aand Philadelphia; was, also, for a number of years, president Democrat to the Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-of the Bank of East Haddam; member of the State house of seventh Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1943); un-representatives in 1839, 1842, 1844, and again in 1851; elect- successful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-ed as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress(March 4, eighth Congress and for election in 1950 to the Eighty-1857-March 3, 1859); declined to be a candidate for renomi- second Congress; resumed former business interests; presi-nation in 1858; resumed agricultural pursuits and quarrying; dent, Peoples State Bank; died in Newton, Ill., December 6,died in Haddam, Middlesex County, Conn., May 5,1869; 1966; interment in Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery. interment in a mausoleum on his estate near Haddam. ARNOLD, Lemuel Hastings (son of Jonathan Arnold and ARNOLD, Samuel Greene (granduncle of Theodore Fran- great-great-uncle of Theodore Francis Green), a Representa-cis Green), a Senator from Rhode Island; born inProvidence, tive from Rhode Island; born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., JanuaryR.I., April 12, 1821; received his early educationunder pri- 29, 1792; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover,vate tutors; was graduated from Brown University,Provi- N.H., in 1811; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1814dence, R.I., in 1841 and from the law departmentof Harvard and commenced practice in Providence, R.I.; engaged inUniversity in 1845; was admitted to the bar in 1845;lawyer manufacturing and mercantile pursuits in 1821; member ofand historian; trustee of Brown University 1848-1880; elect- the State house of representatives 1826-183 1; Governor ofed lieutenant governor of Rhode Island in 1852and served Rhode Island in 1831 and 1832; member of the executiveas Acting Governor; memberof the peace commission held council during the Dorr Rebellion in 1842 and 1843; unsuc-at Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to cessful candidate for United States Senator in 1845; elected (March 4, 1845-prevent the impending war; again elected lieutenant gover- as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth Congress nor in 1861 and 1862; duringthe Civil War organized a March 3, 1847); was not a candidate for renomination incompany of light artillery which went toWashington, D.C., 1846; moved to South Kingston in 1847 and continued theand was mustered into the Union Army; elected as a Repub- practice of law until his death on June 27, 1852; intermentlican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancycaused in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, R.I. by the resignation of James F. Simmons and served from ARNOLD, Marshall, a Representative from Missouri; bornDecember 1, 1862, to March 3, 1863; returned to historical at Cook Settlement, near Farmington, St. Francois County,research; president of the Rhode Island Historical Society Mo., October 21, 1845; attended the common schools; profes-1868-1880; died in Providence, R.I., February 14, 1880; inter- sor at Arcadia College in 1870 and 1871; deputyclerk of thement in Swan Point Cemetery. circuit, county, and probate courts of St. Francois County, Bibliography: DAB. Mo.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1872 and com- ARNOLD, Samuel Washington, a Representative from menced practice in Commerce, Scott County, Mo.; prosecut-Missouri; born on a farm near Downing, Schuyler County, ing attorney of Scott County 1873-1876; member of the State rural house of representatives 1877-1879; elected as a Democrat toMo., September 21, 1879; attended the Coffey, Mo., the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4,1891-schools and was graduated from Kirksville (Mo.) State March 3, 1895); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894Teachers College in 1902; taught school in the Coffey, Mo., to the Fifty-fourth Congress; resumed the practiceof law inschool district in 1896; superintendent of the public schools .Benton, Scott County, Mo., and died there June 12,1913; in Middletown, Mo., in 1901 and 1902 and in Atlanta,Mo., in interment in Benton Cemetery. 1903; employed in the St. Louis, Mo., internal revenue office 548 Biographical Directory

in 1904; engaged in the retail lumber business at Atlanta,eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from Mo., 1905-1908; moved to Kirksville, Mo., in 1908 andorga-March 4, 1923, until his resignation, effective September 16, nized the Arnold Lumber Co.; electedas a Republican to the1935, having been appointed July 29, 1935, a member of the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidateUnited States Board of Tax Appeals (now the Tax Court of for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress, for elec-the United States); reappointed in 1944 and served until his tion in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress, and in 1952 toretirement June 30, 1950; owned and operated two large the Eighty-third Congress; retired from political and busi-farms; director of the Second National Bank, Farmers and ness activities in 1952; died in Kirksville, Mo., December 18,Producers Bank, and the First National Bank of Robinson; 1961; interment in Maple Hills Cemetery. died in Robinson, ill., November 23, 1957; interment in New Cemetery. ARNOLD, Thomas Dickens, a Representative from Ten- nessee; born in Spotsylvania County, Va., May 3, 1798; ARNOT, John, Jr., a Representative from New York; born moved with his parents to Knox County, Tenn., in 1808;wasin Elmira, Chemung County, N.Y., March 11, 1831; educated tutored privately; at the age of fourteen enlistedas a drum-at private schools in his native city; entered Yale College, mer boy in the War of 1812; taught school in Knox andbut left before graduation to enter business; upon the death Grainger Counties; studied law; was admitted to the bar inof his father became engaged in banking in Elmira; presi- 1820 and commenced practice in Knoxville, Tenn.; electedasdent of the village 1859-1864; president of the beard of trust- an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4,ees of the village of Elmira in 1859, 1860, and 1864; during 1831-March 3, 1833); an attempt was made by Morgan A.the Civil War served as Army paymaster with the rank of Heard to assassinate him on May 14, 1832, as he descendedmajor in Elmira; when the village of Elmira was chartered the west steps of the Capitol; was made brigadier general ofas a city, was elected mayor in 1864, 1870, and 1874; declined the Tennessee Militia in 1836; moved to Greeneville, Tenn.;the proffered nomination as Democratic candidate for Con- elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4,gress in 1882, but accepted nomination at a subsequent con- 1841-March3,1843); chairman, Committee on Claimsvention; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and (Twenty-seventh Congress); was not a candidate for reelec-Forty-ninth Congresses and served from March 4, 1883, until tion to the Twenty-eighth Congress; resumed the practice ofhis death in Elmira, N.Y., November 20, 1886; interment in law in Greeneville; died while attending court in Jonesboro,Woodlawn Cemetery. Washington County, Tenn., May 26, 1870; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery, Greeneville, Tenn. ARRINGTON, Archibald Hunter (uncle of Archibald Hunter Arrington Williams), a Representative from North ARNOLD, Warren Otis, a Representative from RhodeCarolina; born near Nashville, Nash County, N.C., Novem- Island; born in Coventry, Kent County, R.I., June 3, 1839;ber 13, 1809; attended the local academy at Hilliardston and attended the common schools; engaged in mercantilepur- suits at Coventry from 1857 to 1864; was a manufacturer ofLouisburg (N.C.) College; studied law; was a large landown- cotton goods in Chepachet and Westerly, R.I., until 1866,er, extensively engaged in planting; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses (March 4, when he began the manufacture of woolen goods; electedas a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses1841-March 3, 1845); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); was a candidate for reelec-1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress; was a supporter of the tion in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress, but as neitherConfederacy and a member of the secession convention in candidate received a majority the general assembly ordered1861, member of the First Confederate Congress m 1861, a new election, in which he declined to be a participant;unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1863 to the Second elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3,Confederate Congress; delegate to the Union National Con- 1897); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1896;vention at Philadelphia in 1866; chairman of the court of continued his former manufacturing pursuits until his deathcommon pleas and quarter sessions for Nash County in 1866 in Westerly, Washington County, R.I., April 1, 1910; inter-and 1867; county commissioner in 1868; engaged in the man- ment in Acotes Hill Cemetery, Chepachet, RI. agement of his estate; died at his country home near Nash- ville, Nash County, N.C., July 20, 1872; interment in the ARNOLD, William Carlile, a Representative from Penn-family graveyard on his plantation. sylvania; born in Luthersburg, Clearfield County, Pa., July 15, 1851; attended the public schools and Phillips Academy, ARTHUR, Chester Alan, a Vice President and 21st Presi Andover, Mass.; studied law; was admitted to the bar indent of the United States; born in Fairfield, Franklin Clearfield County, Pa., June 18, 1875, and practiced in Cur-County, Vt., October 5, 1830; attended the public schools and wensville and Du Bois, Clearfield County, Pa.; elected as awas graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses1848; became principal of an academy in North Pownal, Vt., (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899); unsuccessful candidate forin 1851; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1854 and reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; resumed thecommenced practice in New York City; took an active part practice of law in Clearfield County, Pa.; died in Muskegon,in the reorganization of the State militia; during the Civil Mich., while on a business trip to that city, March 20, 1906;War, served as acting quartermaster general of the State in interment in Oak Hifi Cemetery, Curwensville, Pa. 1861; commissioned inspector general, appointed quarter- ARNOLD, William Wright, a Representative from illinois;master general with the rank of brigadier general, and born in Oblong, Crawford County, III., October 14, 1877;served until 1862; resumed the practice of law in New York attended the country schools of his native county and AustinCity; appointed by President Ulysses Grant as collector of College, Effingham, Ill.; was graduated from the law depart-the port of New York 1871-1878; resumed the practice of law ment of the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1901; wasin New York City; elected Vice President of the United admitted to the bar the same year and commenced theStates on the Republican ticket with President James A. practice of law in Robinson, Crawford County, Ill.; was con-Garfield for the term beginning March 4, 1881; upon the tinuously engaged in the practice of his chosen professiondeath of President Garfield, became President of the United until elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-States on September 20, 1881, and served until March 3, Biographies 549

1885; returned to New York City where he died NovemberLicking County, Ohio, July 1,1867; attended the public 18, 1886; interment in the Rural Cemetery Albany, N.Y.schools, and Bartlett's Business College, Lansing, Mich.; in Bibliography: DAB; Howe, George. Chester A. Arthur, a Quarter-century1885 engaged in the newspaper publishing business in of Machine Politics. 1935. Reprint. New York: F. Ungar and Co., 1957;Johnstown, Ohio; also engaged in banking; served as post- Reeves, Thomas C. Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur. Newmaster of Johnstown from 1893 to 1897, when his successor York: Knopf, 1975. was appointed; secretary of the NationalEditorial Associa- ARTHUR, William Evans, a Representative from Ken-tion 1902-1906; member of the State house of representa- tucky; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 3, 1825; moved withtives in 1904 and 1905; elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth his parents to Covington, Ky., where he received instructionand to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1907-March from private tutors and also in private schools; studied law;3, 1921); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post was admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced practiceinOffice Department (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Covington; Commonwealth attorney for the ninth judicialCoinage, Weights, and Measures (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth district of Kentucky 1856-1862; presidential elector on theCongresses); unsuócessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to Democratic ticket of Breckinridge and Lane in 1860; appoint-the Sixty-seventh Congress; resumed the newspaper publish- ed judge of the ninth judicial circuit in 1866 and served untiling business and banking in Johnstown, Ohio; eleéted to the 1868, when he resigned; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Congresses second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3,and served from January 3, 1935, until his death in Johns-

1875); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; re-town, Ohio, January 1, 1940; interment in Green Hill Ceme-- sumed the practice of law in Covington; became judge of thetery. twelfth judicial circuit of Kentucky in 1886 and served until 1893, when he resigned; engaged in the practice of law until ASHE, John Baptista (uncle of John Baptista Ashe [1810- his death in Covington, Ky., May 18, 1897; interment in1857], Thomas Samuel Ashe, and William Shepperd Ashe), a Linden Grove Cemetery. Delegate and a Representative from North Carolina; born in Rocky Point, N.C., in 1748; was privately tutored at home; ASH, Michael Woolston, a Representative from Pennsyl- engaged in agricultural pursuits; served throughout the Rev- vania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 5, 1789; studied law;olutionary War and attained the rank of colonel in com- was admitted to the bar June 21, 1811, andcommencedmand of North Carolina troops at Valley Forge and at the practice in Philadelphia; served as a first lieutenant andBattle of Eutaw, S.C.; member of the State house of com- lieutenant colonel in the First Regular Pennsylvania Volun-mons 1784-1786, serving as speaker of thehouse in 1786; teers during the War of 1812; at the close of the war he wentMember of the Continental Congress in 1787 and served into partnership with , who subsequentlyuntil November 1, 1787, when he resigned; served as chair- was a President of the United States, andcontinued theman of the committee of the whole inthe State convention practice of his profession in Philadelphia; elected as a Jack-of 1789 that ratified the Constitution of the UnitedStates; sonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835-March and 3, 1837); was not a candidate for reelection in 1836 to themember of the State senate in 1789; elected to the First Twenty-fifth Congress; again engaged in the practice of hisSecond Congresses and served from March 24, 1790, until profession until his death in Philadelphia, Pa., December 14,March 3, 1793; resumed agricultural pursuits; again served North Care-- 1858; interment in Christ Church Burial Ground, located atin the State senate in 1795; elected Governor of lina in 1802, but died in Halifax, N.C., November 27,1802, Fifth and Arch Streets. before being inaugurated; interment in the Churchyard ASHBROOK, Jean Spencer (wife of John Milan Ash-Cemetery, Halifax, N.C. brook), a Representative from Ohio; born Emily Jean Spen- Bibliography: DAB. cer in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, September21, 1934; attended Central School, Newark, Ohio; graduated, ASHE, John Baptista (brother of William Shepperd Ashe, nephew of John Baptista Ashe [1748-1802], andcousin of Newark High School, 1952; B.S., , Ce-- lumbus, 1956; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventhThomas Samuel Ashe), a Representative from Tennessee; Congress, by special election, June 29, 1982, to fill the vacan-born in Rocky Point, Pender County, N.C., in 1810; attended cy caused by the death of herhusband, John Milan Ash-Fayetteville Academy and was graduated from Trinity Col- brook, and served from July 12, 1982, until January 3, 1983;lege, Hartford, Conn., in 1830; studied law; wasadmitted to is a resident of Newark, Ohio. the bar in 1832; moved to Tennessee and commenced prac- tice in Brownsville; elected as a Whig to theTwenty-eighth ASHBROOK, John Milan (son of William A. AshbrookCongress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); moved toGalveston and husband of Jean Spencer Ashbrook), a RepresentativeCounty, Tex., and settled near Galveston; continued the from Ohio; born in Johnstown, Licking County, Ohio, Sep-practice of his chosen profession until his death in Galves- tember 21, 1928; graduated from Johnstown High School inton, Tex., December 29, 1857; interment in a cemetery near 1946; served in the United States Navy, 1946-1948; memberGalveston. of Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1946-1947; Harvard Universi- ty, A.B., 1952, and Ohio State University LawSchool at ASHE, Thomas Samuel (nephew of John Baptista Ashe of Columbus, J.D., 1955; was admitted to the bar in 1955 andNorth Carolina and cousin of John Baptista Ashe of Tennes- commenced the practice of law in Johnstown, Ohio; publish-see and of William ShepperdAshe), a Representative from er of the Johnstown Independent, aweekly newspaper;North Carolina; born in Hawfields, near Graham, Alamance served in the State house of representatives, 1957-1961; na-County (then a part of Orange County), N.C., July19, 1812; tional chairman of Young Republican Clubs, 1957-1959; dele-- attended Bingham's Academy, Hillsboro, N.C., and was grad- gate, Republican National Conventions, 1964and 1968; elect-uated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ed as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and to the tenin 1832; studied law; was admitted to the bar in1834 and succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, 1961,commenced practice in Wadesboro, Anson County, in 1835; until his death on April 24, 1982, in Johnstown, Ohio; cre-member of the State house of commons in 1842; solicitor of mated; ashes interred at Green Hill Cemetery. the fifth judicial district of North Carolina1847-1851; elect- ASHBROOK, William Albert (father of John M. Ash-ed to the State senate in 1854; Member of theConfederate brook), a Representative from Ohio; born near Johnstown,house of representatives 1861-1864; elected to the Confeder- 550 Biographical Directory

ate senate in 1864, but did not serve due to the termination ASHLEY, Henry, a Representative from New York; born of the Civil War; served as State coundior in 1866;unsuc-in Winchester, Cheshire County, N.H., February 19, 1778; cessful candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 1868;attended the common schools; clerk of Winchester village in elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth1811; justice of the peace in 1817; engaged in the manufac- Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); declined to beature of leather in Catskill, Greene County, N.Y.; chairman of candidate for renomination in 1876; resumed the practice ofthe tanners' association in 1825; elected to the Nineteenth law at Wadesboro; elected associate justice of the Statesu- preme court in 1878; reelected in 1886 for a term of eightCongress (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1827); was not a candidate years and served until his death in Wadesboro, Ansonfor reelection in 1826; resumed his former business pursuits; County, N.C., on February 4, 1887; interment in East Viewpresident of the board of trustees of the village of Catskill in Cemetery. 1828; trustee of the apprentices' library in 1828; died in Bibliography: DAB. Catskill, N.Y., January 14, 1829; interment in Thomson Street Cemetery. ASHE, William Shepperd (brother of John Baptista Ashe of Tennessee, nephew of John Baptista Ashe of North Caroli- ASHLEY, James Mitchell (great-grandfather of Thomas na and cousin of Thomas Samuel Ashe), a RepresentativeWilliam Ludlow Ashley), a Representative from Ohio; born from North Carolina; born in Rocky Point, N.C., Septembernear Pittsburgh, Pa., November 14, 1824; instructed himself 14, 1814; attended school at Fayetteville, N.C., and pursuedin elementary subjects while employed as a clerk on boats classical studies in Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.; engagedoperating on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers; editor of the in the cultivation of rice; studied law; was admitted to theDispatch, and afterwards of the Democrat, in Portsmouth, North Carolina bar in 1836 and commenced the practice ofOhio; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 but never law in New Hanover County, N.C., the same year; presiden-practiced; moved to Toledo, Ohio, and engaged in the whole- tial elector of the Democratic ticket in 1844; member of thesale drug business; elected as a Republican to the Thirty- North Carolina senate 1846-1848; elected as a Democrat tosixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1859- the Thirty-first, Thirty-second, and Thirty-third CongressesMarch 3, 1869); chairman, Committee on Territories (Thirty- (March 4, 1849-March 3,1855); chairman, Committee onseventh through Fortieth Congresses); unsuccessful Republi- Elections (Thirty-second Congress); was not a candidate forcan candidate for reelection in 1868 to the Forty-first Con- renomination in 1854; served as president of the Wilmingtongress; delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' Convention in & Weldon Railroad Company from 1854 until his death;1866; Governor of the Territory of Montana in 1869 and again a member of the North Carolina senate 1859-1861;1870; constructed the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Rail- delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Charles-road, and served as president from 1877 to 1893; died in ton in 1860; member of the North Carolina ConstitutionalAlma, Gratiot County, Mich., September 16, 1896; interment Convention in 1861; during the Civil War served as a major in Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio. in the Confederate Army, in charge of all transportation Bibliography: DAB; Horowitz, Robert F. Great Impeacher: A Political Bi- from the South to Virginia; killed in a railroad accidentography of James M. Ashley. New York: Brooklyn College Press, 1979; near Wilmington, N.C., September 14, 1862; interment in theKahn, Maxine B. "Congressman Ashley in the Post-Civil War Years." family burying ground at "The Neck," near Ashton, Pender Northwest Ohio Quarterly 36 (1964): 116-33, 194-210. County, N.C. ASHLEY, Thomas William Ludlow (great-grandson of Bibliography: DAB. James M. Ashley), a Representative from Ohio; born in ASHLEY, Chester, a Senator from Arkansas; born in Mas-Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, January 11, 1923; attended the sachusetts, June 1, 1790; moved with his parents to Hudson,Monroe and Glenwood elementary schools, and Kent School, N.Y.; attended the common schools and was graduated fromKent, Conn., 1939-1942; during the Second World War Wffliams College, Williamstown, Mass., and the Litchfieldserved in the United States Army as a corporal with service (Conn.) Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1817 andin the Pacific Theater of Operations 1943-1945; was graduat- commenced the practice of law in Hudson, N.Y.; moved toed from Yale University in 1948; associated with Toledo Little Rock, Ark., in 1820; elected as a Democrat to thePublicity and Efficiency Commission in 1948; studied law in United States Senate in 1844 to fill the vacancy caused byevening classes at the University of Toledo Law School; the death of William S. Fulton; reelected in 1846, and servedgraduated from Ohio State University Law School at Colum- from November 8, 1844, until his death in Washington, D.C.,bus in 1951; was admitted to the bar in 1951 and commenced April 29,1848; chairman, Committee on the Judiciarythe practice of law in Whitehouse and Toledo, Ohio; in 1952 (Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses); interment in Mt.joined the staff of Radio Free Europe, serving in Europe as Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark. codirector of the press section and later as assistant director of special projects, resigning March 1, 1954; elected as a ASHLEY, Delos Rodeyn, a Representative from Nevada;Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the twelve succeeding born at The Post, Ark., February 19, 1828; received an aca-Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1981); chairman, demic education; studied law; was admitted to the bar inSelect Committee on Energy (Ad Hoc) (Ninety-fifth Con- 1849 and practiced; moved to California in 1849 and contin-gress), Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries ued the practice of law in Monterey in 1850; district attor-(Ninety-sixth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelec- ney 1851-1853; member of the State house of representativestion in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress; founder and in 1854 and 1855; served in the State senate in 1856 andsince 1981 president of a legal and congressional consulting 1857; State treasurer of California in 1862 and 1863; movedfirm in Washington, D.C.; is a resident of Washington. to Virginia City, Storey County, Nev., in 1864 and continued the practice of law; elected as a Republican to the Thirty- ASHLEY, William Henry, a Representative from Missou- ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3,ri; born in Powhatan County, Va., in 1778; attended the 1869); was not a candidate for renomination in 1868; movedcommon schools; moved to St. Genevieve, Mo. (then Upper to Pioche, Lincoln County, Nev., in 1871 and resumed theLouisiana), in 1803; engaged in the manufacture of saltpeter; practice of law; due to failing health moved to San Francis-became a merchant and later a surveyor; moved to St. Louis, co, Calif., in 1872, and lived in retirement until his deathMo., in 1808; brigadier general of militia during the War of there July 18, 1873; interment in Calvary Cemetery. 1812; traded with the Indians and dealt in furs; unsuccessful Biographies 551 candidate for governor in 1824; founded an organizationState senate 1808-1810, 1813; member, Governor's council which in 1830 became the Rocky Mountain Fur Co., and1816; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy conducted trading and exploring expeditions to the headwa-caused by the resignation of Christopher Gore and served ters of the ; elected as the first Lieutenantfrom June 12, 1816, to May 10, 1818, when he resigned; died Governor of Missouri and served from 1820 to 1824; electedin Northampton, Mass., May 10, 1819; interment in Bridge as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress to fill theStreet Cemetery. vacancy caused by the death of Spencer D. Pettis; reelected to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses and ASHMUN, George (son of Eli Porter Ashmun), a Repre- served from October 31, 1831, to March 3, 1837; did not seeksentative from Massachusetts; born in Blandford, Hampden renomination in 1836 but was an unsuccessful candidate forCounty, Mass., December 25, 1804; moved to Northampton Governor of Missouri in 1836; died near Boonville, Mo.,with his parents in 1807; attended the local schools; was March 26, 1838; interment in an Indian mound overlookinggraduated from Yale College in 1823; studied law; was ad- the Missouri River, near his home, on the Lamine River, inmitted to the bar and commenced practice in Springfield in Cooper County, Mo. 1828; member of the State house of representatives in 1833, Bibliography: DAB; Ashley, William H. "The Diary of William H. 1835, 1836, 1838, and 1841, serving as speaker in 1841; Ashley." Edited by Dale L. Morgan. Bulletin of the Missouri Historical So-member of the State senate in 1838 and 1839; elected as a ciety 11 (1954-55): 9-40, 158-86, 279-302; Clokey, Richard M. William H Whig to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Con- Ashley: Enterprise and Politics inthe Trans-Mississippi West. Norman: gresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1851); was not a candidate University of Oklahoma Press, 1980. for renomination in 1850; resumed the practice of law in ASHMORE, John Durant (cousin of Robert Thomas Ash-Springfield; chairman of the Republican National Conven- more), a Representative from South Carolina; born in Green-tion at Chicago in 1860; director of the Union Pacific Rail- ville District, S.C., August 18, 1819; attended the commonroad Co.; delegate to the Union National Convention at schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar but neverPhiladelphia in 1866; died in Springfield, Hampden County, practiced; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of theMass., July 16, 1870; interment in Springfield Cemetery. State house of representatives 1848-1853; comptroller gener- Bibliography: DAB. al of the State 1853-1857; elected as a Democrat to the ASHURST, Henry Fountain, a Senator from Arizona; Thirty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1859, untilborn in Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nev., September his retirement on December 21, 1860; chairman, Committee13, 1874; moved with his parents to Arizona in 1875 and on Mileage (Thirty-sixth Congress); during the Civil War wassettled near the present town of Flagstaff, Coconino County; elected colonel of the Fourth South Carolina Regiment, butattended the public schools of Flagstaff and was graduated resigned before the regiment was called into service; en-from the Stockton (Calif.) Business College in 1896; studied gaged in mercantile pursuits in Greenville, S.C.; died inlaw and political economy at the University of Michigan at Sardis, Miss., December 5, 1871; interment in Black JackAnn Arbor; was admitted to the bar in 1897 and commenced Cemetery, near Sardis, in Panola County. practice in Williams, Ariz.; member of the Territorial house ASHMORE, Robert Thomas (cousin of John Durant Ash-of representatives in 1897 and 1899, serving as speaker in more), a Representative from South Carolina; born on a1899; served in the Territorial senate in 1903; district attor- farm near Greenville, S.C., February 22, 1904; attended theney of Coconino County 1905-1908; moved toPrescott, Ariz., public schools of Greenville; was graduated from Furmanin 1909 and continued the practice of law; upon the admis- University Law School, Greenville, S.C., in 1927; while asion of Arizona as a State was elected as a Democrat to the student engaged in agricultural work, retail sales, and as aUnited States Senate on March 27, 1912; reelected in 1916, substitute rural mail carrier; was admitted to the bar in1922, 1928, and again in 1934, and served from March 27, January 1928 and engaged in the practice of law in Green-1912, to January 3, 1941; unsuccessful candidate for renomi- ville, S.C.; solicitor of Greenville County Court 1930-1934;nation in 1940; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs solicitor of the thirteenth judicial circuit of South Carolina(Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on 1936-1953; during the Second World War, while on officialIndustrial Expositions (Sixty-third Congress), Committee to leave from duties as solicitor, volunteered for service in theInvestigate Trespassers on Indian Land (Sixty-sixth Con- United States Army in December 1942, serving in this coun-gress), Committee on the Judiciary (Seventy-third through try and overseas until discharged from active duty in MaySeventy-sixth Congresses); appointed a member of the Board 1946, as a lieutenant colonel in the United States Armyof Immigration Appeals in the Department of Justice on Reserve; promoted to colonel in 1955; elected as a DemocratApril 8, 1941, and served until February 28 1943, when he to the Eighty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused byretired; died in Washington, D.C., May 31, 1962; interment the death of Joseph R. Bryson; reelected to the Eighty-fourthin Sacred Heart Cemetery, Prescott, Ariz. and to the six succeeding Congresses (June 2, 1953-January Bibliography: DAB; Ashurst, Henry F. A Many-Colored Toga. Tucson: 3, 1969); was not a candidate for reelection in 1968 to the University of Arizona Press, 1962. Ninety-first Congress; resumed the practice of law; member ASPER, Joel Funk, a Representative from Missouri; born of the board, South Carolina Appalachian Regional Planningin Adams County, Pa., April 20, 1822; moved to Ohio with and Development Commission (later South Carolina Appa-his parents, who settled in Trumbull County in 1827; attend- lachian Council of Governments), 1970 to present, and chair-ed the public schools and the local college in Warren, Ohio; man, 1970-1972; is a resident of Greenville, S.C. studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1844 and commenced ASHMUN, Eli Porter (father of ), a Sena-practice in Warren, Ohio; justice of the peace in 1846; pros- tor from Massachusetts; born in a small village north ofecuting attorney of Geauga County in 1847; delegate to the Albany on the Hudson River, June 24, 1770; attended theBuffalo Free-Soil Convention in 1848; editor of the Western village school; member of the State house of representativesReserve Chronicle in 1849; moved to Iowa in 1850 and pub- 1803-1804; graduated from Middlebury College, Middlebury,lished the Chardon Democrat; raised a company for the Civil Vt., in 1807; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com-War in 1861 and served as its captain; was wounded in the menced practice in Blandford; moved to Northampton,Battle of Winchester; promoted to the rank of lieutenant Mass., in 1807 and continued the practice of law; member,colonel in 1862; mustered out of the service in 1863 because 552 Biographical Directory of wounds received in action; moved to Chillicothe, Living-State institution conductor 1897-1900; president of the Lou- ston County, Mo., in 1864 and resumed the practice of law;isiana Polytechnic Institute 1900-1904; State superintendent founded the Spectator in 1866; delegate to the Republicanof public education 1904-1908, and while serving in that National Convention in 1868; elected as a Republican to thecapacity reorganized the public-school system of Louisiana; Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); was notpresident of the Louisiana State Normal College at Natchi- a candidate for renomination in 1870; practiced law until histochés 1908-1911; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third death; died in Chillicothe, Mo., October 1, 1872; interment inand to the nine succeeding Congresses and served from Edgewood Cemetery. March 4, 1913, until his death in Washington, D.C., March ASPIN, Leslie, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in16, 1931; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery. Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wis., July 21, 1938; attended Milwaukee public schools; B.A., Yale University, 1960; M.A., ATCHISON, David Rice, a Senator from Missouri; born in Oxford University, England, 1962; Ph.D., economics, Massa-Frogtown, Ky., August 11, 1807; attended Transylvania Uni- chusetts Institute of Technology, 1965; assistant professor ofversity, Lexington, KY.; studied law; was admitted to the bar economics, Marquette Umversity, Milwaukee, Wis, 1969-and commenced practice in Liberty, Clay County, Mo., in 1970; economic adviser to the Secretary of Defense while1829; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the serving in United States Army, 1966-1968; served in theState house of representatives in 1834, and again in 1838, United States Army, captain, 1966-1968; staff member toappointed judge of the Platte County circuit court in 1841; United States Senator William Proxmire in 1960, and wasappointed and subsequently elected in 1843 as a Democrat to his campaign director in 1964 for reelection; staff assistantthe United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the to Walter Heller, chairman of President Kennedy's Councildeath of Lewis F. Linn; reelected in 1849, and served from of Economic Advisers, 1963; unsuccessful candidate for theOctober 14, 1843, to March 3, 1855; served as President pro office of Wisconsin State Treasurer, 1968; elected as a Demo-tempore of the Senate during the Twenty-ninth through crat to the Ninety-second and to the eight succeeding Con-Thirty-third Congresses; chairman, Committee on the Militia gresses (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1989); chairman, Com-CT'wenty-ninth Congress), Committee on Indian Affairs CFhir- mittee on Armed Services (Ninety-ninth and One Hundredthtieth through Thirty-second Congresses); resumed the prac- Congresses); is a resident of East Troy, Wis. tice of law; died at his home near Gower, Clinton County, ASPINALL, Wayne Norviel, a Representative from Colo-Mo., January 26, 1886; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery, rado; born in Middleburg, Logan County, Ohio, April 3, 1896;Plattsburg, Mo. moved with his parents to Palisade, Mesa County, Cob, in Bibliography: DAB; Atchison, Theodore. "David R. Atchison, A Study in American Politics." Missouri Historical Review 24 (July 1930): 502-15; Par- 1904; attended the public schools; studied at the University rish, William E. of Missoun Columbia: University of of Denver until the First World War, then enlisted in the Missouri Press, 1961. Air Service of the Signal Corps and served as a corporal and staff sergeant until discharged as a flying cadet; returned to ATHERTON, Charles Gordon (son of Charles Humphrey the University of Denver and graduated in 1919; taughtAtherton), a Representative and a Senator from New Hamp- school in Palisade, Cob., 1919-1921; president of the. Mountshire; born in Amherst, Hillsborough County, N.H., July 4, Lincoln School District School Board 1920-1922; graduated 1804; was graduated from Harvard University in 1822; stud- from the Denver Law School in 1925; was admitted to theied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced bar the same year and commenced practice in Palisade,practice in Dunstable (now Nashua), N.H.; member of the Cob.; also engaged in the peach-orchard industry; againState house of representatives 1830 and 1833-1835, serving taught school 1925-1933; member of Palisade Board of Trust-as speaker 1833-1835; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty- ees 1926-1934, district counsel of the Home Owners Loanfifth and the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1837- Corporation in western Colorado in 1933 and 1934, memberMarch 3, 1843); did not seek reelection in 1842, having of the State house of representatives 193 1-1934 and in 1937become a candidate for Senator, elected to the Umted States and 1938, serving as Democratic whip in 1933, and as speak Senate as a Democrat in 1843, and served from March 4, er in 1937 and 1938; served in the State senate 1939-19481843, to March 3, 1849; chairman, Committee on Printing and was Democratic whip in 1939, majority floor leader in(Twenty-ninth Congress), Committee on Roads and Canals 1941, and minority floor leader 1943-1947, during the Second(Twenty-ninth Congress), Committee on Finance (Thirtieth World War was commissioned a captain in Mifitary Govern- ment in 1943, serving overseas as a legal expert with theCongress); resumed the practice of law in Nashua; again American and English forces; participated in the Normandyelected to the United States Senate in 1852 for the. term drive with the English Second Army, was discharged onbeginning March 4, 1853, but never qualified, having suf- December 14, 1944, elected as a Democrat to the Eighty firstfered a stroke; died in Manchester, N.H., November 15, 1853; and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-interment in Nashua Cemetery, Nashua, N.H. January 3, 1973); chairman, Committee on Interior and Insu- Bibliography: DAB. lar Affairs (Eighty-sixth through Ninety-second Congresses); ATIIERTON, Charles Humphrey (fatherof Charles unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1972 to theGordon Atherton), a Representative from New Hampshire; Ninety-third Congress; resumed the practice of law; was aborn m Amherst, Hillsborough County, N H, August 14, resident of Palisade, Cob., until his death there October 9,1773; attended the common schools and was graduated from 1983; cremated; ashes interred at Orchard Mesa MunicipalHarvard University in 1794; studied law; was admitted to Cemetery, Grand Junction, Cob. the bar in 1797 and commenced practice in Amherst; regis- ASWELL, James Benjamin, a Representative from Louisi-ter of probate 1798-1807; elected as a Federalist to the Four- ana; born near Vernon, Jackson Parish, La., December 23,teenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); declined to 1869; attended the public schools; was graduated from Pea-be a candidate for renomination in 1816; member of the body Normal College, Nashville, Tenn, in 1892 and from theState house of representatives 1823-1839; resumed the prac- University of Nashville in 1893; taught in country schoolstice of law; died in Amherst, N.H., January 8, 1853; inter- and high schools, and later attended Chicago University;ment in the Old Cemetery. 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ATHERTON, Gibson, a Representative from Ohio; bornState senate 1855-1857; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty- near Newark, Licking County, Ohio, January 19, 1831; at-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); unsuôcessful tended Denison University, Granville, Ohio, and was grad-candidate for reelection in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress; uated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1853; princi-during the Civil War served as lieutenant colonel of the pal of the local academy at Osceola, Mo., in 1853 and 1854;Fifth Tennessee Regiment in the Confederate Army in 1861; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commencedelected to the Confederate Provisional Congress in August practice in Newark, Ohio; president of the board of educa-and November 1861 and in November 1863; elected as a tion of Newark for fifteen years; elected prosecuting attor-Democrat to the Forty-third and to the four succeeding Con- ney of Licking County in 1857 and reelected in 1859 andgresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1883); chairman,Committee 1861; mayor of Newark 1860-1864; unsuccessful Democraticon Appropriations (Forty-fifth andForty-sixth Congresses); candidate for the State senate in 1863 and for judge of. thewas not a candidate for renomination in1882; engaged in court of common pleas in 1866; member of the city council ofagricultural pursuits near Paris, Henry County, Tenn.; ap- Newark for two years; delegate to the Democratic Nationalpointed United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs by Convention at St. Louis in 1876; elected as a Democrat to thePresident Cleveland on March 21, 1885, and served until Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-June 13, 1888, when he resigned; was an unsuccessful candi- March 3, 1883); did not seek renomination but was an unsuc-date for the Democratic nomination for United States Sena- cessful candidate for election as judge of the supreme courttor in 1888; again engaged in agricultural pursuits; retired of Ohio in 1882; appointed to that position by Governorfrom active pursuits in 1898 and moved to Paris, Tenn., Hoadly the same year and served until the election of hiswhere he lived in retirement until his death on June 2, 1908; successor six months later; resumed the practice of law;diedinterment in the City Cemetery. in Newark, Ohio, November 10, 1887; interment in Cedar Hifi Cemetery. ATKINSON, Archibald, a Representative from Virginia; born in Isle of Wight County, Va., September 15, 1792; re- ATKESON, William Oscar, a Representative from Missou-ceived a liberal education; attended the law department of ri; born on a farm near Buffalo, Putnam County, Va. (nowWilliam and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.; served during West Virginia), August 24, 1854; attended the public schoolsthe War of 1812; was admitted to the bar and commenced and the at Lexington; taught schoolpractice in Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Va.; member of in Mason County, W.Va., in 1874 and at New Haven, W.Va.,the State house of delegates 1815-1817 and 1828-1831; in 1875; was graduated from Fairmont (W.Va.) Normalserved in the State senate 1839-1843; elected as a Democrat School in 1875; moved to Point Pleasant, W.Va., in 1876 andto the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congress- edited and published the West Virginia Monitor; studiedes (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1849); was not acandidate for law; was admitted to the bar in 1877 and commenced prac-renomination in 1848 to the Thirty-first Congress; served as tice in Council Grove, Kans.; moved to Rich Hill, Batesprosecuting attorney for Isle of Wight County; died in Smith- County, Mo., in 1882 and to Butler, Bates County, Mo., infield, Va., on January 7, 1872; interment in the graveyard of 1889, and continued to practice law; prosecuting attorney ofOld St. Luke's Church, four miles southeast of Smithfield, Bates County, Mo., 1891-1893; unsuccessful candidate for circuit judge of the twenty-ninth judicial circuit in 1892;Va. owner and editor of the Butler Free Press 1894-1902; unsuc- ATKINSON, Eugene Vincent, a Representative from cessful candidate for election in 1906 to the Sixtieth Con- Pennsylvania; born in Aliquippa, Pa., April 5, 1927; graduat- gress and in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress; served ased, Aliquippa High School, 1945; master's degree program, deputy State hotel inspector in 1910 and 1911 and as deputyUniversity of Pittsburgh; served in the U.S. Navy Seabees; State labor commissioner 1911-1913; owner and editor of theowned and operated an insurance agency; appointed director Bates County Record 1915-1918; elected as a Republican toof customs, Port of Pittsburgh, 1962-1969; BeaverCounty the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923);Commissioner, 1972-1978; elected as a Democrat to the unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-Ninety-sixth and Ninety-seventh Congresses (January 3, eighth Congress; served as State warehouse commissioner in1979-January 3, 1983); announced his affiliation with the Kansas City, Mo., from July 1, 1923, until February 5, 1925,Republican Party on October 14, 1981; was an unsuccessful when he resigned; resumed the practice of law and alsocandidate for reelection to the Ninety-eighth Congress; is a engaged in literary pursuits; died in Butler, Mo., October 16,resident of Aliquippa, Pa. 1931; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. ATKINSON, George Wesley, a Representative from West ATKINS, Chester Greenough, a Representative from Mas-Virginia; born near Charleston, Kanawha County, Va. (now sachusetts; born in Geneva, Switzerland, April 14, 1948; wasWest Virginia), June 29, 1845; attended the public schools of graduated from Concord-Carlisle High School, Concord,Charleston and was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- Mass., in 1966 and Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, inversity at Delaware in 1870; was graduated from Mount 1970; member of the Massachusetts house of representativesUnion College, Alliance, Ohio, and Howard University Law 1970-1971 and the State senate 1972-1984; chairman of theSchool, Washington, D.C.; collector of tolls on the Kanawha Massachusetts Democratic State Committee 1977 to present;River Board 1869-1871; postmaster of Charleston 1871-1877; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-ninth and One Hun-was admitted to the bar in 1875 andcommenced practice in dredth Congresses (January 3, 1985-January 3, 1989); is aCharleston; later attended lectures on law at Columbia Uni- resident of Concord, Mass. versity; moved to Wheeling, Ohio County, W.Va., in 1877; ATKINS, John DeWitt Clinton, a Representative fromeditor of the Wheeling Standard in 1877 and 1878; internal- Tennessee; born near Manly's Chapel, Henry County, Tenn.,revenue agent of the Treasury Department1879-1881; June 4, 1825; attended a private school in Paris, Tenn., andUnited States marshal for the district of West Virginia was graduated from the East TennesseeUniversity at Knox-1881-1885; successfully contested as a Republican the elec- ville in 1846; studied law; was admitted to the bar but didtion of John 0. Pendleton to the Fifty-first Congress and not practice; engaged in agricultural pursuits; memberofserved from February 26, 1890, to March 3, 1891; declined to the State house of representatives 1849-1851; served in thebe a candidate for reelection in 1890; resumed the practice of 554 Biographical Directory law in Wheeling, W.Va.; editor of the West Virginia JournalRevolutionary War was captured by the British on August 1891-1896; Governor of West Virginia 1897-1901; servedas27, 1776, at the Battle of Long Island and held as a prisoner United States district attorney for the southern district ofuntil October 1, 1778, when he was exchanged; Member of West Virginia from July 1, 1901, to April 18, 1905; appointedthe Continental Congress 1778-1782; served in the general associate judge of the Court of Claims at Washington, D.C.,assembly in 1782, 1785, and 1786; elected supreme executive on April 15, 1905, and served until April 16, 1916, when hecouncilor for Lancaster County in 1783; appointed a member retired; died in Charleston, W.Va., April 4, 1925; intermentof the board of commissioners to treat with the Indians in in Spring Hill Cemetery. 1784 for the unpurchased lands in Pennsylvania; one of the Bibliography: DAB. charter members of the Society of the Cincinnati; died in ATKINSON, Louis Evans, a Representative from Pennsyl-Philadelphia, Pa., November 25, 1786, while attending a ses- vania; born in Delaware Township, Juniata County, Pa.,sion of the assembly; interment in Christ Churchyard. April 16, 1841; attended the common schools and Airy View ATWATER, John Wilbur, a Representative from North and Milnwood Academies; studied medicine and was grad-Carolina; born near Rialto (now Fearington), Chatham uated from the medical department of the College of theCounty, N.C., December 27, 1840; attended the common City of New York March 4, 1861; during the Civil Warschools and the old William Closs Academy; engaged in agri- entered the medical department of the United States Armycultural pursuits; during the Civil War enlisted in the Con- on September 5, 1861; served as assistant surgeon in thefederate Army and served in Company D, First Regiment, First Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry and as surgeon of theNorth Carolina Volunteer Infantry, and was with the army One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer In-of Gen. Robert E. Lee until the surrender at Appomattox; fantry, until mustered out in December 1865; was disabledjoined the Farmers' Alliance in 1887; first president of Chat- while in the Army and, being unable to practice medicine,ham County Alliance; elected to the State senate in 1890 as studied law; was admitted to the bar in September 1870 andan Alliance Democrat, and also in 1892 and 1896 as a Popu- commenced practice in Mifflintown, Pa.; elected as a Repub-list; elected as an Independent Populist to the Fifty-sixth lican to the Forty-eighth and to the four succeeding Con-Congress (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901); was an unsuccess- gresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1893); chairman, Committeeful candidate for reelection in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Con- on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Fifty-gress; resumed agricultural pursuits; died in Fearington, first Congress); became a candidate for renomination inN.C., on July 4, 1910; interment in Mount Pleasant Church 1892, but ultimately withdrew; resumed the practice of lawCemetery, near Pittsboro, N.C. in Mifflintown, Pa.; appointed president judge of the forty- first Pennsylvania district and served one year; died in Mif- ATWOOD, David, a Representative from Wisconsin; born flintown, Juniata County, Pa., February 5, 1910; intermentin Bedford, N.H., December 15, 1815; attended the public in Presbyterian Cemetery. schools; moved to Hamilton, N.Y., in 1832; apprenticed as a printer and subsequently became publisher of the Hamilton ATKINSON, Richard Merrill, a Representative from Ten- Palladium; moved to Freeport, Ill., in 1845 and engaged in nessee; born in Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., Februaryagricultural pursuits; moved to Madison, Wis., in 1847 and 6, 1894; attended the public schools; was graduated fromfor forty-two years was editor and publisher of the State Wallace University School, Nashville, Tenn., in 1912, fromJournal, Madison, Wis.; was commissioned major general in Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., in 1916, and fromthe Wisconsin Militia in 1858; member of the State assembly the law department of Cumberland University, Lebanon,in 1861; United States assessor for four years; mayor of Tenn., in 1917; was admitted to the bar in 1917 and com-Madison in 1868 and 1869; elected as a Republican to the menced the practice of law in Nashville, Tenn., in 1920;Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death during the First World War served from June 30, 1917, untilof Benjamin F. Hopkins and served from February 23, 1870, honorably discharged on August 29, 1919, as a member ofuntil March 3, 1871; declined to be a candidate for renomi- the Forty-seventh Company, United States Marines, Secondnation in 1870; resumed his former newspaper activities; Division, serving in France with the American Expedition-United States Centennial Exposition commissioner, repre- ary Forces; attorney general of the tenth judicial circuit ofsenting the State of Wisconsin, 1872-1876; delegate to the Tennessee from September 1, 1926, to September 1, 1934;Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1872 and State commissioner of Smoky Mountain National Parkat Cincinnati in 1876; died in Madison, Wis., December 11, 1931-1933; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Con-1889; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery. gress (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candi- Bibliography: DAB. date for renomination in 1938; engaged in the practice of law in Nashville, Tenn., until his death there on April 29, ATWOOD, Harrison Henry, a Representative from Massa- 1947; interment in Spring Hill Cemetery. chusetts; born at the home of his grandmother in North Londonderry, Vt., August 26,1863; attended the public ATLEE, Samuel John, a Delegate from Pennsylvania;schools of Boston, Mass.; studied architecture and engaged in born in Trenton, N.J., in 1739, during the temporary resi-that profession in Boston, Mass.; member of the Massachu- dence of his parents at that place; moved with his mother tosetts house of representatives 1887-1889; city architect of Lancaster, Pa., in 1745; educated by a private tutor andBoston in 1889 and 1890; member of the Republican State subsequently commenced the study of law, but abandoned itcommittee 1887-1889; member and secretary of the Boston to enter the Army; during the French and Indian War at theRepublican city committee 1888-1894; delegate to the Repub- age of sixteen was placed in command of a company of thelican National Conventions in 1888 and 1892; elected as a provincial service from Lancaster County, Pa.; commissionedRepublican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895- ensign in Col. William Clapham's Augusta regiment onMarch 3, 1897); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in April 23, 1756, and promoted to lieutenant December 7,1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; resumed his former profes- 1757; served in the Forbes campaign and participated in asion in Boston; again a member of the Massachusetts house battle near Fort Duquesne, September 15, 1758; was commis-of representatives in 1915, 1917, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1927, and sioned captain May 13, 1759; appointed colonel of the Penn-1928; was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1918 to sylvania Musketry Battalion on March 21, 1776; during thethe Sixty-sixth Congress; resumed his profession as an archi- Biographies 555 tect in Boston, Mass.; moved to Wellesley Hills, Mass., informer professional pursuits until his death in Greenwich, April 1938; died in Boston, Mass., October 22, 1954; inter-Conn., January 26, 1942; interment in Ferncliff Cemetery, ment in Forest Hills Cemetery. Hartsdale, Westchester County, N.Y. AUCHINCLOSS, James Coats, a Representative from AUSTIN, Archibald, a Representative from Virginia; born New Jersey; born in New York City, January 19, 1885; at-near Buckingham, Buckinghain County, Va., August 11, tended Cutler School, New York City, and Groton School,1772; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced Groton, Mass.; was graduated from Yale University in 1908;practice in Buckingham County; member of the State house engaged in financial and stock brokerage business in Newof delegates 1815-18 17; elected as a Republican to the Fif- York City 1908-1940; a governor of the New York Stockteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1819); was not a Exchange, 1921-1938; served in the Seventh Regiment, Newcandidate for renomination in 1818; resumed the practice of York National Guard, 1909-1913; during the First Worldhis profession; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket War served as captain, Military Intelligence; deputy policein 1832 and 1836; again a member of the State house of commissioner of New York City; founder, treasurer, presi-delegates 1835-1837; died near Buckingham Court House, dent, and chairman of the board of the New York BetterBuckingham County, Va., October 16, 1837; interment in the Business Bureau; member of the borough council, Rumson,family cemetery on his estate. N.J., 1930-1937; mayor of Rumson, N.J., 1938-1943; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the ten suc- AUSTIN, Richard Wilson, a Representative from Tennes- ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1965); wassee; born in Decatur, Morgan County, Ala., August26, 1857; not a candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninthattended the common schools, Loudon High School, and the Congress; died in Alexandria, Va., October 2, 1976; inter-University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1873; studied law; ment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y. was admitted to the bar in 1878 and commenced practicein Knoxville, Tenn.; clerk in the Post Office Department at AuCOIN, Les, a Representative from Oregon; born inWashington, D.C., 1879-1881; Assistant Doorkeeper of the Portland, Multnomah County, Oreg., October 21, 1942; at-House of Representatives in the Forty-seventh Congress tended public schools in Redmond, Oreg.; graduated, Red-1881-1883; special agent of the War Department 1883-1885; mond Union High School, 1960; attended Portland Stateengaged in newspaper work in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1885; University, 1961, 1965-1966; B.A., Pacific University, Forestreturned to Decatur, Ala., and continued the practice of law; Grove, 1969; worked as a newsman and public informationprivate secretary to Congressman Leonidas C. Houk from director; served in the United States Army, 1961-1964;Tennessee in 1888; served as city attorney of Decatur, Ala.; served in the Oregon house of representatives, 1971-1974, unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1890 to the and served as majority leader, 1973-1974; elected as a Demo-Fifty-second Congress; delegate to the Republican National crat to the Ninety-fourth and to the six succeeding Congress-Convention at Minneapolis in 1892; returned to Knoxville, es (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1989); is a resident of ForestTenn., in 1893 and edited the Knoxville Republican; United Grove, Oreg. States marshal for the eastern district of Tennessee 1897- AUF DER HEIDE, Oscar Louis, a Representative from1906; appointed United States consul at Glasgow, Scotland, New Jersey; born in New York City, December 8, 1874;and served from July 1906 to November 1907, when he attended the public schools; moved with his parents to Westresigned; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first and to New York, Hudson County, N.J., in 1887; engaged in thethe four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, real estate business; member of the town council 1899-1902;1919); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1918; died member and president of the board of education in 1903 andin Washington, D.C., April 20, 1919; interment in the Old 1904; member of the State house of assembly 1908-1911;Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn. served on the board of assessors of West New York in 1912 and 1913; mayor of West New York 1914-1917; elected a AUSTIN, Warren Robinson, a Senator from Vermont; member and subsequently a director of the Board of Chosenborn in Highgate Center, Franklin County, Vt., November Freeholders of Hudson County and served from 1915 to 1924;12, 1877; attended the public schools; was graduated from elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-ninth and to the fourBrigham Academy, Bakersfield, Vt., in 1895 and from the succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-January 3, 1935); wasUniversity of Vermont, at Burlington, in 1899; studied law; not a candidate for renomination in 1934 to the Seventy-was admitted to the bar in 1902 and commencedpractice at fourth Congress; resumed the real estate and insurance busi-St. Albans, Vt.; served as State's attorney of Franklin ness; died in West New York, N.J., March 29, 1945; inter-County, Vt., 1904-1906; United States commissioner 1907- ment in Hoboken Cemetery, North Bergen, N.J. 19 15; chairman of the Republican State Convention in 1908; mayor of St. Albans in 1909; delegate to the Congress ofthe AUSTIN, Albert Elmer (stepfather of Clare Boothe Luce),Mint in 1912; trustee of the University of Vermont 1914- a Representative from Connecticut; born in Medway, Nor-194 1; special counsel for Vermont in the boundary-line dis- folk County, Mass., November 15, 1877; attended the publicpute between Vermont and New Hampshire in 1925-1937; schools and was graduated from Amherst (Mass.) College inmember of the United States Court for China in 1917; elect- 1899 and from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.,ed as a Republican to the United States Senate on March 31, in 1905; member of the faculty of Attleboro (Mass.) High1931, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frank L. School 1899-1900; practicing physician in Old Greenwich,Greene; reelected in 1934 and 1940 and served from April 1, Conn., 1907-1939; health officer of Greenwich, Conn., 1917-1931, until his resignation on August 2, 1946, to become 1937; engaged in banking in Old Greenwich, Conn., 1926-United States representative on the Security Council of the 1942; during the First World War served as regimental sur-United Nations, serving until his retirement January 25, geon in the Two Hundred and Fourteenth Engineers,Four-1953; was a resident of Burlington, Vt., until his death on teenth (Wolverine) Division, 19 18-1919; member of the StateDecember 25, 1962; interment in Lake View Cemetery. house of representatives 1917-1919 and 1921-1923; elected as Bibliography: DAB; Mazuzan, George. "Warren R. Austin: Republican a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress(January 3, Internationalist and U.S. Foreign Policy." Ph.D. dissertation, Kent State 1939-January 3, 1941); unsuccessful candidate for reelection University, 1969; Porter, David L. "Senator Warren Austin and the Neu- in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; continued his trality Act of 1939." Vermont History 42 (Summer 1974): 228-38. 556 Biographical Directory

AVERETT, Thomas Hamlet, a Representative from Vir-house of representatives in 1869 and 1870; appointed a ginia; born near Halifax, Halifax County, Va., July 10, 1800;member of the State board of health in 1880 and reappoint- attended the common schools; served as a drummer boy ined in 1886; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and the War of 1812; studied medicine; was graduated from Jef-Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897); was ferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., and practiced innot a candidate for renomination in 1896; engaged in the Halifax and the adjacent counties; served in the State senatepractice of medicine in Greenville, Mich., where he died in 1848 and 1849; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1846January 21, 1914; interment in Forest Home Cemetery. to the Thirtieth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849- AVERY, William Henry, a Representative from Kansas; March 3, 1853); unsuccessful candidate for renomination inborn in Wakefield, Clay County, Kans., August 11, 1911; 1852; resumed the practice of medicine in Halifax County;attended the public schools; A.B., University of Kansas at died near Halifax Court House, Va., June 30, 1855; inter-Lawrence, 1934; engaged in business as a farmer and stock- ment in the family burial ground near Halifax Court House,man near Wakefield, Kans., since 1935; director of the Va. Wakefield Rural High School Board of Education since 1946; served in the Kansas State house of representatives from AVERILL, John Thomas, a Representative from Minneso-1951 until elected to Congress; member of legislative council ta; born in Alna, Lincoln County, Maine, March 1, 1825;of Kansas 1953-1955; elected as a Republican to the Eighty- attended the common schools; moved with his parents tofourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, Montville, Maine, in 1838; was graduated from the Maine1955-January 3, 1965); was not a candidate for renomination Wesleyan Seminary at Readfield in 1846; taught school for ain 1964, but was a successful candidate for Governor of short time, and subsequently engaged in lumbering for oneKansas and served from January 11, 1965, to January 9, year; moved to Winthrop, Maine, and engaged in mercantile 1967; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966; pursuits for three years; moved to northern Pennsylvania inpresident, Real Petroleum Company; is a resident of Wake- 1852 and again engaged in lumbering until 1857, when hefield, Kans. settled in Lake City, Minn.; engaged in mercantile pursuits and the grain business; member of the State senate 1858- AVERY, William Tecumsah, a Representative from Ten- 1860; commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Sixth Regi-nessee; born in Hardeman County, Tenn., November 11, ment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, August 22, 1862; pro-- 1819; attended the common schools and was graduated from moted to colonel on November 22, 1864; honorably musteredold Jackson College near Columbia. Maury County, Tenn.; out on September 28, 1865; moved to St. Paul, Minn., in 1866studied law; was admitted to the bar; moved to Memphis, and engaged in the wholesale paper and stationery business;Tenn., in 1840 and engaged in the practice of law; member member of the Republican National Committee 1868-1880;of the State house of representatives in 1843; elected as a elected as a Republican to the Forty-second and Forty-thirdDemocrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875); chairman, Com-(March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); was not a candidate for mittee on Indian Affairs (Forty-third Congress); was not arenomination in 1860; during the Civil War served as lieu- candidate for renomination in 1874; resumed his businesstenant colonel in the Confederate Army; clerk of the crimi- activities in St. Paul, Minn., where he died on October 3,nal court of Shelby County 1870-1874; resumed the practice 1889; interment in Oakland Cemetery. of law in Memphis, Tenn.; accidentally drowned in Ten Mile AVERY, Daniel, a Representative from New York; bornBayou, Crittenden County, Ark., opposite Memphis, Tenn., in Groton, Conn., September 18, 1766; attended the commonMay 22, 1880; interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, schools; appointed ensign in the Sixth Company, EighthTenn. Regiment of the Connecticut Militia, and served as lieuten- AVIS, Samuel Brashear, a Representative from West Vir- ant and captain until May 1794; moved to Aurora, N.Y., inginia; born in Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Va., Feb- 1795 and subsequently became the owner of a large tract ofruary 19, 1872; attended the public schools and Staunton land which was farmed by tenants; elected as a Republican(Va.) Military Academy; was graduated from the law depart- to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses (March 4, 1811-ment of Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.; March 3, 1815); elected to the Fourteenth Congress to ifil thewas admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in vacancy caused by the resignation of Enos T. Throop andCharleston, W.Va.; commissioned senior captain of Company served from September 30, 1816, to March 3, 1817; resumedA, Second West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, during the the management of his estate; connected with the land officeSpanish-American War in 1898; served until 1899, when he at Albany, N.Y., for twenty years; died in Aurora, Cayugawas honorably discharged; prosecuting attorney of Kanawha County, N.Y., January 30, 1842; interment in Oak Glen Cem-County, W.Va., from January 1, 1900, to December 31, 1912; etery. assistant United States attorney for the southern district of West Virginia from August 22 to November 15, 1904; elected AVERY, John, a Representative from Michigan; born inas a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913- Watertown, Jefferson County, N.Y., February 29,1824; moved with his parents to Michigan in 1836; attended theMarch 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 common schools; entered Grass Lake Academy, Jackson,to the Sixty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law; Mich., where he studied medicine for two years; was grad-was killed by lightning in Charleston, W.Va., June 8, 1924; uated from the Cleveland Medical College in 1850 and com-interment in Spring Hill Cemetery, Spring Hill, W.Va. menced the practice of medicine in lonia, Mich.; moved to AXTELL, Samuel Beach, a Representative from Califor- Otsego, Mich., in 1852 and continued the practice of hisnia; born near Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, October profession; during the Civil War was assistant surgeon and14, 1819; attended the local schools and Oberlin College; was surgeon of the Twenty-first Regiment, Michigan Volunteergraduated from Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio; Infantry; served in the Army of the Cumberland in Ken- studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced tucky and Tennessee and was with Sherman on his march topractice in Mount Clemens, Mich.; went to California in the sea; settled in Greenville, Mich., in 1868 and again en-1851 and engaged in mining in Amador County; prosecuting gaged in the practice of medicine; member of the Stateattorney of Amador County 1854-1860; moved to San Fran- Biographies 557 cisco in 1860 and practiced law; elected as a Democrat to the 1937); was not a candidate for renomination, but was a Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3,successful candidate for Governor of Montana and served in 1871); was not a candidate for renomination in 1870; affili-that office from January 4, 1937, until January 6,1941; ated with the Republican Party during the administration ofresumed his ranching activities; died in Lewistown, Mont., President Grant; appointed Governor of Utah Territory inMay 23, 1955; interment in Lewistown City Cemetery. 1874 and subsequently, in 1875, transferred to the office of AYRES, Steven Beckwith, a Representative from New Governor of the Territory of New Mexico; chief justice of theYork; born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, October 27, 1861; moved supreme court of the Territory of New Mexico fromAugustwith his parents to Elmira, N.Y., in 1866; attended the gram- 1882 until his resignation May 25, 1885; engaged in themar school; moved to Penn Yan, N.Y.,in 1873; attended the practice of law in Santa Fe, N.Mex.; at the time of his deathPenn Yan Academy and was graduated from Syracuse (N.Y.) was counsel of the Southern Pacific Railroad Co.and chair-University, in 1882; engaged in the publishing business at man of the Republican Territorial committee; diedwhile onPenn Yan and was editor of the Yates County Chronicle; a visit to Morristown, Morris County,N.J., August 6, 1891;delegate to the Republican State convention in 1884; moved interment in First Presbyterian Church Cemetery. to New York City in 1893 and engaged in the advertising Bibliography: DAB. business; declined the Democratic nomination as candidate AYCRIGG, John Bancker, a Representative from Newfor the New York State assembly in 1910; elected as an Jersey; born in New York City July 9, 1798; studied medi-Independent Democrat to the Sixty-second Congress (March cine; was graduated from the College of Physicians and Sur- 1911-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful candidate for reelection geons (now the medical department ofColumbia University),as an Independent Democrat in 1912 to theSixty-third Con- New York City, in 1818 and was admitted to practice in Newgress; author of several books and manyhistorical articles; York; moved to New Jersey and located at Paramus; electedlecturer in the Summer School in as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress(March 4, 1837-1914; engaged in the cultivation of oranges at Clearwater, March 3, 1839); presented credentials as a Member-elect toFla., in winter and in the real estate business at Woodstock, the Twenty-sixth Congress but was not permitted to qualify;N.Y., during the summer; died in New York City, June 1, elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-1929; interment in the Clearwater Cemetery, Clearwater, March 3, 1843); was not a candidate for renomination in Fla. 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress; resumed the practice of AYRES, WilliamAugustus,aRepresentativefrom medicine in Paramus; moved to Passaic, N.J., and died thereKansas; born in Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Ill., April 19, November 8, 1856; interment in Paramus Church Cemetery,1867; moved with his parents to Sedgwick County, Kans., in Ridgewood, N.J. 1881; attended the common schools and Garfield University AYER, Richard Small, a Representative from Virginia;(now Friends University), Wichita, Kans.; wasadmitted to born in Montville, Waldo County, Maine, October 9, 1829;the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in Wichita,Kans.; attended the common schools; was engaged for a number ofclerk of the Court of Appeals of Kansas 1897-1901; prosecut- years in agricultural and mercantile pursuits;during theing attorney of Sedgwick County 1906-1910;elected as a Civil War enlisted in 1861 in the Union Army as a private inDemocrat to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, andSixty-sixth Company A, Fourth Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry;Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful can- subsequently promoted to first lieutenant and was mustereddidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventhCongress; out as a captain on March 22, 1863, for disability; settled inelected to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeedingCon- Virginia in 1865 and located near Warsaw; delegate to thegresses and served from March 4,1923, until his resignation Virginia constitutional convention in 1867-1868; upon theeffective August 22, 1934, having been appointed amember readmission of the State of Virginia to representation wasof the Federal Trade Commission on June 30, 1934,in which elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress andcapacity he served until his death in Washington, D.C., Feb- served from January 31, 1870, until March 3, 1871; was not aruary 17, 1952; interment in Old MissionCemetery, Wichita, candidate for renomination in 1870; engaged in agriculturalKans. pursuits; returned to Montville, Maine; member of the State Bibliography: DAB. house of representatives in 1888; died in Liberty, Waldo AYRES, William Hanes, a Representative from Ohio; born County, Maine, December 14, 1896; interment in Mountin Eagle Rock, Botetourt County, Va., February 5,1916; Repose Cemetery, Montville, Maine. moved with his parents to West Virginia and later, to Lorain AYERS, Roy Elmer, a Representative from Montana;County, Ohio; attended the Weller Township HighSchool; born on a ranch near Lewistown, Fergus County, Mont.,was graduated from WesternReserve University, Cleveland, November 9, 1882; attended the rural schools and LewistownOhio, in 1936; salesman for heating equipmentin Akron, High School; was graduated from the law department ofOhio, 1936-1944; during the Second World War served as a Valparaiso (md.) University in 1903; was admitted to the barprivate in the United States Army until discharged Decem- the same year and commenced practice in Lewistown, Mont.;ber 17, 1945; president of the Ayres Heating & Insulation also became engaged in ranching and the raising of live-Co., Akron, Ohio, since 1946; elected as a Republican tothe stock; served as attorney of Fergus County, Mont., 1905-Eighty-second and to the nine succeeding Congresses (Janu- 1909; member of the Montana Board of Education 1908-1912;ary 3, 1951-January 3, 1971);unsuccessful candidate for re-- judge of the tenth judicial district of Montana 19 13-1921 andelection in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress; is aresident justice of the State supreme court from January 1922untilof Bethesda, Md. his resignation on November 22, 1922, when he resumed the private practice of law in Lewistown, Mont.; during theFirst World War served as chairman of the Fergus County Ex- B emption Board; delegate to the Democratic National Conven- tions in 1920 and 1940 and to every State DemocraticCon- BABBITT, Clinton, a Representative from Wisconsin; vention 1906-1940; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-born in Westmoreland, Cheshire County, N.H., November third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January16, 1831; attended the common schools and wasgraduated 558 Biographical Directory

from Keene (N.H.) Academy; moved to Wisconsin in 1853Oswego, N.Y., and commenced the practice of law; district and settled near Beloit, Rock County; engaged in agricultur-attorney for Oswego County 1841-1843; mayor of Oswego in al pursuits; elected alderman and was a member of the first1850 and 1851; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second city council of Beloit; unsuccessful Democratic candidate forCongress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); president of the election in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; appointedboard of education in 1853 and 1855; died in Richfield postmaster of Beloit by President Cleveland on August 2,Springs, N.Y., August 18, 1864; interment in Riverside Ceme- 1886, and served until August 17, 1889, whena successortery, Oswego, N.Y. was appointed; appointed secretary of the State agricultural society of Wisconsin in 1885 and served until 1899; electedas BABCOCK, William, a Representative from New York; a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-born in Hinsdale, Westmoreland County, N.H., in 1785; March 3, 1893); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892moved to Penn Yan, N.Y., in 1813 and engaged in mercan- to the Fifty-third Congress; retired from public life andtile pursuits; upon the formation of Yates County wasap- active business pursuits and resided in Beloit, Wis., until hispointed by the Governor as the first county treasurer; elect- death there on March 11, 1907; interment in the Protestanted as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second Con- Cemetery. gress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); resumed mercantile pursuits and also was engaged as a hotel keeper; died in BABBIIT, Elijah, a Representative from Pennsylvania;Penn Yan, Yates County, N.Y., October 20, 1838; interment born in Providence, R.I., July 29, 1795; moved with hispar- ents to New York State in 1805; received an academic educa- in City Hill Cemetery in Torrey Township, near Penn Yan. tion; moved to Milton, Northumberland County, Pa., in 1816; BABKA, John Joseph, a Representative from Ohio; born studied law; was admitted to the bar in March 1824 andin Cleveland, Ohio, March 16, 1884; attended the public commenced practice in Milton; moved to Erie, Pa., in 1826schools; was graduated from the Cleveland Law School in and continued the practice of law; served as attorney for the 1908; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced borough and subsequently for the city of Erie; prosecutingpractice in Cleveland, Ohio; special counsel to the attorney attorney for Erie County in 1833; deputy attorney general general of Ohio in 1911 and 1912; assistant prosecuting at-- for the State in 1834 and 1835; member of the State house oftorney of Cuyahoga County 1912-1919; elected as a Demo- representatives in 1836 and 1837; served in the State senatecrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1843-1846; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1863); Sixty-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law; dele-- was not a candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Twenty-gate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1920 and eighth Congress; resumed the practice of his profession; died1932; at the time of his death was acting as liquidating in Erie, Pa., January 9, 1887; interment in Erie Cemetery.attorney for the division of savings and loan associations of BABCOCK, Alfred, a Representative from New York;the department of commerce of Ohio; died at Cleveland, born in Hamilton, Madison County, N.Y., April 15, 1805;Ohio, March 22, 1937; interment in Calvary Cemetery. attended the local schools and Gaines (N.Y.) Academy; stud- BACHARACH, Isaac, a Representative from New Jersey; ied medicine; moved to Gaines, Orleans County, N.Y., whereborn in Philadelphia, Pa., January 5, 1870; moved to New he practiced his profession; elected a member of the board ofJersey in 1881 with his parents, who settled in Atlantic City; trustees of the village of Gaines at its first electionon May 28, 1839; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congressattended the public schools; entered the real-estate business (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); resumed the practice of med-and also became interested in the lumber business and in icine in Gaines, N.Y.; moved to Illinois in 1850 and settled inbanking; member of the council of Atlantic City, N.J., 1905- Galesburg, Knox County, where he continued the practice of1910; member of the State house of assembly in 1911; dele- his profession until his death on May 16, 1871; interment ingate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in Hope Cemetery. 1920; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-January 3, 1937); BABCOCK, Joseph Weeks (grandson of Joseph Weeks),aunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy- Representative from Wisconsin; born in Swanton, Franklinfifth Congress; engaged in the real-estate and insurance County, Vt., March 6, 1850; moved to Linn County, Iowa,business in Atlantic City, N.J., until his death there on with his parents, who settled near Mount Vernon in 1855;September 5,1956; interment in Mount Sinai Cemetery, attended the common schools of Mount Vernon and CedarPhiladelphia, Pa. Falls; moved to Necedah, Juneau County, Wis., in 1872 and engaged in the lumber business; member of the Wisconsin BACHMAN, Nathan Lynn, a Senator from Tennessee; State assembly 1889-1893; chairman of the Republican Na-born in Chattanooga, Tenn., August 2, 1878; attended the tional Congressional Committee in 1894 and 1902; delegatepublic schools, Baylor Preparatory School for Boys, Chatta- at large to the Republican National Convention at Chicagonooga, Tenn., Southwestern Presbyterian University, Clarks- in 1904; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and to theville, Tenn., Central University, Danville, Ky., Washington six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1907);and Lee University, Lexington, Va., and the University of chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Fifty-fourthChattanooga Law School, Chattanooga, Tenn.; was graduat- through Fifty-ninth Congresses); declined to be a candidateed from the law department of the University of Virginia at for renomination in 1906; retired and resided in Washington,Charlottesville in 1903, admitted to the bar in 1903, and D.C., until his death there on April 27, 1909; remains werebegan practice in Chattanooga, Tenn., in the same year; city cremated and the ashes deposited in the monument on theattorney of Chattanooga 1906-1908; served as judge of the family plot in Rock Creek Cemetery. circuit court of Hamilton County, Tenn., 1912-1918; served Bibliography: DAB. as associate justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee from 1918 until his resignation in 124; unsuccessful candidate for BABCOCK, Leander, a Representative from New York;nomination for United States Senator in 1924; resumed the born in Paris, Oneida County, N.Y., March 1, 1811; waspractice of law the same year; appointed and subsequently graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1830;elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1834; moved tovacancy caused by the resignation of Cordell Hull; reelected Biographies 559 in 1936 and served from February 28, 1933, until his deathSenate Chamber; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, in Washington, D.C., April 23, 1937; interment in ForestGa. Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tenn. Bibliography: DAB; Steelman, Lola Carr. "The Public Career of Augus- Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Nathan Bachman. tus Bacon." Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1950; U.S. 75th Cong., 1st sess., 1937. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office,Congress. Memorial Addresses. 63rd Cong., 3rd sess., 1914-1915. Washing- 1938. ton, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1915. BACHMAN, Reuben Knecht, a Representative from Penn- BACON, Ezekiel (son of John Bacon and father of William sylvania; born in Williams Township, Northampton County,Johnson Bacon), a Representative from Massachusetts; born Pa., August 6, 1834; attended the common schools; taughtin Boston, Mass., September 1,1776; received a liberal school for several years; entered the mercantile and millingschooling and was graduated from Yale College in 1794; business in Durham, Bucks County, Pa.; elected as a Demo-attended the Litchfield Law School and afterwards studied crat to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3,with Nathan Dane in Beverly; was admitted to the bar in 1881); was not a candidate for renomination in 1880; dele-1800 and commenced practice in Stockbridge, Mass.; member gate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago inof the State house of representatives in 1805 and 1806; elect- 1884; engaged in the lumber business and the manufactureed as a Republican to the Tenth Congress to fill the vacancy of builders' millwork at Riegelsville, Pa., and Phillipsburg,caused by the resignation of ; reelected to

N.J.; died in Easton, Pa., September 19, 1911; interment inthe Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses and served from Sep-- Durham Cemetery, near Durham, Bucks County, Pa. tember 16, 1807, to March 3, 1813; chairman, Committee on BACHMANN, Carl George, a Representative from WestWays and Means (Twelfth Congress); chief justice of the Virginia; born in Wheeling, Ohio County, W.Va., May 14,court of common pleas for the western district of Massachu- 1890; attended the public schools; was graduated from Linslysetts 1811-1814; First Comptroller of the United States Institute, Wheeling, W.Va., in 1908; attended WashingtonTreasury from February 11, 1814, to February 28, 1815, and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa., for two years; waswhen he resigned; moved to Utica, Oneida County, N.Y., in graduated from West Virginia University at Morgantown in1816; appointed associate justice of the court of common 1913 and from its law department in 1915; was admitted topleas in 1818; member of the State assembly in 1819; dele-- the bar in 1915 and commenced practice in Wheeling; ap-gate to the State constitutional convention in 1821; unsuc- pointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Ohio County incessful candidate for election in 1824 to the Nineteenth Con- January 1917; was subsequently elected prosecuting attorneygress; at time of his death he was the oldest surviving in January 1921 and served until January 1925; elected as aMember of Congress and the last representative of the ad- Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeedingministration of President Madison; died in Utica, N.Y., Octo- Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1933); minority whipber 18, 1870; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery. (Seventy-second Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelec- Bibliography: Barlow, William, and David 0. Powell. "Congressman Eze- tion in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress and for election in kiel Bacon of Massachusetts and the Coming of the War of 1812." Histori- 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; resumed the practice ofcal Journal of Western Massachusetts 6 (Spring 1978): 28-41. law in Wheeling, W.Va., served on the city council of Wheel- BACON, Henry, a Representative from New York; born in ing, W.Va., 1939-1941; member of the West Virginia StateBrooklyn, N.Y., March 14, 1846; attended the Mount Pleas- liquor control commission 1941-1944; executive director ofant Academy in Sing Sing, the Episcopal Academy in Chesh- civilian defense for State of West Virginia, 1942-1944; elect-ire, Conn., and was graduated from Union College in 1865; ed mayor of Wheeling in 1947 for the term ending June 30,studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced 1951; engaged in banking and the practice of law; was apractice in Goshen, N.Y.; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- resident of Wheeling, W.Va., where he died January 22,ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of 1980; interment Greenwood Cemetery, Wheeling W.Va. Lewis Beach; reelected to the Fiftieth Congress and served BACON, AugustusOctavius(cousinof WilliamS. from December 6, 1886, until March 3, 1889; chairman, Com- Howard), a Senator from Georgia; born in Bryan County,mittee on Manufactures (Fiftieth Congress); unsuccessful Ga., October 20, 1839; attended the common schools in Liber-candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; ty and Troup Counties; was graduated from the literaryelected to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, department of the at Athens in 18591893); chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency and from its law department in 1860; was admitted to the(Fifty-second Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomi- bar in 1860 and commenced practice in Atlanta, Ga.; enterednation in 1892; resumed the practice of law in Goshen; dele- the Confederate Army at the beginning of the Civil War andgate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in served during the campaigns of 1861 and 1862 as adjutant of1892; corporation counsel of Goshen 1909-1915; died in the Ninth Georgia Regiment in the Army of Northern Vir-Goshen, N.Y., on March 25, 1915; interment in Slate Hill ginia; subsequently commissioned captain in the ProvisionalCemetery. Army of the Confederacy and assigned to general staff duty; at the close of the war resumed the practice of law in BACON, John (father of and grandfather of Macon, Ga.; member of the State house of representativesWilliam Johnson Bacon), a Representative from Massachu- 187 1-1886, serving as speaker pro tempore for two terms andsetts; born in Canterbury, Conn., April 5, 1738; was graduat- as speaker eight years; president of the Democratic Stateed from Princeton College in 1765; studied theology; had convention in 1880; elected as a Democrat to the Unitedcharge of the Old South Church, Boston, from September 25, States Senate in 1894; reelected in 1900, 1906 and again in1771, until dismissed February 8, 1775, owing to differences 1913, and served from March 4, 1895, until his death inof opinion; located in Stockbridge; studied law; was admitted Washington, D.C., February 14, 1914; served as President proto the bar and practiced; served on the committee of corre- tempore during the Sixty-second Congress; chairman, Com-spondence, inspection, and safety in 1777; member of the mittee on Engrossed Bills (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congress-State constitutional convention in 1779 and 1780; member of es), Committee on Private Land Claims (Sixty-first andthe State house of representatives 1780, 1783, 1784, 1786, Sixty-second Congresses), Committee on Foreign Relations1789-1791, and in 1793; member of the State senate 1781, (Sixty-third Congress); funeral services were held in the1782, 1794-1796, 1798, and 1803-1806, serving as president in 560 Biographical Directory

1806; elected as a Republican to the Seventh Congress1880; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1881 and (March 4, 1801-March 3,1803); chairman, Committee oncommenced practice in London, Ohio; prosecuting attorney Elections (Seventh Congress); presiding judge of the court ofof Madison County 1882-1885; moved to Columbus, Ohio, common pleas; chief justice of the State supreme court inand was elected judge of the court of common pleas in 1893; 1809; died in Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Mass., Octoberreelected in 1897 and served until 1903, when he resigned, 25, 1820; interment in Stockbridge Cemetery. having been elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to Bibliography: DAB. the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905);

BACON, Mark Reeves, a Representative from Michigan;declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1904; re-- born in Phillipstown, White County, 111., February 29, 1852;sumed the practice of law in Columbus, Ohio; mayor of attended the public schools of his native city; taught schoolColumbus 1906-1908; died in Columbus, Ohio, May 20, 1926; at Bolivar (Mo.) Academy in 1871; studied law; was admittedmterment m Green Lawn Cemetery to the bar on July 4, 1876, and commenced practice in Fair- field, Wayne County, ill.; city attorney of Fairfield, Ill.; dele- BADGER, George Edmund, a Senator from North Caroli- gate to several State conventions; moved to Orlando, Fla., inna; born in New Bern, N.C., April 17, 1795; instructed by 1882 and to Jacksonville, Fla., in 1886 and engaged in theprivate teachers and attended preparatory school at New abstract business; moved to Wyandotte, Wayne County,Bern; attended Yale College in 1810 and 1811; studied law; Mich., in 1895 and became associated with the Michiganwas admitted to the bar in 1814 and commenced practice in Alkali Co.; presented credentials as a Republican Member-New Bern; member of the house of commons of North Caro- elect to the Sixty-fifth Congress and served from March 4lina in 1816; elected judge of the superior court in 1820 and until December 13, 1917, when he was succeeded by Samuelserved until 1825, when he resigned; moved to Raleigh, N.C.; W. Beakes, who contested his election; was not a candidateappointed Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President for renomination in 1918; retired in 1918 and resided inWilliam H. Harrison, March 5, 1841, reappointed by Presi- Wyandotte, Mich.; died at his winter home in Pasadena,dent , and served until September 11, 1841, when Calif., August 20, 1941; interment in San Gabriel Cemetery,he resigned to resume the practice of law; elected as a Whig San Gabriel, Calif. to the United States Senate in 1846 to fill the vacancy BACON, Robert Low, a Representative from New York;caused by the resignation of William H. Haywood; reelected born in Jamaica Plains, Boston, Mass., July 23, 1884; attend-in 1849 and served from November 25, 1846, to March 3, ed the public schools; was graduated from Harvard Universi-1855; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Commit- ty in 1907 and from its law school in 1910; was an employeetee on Enrolled Bills (Thirty-first Congress); was nominated of the United States Treasury Department in 1910 and 1911;by President as an Associate Justice of the moved to Old Westbury, N.Y., in 1911 and engaged in theSupreme Court in 1853, but was not confirmed by the banking business in New York City 1911-1922; delegate toSenate; returned to Raleigh and resumed the practice of law; several State conventions; delegate to the Republican Na-member of the State convention in 1861; died in Raleigh, tional Convention at Chicago in 1920; attended the businessN.C., May 11, 1866; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. men's training camp at Plattsburg in 1915; served on the Bibliography: DAB; London, Lawrence F. "The Public Career of George Texas border with the New York National Guard in 1916; B. Badger." Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1936. during the First World War served with the United States military forces from April 24, 1917, to January 2, 1919, BADGER, Luther, a Representative from New York; born attaining the rank of major; awarded the Distinguishedin Partridgefield (now Peru), Mass., April 10, 1785; moved Service Medal; commissioned in the United States Officers'with his father to New York in 1786; attended Hamilton Reserve Corps with the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1919;College in 1807; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1812 promoted to colonel in January 1923 and served until hisand commenced practice in Jamesville, Onondaga County, death; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to theN.Y.; judge advocate of the Twenty-seventh Brigade, New seven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923,York Militia, 1819-1827; elected to the Nineteenth Congress until his death at Lake Success, Long Island, N.Y., en route(March 4, 1825-March 3, 1827); resumed the practice of his from a visit to New York City, September 12, 1938; inter-profession; moved to Broome County in 1832; examiner in ment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. chancery 1833-1847, appomted commissioner of United States loans m 1840, and served until 1843, elected distnct BACON, William Johnson (son of Ezekiel Bacon andattorney of Broome County and served from July 5, 1847, grandson of John Bacon), a Representative from New York; born in Wihiamstown, Mass., February 18, 1803; moved withuntil his resignation in November 1849; resumed the prac- his parents to Utica, N.Y., in 1815; was graduated fromtice of law in Jordan, Onondaga County, N.Y., where he died Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1822; studied law andin 1869; interment in Jordan Cemetery. was graduated from the Litchfield Law School in 1824; was BADHAM, Robert Edward, a Representative from Califor- admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practicenia; born in Los Angeles, Calif., June 9, 1929; attended in Utica, Oneida County, N.Y.; appointed city attorney inpublic schools, Beverly Hills, Calif.; graduated, Beverly Hills 1837; member of the State assembly in 1850; elected trusteeHigh School, 1947; attended Occidental College, Eagle Rock, of Hamilton College in 1851; elected judge of the State su-Calif., 1947-1948; B.A., Stanford (Calif.) University, 1951; preme court of the fifth district in 1854 and served untilbusiness executive; served on active duty with the United 1870; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth CongressStates Naval Reserve, 1951-1954; director, officer, Hoffman (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate forHardware Co., Los Angeles, 1952-1969; served in California renomination in 1878; resumed the practice of law; died inassembly, 1963-1976; delegate to California State Republican Utica, N.Y., July 3, 1889; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery.conventions, 1962-1976; delegate to Republican National BADGER, De Witt Clinton, a Representative from Ohio;Conventions, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1980 and 1984; elected as a born near London, Madison County, Ohio, August 7, 1858;Republican to the Ninety-fifth and to the five succeeding attended the country schools in Madison County and MountCongresses (January 3, 1977-January 3, 1989); is a resident Union College, Alliance, Ohio; taught school from 1875 toof Newport Beach, Calif. 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BADILLO, Herman, a Representative from New York; BAGBY, Arthur Pendleton, a Senator from Alabama; born in Caguas, P.R., August 21, 1929; attended the Newborn in Louise County, Va., in 1794; studied law; was admit- York City public schools; B.B.A., City College of New York,ted to the bar in 1819 and commenced practice in Claiborne, 1951; LL.B., Brooklyn Law School, 1954; admitted to theAla.; member of the State house of representatives in 1821, New York bar in 1955 and commenced practice in New York1822, 1824, and 1834-1836, serving as speaker in 1822 and City; certified public accountant, 1956; commissioner, New1836; served in the State senate in 1825; Governor of Ala- York City Department of Relocation, 1962-1965; electedbama 1837-1841; elected as a Democrat to the United States Bronx, N.Y., borough president, 1965-1969; delegate to NewSenate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Clem- York State Constitutional convention, 1967; delegate toent C. Clay and served from November 24, 1841, until June Democratic National Convention, 1968; unsucceessful candi-16, 1848, when he resigned to become Minister to Russia; date for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New Yorkchairman, Committee on Territories (Twenty-eighth and City, 1969, 1973, and 1977; elected as a Democrat to theTwenty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Claims (Twenty- Ninety-second and to the three succeeding Congresses;ninth Congress), Committee on Indian Affairs T'wenty-ninth served from January 3, 1971, until his resignation DecemberCongress); United States Minister to Russia 1848-1849; 31, 1977, to become a deputy formember of the commission to codify the State laws of Ala- the term commencing in January 1978 and served in thatbama in 1852; moved to Mobile, Ala., in 1856, where he died capacity until his resignation in September 1979; resumedon September 21, 1858; interment inMagnolia Cemetery, the practice of law in New York City; chairman, Board ofMobile, Ala. Directors of the State of New York Mortgage Agency, Febru- Bibliography: DAB; Martin, John M. "The Senatorial Career of Arthur ary 1984-May 1986; unsuccessful candidate for NewYork Pendleton Bagby." Alabama Historical Quarterly 42 (Fall/Winter1980): State comptroller in 1986; is a resident of the Bronx, N.Y. 124-56. BAER, George, Jr., a Representative from Maryland; born BAGBY, John Courts, a Representative from Illinois; born in Frederick, Md., in 1763; attended the common schools;in Glasgow, Ky., January 24, 1819; attended the public engaged in mercantile pursuits; member of the State houseschools; was graduated as a civil engineer from Bacon Col- of delegates in 1794; elected as a Federalist to the Fifth andlege, Harrodsburg, Ky., in June 1840; studied law; was ad- Sixth Congresses (March 4, 1797-March 3, 1801); again amitted to the bar in March 1845 and commenced practice in member of the State house of delegates, in 1808 and 1809;Rushville, Schuyler County, Ill., in April 1846; elected as a judge of the orphans' court of Frederick County in 1813;Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875- elected as a Federalist to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4,March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for renomination in 1815-March 3, 1817); resumed his former mercantile pur-1876; resumed the practice of his profession in Rushville, Ill.; suits; mayor of Frederick in 1820; died in Frederick, Freder-judge of Schuyler County 1882-1885; judge of the sixth judi- ick County, Md., April 3, 1834; interment in Mount Olivetcial circuit court of Illinois 1885-1891; resumed the practice Cemetery. of law; died in Rushville, Ill., April 4, 1896; intermentin BAER, John Miller, a Representative from North Dakota; Rushville Cemetery. born at Black Creek, Outagamie County, Wis., March 29, 1886; attended the public schools; was graduated from Law- BAGLEY, George Augustus, a Representative from New rence University, Appleton, Wis., in 1909; moved toBeach,York; born in Watertown, Jefferson County, N.Y., July 22, Golden Valley County, N.Dak., in 1909; engaged as a civil1826; received an academic training; studied law; wasadmit- engineer and in agricultural pursuits 1909-1915; also fur-ted to the New York bar in 1847 and commenced practice in nished cartoons and articles to newspapers 1909-19 17; post-Watertown, N.Y.; retired from the practice of his profession master of Beach, N.Dak., 1909-1915; elected as a Republicanin 1853 to engage in the manufacture of iron;president of to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by thethe village of Watertown in 1866, supervisor of the town death of Henry T. Helgesen; reelected to the Sixty-sixth1865-1868, elected as a Republican to the Forty fourth and Congress and served from July 10, 1917, to March 3, 1921;Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); re- - chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department ofsumed the manufacture of iron, died in Watertown, N Y, Agriculture (Sixty-sixth Congress); unsuccessful candidateMay 12, 1915, mterment in Brookside Cemetery for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; resumed BAGLEY, John Holroyd, Jr., a Representative from New activities as a cartoonist and journalist; died in Washington, November D.C., February 18, 1970; interment in Gate of Heaven Ceme-York; born in Hudson, Columbia County, N.Y., tery, Silver Spring, Md. 26, 1832; attended the common schools; went to California in Bibliography: Reid, Bill G. "John Miller Baer: Nonpartisan League Car-1851 and engaged in mining and other pursuits; returned to toonist and Congressman." North Dakota History 44 (Winter 1977): 4-13. New York and engaged in steaniboating on the Hudson River, settled m Catskill, Greene County, N Y, andengaged BAFALIS, Louis Arthur, a Representative from Florida;in mercantile purèuits and the manufacture of leather; su- born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., September 28, 1929;pervisor of the town of Catskill 1860-1864; elected as aDem- attended the public schools in Manchester, N.H.; A.B., St. 1875-March 3, Anselm's College, Manchester, N.H., 1952; served in theocrat to the Forty fourth Congress (March 4, 1877), was not a candidate for renomination m1876, re-- United States Army as private and rose to rank of captain,sumed his former mercantile pursuits, elected to the Forty 1953-1956; investment banker; member, Florida house ofeighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); chairman, representatives, 1964; , 1966-1970; unsuccess-Committee on Manufactures (Forty-eighth Congress), was ful candidate for nomination for Governor of Florida, 1970; bank- elected as a Republican to the Ninety-third Congress and tonot a candidate for renomination in 1884; engaged in the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3,ing and the insurance business and also served as vice presi- 1983); was not a candidate for reelection in 1982 to thedent of the Catskill Mountain Railway Co.; trustee of the Ninety-eighth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidatevillage of Catskill; member of the State assembly in 1888; for Governor of Florida; governmental affairs consultant inunsuccessful candidate for election in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Washington, D.C., and Florida; is a resident of Palm Beach,Congress; died in Catskill, N.Y., October 23, 1902; interment Fla. in the Village Cemetery. 562 Biographical Directory

BAILEY, , a Representative fromburgh, Pa., 1976; served in the United States Army, first New York; born in Minisink, N.Y., August 14, 1817;waslieutenant, , 1967-1970; admitted to the Pennsylva- graduated from Princeton College in 1837; studied law;wasnia bar in 1976 and commenced practice in Greensburg, Pa., admitted to the bar and commenced practice; examiner inand before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; other past chancery of Greene County 1840-1842; justice of thepeace ofoccupations; J. & L. Steel Corp., laborer, steel and construc- the town of Catskill for four years; member of the Statetion industry, painter, plant security, and assembly line assembly in 1849; judge of Greene County 1851-1855; movedworker; Democratic State committee, administrative head to Rome, Oneida County, N.Y., in 1856 and continued theand registration chairman; elected as a Democrat to the practice of law; served in the State senate 1861-1864; electedNinety-sixth and the Ninety-seventh Congresses (January 3, as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress to fill the vacancy1979-January 3, 1983); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- caused by the resignation of Roscoe Conkling; reelected totion in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress; elected auditor the Forty-first Congress and served from November 30, 1867,general of Pennsylvania in 1984; was an unsuccessful candi- to March 3, 1871; chairman, Committee on Expenditures indate for nomination to the U.S. Senate in 1986; is a resident the Department of State (Forty-first Congress); was nota candidate for renomination in 1870; elected judge of theof Greensburg, Pa. Oneida County Court in 1871 and served until his death in BAILEY, Goldsmith Fox, a Representative from Massa- Rome, Oneida County, N.Y., April 20, 1874; interment inchusetts; born in Westmoreland, Cheshire County, N.H., Rome Cemetery. July 17, 1823; attended the public schools of Fitchburg, Mass.; editor and publisher of the Bellows Falls (Vt.) Gazette BAILEY, Cleveland Monroe, a Representative from Westin 1844; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and Virginia; born on a farm near St. Marys, Pleasants County,commenced practice in Fitchburg, Mass.; served on the W.Va., July 15, 1886; attended the public schools, and Westschool committee 1849-1854; appointed postmaster of Fitch- Liberty State College, West Liberty, W.Va.;was graduated from Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pa., in 1908; high schoolburg on May 3, 1851 and served until May 4, 1853, when his principal at Clarksburg, W.Va., in 1917 and 1918; districtsuccessor was appointed; member of the State house of rep- supervisor of schools 1919-1922; councilman of Clarksburg,resentatives in 1857; served in the State senate 1858-1860; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress and W.Va., 1921-1923; Associated Press editor in Clarksburg,served from March 4, 1861, until his death in Fitchburg, W.Va., 1923-1933; assistant State auditor 1933-1941; StateWorcester County, Mass., May 8, 1862; interment in Laurel budget director 1941-1944; delegate to the Democratic Na-Hill Cemetery. tional Convention at Chicago in 1932; electedas a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, l945-January 3, BAILEY, James Edmund, a Senator from Tennessee; born 1947); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to thein Montgomery County, Tenn., August 15, 1822;attended the Eightieth Congress; State tax statistician in 1947 and 1948;Clarksville Academy and the University of Nashville; stud- elected to the Eighty-first and to the six succeeding Con-ied law; was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1843 and gresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1963); unsuccessful can-commenced practice in Clarksville, Montgomery County; didate for reelection in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress;elected as a Whig to the Tennessee house of representatives was a resident of Clarksburg, W.Va.; died in Charleston,in 1853; during the Civil War served in the Confederate W.Va., July 13, 1965; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery,Army as colonel of the Forty-ninth Tennessee Regiment; was Clarksburg, W.Va. appointed a member of the court of arbitration by the Gov- BAILEY, David Jackson, a Representative from Georgia;ernor of Tennessee in 1874; elected as a Democrat to the born in Lexington, Ga., March 11, 1812; educated bya pri-United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death vate tutor; moved to Jackson, Butts County, in 1829; studiedof and served from January 19, 1877, to law; was admitted to the bar in 1831 and practiced; electedMarch 3, 1881; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the State legislature before he was twenty-one, butwasin 1880; chairman, Committee on Education and Labor not permitted to take his seat because he was not of legal(Forty-sixth Congress); resumed the practice of law; died in age; served as captain of a company through the SeminoleClarksville, Tenn., December 29, 1885; interment in Green- and Creek Wars; served in the State house of representa-wood Cemetery. tives in 1835 and 1847; member of the State senate in 1838, Bibliography: McCord, Franidin"J. E. Bailey: A Gentleman of Clarks- vile." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 23 (September 1964): 246-68. 1849, and 1850; delegate to the Democratic countyconven- tions in 1839 and 1850; secretary of the State senate 1839- BAILEY, Jeremiah, a Representative from Maine; born in 1841; elected as a State Rights candidate to the Thirty-Little Compton, R.I., May 1, 1773; attended the common second Congress and as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Con-schools and was graduated from Brown University, Provi- gress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful candidatedence, R.I., in 1794; studied law; was admitted to the bar and for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress; againacommenced practice in Wiscasset, Maine (until 1820 a dis- member of the State senate, in 1855 and 1856, and servedastrict of Massachusetts), in 1798; presidential elector on the president; resumed the practice of law in Jackson, Ga.;Federalist ticket in 1808; member of the general court 1811- member of the secession convention in 1861; entered the1814; judge of probate 1816-1834; elected as a Whig to the Confederate Army during the Civil War and became colonelTwenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1837); un- of the Thirtieth Regiment Georgia Infantry moved to Grifsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1836 to the Twenty- fin, Spalding County, Ga., in 1861, where he died June 14,fifth Congress; collector of customs of Wiscasset 1849-1853; 1897; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. died in Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine, July 6, 1853; in- BAILEY, Donald Allen, a Representative from Pennsylva-terment in Evergreen Cemetery. nia; born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa., July 21, BAILEY, John, a Representative from Massachusetts; 1945; attended the public schools of Allegheny and West-born in 1786 in that part of Stoughton, Norfolk County, morelandCounties;graduated,Greensburg(Pa.)HighMass., which in 1797 was set apart and named Canton; was School, 1963; B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1807; Mich., 1967; J.D., Duquesne University School of Law, Pitts-tutor and librarian at Providence, R.I., 1807-1814; member Biographies 563 of the Massachusetts State house of representatives 1814-first Congress), Committee on Additional Accomodations for 1817; clerk in the Department of State in Washington, D.C.,the Library (Sixty-second Congress); resumed the practice of 1817-1823; presented credentials as a Member-elect to thelaw in Washington, D.C.; subsequently moved to Dallas, Eighteenth Congress, but the election was contested on theTex., in 1921 and continued the practice of law; was an ground that he was not a resident of the district he purport-unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Texas in 1920; died ed to represent, and by resolution of March 18, 1824, thein a courtroom in Sherman, Tex., on April 13, 1929; inter- House declared he was not entitled to the seat; returned toment in Gainesville Cemetery, Gainesville, Tex. Canton, Mass., and was subsequently elected toif!the va- Bibliography: DAB; Acheson, Sam. Joe Bailey, The Last Democrat. 1932. cancy thus caused in this Congress; reelected to the Nine-Reprint. Freeport, N.Y.: Books For Libraries Press, 1970; Holcomb, Bob C. teenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses and served "Senator Joe Bailey, Two Decades of Controversy." Ph.D. dissertation, from December 13, 1824, to March 3, 1831; chairman, Com- , 1968. mittee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Nine- BAILEY, Joseph Weldon, Jr. (son of Joseph Weldon teenth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination inBailey), a Representative from Texas; born in Gainesville, 1830; member of the State senate in 1831 and 1834; unsuc-Cooke County, Tex., December 15, 1892; attended the public cessful Anti-Masonic candidate for Governor in 1834; died inschools in Gainesville, Tex., and Washington, D.C.; was grad- Dorchester, Mass., June 26, 1835; interment in Oak Groveuated from Princeton University in 1915 and from the Uni- Cemetery. versity of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1919; during the BAILEY, John Mosher, a Representative from New York;First World War served as a first lieutenant in the Three born in Bethlehem, N.Y., August 24, 1838; attended theHundred and Fourteenth Regiment of Field Artillery from public schools, and Hudson River Institute at Claverack,August 15, 1917, to March 24, 1919; studied law; was admit- N.Y.; was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.,ted to the bar in 1920 and commenced practice in Fort in 1861; during the Civil War entered the Union Army as aWorth, Tex.; moved to Dallas, Tex., the same year and con- first lieutenant and adjutant of the One Hundred and Seven-tinued the practice of his profession; elected as a Democrat ty-seventh Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, andto the Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3, served in the Department of the Gulf in 1862; graduated1935); was not a candidate for renomination in 1934, but was from the Albany Law School in 1864; was admitted to thean unsuccessful candidate for the Democraticnomination for bar the same year and commenced practice in Albany, N.Y.;United States Senator; resumed the practice of law in assistant district attorney of Albany County 1865-1867; col-Dallas, Tex.; during the Second World War served as a lector of internal revenue 1871-1874; district attorney ofcaptain in the Marine Corps from May 13, 1942, until his Albany County 1874-1877; elected as a Republican to thedeath in an Army hospital at Gainesville, Tex., July 17, Forty-fifth Congress toff1the vacancy caused by the death1943; interment in Gainesville Cemetery. of Terence J. Quinn; reelected to the Forty-sixth Congress and served from November 5, 1878, to March 3, 1881; was BAILEY, Josiah William, a Senator from North Carolina; not a candidate for renomination in 1880; United Statesborn in Warrenton, Warren County, N.C., September 14, consul to Hamburg, Germany, by appointment of President1873; moved with his parents to Raleigh, N.C., in 1877; at-- Garfield 1881-1885; delegate to the Republican Nationaltended the public schools and Raleigh Male Academy; was Convention in 1888; appointed by President Harrison as sur-graduated from Wake Forest College in 1893; editor of the veyor of customs at Albany, N.Y., 1889-1894; resumed theBiblical Recorder 1893-1907; member of the State board of practice of law; died in Albany, N.Y., February 21, 1916;agriculture 1896-1900; studied law; was admitted to the bar interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Bethlehem, N.Y. in 1908 and commenced practice in Raleigh, N.C.; United States collector of internal revenue for North Carolina 1913- BAILEY, Joseph, a Representative from Pennsylvania;1921; member of the North Carolina Constitutional Commis- born in Pennsbury Township, Chester County, Pa., Marchsion in 1915; trustee of the University of North Carolina 18, 1810; attended the common schools; learned the trade of1930; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in a hatter, which he carried on in Parkersville; served in the1930; reelected in 1936 and again in 1942 and served from State house of representatives in 1840; member of the StateMarch 4, 1931, until his death in Raleigh, N.C., on December senate in 1843; moved to Perry County in 1845; again a15, 1946; chairman, Committee on Claims (Seventy-third member of the State senate 1851-1853; State treasurer ofthrough Seventy-fifth Congresses), Committee on Commerce Pennsylvania in 1854; studied law; was admitted to the bar(Seventy-sixth through Seventy-ninth Congresses); interment in 1860; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh andin Oakwood Cemetery. Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3,1865); Bibliography: DAB; Marcello, Ronald. "Senator Josiah Bailey, Harry member of the State constitutional convention in 1872; died Hopkins, and the WPA: A Prelude to the Conservative Coalition." South- at Bailey Station, Perry County, Pa., on August 26, 1885; ern Studies 22 (Winter 1983): 321-29; Moore, John R. SenatorJosiah Wil- interment in Bloomfield Cemetery, New Bloomfield, Pa. liam Bailey of North Carolina: A Political Biography. Durham: Duke Uni- versity Press, 1968. BAILEY, Joseph Weldon (father of , Jr.), a Representative and a Senator from Texas; born near BAILEY, Ralph Emerson, a Representative from Missou- Crystal Springs, Copiah County, Miss., October 6, 1862; at-ri; born in Cainsville, Harrison County, Mo., July 14, 1878; tended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to themoved to illinois with his parents, who settled in Benton, bar in 1883 and commenced practice in Hazlehurst, Miss.;Franklin County, in 1880; attended the graded and high moved to Gainesville, Tex., in 1885 and continued the prac-schools at Benton; moved to Bboomfield, Stoddard County, tice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and toMo., in 1897; was graduated from the Southeast Missouri the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3,Teachers' College at Cape Girardeau in 1901; afterwards 1901); was not a candidate for renomination in 1900; electedtook a special course in the University of Missouri at Colum- to the United States Senate in 1901, reelected in 1907, andbia; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1907 and com- served from March 4, 1901, until January 3, 1913, when hemenced practice in Bloomfield, Mo.; moved to Sikeston, Scott resigned; chairman, Committee on Revolutionary ClaimsCounty, Mo., in 1910 and continued the practice of law; city (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Woman Suffrage (Sixty-attorney 1912-1914 and again 1918-1922; served as a 564 Biographical Directory

member of the board of regents of the Southeast Missouri1854; attended the common schools, Mount Carroll High Teachers' College; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninthSchool, and the University of illinois at Urbana; moved to Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1921); was not a candidateNemaha County, Kans., in 1879; engaged in agricultural for renomination in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress;re-pursuits, stock raising, and banking; founded the town of sumed the practice of law in Sikeston, Mo.; died in CapeBaileyville, Kans.; member of the Kansas house of represent- Girardeau, Mo., April 8, 1948; interment in the City Ceme-atives 1888-1890; president of the Republican State League tery, Sikeston, Mo. in 1893; member of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture BAILEY, Theodorus, a Representative and a Senator1895-1899; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Con- from New York; born near Fishkill, Dutchess County, N.Y.,gress (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901); was not a candidate for October 12, 1758; attended the rural schools; studied law;renomination in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress; Gover- was admitted to the bar in 1778 and commenced practice innor of Kansas 1903-1905; moved to Atchison, Kans., in 1907 Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; served with the New York Militiaand engaged in the banking business; elected a director of during the Revolutionary War; served in the State militiathe Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Mo., in 1914, 1786-1805 and attained the rank of brigadier general; elect-governor in 1922, and served until his death in Mission ed to the Third and Fourth Congresses (March 4, 1793-Hills, Johnson County, Kans., May 19, 1932; interment in March 3, 1797); elected to the Sixth Congress (March 4,Mount Vernon Cemetery, Atchison, Kans. 1799-March 3, 1801); elected to the Seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas Tillotson BAIRD, David (father of David Baird, Jr.), a Senator from and served from October 6, 1801, to March 3, 1803; simulta-New Jersey; born in Londonderry, County Derry, Ireland, neously served in the New York State assembly in 1802;April 7, 1839; attended the common schools; immigrated to elected to the United States Senate and served from Marchthe United States m 1856 and entered the lumber busmess 4, 1803, to January 16, 1804, when he resigned to accept thein Port Deposit, Md.; moved in 1860 to Camden, N.J., where position of postmaster of the city of New York, which hehe continued in the lumber business and also engaged in held until his death on September 6, 1828; interment in thebanking; member of the board of chosen freeholders of Dutch Burying Ground; reinterment in the Rural Cemetery,Camden County 1876-1880; sheriff of Camden County 1887- Poughkeepsie, N.Y., January 8, 1864. 1889 and 1895-1897; member of the State board of assessors BAILEY, Warren Worth, a Representative from Pennsyl- in 1895 and 1901-1909; unsuccessful candidate for election to vania; born in New Winchester, Hendricks County, hid.,the United States Senate in 1910, appointed and subsequent- January 8, 1855; moved to Illinois with his parents, wholy elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to ifil settled in Edgar County in 1863; attended the countrythe vacancy caused by the death of William Hughes and schools; became a telegrapher, at, which he worked untilserved from February 23, 1918, to March 3, 1919; was not a 1875, when he joined the Kansas (ill.) News and learned thecandidate for renomination in 1918, resumed his former printing trade, engaged m the publishing business with hisbusiness pursuits in Camden, N.J., where he died on Febru- brother at Carlisle, md., in 1877; subsequently theypur-ary 25, 1927; interment in Harleigh Cemetery. chased the Vincennes News, which they published until 1887; moved to Chicago in 1887 and became a member of the BAIRD, David, Jr. (son of David Baird), a Senator from staff of the Daily News and later of the Evening Mail;New Jersey; born in Camden, N.J., October 10, 1881; attend- moved to Johnstown, Pa., in 1893 and published the Dailyed the Raymond Academy at Camden and Penn Charter Democrat, devoted to the single-tax principle; unsuccessfulSchool in Philadelphia, Pa.; was graduated from Lawrence- Democratic candidate for election in 1906 to the Sixtiethville (N.J.) School in 1899 and from Princeton University in Congress; delegate at large to the Democratic National Con-1903; engaged in a lumber business and banking in Camden, vention at Baltimore in 1912; elected as a Democrat to theN.J., from 1903 to 1929; appointed as a Republican to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1913-United States Senate to if! the vacancy caused by the resig- March 3, 1917); chairman, Committee on Mileage (Sixty-nation of Walter E. Edge and served from November 30, third Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Depart-1929, to December 2, 1930, when a duly elected successor ment of Justice (Sixty-fourth Congress); unsuccessful candi-qualified; was not a candidate for election to the vacancy in date for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress and for1930; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New Jersey in election in 1920, 1922, and 1926 to the Sixty-seventh, Sixty-1931; resumed former business pursuits; was appointed by eighth, and Seventieth Congresses, respectively; unsuccess-the Governor to the Delaware River Joint Commission to fill fully contested the election of Anderson H. Walters to thean unexpired term in 1938; engaged in insurance brokerage Sixty-ninth Congress; resumed journalism in Johnstown,business; died in Camden, N.J., February 28, 1955; interment Cambria County, Pa., where he died November 9, 1928; in-in Harleigh Cemetery. terment in Grandview Cemetery. BAIRD, Joseph Edward, a Representative from Ohio; born BAILEY, Wendell, a Representative from Missouri; bornat Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio, November 12, 1865; at- July 30,1940, in Willow Springs, Mo.; attended publictended the public schools; was graduated from the Perrys- schools in Willow Springs; B.S., Southwest Missouri Stateburg High School in 1885 and from the law department of University,1962;automobiledealer;member,Willow Springs City council, 1969-1971; mayor, Wifiow Springs,the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1893; was ad- 197 1-1972; member, Missouri State house of representatives,mitted to the bar in 1893 but did not practice; moved to 1972-1980; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventhBowling Green, Ohio, in 1894 and served as county clerk of Congress (January 3, 1981-January 3, 1983); was an unsuc-Wood County 1894-1900; engaged as a dealer in oil and farm cessful candidate for reelection in 1982; resumed businesslands from 1900 to 1921; served as mayor of Bowling Green interests; elected Missouri State treasurer in 1984 for the1902-1905, and as postmaster 1910-1914; secretary of the four-year term beginning in January 1985; is a resident ofOhio Public Utilities Commission 1921-1923; served as assist- Wifiow Springs, Mo. ant secretary of state 1923-1929; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1931); BAILEY, Willis Joshua, a Representative from Kansas;unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy- born near Mount Carroll, Carroll County, 111., October 12,second Congress; retired from active business pursuits and Biographies 565 political activities; died in Bowling Green, Ohio, June 14,February 24, 1811; immigrated to the United States in 1815 1942; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. with his parents, who settled in Philadelphia, Pa.; moved to Illinois in 1825; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1830 BAIRD, Samuel Thomas, a Representative from Louisi-and commenced practice in Springfield; member, State ana; born in Oak Ridge, Morehouse Parish, La., May 5, 1861;house of representatives 1837; member, State senate 1840- educated under private tutors and attended the Vincennes1844; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth Congress and (md.) University; studied law; was admitted to the bar inserved from March 4, 1845, until his resignation on Decem- 1882 and commenced practice in Bastrop, Morehouse Parish,ber 24, 1846, to take effect on January 15, 1847; commis- La.; district attorney of the sixth judicial district 1884-1888;sioned colonel of the Fourth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer district judge of the sixth judicial district 1888-1892; re-Infantry, on July 4, 1846, and served until he was honorably sumed the practice of law in Bastrop; member of the Statemustered out on May 29, 1847; participated in the siege of senate in 1896; delegate to the Democratic National Conven-Vera Cruz and commanded a brigade at Cerro Gordo; after tion at Chicago in 1896; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-the Mexican War moved to Galena, Ill.; elected as a Whig to fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4,the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); was 1897, until his death in Washington, D.C., April 22, 1899;not a candidate for renomination in 1850; moved to San interment in Christ Church Cemetery, Bastrop, La. Francisco, Calif., in 1851 and resumed the practice of law; BAKER, Caleb, a Representative from New York; born inmoved to Oregon in 1860; elected as a Republican to the Providence, R.I., in 1762; moved to New York in 1790 andUnited States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term begin- resided in the towns of Chemung, Ashland, and Newtown,ning March 4, 1859, and served from October 2, 1860, until Tioga County, from 1790 to 1836, and in Southport, Che- his death on the battlefield; raised a regiment in New York mung County, from 1836 until his death; studied law; wasCity and Philadelphia during the Civil War; commissioned admitted to the bar and practiced; assessor of the town ofbrigadier general of Volunteers May 17, 1861, but declined; Chemung in 1791; taught school in Wellsburg, Chemungcolonel of the Seventy-first Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun- County, in 1803 and 1804; appointed surrogate of Tiogateer Infantry and major general of Volunteers 1861; killed in County on April 7, 1806, April 13, 1825, and again in 1829;the Battle of Balls Bluff, Va., October 21, 1861; interment in appointed judge of common pleas in 1810; member of theSan Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, Calif. State assembly in 1814, 1815, and again in 1829; justice of Bibliography: DAB; Blair, Harry, and Tarshis, Rebecca. Colonel Edward the peace of the town of Chemung in 1816; elected to the D. Baker: Lincoln s Constant Ally. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); died in 1960; Braden, Gayle Anderson. "The Public Career of Southport (now a part of Elmira), Chemung County, N.Y., Baker." Ph.D. dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1960. June 26, 1849; interment in Fitzsimmons Cemetery. BAKER, Ezra, a Representative from New Jersey; born in BAKER, Charles Simeon, a Representative from NewTuckerton, N.J.; moved with his parents to the Province of York; born in Churchville, Monroe County, N.Y., FebruaryEast Jersey about 1765; educated for the medical profession 18, 1839; attended the common schools, Cary Collegiate Insti- and commenced practice; moved to Absecon, N.J., in 1799; tute of Oakfield, and the New York Seminary at Lima;served as collector of customs at the port of Great Egg taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in De-Harbor, N.J., from February 18, 1813, to March 1, 1815; cember 1860 and commenced practice in Rochester, N.Y.;elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March served in the Union Army during the Civil War as first4, 1815-March 3, 1817); moved westward to the "Wabash lieutenant, Company E, Twenty-seventh Regiment, Newcountry" with his sons in 1818 and engaged in the culture of York Volunteer Infantry; disabled in the first Battle of Bullcastor beans for the New Orleans market; died in the Run and honorably discharged; member of the New York"Wabash country." State assembly 1879-1882; served in the State senate in 1884 BAKER, Henry Moore, a Representative from New and 1885; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth, Fifti-Hampshire; born in Bow, near Concord, N.H., January 11, eth, and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3,1841; attended the common schools, Pembroke, Tilton, and 1891); chairman, Committee on Commerce (Fifty-first Con-Hopkinton Academies, New Hampshire; was graduated from gress); resumed the practice of law in Rochester, N.Y.; diedthe New Hampshire Conference Seminary in 1859, Dart- in Washington, D.C., April 21, 1902; interment in Mountmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1863, and the law school of Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y. Columbian (now George Washington) University, Washing- BAKER, David Jewett, a Senator from Illinois; born inton, D.C., in 1866; was admitted to the bar in 1866;clerk in East Haddam, Conn., September 7, 1792; moved with histhe War and Treasury Departments 1864-1874; commenced parents to Ontario County, N.Y.; attended the commonthe practice of law in Washington, D.C., in 1874; judge advo- schools and was graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton,cate general of the National Guard of New Hampshire in N.Y., in 1816; studied law; was admitted to the Illinois bar in1886 and 1887 with rank of brigadier general; member of the 1819 and commenced the practice of law in Kaskaskia, Ill.;State senate in 1891 and 1892; elected as a Republican to the probate judge of Randolph County from August 1827 untilFifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 3,1893- December 6, 1830, when he resigned to become Senator;March 3, 1897); was not a candidate for renomination in appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill1896; resumed the practice of his profession in Washington, the vacancy caused by the death of John McLean and servedD.C., but retained his legal residence in Bow, N.H.; member from November 12, 1830, to December 11, 1830, when aof the New Hampshire house of representatives 1905-1909; successor was elected and qualified; was not acandidate fordied in Washington, D.C., May 30, 1912; interment in Alex- election in 1830 to fill the vacancy; appointed United, Statesander Cemetery, Bow, N.H. district attorney for the district of Illinois in 1833 and served BAKER, Howard Henry (husband of Irene Bailey Baker until 1841; resumed the practice of law; died in Alton, Madi-and father of Howard Henry Baker, Jr.), a Representative son County, Ill., August 6, 1869; interment in City Cemetery.from Tennessee; born in Somerset, Pulaski County, Ky., Jan- BAKER, Edward Dickinson, a Representative from Illi-uary 12, 1902; moved with his parents toHuntsville, Scott nois and a Senator from Oregon; born in London, England,County, Tenn.; attended the public schools of Scott and Knox 566 Biographical Directory

Counties, Tenn.; was graduated from the University of Ten-common schools and McKendree College at Lebanon; studied nessee at Knoxville in 1922 and from its law school in 1924;law; was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commenced prac- was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1923 and commencedtice at Belleville, St. Clair County, Ill.; master in chancery of the practice of law in Huntsville, Tenn.; publisher ofaSt. Clair County 1861-1865; elected as a Republican to the weekly newspaper in Huntsville, Tenn.; served in the Ten-Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865-March nessee house of representatives in 1929 and 1930; member of3, 1869); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Scott County Board of Education in 1931 and 1932; attorneyOffice Department (Thirty-ninth Congress), Committee on general of the nineteenth judicial circuit of Tennessee 1934-Education and Labor (Fortieth Congress); served as United 1948; vice president and general counsel of the Oneida &States Minister to Venezuela 1878-1881 and 1882-1885, Western Railroad Co., in 1945; member of the beard of direc-being Minister Resident and consul general for a time tors, First National Bank of Oneida, Tenn.; unsuccessfulduring the latter portion of his service; elected as a Republi- Republican candidate for Governor in 1938 and for Unitedcan to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); States Senator in 1940; delegate to the Republican Nationalunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty- Conventions in 1940, 1948, 1952, and 1956; elected asa Re-first Congress; continued the practice of law; elected as a publican to the Eighty-second and to the six succeeding Con-Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March gresses and served from January 3, 1951, until his death in3, 1899); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1898 Knoxville, Tenn., January 7, 1964; interment in Sherwoodto the Fifty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law; died Memorial Gardens. in Belleville, Ill., on March 1, 1903; interment in Walnut BAKER, Howard Henry, Jr. (son of Howard Henry Baker,Hill Cemetery. stepson of Irene Bailey Baker, and son-in-law of Everett Bibliography: DAB. Dirksen), a Senator from Tennessee; born in Huntsville, BAKER, John, a Representative from Virginia; born in Scott County, Tenn., November 15, 1925; attended TulaneFrederick County, Md.; attended Washington College (now University, New Orleans, La., and University of the South,Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., for three Sewanee, Tenn.; graduated from the University of Tennesseeyears; studied law; was admitted to the bar and began prac- Law College 1949; served in the United States Navy 1943-tice in Berkeley County, Va. (now Jefferson County, W.Va.); 1946; admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1949 and commencedmember of the State house of delegates 1798-1799; one of the practice; elected as a Republican to the United States Senatelawyers who defended Aaron Burr when he was tried for in 1966; reelected in 1972 and again in 1978, and served fromtreason; elected as a Federalist to the Twelfth Congress January 3, 1967, to January 3, 1985; did not seek reelection;(March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); resumed the practice of law; minority leader1977-1981;majorityleader1981-1985; Commonwealth attorney for Jefferson County; died in She-- lawyer in Washington, D.C.; chief of staff to Presidentpherdstown, Jefferson County, Va. (now West Virginia), 1987-1988; is a resident of Washington, D.C. August 18, 1823; interment in the Old Episcopal Church Bibliography: Annis, James. ", Jr.: A Public Biography." Ph.D. dissertation, Ball State University, 1985. Cemetery.

BAKER, Irene Bailey (wife of Howard Henry Baker and BAKER, John Harris (brother of Lucien Baker), a Repre-- stepmother of Howard Henry Baker, Jr.), a Representativesentative from Indiana; born in Parma Township, Monroe from Tennessee; born Edith Irene Bailey, November 17,County, N.Y., February 28, 1832; moved with his parents to 1901, in Sevierville, Sevier County, Tenn., attended thethe present county of Fulton, Ohio; attended the public public schools of Sevierville and Maryville; studied music;schools; taught school; attended the Wesleyan University in deputy county court clerk, 1918-1922; deputy clerk andDelaware, Ohio, two years; studied law in Adrian, Mich.; master, Chancery Court, Sevierville, Tenn., 1922-1924; Re-was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice in publican National Committeewoman for Tennessee 1960-Goshen, md.; member of the State senate in 1862, but, being 1964; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth Congressa notary public at the time, was unseated because the State to ifil the vacancy caused by the death of her husband,constitution forbid the simultaneous holding of two lucrative Howard H. Baker, serving from March 10, 1964, to Januaryoffices; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth, Forty- 3, 1965; was not a candidate in 1964 for renomination to thefifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, Eighty-ninth Congress; director, Public Welfare, city of1881); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1880; Knoxville, 1965-1971; is a resident of Knoxville, Tenn. resumed the practice of law in Goshen, md.; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1888; appointed judge of BAKER, Jacob Thompson, a Representative from Newthe United States District Court for Indiana by President Jersey; born near Cowan, Union County, Pa., April 13, 1847;Harrision in 1892 and served until his retirement in 1904; attended the public schools and Bucknell University, Lewis-resided in Goshen, Elkhart County, md., until his death on burg, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1870 andOctober 21, 1915; interment in Oak Ridge Cemetery. commenced practice in Lewisburg, Pa.; chairman of the Democratic State convention in 1905; moved to New Jersey BAKER, LaMar, a Representative from Tennessee; born and was one of the founders of Wildwood and the borough ofin Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tenn., December 29, Wildwood Crest; first mayor of the consolidated city of Wild-1915; attended the Chattanooga public schools; attended wood in 1911 and 1912; delegate to the Democratic NationalDavid Lipscomb College, Nashville, Tenn., 1936-1938; B.S., Convention in 1912; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-thirdHarding College, Searcy, Ark., 1940; Army Air Corps, 1942- Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candi-1946; with European Theater of Operations, serving as group date for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress;executive officer and adjutant; discharged with rank of resumed real-estate activities in Wildwood, N.J.; died inmajor; representative, Tennessee general assembly, 1967- Philadelphia, Pa., December 7,1919; interment in Cold1968; State senator, 1969-1970; owner, Commercial Janitors, Spring Cemetery, Cold Spring, Cape May County, N.J. Inc., 1964-1978; trustee, Boyd-Buchanan School; delegate to Tennessee State Republican conventions, 1964-1972; delegate

BAKER, Jehu, a Representative from illinois; born nearto Republican National Convention, 1972; elected as a Re-- Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., November 4, 1822; movedpublican to the Ninety-second and Ninety-third Congresses with his father to Lebanon, Ill.,in 1829; attended the(January 3, 1971-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful candidate Biographies 567 for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; unsuc-Utah, June 9,1875; interment in the Rural Cemetery, cessful candidate for election in 1976 to the Ninety-fifthPoughkeepsie, N.Y. Congress; regional representative to the secretary of the U.S. BAKER, William, a Representative from Kansas; born Department of Transportation, 1981-1985; resident of Atlan-near Centerville, Washington County,Pa., April 29, 1831; ta, Ga. attended the public schools and was graduated from the BAKER, Lucien (brother of John Harris Baker), a SenatorWaynesboro College in 1856; taught school; moved to Iowa in from Kansas; born near Cleveland, Fulton County, Ohio,1859 and became principal of the public schools in Council June 8, 1846; moved with his parents to Morenci, Mich.;Bluffs; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1860 but attended the public schools and was graduated from Adriannever practiced; returned to Bealsville,Washington County, College, Michigan, and from the law department of the Uni-Pa., in 1865; engaged in mercantile pursuits 1865-1878; versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor; was admitted to the barmoved to Lincoln County, Kans., in 1878; engaged in agricul- in 1868 and commenced practice in Leavenworth, Kans., intural pursuits and stock raising; elected as a Populist to the 1869; city attorney of Leavenworth 1872-1874; member ofFifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March the State senate 1893-1895; elected as a Republican to the4, 1891-March 3, 1897); was not a candidate for renomina- United States Senate and served from March 4, 1895, totion in 1896; resumed agricultural pursuits; died in Lincoln, March 3, 1901; unsuccessful candidate for renomination;Kans., February 11, 1910; interment in Lincoln Center Cem- chairman, Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchmentetery. (Fifty-sixth Congress); resumed the practice of law in Leav- enworth, Kans., where he died on June 21, 1907; interment BAKER, William Benjamin, a Representative from Mary- land; born near Aberdeen, Harford County, Md., July 22, in Mount Muncie Cemetery. 1840; attended the common schools and was privately tu- BAKER, Osmyn, a Representative from Massachusetts;tored; engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1872, when he born in Amherst, Mass., May 18, 1800; attended Amherstbecame interested in the canning industry, and later in Academy; was graduated from Yale College in 1822; studiedbanking; delegate to several State and congressional conven- law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice intions; member of the State house of delegates in 1881; served Amherst in 1825; member of the State house of representa-in the State senate in 1893; elected as a Republican tothe tives 1833, 1834, 1836, and 1837; county commissionerofFifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses (March 4, Hampshire County 1834-1837; elected as a Whig to the1895-March 3, 1901); was not a candidate for renomination Twenty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by thein 1900; resumed the canning business; died in Aberdeen, death of James C. Alvord; reelected to the Twenty-seventh Md., May 17, 1911; interment in Baker's Cemetery. and Twenty-eighth Congresses and served from January 14, 1840, to March 3, 1845; chairman, Committee on Accounts BAKER, William Henry, a Representative from New (Twenty-seventh Congress); was not a candidate for renomi-York; born in Lenox Township, Madison County, N.Y., Janu- nation in 1844; resumed the practice of law at Northamptonary 17, 1827; moved withhis parents to Oswego County in in 1845; first president of Smith Charities 1860-1870; died in1829; attended the common schools and RedCreek and Northampton, Mass., February 9, 1875; interment in BridgeMexico Academies; studied law; was admitted to thebar in Street Cemetery. Syracuse, N.Y., in November 1851 and commencedpractice in Cleveland, N.Y.; moved to Constantia, OswegoCounty, BAKER, Richard Hugh, a Representative from Louisiana; N.Y., in 1853; served as district attorney for OswegoCounty born in New Orleans, La., May 22, 1948; attended publicfrom January 1863 to January 1870; elected as aRepublican schools and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; realto the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses(March 4, estate broker; member, Louisiana house of representatives,1875-March 3, 1879); declined to be a candidate forrenomi- 1972-1986; elected as a Republican to the One Hundredthnation in 1878; delegate to the State constitutional conven- Congress (January 3, 1987-January 3, 1989); is a resident oftion in 1884; engaged in agricultural pursuits;died in Con- Baton Rouge, La. stantia, N.Y., November 25, 1911; interment inTrinity BAKER, Robert, a Representative from New York; bornChurch Cemetery. at Bury St. Edmunds, England, in April 1862; attended the BAKEWELL, Charles Montague, a Representative from common schools; immigrated to the UnitedStates in 1882Connecticut; born in Pittsburgh, Pa., April 24, 1867;attend- and settled in Albany, N.Y.; moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., ined the public schools and the preparatory departmentof 1889; unsuccessful candidate for election to the State assem-Western University of Pennsylvania (now theUniversity of bly in 1894; auditor of New York City in 1902; elected as aPittsburgh); was graduated from the University of California Democrat to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4,1903- at Berkeley in 1889 and from HarvardUniversity, Cam- March 3, 1905); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904bridge, Mass., in 1894; attended the Universitiesof Berlin, to the Fifty-ninth Congress and for election in 1906 totheStrassburg, and Paris 1894-1896; instructor in philosophy at Sixtieth Congress; became secretary of the New York CityHarvard University in 1896 and 1897 and at the University Department of Docks and Ferries in 1906; engaged in stoneof California in 1897 and 1898; associate professor atBryn paving and in the general real-estate business in Brooklyn,Mawr College 1898-1900; associate professor andprofessor at N.Y., until his death there on June 15, 1943; interment inthe University of California 1900-1905; professor ofphiloso- Evergreen Cemetery. phy at Yale University 1905-1933; president of theAmerican BAKER, Stephen, a Representative from New York; bornPhilosophical Association in 1910; during the First World in New York City, August 12, 1819; attended the commonWar served as inspector and historian, with rank ofmajor schools; engaged as importer and jobber in woolen goods;and deputy commissioner, under the ItalianCommission of moved to Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., in 1850;the American Red Cross in Italy; served in the State senate elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress1920-1924; served as chairman of the commission to revise (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); abandoned active businessand codify the educational laws of the State ofConnecticut pursuits and lived in retirement until his death, while en1921-1923; also engaged as an author and editor; elected as a route to California for his health, on a train nearOgden,Republican to the Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933- 568 Biographical Directory

January 3, 1935); unsuccessful candidate for reelection intionary Army, from 1777 until 1783, when the troops dis- 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; died in New Haven,banded; studied law during his service in the Army; was Conn., September 19, 1957; interment in Grove Street Ceme-admitted to the bar in 1783 and practiced at Fairfield; tery. moved to Augusta, Ga., in 1784 and continued the practice of BAKE WELL, Claude Ignatius, a Representative fromlaw; member of the State house of representatives in 1785; Missouri; born in St. Louis, Mo., August 9, 1912; attendedoriginator of the plan for, and author of, the charter of the the St. Louis University High School; was graduated fromUniversity of Georgia and served as president 1786-1801; Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1932 and frommember of the Continental Congress in 1785, 1787, and 1788; St. Louis University School of Law in 1935;was admitted tomember of the United States Constitutional Convention in the bar in 1935 and commenced practice in St. Louis;1787; elected to the First and to the four succeeding Con- member of the board of aldermen of St. Louis 194 1-1945;gresses (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1799); elected to the United during the Second World War served in the United StatesStates Senate in 1799; reelected in 1805 and served from Navy as lieutenant (jg.) with service in the South Pacific andMarch 4, 1799, until his death on April 4, 1807; servedas at the Philadelphia Navy Base from October 1944 to AprilPresident pro tempore of the Senate during the Seventh 1946; elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress (Jan-Congress; died in Washington, D.C.; interment in Rock Creek uary 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate forCemetery. reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; elected to the Bibliography: DAB; Furlong, Patrick J. ": A Georgia Eighty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the Yankee as Old-Congress Man." Georgia Historical Quarterly 56 (Spring death of John B. Sullivan, and served from March 9, 1951, to 1972): 51-71; White, Henry C. Abraham Baldwin, One of the Founders of January 3, 1953; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in the Republic, and Father of the University of Georgin, the zrst of Ameri- 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress; resumed the practice of ca's State Universities. Athens, Ga.: The McGregor Co., 1926. law; postmaster of the city of St. Louis since September 30, BALDWIN, Augustus Carpenter, a Representative from 1958; was a resident of St. Louis, Mo., until his death inMichigan; born in Sauna (now Syracuse), Onondaga County, University City, Mo., March 18, 1987; interment in CalvaryN.Y., December 24, 1817; attended the public schools; moved Cemetery. to Oakland County, Mich., in 1837 and taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced prac- BALDRIGE, Howard Malcolm, a Representative from Ne-- braska; born in Omaha, Nebr., June 23, 1894; attended thetice in Milford, Oakland County; member of the State house public schools and was graduated from the Omaha Highof representatives 1844-1846, serving as speaker pro tempore School; attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., andwasin 1846; moved to Pontiac, Mich., in March 1849; prosecuting graduated from Yale University in 1918; during the Firstattorney for Oakland County 1853 and 1854; delegate to the World War served as captain of Battery F, Three HundredDemocratic National Conventions at Charleston and Balti- and Thirty-eighth Field Artillery; was graduated from themore in 1860; elected as a Union Democrat to the Thirty- Nebraska Law School, at Lincoln, in 1921;was admitted toeighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); unsuccess- the bar the same year and commenced practice in Omaha,fully contested the election of Rowland E. Trowbridge to the Nebr.; served in the State house of representatives in 1923;Thirty-ninth Congress; delegate to the peace convention at delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1924Philadelphia in 1866; member of the Pontiac School Board and 1928; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-second1868-1886; mayor of Pontiac in 1874; judge of the sixth Congress (March 4, 1931-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candi-judicial circuit court of Michigan from 1875 until April 15, date for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress;1880, when he resigned and resumed the practice of law; resumed the practice of law; during the Second World Warmember of the board of trustees of the Eastern Michigan entered the Army on June 10, 1942, as a major in the AirAsylum; died in Pontiac, Oakland County, Mich., January Corps and was discharged as a colonel on October 25, 1945;21, 1903; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. resumed the practice of law with offices in New York City, and Washington, D.C.; was a resident of Washington, Conn., BALDWIN, Harry Streett, a Representative from Mary- until his death, January 19, 1985, in Southbury, Conn. land; born in Baldwin, Baltimore County, Md., August 21, 1894; attended the public and high schools, and the Universi- BALDUS, Alvin James, a Representative from Wisconsin;ty of Maryland at College Park, Md.; owner and operator of born in Garner, Hancock county, Iowa, April 27, 1926; grad-a large truck farm; served in the State house of delegates in uated, Elkton (Minn.) High School; A.A., Austin (Minn.)1931; member of the board of county commissioners 1934- Junior College, 1946-1948; worked as investment broker and1942, serving as president 1938-1942; elected as a Democrat manufacturer's agent for farm machinery; served in theto the Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses (Janu-

United States Merchant Marine, 1944-1946; United Statesary 3, 1943-January 3, 1947); was not a candidate for re-- Army, 1951-1953, recipient of bronze star; served in thenomination in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress, but was an Wisconsin general assembly, 1966-1975; assistant majorityunsuccessful Democratic candidate for the gubernatorial leader, 1973; delegate, Wisconsin State Democratic conven-nomination; resumed agricultural pursuits; again elected to tions, 1966-1987; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourththe board of county commissioners in 1950 and was serving through the Ninety-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1975-Janu-as chairman at time of death; died in Baltimore, Md., Octo- ary 3, 1981); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1980 tober 19, 1952; interment in Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Jack- the Ninety-seventh Congress; is a resident of Prescott, Wis.sonville, Md. BALDWIN, Abraham, a Delegate, a Representative, anda BALDWIN, Henry, a Representative from Pennsylvania; Senator from Georgia; born in North Guilford, Conn., No-born in New Haven, Conn., January 14, 1780; was graduated vember 22, 1754; moved with his father to New Haven,from Hopkins Grammar School in 1793 and from Yale Col- Conn., in 1769; attended private schools; was graduated fromlege in 1797; studied law; was admitted to the Philadelphia Yale College in 1772; subsequently studied theology at thebar in 1798 and commenced practice in Pittsburgh, Pa., in college and was licensed to preach in 1775; served as a tutor1801; moved to Meadville, Crawford County, Pa.; elected to in that institution 1775-1779, when he resigned to enter thethe Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses and Army; chaplain in the Second Connecticut Brigade, Revolu-served from March 4, 1817, until his resignation on May 8, Biographies 569

1822; chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Sixteenth andfrom 1859 until his death; delegate to theRepublican Na- Seventeenth Congresses); engaged in the manufacture oftional Convention in 1860; elected as a Republican to the iron at Bear Creek, Butler County, Pa.; resumed the practiceThirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses (March of law in Pittsburgh, Pa., appointed an Associate Justice of4, 1863-March 3, 1869); was not a canthdate for reelectionin the United States Supreme Court on January 6, 1830, and1868; resumed his newspaper interests; died in Worcester, served until his death in Philadelphia, Pa., April 21, 1844;Mass., July 8, 1883; interment in the Rural Cemetery. interment in Greendale Cemetery, Meadville, Pa. Bibliography: DAB. Bibliography: DAB. BALDWIN, John Finley, Jr., a Representative from Cali- BALDWIN, Henry Alexander, a Delegate from the Terri-fornia; born in Oakland, Alameda County, Calif., June28, tory of Hawaii; born in Paliuli, Maui County, Hawaii,Janu-1915; graduated from San Ramon Valley Union High School ary 12, 1871; attended Haiku School inHaiku, and Punahouin Danville, Calif., and from the University ofCalifornia at School in Honolulu; was graduated from Phillips AcademyBerkeley in 1935, majoring in accounting and finance; assist- in Andover, Mass., in 1889 and from Massachusetts Instituteant manager of South-Western Publishing Co.,of San Fran- of Technology, Boston, Mass., in 1894; engaged in sugarcisco, 1936-1941; enlisted as a private in the United States planting; member of the Territorial senate 1913-1921; servedArmy in April 1941; served as director of training,Army as a lieutenant colonel and later ascolonel in the ThirdFinance School, in 1943 and 1944; Chief of Foreign Fiscal Regiment of the Hawaii National Guard 19 15-1917; electedAffairs Branch, Office of Fiscal Director, War Department, as a Republican to the Sixty-seventhCongress to fill thein 1945, and executive officer, Office of Fiscal Director, Medi- vacancy caused by the death of J. KuhioKalanianaole andterranean Theater, in 1946; discharged as a lieutenantcolo-- served from March 25, 1922, to March 3, 1923; declined to benel in October 1946; decorated by Italian Governmentfor a candidate for renomination in1922; resumed his formerwork in the devaluation of the lira currency in 1946; grad- business pursuits and was also interested in banking; serveduated from the University of California Boalt HallSchool of in the Hawaii house of representatives in 1933; member ofLaw in Berkeley in 1949; was admitted to the bar in1950 the Hawaii senate 1934-1937, serving as president duringand commenced the practice of law in Martinez, Calif.; elect- the 1937 session; died at Paia, Maui County, Hawaii, Octobered as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth and tothe five 8, 1946; interment in Makawao Cemetery, Makawao, Hawaii.succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1955,until interment BALDWIN, Henry Porter, a Senator from Michigan; bornhis death in Washington, D.C., on March 9, 1966; in Coventry, R.I., February 22, 1814; attended the commonin Oakmont Memorial Park, Pleasant Hill, Calif. schools; moved to Detroit, Mich., and established wholesale BALDWIN, Joseph Clark, a Representative from New business in boots and shoes in 1838; member of the conven-York; born in New York City, January 11, 1897;attended tion which organized the Republican Party in Jackson,private schools; was graduated from St.Paul's School, Con- Mich., in 1854; director of the Michigan State Bank andcord, N.H., in 1916 and from Harvard University,Cam- president of the Second National Bank of Detroit 1883-1887;bridge, Mass., in 1920; enlisted in the Navy in 1917and was member, State senate 1861-1862; Governor of Michigantransferred to the Army in 1918, serving overseas as apri- 1869-1873; appointed and subsequently elected as a Republi-vate in the Machine Gun Company ofthe Three Hundred can to the United States Senate to fill the vacancycaused byand Fifth Infantry; received a commission andcommanded the death of Zachariah Chandler and served from Novemberthe First Platoon, Machine Gun Company,Thirty-ninth In- 17, 1879, to March 3, 1881; was not a candidate for reelec-fantry; officer of the French Legion of Honor;political re- tion; resumed his former business pursuits; president of theporter for the New York Tribune and laterassociate editor Detroit National Bank 1883-1887; died in Detroit, Mich.,for the North Westchester Times 1922-1930;established a December 31, 1892; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. public relations firm in 1930; served as amember of the Bibliography: DAB. board of aldermen of New York City 1929-1934;member of BALDWIN, John, a Representative from Connecticut;the State senate 1934-1936; delegate tothe New York State born in Mansfield, Conn., April5,1772; attended theconstitutional convention in 1938; member of the New York common schools; was graduated fromBrown University,City council 1937-1941; elected as a Republican tothe Seven- Providence, R.I., in 1797; studied law; was admitted to thety-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by thedeath bar in 1800 and commenced practice in Windham, Conn.;of Kenneth F. Simpson; reelected to theSeventy-eighth and probate judge of Windham County 18 18-1824; elected to theSeventy-ninth Congresses and served from March 11,1941, Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825-Marchto January 3, 1947; unsuccessful candidatefor renomination 3, 1829); affiliated with the Whig Party after its formation;in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; became arepresentative resumed the practice of law; died in Windham, Windhainfor United Dye and Chemical Corp., and WilliamRecht Co., County, Conn., March 27, 1850; interment in WindhamCem- Inc.; died in New York City, October 27, 1957;interment in etery. Woodlawn Cemetery. Bibliography: Baldwin, Joseph Clark.Flowers for the Judge.New York: BALDWIN, John Denison, a Representative from Massa- Coward-McCann, 1950. chusetts; born in North Stonington, Conn., September28, 1809; moved with his parents to Chenango County, N.Y.,in BALDWIN, Melvin Riley, a Representative from Minneso-- 1816; returned to North Stonington in 1823; attended schoolsta; born near Chester, Windsor County,Vt., April 12, 1838; in Chenango County, N.Y., and in North Stonington,Conn.; moved with his parents to Oshkosh, WinnebagoCounty, theolo-Wis., in 1847; attended the common schools; enteredLaw- studied law for a time but discontinued the study for 1855; studied law but gy; was graduated fromthe Yale Divinity School in 1834;rence University, Appleton, Wis., in assumed Congregational pastor-adopted civil engineering as a profession;engaged on the was licensed to preach and 19, 1861, ates in West Woodstock, Conn., 1834-1837,in North Bran-Chicago & North Western Railway until April member ofwhen he enlisted as a private in Company E,Second Regi- ford 1838-1845, and in North Killingly 1846-1849; captain the State house of representatives 1847-1852; engagedinment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; commissioned 1849-1852, in Boston,of his company; was captured at Gettysburg andconfined in newspaper work in Hartford, Conn., and at Charles- Mass., 1852-1859, and was connected with theWorcester SpyLibby Prison, Richmond, Va., at Macon, Ga., 570 Biographical Directory

ton and Columbia, S.C., being prisoner for eighteenmonths;was admitted to the bar in 1786 and commenced practice in after the war engaged in operative railway work in Kansas;New Haven, Conn., the same year; elected city clerk in 1789 general superintendent for four years; moved to Duluth,St.and served until June 1800; in 1790 was appointed clerk of Louis County, Minn., in 1885; electedas a Democrat to thethe District and Circuit Courts of the United States for the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895);unsuc- cessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourthDistrict of Connecticut and served until November 1803, Congress; chairman of the Chippewa Indian Commissionwhen he resigned, having been elected to Congress; elected 1894-1897; went to Alaska in November 1897; died as a Federalist to the Eighth Congress (March 4, 1803- in Seat-March 3, 1805); declined to be a candidate for reelection in tle, Wash., April 15, 1901; interment in Forest HillCeme- tery, Duluth, Minn. 1804; again appointed to his former clerkship, butwas re-- moved by Judge Edwards in 1806; associate judge of the BALDWIN, Raymond Earl, a Senator from Connecticut;superior court and of the supreme court of errors 1806-1817; born in Rye, Westchester County, N.Y., August 31, 1893;president of the board of commissioners that located the moved to Middletown, Conn., in 1903 and attendedtheFarmington Canal 1822-1830, when he resigned; mayor of public schools; graduated, Wesleyan University, Middletown,New Haven in 1826; died in New Haven, Conn., May 26, Conn., 1916; entered Yale University in 1916 but, whenwar1851; interment in the Grove Street Cemetery. was declared, enlisted as a seaman in the United States Bibliography: DAB; Baldwin, Simeon E. Life and Letters of Simeon Navy; was assigned to officers' training school, commis- Baldwin. New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1919. sioned an ensign in February 1918, and promoted to lieuten- ant (jg.) in September 1918; resigned from the Navy in BALL, Edward, a Representative from Ohio; born in Fair- August 1919 and returned to Yale University Law School,fax County, near Falls Church, Va., November 6, 1811; at- graduating in 1921; was admitted to the bar in 1921 andtended the village school; moved to Ohio and locatednear practiced in New Haven and Bridgeport, Conn.; prosecutorZanesville; engaged in agricultural pursuits; deputy sheriff of Stratford Town Court 1927-1930; judge of Stratford Townof Muskingum County in 1837 and 1838 and sheriff 1839- Court 193 1-1933; member of the State house of representa-1843; member of the State house of representatives 1845- tives 1931-1933, serving as majority leader in 1933; resumed1849; became editor of the Zanesville Courier in 1849; elected the practice of law 1933-1938; town chairman of Stratford,as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and reelected as a Conn., 1935-1937; Governor of Connecticut 1939-1940;unsuc-Republican to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1853- cessful candidate for reelection as Governor in 1940; againMarch 3, 1857); chairman, Committee on Public Buildings elected Governor in 1942 and 1944, and served until hisand Grounds (Thirty-fourth Congress); was not a candidate resignation on December 25,1946, having been electedfor renomination in 1856; studied law; was admitted to the United States Senator; elected as a Republican to the Unitedbar in 1860 and commenced practice in Zanesville; delegate States Senate on November 5, 1946, to ifil thevacancy in theto the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1860; term ending January 3, 1947, caused by the death of FrancisSergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives in the T. Maloney, and at the same time was elected for thetermThirty-seventh Congress 1861-1863; resumed the practice of commencing January 3, 1947, and served from December 27,law; again a member of the State house of representatives 1946, until his resignation on December 16, 1949;associate1868-1870; accidentally killed by a railroad train near justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors; appoint-Zanesville, Ohio, on November 22, 1872; interment in Green- ed chief justice in 1959 and served until his retirement inwood Cemetery. 1963; chairman, Connecticut Constitutional Convention 1965; BALL, Joseph Hurst, a Senator from Minnesota; born in died in Fairfield, Conn., October 4, 1986; interment in IndianCrookston, Polk County, Minn., November 3, 1905; attended Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn. the public schools; student at Antioch College, Yellow Bibliography: Baldwin, Raymond. Let's Go Into Politics. New York:Mac- millan, 1952; Johnson, Curtis. Raymond E. Baldwin: ConnecticutStates- Springs, Ohio, 1922-1924, Eau Claire (Wis.) Normal School in man. Chester, Conn.: Pequot Press, 1972. 1925, and the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1926 and 1927; journalist and writer 1927-1940; appointedas BALDWIN, Roger Sherman (son of Simeon Baldwin),aa Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy Senator from Connecticut; born in New Haven, Conn., Janu-caused by the death of for the term ending ary 4, 1793; attended the common schools and the HopkinsJanuary 2, 1943, and served from October 14, 1940, to No- Grammar School; was graduated from Yale College in 1811;vember 17, 1942, when a duly elected successor qualified; studied law in his father's office and in 1812 entered theelected in 1942 for the term commencing January 3, 1943, Litchfield Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1814 andand served from January 3, 1943, to January 3, 1949; unsuc- commenced practice in New Haven, Conn.; member, Statecessful candidate for reelection in 1948; chairman, Joint senate 1837-1838; member, State house of representativesCommittee on Labor-Management Relations (Eightieth Con- 1840-184 1; Governor of Connecticut 1844-1846; appointed gress); resumed journalistic activities; shipping executive; re-- and subsequently elected as a Whig to the United Statessides on a farm near Front Royal, Va. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jabez W. Bibliography: Finney, Nathaniel S. "Joseph H. Ball: A Liberal Dose of Huntington and served from November 11, 1847, to March 3, Candor." In Public Men In and Out of Office. pp. 297-310. Edited by John 1851; member of the peace convention held in Washington, T. Salter. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1946. D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; died in New Haven, Conn., February 19, BALL, Lewis Ileisler, a Representative and a Senator 1863; interment in the Grove Street Cemetery. from Delaware; born near Stanton, New Castle County, Del., Bibliography: DAB. September 21,1861; attended the common schools and Rugby Academy at Wilmington; was graduated from Dela- BALDWIN, Simeon (father of Roger Sherman Baldwin),aware College, Newark, Del., in 1882 and from the medical Representative from Connecticut; born in Norwich, Conn.,department of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, December 14, 1761; completed preparatory studies; was grad-Pa., in 1885; commenced the practice of medicine at Brandy- uated from Yale College in 1781; was preceptor of the acade-- wine Springs, Del., in 1887; State treasurer of Delaware my at Albany in 1782; tutor at Yale College from October1899-190 1; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Con- 1783 until his resignation in September 1786; studied law;gress and served from March 4, 1901, to March 3, 1903, when Biographies 571 he resigned to become Senator; unsuccessful candidate forCarolina, Chapel Hill, 1944-1945; B.A., Amherst College, reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress; elected to theMass., 1948; served in U.S. Naval Air Corps, 1944-1945; United States Senate on March 2, 1903, to fill the vacancy infounder and president of a packaging company; member, the term commencing March 4, 1899, caused by the failureNorth Carolina house of representatives, 1974-1976; North of the legislature to elect, and served from March 3, 1903, toCarolina senate, 1976-1986; elected as a Republican to the March 3, 1905; resumed the practice of medicine at Brandy-Ninety-ninth Congress, November 4, 1986, to complete the wine Springs, Del.; again elected to the United States Senateunexpired term of James Broyhill, and at the same time was and served from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1925; unsuccess- elected to the One Hundredth Congress (November 4, 1986- ful candidate for renomination in 1924; chairman, Commit-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Hickory, N.C. tee on Enrolled Bills (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on the District of Columbia (Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth BALLENTINE, John Goff, a Representative from Tennes- Congresses); appointed a member of the rent commission ofsee; born in Pulaski, Giles County, Tenn., May 20,1825; was Washington, D.C., in 1925; resumed the practice of medicine;graduated from Wurtemberg Academy in 1841, from the died in Faulkland, Del., October 18, 1932; interment in St.University of Nashville in 1845, and from the law depart- James Cemetery, Stanton, Del. ment of Harvard University in 1848; was a member of the faculty of Livingston Law School in New York; commenced BALL, Thomas Henry, a Representative from Texas; bornthe practice of law in Pulaski; moved to Mississippi about in Huntsville, Walker County, Tex., January 14, 1859; at-1854; continued the practice of law and engaged in agricul- tended private schools; was graduated from Austin College,tural pursuits; settled in Memphis, Tenn., in 1860; served as Sherman, Tex., in 1876; studied law at the University ofa colonel in the Confederate Armyduring the Civil War; Virginia at Charlottesville; was admitted to the bar in 1886returned to Pulaski, Tenn.; elected as a Democrat to the and commenced practice in Huntsville, Tex.; mayor ofForty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883- Huntsville 1887-1893; chairman of the Democratic executiveMarch 3, 1887); declined to be a candidate for renomination committee of Walker County 1884-1896; delegate to all Statein 1886; retired from active pursuits; died in Pulaski, Tenn., conventions from 1886 to 1924, with three exceptions; dele-on November 23, 1915; interment in the NewPulaski Ceme- gate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1892, 1924,tery. and 1928; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, BALLOU, Latimer Whipple, a Representative from Rhode to November 16, 1903, when he resigned; resumed the prac-Island; born in Cumberland, R.I., March 1, 1812; attended tice of his profession; unsuccessful candidate for the Demo-the public schools and the local academies in his native cratic gubernatorial nomination in 1914; general counsel fortown; moved to Cambridge, Mass., in 1828 and learned the the State council of defense during the First World War;art of printing at the University Press; was instrumentalin general counsel for the port commission of the Houstonestablishing the Cambridge Press in 1835 and continued in Harbor and Ship Channel from May 1922 to August 1931,the printing business until 1842, when he moved toWoon- when he retired; died in Houston, Tex., May 7, 1944; inter-socket, R.I.; engaged in banking in 1850; was active in the ment in Forest Park Cemetery. organization of the Republican Party in 1856; delegate to the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1872; BALL, Thomas Raymond, a Representative from Con-elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth and necticut; born in New York City, February 12, 1896; attend- Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1881); de-- ed the public schools, Anglo-Saxon School, Paris, France,clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1880; engaged Heathcote School, Harrison, N.Y., and the Art Studentsin his former business pursuits until his deathin Woon- League, New York City; engaged as a designer in 1916; in during the First World War served in the Depot Battalion,socket, Providence County, R.I., May 9, 1900; interment Seventh New York Infantry, in 1917, and overseas with theOak Hill Cemetery. Camouflage Section, Fortieth United States Engineers, 19 18- BALTZ, William Nicolas, a Representative from Illinois; 1919; after the war located in Old Lyme, Conn., and engagedborn in Millstadt, St. Clair County, Ill., February 5,1860; in architectural pursuits; member of the board of educationattended the public schools; engaged in agricultural pur- 1926-1938, and also served as seleétman of Old Lyme, Conn.;suits, milling, and banking; member of the Milstadt Board served in the State house of representatives 1927-1937; elect-of Education and served as president 1892-1917; member of ed as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3,the St. Clair County Board of Supervisors 1897-1913,serving 1939-January 3, 1941); unsuccessful candidate for reelectionas presiding officer from 1908 to1911; member of the Demo- in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; resumed his formercratic county central committee 1905-1913; elected as a pursuits at Old Lyme, Conn.; died in Old Lyme, Conn., JuneDemocrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4,1913-March 16, 1943; interment in Duck River Cemetery. 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the BALL, William Lee, a Representative from Virginia; bornSixty-fourth Congress; mayor of Millstadt six years; resumed in Lancaster County, Va., January 2, 1781; received a liberalagricultural and industrial pursuits at Millstadt, Ill., until schooling; served in the State house of delegates, 1805-1806his death there August 22, 1943; interment in Mount Ever- and 1810-1814 and in the State senate, 1814-1817; served asgreen Cemetery. paymaster in the War of 1812 and was assigned to the BANDSTRA, Bert Andrew, a Representative from Iowa; Ninety-second Virginia Regiment; elected as a Republican toborn on a farm between Eddyville and Albia, Monroe the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the three succeedingCounty, Iowa, January 25, 1922; in 1925 moved to a farm in Congresses and served from March 4, 1817, until his deathMahaska County near Taintor; attended Taintor Independ- in Washington, D.C., February 28, 1824; interment in theent School and New Sharon High School;enlisted as a Congressional Cemetery. seaman in the United StatesNavy in March 1942, served in BALLENGER, Cass (great-great-grandson of ),the Solomon Islands and Okinawa campaigns, and was hon- born in Hickory,orably discharged as a second-class petty officer in December a Representative from North Carolina; edu- N.C., December 6,1926; graduated from Episcopal High1945; received the Presidential Unit Citation; resumed School, Alexandria, Va., 1944; attended University of Northcation and graduated from Central College at Pella in 1950 572 Biographical Directory

and from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1953;1919 and 1931-1946; elected as a Democrat to the United was admitted to the bar in 1953 and began the practice ofStates Senate in 1930; reelected in 1936 and 1942 and served law in Pella, Iowa; service as Marion County attorney, Janu-from March 4, 1931, until his death in the United States ary 1955 to June 1959; assistant to Congressman NealNaval Hospital, Bethesda Md., on June 12, 1946; chairman, Smith, January 1959 to February 1964; electedas a Demo-Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation (Seventy-fifth crat to the Eighty-ninth Congress (January 3, 1965-Januarythrough Seventy-ninth Congresses); interment in Oak Hill 3, 1967); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966 to theCemetery, Jasper, Ala. Ninetieth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Knox- Bibliography: DAB; Key, Jack B. "John H. Bankhead, Jr. of Alabama: ville, Marion County, Iowa; is a resident of Pella, Iowa. The Conservative as Reformer." Ph.D. dissertation, Johns Hopkins Umver- BANISTER, John, a Delegate from Virginia; born at sity, 1966; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for John Hollis Bankhead, 2d. 80th Cong., 1st sees., 1947. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, "Hatcher's Run," near Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Va., 1949. December 26, 1734; attended a private school at Wakefield, England, and was graduated in law from the Temple in BANKHEAD, Walter Will (son of John Hollis Bankhead London; returned to Virginia and commenced the practice of2d, grandson of John Hollis Bankhead, and nephew of Wil- law in Petersburg; also engaged as a planter; member of theliam Brockman Bankhead), a Representative from Alabama; Virginia House of Burgesses in 1765, 1766-1774, and 1775;born in Jasper, Walker County, Ala., July 21, 1897; attended member of the conventions of 1775 and 1776; served in thethe public schools; was graduated from Marion (Ala.) Mili- State house of delegates in 1776,1777, and 1781-1783;tary Institute in 1916, from the University of Alabama at Member of the Continental Congress in 1778;one of theTuscaloosa in 1919, and from the law department of the framers and signers of the Articles of Confederation; duringsame university in 1920; was admitted to the bar in 1920 and

the Revolutionary War served as major and lieutenant colo-- commenced practice in Jasper, Ala.; delegate to the Demo-- nel of the Virginia Militia; died on his estate, "Hatcher'scratic National Convention at Chicago in 1940; elected as a Run," near Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Va., on Septem-Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress and served from ber 30, 1788; interment in the family burying groundon his estate. January 3, 1941, until February 1, 1941, when he resigned; Bibliography: DAB. resumed the practice of law; chairman of the board of Bank- head Mining Co., Inc., and Bankhead Development Co., Inc.; BANKIIEAD, John louis (father of John Hollis Bank-president of Mammoth Packing Co. and Bankhead Broad- head 2d and William Brockman Bankhead, and grandfathercasting Co., Inc.; vice chairman, board of directors, First of Walter Will Bankhead), a Representative and a SenatorNational Bank of Jasper; is a resident of Jasper, Ala. from Alabama; born in Moscow, Marion (now Lamar) County, Ala., September 13, 1842; attended thecommon BANKHEAD, William Brockman (son of John Hollis schools; planter; served in the Confederate Army during theBankhead, brother of John Hollis Bankhead 2d, and uncle of Civil War as captain in the Alabama Infantry; member,Walter Will Bankhead), a Representative from Alabama; State house of representatives 1865-1867 and again in 1880born in Moscow, Lamar County, Ala., April 12, 1874; attend- and 1881; member, State senate 1876-1877; warden of theed the country schools; was graduated from the University State penitentiary at Wetumpka 1881-1885; moved to Fay-of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1893 and from the Georgetown ette, Ala., in 1885 and resumed planting; in 1912 moved toUniversity Law School at Washington, D.C., in 1895; was Jasper, Ala.; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and to theadmitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1907);in Huntsville, Ala.; member of the State house of representa- chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Groundstives in 1900 and 1901; city attorney of Huntsville 1898-1902; (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses); unsuccessful candi-moved to Jasper, Walker County, Ala., in 1905 and contin- date for renomination in 1906; appointed a member of theued the practice of law; solicitor of the fourteenth judicial Inland Waterways Commission in 1907; appointed and subse-circuit of Alabama 1910-1914; unsuccessful candidate for quently elected to the United States Senate in 1907 to fillnomination to the Sixty-fourth Congress in 1914; elected as a the vacancy caused by the death of John T. Morgan; reelect-Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and to the eleven succeeding ed in 1912 and 1920 and served from June 18, 1907, until hisCongresses and served from March 4, 1917, until his death; death in Washington, D.C., March 1, 1920; chairman, Com-chairman, Committee on Rules (Seventy-third Congress); ma- mittee on Standards, Weights, and Measures (Sixty-secondjority leader (Seventy-fourth Congress), Speaker of the Congress), Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Sixty-House of Representatives (Seventy-fourth to Seventy-sixth third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Expend- Congresses); delegate to the Democratic National Convention itures in the Department of Interior (Sixty-sixth Congress);in 1940; died in Washington, D.C., September 15, 1940; funer- interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Ala. al services were held in the Hall of the House of Representa- Bibliography: DAB; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for John Hollis tives; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Ala. Bankhead. 66th Cong., 3rd sees., 1920-1921. Washington, D.C.: Government Bibliography: DAB; Heacock, Walter J. "William Brockman Bankhead: Printing Office, 1921. A Biography." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1952; Heacock, Walter J. "William B. Bankhead and the New Deal." Journal of Southern BANKHEAD, John louis 2d (son of John Hollis Bank-Histo,y 21 (August 1955): 347-59. head, brother of William Broekman Bankhead, and father of Walter Will Bankhead), a Senator from Alabama; born on a BANKS, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born farm near Old Moscow, Lamar County, Ala., July 8, 1872;near Lewisburg, Juniata County, Pa., October 17, 1793; re- attended the public schools; was graduated from the Univer-ceived a liberal education; studied law; was admitted to the sity of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1891 and from the lawbar and commenced practice in Juniata County in 1819; department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., inmoved to Mercer County and continued the practice of law; 1893; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced prac-elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second, tice in Jasper, Ala.; served in the Alabama National GuardTwenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Congresses and served with rank of major 1901-1903; member of the State house offrom March 4, 1831, until his resignation in 1836; judge of representatives 1904-1905; president of the Bankhead Coalthe Berks judicial district from 1836 until he resigned to Co. 1911-1925; trustee of the University of Alabama 1917-accept a State position; State treasurer of Pennsylvania in Biographies 573

1847; resumed the practice of law in Reading, Pa., where he1861 in the Union Army as a private; commissioned captain died April 3, 1864; interment in Charles Evans Cemetery.of the Fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, June 5, 1861; colonel of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volun- BANKS, Linn, a Representative from Virginia; born inteer Infantry, June 25, 1862; honorably mustered out Octo- Madison (then Culpeper) County, Va., January 23, 1784;ber 4, 1862; commissioned lieutenant colonel of the One studied law; was admitted to the bar in Madison CountyHundred and Twenty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infan- April 10, 1809; member of the Virginia house of delegates, try, January 1, 1863; transferred to the One Hundred and 1812-1838, and served as speaker, 1817-1838; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancyTwenty-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, April 5, caused by the resignation of John M. Patton; reelected to the 1863; colonel November 10, 1863; brevetted brigadier general Twenty-sixth Congress and served from April 28, 1838, toand major general of Volunteers March 13, 1865; resigned March 3, 1841; presented credentials as a Member-elect toJanuary 1, 1865; member of the State house of representa- the Twenty-seventh Congress and served from March 4,tives in 1866 and 1867; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1869 1841, until December 6, 1841, when he was succeeded byand resumed the practice of law; elected as a Liberal Repub- William Smith, who contested the election; was not a candi-lican to the Forty-third Congress and as a Democrat to the date for renomination in 1842; resumed the practice of law;Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1873- served as a colonel in the Virginia Militia; was drownedMarch 3, 1879); chairman, Committee on Military Affairs while attempting to ford the Conway River near Wolftown, (Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses); unsuccessful candi- Madison County, Va., January 13, 1842; interment in thedate for renomination in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress, family burying ground on his estate, Vale Evergreen, nearand for election in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; re-- Graves Mill, Madison County, Va. sumed the practice of law; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, Decem- ber 10, 1881; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery. BANKS, Nathaniel Prentice, a Representative from Mas- sachusetts; born in Waltham, Mass., January 30, 1816; at- BANNON, Henry Towne, a Representative from Ohio; tended the common schools; a machinist by trade; editor of aborn near Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, June 5, 1867; weekly paper in Waltham, Mass.; clerk in the customhouseattended the public schools of Portsmouth, Ohio State Uni- in Boston, Mass.; studied law; was admitted to the Suffolkversity at Columbus in 1885 and 1886, and was graduated County bar and commenced practice in Boston; member offrom the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1889; the State house of representatives 1849-1852, for two yearsstudied law; was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1891 and serving as speaker; member of the State constitutional con-practiced in Portsmouth, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of vention of 1853; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-thirdScioto County 1897-1902; elected as a Republican to the Congress, as the candidate of the American Party to theFifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3,

Thirty-fourth Congress, and as a Republican to the Thirty-1909); was not a candidate for renomination in 1908; re-- fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1853, until he re-sumed the practice of law; delegate to the Republican Na- signed December 24, 1857, to become Governor; Speaker oftional Conventions in 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, and 1940; the House of Representatives (Thirty-fourth Congress); Gov-served as a director of the First National Bank, National ernor of Massachusetts from January 1858, until JanuaryBank of Portsmouth, Oak Hill Savings Bank, and the Selby 1861; moved to Chicago, Ill.; vice president of the IllinoisShoe Co.; also engaged in literary pursuits; died in Ports- Central Railroad; entered the Union Army as a major gener- al of Volunteers May 16, 1861; honorably mustered outmouth, Ohio, September 6, 1950; interment in Greenlawn August 24, 1865; returned to Massachusetts; elected as aCemetery. Union Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress to fill the BANTA, Parke Monroe, a Representative from Missouri; vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel W. Gooch; re-born in Berryman, Crawford County, Mo., November 21, elected as a Republican to the Fortieth, Forty-first, and1891; attended the public schools, and William Jewell Col- Forty-second Congresses and served from December 4, 1865,lege at Liberty, Mo.; was graduated from Northwestern Uni- to March 3, 1873; chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairsversity Law School at Evanston-Chicago, Ill., in 1914; was (Thirty-ninth through Forty-second Congresses); unsuccessfuladmitted to the bar in 1913 and practiced at Potosi, Mo., Liberal and Democratic candidate for reelection in 1872 to1914-1925 and at Ironton, Mo., 1925-1941; prosecuting attor- the Forty-third Congress; member of the State senate inney of Washington County,Mo., in 1917 and 1918; during 1874; elected as an Independent to the Forty-fourth Congressthe First World War served in the United States Army as a and as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4,private and through the ranks to first lieutenant from April 1875-March 3, 1879); unsuccessful candidate for renomina-1918 to August 1919; member of the board of trusteesof tion in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress; appointed UnitedArcadia, Mo., in 1928 and 1929; member of Ironton-Arcadia States marshal on March 11, 1879, and served until April 23,School Board in 1932 and 1933; administrator of the Missou- 1888; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congressri State Social Security Commission 1941-1945; elected as a (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee onRepublican to the Eightieth Congress (January 3, 1947-Janu- Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Fifty-firstary 3, 1949); unsuccessfulcandidate for reelection in 1948 to Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1890the Eighty-first Congress and for election in 1950 to the to the Fifty-second Congress; died in Waltham, MiddlesexEighty-second Congress; resumed the practice of law in Iron- County, Mass., September 1, 1894; interment in Grove Hillton, Mo.; general counsel for Department of Health, Educa- Cemetery. tion, and Welfare, Washington, D.C., from April 11, 1953, Bibliography: DAB; Harrington, Fred Harvey. Fighting Politician, Major General NP. Banks. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1948. until January 20, 1961; retired; died in Cape Girardeau, Mo., May 12, 1970; interment in New Masonic Cemetery, Potosi, BANNING, Henry Blackstone, a Representative fromMo. Ohio; born in Bannings Mills, Ohio, November 10, 1836; attended the Clinton district school, Mount Vernon Acade- BARBER, Hiram, Jr., a Representative from Illinois; born my, and Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio;studied law; wasin Queensbury, Warren County, N.Y., March 24,1835; admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice inmoved to Horicon, Dodge County, Wis., in 1846; attended the Mount Vernon, Ohio; during the Civil War enlisted AprilUniversity of Wisconsin at Madison; studied law in Albany, 574 Biographical Directory

N.Y.; was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commencedprac- BARBER, Levi, a Representative from Ohio; born in Sims- tice at Juneau, Wis.; prosecuting attorney of Jeffersonbury, Hartford County, Conn., October 16, 1777; moved to County, Wis., in 1861 and 1862; assistant attorney general ofOhio; was a surveyor in the employ of the Federal Govern- Wisconsin in 1865 and 1866; moved to Chicago, Ill., andment; member of the State house of representatives in 1806; resumed the practice of law in 1866; elected as a Republicanwas commissioned receiver of the United States land office to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881);in Marietta, Ohio, on April 1, 1807; aide to Governor Meigs unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1880; receiver ofduring the War of 1812; elected as a Republican to the the land office at Mitchell, S.Dak., 1881-1888; returned toFifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1819); unsuc- Chicago and continued the practice of law; served as mastercessful candidate for reelection in 1818 to the Sixteenth in chancery of the Cook County Superior Court from 1891 toCongress; elected to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1914; retired from public life and active business pursuits;1821-March 3, 1823); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in died at Lake Geneva, Wis., August 5, 1924; interment in1822 to the Eighteenth Congress; clerk of the court of Juneau Cemetery, Juneau, Wis. common pleas and the court of Washington County; justice BARBER, Isaac Ambrose, a Representative from Mary-of the peace; president of the Bank of Marietta; died in land; born near Salem, Salem County, N.J., January 26,Harmar (now a part of Marietta), Ohio, April 23, 1833; inter- 1852; attended the common schools, and studied medicine inment in Harmar Cemetery. Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., from which he was graduated in 1872; commenced practice in Wood- BARBER, Noyes (uncle of Edwin Barbour Morgan and stown, N.J.; moved to Easton, Talbot County, Md., in 1873Christopher Morgan), a Representative from Connecticut; and continued the practice of medicine for fifteen years;born in Groton, New London County, Conn., April 28, 1781; engaged in the milling business; member of the State houseattended the common schools; engaged in mercantile pur- of delegates in 1895; president of the Farmers & Merchants'suits; major of the Eighth Connecticut Regiment in the War National Bank of Easton; elected as a Republican to theof 1812; detailed to defend the coast towns during the block- Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); resumedade by the British Fleet; member of the State house of the milling business and also engaged in agricultural pur-representatives in 1818; elected to the Seventeenth and to suits; chairman of the Republican State central committeethe six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1900-1904; died in Easton, Md., March 1, 1909; interment in1835); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Spring Hill Cemetery. Twenty-fourthCongress;resumedmercantilepursuits; member of all Whig State conventions from 1836; died in

BARBER, Joel Allen, a Representative from Wisconsin;Groton, Conn., January 3, 1844; interment in Starr Ceme-- born in Georgia (near St. Albans), Franklin County, Vt.,tery. January 17, 1809; attended the common schools, Georgia Academy, and the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt.; BARBOUR, Henry Ellsworth, a Representative from Cali- studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1834 in Princefornia; born in Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., Georges County, Md., where he was teaching school, andMarch 8, 1877; attended the public schools of his native city, commenced practice in Fairfield, Vt.; moved to Wisconsin inthe local Free Academy at Ogdensburg, Union College at 1837 and settled in Lancaster, Grant County, and continuedSchenectady, N.Y., and the law department of George Wash- the practice of his profession; county clerk for four years andington University, Washington, D.C.; was admitted to the district attorney three terms; member of the first constitu-New York bar in 1901; moved to Fresno, Fresno County, tional convention of Wisconsin in 1846; elected to the StateCalif., in 1902 and engaged in the practice of law; elected as assembly in 1852, 1853, 1863, and 1864, serving as speaker ina Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding 1864; member of the State senate in 1856 and 1857; foundedCongresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful can- Lancaster Academy; elected as a Republican to the Forty-didate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3,resumed the practice of his profession in Fresno, Calif., 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; re-where he died on March 21, 1945; interment in Belmont sumed the practice of law; died in Lancaster, Wis., June 17,Memorial Cemetery. 1881; interment in Hillside Cemetery. BARBOUR, James (brother of Philip Pendleton Barbour BARBER, Laird Howard, a Representative from Pennsyl-and cousin of John Strode Barbour), a Senator from Virgin- vania; born on a farm near Mifflinburg, Union County, Pa.,ia; born at "Frascati," near Gordonsville, Orange County, October 25, 1848; prepared for college in the MifflinburgVa., June 10, 1775; attended the common schools; deputy Academy, and was graduated from LafayetteCollege,sheriff of Orange County; studied law; was admitted to the Easton, Pa., in 1871; taught school at Mount Cannel and wasbar in 1794 at Orange Court House; served several terms in principal of the Mauch Chunk Public Schools from 1875 tothe Virginia house of delegates between 1796 and 1812, serv- 1880; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Carbon Countying as speaker from 1809 to 1812; Governor of Virginia 1812- June 20, 1881, and commenced practice at Mauch Chunk;1814; elected as an Anti-Democrat and State Rights candi- elected in 1890 a director of the Mauch Chunk School Board date to the United States Senate in 1814 for the term com-

and served as president and treasurer; also served as secre-- mencing March 4, 1815; subsequently elected to fill the va- tary of the town council; unsuccessful candidate for electioncancy in the term ending March 3, 1815, caused by the death in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; elected as a Democrat toof Richard Brent; reelected in 1821 and served from January the Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901); was2, 1815, to March 7, 1825, when he resigned to accept a not a candidate for renomination in 1900 to the Fifth-sev-Cabinet portfolio; served as President pro tempore of the enth Congress; resumed the practice of law in MauchSenate during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses; Chunk; elected president judge of the fifty-sixth judicial dis-chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations (Fifteenth, Six- trict of Pennsylvania in 1913; reelected in 1923 and servedteenth, and Eighteenth Congresses), Committee on the Dis- from January 5, 1914, until his death in Mauch Chunk,trict of Columbia (Seventeenth Congress); appointed Secre-- Carbon County, Pa., February 16, 1928; interment in Ever-tary of War by President John Quincy Adams and served green Cemetery, East Mauch Chunk, Pa. from March 7, 1825, to May 26, 1828, when he resigned to Biographies 575 accept a diplomatic position; United States Minister to Eng-County, Va., May 25, 1783; attended common and private land from May 26, 1828, to September 23, 1829; chairman ofschools; was graduated from the college of William and the Whig National Convention in 1839; founder of theMary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1799; studied law; was admitted Orange County Humane Society, established for the ad-to the bar in 1800 and commenced practice in Bardstown, vancement of education; died in Barboursville, OrangeKy.; returned to Virginia in 1801 and practiced law in Gor- County, Va., June 7, 1842; interment in the family cemetery.donsville, Orange County; member of the State house of Bibliography: DAB; Lowery, Charles D. ", Politician anddelegates 1812-1814; elected as a Republican to the Thir- Planter of Antebellum Virginia." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virgin- teenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of ia, 1966. John Dawson; reelected to the Fourteenth and to the four BARBOUR, John Strode (father of John Strode Barbour,succeeding Congresses and served from September 19, 1814, Jr., cousin of James Barbour and Philip Pendleton Barbour),to March 3, 1825; Speaker of the House of Representatives a Representative from Virginia; born at"Fleetwood," near(Seventeenth Congress); was not a candidate for renomina- Brandy Station, Culpeper County, Va., August 8, 1790; at-tion in 1824; offered the professorship of law in the Universi- tended private schools; was graduated from the College ofty of Virginia in 1825, but declined; appointed a judge of the William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1808; studied law;general court of Virginia and served for two years, resigning was admitted to the bar in 1811 and commencedpractice inin 1827; elected to the Twentieth Congress and reelected as a Culpeper, Va.; served in the War of 1812 as aide-de-camp toJacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress and served from General Madison; member of the State house of delegatesMarch 4, 1827, until his resignation on October 15, 1830; 1813-1816, 1820-1823, 1833, and 1834; elected to the Eight-chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Twentieth Congress); eenth and Nineteenth Congresses and elected as a Jacksoni-president of the Virginia constitutional convention in 1829; an to the Twentieth through Twenty-second Congressesappointed by President Jackson, June 1, 1830, judge of the (March 4, 1823-March 3,1833); was not a candidate forUnited States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Vir- renomination in 1832; member of the Virginia constitutionalginia, declining the chancellorship and the post of attorney conventions in 1829 and 1830; chairman of the Democraticgeneral; refused nominations for judge of the court of ap- National Convention in 1852; resumed the practice of law;peals, for Governor, and for United States Senator; appoint- died on his estate, "Fleetwood," near Culpeper, Culpepered Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and County, Va., on January 12, 1855; interment in the familyserved from March 15, 1836, until his death in Washington, burying ground on his estate. D.C., February 25, 1841; interment in Congressional Ceme- BARBOUR, John Strode, Jr. (son of the John Strode Bar-tery. bour), a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born at Bibliography: DAB. "Cataipa," near Culpeper, Culpeper County, Va., December BARBOUR, William Warren, a Senator from New Jersey; 29, 1820; attended the common schools and was graduatedborn in Monmouth Beach, Monmouth County, N.J., July 31, from the law department of the University of Virginia at1888; attended the public schools and was graduated from Charlottesville; was admitted to the bar in 1841 and com-the Browning School, New York City, N.Y., in 1906; also menced practice in Culpeper; member of the State house ofattended Princeton University; amateur heavyweight boxing delegates 1847-1851; president of the Orange & Alexandriachampion of the United States and Canada in 1910 and 1911; Railroad Co. 1852-1881; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-member of the New York National Guard for ten years, seventh, and the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1881-serving on the Mexican border in 1916, attained therank of March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on the District of Co-captain; member of the Rumson (N.J.) Borough Council in lumbia (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses); declined1922; served as mayor of Rumson, N.J., 1923-1928; moved to to be a candidate for renomination in 1886; elected as aLocust, Monmouth County, N.J., in 1930; engaged in the Democrat to the United States Senate and served fromthread manufacturing business and other industrial enter- March 4, 1889, until his death in Washington, D.C., May 14,prises; appointed and subsequently elected as a Republican 1892; interment in the burial ground at "Poplar 11111,"to the United States Senate to fill the vacancycaused by the Prince Georges County, Md. death of Dwight W. Morrow and served from December 1, Bibliography: DAB; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for John S. Bar- 1931, to January 3, 1937; unsuccessful candidate for reelec- bour, Jr. 52nd Cong., 2nd sess., 1892-1893. Washington, D.C.: Government tion in 1936; resumed his former pursuits; member of the Printing Office, 1893. New Jersey Unemployment Compensation Commissionin BARBOUR, Lucien a Representative from Indiana; born1937; again elected to the United States Senate to fill the in Canton, Hartford County, Conn., March 4, 1811; was grad-vacancy caused by the resignation of A.Harry Moore, re- uated from Amherst (Mass.) College in 1837; moved to Indi-elected in 1940, and served from November 9, 1938, until his ana the same year and settled in Madison,Jefferson County;death in Washington, D.C., on November 22, 1943; interment studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac-in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, N.J. tice in Indianapolis, md., in 1839; acted a number of times as Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for William W Barbour. arbitrator between the State of Indiana and private corpora- 78th Cong., 2nd sess., 1944. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, tions; appointed United States district attorney for the dis- 1946. trict of Indiana by President Polk; member of the commis- BARCHFELD, Andrew Jackson, a Representative from sion to codify the laws of Indiana in 1852; elected as aPennsylvania; born in Pittsburgh, Pa., May 18, 1863; attend- Republican to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-ed the public schools and the Pittsburgh CentralHigh March 3, 1857); was not a candidate for renomination inSchool; was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Phila- 1856; affiliated with the Republican Party in 1860; practiceddelphia, Pa., in 1884; commenced the practice of medicine in law in Indianapolis, md., until his death in that city on JulyPittsburgh, and was for many years president of the South 19, 1880; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery. Side Hospital; member of the common council of Pittsburgh BARBOUR, Philip Pendleton (brother of James Barbour1886 and 1887; delegate to the Republican State conventions and cousin of John Strode Barbour), a Representative fromof 1886, 1894, and 1901; for many years a member of the Virginia; born at "Frascati," near Gordonsville, OrangeRepublican State committee; unsuccessful candidate for elec- 576 Biographical Directory

tion in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress; electedas a Repub-the board of supervisors of Santa Barbara County 1868-1873; lican to the Fifty-ninth and to the five succeeding Congress-laid out the town of Hueneme; one of the commissioners es (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1917); unsuccessful candidate forappointed to organize Ventura County in 1871; director of reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress; delegate to thethe State board of agriculture in 1886 and 1887; elected as a peace congress at Brussels in 1905; member of the commis-Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in sion to the Philippine Islands in 1910 and of the Panamathe term beginning March 4, 1899, and served from Febru- Canal Commission in 1912; continued to reside in Washing-ary 7, 1900, to March 3, 1905; unsuccessful candidate for ton, D.C., after leaving Congress and was kified in thereelection in 1904; chairman, Committee on Fisheries (Fifty- Knickerbocker Theater disaster in that city on January 28,seventh Congress), Committee on Irrigation (Fifty-eighth 1922; interment in South Side Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa.Congress); died at his home, "Berylwood," in Hueneme, Ven- BARCLAY, Charles Frederick, a Representative fromtura County, Calif., March 5, 1915; interment in the family Pennsylvania; born in Owego, Tioga County, N.Y., May 9,cemetery on his estate. 1844; moved with his parents to Pennsylvania in 1845; at- Bibliography: Hutchinson, William Henry. Oil, Land, and Politics: The tended Painted Post (N.Y.) High School and Coudersport California Career of Thomas R. BanL 2 vols. Norman: University of Okla- (Pa.) Academy; taught school for several years; during the homà Press, 1965. Civil War enlisted as a private in Company K, One Hundred BARDEN, Graham Arthur, a Representative from North and Forty-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infan-Carolina; born in Turkey Township, Sampson County, N.C., try, in 1862 and served until 1865, when he was mustered September 25, 1896; moved to Burgaw, Fender County, N.C., out with the rank of captain; attended Belfast Seminary,in 1908; attended the public schools; during the First World New York, and subsequently studied law at the UniversityWar served as a seaman in the United States Navy in 1918 of Michigan at Ann Arbor, but never practiced; with anand 1919; was graduated from the law department of the elder brother was engaged extensively in the lumber busi-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1920; was ness in Sinnamahoning, Pa.; delegate to the Republican Na-admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice tional Convention at Philadelphia in 1900; electedas a Re-in New Bern, N.C.; teacher in the New Bern (N.C.) High publican to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses (March 4,School in 1920; judge of the county court of Craven County, 1907-March 3, 1911); was not a candidate for renominationN.C., 1920-1924; member of the State house of representa- in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; engaged in business intives in 1933; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Washington, D.C., until his death March 9, 1914; intermentand to the twelve succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935- in Wyside Cemetery, Sinnamahoning, Cameron County, Pa. January 3, 1961); chairman, Committee on Education (Seven- BARCLAY, David, a Representative from Pennsylvania;ty-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses), Committee on Edu- cation and Labor (Eighty-first, Eighty-second, and Eighty- born in Punxsutawney, Jefferson County, Pa., in 1823; at-- tended Washington (now Washington and Jefferson) College,fourth through Eighty-sixth Congresses); was not a candidate Washington, Pa.; studied law in Pittsburgh; was admitted tofor renomination in 1960; died in New Bern, N.C., January the bar and practiced in Punxsutawney, Brookville, and Kit-29, 1967; interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery. tanning, Pa.; one of the editors and publishers of the Pitts- Bibliography: Puryear, Elmer L. Graham A. Barden, Conservative Caroli- burgh Union and Legal Journal 1850-1855; while a resident na Congressman. Buie's Creek, N.C.: Campbell University Press, 1979. of Brookville was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fourth BARHAM, John All, a Representative from Cnlifornia; Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); resumed theprac-born on a farm in Cass County, Mo., July 17, 1843; moved to tice of law; died in Freeport, Armstrong County, Pa., Sep-California in 1849 with his parents, who settled in Wood- tember 10, 1889; interment in Freeport Cemetery. land; attended the common schools and Hesperian College in BARD, David, a Representative from Pennsylvania; bornWoodland, Calif.; taught in the public schools 1864-1876; at "Carroll's Delight," Adams County, Pa., in 1744; wasstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1865 and commenced graduated from Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1773;practice in Watsonville, San Francisco, and Santa Rosa; studied theology and was licensed to preach by the Donegalelected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, and Presbytery in 1777; was ordained to the Presbyterian minis-Fifty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1901); chair- try at Lower Conotheague in 1779; missionary in Virginiaman, Committeee on Mileage (Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Con- and west of the Allegheny Mountains; pastor at Bedford,gresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1900; en- Pa., 1786-1789, and later at Frankstown (now Hollidays-gaged in the practice of law until his death in Santa Rosa, burg), Blair County, Pa.; elected as a Republican to theSonoma County, Calif., January 22, 1926; interment in Rural Fourth and Fifth Congresses (March 4, 1795-March 3, 1799);Cemetery. elected to the Eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1803, until his death in Alexan- BARING, Walter Stephan, Jr., a Representative from dria, Huntingdon County, Pa., March 12, 1815; interment inNevada; born in Goldfield, Esmeralda County, Nev., Septem- Sinking Valley Cemetery, near Arch Spring, Blair County,ber 9, 1911; graduated from Reno High School in 1929 and Pa. from the University of Nevada at Reno, B.A. and B.S., 1934; holder of high school teacher's certificate; elected chairman BARD, Thomas Robert, a Senator from California; born inof the Democratic Central Committee of Washoe County, Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pa., December 8, 1841; at-Nev., in 1936; elected assemblyman from Washoe County to tended the common schools, and was graduated from thethe State assembly in 1936, reelected in 1942, and served Chambersburg Academy in 1858; studied law, but beforeuntil his resignation to enlist in the United States Navy; completing his studies secured a position with the Pennsyl-served in the Navy from September 26, 1942, until May 31, vania Railroad Co., later becoming assistant to the superin-1945; engaged in the furniture business at Reno, Nev., 1945- tendent of the Cumberland Valley Railroad; engaged in the1948; member of the Reno City Council in 1947 and 1948; grain business at Hagerstown, Md.; during the early part ofelected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second the Civil War served as a volunteer Union scout during theCongresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1953); unsuccessful invasions of Maryland and Pennsylvania by the Confeder-candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress; ates; moved to Ventura County, Calif., in 1864; member ofdelegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1952, Biographies 577

1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968; engaged in the insurance busi-leader 1937-1947; minority leader 1947-1949; elected Vice ness; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1954 to thePresident of the United States on the Democratic ticket with Eighty-fourth Congress; elected to the Eighty-fifth and to thePresident Harry S. Truman in 1948, and was inaugurated seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3,January 20, 1949, for the term ending January 20, 1953; 1973); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1972; re-again elected to the United States Senate and served from turned to his home in Reno, Nev.; died in Los Angeles,January 3, 1955, until his death in Lexington, Va., April 30, Calif., July 13, 1975; cremated; ashes entombed in a mausole-1956; interment in Mount Kenton Cemetery, on Lone Oak um at Masonic Memorial Gardens, Reno, Nev. Road, near Paducah, Ky. Bibliography: DAB; Barkley, Alben. That Reminds Me. Garden City, BARKER, Abraham Andrews, a Representative from N.Y.: Doubleday, 1954; Davis, Polly. Alben Barkley: Senate Majority Leader Pennsylvania; born in Lovell, Oxford County, Maine, March and Vice President. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1979. 30, 1816; attended the common schools; engaged in agricul- tural pursuits and also in the shook business; moved to BARKSDALE, Ethelbert (brother of William Barksdale), a Carrolitown,Pa.,in1854 and to Ebensburg, CambriaRepresentative from Mississippi; born in Smyrna, Ruther- County, Pa., where he continued the shook business; alsoford County, Tenn., January 4, 1824; moved to Jackson, engaged in the mercantile business in 1858 and later in theHinds County, Miss.; adopted journalism as a profession; lumber business; delegate to the Republican National Con- edited the official journal of the State 1854-1861 and 1876- vention in 1860; served in Company E, Fourth Regiment,1883; member of the Confederate Congress 1861-1865; dele-- Pennsylvania Emergency Troops, during the Civil War;gate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1860, 1868, elected as a Union Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress1872, and 1880; chairman of the Democratic State executive (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); unsuccessful candidate forcommittee 1877-1879; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- renomination in 1866 and for election as a Republican ineighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; reengaged in the lumber1887); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1886; en- and shook business until 1880, when he retired from activegaged in agricultural pursuits in Yazoo County; died in pursuits; died in Altoona, Pa., while on a visit for medicalYazoo City, Miss., February 17, 1893; interment in Green- treatment March 18, 1898; interment in Lloyd Cemetery,wood Cemetery, Jackson, Miss. Ebensburg, Pa. Bibliography: Peterson, Owen M. "Ethelbert Barksdale in the Democrat- ic National Convention of 1860." Journal of Mississippi History 14 (Octo- BARKER, David, Jr., a Representative from New Hamp- ber 1952): 257-78. shire; born in Stratham, N.H., January 8, 1797; attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., and was graduated BARKSDALE, William (brother of Ethelbert Barksdale), a from Harvard University in 1815; studied law; was admittedRepresentative from Mississippi; born in Rutherford County, to the bar in 1819 and commenced practice in Rochester,Tenn., August 21, 1821; attended the University of Nash- N.H.; member of the State house of representatives in 1823,ville; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1839 and 1825, and 1826; elected to the Twentieth Congress (March 4,commenced practice in Columbus, Lowndes County, Miss.; 1827-March 3, 1829); resumed the practice of law; was anfor a time was editor of the Columbus Democrat; served in original member of the New Hampshire Historical Society; the Mexican War as quartermaster of the Mississippi Volun- died in Rochester, N.H., April 1, 1834; interment in the Oldteers; delegate to the Democratic NationalConvention at Rochester Cemetery. Baltimore in 1852; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from BARKER, Joseph, a Representative from Massachusetts;March 4, 1853, until January 12, 1861, when he withdrew; born in Branford, Conn., October 19, 1751; attended theentered the Confederate Army during the Civil War as colo- common schools in Branford, Harvard College for two years,nel of the Thirteenth Regiment of Mississippi Volunteers; and was graduated from Yale College in 1771; studied theol- promoted to the rank of brigadier general on August 12, ogy; licensed to preach January 3, 1775;ordained to the1862; commanded a Mississippi brigade in Longstreet's corps; ministry December 5, 1781, and was installed as pastor ofkilled in the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863; inter- the First Congregational Church of Middleboro, Plymouthment in Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Miss. County, Mass.; elected as a Republican to the Ninth and Bibliography: DAB; McKee, James W. "William Barksdale and the Con- Tenth Congresses (March 4, 1805-March 3, 1809); was not a gressional Election of 1853." Journal of Mississippi History 34 (May 1972): candidate for renomination in 1808; member of the State 129-58; Tyson, Raymond W. "William Barksdale and the Brooks-Sumner house of representatives in 1812 and 1813; continued in the Assault." Journal of Mississippi History 26 (May 1964): 135-40. ministry at Middleboro, Mass., until his death, July 5, 1815; BARLOW, Bradley, a Representative from Vermont; born interment in Green Cemetery. in Fairfield, Franklin County, Vt., May 12, 1814; attended BARKLEY, Alben William, a Representative and a Sena-the common schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits in tor from Kentucky and a Vice President of the UnitedPhiladelphia until 1858, when he moved to St. Albans, Vt.; States; born near Lowes, Graves County, Ky., November 24,delegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1843, 1877; attended the public schools and was graduated from1850, and 1857,acting as assistant secretary in1843; Marvin College, Clinton, Ky., in 1897; attended Emory Col-member of the State house of representatives in 1845, 1850- lege, Oxford, Ga., and the University of Virginia Law School,1852, 1864, and 1865; engaged in banking and in the railroad Charlottesville, Va.; was admitted to the bar in 1901 andbusiness 1860-1883; chairman of the school committee in St. commenced practice in Paducah, McCracken County, Ky.;Albans; president of the village corporation and treasurer of prosecuting attorney for McCracken County, Ky., 1905-1909;Franklin County 1860-1867; served in the State senate 1866- judge of McCracken County Court 1909-1913; elected as a1868; elected as a Greenbacker to the Forty-sixth Congress Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the six succeeding Con-(March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); was not a candidate for gresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1927); did notseek renomi-renomination in 1880; died in Denver, Cob., on November 6, nation in 1926, having become a candidate for United States1889; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, St. Albans, Vt. Senator; elected to the United States Senate in 1926; reelect- ed in 1932, 1938, and again in 1944, and served from March BARLOW, Charles Averill, a Representative from Califor- 4, 1927, until his resignation on January 19, 1949; majoritynia born in Cleveland, Ohio, March 17, 1858; attended the 578 Biographical Directory common schools; engaged in agricultural and commercialhe remained until 1811, when he returned to Chester; while pursuits; moved to Ventura, Calif., in 1875 and to San Luisstudying law was appointed captain and major in the Four- Obispo County in 1889, engaging in wheat farming; memberteenth Regiment, United States Infantry, and served during of the State assembly in 1892 and 1893; chairman of thethe War of 1812; resumed his legal studies; was admitted to People's Party State convention in 1896; electedas a Popu-the bar in 1816 and commenced practice in West Chester, list to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3,Chester County, Pa.; deputy attorney general for Chester 1899); was not a candidate for renomination; moved to KernCounty 1817-1821; member of the State senate 1820-1826; County in 1901 and engaged in mining, fruit growing, andsecretary of State 1826; elected as a Jacksonian to the the production of oil; delegate to the Democratic NationalUnited States Senate and served from March 4, 1827, until Conventions in 1912 and 1920; died in Bakersfield, Calif.,onDecember 6, 1831, when he resigned; chairman, Committee October 3, 1927; interment in Union Cemetery. on Militia (Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses); died BARLOW, Stephen, a Representative from Pennsylvania;in West Chester, Pa., February 28, 1834; interment in Oak- born in Redding, Fairfield County, Conn., June 13, 1779;land's Cemetery, near West Chester, Pa. attended the common schools and Yale College; moved to Meadville, Pa., in 1816; studied law; was admitted to the bar BARNARD, William Oscar, a Representative from Indi- and commenced practice in Meadville, Crawford County, Pa.;ana; born near Liberty, Union County, md., October 25, elected to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3,1852; moved with his parents to Dublin, Wayne County, hid., 1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828 to thein 1854, to Fayette County in 1856, and to Henry County in Twenty-first Congress; resumed the practice of his profes-1866; attended the common schools, and Spiceland Academy, sion; served in the State house of representatives 1829-1831;Spiceland, md.; taught school for five years in Henry and appointed as an associate judge of Crawford County in Janu-Wayne Counties; studied law; was admitted to the bar in ary 1831 and served until his death in Meadville, Pa., 1876 and commenced practice in Newcastle, md.; prosecut- August 24, 1845; interment in Greendale Cemetery. ing attorney of the eighteenth and fifty-third judicial circuits 1887-1893; judge of the fifty-third judicial circuit court of BARNARD, , a Representative from NewIndiana 1896-1902; resumed the practice of law in Newcas- York; born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., July 16,tle; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first Congress 1797; attended the common schools and was graduated from(March 4, 1909-March 3, 1911); unsuccessful candidate for Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1818; studied law;reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; resumed the was admitted to the bar in 1821 and began practice in Roch-practice of law in Newcastle, md., until his death there on ester, N.Y.; prosecuting attorney of Monroe County in 1826;April 8, 1939; interment in Southmound Cemetery. elected to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828 to the BARNES, Demas, a Representative from New York; born Twenty-first Congress; traveled in Europe in 1831; moved toin Gorham Township, Ontario County, N.Y., April 4, 1827; Albany, N.Y., in 1832 and continued the practice of law;attended the public schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits; member of the State assembly in 1838; electedas a Whig tomoved to New York City in 1849 and engaged in the drug the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-eighth Con-business; crossed the continent in a wagon and studied the gresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1845); chairman, Committeemineral resources of Colorado, Nevada, and California; re- on the Judiciary (Twenty-seventh Congress); was not a candi-turned to New York City and wrote articles and published date for reelection in 1844; appointed Minister to Prussiaworks concerning his experiences; elected as a Democrat to and served from September 3, 1850, to September 21, 1853;the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1869); was retired from active business pursuits in 1853 and engaged innot a candidate for renomination in 1868; established and literary pursuits; died in Albany, N.Y., April 24, 1861; inter-edited the Brooklyn Argus in 1873 and was also engaged in ment in Albany Rural Cemetery. the real-estate business; member of the board of education; Bibliography: DAB; Penney, Sherry. "Dissension in the Whig Ranks:one of the original trustees of the Brooklyn Bridge when it Daniel Dewey Barnard versus Thurlow Weed." New-York Historical Society was a private enterprise; died in New York City May 1, Quarterly 59 (January 1975): 71-92; Penney, Sherry. Patrician in Politics: 1888; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. Daniel Dewey Barnard of New York. Port Washington, New York: Kenni- kat Press, 1974. BARNES, George Thomas, a Representative from Geor- gia; born in a suburb (now called Summerville) of Augusta, BARNARD, Druie Douglas, Jr., a Representative fromRichmond County, Ga., August 14, 1833; attended private Georgia; born in Augusta, Richmond County, Ga., March 20,schools, Richmond Academy, and Franklin College; was 1922; attended the Richmond County public schools; graduat-graduated from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1853; ed, Academy of Richmond County, Augusta, Ga., 1939; at-studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced tended Augusta College, 1939-1940; A.B., Mercer University,practice in Augusta; during the Civil War served in the Macon, Ga., 1943; served in United States Army, 1943-1945;Confederate Army in the Washington Light Artillery Com- LL.B., Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University,pany of Augusta, Ga., as second lieutenant and major brevet; 1948; engaged in banking profession, 1948-1962; executivemember of the State house of representatives 1860-1865; secretary to Governor Carl E. Sanders, Georgia, 1963-1966;member of the Democratic National Committee 1876-1884; board member, Georgia State Department of Transportation,elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty- 1966-1976; delegate to Georgia State Democratic convention,first Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful 1962; delegate to Democratic National Convention, 1964;candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth and to the fiveresumed the practice of law; died in Augusta, Ga., October succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1977-January 3, 1989); is24, 1901; interment in the City Cemetery. a resident of Augusta, Ga. BARNES, James Martin, a Representative from Illinois; BARNARD, Isaac Dutton, a Senator from Pennsylvania;born in Jacksonville, Morgan County, 111., January 9, 1899; born in Aston Township, Delaware County, Pa., July 18,attended the public schools; during the First World War 1791; moved with his parents to a farm near Chester, Pa.;served overseas as a private in the United States Marine attended the public schools; moved to Philadelphia, whereCorps in 1918 and 1919; was graduated from illinois College Biographies 579 at Jacksonville in 1921 and from the law department ofassistant district quartermaster general in the United States Harvard University in 1924; was admitted to the bar in 1924Army August 15, 1814, and served until June 15, 1815, when and commenced the practice of law in Jacksonville, Ill.;he was honorably discharged; unsuccessful candidate for served as county judge of Morgan County, Ill., 1926-1934;election in 1822 to the Eighteenth Congress; elected to the resumed the practice of law 1934-1939; elected as a Demo-Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825-March crat to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828 to the (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidateTwenty-first Congress; engaged in literary pursuits until his for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; ap-death in Washington, D.C., January 26, 1857; interment in pointed administrative assistant to President Franklin D.Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. Roosevelt on March 1, 1943, and served until July 15, 1945; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., where he BARNEY, Samuel Stebbins, a Representative from Wis- died June 8, 1958; interment in Arlington National Ceme-consin; born in Hartford, Washington County, Wis., January tery. 31, 1846; attended the public schools and Lombard Universi- ty, Galesburg, Ill.; taught in the high school at Hartford for BARNES, Lyman Eddy, a Representative from Wisconsin;four years; studied law in West Bend, Wis.; was admitted to born in Weyauwega, Waupaca County, Wis., June 30, 1855;the bar in 1873 and commenced practice in West Bend; attended the public schools and the law department of Co-superintendent of schools of Washington County 1876-1880; lumbia College, New York City; was admitted to the bar indelegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago 1876 and commenced practice in Appleton, Outagamiein 1884; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1884 to the County, Wis., the same year; moved to Rockledge, BrevardForty-ninth Congress; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- County, Fla., in 1882, where he remained about five yearsfourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, and continued the practice of law; returned to Appleton,1895-March 3, 1903); was not a candidate for renomination Wis., and was elected district attorney of Outagamie County;in 1902; appointed associate justice of the court of claims, elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4,Washington, D.C., in 1904 and served until 1919; died in 1893-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice ofMilwaukee, Wis., December 31, 1919; interment in Union his profession; died in Appleton, Wis., on January 16, 1904;Cemetery, West Bend, Washington County, Wis. interment in Riverside Cemetery. BARNHART, Henry A., a Representative from Indiana; BARNES, Michael Darr, a Representative from Maryland;born near Twelve Mile, Cass County, md., September 11, born in Washington, D.C., September 3,1943; attended1858; attended the common schools, Amboy Academy, and Landon School, Bethesda, Md.; graduated, Principia HighWabash Normal Training School; taught school; moved to School, St. Louis, Mo., 1961; B.A., University of North Caroli-Liberty Township, Fulton County, in 1881 and engaged in na at Chapel Hill, 1965; Institute of HigherInternationalagricultural pursuits until 1884; moved to Rochester, md., in Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, 1965-1966; served in United1885 and served as surveyor of Fulton County, 1885-1887; States Marine Corps, corporal,1967-1969;J.D., Georgeowner and editor of the RochesterSentinel, 1886-1924; presi- Washington University, 1972; admitted to the Washington,dent and manager of the Rochester Telephone Co.,1895- D.C. Bar in 1972 and commenced practice with Covington &1934; president of the Indiana Telephone Association; presi- Burling; private practice, 1972-197 5; commissioner, Mary-dent of the National Telephone Association; director ofthe land Public Service Commission, 1975-1978; elected as aUnited States Bank & Trust Co.; appointed a director of the Democrat to the Ninety-sixth and to the three succeedingIndiana State Prison in 1893 and a trustee of the State Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1987); was not ahospital for the insane in 1903; elected as a Democrat to the candidate for reelection in 1986, but was an unsuccessfulSixtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S.Abram L. Brick, reelected to the Sixty-first and to the four Senate; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.succeeding Congresses and served from November 3, 1908, to with Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn; is a resident ofMarch 3, 1919; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 Kensington, Md. to the Sixty-sixth Congress; resumed his activitiesin the newspaper publishing business and inthe telephone busi- BARNETT, William, a Representative from Georgia; bornness; also engaged as a lecturer and inagricultural pursuits; in Amherst County, Va., March 4, 1761; moved to Georgiadied in Rochester, md., March 26, 1934; interment in the with his father, who settled in Columbia County; at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War returned to VirginiaMausoleum. with his brother and joined a military company from Am- BARNITZ, Charles Augustus, a Representative from herst County under the leadership of the Marquis de Lafay-Pennsylvania; born in York, York County, Pa., September ette and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at York-11, 1780; attended York County Academy, York, Pa.; studied town; returned to Georgia at the close of the war and settledlaw; was admitted to the bar in 1811 and commenced prac- on Broad River, Elbert County; sheriffof Elbert County fortice in York; member of the State senate, 1815-1819;from several years; member of the State senate and served as1820 until his death served as agent of the heirs of William pesident of that body; elected as a Republican to the TwelfthPenn for their interests in Springettsbury Manor, the center Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofof which is now the city of York; elected as an Anti-Masonic Howell Cobb; reelected to the Thirteenth Congress andcandidate to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833- served from October 5, 1812, to March 3, 1815; appointedMarch 3, 1835); was not a candidate for reelection in 1834 to commissioner toestablish the boundaries of the Creekthe Twenty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law at Indian Reservation in 1815; moved to Montgomery County,York, Pa.; also engaged in banking and served as president Ala., and engaged in planting; died in Montgomery County,of the York Bank; member of the State constitutional con- Ala., April 1832; interment in the Gilmer-Christian-Barnettvention in 1838; delegate to the Whig National Conventions Cemetery, near Mathews Station, Montgomery County, Ala. at Harrisburg in 1840 and at Baltimore in 1844; diedin BARNEY, John, a Representative from Maryland; born inYork, Pa., January 8, 1850; interment in the First Presbyte- Baltimore, Md., January 18, 1785; appointed a captain andrian Churchyard. 580 Biographical Directory

BARNUM, William Henry, a Representative anda Sena-in Columbia, Richiand County, S.C., November 5, 1882; inter- tor from Connecticut; born in Boston Corner, Columbiament in St. Helena's Churchyard, Beaufort, S.C. County, N.Y., September 17, 1818; attended thecommon Bibliography: DAB; Barnwell, John, ed. " 'In the Hands of Compromis- schools; apprenticed to the trade of iron founder and subse-ers': Letters of Robert W. Barnwell to James H. Hammond." Civil War quently admitted to partnership by his father, whowas en- History 29 (June 1983): 154-68; Barnwell, John, ed. "Hamlet to Hotspur: gaged in the iron business at Lime Rock, Conn.; member, Letters of Robert Woodward Barnwell to Robert Barnwell Rhett." South State house of representatives in 1851-1852; electedas a Carolina Historical Magazine 77 (October 1976): 236-37, 247. Democrat to the Fortieth and to the four succeeding Con- BARR, Joseph Walker, a Representative from Indiana; gresses and served from March 4, 1867, until May 18, 1876,born in Bicknell, Knox County, md., January 17, 1918; grad- when he resigned to become Senator; elected to the Uniteduated from DePauw University in 1939 and from Harvard States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofUniversity in 1941; served in the United States Navy, 1942- Orris S. Ferry and served from May 18, 1876, to March 3,1945, with subchaser duty in the Mediterranean and Atlan- 1879; chairman of the Democratic National Committee 1876-tic; received Bronze Star for sinking submarine off Anzio 1889; resumed his former manufacturing pursuits; died atBeach; engaged in the operation of grain elevators, theaters, Lime Rock, Litchfield County, Conn., April 30, 1889; inter-real-estate, and publishing business; elected as a Democrat ment in the Lime Rock Cemetery. to the Eighty-sixth Congress (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1961); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1960 to the BARNWELL, Robert (father of Robert Woodward Barn-Eighty-seventh Congress; appointed assistant for congres- well), a Delegate and a Representative from South Carolina;sional relations to the Secretary of the Treasury, 1961; ap- born in Beaufort, S.C., December 21, 1761; educated in thepointed Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, common schools and by private teachers; volunteered for1963; Under Secretary of the Treasury, 1965-1968; appointed service in the Revolutionary War when sixteen years ofage;by President Johnson as Secretary of the Treasury, Decem- received seventeen wounds in the battle on Johns Island,ber 21, 1968, to January 20, 1969; president and chairman, S.C.; fmally recovered and served as lieutenant with hisAmerican Security and Trust Company, 1969-1974; chair- company at the siege of Charleston in 1780; at the fall ofman, Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, 1977-1981; is a that city was sent aboard the prison ship Pack Horse, butresident of Hume, Va. was released in the general exchange of prisoners in June BARR, Samuel Fleming, a Representative from Pennsyl- 1781; was for many years president of the board of trusteesvania; born near Coleraine, County Antrim, Ireland, June of Beaufort College; Member of the Continental Congress in15, 1829; immigrated to the United States in 1831 with his 1789; member of the convention of South Carolina for theparents, who settled in Harrisburg, Pa.; attended the adoption of the Federal Constitution in 1788; elected to thecommon schools;freight agent of the Pittsburgh, Fort Second Congress (March 4, 1791-March 3, 1793); declined toWayne & Chicago Railroad in 1855 and 1856; early in the be a candidate for renomination in 1792 to the Third Con-Civil War was employed upon government railways in and gress; member of the South Carolina house of representa-about Washington, D.C.; editor of the Harrisburg (Pa.) Tele- - tives 1787-1788, 1790-1791, and 1794-1801, servingas speak-graph 1873-1878; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sev- er in 1795; member of the in 1805 andenth and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1806, serving as president in 1805; died in Beaufort, Beaufort1885); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1884; County, S.C., October 24, 1814; interment in St. Helena'slived in retirement until his death, residing in San Diego, Churchyard. Calif., in the winter and in Seal Harbor, Maine, during the summer season; died in San Diego, Calif., May 29, 1919; BARNWELL, Robert Woodward (son of Robert Barnwell),interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery. a Representative and a Senator from South Carolina; born BARR, , a Representative from New in Beaufort, Beaufort County, S.C., August 10, 1801; attend-York; born in New York City in 1812; attended the public ed private schools in Beaufort and Charleston, S.C., andwasschools; moved to Scotch Plains, N.J., in 1835 and conducted graduated from Harvard University in 1821; studied law;a roadhouse; returned to New York City in 1842; assistant was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Beau-alderman of the sixth ward in 1849 and 1850 and alderman fort, S.C., in 1824; member, State house of representativesin 1852 and 1853; served in the State senate in 1854 and 1826-1828; elected to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second1855; elected on January 6, 1859, as an Independent Demo- Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1833); was not a candi-crat to the Thirty-fifth Congress to ifil the vacancy caused date for renomination in 1832; president of South Carolinaby the resignation of John Kelly; reelected to the Thirty- College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbiasixth Congress and served from January 17, 1859, to March 1835-1841, when he resigned; appointed to the United States3, 1861; was not a candidate for renomination in 1860; ap- Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Franklinpointed a police commissioner of New York City in 1870 and H. Elmore and served from June 4 to December 8, 1850,served until 1873, when the police board was abolished; was when a successor was elected and qualffied; was not a candi-subsequently employed in the customhouse; died in New date for election; member of the Nashville convention inYork City, March 27, 1881; interment in Calvary Cemetery, 1850; commissioner to the Federal Government from SouthLong Island, N.Y. Carolina regarding the secession of that State in December BARRERE, Granville (nephew of Nelson Barrere), a Rep-- 1860; delegate to the convention of the seceding States inresentative from illinois; born in New Market, near Hifis- Montgomery, Ala., his being the deciding vote in the Southboro, Highland County, Ohio, July 11, 1829; attended the Carolina delegation which carried the State for Jeffersoncommon schools, Augusta College, Augusta, Ky., and was Davis and made him President of the Southern Confederacy;graduated from Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio; studied member of the Confederate States Senate 1861-1865; chair-law; was admitted to the bar in Chillicothe, Ross County, man of the faculty of the University of South Carolina 1866-Ohio, in 1853 and commenced practice in Marion, Crittenden 1873; conducted a private girls school in Columbia, S.C.; diedCounty, Ark.; moved to Bloomington, McLean County, ill., in Biographies 581

1855, and then to Canton, Fulton County, Ill., the same year, BARRETT, William Aloysius, a Representative from and continued the practice of his profession; member of thePennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., August 14, 1896; city board of education; member of the board of supervisorswas graduated from Brown Preparatory School inPhiladel- of Canton; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Con-phia, Pa., and from St. Joseph's College, Philadelphia, Pa.; gress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candidatetoOk a law course at South Jersey Law School in Camden, for renomination in 1874; resumed the practice of law; diedN.J.; engaged in the real-estate business; member of the in Canton, Fulton County, Iii., January 13, 1889; intermentBoard of Mercantile Appraisers, Philadelphia, Pa., for four in Greenwood Cemetery. years; member of the Democratic city committee; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January3, 1945- BARRERE, Nelson (uncle of Granville Barrere), a Repre-January 3, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in sentative from Ohio; born in New Market, near Hilisboro,1946 to the Eightieth Congress; elected to the Eighty-first Highland County, Ohio, April 1, 1808; attended the commonCongress; reelected to the thirteen succeeding Congresses schools, and Hillsboro High School in 1827; was graduatedand served from January 3, '1949, until his death April 12, from Augusta (Ky.) College in 1830; studied law; was admit- 1976, in Philadelphia, Pa., interment in Holy Cross Ceme-- ted to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice in Hillsboro; moved to West Union, Adams County, Ohio, in 1834 andtery, Yeadon, Pa. continued the practice of law; in 1846 returned to Hillsboro, BARRETT, William Emerson, a Representative from Mas- where he resided until his death; member of the State housesachusetts; born in Melrose, Middlesex County, Mass., De-- of representatives in 1837 and 1838; elected as a Whig to the cember 29, 1858; attended the public schools; was graduated Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); un-from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1880; assistant successful candidate for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-editor of the St. Albans Daily Messenger; joined the staff of third Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Hills-the Boston Daily Advertiser in 1882; Washington correspond- boro, Highland County, Ohio, August 20, 1883; interment inent of the Boston Advertiser 1882-1886; recalled to Boston to Presbyterian Cemetery, New Market, Ohio. become editor in chief and in 1888 became chief proprietor BARRET, John Richard, a Representative from Missouri;and manager of the Boston Daily Advertiser and the Boston born in Greensburg, Green County, Ky., August 21, 1825;Evening Record; member of the State house of representa- attended the common schools and Centre College, Danville,tives 1887-1892 and served as speaker the last five years; KY.; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1839; was graduated fromelected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth the St. Louis University in 1843; studied law and practiced;Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899); declined to be a elected to the State house of representatives in 1852 andcandidate for renomination in 1898; returned to Boston and served four terms; became identified with the St. Louis Agri-resumed active management of his newspaper interests; cultural Society and organized its exhibitions; presented cre-president of the Union Trust Co. of Boston; died in Newton, dentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Thirty-sixthMass., February 12, 1906; interment in Newton Cemetery. Congress and served from March 4, 1859, to June 8, 1860, BARRINGER, Daniel Laurens (uncle of Daniel Moreau when he was succeeded by Francis P. Blair, Jr., who contest-Barringer), a Representative from North Carolina; born at ed his election; subsequently elected to the same Congress to"Poplar Grove," Cabarrus County, N.C., October 1, 1788; fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Francis P.studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- Blair, Jr., and served from December 3, 1860, to March 3,tice in Raleigh, Wake County, N.C.; member of the State 1861; unsuccessful for reelection in 1860 to the Thirty-sev-house of commons in 1813, 1814, and 1819-1822; elected to enth Congress; moved to New York City and engaged inthe Nineteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the numerous occupations; died in New York City on Novemberresignation of Willie P. Mangum; reelected to the Twentieth 2, 1903; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from BARRETT, Frank Aloysius, , a Representative and a Sen-December 4, 1826, to March 3, 1835; unsuccessful candidate ator from Wyoming; born in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebr.,for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; moved November 10, 1892; attended the public schools; was grad-to Bedford County, Tenn., about 1830 and settled inShelby- uated from Creighton University, Omaha, Nebr., in 1913 andville, where he continued the practice of law; member and from its law department in 1916; during the First Worldspeaker of the State house of representatives 1843-1845; War served as a sergeant in the Balloon Corps, Unitedpresidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1844; died in Shel- States Army 1917-1919; was admitted to the bar in 1919 andbyville, Bedford County, Tenn., October 16, 1852; interment commenced practice in Lusk, Wyo.; also a rancher; countyin Willow Mount Cemetery. attorney of Niobrara County, Wyo., 1923-1932; member, BARRINGER, Daniel Moreau (nephew of Daniel Laurens State senate 1933-1935; member of the board of trustees ofBarringer), a Representative from North Carolina; born at the University of Wyoming; elected as a Republican to the"Poplar Grove," near Concord, Cabarrus County, N.C., July Seventy-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses and30, 1806; was graduated from the University of North Caroli- served from January 3, 1943, until his resignation December studied law in Hillsboro; was 31, 1950, having been elected Governor of Wyoming; servedna at Chapel Hill in 1826; as Governor from January 1951 untilhis resignation Janu-admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Concord, ary 2, 1953, having been elected a Senator;elected as aN.C., in 1829; member of the State house of commons 1829- Republican to the United States Senate and served from1834, 1840, and 1842; member of the State constitutional January 3, 1953, to January 3, 1959; unsuccessful candidateconvention in 1835; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth, for reelection in 1958; general counsel, Department of Agri-Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1843- culture, Washington, D.C., and member of board of directorsMarch 3, 1849); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in of Commodity Credit Corporation 1959-1960; unsuccessfulthe Department of State (Thirtieth Congress), Committee on candidate for the Republican nomination for United StatesIndian Affairs (Thirtieth Congress); declined a renomination; Senator in 1960; died in Cheyenne, Wyo., May 30, 1962;appointed by President Taylor and reappointed by President interment in Lusk Cemetery, Lusk, Wyo. Fillmore Minister to Spain and served from June 18, 1849, Bibliography: DAB. until September 4, 1853; again elected to the State house of 582 Biographical Directory commons in 1854; delegate to the peace convention held inwent with the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873, under the Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devisemeans tocommand of General Stanley, and with the Black Hills Ex- prevent the impending war; delegate to the Union Nationalpedition in 1874, commanded by General Custer; in 1873 Convention at Philadelphia in August 1866; chairman of thetook part in the Battles of Tongue River and the Big Horn; Democratic State committee in 1872; died at White Sulphurpastor of the first parish, Dorchester (Boston), Mass., from Springs, Greenbrier County, Va., September 1, 1873; inter-1876-1881, when he resigned to become editor of the Chris- ment in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. tian Register, which position he held for 16 years; American Bibliography: DAB. representative to the International Prison Congress of 1895, BARROW, Alexander, a Senator from Louisiana; born1900, and 1905, at which he was elected to serve as president near Nashville, Tenn., March 27, 1801; attended the Unitedof the 1910 congress; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., 1816-1818; stud-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); unsuccessful ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1822 and commencedcandidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; practice in Nashville, Tenn.; moved soon afterward to Louisi-secretary of the New York Prison Association 1899-1909; ana and settled in Feliciana Parish and continued the prac-died in New York City April 21, 1909; remains were cremat- tice of law, which he later abandoned to become a planter;ed and the ashes placed in a private burying ground near member of the State house of representatives for severalGeorgeville, Quebec, Canada. terms; elected in 1840 as a Whig to the United States Senate Bibliography: DAB. and served from March 4, 1841, until his death in Baltimore, BARRY, Alexander Grant, a Senator from Oregon; born Md., December 29, 1846; chairman, Committee on Publicin Astoria, Clatsop County, Oreg., August 23, 1892; attended Buildings (Twenty-seventh Congress), Committee on Militiathe public schools of Astoria and Portland, Oreg., the Uni- (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses); intermentversity of Washington at Seattle, the University of Oregon in a private cemetery at Afton Villa plantation, near BayouLaw School, and Northwest College of Law at Portland, Sara, La. Oreg.; was admitted to the bar in 1917 and commenced BARROW, Middleton Pope (grandson of Wilson Lump-practice in Portland, Oreg.; during the First World War was kin), a Senator from Georgia; born near Antioch (now Ste- commissioned a second lieutenant and served in the artillery phens), Oglethorpe County, Ga., August 1, 1839; attendedauntil February 1919; member of the Oregon Relief Commit- private academy; was graduated from the law department oftee in 1932, the Oregon Relief Commission in 1933, and the the University of Georgia at Athens in 1860; was admitted toOregon Liquor Control Commission 1933-1935; chairman of the bar in 1860 and commenced practice in Athens, ClarkeSchool District No. 1 Civil Service Board in 1937 and 1938; County, Ga.; during the Civil War entered the Confederateelected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill service in 1861 and served throughout the war; resumed thethe vacancy caused by the resignation of Frederick Steiwer practice of law in Athens; member of the State constitution-and served from November 9, 1938, to January 3, 1939; was al convention in 1877; member, State house of representa-not a candidate for election to the full term; resumed the tives 1880-1881; elected as a Democrat to the United Statespractice of law; member, State house of representatives Senate in 1882 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of1945-1950; died in Portland, Oreg., December 28, 1952; inter- Benjamin H. Hill and served from November 15, 1882, toment in Willamette National Cemetery. March 3, 1883; was not a candidate for reelection; resumed BARRY, Frederick George, a Representative from Missis- the practice of law in Athens, Ga.; judge of the easternsippi; born in Woodbury, Cannon County, Tenn., January 12, judicial circuit of Georgia from January 6, 1902, until his1845; received a limited education; served as a private in death in Savannah, Ga., December 23, 1903; interment inaCompany E, Eighth Confederate Cavalry, Col. William B. private cemetery on the family plantation in OglethorpeWade's regiment, during the Civil War; studied law; was County, Ga. admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Aberdeen, Bibliography: Mellichamp, Josephine. "Pope Barrow." InSenatorsFrom Georgia. Monroe County, Miss.; moved to West Point, Miss., in 1873 pp. 178-80. Huntsville, Ala.: The Strode Publishers, Inc., 1976. and continued the practice of law; member of the State BARROW, Washington, a Representative from Tennessee;senate 1875-1879; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth born in Davidson County, Tenn., October 5, 1807; received aand Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); was classical education; studied law; was admitted to the bar innot a candidate for renomination in 1888; resumed the prac- 1827 and commenced practice in Nashville; Minister to Por-tice of law in West Point, Clay County, Miss., where he died tugal from August 16, 1841, to February 24, 1844; editor ofMay 7, 1909; interment in Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Aber- the Nashville Republican Banner 1845-1847; elected as adeen, Miss. Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); was not a candidate for renomination in 1848; presi- BARRY, Henry W., a Representative from Mississippi; dent of the Nashville Gas Co. in 1848; member of the Stateborn in Schoharie County, N.Y., in April 1840; self-educated; senate in 1860 and 1861; prominently identified with theprincipal of Locust Grove Academy in Kentucky; during the Confederacy during the Civil War and was arrested by orderCivil War enlisted in the Union Army; organized a regiment of Gov. Andrew Johnson March 28, 1862, and imprisoned inof colored troops in Kentucky; commissioned first lieutenant Nashville; released the following week by order of Presidentof the Tenth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, No- Lincoln; resumed newspaper interests; died in St. Louis, Mo.,vember 21, 1861; colonel of the Eighth United States Colored October 19, 1866; interment in the vault of Dr. John ShelbyArtillery April 28, 1864; brevetted brigadier general of Vol- on a private estate in East Nashville, Tenn. unteers March 13, 1865; mustered out May 11, 1866; was Bibliography: DAB. graduated from the law department of Columbian College (now George Washington University), Washington, D.C., in BARROWS, Samuel June, a Representative from Massa-1867; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced chusetts; born in New York City May 26, 1845; after attend-practice in Columbus, Lowndes County, Miss.; delegate to ing primary school was graduated from the Harvard Divini-the State constitutional convention in 1867; member of the ty School in the fall of 1871; while at Harvard UniversityState senate in 1868; upon the readmission of the State of was the Boston correspondent of the New York Tribune;Mississippi to representation was elected as a Republican to Biographies 583 the Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses andcaused by the resignation of George M. Bibb and served served from February 23, 1870, to March 3, 1875; chairman,from December 16, 1814, until his resignation effective May Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department1, 1816, having been appointed to a judicial position; appoint- (Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses); died in Washing-ed judge of the circuit court for the eleventh district of ton, D.C., June 7, 1875; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.Kentucky 1816-1817; member, State senate 1817-1821; elect- ed lieutenant governor of Kentucky in 1820; professor of law BARRY, Robert Raymond, a Representative from Newand politics at Transylvania University 1822; secretary of York; born in Omaha, Nebr., May 15, 1915; received earlyState of Kentucky 1824; appointed chief justice of the State education in the public schools of Evanston, Ill.; attended Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., 1933-1936, and the Tuckcourt of appeals 1825; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College inelection as Governor of Kentucky in 1828; appointed Post- 1937; studied law and finance at New York University Grad- master General by President Andrew Jackson March 9, uate School in 1938; engaged in investment banking with1829, and served until April 10, 1835, when he resigned; Kidder, Peabody & Co., in 1937 and 1938 and commercialappointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentia- banking with Manufacturers Trust Co., in 1938 and 1939;ry to Spain May 1, 1835; died in Liverpool, England,August executive of Bendix Aviation Corp., 1940-1943 and Yale &30, 1835, while in route to Madrid, Spain; interment in Eng- Towne Manufacturing Co., 1945-1950; also engaged in farm-land; reinterment in the State Cemetery at Frankfort, Ky., ing, mining, and real-estate development; during the Second 1854. World War served in the office of the Under Secretary of the Bibliography: DAB. Navy; served on the political staffs of Wendell Wilikie and BARRY, William Taylor Sullivan, a Representative from Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and of Presidents Eisenhower andMississippi; born in Columbus, Lowndes County, Miss., De- Nixon; chairman of the United Nations Committee to Buildcember 10, 1821; was graduated from Yale College in 1841; World House at the United Nations; mining operations atstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1844 and commenced Portola, Calif., and land development at Salton Sea, Calif.;practice in Columbus; also engaged in planting; member of United States delegate to several NATO Parliamentariansthe State house of representatives 1849-1851; elected as a Conferences; United States delegate to UNESCO; elected asDemocrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4,1853- a Republican to the Eighty-sixth Congress and to the twoMarch 3, 1855); again a member of the State house of repre- succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1965);sentatives and served as speaker in 1855; president of the unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-State secession convention in 1861; member of the Provision- ninth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for nomination inal Confederate Congress; during the Civil War entered the 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; was a resident of Wood-Confederate Army and raised the Thirty-fifth Regiment of side, Calif., until his death in Redwood City, Calif., on JuneMississippi Infantry, at times acting as brigade commander; 14, 1988. captured at Mobile April 12, 1865; resumed the practice of BARRY, William Bernard, a Representative from Newlaw in Columbus, Miss., where he died January 29, 1868; York; born in County Mayo, Ireland, July 21, 1902; immi-interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery. grated to the United States in 1907 with his parents, who Bibliography: DAB. settled in Queens County, N.Y.; attended the public schools; BARSTOW, Gamaliel Henry, a Representative from New was graduated from New York University at New York CityYork; born in Sharon, Litchfield County, Conn., July 20, in 1925 and from its law school in 1929; was admitted to the1784; moved to Tioga County, N.Y., in 1812; worked on his bar in 1929 and commenced practice in New York City;father's farm and taught school; studied medicine in Bar- assistant district attorney of Queens County, N.Y., in 1932rington, Mass., and practiced; member of the State assembly and 1933; special United States attorney for the Department1815-1819; appointed first judge of the Tioga County Court of Justice 1933-1935; member of the Democratic executivein 1818 and served until 1823; served in the State senate committee of Queens County 1930-1935; elected as a Demo-1819-1822; again a member of the State assembly 1823-1826; crat to the Seventy-fourth Congress to fill the vacancyState treasurer 1825-1828 and again in 1838; supervisor of caused by the resignation of William F. Brunner; reelected to the Seventy-fifth and to the four succeeding CongressesNichols, N.Y., in 1830; elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate and served from November 5, 1935, until his death; had beento the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, renominated to the Eightieth Congress; died in New York1833); continued the practice of medicine and engaged in City, on October 20, 1946; interment in Mount St. Mary'sagricultural pursuits in Nichols, N.Y., until his death there Cemetery, Flushing, N.Y. March 30, 1865; interment in Ashbury Cemetery, near Nich- ols, N.Y. BARRY, William Taylor, a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky; born near Lunenburg, Lunenburg County, BARSTOW, Gideon, a Representative from Massachu- Va., February 5, 1784; moved to Fayette County, Ky., in 1796setts; born in Mattapoisett, Plymouth County, Mass., Sep- with his parents; attended the common schools, Pisgahtember 7, 1783; attended the common schools and Brown Academy and Kentucky Academy in Woodford County, Ky.,University, Providence, R.I., 1799-1801; studied medicine; Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky., and was grad-was admitted to practice and settled inSalem, Essex County, uated from William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Va.,Mass.; member of the State constitutional convention in in 1803; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1805 and1820; elected to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821- commenced practice at Lexington, Ky.; appointed Common-March 3, 1823); was not a candidate for renomination in wealth attorney; member, State house of representatives1822; member of the State house of representatives in 1823, 1807; elected as a Republican to the Eleventh Congress to fill1829, 1833, and 1837; served in the State senate in 1827 and the vacancy caused by the resignation of Benjamin Howard1834; presidential elector on the Whig ticket of Clay and and served from August 8, 1810, to March 3, 1811; served inSergeant in 1832; because of ill health moved to St. Augus- the military during the War of 1812; member, State house oftine, St. Johns County, Fla., and engaged in mercantile pur- representatives 1814 and was chosen speaker; elected as asuits; died in St. Augustine, Fla., March 26, 1852; interment Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancyin Huguenot Cemetery. 584 Biographical Directory

BARTHOLDT, Richard, a Representative from Missouri;served from November 27, 1797, to March 3, 1801; was not a born in Schleiz, Germany, November 2, 1855; attended thecandidate for renomination in 1800; served as treasurer of public schools and Schleiz College (Gymnasium); immigratedEssex County in 1812; again appointed high sheriff of Essex to the United States in April 1872 and settled in Brooklyn,County on June 20, 1812, and served until his death; dele- N.Y.; learned the printing trade and became a newspapergate to the State constitutional convention in 1820; died in writer and publisher; moved to Missouri and settled in St.Haverhill, Mass., September 9, 1830; interment in Pentucket Louis in 1877; was connected with several papers as report-Cemetery. er, legislative correspondent, and editor, and at the time of his election to Congress was editor in chief of the St. Louis BARTLETT, Charles Lafayette, a Representative from Tribune; member of the St. Louis Board of Education fromGeorgia; born in Monticello, Jasper County, Ga., January 31, 1888 to 1892, serving as president from 1890 to 1892; elected 1853; attended private schools in Monticello and was grad- as a Republican to the Fifty-third and to the ten succeedinguated from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1870; Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1915); chairman, Com-studied law at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, mittee on Immigration and (Fifty-fourth Con-and was graduated from the law department of the Universi- gress), Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mis-ty of Georgia in 1872; was admitted to the bar the same year sissippi River (Fifty-fifth through Fifty-eighth Congresses),and commenced practice in Monticello in August 1872; Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Fifty-ninthmoved to Macon, Ga., in 1875 and continued the practice of through Sixty-first Congresses); in 1911 was appointed bylaw; appointed solicitor general for the Macon Judicial Court President Taft as a special envoy to the German Emperor toon January 31, 1877, and served in that capacity until Janu- present a statue of Baron Steuben as a gift from Congressary 31, 1881; member of the State house of representatives and the American people; was not a candidate for renomina-1882-1885; city attorney of Macon 1887-1892; served in the tion in 1914; engaged in literary pursuits; served as chair-State senate in 1888 and 1889; appointed judge of the superi- man of the Republican State convention at St. Joseph, Mo.,or court of the Macon circuit in October 1892, and elected to in 1898; elected president of the Interparliamentary Unionthe same office January 1, 1893, serving until May 1, 1894, at the conference held in St. Louis in 1904, and for many years was president of the arbitration group in Congress,when he resigned; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fourth which he founded in 1903; died in St. Louis, Mo., March 19,and to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 1932; his body was cremated and the ashes interred in Con-3, 1915); was not a candidate for renomination in 1914; dele- cordia Cemetery. gate to the Democratic National Convention in 1916; re- Bibliography: DAB. sumed the practice of law in Macon, Ga., also engaged in banking; died in Macon, Ga., April 21, 1938; interment in BARTINE, Horace Franklin, a Representative fromRose Hill Cemetery. Nevada; born in New York City March 21, 1848; moved with his parents to New Jersey in 1858; attended the common BARTLETT, Dewey Follett, a Senator from Oklahoma; schools until fifteen years of age, when he enlisted as aborn in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, March 28, 1919; private in the Eighth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteer In-educated in Marietta, Ohio, public schools and Lawrenceville fantry, in July 1863 and served during the last two years ofPreparatory School, Lawrenceville, N.J.; graduated, Prince- the Civil War; was severely wounded at the Battle of theton University 1942; during the Second World War served in Wilderness; participated in many of the engagements of thethe United States Marine Corps as a dive bomber pilot in Army of the Potomac and was present at the surrender ofthe South Pacific Theater 1943-1945; moved to Oklahoma; the Confederate forces at Appomattox Court House; re-oilman, farmer, and rancher; member, Oklahoma State turned to New Jersey and engaged in agricultural pursuits;senate 1963-1966; Governor of Oklahoma 1967-1971; unsuc- moved to Carson City, Nev., in 1869; from 1869 to 1876cessful candidate for reelection as Governor in 1970; elected engaged in the manufacture of copper sulphate for millingas a Republican to the United States Senate in 1972 and purposes; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1880 andserved from January 3, 1973, to January 3, 1979; was not a practiced in the courts of Nevada; served as district attorneycandidate for reelection in 1978 due to ill health; died in of Ormsby County 1880-1882; elected as a Republican to theTulsa, Okia., March 1, 1979; interment in Calvary Cemetery. Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses (March 4, 1889-March BARTLETT, Edward Lewis (Bob), a Delegate from the 3,1893); was not a candidate for renomination in 1892; editor of the National Bimetallist, published in Chicago, Ill.,Territory of Alaska and a Senator from Alaska; born in and Washington, D.C.; returned to Carson City, Nev., inSeattle, King County, Wash., April 20, 1904; attended the 1902; appointed State tax examiner in 1904; appointed rail-University of Washington 1922-1924, and University of road commissioner in March 1907 and served as chief com-Alaska 1924-1925; reporter, Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News- missioner and chairman of the commission until his death inMiner 1925-1933; secretary to Delegate Anthony J. Dimond Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nev., August 27, 1918; in-of Alaska 1933-1934; gold miner in Alaska 1936-1939; chair- terment in Lone Mountain Cemetery, Carson City, Ormsbyman of the Unemployment Compensation Commission of County, Nev. Alaska 1937-1939; appointed secretary of Alaska by Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 30, 1939, and served BARTLETT, Bailey, a Representative from Massachu-until his resignation on February 6, 1944, to become a candi- setts; born in Haverhill, Essex County, Mass., January 29,date for Delegate to Congress; member of the Alaska War 1750; attended the common schools; engaged in mercantileCouncil 1942-1944; elected as a Democrat, a Delegate to the pursuits until 1789; member of the State house of represent-Seventy-ninth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January atives 1781-1784 and in 1788; member of the convention3, 1945-January 3, 1959); was not a candidate for renomina- which adopted the Constitution of the United States in 1788;tion in 1958 having become a candidate for the United served in the State senate in 1789; appointed high sheriff ofStates Senate; elected as a Democrat to the United States Essex County by Gov. John Hancock and served from July 1,Senate on November 25, 1958, and upon the admission of 1789, until December 5, 1811; elected as a Federalist to theAlaska as a State into the Union on January 3, 1959, drew Fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignationthe two-year term beginning on that day and ending Janu- of ; reelected to the Sixth Congress andary 3, 1961; reelected in 1960 and again in 1966, and served Biographies 585 from January 3, 1959, until his death in Cleveland, Ohio, BARTLETT, Josiah (father of Josiah Bartlett, Jr.), a Dele- December 11, 1968; interment in Northern Lights Memorialgate from New Hampshire; born in Amesbury, Mass., No- Park, Fairbanks, Alaska. vember 21, 1729; attended the public schools; studied medi- Bibliography: Naske, Claus M. Edward Lewis "Bob" Bartlett of Alaska:cine, and commenced practice in Kingston, N.H., in 1750; A Life in Politics. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1979. was medical agent to Gen. John Stark at Bennington; BARTLETT, Franklin, a Representative from New York;member of the colonial legislature of New Hampshire 1765- born in Worcester County, Mass., September 10, 1847; was1775; Member of the Continental Congress in 1775, 1776 and graduated from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 18651778; signer of the Articles of Confederation and second and from Harvard University in 1869; attended Columbiasigner of the Declaration of Independence; chief justice of College Law School in 1869; was admitted to the bar in 1870;the court of common pleas in 1778; became justice of the attended Exeter College, Oxford University, England, insuperior court in 1784 and chief justice in 1788; member of 1870 and 1871; concluded the course at Columbia Collegethe convention which framed the Federal Constitution in Law School in 1873; served as a member of the constitution-1787; in 1789 was elected to the United States Senate from al commission of the State of New York in 1890; delegate toNew Hampshire, but declined, and at the same time re- the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1892;signed as chief justice; Governor of the State of New Hamp- elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourthshire 1790-1794; member of the constitutional convention of Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful can-1792 which changed the title from president to that of Gov- didate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; colo-ernor; retired in 1794; died in Kingston, N.H., May19, 1795; nel of Volunteers in the war with Spain in 1898; died in Newinterment in the Plains Cemetery, in rear of the Universal- York City on April 23, 1909; interment in Greenwood Ceme-ist Church. tery, Brooklyn, N.Y. Bibliography: DAB; Bartlett,JosiahThe Papers of Josiah Bartlett. BARTLETT, George Arthur, a Representative from Edited by Frank C. Meyers. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New Eng- Nevada; born in San Francisco, Calif., November 30, 1869;land, 1979; Page, Elwin L. "Josiah Bartlett and the Federation." Historical moved with his parents to Eureka, Eureka County, Nev.; New Hampshire 2 (Oct. 1947): 1-6. attended the common schools; was graduated from the law BARTLETT, Josiah, Jr. (son of Josiah Bartlett), a Repre- department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., insentative from New Hampshire; born in Kingston, N.H., 1894; was admitted to the bar the same year and commencedAugust 29, 1768; attended the common schools and was grad- the practice of law in the courts of Nevada; district attorneyuated from Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; studied medicine of Eureka County, Nev., in 1889 and 1890; elected as aand commenced practice in Stratham, Rockingham County, Democrat to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses (MarchN.H.; member of the State senate in 1809 and 1810; elected 4, 1907-March 3, 1911); was not a candidate for renomina- 4, 1811- tion in 1910; resumed the practice of law in Reno, Nev.;as a Republican to the Twelfth Congress (March appointed United States assistant district attorney for theMarch 3, 1813); resumed the practice of medicine; treasurer district of Nevada on March 3, 1915, and served until Marchof Rockingham County; again elected to the State senate, in 30, 1918, when he resigned; appointed judge of the second1824, and served as president; presidential elector in 1824 judicial district court of Nevada on April 1, 1918, in whichand supported John Quincy Adams; resumed the practice of capacity he served, with the exception of about two years,medicine; died in Stratham, N.H., April 16, 1838; interment until January 1931, when he resumed the private practice ofin the Old Congregational Cemetery. law; author of several books; died in Reno, Nev., June 1, BARTLETT, Thomas, Jr., a Representative from Ver- 1951; interment in Mountain View Cemetery. mont; born in Sutton, Caledonia County, Vt., June 18, 1808; BARTLETT, Harry Stephen (Steve), a Representativeattended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to from Texas; born in Los Angeles, Calif., September 19, 1947; the bar in 1833 and commenced practice in Groton, Vt.; attended public schools of Lockhart, Tex.; graduated, Kim-moved to Lyndon, Vt., in 1836 and continued the practice of ball High School, Dallas, Tex., 1966; B.A., University oflaw;State'sattorney for Caledonia County 1839-1842; Texas, Austin, 1971; businessman; president and founder ofmember of the State senate in 1841 and 1842; served in the manufacturing company; member, city council, Dallas, Tex.,State house of representatives in 1849, 1850, 1854, and 1855; 1977-1981; delegate, Texas State Republican conventions,delegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1850 and 1972-1982; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-eighth and 1857; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second Congress to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January(March 4, 1851-March 3,1853); chairman, Committee on 3, 1989); is a resident of Dallas, Tex. Expenditures on Public Buildings (Thirty-second Congress); BARTLETT, Ichabod, a Representative from New Hamp-unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty- shire; born in Salisbury, N.H., July 24, 1786; received athird Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Lyndon, classical education and was graduated from Dartmouth Col-Vt., September 12, 1876; interment in Lyndon Town Ceme- lege, Hanover, N.H., in 1808; studied law; was admitted totery, Lyndon Center, Vt. the bar in 1811 and commenced practice in Durham, Straf- BARTLEY, Mordecai, a Representative from Ohio; born ford County, N.H.; moved to Portsmouth in 1816 and contin-in Fayette County, Pa., December 16, 1783; attended school ued the practice of law; clerk of the State senate in 1817 andin Virginia; moved to Ohio in 1809 and settled in Jefferson 1818; State solicitor for Rockingham County 1819-1821;County; served in the War of 1812 as captain and was pro- member of the State house of representatives 1819-1821;moted to adjutant; settled on a farm in Richiand County in served as speaker in 1821; elected to the Eighteenth, Nine- teenth, and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3,1814 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the 1829); declined the appointment as chief justice of the courtState senate in 1817 and 1818; elected register of the land of common pleas in 1825; again a member of the State houseoffice of Virginia military district school lands in 1818 and of representatives 1830, 1838, 1851, and 1852; unsuccessfulserved until his resignation in 1823, having been elected to candidate for Governor in 1832; member of the State consti-Congress; elected to the Eighteenth and to the three succeed- tutional convention in 1850; died in Portsmouth, N.H., Octo- ing Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1831); declined to be ber 19, 1853; interment in Harmony Grove Cemetery. a candidate for renomination in 1830; resumedagricultural Bibliography: DAB. pursuits; moved to Mansfield in 1834 and engaged in mer- 586 Biographical Directory

cantile pursuits; Governor of Ohio 1844-1846; declinedre- BARTON, Richard Walker, a Representative from Virgin- election and again engaged in agricultural pursuits; died inia; born at "Shady Oak," near Winchester, Frederick Mansfield, Richiand County, Ohio, October 10, 1870; inter- County, Va., in 1800; pursued academic studies; studied law; ment in Mansfield Cemetery. was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Win- Bibliography: DAB. chester, Va.; member of the State assembly in 1823-1824, BARTON, Bruce, a Representative from New York; born1832-1835 and 1839; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sev- in Robbins, Scott County, Tenn., August 5, 1886; educated inenth Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); unsuccessful the public schools of Ohio, Massachusetts, and Illinois; grad-candidate for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Con- uated from Amherst (Mass.) College in 1907; moved to Chica-gress; resumed the practice of his profession in Winchester, go, Ill., in 1900 and engaged in literary and editorial pur-Va.; died on his estate, "Springdale," near Winchester, Fred- suits; moved to New York City in 1912 and continued liter-erick County, Va., March 15, 1859; interment in the family ary work; also engaged in the magazine and advertisingburying ground at "Springdale." business; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth Con- gress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Theodore A. BARTON, Samuel, a Representative from New York; born Peyser; reelected to the Seventy-sixth Congress and servedin New Dorp, Richmond County, N.Y., July 27, 1785; attend- from November 2, 1937, to January 3, 1941; was not a candi-ed the common schools; agent for Commodore Vanderbilt's date for renomination but was an unsuccessful candidate forsteamship lines; served in the State militia as a major in election in 1940 to the United States Senate; delegate to the1818 and as a colonel in 1833; member of the State assembly Republican State convention in 1938 and to the Republicanin 1821 and 1822; served on the Andrew Jackson reception National Convention at Philadelphia in 1940; resumed ad-committee in 1833; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty- vertising business in New York City; died in New York City,fourth Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1837); was not a on July 5, 1967; interment in Rock Hill Cemetery, Foxboro,candidate for renomination in 1836; resumed his former pur- Mass. suits in the steamship business; director of the Tompkins- Bibliography: Nuechterlein, James A. "Bruce Barton and the Business yule Lyceum in 1842; died in New Dorp, Richmond County, Ethos of 1920's." South Atlantic Quarterly 76 (Summer 1977): 293-308. N.Y., January 29, 1858; interment in Moravian Cemetery. BARTON, David, a Senator from Missouri; born near BARTON, Silas Reynolds, a Representative from Nebras- Greeneville, N.C. (now Tennessee), December 14, 1783; readka; born in New London, Henry County, Iowa, May 21, 1872; law; was admitted to the Tennessee bar; moved to the Terri-moved to Hamilton County, Nebr., in 1873 with his parents; tory of Missouri in 1809; elected attorney general of thewas graduated from the Aurora High School and attended Territory in 1813; first circuit judge of Howard County inthe Peru (Nebr.) State Normal School; engaged in agricultur- 1815 and presiding judge in 1816; member, Territorial houseal pursuits and taught school; deputy treasurer of Hamilton of representatives 1818 and served as speaker; member andCounty 1898-1901; grand recorder of the Ancient Order of president of the convention which formed the State constitu-United Workmen of Nebraska 1901-1908; president for two tion in 1820; upon the admission of Missouri as a State into the Union was elected to the United States Senate; reelectedterms of the Grand Recorders' Association of the United in 1825, and served from August 10, 1821, to March 3, 1831; States; State auditor 1909-1913; during his two terms as unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1830; chairman,auditor and insurance commissioner was a member of the Committee on Public Lands (Eighteenth through Twenty-National Executive Committee of Insurance Commissioners; first Congresses); member, State senate 1834-1835; died inelected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress (March Boonville, Mo., on September 28, 1837; interment in Walnut4, 1913-March 3, 1915); was a candidate for election to the Grove Cemetery. Sixty-fifth Congress, but died before election day in Grand Bibliography: DAB; Shoemaker, Floyd C."David Barton, John Rice Island, Hall County, Nebr., November 7, 1916; interment in Jones, and Edward Bates: Three Missouri State and Statehood Founders." Aurora Cemetery, Aurora, Hamilton County, Nebr. MissouriHistoricalReview 65(July1971):527-43; Van Ravensway, Charles. "The Tragedy of David Barton." Missouri Historical Society Bulle- BARTON, William Edward (cousin of Courtney Walker tin 7 (October 1950): 35-56. Hamlin), a Representative from Missouri; born in Pickens District (now County), S.C., April 11, 1868; in 1869 moved to BARTON, Joe Linus, a Representative from Texas; bornMissouri with his parents, who settled in Crawford County, in Waco, McLennan County, Tex., September 15, 1949; at-near Bourbon; attended the public schools and the Steelville tended Travis Elementary School, Bryan, Tex.; was graduat-Normal and Business Institute, Steelville, Mo.; employed as ed from Waco High School in 1968 and from Texas A&Ma farm hand, miner, and in a railroad office; taught school University, College Station, Tex., in 1972; received an M.S.near Bourbon, Mo., 1889-1892; graduated from the law de- in industrial administration from Purdue University, Westpartment of the Missouri University at Columbia in 1894; Lafayette, md., in 1973; plant manager, assistant to the vicewas admitted to the bar the same year and commenced president, Ennis Business Forms, Inc., 1973-1981; awardedpractice in Houston, Mo.; delegate to the State judicial con- White House Fellowship, 1981-1982; served as aide to Jamesventions in 1896 and 1906; during the Spanish-American B. Edwards, Secretary, Department of Energy; member, Nat-War served as a sergeant in Company M, Second Regiment, ural Gas Decontrol Task Force in the Office of PlanningMissouri Volunteer Infantry; prosecuting attorney of Texas Policy and Analysis; worked with the Department of EnergyCounty in 1901 and 1902; judge of the nineteenth judicial task force in support of the President's Private Sectorcircuit 1923-1928; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- Survey on Cost Control; natural gas decontrol and projectsecond Congress (March 4, 1931-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful cost control consultant, Atlantic Richfield Co.; vice presi-candidate for renomination in 1932 to the Seventy-third Con- dent, Houston County Industrial Development Authority,gress; again elected judge of the nineteenth judicial circuit of 1980; chairman, Crockett Parks and Recreation Board, 1979-Missouri and served from 1934 to 1946; resumed the private 1980; vice president, Houston County Chamber of Commerce,practice of law; died in Houston, Mo., July 29, 1955; inter- 1977-1980; member, Dallas Energy Forum; elected as a Re- publican to the Ninety-ninth and to the One Hundredthment in Houston Cemetery. Congresses (January 3, 1985-January 3, 1989); is a resident BARWIG, Charles, a Representative from Wisconsin; born of Ennis, Tex. in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, March 19, 1837; immigrated Biographies 587 to the United States in 1845 with his parents, who settled inthe Eighty-eighth Congress but was an unsuccessful candi- Milwaukee, Wis.; attended the public schools and was grad-date for the United States Senate; Republican National uated from the Spencerian Business College at Milwaukee inCommitteeman from New Hampshire, 1964-1968; selectman 1857; moved to Mayville in 1865 and engaged in the whole-of Peterborough, N.H., 1972-1976; is a resident of Peterbor- sale liquor business; mayor of Mayville 1886-1888; elected asough, N.H. a Democrat to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third BASS, Ross, a Representative and a Senator from Tennes- Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1895); chairman, Com see; born on a farm in Giles County, nearPulaski, Tenn., mittee on Expenditures in the Department of the TreasuryMarch 17, 1918; attended the public schools in Middle, (Fifty-third Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelectionTenn.; graduated from Martin College, Pulaski, Tenn., 1941; in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; engaged in the realserved during the Second World War as a captain in the Air estate business; died in Mayville, Wis., on February 15, 1912;Corps; owner of a soft-drink bottling plant, florist and nurs- interment in Graceland Cemetery. eryman 1946-1947; postmaster of Pulaski, Tenn.,1947-1954; BASHFORD, Coles, a Delegate from the Territory of Ari-elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the four zona; born near Cold Spring, Putnam County, N.Y., Januarysucceeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1955, until 24, 1816; attended the Wesleyan Seminary (now Geneseehis resignation November 3, 1964; elected as a Democrat to College), Lima, N.Y.; studied law; was admitted to the bar inthe United States Senate, November 3, 1964, to complete the 1842; district attorney for Wayne County 1847-1850; re-unexpired term caused by the death of Estes Kefauver and signed in 1850 and moved to Oshkosh, Wis.; member of theserved from November 4, 1964, to January 2, 1967; unsucces- Wisconsin senate in 1853 and 1855; first Republican Gover-ful candidate for renomination in 1966; owner of consulting nor of Wisconsin 1855-1858; declined renomination; movedfirm in Washington, D.C.; unsuccessful candidate for election to Arizona in 1863; first attorney general of Arizona 1864-to the United States House of Representatives in 1976; is a 1866; presiding officer of first Territorial Council in 1865;resident of Miami Shores, Fla. elected as an Independent to the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1869); secretary of state of Arizona 1869- BASSETT, Burwell, a Representative from Virginia; born 1876; resigned and moved to Prescott, Ariz., in 1876, wherein New Kent County, Va., March 18, 1764; attended the he engaged in business; died in Prescott, Ariz., April 25,College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; member of 1878; interment in Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland,the State house of delegates 1787-1789; served in the State Calif. senate 1794-1805; unsuccessfully contested the election of Bibliography: DAB. John Clopton to the Fourth Congress; elected as a Republi- can to the Ninth and to the three succeedingCongresses BASS, Lyman Kidder, a Representative from New York;(March 4, 1805-March 3, 1813); chairman, Committee on born in the town of Alden, Erie County, N.Y., November 13,Claims (Twelfth Congress), Committee on Revisal and Unfin- 1836; attended the common schools and was graduated fromished Business (Twelfth Congress); unsuccessful candidate Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1856; studied law; wasfor reelection in 1812 to the Thirteenth Congress; elected as admitted to the bar in 1858 and commenced practice ina Republican to the Fourteenth andFifteenth Congresses Buffalo, N.Y.; district attorney for Erie County 1865-1872;(March 4, 1815-March 3, 1819); again a member of the State renominated in 1871, but declined to accept; unsuccessfulhouse of delegates 1819-1821; elected to the Seventeenth and Republican candidate for election in 1870 to the Forty-to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, second Congress; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828 to the and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877);Twenty-first Congress; died in New Kent County, Va., Febru- because of ill health declined to be a candidate for renomi- ary 26, 1841. nation in 1876; moved to Colorado Springs, Cob., in 1877 and continued the practice of law; served as general counsel BASSETT, Edward Murray, a Representative from New for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Co., from 1878 toYork; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., February 7, 1863; attended the 1884; died in New York City, while on a visit, May 11, 1889;public schools in Brooklyn and Watertown, N.Y., and Hamil- interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y. ton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1881 and 1882; was graduated from Amherst (Mass.) College in 1884 and from Columbia BASS, Perkins, a Representative from New Hampshire;Law School, New York City, in 1886; was admitted to the born in East Walpole, Norfolk County, Mass., October 6,New York State bar in 1886 and commenced practice in 1912; graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., inBuffalo, N.Y.; moved to New York City in 1892 and contin- 1934 and from Harvard Law School in 1938; was admitted toued the practice of law; member of the Brooklyn School the New Hampshire bar in 1938 and commenced the prac-Board 1899-1903; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth tice of law in Manchester, N.H.; law clerk to Judge Wood-Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); declined to be a bury of First Circuit Court of Appeals in 1941 and 1942;candidate for renomination in 1904; resumed the practice of entered military service April 9, 1942, and served as airlaw; member of the New York Public Service Commission combat intelligence officer with General Chennault's Four-1907-1911; chairman of the Heights of Buildings Commission teenth Air Force in China from 1943 until discharged with1913-1915; chairman of the Zoning Commission in 1916 and rank of major in 1945; awarded the Bronze Star Medal and1917; appointed by Secretary Hoover in 1922 as a member of from the Nationalist Government of China received thethe Department of Commerce, Advisory Committee on Yun-Ma Medal for distinguished and meritorious service;Zoning; writer on bankruptcy, eminent domain, and police resumed practice of law in Manchester and Peterborough,power; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., October 27, 1948; interment N.H.; member of the New Hampshire house of representa-in Ashfield Plains Cemetery, Ashfield, Mass. tives 1939, 1941, 1947, and 1951; served in the State senate Bibliography: DAB. 1949-1951 as president; director and member of the execu- tive committee of Bird & Son, Inc., East Walpole, Mass., BASSETT, Richard (grandfather of Richard Henry Bayard 1948-1984; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth andand James Asheton Bayard, Jr.), a Senator from Delaware; to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-Janu-born in Cecil County, Md., April 2, 1745; pursued preparato- ary 3, 1963); was not a candidate for renomination in1962 tory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar and prac- 588 Biographical Directory ticed in Delaware; captain of a Delaware troop during thetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., 1956; served, Revolutionary War; member of the State constitutionalcon- , 1951-1953; teacher; admitted to the ventions in 1776 and 1792; member, State senate 1782;Virginia bar, 1956; law clerk, United States Circuit Court of member, State house of representatives 1786; delegate to theAppeals, District of Columbia Circuit, 1956-1957; partner, convention which framed the Constitution of the Unitedprivate law practice; member of Virginia senate, 1968-1983; States in 1787; member of the Delaware convention whichdelegate, Virginia State Republican conventions, 1976-1982; ratified the Federal Constitution in 1787; elected to theelected as a Republican to the Ninety-eighth and to the two United States Senate and served from March 4, 1789, tosucceeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); is March 3, 1793; chief justice of the court of common pleasa resident of Newport News, Va. 1793-1799; Governor of Delaware 1799-1801;appointed United States circuit judge by President John Adams in BATES, Arthur Laban (nephew of ), a 1801; died on his estate, "Bohemia Manor," in Cecil County,Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Meadville, Craw- Md., August 15, 1815; interment Brandywine Cemetery, Wil-ford County, Pa., June 6, 1859; studied under tutors and was mington, Del. graduated from Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., in 1880; Bibliography: DAB; Pattison, Robert E. The Life and Character of Rich- studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1882; attended ard Bassett. Wilmington, Del.: The Delaware Historical Society, 1900. Oxford University, England, in 1882 and 1883; commenced BATE, William Brimage, a Senator from Tennessee; bornthe practice of law in Meadville, Pa., in 1884; also engaged near Castalian Springs, Sumner County, Tenn., October 7,in the newspaper publishing business in 1899; city solicitor 1826; completed an academic course of study; served as aof Meadville 1889-1896; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- private in Louisiana and Tennessee regiments throughoutseventh and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, the Mexican War; member, State house of representatives1901-March 3, 1913); declined to be a candidate for renomi- 1849-1851; graduated from the law department of Lebanonnation in 1912; delegate to the International Peace Confer- University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1852; was admitted to the barence at Brussels in 1905 and at Rome in 1911; resumed the and commenced practice in Gallatin, Tenn.; elected attorneypractice of law and the publishing business in Meadville; general for the Nashville district in 1854; during the Civilalso engaged in banking; delegate to the Republican Nation- War served in the Confederate army, attained the rank ofal Convention in 1924; died in Meadville, Pa., August 26, major general, surrendered with the Army of the Tennessee1934; interment in Greendale Cemetery. in 1865; after the war returned to Tennessee and resumed the practice of law at Gallatin; elected Governor of Tennes- BATES, Edward (brother of ), a Rep- see in 1882 and reelected in 1884; elected as a Democrat toresentative from Missouri; born in Belmont, Goochland the United States Senate in 1887; reelected in 1893, 1899,County, Va., September 4, 1793; attended Charlotte Hall and again in 1905, and served from March 4, 1887, until hisAcademy, Maryland; acted as sergeant in a volunteer bri- death in Washington, D.C., March 9, 1905; chairman, Com- gade during the War of 1812; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in mittee on the Improvement of the Mississippi River and Its1814; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1817 and Tributaries (Fifty-third Congress), Committee on Military Af-practiced; circuit prosecuting attorney in 1818; member of fairs (Fifty-third Congress), Committee on Public Health andthe State constitutional convention in 1820; State's attorney National Quarantine (Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congress- in 1820; member of the State house of representatives in es); funeral services were held in the Chamber of the United1822; United States district attorney 1821-1826; elected to States Senate; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nash-the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); un- ville, Tenn. successful candidate for reelection in 1828 to the Twenty- Bibliography: DAB; Marshall, Park. A Life of William Bate, Citizen,first Congress; resumed the practice of law; member of the Soldier, and Statesman. Nashville: The Cumberland Press, 1908; U.S. Con- State senate in 1830; again a member of the State house of gress. Memorial Addresses. 59th Cong., 2nd sess., 1906-1907. Washington, representatives in 1834; declined the appointment as Secre- D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1907. tary of War in 1850 in the Cabinet of President Fillmore; BATEMAN, Ephraim, a Representative and a Senatorjudge of the St. Louis land court 1853-1856; presided at the from New Jersey; born in Cedarville, N.J., July 9, 1780;Whig National Convention in 1856; appointed by President attended the local schools and Nathaniel Ogden's LatinLincoln as Attorney General of the United States and served school; apprenticed as a tailor in 1796; taught in the localfrom March 5, 1861, to September 1864; died in St. Louis, school 1799-1801; studied medicine with a physician in 1801Mo., March 25, 1869; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery; and at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia inremoved from Bellefontaine Cemetery, place of reinterment 1802 and 1803; practiced in Cedarville; member, State housenot known. of assembly 1808-1809, 1811, and 1813, serving as speaker in Bibliography: DAB; Bates, Edward. The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859- 186(1. Edited by Howard Kennedy Beale. Washington, D.C.: Government 18 13; elected to the Fourteenth and to the three succeeding Printing Office, 1933; Cain, Marvin R. Lincoln's Attorney General: Edward Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1823); member, StateBates of Missouri. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1965. council 1826 and served as president; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of BATES, George Joseph (father of William Henry Bates), a Joseph Mcllvaine and served from November 10, 1826, toRepresentative from Massachusetts; born in Salem, Essex January 12,1829, when he resigned because of failingCounty, Mass., February 25,1891; attended the public health; chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Twentiethschools; member of the State house of representatives 1918- Congress); died in Cedarville, Cumberland County, N.J., Jan-1924; served as mayor of Salem, Mass., 1924-1937; elected as uary 28, 1829; interment in Old Stone Church Cemetery,a Republican to the Seventy-fifth and to the six succeeding Fairfield Township, N.J. Congresses and served from January 3, 1937, until his death in an airplane accident at the Washington (D.C.) National BATEMAN, Herbert Harvell, a Representative from Vir- ginia; born in Perquimans County, N.C., August 7, 1928;Airport on November 1, 1949; interment in St. Mary's Ceme- attended public schools of Virginia; graduated, Newporttery, Salem, Mass. News High School, Newport News, Va., 1945; B.A., College of BATES, Isaac Chapman, a Representative and a Senator William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., 1949; LL.B., George-from Massachusetts; born in Granville, Mass., January 23, Biographies 589

1779; tutored privately; was graduated from Yale College inschool superintendent at Raceland, Ky., 19 17-1919; county 1802; was admitted to the bar and commenced the practiceclerk of Greenup County, Ky., 1922-1938; elected as a Demo-- of law in Northampton, Hampshire County, Mass., in 1808;crat to the Seventy-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused member, State house of representatives 1808-1809; elected toby the resignation of Fred M. Vinson; reelected to the Seven- the Twentieth and to the three succeeding Congressesty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1835); chairman, Committee onfrom June 4, 1938, to January 3, 1953; unsuccessful candi- Military Pensions (Twenty-first Congress); declined to be adate for renomination in 1952, and was unsuccessful for the candidate for renomination in 1834; elected as a Whig to theDemocratic nomination in 1956 for the United States Senate; United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term endingengaged in the practice of law and was a resident of March 3, 1841, caused by the resignation of John Davis andGreenup, KY.; died in Ashland, Ky., September 10, 1965; on the same day elected for the term commencing March 4,interment in Bellefonte Memorial Gardens, Flatwoods, Ky. 1841, and served from January 13, 1841, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 16, 1845; chairman, Committee on BATES, Martin Waltham, a Senator from Delaware; born Pensions (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses);in Salisbury, Conn., February 24, 1786; attended the common interment in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Mass.schools; moved to Delaware and taught school for several years; studied medicine and later studied law; was admitted BATES, James, a Representative from Maine; born into the bar in 1822 and commenced practice in Dover, Kent Greene, Lincoln (now Kennebec) County, Maine, SeptemberCounty, Del.; member, State house of representatives 1826; 1789; attended the common schools; studied medicine atdelegate to the State constitutional convention 1852; elected Harvard Medical University; served as a surgeon during theas a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacan- War of 1812 and was present at the surrender of Fort Erie;cy caused by the death of John M. Clayton and served from was in charge of the general military hospital near Buffalo,January 14, 1857, to March 3, 1859; unsuccessful candidate N.Y., until his resignation in May 1815; practiced medicinefor reelection in 1858; resumed the practice of law until his in Hallowell, Maine, 1815-1819; moved to Norridgewock indeath in Dover, Del., January 1, 1869; interment in the Old 1819 and continued practice; elected as a Jacksonian to theMethodist Cemetery. Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); su- perintendent of the State hospital for the insane 1845-1851; BATES, William Henry (son of George Joseph Bates), a resumed the practice of medicine in Gardiner and Fairfield,Representative from Massachusetts; born in Salem, Essex Maine; moved to Yarmouth, Cumberland County, Maine, inCounty, Mass., April 26, 1917; attended the public schools; 1858 and engaged in practice until his death there Februarywas graduated from Worcester Academy in 1936, from 1882; interment in what is now known as the Old OakBrown University, Providence, RI., in 1940, and from Har- Cemetery, Norridgewock, Somerset County, Maine. vard Graduate School of Business Administration, Boston, Bibliography: DAB. Mass., in 1947; enlisted in the United States Navy in July BATES, James Woodson (brother of Edward Bates), a Del-1940 and served until February 14, 1950, resigning his com- egate from the Territory of Arkansas; born in Goochlandmission as lieutenant commander after being elected to Con- County, Va., August 25, 1788; attended Yale College and wasgress; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-firstCongress to graduated from Princeton College in 1807; studied law; wasfill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, George J. admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Virginia;Bates; reelected to the Eighty-second and to the nine suc- moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1816, and thence to the Post ofceeding Congresses and served from February 14, 1950, until Arkansas in 1819; elected as first Delegate from Arkansas tohis death in Bethesda, Md., June 22, 1969; chairman, Select the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses and served fromCommittee to Conduct Investigation and Study of Benefits December 21, 1819, to March 3, 1823; unsuccessful candidatefor Survivors of Deceased Members and Former Members of for reelection in 1822 to the Eighteenth Congress; resumedthe Armed Forces (Eighty-third Congress); interment in St. the practice of law in Batesville, Ark.; judge of the fourthMarys Cemetery, Salem, Mass. judicial circuit of Arkansas Territory 1824-1828; judge of the BATHRICK, Elsworth Raymond, a Representative from superior court of Arkansas 1828-1832; delegate to the StateOhio; born near Pontiac, Oakland County, Mich., January 6, constitutional convention in 1835; judge of the probate court1863; attended the country schools and was graduated from of Crawford County in 1836; register of the land office inthe Pontiac High School; moved to New York City in 1890 Clarksville 1841-1845; died in Van Buren, Crawford County,and engaged in the importation of edible oils; moved to Ark., December 26, 1846; interment in the family buryingAkron, Ohio, in 1900 and engaged in the real estate busi- ground at Moores Rock, Crawford (now Sebastian) County,ness; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second andSixty- Ark. third Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1915); unsuccess- BATES, Jim, a Representative from California; born inful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Con- Denver, Cob., July 21, 1941; graduated, East Denver Highgress; resumed his former business pursuits;elected to the School, Denver, 1959; B.A., San Diego State University, 1975;Sixty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1917, until his corporal, U.S. Marine Corps, 1959-1963; banker and aero-death in Akron, Summit County, Ohio, December 23, 1917; space businessman, 1963-1970; city councilman, San Diego,interment in Glendale Cemetery. 1971-1974; chairman, board of supervisors, San Diego, 1975- BATTIN, James Franklin, a Representative from Mon- 1982; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to thetana; horn in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kans., February 13, two succeeding Congresses (January 3,1983-January 3,1925; moved with his parents to Montana in November 1929; 1989); is a resident of San Diego, Calif. educated in the public schools of Billings, Mont.; graduated BATES, Joseph Bengal, a Representative from Kentucky;from high school in 1942; enlisted in the United States Navy born in Republican, Ky., October 29, 1893; attended theand served for three years, two and a half years of which public schools and the Mountain Training School at Hind-were in the Pacific theater; returned to his studies and man, KY.; was graduated from Eastern Kentucky Stategraduated from Eastern Montana College in Billings, Mont., Teachers College at Richmond in 1916; studied law; taughtin 1948; received the degree of Juris Doctor from George in the rural schools of Knott County, Ky., 1912-1915; highWashington University School of Law, Washington, D.C., in 590 Biographical Directory

1951; was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Washing-international affairs, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown ton, D.C., for about a year; returned to Billings, Mont., inUniversity, Washington, D.C., 1959; J.D., Georgetown Uni- 1952 and continued in law; served as deputy county attor-versity Law Center, 1964; admitted to the Maryland Bar in ney, secretary-counsel for the City-County Planning Board,1964 and to the District of Columbia bar and commenced assistant city attorney, and city attorney; member of thepractice in Easton; delegate; Republican National Conven- State house of representatives in 1958 and 1959; elected as ations, 1964, 1974, 1978 and 1980; member, Federal Hospital Republican to the Eighty-seventh and to the four succeedingCouncil of the United States Department of Health, Educa- Congresses, and served from January 3, 1961, until his resig-tion, and Welfare, 1970-1973; member, Maryland State nation February 27, 1969, to become United States districtsenate, 1971-1973; elected as a Republican, by special elec- judge for the District of Montana; became chief judge, Dis-tion, August 21, 1973, to the Ninety-third Congress to fill the trict of Montana on November 16, 1978; is a resident ofvacancy caused by the death of William 0. Mills; reelected Billings, Mont. to the three succeeding Congresses, and served from August BAVFLE, Laurie Calvin, a Representative from Alabama;21, 1973, to January 3, 1981; unsuccessful candidate for re- born in Wilsonville, Shelby County, Ala., May 10, 1912; at-election in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress; was a candi- tended the elementary schoolatInglenook,Jeffersondate for nomination in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress, County, Ala.; moved to Tuscumbia in 1926; was graduatedbut withdrew his candidacy before the election; resumed the from Deshler High School in 1930; A.B., psychology, Bir-practice of law in Washington, D.C.; is a resident of Wash- mingham-Southern College at Birmingham, 1934; student, ington, D.C. Vanderbilt University and Scarritt College, Nashville, Tenn., Bibliography: Bauman, Robert E. The Gentleman From Maryland; The in 1934 and 1935; M.A., sociology, Ohio State University at Conscience of a Gay Conservative. New York: Arbor House, 1986. Columbus, 1939; worked for a dairy company, Cleveland, BAUMIIART, Albert David, Jr., a Representative from Ohio, in 1937 and 1938; laborer and district clerk for theOhio; born in Vermilion, Erie County, Ohio, June 15, 1908; Southern Natural Gas Co., Birmingham, Ala., in 1940 andattended the public schools; Ohio University at Athens, A.B. 1941; sociology teacher at Ohio State University night schooland M.A., 1931; publishing house representative at Vermil- in 1940; during the Second World War served in the Unitedion, Ohio, 1932-1939; member of the State senate 1937-1940; States Army Air Corps as a private and through the rankselected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh Congress and to major, with service in the Asiatic-Pacific theater fromserved from January 3, 1941, until his resignation on Sep- February 19,1942, until discharged on March 6,1946; awarded the Bronze Star Medal; retired from the militarytember 2, 1942, to accept a commission in the United States reserve, May 1972; student at University of Alabama inNavy, in which he served until discharged as a lieutenant 1946; elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth and to thecommander on January 17, 1946; member of the public rela- three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3,tions staff of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Toledo, Ohio, 1955); was not a candidate for renomination in 1954, but was 1946-1953; director, Republican National Committee in 1953 an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination forand 1954; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth, the United States Senate; engaged in the insurance businessEighty-fifth, and Eighty-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1955- in Birmingham, Ala.; government relations representativeJanuary 3, 1961); was not a candidate for renomination in and legislative consultant in Washington, D.C.; served as1960; delegate to 1968 Republican National Convention; en- staff director and counsel of House of Representatives Rulesgaged as public relations consultant; is a resident of Lorain, Committee; 1966-1976; special adviser, United States LeagueOhio. of Savings Associations, Washington, D.C., 1976 to present; is BAXTER, Portus, a Representative from Vermont; born a resident of Alexandria, Va. in Brownington, Orleans County, Vt., December 4, 1806; at- BAUCUS, Max Sieben, a Representative and a Senatortended the common schools, Norwich Military Academy, and from Montana; born in Helena, Lewis and Clark County,the University of Vermont at Burlington; moved to Derby Mont., December 11, 1941; attended the public schools ofLine, Orleans County, Vt., in 1828; presidential elector on Missoula and Helena, Mont.; attended Carleton College,the Whig ticket in 1852 and on the Republican ticket in Northfield, Minn., 1959-1960; graduated, Stanford (Calif.)1856; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh, Thirty- University 1964 and Law School 1967;eighth, and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1861-March admitted to the Montana Bar in 1969 and commenced prac-3, 1867); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the De- tice in Washington, D.C., with various federal agencies; re-partment of the Navy (Thirty-eighth Congress); declined to turned to Montana and practiced law in Missoula; served inbe a candidate for renomination in 1866; died in Washing- the Montana house of representatives 1973-1974; elected aston, D.C., March 4, 1868; interment in Strafford Cemetery, a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974; reelectedStrafford, Orange County, Vt. to the Ninety-fifth Congress and served from January 3, 1975, until his resignation December 14, 1978; was not a BAY, William Van Ness, a Representative from Missouri; candidate in 1978 for reelection to the House of Representa-born in Hudson, N.Y., November 23, 1818; attended the tives, but was elected on November 7, 1978 to the Unitedpublic schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar; moved States Senate for the six-year term commencing January 3,to Union, Franklin County, Mo., in 1836 and commenced the 1979; subsequently appointed by the Governor, December 15,practice of law; member of the State house of representa- 1978, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Paultives 1844-1848; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first Hatfield for the term ending January 3, 1979; reelected inCongress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); resumed the prac- 1984 for the term ending January 3, 1991. tice of law; appointed judge of the State supreme court in 1862; elected to this position in 1863 and served until re-- BAUMAN, Robert Edmund, a Representative from Mary-moved by Governor Fletcher in 1865; moved to St. Louis, land; born in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pa., April 4,Mo., and again resumed the practice of law; retired in 1886 1937; attended Catholic and public schools including Eastonand moved to Eureka, Mo., where he died February 10, 1894; (Maryland) High School until 1953; graduated, Capitol Pageinterment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Kirkwood, St.Louis School, , Washington, D.C., 1955; B.S.,County, Mo. 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BAYARD, James Asheton, Sr. (father of Richard HenryJanuary7,1807; interment in theFirst Presbyterian Bayard and James Asheton Bayard, Jr., nephew of JohnChurchyard. Bubenheim Bayard, grandfather of Thomas Francis Bayard, Bibliography: DAB. Sr., and great-grandfather of Thomas Francis Bayard, Jr.), a BAYARD, Richard Henry (son of James Asheton Bayard, Representative and a Senator from Delaware; born in Phila- delphia, Pa., July 28, 1767; was graduated from PrincetonSr., brother of James Asheton Bayard, Jr., and grandson of College in 1784; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1787Richard Bassett), a Senator from Delaware; born in Wil- and commenced practice in Wilmington, Del.; declined themington, Del., September 26, 1796; was graduated from appointment as Minister to France tendered by PresidentPrinceton College in 1814; studied law; was admitted to the John Adams in 1801; elected as a Federalist to the Fifth,bar in New Castle, Del., in 1818 and commenced practice in Sixth, and Seventh Congresses (March 4, 1797-March 3,Wilmington; first mayor of Wilmington in 1832; elected as a 1803); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1802; one ofWhig to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused the managers appointed by the House of Representatives inby the resignation of Arnold Naudain and served from June 1798 to conduct the proceedings against Wil- 17, 1836, to September 19, 1839, when he resigned to become liam Blount, a Senator from Tennessee; elected as a Federal-chief justice of Delaware; chairman, Committee on Private ist to the United States Senate in 1804 to fill the vacancyLand Claims (Twenty-seventh Congress), Committee on Dis- caused by the resignation of William Hill Wells; reelected intrict of Columbia (Twenty-seventh Congress), Committee on 1805 and 1811 and served from November 13, 1804, to March Naval Affairs (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congress- 3, 1813, when he resigned; appointed a member of the com- es); served as chief justice of Delaware 1839-1841, when he mission to negotiate peace with Great Britain in 1813; aidedresigned; elected again to the United States Senate to fill in negotiating the treaty of Ghent, signed in December 1814;the vacancy which had existed since his own resignation in declined the appointment as Minister to Russia tendered by1839 and served from January 12, 1841, to March 3, 1845; President James Madison in 1815; died in Wilmington, Del.,was not a candidate for reelection in 1845; Chargé d'Affaires August 6, 1815; interment at Bohemia Manor, Cecil County,to Belgium 1850-1853; died in Philadelphia, Pa., March 4, Md.; reinterment about 1842 in Wilmington and Brandywine1868; interment in the Wilmington and Brandywine Ceme- Cemetery, Wilmington, Del. tery, Wilmington, Del. Bibliography: DAB; Borden,Morton.The Federalism of James A. Bibliography: DAB. Bayard. 1955. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1968; Donnan, Elizabeth. BAYARD, Thomas Francis, Sr. (son of James Asheton Papers of James Asheton Bayard, 17,96.1815. 1915. Reprint. New York: Da Bayard, Jr., and father of Thomas Francis Bayard, Jr.), a Capo Press, 1971. Senator from Delaware; born in Wilmington, Del., October BAYARD, James Asheton, Jr. (son of James Asheton29, 1828; attended Doctor Hawkes' school in Flushing, N.Y.; Bayard, Sr., brother of Richard Henry Bayard, grandson ofstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1851 and commenced Richard Bassett, father of Thomas Francis Bayard, Sr., andpractice in Wilmington, Del.; appointed United States dis- grandfather of Thomas Francis Bayard, Jr.), a Senator fromtrict attorney for Delaware in 1853, but resigned in 1854; Delaware; born in Wilmington, Del., November 15, 1799;moved to Philadelphia and practiced law; returned to Wil- pursued classical studies; studied law; was admitted to themington in 1858; at the expiration of his father's Senate bar and commenced practice in Wilmington; United Statesterm in 1869 was elected as a Democrat to the United States district attorney for Delaware 1838-1843; elected as a Demo-Senate; reelected in 1875 and 1881 and served from March 4, crat to the United States Senate in 1851; reelected in 18571869, to March 6, 1885, when he resigned to become Secre- and 1863 and served from March 4, 1851, to January 29,tary of State; served as President pro tempore of the Senate 1864, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Engrossedduring the Forty-seventh Congress; chairman, Committee on Bills (Thirty-second Congress), Committee on Public Build- Engrossed Bills (Forty-third through Forty-fifth Congresses), ings (Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses), CommitteeCommittee on Finance (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on on Judiciary (Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses), Com-Private Land Claims (Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Con- mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-fifth Con-gresses); was appointed a member of the Electoral Commis- gress); resumed the practice of law in Wilmington; appointedsion created by the act of Congress approved on January 29, in 1867 to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy1877, to decide the contests in various States in the presiden- caused by the death of George Read Riddle; was subsequent-tial election of 1876; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of ly elected as a Democrat to that position and served fromPresident Grover Cleveland 1885-1889; Ambassador to Great April 5, 1867, to March 3, 1869; was not a candidate forBritain 1893-1897; died in Dedham, Mass., on September 28, reelection; again resumed the practice of law; died in Wil-1898; interment in Old Swedes Cemetery, Wilmington, Del. mington, Del., June 13, 1880; interment in the Old Swedes Bibliography: DAB; Tansill,Charles.TheCongressionalCareerof Burial Ground. Thomas F. Bayard. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1946. Bibliography: DAB. BAYARD, Thomas Francis, Jr. (son of Thomas Francis BAYARD, John Bubenheim (uncle of James AshetonBayard, Sr., and grandson of James Asheton Bayard, Jr.), a Bayard, Sr.), a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born at Bohe-Senator from Delaware; born in Wilmington, Del., June 4, mia Manor, Cecil County, Md., August 11, 1738; moved to1868; attended the common schools of Wilmington and St. Pennsylvania in 1756 and settled in Philadelphia, where hePaul's School, Concord, N.H.; was graduated from Yale Uni- became one of the leading merchants; member of the gener-versity in 1890; was a student at the Yale Law School in al assembly 1776-1779 and in 1784, serving several terms as1890 and 1891; was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1893 speaker; member of the council of safety in 1776 and 1777;and commenced practice in Wilmington; moved to New York during the Revolutionary War was colonel of the SecondCity, and was appointed an assistant corporation counsel in Regiment of Philadelphia Volunteers and served in the Bat-1897; practiced law in New York until September 1901, tles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Princeton; Member ofwhen he returned to Wilmington, Del., to practice law; the Continental Congress 1785-1786; moved to New Bruns-served as chairman of the Democratic State committee 1906- wick, N.J., in 1788; city mayor in 1790 and, later, judge of1916; solicitor of the city of Wilmington 1917-1919; elected the court of common pleas; died in New Brunswick, N.J.,on November 7, 1922, as a Democrat to the United States 592 Biographical Directory

Senate to if! the vacancy caused by the resignation oflaw; studied theology, was licensed to preach, and was or- Josiah 0. Wolcott; on the same day was also elected for thedained to the Baptist ministry; member of the Alabama full terni commencing March 4, 1923, and served from No-house of representatives in 1824; elected as a Jacksonian to vember 8, 1922, to March 3, 1929; unsuccessful candidate forthe Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831); reelection in 1928; resumed the practice of law in Wilming-unsuccessful candidate for election in 1830 to the Twenty- ton, Del.; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election tosecond Congress; commanded an Alabama regiment during the United States Senate in 1930; died in Wilmington, Del.,the Creek War; moved to Texas in 1839; elected judge of the July 12, 1942; interment in Old Swedes Cemetery. district and supreme courts of the Republic; member of the BAY!!, Birch Evan, a Senator from Indiana; born in Terreconvention that framed the State constitution of Texas in Haute, Vigo County, md., January 22, 1928; attended the 1845; district judge for twenty-five years; one of the founders public schools; served in the United States Army 1946-1948;of Baylor University at Independence, Tex. (now located at graduated Purdue University School of Agriculture at Lafay-Waco, Tex.), and Baylor Female College at Belton, Tex.; ette in1951; attended Indiana State University, Terreprofessor of law in Baylor University; died at Gay Hifi, Haute, 1952-1953; graduated School ofWashington County, Tex., on January 6, 1874; interment in Law, Bloomington, 1960; was admitted to the Indiana bar inthe Baylor University grounds; later the remains were re- 1961 and commenced practice in Terre Haute; farmer andmoved to the campus of Baylor Female College at Belton, lawyer; member, State house of representatives 1954-1962,Tex. serving as minority leader in 1957 and 1961 and as speaker Bib1iography DAB. in 1959; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate BAYLY, Thomas, a Representative from Maryland; born in 1962; reelected in 1968 and 1974 and served from Januaryat "Wellington," near Quantico, Somerset (now Wicomico) 1963, to January 3, 1981; chairman, Select Committee onCounty, Md., September 13, 1775; attended private schools Intelligence(Ninety-fifthandNinety-sixthCongresses);and was graduated from Princeton College in 1797; studied lawyer practicing in Washington, D.C. law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Somerset and Bibliography: Bayh, Birch. One Heartbeat Away: Presidential Di3ability Worcester Counties, Md.; member of the State house of dele- and Succession. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1968. gates 1804-1814; elected as a Federalist to the Fifteenth

BAYLIES, Francis (brother of ), a Repre-- Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth sentative from Massachusetts; born in Taunton, Mass., Octo-Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1823); resumed the prac- ber 16, 1783; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1810tice of law; died at his home, "Wellington," near Quantico, and commenced practice in Taunton, Mass.; register of pro-- Md., in 1829; interment in the family cemetery on the bate for Bristol County 1812-1820; unsuccessful candidategrounds of his estate. for election in 1818 to the Sixteenth Congress; elected to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Congresses (March BAYLY, Thomas Henry (son of Thomas Monteagle Bayly), 1821-March 3, 1827); unsuccessful candidate in 1827 fora Representative from Virginia; born at "Mount Custis," the reelection to the Twentieth Congress; member of the Statefamily estate, near Drummondtown, Accomac County, Va., house of representatives 1827-1832; United States ChargéDecember 11, 1810; attended the common schools and was d'Affaires to Argentina, 1832; again elected to tho-Stategraduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville house of representatives in 1835; engaged in literary pur-in 1829; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1830 and suits; died in Taunton, Bristol County, Mass., October 28,commenced practice in Accomac County; also engaged in 1852; interment in the Old Plain Cemetery. agricultural pursuits; served in the Virginia house of dele- Bibliography: DAB. gates, 1836-1842; appointed brigadier general of the Twenty- first Brigade, Virginia Mffitia, in 1837 and served until 1842; BAYLIES, William (brother of ), a Repre-elected judge of the superior court of law and chancery in sentative from Massachusetts; born in Dighton, Mass., Sep-1842 and served until 1844; elected as a Democrat to the tember 15, 1776; was graduated from Brown University,Twenty-eighth Congress to ifil the vacancy caused by the Providence, R.I., in 1795; studied law; was admitted to theresignation of Henry A. Wise; reelected to the Twenty-ninth bar and commenced practice in Bridgewater (west parish) inand to the five succeeding Congresses and served from May 1799; member of the State house of representatives in 1808, 6, 1844, until his death on his estate, "Mount Custis," near 1809, 1812, and 1813; served in the State senate in 1825 andDrummondtown, Accomac County, Va., June 23, 1856; chair- 1826; presented credentials as a Federalist to the Eleventh man, Committee on Ways and Means (Thirty-first Congress), Congress and served from March 4, 1809, until June 28,Committee on Foreign Affairs (Thirty-second and Thirty- 1809, when he was succeeded by Charles Turner, Jr., whothird Congress); interment in the family burying ground on contested the election; elected to the Thirteenth and Four-his estate. teenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); again a Bibliography: DAB. member of the State house of representatives in 1820 and 1821; again served in the State senate in 1830 and 1831; BAYLY, Thomas Monteagle (father of Thomas Henry elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third CongressBayly), a Representative from Virginia; born at Hills Farm, (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); unsuccessful candidate fornear Drummondtown, Accomac County, Va., on March 26, reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; resumed 1775; attended Washington Academy, Maryland, and was the practice of his profession; died in Taunton, Bristolgraduated from Princeton College in 1794; studied law; was County, Mass., on September 27, 1865; interment in the Oldadmitted to the bar about 1796 and commenced practice in Accomac County; also, engaged in planting; member of the Cemetery, Dighton, Mass. State house of delegates 1798-1801; member of the State BAYLOR, Robert Emmett Bledsoe (nephew of Jesse Bled-senate 1801-1809; served during the War of 1812 as colonel soe), a Representative from Alabama; born in Lincolnof militia; elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress County, Ky., May 10, 1793; served in the War of 1812; stud-(March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); was not a candidate for ied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; member ofrenomination in 1814; resumed agricultural pursuits and the the Kentucky house of representatives in 1819, but resignedpractice of law; again a member of the State house of dele- and moved to Alabama in 1820, continuing the practice ofgates 1819, 1820, and 1828-1831; delegate to the State consti- Biographies 593 tutional convention in 1829 and 1830; died on his plantation,sixth Congress; after his service in Congress located in "Mount Custis," near Accomac, Accomac County, Va., Janu-Washington, D.C.; assistant chief of the industrial coopera- ary 7, 1834; interment in the family cemetery on his estate,tion service of the United States Department of Commerce "Mount Custis." from April to July 1919; staff member of the United States Veterans' Bureau from 1919 until his death in Washington, BAYNE, Thomas McKee, a Representative from Pennsyl-D.C., February 9, 1927; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery, vania; born in Bellevue, Allegheny County, Pa., June 14, 1836; attended the public schools and Westminster College,Ann Arbor, Mich. New Wilmington, Pa.; studied law; during the Civil War BEALE, Charles Lewis, a Representative from New York; entered the Union Army in July 1862 as colonel of the Oneborn in Canaan, Columbia County, N.Y., March 5, 1824; was Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun-graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1844; teer Infantry; took part in the Battles of Fredericksburg andstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced Chancellorsville; resumed the study of law in 1865; was ad-practice in Canaan, N.Y.; moved to Kinderhook, N.Y., in mitted to the bar of Allegheny County in April 1866; elected 1852 and continued the practice of law; elected as a Republi- district attorney for Allegheny County in October 1870 andcan to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, held the office until January 1, 1874; unsuccessful candidate1861); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1860 to the for election in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; elected as aThirty-seventh Congress; delegate to the Union National Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the six succeeding Con-Convention at Philadelphia in 1866; resumed the practice of gresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1891); was renominated as alaw; died in Hudson, N.Y., on January 29, 1900; interment in candidate for reelection to the Fifty-second Congress, but Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook, N.Y. declined to accept the nomination, retiring from public life and active business pursuits; died in Washington, D.C., on BEALE, James Madison Hite, a Representative from Vir- June 16, 1894; interment in Uniondale Cemetery, Pitts-ginia; born in Mount Airy, Shenandoah County, Va., Febru- burgh, Pa. ary 7, 1786; pursued preparatory studies; engaged in agricul- tural pursuits; member, State house of delegates, 1818-18 19; BEACH, Clifton Bailey, a Representative from Ohio; bornelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty- in Sharon, Medina County, Ohio, September 16, 1845; movedfourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); chairman, to Cleveland with his parents in 1857; attended the commonCommittee on Invalid Pensions (Twenty-fourth Congress); re- schools and was graduated from Western Reserve College,sumed agricultural pursuits; elected as a Democrat to the Hudson, Ohio, in 1871; studied law; was admitted to the barThirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849- in 1872 and commenced practice in Cleveland; served asMarch 3, 1853); chairman, Committee on Expenditures on deputy collector of customs at Cleveland; retired from thePublic Buildings (Thirty-first Congress), Committee on Man- practice of law in 1884 and engaged in the manufacture ofufactures (Thirty-second Congress); declined to be a candi- wire nails, staples, and rods; elected as a Republican to thedate for renomination in 1852; resumed agricultural pur- Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899); was not a candidate for renomination in 1898; re-suits; died in Putnam County, W.Va., August 2, 1866; inter- sumed his former manufacturing pursuits in Cleveland; diedment in Beale Cemetery, near Gallipolis Ferry, Mason at Rocky River, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, November 15, 1902;County, W.Va. interment in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio. BEALE, Joseph Grant, a Representative from Pennsylva- nia; born in Allegheny County, near Freeport, Armstrong BEACH, Lewis, a Representative from New York; born inCounty, Pa., March 26, 1839; attended the common schools; New York City March 30, 1835; was graduated from the Turtle Creek, Pa., and Yale Law School in 1856; was admitted to the bar the samewas graduated from Caton Academy, year and commenced practice in New York; took up resi-from Iron City Commercial College, Pittsburgh, Pa.; during dence in Orange County, N.Y., in 1861; member and treasur-the Civil War enlisted in the Friend Rifles for three months, er of the Democratic State central committee 1877-1879;and later served as captain of Company C, Ninth Regiment, elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth,Pennsylvania Reserves, for three years; was taken prisoner and Forty-ninth Congresses and served from March 4, 1881,and confined in Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., until released until his death at his home, "Knoll View," Cornwall, Orangeon parole; studied law; served as major in thePennsylvania County, N.Y., August 10, 1886; chairman, Committee on Ex-State Militia; discontinuing the study of law, he engaged in penditures on Public Buildings (Forty-ninth Congress); inter-the coal business in the suburbs of Pittsburgh; moved to ment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. Leechburg, Armstrong County, in the spring of 1868 and actively engaged in the iron and steel business; president of BEAKES, Samuel Willard, a Representative from Michi-the Leechburg Banking Co.; elected as a Republican to the gan; born in Burlingham, Sullivan County, N.Y., JanuarySixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1909); unsuccess- 11, 1861; attended Wallkill Academy, Middletown, N.Y.; wasful candidate for renomination in 1908 to the Sixty-first graduated from the law department of the University ofCongress; resumed his former business pursuits; died in

Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1883; was admitted to the bar theLeechburg, Pa., May 21, 1915; interment in Evergreen Ceme- - same year and commenced practice in Westerville, Ohio;tery. editor and proprietor of the Westerville Review in 1884, of the Adrian (Mich.) Daily Record 1884-1886, and of the Ann BEALE, Richard Lee Turberville, a Representative from Arbor (Mich.) Argus 1886-1905; mayor of Ann Arbor 1888-Virginia; born in Hickory Hill, Westmoreland County, Va., 1890; postmaster of Ann Arbor 1894-1898; city treasurerMay 22, 1819; attended private schools in Westmoreland 1891-1893 and 1903-1905; city assessor 1906-1913; delegate County, Northumberland Academy and Rappahannock to the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis in 1916;Academy, Virginia, and Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourthstudied law; was graduated from the University of Virginia Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1917); successfully con-at Charlottesville in 1837; was admitted to the bar in 1839 tested the election of Mark R. Bacon to the Sixty-fifth Con-and commenced practice at Hague, Westmoreland County, gress and served from December 13, 1917, to March 3, 1919;Va.; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress (March unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-4, 1847-March 3, 1849); declined to be a candidate for re-- 594 Biographical Directory

nomination in 1848; member of the Virginia constitutionalberland, Allegany County, Md., June 19, 1927; graduated convention in 1850-1851; member of the State senate 1858-Yale University 1950; served in the United States Navy 1860; during the Civil War rose through a series of promo-1945-1946; member, general insurance firm of Beall, Garner tions from lieutenant to brigadier general in the Confederate& Geare, Inc.; elected to Maryland house of delegates in Army; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy1962 and reelected in 1966; minority floor leader 1963-1968; caused by the death of Beverly B. Douglas; reelected to theelected as a Republican to the Ninety-first Congress (Janu- Forty-sixth Congress and served from January 23, 1879, toary 3, 1969-January 3, 1971); was not a candidate for reelec- March 3,1881; resumed the practice of law; died neartion; was elected in 1970 as a Republican to the United Hague, Westmoreland County April 21, 1893; interment inStates Senate and served from January 3, 1971, to January Hickory Hill Cemetery. 3, 1977; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1976; unsuc- Bibliography: DAB. cessful candidate in 1978 for election as Governor of Mary- BEALES, Cyrus William, a Representative from Pennsyl-land; resumed the insurance business in Cumberland, Md.; is vania; born on a farm near York Spring, Adams County, Pa.,a resident of Frostburg, Md. December 16, 1877; attended the common schools; at the age of thirteen, upon the death of his father, took over the BEALL, Reasin, a Representative from Ohio; born in operation of his father's farm; was graduated from the phar-Montgomery County, Md., December 3, 1769; received a lim- maceutical department of the Ohio Northern University atited schooling; served as an officer under General Harmer in Ada in 1899; settled at York Springs and was employed as a1790; appointed ensign in the United States Army March 7, pharmacist; moved to Gettysburg, Pa., in 1903 upon his ap-1792, and battalion quartermaster in 1793, and served under pointment as mercantile appraiser of Adams County; clerkGeneral Wayne in the campaign against the Indians; moved to the county commissioners in 1904 and 1905; engaged into New Lisbon, Ohio, in 1803; was commissioned brigadier the drug, banking, manufacturing, and printing businesses;general of Volunteers in 1812; moved to Wooster, Ohio, in postmaster of Gettysburg from April 1, 1910, to May 8, 1914;1815; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress to elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth Congress (Marchifil the vacancy caused by the death of John S. Edwards and 4, 1915-March 3, 1917); was not a candidate for renomina-served from April 20, 1813, until his resignation on June 7, tion in 1916; member of the State senate 19 17-1921; engaged 1814; served as register of the land offices at Canton and in the drug business in Gettysburg, and died there Novem-Wooster, Ohio, from 1814 to 1824; presided over the Whig ber 14, 1927; interment in the family plot in Evergreenmass convention held at Columbus, Ohio, February 22, 1840; Cemetery. presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1840; died in Woos- ter, Wayne County, Ohio, February 20, 1843; interment in BEALL, James Andrew (Jack), a Representative from Texas; born on a farm near Midlothian, Ellis County, Tex.,Wooster Cemetery. October 25, 1866; attended the country schools; taught school BEAM, Harry Peter, a Representative from Illinois; born in 1884 and 1885; was graduated from the law department ofin Peoria Ill., November 23, 1892; moved with his parents to the University of Texas at Austin in 1890; was admitted toChicago, Ill., in 1899; attended St. Mary's School, Marshall- the bar the same year and commenced practice in Waxaha-town, Iowa, and Holy Family School, Chicago, Ill., was grad- chie, Ellis County, Tex.; member of the State house of repro-- uated from St. Ignatius College, Chicago, Ill., in 1912 and sentatives 1892-1895; served in the State senate 1895-1899;from the law department of Loyola University, Chicago, Ill., elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the fivein 1916; was admitted to the bar the same year and com- succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1915); chair-menced practice in Chicago, ill.; during the First World War man, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Jus-served as a seaman, first class, in the United States Navy tice (Sixty-second Congress); was not a candidate for renomi-from May 1918 to December 1918; assistant corporation nation in 1914; moved to Dallas, Tex., in 1914 and resumedcounsel of Chicago 1923-1927; elected as a Democrat to the the practice of law; also engaged in banking; served as presi-Seventy-second and to the five succeeding Congresses and dent of the Texas Electric Railway Co., from 1921 until hisserved from March 4, 1931, until his resignation on Decem- death in Dallas, Tex., on February 12, 1929; interment inber 6, 1942; chairman, Committee on Memorials (Seventy- Oakland Cemetery. seventh Congress); elected as a judge of the municipal court BEALL, James Glenn (father of John Glenn Beall, Jr.), aof Chicago in 1942, reelected in 1948, 1954, and 1960; en- Representative and a Senator from Maryland; born in Frost-gaged in legal practice and retired in 1964; was a resident of burg, Allegany County, Md., June 5,1894; attended theChicago, Ill., until his death there on December 31, 1967; public schools and Gettysburg College; during the Firstinterment in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. World War served in the Ordnance Corps, United States BEAMAN, Fernando Cortez,a Representative from Army 19 18-1919, being discharged as a sergeant; engaged inMichigan; born in Chester, Vt., June 28, 1814; moved with the insurance and real-estate business; member of the Alle-his parents to a farm in Franklin County, N.Y., in 1819; gany County Road Commission 1923-1930; member, Stateattended the district schools and Malone Academy, Malone, senate 1930-1934; member and chairman of the MarylandN.Y.; taught school; moved to Rochester, N.Y., in 1836; stud- State Road Commission 1938-1939; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the four succeeding Congressesied law; moved to Manchester, Mich., in 1838; was admitted (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1953); was not a candidate forto the bar and commenced practice in 1839; moved to To-- reelection in 1952; elected to the United States Senate as acumseh in 1841 and practiced law there and in Clinton; Republican in 1952, reelected in 1958 and served from Janu-moved to Adrian in 1843, having been appointed prosecuting ary 3, 1953, to January 3, 1965; unsuccessful candidate forattorney for Lenawee County, and served until 1850; city reelection in 1964; returned to Frostburg, Md., and resumedattorney of Adrian; member of the convention that orga- his insurance business; died in Frostburg, Md., January 14,nized the Republican Party "under the oaks" at Jackson, 1971; interment in Frostburg Memorial Park. Mich., in 1854; delegate to the first Republican National Convention, at Philadelphia in 1856; mayor of Adrian in BEALL, John Glenn, Jr. (son of James Glenn Beall), a1856; judge of the probate court of Lenawee County 1856- Representative and a Senator from Maryland; born in Cum-1860; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh and to Biographies 595 the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3,to the Fiftieth Congress; returned to Arizona and resumed 1871); chairman, Committee on Roads and Canals (Thirty-mining operations; moved to New York City in 1889 but ninth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renominationmaintained his citizenship and business interests in Arizona; in 1870; returned to Adrian and resumed the practice of law;died in New York City on February 1, 1904; interment in appointed judge of probate of Lenawee County in 1871, elect-Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. ed to the same position in 1872, and reelected in 1876; ap- pointed United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by BEARD, Edward Peter, a Representative from Rhode the death of Zachariah Chandler in 1879, but declined theIsland; born in Providence, R.I., January 20, 1940; attended appointment owing to ill health; declined appointments toAssumption Elementary School and Hope High School, Prov- the State supreme court and as United States Commissioneridence; served in the Rhode Island National Guard, 1960- of Indian Affairs; died in Adrian, Lenawee County, Mich.,1966, where he completed high school as well as a college- - September 27, 1882; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. level course in agriculture; worked as painter; served in the Rhode Island house of representatives, 1972-1974; delegate,

BEAMER, John Valentine, a Representative from Indi-Democratic National Convention, 1976; elected as a Demo-- ana; born on a farm in Wabash County, md., November 17,crat to the Ninety-fourth, Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth Con- 1896; attended the public schools of Roann, md.; was grad-gresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1981); unsuccessful can- uated from Wabash College, Crawfordsville, md., in 1918;didate for reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress; during the First World War served in the Field Artillery;owned and operated a tavern; director of elderly affairs, City employed with Service Motor Truck Co., Wabash, md., 1919-of Providence, 1986 to present; is a resident of Providence, 1921; representative for the Century Co., school textbookR.I. publisher, New York and Chicago, 1921-1928; vice president and general manager, Wabash (md.) Baking Powder & BEARD, Robin Leo, Jr., a Representative from Tennessee; Chemical Co., 1928-1941; vice president and sales manager,born in Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn., August 21, 1939; Union Rock Wool Corp., Wabash, md., 1935-1942; owner andattended Montgomery Bell Academy, Nashville, Penn.; B.A., operator of a farm near Wabash, md.; served in the StateVanderbilt University, Nashville, 1961; served in the United house of representatives in 1949 and 1950; elected as a Re-States Marine Corps, first lieutenant, 1962-1965; holds rank publican to the Eighty-second and to the three succeedingof captain in Active Reserve; State commissioner of person- Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1959); unsuccessfulnel, 1970-1972; delegate to Tennessee State Republican con- candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress;vention, 1972; delegate to Republican National Convention, member of the National Selective Service Appeal Board1972; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-third Congress from March 1960 until his resignation September 1, 1961;and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973- died in Anderson, md., September 8, 1964; interment inJanuary 3, 1983); was not a candidate in 1982 for reelection Falls Cemetery, Wabash, md. to the United States House of Representatives but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States BEAN, Benning Moulton, a Representative from NewSenate; assistant secretary general for defense support, Hampshire; born in Moultonboro, Carroll County, N.H., onNATO, Brussels, 1984-1987; president of an import-export January 9, 1782; attended the public schools of Moultonborocompany in Washington, D.C., 1987 to present; senior fellow, and received private tutoring; engaged in teaching and inCroton Institute; is a resident of Alexandria, Va. agricultural pursuits; selectman of Moultonboro 1811-1829 and 1832-1838; justice of the peace in 1816; trustee of Sand- BEARDSLEY, Samuel, a Representative from New York; wich Academy in 1824; member of the State house of repre-born in Hoosick, Rensselaer County, N.Y., February 6, 1790; sentatives 1815-1823; served in the State senate 1824-1826;pursued academic studies; taught school; studied law in again a member of the State house of representatives inRome, N.Y.; served as a lieutenant in the War of 1812 and 1827; member of the Governor's council in 1829; againtook part in the defense of Sackets Harbor in 1813; was served in the State senate in 1831 and 1832, being presidentadmitted to the bar in 1815 and commenced practice in the latter year; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-thirdWatertown; judge advocate in the State militia; returned to and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3,Rome in 1816 and continued the practice of law; prosecuting 1837); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1836;attorney in 1821; member of the State senate in 1823; moved resumed teaching and agricultural pursuits in Moultonboro,to Utica, Oneida County, in 1823; United States attorney for Carroll County, N.H., where he died February 6, 1866; inter-the northern district of New York 1823-1830; elected as a ment in Bean Cemetery. Jacksonian to the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty- fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1831, to March BEAN, Curtis Coe, a Delegate from the Territory of Arizo-29, 1836, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on the na; born in Tamworth, Carroll County, N.H., January 4,Judiciary (Twenty-fourth Congress); appointed circuit judge 1828; upon the death of his father moved with his mother toin 1836; attorney general of the State of New York 1836- Gilmanton, Belknap County, N.H., in 1837; attended Gilman-1838; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress ton Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., andand served from March 4, 1843, to February 29, 1844, when Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.; moved to New York Cityhe resigned to accept a judicial appointment; served as asso- in the early fifties and was employed in the United Statesciate judge of the New York Supreme Court from 1844 to customhouse; also engaged in the brokerage business; stud-1847, and was appointed chief justice in the latter year; ied law; was admitted to the bar but did not practice exten-declined another term of service and resumed the practice of sively; moved to Tennessee in 1864 and settled in Columbialaw; died in Utica, N.Y., May 6, 1860; interment in Forest and later in Nashville; member of the State house of repre-Hill Cemetery. sentatives in 1867 and 1868; moved to Arizona Territory and Bibliography: DAB. settled in Prescott in June 1868; engaged in mining; unsuc- cessful candidate for election in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Con- BEATTY, John, a Delegate and a Representative from gress; member of the Territorial senate in 1879; elected as aNew Jersey; born in Neshaminy, Bucks County, Pa., Decem- Republican to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885-ber 10, 1749; was graduated from the College of New Jersey March 8, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886(now Princeton University) in 1769; studied medicine in 596 Biographical Directory

Philadelphia and practiced in Bucks County; entered theto the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); Revolutionary Army in 1775 and had attained the rank ofunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty- major when he was made prisoner at the surrender of Fortfourth Congress; member of the State house of representa- Washington; after his exchange was appointed commissarytives in 1848; moved to a farm near Belmont, Tex., in 1856 general of prisoners with the rank of colonel May 28, 1778;and engaged in agricultural pursuits and cattle raising; died resigned March 31, 1780, and resumed the practice of medi-in Southfork, Owsley County, KY.; interment in Belmont cine in Princeton, N.J.; member of the State council 1781-Cemetery. 1783; Member of the Continental Congress in 1784-1785; appointed by President Lee as one of the special committee BEAUMONT, Andrew, a Representative from Pennsylva- to receive and take leave of General Lafayette in the namenia; born in Lebanon, New London County, Conn., January of the Continental Congress while it was in session at Tren-24, 1790; moved to Pennsylvania in 1808; studied law but ton on December 11, 1784; member of the State conventionnever practiced; collector of revenue in 1814; prothonotary that adopted the Federal Constitution in 1787; member ofand clerk of the courts of Luzerne County, Pa., 1816-1819; the State general assembly in 1789 and 1790, serving asmember of the State house of representatives in 1821, 1822, speaker; elected to the Third Congress (March 4, 1793-and 1826; postmaster of Wilkes-Barre 1826-1832; elected as a March 3, 1795); brigadier general of the Somerset MilitiaJacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congress- 1793-1796; secretary of state of New Jersey 1795-1805;es (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); was not a candidate for served as trustee of the College of New Jersey from 1787renomination; commissioner of public buildings in Washing- until 1802; president of the Trenton Banking Co., from 1815ton, D.C., from November 5, 1846, to March 3, 1847; again a to 1826; died in Trenton, N.J., May 30, 1826; interment inmember of the State house of representatives, in 1849; died First Presbyterian Church Cemetery. in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., September 30, 1853; interment in Hol- Bibliography: DAB. lenback Cemetery. BEAVI'Y, John, a Representative from Ohio; born near BECK, Erasmus Williams, a Representative from Georgia; Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio, December 16, 1828; attendedborn in McDonough, Henry County, Ga., October 21, 1833; the common schools; entered the banking business in 1852, and subsequently, with his brother, conducted a bank inattended the local schools of his native county, a private Cardington, Morrow County, Ohio; at the beginning of theschool, and Mercer University, Macon, Ga., for two years; in Civil War volunteered as a private in the Third Regiment,1855, on account of ill health, returned to McDonough and Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was appointed lieutenant colonelbegan the study of law; moved to Griffm, Ga., in 1856 and in 1861; promoted to colonel in 1862 and took a prominentcontinued his law studies; was admitted to the bar in 1856 part in the campaigns in the Southwest; commanded a regi-and commenced practice in Griffm, Ga.; served for a short ment at Perryville and a brigade at Stone River; commis-period in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, but sioned brigadier general in 1863 and commanded a brigadewas invalided home on account of ill health; during the war at Tullahoma, Chickamauga, and Marion Ridge; elected as awas solicitor general of the Flint circuit; elected as a Demo-- Republican to the Fortieth Congress to ifil the vacancycrat to the Forty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused caused by the death of Cornelius S. Hamilton; reelected toby the death of Thomas J. Speer and served from December the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses and served from 2, 1872, to March 3, 1873; was not a candidate for renomina- February 5, 1868, to March 3, 1873; chairman, Committee ontion in 1872; resumed the practice of his profession at Grif- Enrolled Bills (Forty-first Congress), Committee on Publicfin, Ga.; judge of the city court of Griffm from 1890 until his Buildings and Grounds, (Forty-first Congress); moved to Co-death in that city on July 22, 1898; interment in Oak Hill lumbus, Ohio, in 1873 and organized the Citizens SavingsCemetery. Bank, serving as its president until 1903, when he retired BECK, James Burnie, a Representative and a Senator from active business pursuits; unsuccessful candidate for thefrom Kentucky; born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, February Republican nomination as Governor in 1882; member of the State board of charities in 1886 and 1887; died in Columbus, 13, 1822; received an academic education; immigrated to the Ohio, December 21, 1914; interment in Oakland Cemetery,United States in 1838 and settled in Wyoming County, N.Y.; Sandusky, Ohio. moved to Lexington, Ky., in 1843 and was graduated from Bibliography: DAB. Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., in 1846; was admit- ted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Lexing- BEAII'Y, William, a Representative from Pennsylvania;ton; elected as a Democrat to the Fortieth and to the three born in Stewartstown, County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1787; im-succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1875); ap- migrated to the United States in 1807 and settled in Butler,pointed in May 1876 a member of the commission to define Butler County, Pa.; was a sergeant in Captain Thompson'sthe boundary line between Maryland and Virginia; elected company in the War of 1812; sheriff of Butler County 1823-to the United States Senate in 1876; reelected in 1882, again 1826; elected as a Democrat to the the Twenty-fifth andin 1888, and served from March 4, 1877, until his death in Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837-March 3,1841); Washington, D.C., on May 3, 1890; chairman, Committee on member of the State house of representatives 1840-1842;Transportation Routes to the Seaboard (Forty-sixth Con- appointed deputy sheriff of Butler County; died in Butler,gress); interment in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky. Pa., April 12, 1851; interment in the Old Butler Cemetery. Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses for James Beck. 51st Cong., 2nd sess., 1890-1891. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, BEATY, Martin, a Representative from Kentucky; born in 1891. Abingdon, Va.; operated an iron furnace; moved to Wayne County, Ky., in 1817 and engaged in drilling wells for brine BECK, James Montgomery, a Representative from Penn- and in the manufacture of salt at Saltville, KY.; member ofsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 9, 1861; attended the State senate 18244828 and in 1832; presidential electorthe public schools and was graduated from Moravian Col- on the tickets of Clay and Sergeant in 1832 and Harrisonlege, Bethlehem, Pa., in 1880; employed as clerk for a rail- and Granger in 1836; was an unsuccessful candidate forway company in 1880 and studied law at night; was admit- election in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress and in 1830 toted to the bar in 1884 and commenced practice in Philadel- the Twenty-second Congress; elected as an Anti-Jacksonianphia; admitted to the bar of New York City in 1903, and to Biographies 597 the bar of England in 1922; served as assistant United StatesBardstown, Nelson County, Ky., August 5, 1869; attended the attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania 1888-1892Roseland Academy at Bardstown and Central University, and as United States attorney 1896-1900; appointed byRichmond, KY.; high school principal; studied law; was ad- President William McKinley as assistant to the Attorneymitted to the bar in 1889 and commenced practice in Bard- General of the United States in 1900 and served until hisstown in 1893; member, State house of representatives1894- resignation in 1903; continued the practice of law in Phila-1898, serving as speaker in 1898; lieutenant governor of delphia, New York City, and Washington from 1903 to 1921;Kentucky in 1899, becoming Governor upon the death of the was elected a bencher of Gray's Inn in 1914,being the firstGovernor, February 3, 1900; subsequently elected Governor foreigner in 600 years to receive that distinction; also re-for the unexpired term ending December 8, 1903, and re- ceived decorations from France and Belgium; author of sev-elected for the term 1903-1907; elected as a Democrat to the eral books and articles on the First World War and on theUnited States Senate in 1914 and served from March 4, 1915 Constitution of the United States; appointed by Presidentto March 3, 1921; unsuccessful candidate for reelectionin Warren G. Harding as Solicitor General of the United States1920; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Depart- in 1921 and served until his resignation in 1925; resumedment of Labor (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses); re- - the practice of law; elected as a Republican to the Seventi-sumed the practice of law in Louisville, Ky.; unsuccessful eth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofcandidate for Governor of Kentucky in 1927; unsuccessful James M. Hazlett; reelected to the Seventy-first, Seventy-candidate for nomination to the United States Senate in second, and Seventy-third Congresses and served from No-1936; died in Louisville, Ky., January 9, 1940; interment in vember 8, 1927, until his resignation on September 30, 1934;Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky. resumed the practice of law and was also engaged as an Bibliography: Finch, Glenn. "The Election of United States Senators in author; died in Washington, D.C., April 12, 1936; interment Kentucky: The Beckham Period." Filson Club History Quarterly 44 (Janu- in Rock Creek Cemetery. ary 1970): 38-50. Bibliography: DAB; Keller, Morton. In Defense of Yesterday; James M Beck and the Politics of Conservatism, 1861-1936. New York: Coward- BECKNER, William Morgan, a Representative from Ken- McCann, 1958. tucky; born in Moorefield, Nichols County, Ky., June 19, 1841; attended the public schools, Rand and Richeson Semi- BECK, Joseph David, a Representative from Wisconsin;nary, Maysville, Ky., and CentreCollege, Danville, Ky.; born near Bloomingdale, Vernon County, Wis., March 14,worked on a farm and was subsequently a clerk in a country 1866; attended the common schools; taught in the publicstore at Bethel, Bath County, Ky.; became a private tutor schools of the State for twelve years; was graduated fromand taught school for two years in Orangeburg and Mays- the State Normal School, Stevens Point, Wis., in 1897 andvile; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1864 and from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1903; clerkcommenced practice in Winchester, KY.; city judge in 1865; of the State bureau of statistics of Wisconsin in 1901; deputyserved as prosecuting attorney in 1866 and 1867; waselected commissioner of statistics in 1902; chief of the department ofjudge of Clark County in 1870; established the Clark County labor statistics 1903-19 13; president of the International As-Democrat in 1867, which he owned and edited for anumber sociation of Labor Bureau Officials 19 11-1913; chairman ofof years; appointed State prison commissionerin 1880; the Industrial Commission of Wisconsin 19 13-1917; engagedserved as State railroad commissioner from 1882 until1884, in agricultural pursuits and in stock raising near Viroqua,when he resigned; president of the interstateeducational Vernon County, in 1917; elected as a Republican to theconventions held in Louisville in 1883 and 1885;member of Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March the State constitutional convention in 1890;member of the 4, 1921-March 3, 1929); was not a candidate for renomina-State house of representatives in 1893; chairmanof the tion, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the RepublicanDemocratic State convention in 1893; elected as a Democrat nomination for Governor of Wisconsin in 1928; resumed agri-to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancycaused by the cultural pursuits; appointed a member of the State depart- 1894, ment of agriculture and markets in 1931 and served untildeath of Marcus C. Lisle and served from December 3, to March 3, 1895; unsuccessful candidate forrenomination in his death in Madison, Wis., November 8, 1936; interment in1894; resumed the practice of law; died in Winchester, Ky., Viroqua Cemetery, Viroqua, Wis. March 14, 1910; interment in Winchester Cemetery. BECKER, Frank John, a Representative from New York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., August 27, 1899; moved with his BECKWITH, Charles Dyer, a Representative from New Jersey; born near Coveville, Saratoga County, N.Y.,October parents to Lynbrook, Nassau County, L.I., in November22, 1838; attended private schools in Troy, N.Y.,Philadel- 1905; attended the public schools of Lynbrook and Brown's in Business College, Jamaica, L.I.; during the First World Warphia, Pa., Worcester, Mass., and a military institution New Haven, Cona.; moved to Paterson, Passaic County,N.J., enlisted in the United States Army July 22, 1918, and served member of overseas in France and England; wasdischarged from thein 1860 and engaged in the manufacture of iron; service on September 22, 1919; engaged in the insurancethe board of aldermen in 1882; mayor of Paterson,N.J., business in Lynbrook, N.Y.; member of the State assemblyof1885-1889; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress New York 1945-1953; director and later chairman of board(March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress;resumed of Suburbia Federal Savings & Loan Association; delegate to York each Republican National Convention from 1952 to1964; manufacturing pursuits; returned to the State of New elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third and to the fiveand settled on a farm in the town of Chatham,Columbia succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1965);County, in 1897 and engaged in the managementof his farm was not a candidate for renomination in1964; president ofuntil his death near Chatham Center, Columbia County, real-estate and insurance company; resided in Lynbrook,N.Y., on March 27, 1921; interment in ChathamCenter N.Y., where he died September 4, 1981; interment inPineRural Cemetery. Lawn National Cemetery, Pinelawn, N.Y. BECKWORTH, Lindley Garrison, Sr., a Representative BECKHAM, John Crepps Wickliffe (grandson of Charlesfrom Texas; born on a farm in the South Bouiecommunity near Mabank, Kaufman County,Tex., June 30, 1913; attend- Anderson Wickliffe and cousin of ), East Texas aSenatorfromKentucky;borninWickland,neared the rural schools, Abilene Christian College, 598 Biographical Directory

State Teachers College, Commerce, Tex., Stateuntil his death in New Castle, Del., September 30, 1797; Teachers College, Huntsville, Tex., and Southern Methodistinterment in Immanuel Churchyard. University, Dallas, Tex.; taught school in Upshur County, Bibliography: DAB. Tex, for three years; attended the law department of Baylor University, Waco, Tex., and the University of Texasat BEDFORD, Gunning, Jr. (cousin of Gunning Bedford),a Austin; was admitted to the bar in 1937 and commencedDelegate from Delaware; born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1747; practice in Gilmer, Tex.; member of the State house ofrepre-was graduated from Princeton College in 1771; studied law sentatives 1936-1938; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-in Philadelphia; was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1779 sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-and commenced practice in Dover, Del.; moved to Wilming- January 3, 1953); was not a candidate for renominationinton, Del.; Member of the Continental Congress 1783-1785; 1952, but was unsuccessful for the Democratic nominationappointed attorney general of the State on April 26, 1784, for United States Senator; resumed the practice of law inand served until September 26, 1789; appointed a commis- Longview, Tex.; elected to the Eighty-fifth and to the foursioner to the convention held at Annapolis, Md., in Septem- succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1967);ber 1786 but did not attend; member of the Federal constitu- unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1966; judge,tional convention at Philadelphia in 1787 and signed the United States Custom Court, New York City, 1967-1968;Constitution; delegate to the State convention that ratified resumed the practice of law; was a resident of Upshurthe Federal Constitution in 1787; member of the State County, Gladewater, Tex. until his death at Tyler, March 9,senate in 1788; appointed United States judge for the district 1984; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, Tyler, Tex. of Delaware September 26, 1789, which position he held Bibliography: Kemper, Billie Bundick. "Lindley Beckworth: Grassrootsuntil his death in Wilmington, Del., March 30, 1812; inter- Congressman." Master's thesis, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1980. ment in First Presbyterian Churchyard; reinterment at the BEDE, James Adam, a Representative from Minnesota;Masonic Home of Delaware, on Lancaster Pike, two miles born on a farm in North Eaton Township, Lorain County,west of Wilmington, Del. Ohio, January 13, 1856; attended the public schools of Ohio, Bibliography: DAB. Oberlin (Ohio) College, and Tabor (Iowa) College; read law BEDINGER, George Michael (uncle of Henry Bedinger),a while learning the printing trade; taught school in Iowa,Representative from Kentucky; born in Hanover, York Ohio, and Arkansas; editor and publisher of severalnewspa-County, Pa., December 10, 1756; attended an English school; pers and periodicals; served as a representative for severalmoved to Virginia about 1762 and to Kentucky in 1779 and western newspapers in Washington, D.C., 1888-1891;en-settled at Boonesborough; adjutant in the expedition against gaged in newspaper work at Pine City, Pine County, Minn.;Chillicothe in May 1779; major in the Battle of Blue Licks, served as United States marshal for the district of Minneso-August 19, 1782; major in Drake's Regiment in 1791; major ta in 1894 during the great railway strike; electedas acommanding the Winchester Battalion of Sharpshooters in Republican to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and SixtiethCon- the St. Clair expedition in 1791; major commanding the gresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1909); unsuccessful candi-Third Sublegion of the United States Infantry from April 11, date for renomination in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress;1792, to February 28, 1793; member of the State house of returned to Pine City; engaged as a publisher and lecturer;representatives of the first legislature of Kentucky in 1792; moved to Duluth, Minn., in 1927 and engaged in his formerserved in the State senate in 1800 and 1801; elected as a pursuits; also was interested in the St. Lawrence inlandRepublican to the Eighth and Ninth Congresses (March 4, waterway project; died in Duluth, Minn., April 11, 1942;1803-March 3, 1807); engaged in agricultural pursuits; died interment in Birchwood Cemetery, Pine City, Minn. at Blue Licks Springs, Ky., December 7, 1843; interment in BEDELL, Berkley Warren, a Representative from Iowa;the family cemetery on his farm near Lower Blue Licks born in Spirit Lake, Dickinson County, Iowa, March 5, 1921;Springs, Ky. educated in Spirit Lake public schools; graduated, Spirit Bibliography: DAB. Lake High School, 1939; attended Iowa State University, BEDINGER, Henry (nephew of George Michael Bedinger), Ames, 1940-1942; engaged in fishing tackle business; foundera Representative from Virginia; born near Shepherdstown, and chairman of Berkley & Co., Spirit Lake; served inJefferson County, Va. (now West Virginia), February 3, 1812; United States Army, first lieutenant, 1942-1945; member,attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to Spirit Lake Board of Education, 1957-1962; unsuccessfulcan-the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Shepherdstown; didate for election in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress;moved to Charlestown, Va., and continued the practice of delegate to Iowa State Democratic conventions, 1972-1974;law; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth and Thirti- elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth and to the fiveeth Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1849); was an unsuc- succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1987);cessful candidate for reelection in 1848 to the Thirty-first was not a candidate for reelection in 1986; is a resident ofCongress; resumed the practice of law; appointed Chargé Spirit Lake, Iowa. d'Affaires to Denmark on May 24, 1853, and Minister Resi- BEDFORD, Gunning (cousin of Gunning Bedford, Jr.),adent June 29, 1854, in which capacity he served until August Delegate from Delaware; born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 7,10, 1858, when he resigned; died in Shepherdstown, W.Va., 1742; became a major in the Continental Army in 1775;November 26, 1858; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. lieutenant colonel in Haslet's Regiment in 1776, being Bibliography: Levin, Alexandra Lee. "Henry Bedinger of Virginia: First wounded in the battle of White Plains; subsequentlyap- United States Minister to Denmark." Virginia Caoakade 29 (Spring 1980): pointed muster-master-general in 1776; was admitted to the 184-91. bar in 1779; member of the Delaware general assembly from BEE, Carlos (great-grandson of Thomas Bee), a Represent- New Castle County 1784-1786; elected a Member of the Con-ative from Texas; born in Saltillo, Mexico, July 8, 1867, tinental Congress for the term 1786-1787 but declined towhere his parents had moved after the collapse of the Con- serve and resigned January 15, 1787; member of the Dela-federacy; returned with his parents to San Antonio, Tex., in ware convention in 1787 which ratified the Federal Constitu-1874; attended the public schools and the Agricultural and tion; elected as Governor of Delaware in 1796 and servedMechanical College; studied law while working as a railway Biographies 599 mail clerk; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced BEECIIER, Philemon, a Representative from Ohio; born practice in San Antonio, Tex.; United States commissionerin Kent, Litchfleld County, Conn., in 1775; received aclassi- for the western district of Texas in 1893; district attorney ofcal education; studied law; was admitted to the bar and the thirty-seventh judicial district 1898-1905; chairman ofpracticed; moved to Lancaster, Ohio, in 1801 and continued the Democratic State convention in 1904; delegate to thethe practice of law; member of the State house of represent- Democratic National Convention in 1904 and 1908; served asatives in 1803 and 1805-1807, serving as speaker in 1807; a member of the city school board of SanAntonio 1906-1908;unsuccessful candidate in 1807 for election to the United president of the county school board of Bexar County, Tex.,States Senate, and also as judge of the Ohio Supreme Court; 1912-1914; member of the State senate 1915-1919; elected asmajor general in the State militia; elected to the Fifteenth a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress(March 4, 1919-and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3,1821); March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1820 to the Seven- to the Sixty-seventh Congress; engaged in the practice of lawteenth Congress; elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and in San Antonio, Tex., until his death there on April 20, 1932;Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1829); unsuc- interment in the Confederate Cemetery. cessful candidate for reelection in 1828 to the Twenty-first BEE, Thomas (great-grandfather of Carlos Bee), a Dele-Congress; engaged in the practice of law in Lancaster, Fair- gate from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., in 1725;field County, Ohio, until his death there November 30, 1839; educated in Charleston, and later at Oxford University, Eng-interment in Elmwood Cemetery. land; studied law; was admitted to the bar at Charleston, BEEDY, Carroll Lynwood, a Representative from Maine; S.C., January 27, 1761, and practiced there; also engaged inborn in Phillips, Franklin County, Maine, August 3, 1880; planting; member of Commons House, Province of Southattended the public schools of Lewiston, Androscoggin Carolina, for St. Pauls 1762-1764, for St. Peters 1765, and forCounty, Maine; was graduated from Bates College, Lewiston, St. Andrews 1772-1776; justice of the peace in 1775; DelegateMaine, in 1903 and from the law department of Yale Univer- to the First and Second Provincial Congresses 1775 and 1776; commenced member of the State house of representatives 1776-1779 andsity in 1906; was admitted to the bar in 1907 and 1782, serving as speaker 1777-1779; took an active part inpractice in Portland, Maine; prosecuting attorney of Cum- the Revolution and was a member of the council of safety inberland County 1917-1921; elected as a Republican to the 1775 and 1776; law judge 1776-1778; member of the StateSixty-seventh and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, legislative council 1776-1778; Lieutenant Governor of South1921-January 3, 1935); chairman, Committee on Mileage Carolina in 1779 and 1780; Member of the Continental Con-(Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Ex- gress 1780-1782; appointed judge of theUnited States Courtpenditures in the Department of Labor (Sixty-ninth Con- for the District of South Carolina by President Washingtongress), Committee on Elections No. 1 (Seventieth and Seven- June 14, 1790; published reports of the district court ofty-first Congresses); unsuccessful candidate forreelection in South Carolina in 1810; died in Pendleton, S.C., February 18,1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; engaged in the practice 1812; interment in Woodstock Cemetery, Goose Creek, S.C.of law in Washington, D.C., until his death thereAugust 30, 1947; interment in Evergreen Cemetery,Portland, Maine. BEEBE, George Monroe, a Representative from New York; born in New Vernon, Orange County, N.Y., October BEEKMAN, Thomas, a Representative from NewYork; 28, 1836; attended the common schools, and Walkill Acade-born in Wayne County, N.Y.; town clerk ofSmithfield, N.Y., my, Middletown, N.Y.; studied law and wasgraduated fromin 1824; elected to the Twenty-first Congress (March4, 1829- the Albany Law University in 1857; was admitted to the barMarch 3, 1831); died in Peterboro, N.Y. the same year and commenced practice in Monticello, Sulli- 1857 and became BEEMAN, Joseph Henry, a Representative from Missis- van County, N.Y.; moved to Peoria, ill., in sippi; born near Gatesville, Gates County, N.C.,November editor of the Central Illinois Democrat; moved to Troy, Doni- Ala., in phan County, Territory of Kansas, in 1858 and continued the 17, 1833; moved with his parents to Morgan County, practice of law; member of the Territorial council in 18581847 and to Mississippi in 1849; received an academiceduca- and 1859; appointed by President Buchanan as secretary oftion; taught school for several years; engaged inmercantile the Territory in 1859; Acting Governor in 1860 and 1861;pursuits; served as a lieutenant in theConfederate Army moved to St. Joseph, Mo., in 1861 and to Virginia City, Nev.,during the Civil War; member of the State houseof repre-- in 1863, continuing the practice of his profession; unsuccess-sentatives 1883-1891; connected with the Farmers'Alliance ful candidate for associate judge of the State supreme courtand served as chairman of its executive committee;delegate in 1865; returned to Monticello, N.Y., and became editor ofto several State conventions; elected as aDemocrat to the the Republican Watchman in 1866; unsuccessful candidateFifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); was for the State senate in 1871; member of the State assemblynot a candidate for reelection in 1892; engagedin agricultur- in 1872 and 1873; commissioned by Governor Dix aschief ofal pursuits until his death near Lena, Scott County,Miss., artillery with the rank of colonel in the Fifth Division, Na-July 31, 1909; interment in Beeman Cemetery, Lena,Miss. tional Guard of New York, in 1873; resigned in 1874 to enter BEERMANN, Ralph Frederick, a Representative from Ne-- Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth andbraska; born near Dakota City, Dakota County,Nebr., Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); chair-August 13, 1912; attended public schools, South SiouxCity, man, Committee on Expenditures inthe Department of the andNebr.; Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa, and Army spe- Navy (Forty-fourth Congress), Committee on Mines cialist schools; during the Second World Warserved in the Mining (Forty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for re-- United States Army for three years in African-European election in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress; resumed hisTheaters in the Six Hundred and First Ordnance Battalion, former newspaper pursuits; delegate to the Democratic Na- engaged in tional Conventions in 1876, 1880, and 1892; member of theThree Hundred and First Ordnance Regiment; State court of claims from 1883 until 1900; resided atMonti-partnership with six brothers (Beermann Bros.) in farming, cello until 1892 when he moved to Ellenville, N.Y.;retiredcattle feeding, and alfalfa dehydrating in Dakota County, from active business pursuits in 1900; died in Ellenville,Nebr.; chairman of Dakota County RepublicanCentral Com- Ulster County, N.Y., on March 1, 1927; interment in Wood-mittee for ten years; organized Dakota County Young Re- lawn Cemetery, Newburgh, N.Y. publicans; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and 600 Biographical Directory

to the Eighty-eighth Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, BEGICH, Nicholas Joseph, a Representative from Alaska; 1965); unsuccessful candidate in 1964 for reelectionto theborn in Eveleth, Saint Louis County, Minu., April 6, 1932; Eighty-ninth Congress; resumed business pursuits; diedin anattended the Eveleth public schools and Eveleth Junior Col- airplane crash at Sioux City Municipal Airport, Iowa, Febru-lege; St. Cloud State College, St. Cloud, Minn., B.A., 1952; ary 17, 1977; interment in Dakota City Cemetery, DakotaUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., M.A., 1954; City, Nebr. doctoral work at the Universities of Colorado and North BEERS, Cyrus, a Representative from New York; born inDakota; high school instructor, counselor and director, stu- Newtown, Conn., June 21, 1786; moved with his parentstodent personnel, 1952-1959; principal and superintendent, New York City; obtained a limited education in the publicFort Richardson Schools, Alaska, 1959-1968; part-time in- schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits and also in thestructor, University of Alaska, Anchorage branch, 1956- lumber business; moved to Ithaca, N.Y., in 1821 and engaged1968; builder and manager of apartment houses in Anchor- in the mercantile business; delegate to the Democratic Stateage beginning in 1968; elected to Alaska State senate for two convention at Herkimer in 1830; appointed commissioner offour year terms, 1963-1971, serving as minority whip from deeds at Ithaca in 1837; elected asa Democrat to the1967; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second and to the Twenty-fifth Congress to ifil the vacancy caused by theNinety-third Congresses; disappeared while on a campaign death of Andrew D. W. Bruyn and served from December 3,flight from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska, October 16, 1972; 1838, to March 3, 1839; was not a candidate for renomina-served from January 3, 1971, until December 29, 1972, at tion in 1838; delegate to the New York and Erie Railroadwhich time a presumptive death certificate was recorded in Convention at Ithaca in 1839; resumed his former businessthe State of Alaska. pursuits in Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y., where he died June 5, 1850, interment in the City Cemetery. BEGOLE, Josiah Williams, a Representative from Michi- gan; born in Groveland, Livingston County, N.Y., January BEERS, Edward McMath, a Representative from Pennsyl- 20, 1815; attended the public schools in Mount Morris and vania; born in Nossville, Huntingdon County, Pa., May 27,Temple Hifi Academy, Geneseo, N.Y.; moved to Flint, Gene- 1877; attended the public schools; moved with his parentstosee County, Mich., in August 1836; taught school in 1837 and Mount Union, Pa., in 1889; was graduated from Mount1838; engaged in agricultural pursuits from 1839 to 1856; Union High School in 1895; upon the death of his father,school inspector; justice of the peace and township treasurer; succeeded him in the hotel business in 1895; also interestedcounty treasurer 1856-1864; engaged in the lumber business in agricultural pursuits; delegate to the Republican Statein 1863; member of the State senate in 1870 and 1871; convention at Harrisburg in 1898; mayor of Mount Unionmember of the city council for three years; delegate to the 1910-1914; member of the board of directors of the FirstRepublican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1872; National Bank of Mount Union and of the Grange Trust Co.elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March of Huntingdon, Pa.; associate judge of Huntingdon County4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was an unsuccessful candidate for 1914-1923; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth andto the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4,reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; resumed the 1923, until his death in Washington, D.C.,on April 21, 1932; lumber business and later engaged in the manufacture of interment in the Odd Fellows' Cemetery, Mount Union, Pa.wagons; also engaged in banking; Governor of Michigan 1883-1885; resumed his former business activities; died in BEESON, , a Representative from Pennsylva-Flint, Mich., June 5, 1896; interment in Glenwood Cemetery. nia; born in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pa., September 14, 1791; attended the public schools; engaged in agricultural BEIDLER, Jacob Atlee, a Representative from Ohio; born pursuits; colonel in the Fayette County Militia; electedas ain Tredyffrin Township, near Valley Forge, Chester County, Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill thevacancyPa., November 2, 1852; attended the country schools, and caused by the resignation of Enos Hook and served fromLocke's Seminary, Norristown, Pa.; moved to Ohio and set- May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843; unsuccessful candidate fortied in Willoughby, Lake County, in 1873; engaged in busi- reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress; resumedness as a coal dealer and later as an operator; elected a agricultural pursuits; died in North Union Township,nearmember of the city council of Willoughby in 1881; moved to Uniontown, Pa., October 28, 1863; interment in Oak Hillhis farm, "Belle Vernon," near Willoughby, in 1881 and Cemetery. engaged in raising dairy cattle; president of the Belle Vernon-Mapes Dairy Co.; vice president of the Cleveland, BEGG, James Thomas, a Representative from Ohio; bornPainesville & Eastern Railroad Co.; elected as a Republican on a farm near Lima, Allen County, Ohio, February 16,to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses 1877; attended the public and high schools of Columbus(March 4, 1901-March 3, 1907); owing to ifi health declined Grove, and Lima (Ohio) College; was graduated from theto be a candidate for renomination in 1906 to the Sixtieth Wooster (Ohio) University in 1903; taught school; superin-Congress; resumed his former business activities; president tendent of public schools at Columbus Grove 1905-1910, atof the Rhodes & Beidler Coal Co.; member of the State board Ironton, Ohio, 1910-1913, and at Sandusky, Ohio, 1913-1917;of agriculture; died at "Belle Vernon," near Willoughby, employed as a campaign director and lectured throughoutLake County, Ohio, September 13, 1912; interment in Lake the United States for the American City Bureau of New View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio. York in chamber-of-commerce work 1917-1919; electedas a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the four succeeding BEILENSON, Anthony Charles, a Representative from Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1929); was not a candi-California; born in New Rochelle, Westchester County, N.Y., date for renomination in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress;October 26, 1932; attended schools in Mt. Vernon, N.Y.; engaged in the banking business; unsuccessful candidate forgraduated, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 1950; B.A., election in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; businessHarvard University, 1954; LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1957; consultant and dairy farmer; moved to Oklahoma City,admitted to the California Bar in 1957 and commenced prac- Okla., in 1959, where he resided until his death March 26,tice in Beverly Hills; served in California State assembly, 1963; interment in Garfield-Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland,1963-1966; , 1967-1976; elected as a Ohio. Democrat to the Ninety-fifth and to the five succeeding Con- Biographies 601 gresses (January 3, 1977-January 3, 1989); is aresident ofCounty, Conn., June 2, 1891; interment in Cedar GroveCem- Los Angeles, Calif. etery. BEIRNE, Andrew, a Representative from Virginia; born BELCHER, Page Henry, a Representative from Oklaho- in Dangan, County Roscommon, Ireland, in 1771; received ama; born in Jefferson, Grant County,Okla., April 21, 1899, classical education and was graduated from Trinity Univer-on the claim his father took in theopening of the sity, Dublin, Ireland; immigrated to the United States inStrip; attended high school at Jefferson and Medford, Okia.; 1793 and settled in Union, Monroe County, Va.; engaged instudent at Friends University, Wichita, Kans., and the Uni- mercantile and agricultural pursuits; member of the Stateversity of Oklahoma at Norman; veteran of the FirstWorld house of delegates in 1807 and 1808; during the War of 1812War; court clerk of Garfield County, Okia, 1934-1938; stud- served as captain of a rifle company and as colonel of theied law, was admitted to the bar in 1936 and commenced the Monroe County Militia; delegate to the Virginia constitu-practice of law in Enid, Okla.; municipal judge, Enid, Okla., tional convention in 1829 and 1830; member of the Statein 1938; eighth district chairman, ten years; State executive senate 183 1-1836; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifthsecretary of Republican Party; secretary to Congressman and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1841);Ross Rizley in 1941; member of Enid Board of Education; was not a candidate for reelectionin 1840 to the Twenty-elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the ten seventh Congress; resumed his former business activities;succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1973); died while on a visit in Gainesville, Sumter County, Ala.,was not a candidate for renominationin 1972 to the Ninety- March 16, 1845; interment in the family burying ground atthird Congress; was a resident of Midwest City, Okla., where Union, Monroe County, Va. (now West Virginia). he died August 2, 1980; interment in Memorial Park Ceme- BEITER, Alfred Florian, a Representative from Newtery, Enid, Okla. York; born in Clarence, Erie County, N.Y., July 7, 1894; BELDEN, George Ogilvie, a Representative from New attended elementary schools,Williamsville(N.Y.) HighYork; born in Norwalk, Conn., March 28, 1797; attended the School, and Niagara University, Niagara Falls, N.Y.; movedpublic schools; studied law with Charles Baker, of Blooming- to Williamsville, N.Y., and engaged in the general merchan-burg, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar and practiced inMonti- dising business from 1915 to 1929; supervisor of the town ofcello, Sullivan County, N.Y.; elected to the Twentieth Con- Amherst, N.Y., 1930-1934; elected as a Democrat to the Sev-gress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1829);resumed the practice of enty-third and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4,law; served as general of the Twenty-third Brigade of Infan- 1933-January 3, 1939); chairman, Committee on War Claimstry of the State of New York in 1831; diedin Monticello, (Seventy-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelec-Sullivan County, N.Y., October 9, 1833; interment inthe Old tion in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; assistant to the Secretary of the Interior in 1939 and 1940; elected to theCemetery on St. John Street. Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1943); BELDEN, James Jerome, a Representative from New unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-York; born in Fabius, Onondaga County, N.Y., September30, eight Congress; owned and operated a hatchery and feed1825; attended the common schools; engaged in the banking business in Buffalo, N.Y., 1944-1948; president of -business at Syracuse, N.Y., in 1880; alsointerested in the al Customs Service Association 1949-1961; Deputy Commis-construction of railroads and public works; served as mayor sioner of Customs, Treasury Department, Washington, D.C.,of Syracuse, N.Y., in 1877 and 1878; elected as aRepublican 1961-1964; retired and resided in Boca Raton, Fla., where heto the Fiftieth Congress to fill the vacancycaused by the died March 11, 1974; interment in Boca Raton Cemetery.resignation of Frank Hiscock; reelected to theFifty-first,

Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses and served from No-- BELCHER, Hiram, a Representative from Maine; born invember 8, 1887, to March 3, 1895; was not a candidatefor Hallowell, Maine, February 23, 1790; attended the ruralrenomination in 1894; elected to the Fifty-fifthCongress schools and the local academy at Hallowell 1805-1807; stud- 1899); was not a candidate for ied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in(March 4, 1897-March 3, Farmington, Kennebec County, Maine, in 1812; elected townrenomination in 1898; died in Syracuse, Onondaga County, clerk of Farmington and served from 1814 to 1819; memberN.Y., January 1, 1904; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. of the State house of representatives in 1822, 1829, and 1832; BELFORD, James Burns (cousin of Joseph McCrumBel- served in the State senate in 1838 and 1839; elected as aford), a Representative from Colorado; bornin Lewistown, Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3,Mifflin County, Pa., September 28,1837; attended the 1849); chairman, Committee on Mileage (Thirtieth Congress);common schools and DickinsonCollege, Carlisle, Pa.; studied was not a candidate for reelection in 1848 tothe Thirty-firstlaw; was admitted to the bar in 1859; moved toCalifornia, Congress; engaged in the practice of his profession untilhisMoniteau County, Mo., and commenced practice;moved to death in Farmington, Maine, May 6, 1857; interment inLa Porte, La Porte County, Ind., in 1860; member.of the Center Meeting House Cemetery. State house of representatives in 1867; appointed anassoci- ate justice of the supreme court of Coloradoin 1870 and BELCHER, Nathan, a Representative from Connecticut; the born in Preston (now a part of Griswold), Conn., June23, moved to Central City; moved to Denver in 1883; upon 1813; completed academic studies; was graduated from Am-admission of Colorado as a State into the Union was elected as a Republican to theForty-fourth Congress and served herst (Mass.) College in 1832; studied law at the Cambridge creden- Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1836 andcommencedfrom October 3, 1876, until March 3, 1877; presented practice in Clinton, Conn.; moved in 1841 to New London,tials as a Member-elect to the Forty-fifth Congressand where he engaged in manufacturing tools, hardware,andserved from March 4, 1877, until December 13,1877, when kitchen utensils; member of the State house of representa-he was succeeded by Thomas M. Patterson, who contested in 1850;his election; elected to the Forty-sixth,Forty-seventh, and tives 1846 and 1847; served in the State senate 1885); elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March4, Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Departmentof 1853-March 3, 1855); was not a candidate for renomination unsuccessful candi- in 1854; resumed his former manufacturingpursuits; alsothe Treasury (Forty-seventh Congress); engaged in banking; died in New London, New Londondate for renomination in 1884; engaged in the practiceof 602 Biographical Directory

law in Denver, Cob., until his death there January 10,1910; thorne Grammar and Webb schools; graduated from Occi- interment in Riverside Cemetery. dental College, Los Angeles, CaIIL, in 1938; served in the BELFORD, Joseph McCrum (cousin of James BurnsBel-Army Air Corps, 1942-1945; engaged in ranching, real-estate ford), a Representative from New York; born in Mifflintown,and petroleum interests; president of Bell Petroleum Co., Juniata County, Pa., August 5, 1852; attended Dickinson1947-1960; chairman of the board of Bell Petroleum Co., Seminary, Williamsport, Pa., andwas graduated from Dick-since 1960; chairman of the Republican State Central Com- inson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1871; moved to Long Island,mittee of California and member of the Republican National N.Y., in 1884 and engaged in teaching at the FranklinvilleCommittee, 1956-1959; chairman of the Republican Central and Riverhead Academies; studied law;was admitted to theCommittee of Los Angeles County, 1958-1960; electedas a bar in 1889 and commenced the practice of law inRiver-Republican to the Eighty-seventh and to the seven succeed- head, Long Island, N.Y.; served as secretary and chairman ofing Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1977); was nota the Suffolk County Republican committee; clerk of thesur-candidate for reelection in 1976 but was an unsuccessful rogate court; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Con-candidate for nomination to the United States Senate;owner gress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); was not a candidate forand president of Bar-Bell Farms, Inc.; is a resident of Fallon, renomination in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; delegate toNev. the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1900; resumed the practice of his chosen profession in Riverhead, BELL, Charles Henry (nephew of Samuel Bell and cousin Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y.; also engaged in the bank-of James Bell), a Senator from New Hampshire; born in ing business; served as surrogate of Suffolk County fromChester, Rockingham County, N.H., November 18, 1823;was 1904 to 1910; died suddenly in Grand Central Station, Newgraduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1844; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Ches- York City, May 3, 1917; interment in Riverhead Cemetery,ter, Great Falls, and Exeter, N.H.; county solicitor for ten Riverhead, Long Island, N.Y. years; member, State house of representatives 1858-1860, BELKNAP, Charles Eugene, a Representative from Michi-serving as speaker in 1860; member, State senate 1863-1864, gan; born in Massena, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., Octoberserving as president in 1864; appointed as a Republican to 17, 1846; moved with his parents to Grand Rapids, Mich., inthe United States Senate to if! the vacancy in the term 1855; attended the common schools; left school August 14,beginning March 4, 1879, and served from March 13, 1879, to 1862, and enlisted in the Twenty-first Regiment, MichiganJune 18, 1879, when a successor was elected;was not a Volunteer Infantry; received a captain's commission Janu-candidate for election to the Senate in 1879; resumed the ary 8, 1864; brevet major August 1864; brevet lieutenantpractice of law at Exeter and also engaged in literary pur- colonel June 1865; served until June 1865 with the Army ofsuits; Governor of New Hampshire 1881-1883; president of the Cumberland; engaged in the manufacture ofwagons andthe State constitutional convention in 1889; president of the sleighs in 1871; member of the board of education of GrandNew Hampshire HistoricalSociety1868-1887;diedin Rapids 187 1-1878; served on the board of aldermen 1880-Exeter, Rockingham County, N.H., November 11, 1893; inter- 1882; elected mayor of Grand Rapids in 1884; trusteeof thement in Exeter Cemetery. State institution for the deaf 1885-1891; president of the Bibliography: DAB. State hospital board 1905-1915; electedas a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); BELL, Charles Jasper, a Representative from Missouri; wasborn in Lake City, Hinsdale County, Cob., January 16, 1885; not a candidate for renomination in 1890, butwas subse- quently nominated and elected to the Fifty-second Congressattended the country schools in Jackson County, Mo., Lees to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Melbourne H. FordSummit (Mo.) High School, and the University of Missouri at and served from November 3, 1891, to March 3, 1893;unsuc-Columbia; was graduated from Kansas City (Mo.) School of cessfully contested the election of George F. RichardsontoLaw in 1913; was admitted to the bar the same year and the Fifty-thirdCongress; resumed the manufacture ofcommenced practice in Kansas City, Mo.; member of the city wagons and sleighs; served on staff duty at Fort Oglethorpecouncil of Kansas City 1926-1930; member of the committee during the Spanish-American War; died in Grand Rapids,to draft the administrative code which comprises the general law of Kansas City, Mo.; judge of the circuit court of Jackson Mich., January 16, 1929; interment in the Greenwood Ceme-- tery. County, Mo., from 1931 until his resignation in 1934; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the six succeed- BELKNAP, Hugh Reid, a Representative from Illinois;ing Congresses (January 3, 1935-Januray 3, 1949); chairman, born in Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, September 1, 1860;at-Committee on Elections No. 1 (Seventy-sixth and Seventy- tended the public schools, Adams Academy, Quincy, Mass.,seventh Congresses), Committee on Insular Affairs (Seventy- and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; at theage of eight-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses); member of the Filipi- een entered the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.no Rehabilitation Commission in 1945 and 1946; was not a and worked in various capacities until he retired in 1892 tocandidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; become superintendent of the South Side Rapid Transit Rail-resumed the practice of law; managing private investments; road of Chicago; successfully contested as a Republican thedied in Kansas City, Mo., January 21, 1978; interment in election of Lawrence E. McGann to the Fifty-fourth Con-Blue Springs Cemetery, Blue Springs, Mo. gress; reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served from December 27, 1895, to March 3, 1899; unsuccessful candidate BELL, Charles Keith (nephew of Reese Bowen Brabson),a for reelection in 1898 to .the Fifty-sixth Congress; resided inRepresentative from Texas; born in Chattanooga, Tenn., Chicago,Ill.,until 1901; appointed a paymaster in theApril 18, 1853; attended the public schools and Sewanee United States Army with the rank of major and served from(Tenn.) College; moved to Texas in 1871; studied law; was February 2, 1901, until his death in Calamba, Laguna, P.1.,admitted to the bar in 1874 and commenced practice in Hamilton, Tex.; prosecuting attorney of Hamilton County in November 12, 1901; interment in Arlington National Ceme-- tery. 1876; district attorney 1880-1882; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1884; member of the State senate BELL, Alphonzo, a Representative from Calfornia; born1884-1888; judge of the twenty-ninth judicial district of in Los Angeles, Calif., September 19, 1914; attended Haw-Texas 188-1890; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Biographies 603 and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897);sentatives 1846-1850; delegate to the Stateconstitutional was not a candidate for renomination in1896; resumed theconvention in 1850; unsuccessful candidate for Governorof practice of law in Fort Worth, Tex.; attorney general ofNew Hampshire in 1854 and 1855; elected as aRepublican to Texas 1901-1904; again resumed the practice of law in Fortthe United States Senate for the term beginningMarch 4, Worth, where he died April 21, 1913; interment in East1855, and served from July 30, 1855, until his deathin Oakwood Cemetery. Laconia, Belknap County, N.H., May 26, 1857; intermentin BELL, Charles Webster, a Representative from Ca1iforni;Exeter Cemetery, Exeter, N.H. born in Albany, N.Y., June 11, 1857; attended the public BELL, James Martin, a Representative from Ohio; bornin schools; moved to California in 1877 and settled in Pasadena,Huntingdon County, Pa., October 16, 1796; attended the Los Angeles County; engaged in fruit growing and the realpublic schools; studied law in Steubenville, Ohio; wasadmit- estate business; county clerk of Los Angeles County 1899-ted to the bar in 1817 and commenced practicein Cam- 1903; member of the State senate 1907-1912; elected as abridge, Guernsey County, Ohio; served as major general of Progressive Republican to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4,the Fifteenth Division, Ohio Militia; prosecuting attorneyof 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inGuernsey County 1818-1832; member of the Statehouse of 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; resumed his former busi-representatives 1'826-1881, serving as speaker in 1830 and ness pursuits in Pasadena, CaliL;served as secretary of the in Pasadena Mercantile Finance Corporation; died in Pasadena,1831; master commissioner in 1827; justice of the peace Calif., April 19, 1927; interment in Mountain View Ceme-1830; county school examiner in 1830; elected as an Anti- Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833- tery. March 3, 1835); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 BELL, Hiram, a Representative from Ohio; born in Salem, to the Twenty-fourth Congress; resumed the practiceof law; Vt., April 22, 1808; attended the public schools of his nativeserved as mayor of Cambridge from 1838 to 1840;died in city; moved with his parents to Hamilton, Ohio, in 1826;Cambridge, Ohio, on April 4. 1849; interment in Founders' studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1829 and commencedBurial Ground. practice in Greenville, Darke County, Ohio; auditor of Darke County in 1829 and 1834; member of the State houseof BELL, John, a Representative from Ohio; born in Penns- representatives in 1836, 1887, and 1840; elected as a Whig toboro, Lycoming County, Pa., June 19, 1796; received alimit- the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853);ed education; moved to Ohio in 1810 with his parents,who was not a candidate for renomination in1852; engaged insettled in Greene County, near Xenia; moved to Lower San- the practice of his profession until his death in Greenville,dusky in 1823; city mayor in 1830; probate judge ofSandus- Ohio, December 21, 1855; interment in the Greenville Ceme-- ky County several terms; commissioned majorgeneral of tery. State militia in 1834; commanded Ohio forces inthe Toledo BELL, Hiram Parks, a Representative from Georgia; bornwar in 1835; served as postmasterof Lower Sandusky from near Jefferson, Jackson County, Ga., January19, 1827; at-November 14, 1838, to May 3, 1841; member of the State tended the public schools at Cumming, Forsyth County, Ga.;house of representatives in 1844 and 1845; mayorof Fre- taught school for two years, during which time he studiedmont, Ohio, in 1845 and 1846; elected as aWhig to the law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced prac-Thirty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by thedeath tice in Cumming; member of the secession convention inof Amos E. Wood and served from January7 to March 3, 1861 and opposed the secession ordinance; commissioner1851; probate judge 1852-1855 and 1858-1863;died in Fre- from Georgia to solicit the cooperation of Tennessee in themont, Sandusky County, Ohio, May 4,1869; interment in formation of a southern confederacy; member of the StateOakwood Cemetery. senate in 1861, but resigned to enter the Confederate Army; from Ten- during the Civil War was commissioned captain and later BELL, John, a Representative and a Senator promoted to lieutenant colonel and colonel of the Forty-thirdnessee; born near Nashville, Tenn.,February 15, 1797; was Georgia Regiment; member of the Second Confederate Con-graduated from the University of Nashville in 1814;studied gress in 1864 and 1865; member of theDemocratic Statelaw; was admitted to the bar in 1816and commenced prac- executive committee 1868-1871; elected as a Democrat to thetice in Franklin, Tenn.; member, State senate1817; declined moved to Nashville; Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); dele- - to be a candidate for reelection and gate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876; waselected to the Twentieth, and to the six succeedingCongress- chosen a member of the Democratic National Committeees (March 4, 1827-March3, 1841); Speaker of the House of from the State at large; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress toRepresentatives (Twenty-third Congress); chairman,Commit- ff1 the vacancy caused by the resignation of BenjaminH.tee on Indian Affairs (Twenty-firstthrough Twenty-sixth Hill and served from March 13, 1877, to March 3, 1879;Congresses, except for Twenty-third), Committee onJudici- unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1878; member ofary (Twenty-second andTwenty-third Congresses); appointed the State house of representatives in 1898 and 1899;servedby President William Henry Harrison asSecretary of War in the State senate in 1900 and 1901; died in Atlanta,Ga.,March 5, 1841, and served until September 12,1841, when August 17, 1907; interment in Cuminmg Cemetery,Cum-he resigned; member, State house ofrepresentatives in 1847; ming, Ga. elected as a Whig to the United States Senate in1847; 1847, to BELL, James (son of Samuel Bell, uncle of Samuel Newellreelected in 1853, and served from November 22, Bell, and cousin of Charles Henry Bell), a Senatorfrom NewMarch 3, 1859; unsuccessful candidate in 1860 for President Hampshire; born in Francistown, Hillsboro County,N.H.,of the United States on the Constitutional Unionticket; November 13, 1804; attended Phillips Academy, Andover,investor in ironworks at Cumberland Furnacein Chattanoo- Mass., aid was graduated from Bowdoin College,Brunswick,ga, Tenn.; died at his home onthe banks of the Cumberland Maine, in 1822; studied law at Litchfleld LawSchool, Litch-River, near Cumberland Furnace, September10, 1869; inter- field, Conn.; was admitted to the bar in 1825 andcommencedment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, nearNashville, Tenn. practice in Gilmanton, N.H.; moved to Exeter in1831 and to Bibliography: DAB; Parks, Joseph H. John Bell Of Tennessee.Baton Gilford in 1846; member, New Hampshire houseof repro- Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1950. 604 Biographical Directory

BELL, John Calhoun, a Representative fromColorado;1857); was not a candidate for renomination in 1856; moved born near Sewanee, Franklin County, Tenn.,December 11,to North Carolina in 1857 and settled in Halifax County; 1851; attended public and private schools inFranklindied in Littleton, Halifax County, N.C., March 8, 1898; inter- County; studied law in Winchester, Tenn., andwas admittedment in City Cemetery. to the bar in 1874; moved to Colorado in 1874 andcom- Bibliography: DAB. menced practice in Del Norte, moving to Saguache,Cob., the same year; county attorney of Saguache County, Cob., BELL, Samuel (father of James Bell, grandfather of from 1874 to May 1876; moved to Lake City, Cob., in 1876;Samuel Newell Bell, and uncle of Charles Henry Bell),a elected county clerk of Hinsdale County in 1878;mayor ofSenator from New Hampshire; born in Londonderry, N.H., Lake City in 1885; moved to Montrose, MontroseCounty,February 9, 1770; attended the common schools and New Cob., in 1886 and continued the practice of law; servedasIpswich Academy; graduated from Dartmouth College, Hano- judge of the seventh judicial district of Colorado from 1889ver, N.H., in 1793; studied law; was admitted to the bar in until his resignation in 1892, having been elected toCon- 1796 and commenced practice in Francestown, N.H.; moved gress; elected as a Populist to the Fifty-third and to the fourto Amherst, N.H., in 1810 and to Chester, N.H., in 1812 and succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1903);unsuc-continued the practice of law; member, State house ofrepre- cessful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighthsentatives 1804-1807, serving as speaker 1805-1807; member, Congress; member of the United States Industrial Commis-State senate, serving as president of that body 1807-1809; sion in 1900 and 1901; resumed the practice of law in Mon-member, state executive council 1809-1811; judge of the trose, Cob.; judge of the Court of Appeals of Colorado 1913-State supreme court 1816-1819; Governor of New Hampshire 1915; again resumed the practice of law; member of the1819-1823; elected to the United States Senate in 1823;re- State board of agriculture 1931-1933; died in Montrose, elected in 1829, and served from March 4, 1823, to March 3, Cob., August 12, 1933; interment in the Cedar Cemetery.1835; was not a candidate for reelection in 1834; chairman, Committee on Claims (Twenty-third Congress); affiliated BELL, John Junior, a Representative from Texas; born inwith the Whig Party upon its formation in 1834; retired to Cuero, De Witt County, Tex., May 15, 1910; attended thehis farm; died in Chester, N.H., on December 23, 1850; inter- public schools; was graduated from the University of Texasment in the Village Cemetery. at Austin in 1932 and from its law school in 1936;was admitted to the bar in 1936 and commenced the practice of Bibliography: DAB. law in Cuero, Tex.; served in the State house ofrepresenta- BELL, Samuel Newell (grandson of Samuel Bell and tives 1937-1947; president of a company operatingcompress-nephew of James Bell), a Representative from New Hamp- es in Victoria, Shiner, Cuero, and Taft, Tex.; during theshire; born in Chester, Rockingham County, N.H., March 25, Second World War served as a private in the United States1829; attended school in Francestown, N.H., and Phillips Army from May 1944 to March 1945; member of the StateAcademy, Andover, Mass.; was graduated from Dartmouth senate 1947-1954; delegate to the Democratic National Con-College, Hanover, N.H., in 1847; studied law; was admitted ventions in 1948 and 1952; elected as a Democrat to theto the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Meredith, Eighty-fourth Congress (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1957);Bebknap County, N.H.; elected as a Democrat to the Forty- unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1956; .lawyer,second Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); unsuccessful rancher, and farmer; was a resident of Cuero, Tex., untilhiscandidate for reelection in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; death January 24, 1963; interment in Hillside Cemetery.elected to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for reelection in 1876; resumed BELL, Joshua Fry, a Representative from Kentucky; bornthe practice of law in Meredith; also interested in large real in Danvilbe, Boyle County, Ky., November 26, 1811;attended the public schools; was graduated from Centre College, Dan-estate holdings; served as president of several railroads and ville, Ky., in 1828; studied law in Lexington, Ky.; traveled invice president of the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Co.;

appointed chief justice of the superior court of New Hamp-- Europe for several years before admission to the bar;com-shire, but declined to accept; retired from public life; died menced practice in Danville, Boyle County, Ky.; electedas a Whig to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3,while on a visit in North Woodstock, N.H., February 8, 1889; 1847); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1846; interment in the Valley Cemetery, Manchester, N.H. secretary of state of Kentucky in 1849; chosen by the legisla- BELL, Theodore Arlington, a Representative from Cali- ture as one of six commissioners to the peace convention offornia; born in Vallejo, Solano County, Calif., July 25, 1872; 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devisemeansmoved with his parents to St. Helena, Napa County, in 1876; to prevent the impending war; delegate to the Border Stateattended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to convention in 1861; nominated in 1863 by the Union Demo-the bar in 1893 and commenced practice at Napa, Calif.; crats for Governor of Kentucky, but declined to accept thedistrict attorney of Napa County 1895-1903; elected as a nomination; member of the State house of representativesDemocrat to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903- 1862-1867; died in Danville, Ky., August 17, 1870; intermentMarch 3, 1905); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904 in Bellevue Cemetery. to the Fifty-ninth Congress; moved to San Francisco in 1906 BELL, Peter Hansbrough, a Representative from Texas;and continued the practice of his profession; unsuccessful born in Spotsybvania County, Va., May 12, 1812; attendedcandidate for Governor of California in 1906 and 1910; dele- the public schools; moved to Texas in 1836 during thewargate to the Democratic National Convention in 1908 and for Texan independence; participated in the Battle of San1912; became affiliated with the Republican Party in 1921; Jacinto; assistant adjutant general of the Texan forces inwas accidentally killed near San Rafael, Mann County, 1837 and inspector general in 1839; served in the MexicanCalif., September 4, 1922; interment in Odd Fellows Ceme-- War as captain of the Texas Volunteer Rangers in 1845 andtery, St. Helena, Calif. 1846 and as lieutenant colonel of mounted volunteers; colo- BELL, Thomas Montgomery, a Representative from Geor- nel of a Texan volunteer regiment in 1848 and 1849; Gover-gia; born in Nacoochee Valley, near Cleveland, White nor of Texas 1849-1853; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-County, Ga., March 17, 1861; attended the common schools, third and Thirty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3,a private school in Cleveland, Ga., and Moore's Business Biographies 605

University at Atlanta; taught in the public schools of Cleve-City November 12, 1858; attended St. Paul's School, Concord, land in 1878 and 1879; in the following year became em-N.H., and was graduated from the United States Naval ployed as a traveling salesman and was connected withAcademy, Annapolis, Md., June 10, 1880; was commissioned many wholesale business houses at Atlanta, Ga., and Balti-as a midshipman and served until June 1,1881, when he more, Md.; moved to Gainesville, Ga., in 1885 and continuedresigned; at one time a member of the banking firm of his former pursuits; elected clerk of the superior court ofAugust Belmont & Co., New York City; became publisher of Hall County in 1898; reelected in 1900 and again in 1902 andthe Verdict, a weekly paper; delegate to the Democratic served until 1904; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-ninthNational Convention in 1900; elected as a Democrat to the and to the twelve succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1905-Fifty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); was March 3, 1931); majority whip (Sixty-third Congress); unsuc-not a candidate for renomination in 1902; died in Hemp- cessful candidate for renomination in 1930; employed as astead, N.Y., on June 10, 1908; interment in Woodlawn Ceme- representative of a marble company; died in Gainesville, tery, New York City. Ga., March 18, 1941; interment in Alta Vista Cemetery. BELMONT, Perry (brother of Oliver Hazard Perry Bel- BELLAMY, John Dillard, a Representative from Northmont), a Representative from New York; born in New York Carolina; born in Wilmington, N.C., March 24, 1854; attend-City December 28, 1851; attended Everest Military Academy, ed the common schools and Cape Fear Military Academy;Hamden, Conn., and was graduated from Harvard Universi- was graduated from Davidson College, Davidson, N.C., inty in 1872; studied civil law at the University of Berlin; was 1873 and from the University of Virginia at Charlottesvillegraduated from the Columbia Law School, New York City, in 1875; was admitted to the bar in 1875 and commenced thein 1876; was admitted to the bar the same year and com- practice of law in Wilmington, N.C.; city attorney of Wil-menced practice in New York City; elected as a Democrat to mington 1892-1894; member of the State senate 1900-1902;the Forty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses delegate at large to the Democratic National Conventions inand served from March 4, 1881, to December 1, 1888, when 1892, 1908, and 1920; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixthhe resigned to accept a diplomatic position; chairman, Com- and Fifty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1903);mittee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Forty-eighth unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1902 to the Fifty-Congress), Committee on Foreign Affairs (Forty-ninth and eighth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Wilmington,Fiftieth Congresses); declined to be a candidate for renomi- N.C.; also engaged as an author; district counsel for thenation to Congress in 1888; United States Minister to Spain Seaboard Air Line Railway Co., the Southern Bell Telephone Co., and the Western Union Telegraph Co.; also connectedin 1888 and 1889; delegate to the Democratic National Con- with the street railway company and cotton mills in Wil-ventions in 1892, 1896, 1904, and 1912; during the Spanish- mington, N.C.; appointed by Governor McLean as a commis-American War served as major and inspector general of the sioner from North Carolina to the celebration of the two-First Division, Second Army Corps, United States Volun- hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington,teers; in 1905 successfully initiated and organized the move- held in Washington, D.C., in 1932; died in Wilmington, N.C.,ment for the Federal and State campaign-publicity legisla- September 25, 1942; interment in Oakdale Cemetery. tion, which was enacted into law in 1911, and was elected president of the National Association for Campaign Publici- BELLINGER, Joseph, a Representative from South Caro-ty Law; during the First World War was commissioned a lina; born at Bellinger Plantation in Saint Bartholomewcaptain in the remount service; resumed the practice of law Parish, Ashepoo, Colleton County, S.C., in 1773; planter andin New York City in 1920; author of a number of books owner of "Aeolian Lawn" plantation; member of the Statepertaining to national and political affairs; went abroad in house of representatives 1802-1809 and of the State senate1932 for three years, residing mostly at Paris, France; re- from Barnwell District 1810-1813; elected as a Republican toturned, and made Newport, R.I., his permanent residence; the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1819); wasdied at Newport, R.I., May 25, 1947; interment in Island not a candidate for reelection to the Sixteenth Congress;Cemetery. died at Charleston, S.C., January 10, 1830; interment in the Bibliography: Belmont, Perry. An American Democrat; The Recollections Bellinger private burial ground, Poco Sabo Plantation, Ashe- of Perry Belmont. 1941. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1967. p00, S.C. BELSER, James Edwin, a Representative from Alabama; BELLMON, Henry Louis, a Senator from Oklahoma; bornborn in Charleston, S.C., December 22, 1805; attended the on a farm near Tonkawa, Kay County, Okla.,September 3,public schools; in 1820 moved with his parents to Sumter 1921; educated in Noble County public schools; graduatedDistrict, S.C., where he continued his schooling under a Oklahoma State University (then Oklahoma A.&M. College)private tutor; moved to Alabama in 1825 and settled in 1942; served in United States Marine Corps 1942-1946;Montgomery; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- farmer and rancher; served in Oklahoma house of represent-menced practice in Montgomery; elected clerk of the county atives 1946-1948; State Republican chairman 1960; electedcourt; member of the State house of representatives in 1828; Oklahoma's first Republican Governor in 1962, served 1963-edited the Planters Gazette for several years; appointed so- 1967; while in office, chairman, Interstate Oil Compact Com-licitor of Montgomery County in 1828 and later elected to mission, and member, executive committee, National Gover-that position; appointed by Governor Fitzpatrick in 1842 as a nors Conference; elected as a Republican tothe Unitedcommissioner of the State to procure a settlement of the States Senate in 1968; reelected in 1974 and served fromclaims against the Federal Government for money advanced January 3, 1969, to January 3, 1981; was not a candidate forin the Indian War of 1836; elected as a Democrat to the reelection in 1980; co-founder and co-chairman of the Com-Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); de- mittee for a Responsible Federal Budget; appointed directorclined to be a candidate for renomination in 1844; resumed of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services 1983; elect-the practice of law in Montgomery; affiliated with the Whig ed Governor of Oklahoma 1986; is a resident of Red Rock,Party in 1848; again elected a member of the State house of Okla. representatives in 1853 and reelected in 1857; died in Mont- BELMONT, Oliver Hazard Perry (brother of Perry Bel-gomery, Ala., January 16, 1859; intermentin Oakwood Cem- mont), a Representative from New York; born in New Yorketery. 606 Biographical Directory

BELTZHOOVER, Frank Eckels, a Representative from1980; delegate, West Virginia State Republican conventions, Pennsylvania; born in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland1964-1976; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1984; County, Pa., November 6, 1841; attended Big Spring Acade-elected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh Congress (Jan- my, Newville; was graduated from Pennsylvania College at uary 3, 1981-January 3, 1983); was not a candidate for re- - Gettysburg in 1862; studied law; was admitted to the bar inelection in 1982 but was an unsuccessful candidate for elec- 1864 and commenced practice in Carlisle, Pa.; chairman oftion to the United States Senate; unsuccessful candidate in the Democratic committee of Cumberland County 1868 and1984 for election to the Ninety-ninth Congress; deputy assist- 1873; district attorney 1874-1877; delegate to the Democraticant secretary, U.S. Department of Energy, 1983; chairman, National Convention in 1876; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-RS.M., Inc., Washington, D.C., 1985-1986; is a resident of March 3, 1883); was not a candidate for renomination inLewisburg, W.Va. 1882; elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses BENEDICT, Henry Stanley, a Representative from Cali- (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); chairman, Committeeonfornia; born in Boonville, Cooper County, Mo., February 20, War Claims (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses); was1878; moved with his parents to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1888; not a candidate for renomination in 1894; resumed the prac-attended the grammer schools and high school; attended the tice of law in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa.; discontinued University of Southern California College of Law, Los Ange-- the practice of his profession in 1910 and moved to Losles, Calif.; was admitted to the bar in 1910 and commenced Angeles, Calif., where he lived in retirement until his death on June 2, 1923; interment in Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle,practice in Los Angeles, Calif.; member of the State house of Pa. representatives 1910-1914; served in the State senate 1914- 1916; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth Congress to BENDER, George Harrison, a Representative and a Sena-ifilthe vacancy caused by the resignation of William D. tor from Ohio; born in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 1896;Stephens and served from November 7, 1916, to March 3, attended the public schools; owner of an insurance business;1917; was nominated by the Progressive Party for the Sixty- in 1934 founder, editor and publisher of the National Repub-fifth Congress, but withdrew in behalf of the Republican lican magazine; member, State senate 1920-1930; unsuccess-nominee; continued the practice of law and also engaged in ful candidate for election to the United States House ofbanking; member of the State department of fmance of Cali- Representatives in 1930, 1932, 1934, and 1936; elected as afornia (State board of control) from 1919 to 1921; served as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the four succeedingmember of the California State Railroad Commission from Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful1921 to 1923; resumed the practice of law in Los Angeles, candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress;Calif., until his death; died while on a visit in London, elected to the Eighty-second and Eighty-third CongressesEngland, July 10, 1930; interment in Forest Lawn Memorial and served from January 3, 1951, until his resignation effec-Park, Glendale, Calif. tive December 15, 1954; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending BENET, Christie, a Senator from South Carolina; born in January 3, 1957, caused by the death of Robert A. Taft, andAbbeville, Abbeville County, S.C., December 26, 1879; attend- served from December 16, 1954, to January 3, 1957; unsuc-ed the common schools, the College of Charleston, the Uni- cessful candidate for reelection in 1956; special assistant toversity of South Carolina at Columbia, and the University of Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1957-1958; diedVirginia at Charlottesville; studied law; was admitted to the in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, June 18, 1961; interment in Knoll-bar and commenced practice in Columbia, Richland County, wood Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, Cleveland, Ohio. S.C., in 1903; solicitor of the fifth judicial circuit in 1908; Bibliography: DAB; Bender, George. The Challenge of 1940. New York: attorney for the city of Columbia 1910-1912; three times G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1940. secretary of the Democratic State committee; appointed as a BENEDICT, Charles Brewster, a Representative fromDemocrat to the United States Senate toifilthe vacancy New York; born in Attica Township, Wyoming County, N.Y.,caused by the death of Benjamin R. Tillman and served from February 7, 1828; attended the public schools and OberlinJuly 6 to November 5, 1918, when a successor was elected; College, Oberlin, Ohio; taught school and also engaged inunsuccessful candidate for election in 1918 to the Senate to agricultural pursuits; studied law; was admitted to the barfill the vacancy; chairman, Committee on National Banks in 1856 and commenced practice in Attica, N.Y.; justice of(Sixty-fifth Congress); resumed the practice of law; member the peace 1854-1860; engaged in banking in 1859; member ofand later chairman of the board of regents of South Carolina the board of supervisors of Wyoming County 1869-187 1 andState Hospital 1915-1946; during the Second World War 1873-1875, serving a part of the time as chairman; memberserved as chairman of the War Finance Committee for South of the Democratic State committee in 1875; elected as aCarolina and was serving as chairman of the Alien Enemy Democrat to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-MarchHearing Board for the eastern district of South Carolina at time of death; died in Columbia, S.C., March 30, 1951; inter- 3, 1879); was not a candidate for renomination in 1878; re-- sumed banking in Attica, N.Y.; one of the organizers of thement in Elmwood Cemetery. First National Bank at Moorhead, Minn., and also operated BENIIAM, John Samuel, a Representative from Indiana; farming lands extensively in that vicinity; died in Attica,born on a farm near Benham, Ripley County, Ind., October N.Y., October 3, 1901; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery.24, 1863; attended the public schools, a business college in BENEDICT, Cleveland Keith, a Representative from WestDelaware, Ohio, and a normal school in Brookville, Ind.; Virginia; born in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pa., Marchtaught school in the winter and attended college in the 21, 1935; attended the public schools; graduated, The Hillsummer, being engaged as a teacher in various places in School, Pottstown, Pa., 1953; B.A., Princeton University,Indiana from 1882 to 1907; was graduated from Indiana 1959; graduated, Graham School for Cattlemen, Graham,State Normal School at Terre Haute, Ind., in 1893 and from Kans, 1962; dairy farmer; chairman, West Virginia Board ofIndiana University at Bloomington, Ind., in 103; specialized Probation and Parole, 1974-1975; commissioner, finance andin history at the University of Chicago for several terms; administration, State of West Virginia, 1975-1977; chairman,superintendent of schools for Ripley County for fourteen West Virginia State Republican Executive Committee, 1977-years; returned to Benham, Ind., in 1907 and engaged in the Biographies 607 timber, milling, and contracting business; also followed agri-Republican National Convention in 1864; elected as a Repub- cultural pursuits; delegate to the Republican National Con-lican to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congress- vention in 1916; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixthes (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1871); chairman,Committee on and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923);Invalid Expenditures (Forty-first Congress); was not a candi- chairman, Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildingsdate for renomination in 1870; resumed the practice of law (Sixty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelec-in Shelbyville; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1872 to tion in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; moved to Bates-the Forty-third Congress; moved to Washington, D.C., in vile, Ripley County, md., in 1923 and engaged as a building1874 and engaged in banking; died in Washington, D.C., contractor; again superintendent of schoolsfor RipleyMarch 8, 1877; interment in a private cemetery at Shelbina, County, md., 1924-1929; retired from active business pur-Shelby County, Mo. suits in 1931 and resided in Batesville, md., until his death there on December 11, 1935; interment in Benhain Church BENJAMIN, Judah Philip, a Senator from Louisiana; born on the Island of St. Croix, Danish West Indies (now Cemetery, near Benham, md. Virgin Islands), August 6, 1811; immigrated to Savannah, BENITEZ, Jaime, a Resident Commissioner from PuertoGa., in 1816 with his parents, who later settled in Wilming- Rico; born in Vieques, P.R., October 29, 1908; educated in theton, N.C.; attended the Fayetteville Academy, Fayetteville, public schools of Puerto Rico; Georgetown University, Wash-N.C., and Yale College; moved to New Orleans, La., in 1831 ington, D.C., B.L., 1930, M.L., 1931; M.A., University of Chi-and taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in cago, 1938; author; instructor and associate professor of1832 and commenced practice in New Orleans; elected to the social and political sciences, University of Puerto Rico, 193 1-lower house of the state legislature in 1842 and served until 1942; chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico, 1942-1966;1844; member of the State constitutional convention in 1845; president, University System of Puerto Rico, 1966-1971;elected as a Whig to the United States Senate in 1853; member, Constitutional Convention of Puerto Rico andreelected as a Democrat in 1859 and served from March 4, chairman, Committee on Bill of Rights, 1951-1952; member,1853, to February 4, 1861, when he withdrew; chairman, United States National Commission for UNESCO, 1948-Committee on Private Land Claims (Thirty-fourth through 1954;UnitedStatesdelegate;UniversityConvention,Thirty-sixth Congresses); appointed Attorney General under Utrecht, Holland, 1948; National Convention of UNESCO,the provisional government of the Confederate States Febru- Paris, 1950, and Havana, Cuba, 1952; president, Nationalary 1861; appointed Acting Secretary of War of theConfed- Association of State Universities, 1957-1958; contributor anderate States in August 1861 and served until November director, La Torre, University of Puerto Rico Literary1861, when he was appointed Secretary of War; served in Review, 1956-197 1; delegate to Democratic National Conven- this capacity until February 1862, when he resigned to tion, 1976; elected as a Popular Democrat to the Unitedaccept the appointment as Secretary of State in the Cabinet States House of Representatives, November 7, 1972, for aof President , in which capacity he served four-year term ending January 3, 1977, unsuccessful candi-until the end of the war; moved to Great Britain in 1865; date for reelection in 1976; professor, Inter-American Uni-studied English law at Lincoln's Inn, London, was admitted versity of Puerto Rico, 1980-1986; professor of government,to the bar in that city in 1866, and practiced law there; American College, Bayathon, Puerto Rico, 1984 to present; isengaged in newspaper and magazine work; received the ap- a resident of San Juan, P.R. pointment of Queen's counsel in 1872; retired in 1883 from BENJAMIN, Adam, Jr., a Representative from Indiana;active practice and public life; moved to Paris, France, and born in Gary, Lake County, md., August 6, 1935; attendeddied there May 6, 1884; interment in Père la Chaise Ceme- tery. the public elementary schools of Gary; graduated, Kemper Bibliography: DAB; Evans, Eli N. Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Con- Military (high) School, Boonville, Mo., 1952; B.S., United federate. New York: The Free Press, 1988; Osterweis, E.G. Judah P. Benja- States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., 1958; J.D., Val- min, Statesman of the Lost Cause. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1933. paraiso (Ind.) Law School, 1966; admitted to the Indiana Bar in 1966 and commenced practice in Gary; served in United BENNER, George Jacob, a Representative from Pennsyl- States Marine Corps, corporal, 1952-1954; United Statesvania; born in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pa., April 13, Army, first lieutenant, 1958-1961; teacher, Edison High1859; attended the public schools and was graduated from School, Gary, 1961; employed as computer analyst, Chicago,Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg in 1878; taught school Ill., 1962; served as zoning administrator, Gary, 1964-1965;for several years; studied law; was admitted to the Adams executive secretary to the mayor of Gary, 1965-1967; servedCounty bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Gettysburg; in Indiana house of representatives, 1967-1971; Indianadelegate to the Democratic State convention in 1886; elected senate, 1971-1976; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth,as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress(March 4, 1897- Ninety-sixth, and Ninety-seventh Congresses; served fromMarch 3, 1899); was not a candidate for renomination in January 3, 1977, until his death on September 7, 1982, in1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law Washington, D.C.; interment at Calumet Park Cemetery,in Gettysburg, Pa.; unsuccessful candidate for election as Merriliville, Ind. president judge of the thirty-first judicial district in 1925; died in Gettysburg, Pa., December 30, 1930; interment in BENJAMIN, John Forbes, a Representative from Missou-Evergreen Cemetery. ri; born in Cicero, Onondaga County, N.Y., January 23, 1817; attended the public schools; moved to Texas in 1845 and to BENNET, Augustus Witschief, (son of William Stiles Missouri in 1848; studied law; was admitted to the bar andBennet), a Representative from New York; born in New commenced practice in Shelbyville, Shelby County, Mo., inYork City October 7, 1897; attended the public schools of 1848; member of the State house of representatives 1850-New York City and Washington, D.C., and was graduated 1852; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of infrom Amherst (Mass.) College in 1918; during the First 1856; entered the Union Army as a private in 1861 and wasWorld War served in the United States Naval Reserve subsequently promoted to the ranks of captain, major, lieu-Flying Corps with the rating of chief quartermaster from tenant colonel, and brigadier general; provost marshal of theJune 8, 1918, to January 19, 1919; was graduated from the Eighth District of Missouri in 1863 and 1864; delegate to theColumbia University Law School at New York City in 1921; 608 Biographical Directory

was admitted to the bar the same year and commencedgress; resumed the practice of law in New York City; official practice in Newburgh, N.Y.; United States referee in bank-parliamentarian of the Republican National Convention at ruptcy 1923-1944; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-Chicago in 1916; moved to Chicago in 1920 and continued the ninth Congress (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1947); unsuccess-practice of law; American delegate to the Seventeenth Inter- ful candidate for renomination in 1946; resumed the practicenational Congress Against Alcoholism held at Copenhagen of law; resided in Laguna Hills, Calif. until his death inin 1923; general counsel and vice president of the Edward Concord, Mass, on June 5, 1983; cremated; ashes interred atHines associated lumber, coal, and railroad organizations Cedar Hills Mausoleum, Newburgh, N.Y. 1920-1932; returned to New York City in 1933 and resumed BENNET, Benjamin, a Representative from New Jersey;the practice of law; unsuccessful candidate for election in born in Bucks County, Pa., October 31, 1764; attended the1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; served as a delegate to common schools; studied theology; was ordained as a minis-the State constitutional convention in 1938; unsuccessful ter in Middletown, Monmouth County, N.J., in 1793 andcandidate at a special election in 1944 to fill a vacancy in served as pastor of a Baptist church in that city; also en-the Seventy-eighth Congress; was a resident of Mont gaged in agricultural pursuits; elected as a Republican toVernon, Westchester County, N.Y., until his death in Fal- the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815-kirk Hospital, Central Valley, N.Y., December 1, 1962; re- March 3, 1819); resumed agricultural pursuits; died on hismains were cremated and the ashes interred in Laurel farm near Middletown, N.J., October 8, 1840; interment inGrove Cemetery, Port Jervis, N.Y. the Baptist Cemetery, Holmdel, N.J. BENNETT, Charles Edward, a Representative from Flori- BENNET, Hiram Pitt, a Delegate from the Territory ofda; born in Canton, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., December 2, Colorado; born in Carthage, Franklin County, Maine, Sep-1910; moved with his parents to Tampa, Fla., in 1913 and to tember 2, 1826; moved to Ohio with his parents, who settledJacksonville, Fla., in 1932; attended the Tampa schools and in Richland County in 1831; attended public and privatewas graduated from the University of Florida at Gainesville, schools and the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware;J.D., 1934; was admitted to the bar the same year and com- taught school in northwestern Missouri in 1850; studied law;menced the practice of law in Jacksonville, Fla.; member of was admitted to the bar in 1851 and practiced in westernthe State house of representatives in 1941; during the Iowa and later at Glenwood, Iowa; judge of the circuit courtSecond World War enlisted in the United States Army on of Iowa in 1852; moved to Nebraska Territory in 1854, set-March 13, 1942, and discharged as a captain of infantry on tled in Nebraska City, and continued the practice of law;January 13, 1947; served overseas in New Guinea and the unsuccessfully contested in 1855 as a Republican the electionPhilippines, including guerrilla fighting on Luzon; awarded of Bird B. Chapman to the Thirty-fourth Congress; memberthe Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Combat Infantry Badge; of the Territorial council in 1856; member of the Territorialelected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the nineteen house of representatives in 1858 and served as speaker;succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1989); moved to Denver, Cob., in 1859 and continued the practicechairman, Committee on Standards of Official Conduct of law; upon the admission of the Territory to representation(Ninety sixth Congress), is a resident of Jacksonville, Fla was elected as a Conservative Republican, a Delegate to the Thirty-seventh Congress; reelected to the Thirty-eighth Con- BENNETT, Charles Goodwin, a Representative from New gress and served from August 19, 1861, to March 3, 1865;York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., December 11, 1863; attended was not a candidate for renomination in 1864; secretary ofthe public schools; was graduated from the Brooklyn High state of Colorado in 1867; appointed postmaster of Denver,School and from the New York Law School in 1882; was Cob., on March 26, 1869, and served until May 27, 1874,admitted to the bar in 1882 and commenced practice in when a successor was appointed; member of the first StateBrooklyn, N.Y.; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1892 senate in 1876; appointed "State agent" in 1888, and servedto the Fifty-third Congress; elected as a Republican to the until 1895 in recovering lands belonging to the State ofFifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March Colorado which had been wrongfully disposed of; retired in3, 1899); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the 1899 and resided in Denver, Cob., until his death, NovemberFifty-sixth Congress; Secretary of the United Statei Senate 11, 1914; interment in Riverside Cemetery. from January 29, 1900, to March 3, 1913, when a successor Bibliography: Silverman, Jason H. "Making Brick Out of Straw: Dele- was elected; returned to Brooklyn, N.Y., discontinued active gate Hiram P. Bennet." Colorado Magazine 53 (Fall 1976): 309-27. business pursuits, and lived in retirement until his death on BENNET, William Stiles (father of Augustus WitschiefMay 25, 1914; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Bennet), a Representative from New York; born in Port BENNETT, David Smith, a Representative from New Jervis, Orange County, N.Y., November 9, 1870; attended the York; born on a farm near Camillus, Onondaga County, common schools; was graduated from Port Jervis AcademyN.Y., May 3, 1811; attended the common schools and the in 1889 and from Albany Law School in 1892; was admittedlocal academy in Onondaga; engaged in agricultural pur- to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice the same year;suits; moved to Syracuse and engaged in the produce busi- official reporter of the Orange County Board of Supervisorsness, afterwards extending his business to New York City; in 1892 and 1893; member of the State assembly in 1901 andmoved to Buffalo in 1853 and built and operated several 1902; justice of the municipal court of New York City ingrain elevators; also purchased the original Dart grain eleva- 1903; member of the United States Immigration Commissiontor; elected a member of the State senate in 1865; elected as 1907-19 10; delegate to the Republican National Conventionsa Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869- in 1908 and 1916; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth,March 3, 1871); declined to be a candidate for renomination Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, in 1870; resumed his former business pursuits in Buffalo, 1911); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to theN.Y., where he died November 6, 1894; interment in Oak- Sixty-second Congress; resumed the practice of law in New York City; elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress to fill thewood Cemetery, Syracuse, N.Y. vacancy caused by the death of Joseph A. Goulden and BENNETT, Granville Gaylord, a Delegate from the Terri- served from November 2, 1915, to March 3, 1917; unsuccess-tory of Dakota; born near Bboomingburg, Fayette County, ful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Con-Ohio, October 9, 1833; moved to Illinois in 1849 with his Biographies 609 parents, who settled in Fulton County, and to Washington, BENNETT, Joseph Bentley, a Representative from Ken- Iowa, in 1855; attended Howe's Academy, Mount Pleasant,tucky; born in Greenup County, Ky., April 21, 1859; attended Iowa, and Washington College, Iowa; studied law; was admit-the common schools and Greenup Academy, Greenup, KY.; ted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Washing-taught in the public schools; studied law; was admitted to ton, Iowa; during the Civil War served in the Union Armythe bar in 1878 and commenced practice in 1880; entered the as a commissioned officer from July 1861 to August 1865andmercantile business in 1885; judge of Greenup County 1894- was assigned to the Seventh and Nineteenth Regimentsof1897; reelected in 1897 and served until 1901; member of the Iowa Volunteer Infantry; returned to Washington, Iowa;Republican State central committee in 1900 and 1904; elect- member of the State house of representatives 1865-1867;ed as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty- served in the State senate 1867-1871; appointed associatefirst Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1911); unsuccessful justice of the supreme court of the Territory of Dakota oncandidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Con- February 24, 1875, and served until August 23, 1878, whengress; continued the practice of his professionuntil his death he resigned, having been nominated for Congress; elected asin Greenup, Greenup County, Ky., November 7, 1923; inter- a Republican to the Forty-sixth Congress(March 4, 1879-ment in Riverview Cemetery. March 3, 1881); was not a candidate for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law in BENNETT, Marion Tinsley (son of Philip A. Bennett), a Deadwood, S.Dak.; elected judge of the probate court of Law-Representative from Missouri; born inBuffalo,Dallas rence County and served three terms; died at HotSprings,County, Mo., June 6, 1914; attended the public schools of Fall River County, S.Dak., June 28, 1910; interment inBuffalo, Jefferson City, and Springfield, Mo.; Southwest Mis- Mount Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood, S.Dak. souri State College at Springfield, A.B., 1935 and Washing- BENNETT, Hendley Stone, a Representative from Missis-ton University School of Law, St. Louis, Mo., J.D., 1938; was sippi; born near Franklin, Williamson County, Tenn., Apriladmitted to the bar in 1938 and commenced practice in 7, 1807; attended the public schools in West Point, Miss.;Springfield, Mo.; served as secretary to his father, Congress- studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1830 and commencedman Philip A. Bennett, 1941-1943; colonel in UnitedStates practice in Columbus, Miss.; judge of the circuit court 1846-Air Force Reserve until 1974; member of the Greene County 1854; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fourth Congress(Mo.) Republican central committee 1938-1942; delegate to (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); unsuccessful candidate forMissouri State Conventions, 1938, 1940, 1944, 1946, and 1948; renomination in 1856; resumed the practice of law in Colum-elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress to bus; moved to Paris, Tex., in 1859 and continued the practicefill the vacancy caused by the death of his father; reelected of law; served as a captain in Company G, Thirty-secondto the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congresses and served Regiment, Texas Cavalry, Confederate States Army, fromfrom January 12, 1943, to January 3, 1949; congressional August 5, 1861, to August 31, 1862; resumed the practice ofdelegate to inspect atrocity camps in Germany, 1945; was an law; in 1886 returned to Tennessee and settled in Franklin,unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty- Williamson County, and continued the practice of his profes-first Congress; commissioner, United States Court of Claims, sion; died in Franklin, Tenn., December 15, 1891; intermentWashington, D.C., January 4, 1949, to September 11, 1964, in Mount Hope Cemetery. when he became chief commissioner and served until July 7, 1972; judge, U.S. Court of Claims, 1972-1982; judge,U.S. BENNETT, Henry, a Representative from New York; born U.S. in New Lisbon, Otsego County, N.Y., September 29, 1808;Court of Appeals for the Federal circuit, 1982; senior attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted to theCircuit judge, 1986 to the present; is a resident of Spring- bar in 1832 and commenced practice in New Berlin, Chen-field, Mo., and Chevy Chase, Md. ango County, N.Y.; served as clerk of the town of New BENNETT, Philip Allen (father of Marion T. Bennett), a Berlin in 1846; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first throughRepresentative from Missouri; born on a farm near Buffalo, Thirty-fourth Congresses and as a Republican to the Thirty-Dallas County, Mo., March 5,1881; attended the public fifth Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1859); chairman,schools and Buffalo (Mo.) High School; was graduated from Committee on Public Lands (Thirty-fourth Congress); unsuc-Springfield (Mo.) Normal and Business College in 1902; cessful candidate for renomination in 1858 to the Thirty-taught school at Independence, Mo., in 1899 and at Boyd, sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law in New Berlin,Mo., in 1900; purchased the Buffalo (Mo.) Reflex, whichhe N.Y., until his death there on May 10, 1868; interment in St.edited and published 1904-1921; chairman of theDallas Andrews' Cemetery. County (Mo.) Republican committee for eight years; delegate BENNETT, John Bonifas, a Representative from Michi-to the Republican National Convention in 1912;served in gan; born in Garden, Delta County, Mich., January10, 1904; the State senate 1921-1925; moved to Springfield, Mo., in attended the public schools; was graduated from Watersmeet1922 and engaged in the real estate and loan business; Fed- (Mich.) High School, from Marquette University Law School,eral land bank appraiser 1923-1925; Lieutenant Governorof Milwaukee, Wis., in 1925; took a postgraduate course atMissouri 1925-1929; unsuccessful candidate for the Republi- Chicago (Ill.) University Law School in 1926; was admitted to can nomination for Governor in 1928;engaged in the insur- the Wisconsin bar in 1925 and to the Michigan bar in 1926;ance and loan business; unsuccessfulcandidate for election practiced law in Ontonagon, Mich., 1926-1942; prosecutingin 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; elected as a Republi- attorney of Ontonagon County 1929-1934; deputy commis-can to the Seventy-seventh Congress andserved from Janu- sioner of the Michigan Department of Labor and Industryary 3, 1941, until his death in Washington,D.C., December 7, 1935-1937; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth1942; had been reelected to the Seventy-eighth Congress; Congress (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1945); unsuccessfulinterment in Hazelwood Cemetery, Springfield, Mo. candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Con- gress; resumed the practice of law; elected in1946 to the BENNETT, Risden Tyler, a Representative from North Eightieth and to the eight succeeding Congresses and servedCarolina; born in Wadesboro, Anson County, N.C., June 18, from January 3, 1947, until his death in Chevy Chase, Md., 1840; attended the common schools and Anson Institute; was August 9, 1964; interment in Gate of Heaven Cemetery,graduated from Cumberland University and from Lebanon Silver Spring, Md. Law School, Tennessee, in 1859; during the Civil War enlist- 610 Biographical Directory

ed in the Confederate Army as a privateon April 30, 1861,Jersey City until his death; died in Bayonne, N.J., November and left the service as colonel of the Fourteenth North Caro- 6,1942; interment in Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island, lina Troops, having been woundedon three occasions; solici-N.Y. tor of Anson County in 1866 and 1867; member of the State house of representatives 1872-1874; delegate to the State BENSON, Alfred Washburn, a Senator from Kansas; born constitutional convention in 1875; judge of the superior courtin Poland, Chautauqua County, N.Y., July 15, 1843; moved from 1880 until his resignation in 1882; electedas a Demo- to Jamestown, N.Y., in 1860; attended Jamestown and Ran- crat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (Marchdolph Academies; during the Civil War enlisted in 1862 asa 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committeeon Expendi-private in the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, New tures in the Department of State (Forty-ninth Congress);York Volunteer Infantry, and at the close of the war held a engaged in the practice of law in Wadesboro, N.C., and diedcommission as major; studied law; was admitted to the bar there July 21, 1913; interment in the family cemeterynearin Buffalo, N.Y., in 1866 and commenced practice in Sher- Wadesboro, N.C. man, N.Y.; moved to Ottawa, Franklin County, Kans., in BENNETT, Thomas Warren, a Delegate from the Terri-1869; held various local offices; member, State senate 1881- tory of Idaho; born in Union County, md., February 16, 1831;1885; judge of the fourth judicial district of Kansas 1885- attended the common schools and was graduated from the1897; appointed as a Republican to the United States Senate law department of the Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) Uni-to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph R. versity in July 1854; was admitted to the bar in 1855 andBurton and served from June 11, 1906, to January 23, 1907, commenced practice in Liberty, Union County, md.; electedwhen a successor was elected; unsuccessful candidate for a member of the State senate in 1858 and resigned in 1861,election in 1907 to fill this vacancy; appointed and subse- upon the outbreak of the Civil War, to enter the Unionquently elected associate justice of the supreme court of Army; was commissioned a captain in the Fifteenth Regi-Kansas and served from 1907 to 1915, when he resigned; ment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in April 1861; becameretired from public life; died in Topeka, Kans., January 1, major of the Thirty-sixth Regiment in September 1861; colo-1916; interment in Highland Cemetery, Ottawa, Kans. nel of the Sixty-ninth Regiment in August 1862 andwas BENSON, Caryille Dickinson, a Representative from appointed brigadier general in March 1865; returned toMaryland; born near Halethorpe, Baltimore County, Md., Richmond, md.; again elected a member of the State senate,August 24, 1872; attended the public schools of Baltimore, in October 1864, and served until March 1867;mayor of thepreparatory schools, and Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., city of Richmond, md., in 1869 and 1870; in September 1871in 1890; was graduated from the law department of Balti- was appointed Governor of the Territory of Idaho by Presi-more University in 1893; was admitted to the bar the same dent Grant and served until December 4, 1875, when heyear and commenced practice in Baltimore; member of the resigned, having been elected to Congress; presented creden-State house of representatives 1904-1910 and again in 1918, tials as an Independent Member-elect to the Forty-fourthserving as speaker in 1906; member of the State senate Congress and served from March 4, 1875, to June 23, 1876, 19 12-1914; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress when he was succeeded by Stephen S. Fenn, who contestedto fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joshua F. C. his election; was not a candidate for renomination in 1876;Talbott; reelected to the Sixty-sixth Congress and served resumed the practice of law in Richmond, md.; again servedfrom November 5, 1918, to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful can- as city mayor 1877-1883 and 1885-1887; died in Richmond,didate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixth-seventh Congress; Wayne County, md., February 2, 1893; interment in Earl-resumed the practice of law in Baltimore, Md., and resided ham Cemetery. in Halethorpe, Md.; appointed State insurance commissioner BENNETT, Wallace Foster, a Senator from Utah; born inof Maryland in 1924 and served until his death in Baltimore, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 13,1898; attended theMd., February 8, 1929; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery, public schools and the ; during the FirstBrooklyn Station, Baltimore, Md. World War, served as a second lieutenant of Infantry;re- BENSON, Egbert, a Delegate and a Representative from turned to the University of Utah and graduated in 1919;New York; born in New York City June 21, 1746; was grad- high school principal and later businessman and paintman-uated from Kings (now Columbia) College in 1765; studied ufacturer; president, National Association of Manufacturerslaw; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in in 1949; elected as a Republican to the United States SenateNew York City; deputy to the provincial convention in 1775; in 1950; reelected in 1956, 1962, and again in 1968 andmember of the council of safety in 1777 and 1778; in 1777 served from January 3, 1951, until his resignation Decemberwas appointed the first attorney general of New York and 20, 1974; was not a candidate for reelection in 1974; resumed business pursuits; is a resident of Salt Lake City, Utah.served until 1789; member of the State assembly 1777-1781 Bibliography: Bennett, Wallace F. Faith and Freedom: The Pillars ofand again in 1788; in 1783 was appointed one of the three American Democracy. New York: Scribner, 1950; Bennett, Wallace F. Why commissioners to direct the embarkation of the Tory refu- I Am A Mormon. New York: T. Nelson, 1958. gees for the loyal British provinces; associate judge of the supreme court of New York 1784-1801; Member of the Conti- BENNY, Allan, a Representative from New Jersey; bornnental Congress in 1784, 1787 and 1788; member of the State in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 12, 1867; attended the public schoolsconstitutional convention in 1788, which ratified the Federal of Bayonne, Hudson County, N.J.; studied law; was admittedConstitution; elected to the First and Second Congresses to the bar in 1889 and commenced practice in Bayonne;(March 4, 1789-March 3, 1793); regent of the New York member of the city council 1892-1894; member of the StateUniversity 1789-1802; appointed judge of the United States house of assembly 1898-1900; prosecuting attorney of Ba-Circuit Court, second circuit, February 20, 1801; served as yonne from 1900 to 1903, when he resigned, having beenthe first president of the New-York Historical Society from elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-1804 to 1816; elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Con- eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); unsuccessfulgress and served from March 4, 1813, to August 2, 1813, candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress;when he resigned; died in Jamaica, Long Island, N.Y., resumed the practice of his chosen profession; and was as-August 24,1833; interment in Prospect Cemetery. sistant librarian of the law library in the courthouse at Bibliography: DAB. 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BENSON, Elmer Austin, a Senator from Minnesota; bornof Journalism in 1944; recipient of several honorary degrees; in Appleton, Swift County, Minn., September 22, 1895; at-reporter and maritime editor for the Baltimore Sun1945- tended the public schools; was graduated from the St. Paul1969; television producer 1950-1965; appointed chairmanof (Minn.) College of Law in 1918; during the First World Warthe Federal Maritime Commission 1969-1975; international served as a private in the United States Army 1918-1919;business consultant 1975-1984; unsuccessful candidatefor was admitted to the bar but did not practice;engaged inelection to the Ninety-seventh and Ninety-eighth Congresses; banking and retail clothing business; State commissioner ofelected as a Republican to the Ninety-ninth and One Hun- securities in 1933 and State commissioner of banks 1933-dredth Congresses (January 3, 1985-January 3, 1989); is a 1935; appointed as a Farmer-Laborite to the United States resident of Lutherville, Md. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas D. Schall and served from December 27, 1935, until November BENTLEY, Henry Wilbur, a Representative from New 3, 1936, when a successor was elected; was not a candidateYork; born in DeRuyter, Madison County, N.Y., September for election to fill the vacancy; Governor of Minnesota 1937-30, 1838; moved with his parents to Morrisville, N.Y.; attend- 1939; unsuccessful candidate in 1938 for reelection as Gover-ed Union School, Yates Polytechnic Institute at Chittenango, nor; unsuccessful candidate for election to theUnited Statesand Judd's private school at Berkshire; taught school for Senate in 1940 and 1942; engaged in agriculture; died inseveral years; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1861 Minneapolis, Minn., March 13, 1985; interment in Appletonand commenced practice in Boonville, N.Y.; chairman of the Cemetery, Appleton, Minn. Oneida County Building Commission; president of Boonville Bibliography: Benson, Elmer A. "Politics in My Lifetime." Minnesota in 1874, 1889-1891, and 1899; elected as a Democrat to the History 47 (Winter 1980): 154-60; Shields, James M Mr. Progressive: A Bi- Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); unsuc- ography of Elmer Austin Benson. Minneapolis: Denison, 1971. cessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third BENSON, Samuel Page, a Representative from Maine,Congress; continued the practice of law in Boonville, Oneida born in Winthrop, Maine, November 28, 1804; received in- County, N.Y., until his death there on January 27, 1907; struction from private teachers and attended the Monmouthinterment in Boonville Cemetery. (Maine) Academy; was graduated from Bowdoin College, BENTON, Charles Swan, a Representative from New Brunswick, Maine, in 1825; studied law; was admitted to theYork; born in Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, July 12, Kennebec County bar in 1828 and commenced practice in1810; pursued preparatory studies; moved to Herkimer Unity, Maine; returned to Winthrop and practiced law untilCounty, N.Y., in 1824 to live with an elder brother;attended 1850; railroad builder; secretary of the Androscoggin & Ken-Lowville Academy, Lowville, N.Y.; learned thetanner's nebec (later Maine Central) Railroad; member of the Statetrade; editor of the Mohawk Courier and the Little Falls house of representatives in 1833 and 1834; served in theGazette 1830-1832; studied law; was admitted tothe bar in State senate in 1836 and 1837; secretary of state 1838-1841;1835 and commenced practice at Little Falls, N.Y.; surrogate overseer of Bowdoin College 1838-1876 and president of theof Herkimer County in 1837; judge advocateof the State board for sixteen years; chairman of the board of selectmenmilitia; elected as a Democrat to theTwenty-eighth and 1844-1848; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third CongressTwenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847); was and as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4,not a candidate for renomination in 1846;clerk of the court 1853-March 3, 1857); chairman, Committee on Naval Affairsof appeals 1847-1849; moved to Milwaukee, Wis.,in 1855 and (Thirty-fourth Congress); was not a candidate for reelectionsubsequently became editor of the Milwaukee News; ap- in 1856; resumed the practice of law; died in Yarmouth,pointed by President in 1856 as registerof Cumberland County, Maine, August 12, 1876; interment inthe United States land office at La Crosse, Wis.,and served Maple Cemetery, Winthrop, Maine. until 1861; was an unsuccessful candidate forelection in BENTLEY, Alvin Morel!, a Representative from Michi-1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; engaged in agricultural gan; born in Portland, Maine, August 30, 1918;graduatedpursuits near West Salem, Wis., and later, in 1865, atGales- from Southern Pines (N.C.) High School in 1934, Ashevilleburg, Ill.; returned to La Crosse, Wis., in1869; judge of La (N.C.) Prep School in 1936, and the University of MichiganCrosse County 1874-1881; died in La Crosse, Wis.,May 4, in 1940; attended Turner's Diplomatic School, Washington,1882; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. D.C., to qualify for diplomatic service; served as vice consul BENTON, Jacob, a Representative from New Hampshire; and secretary with the United States Diplomatic Corps inborn in Waterford, Caledonia County, Vt., August19, 1814; Mexico in May 1942, then going to Colombia, Hungary, andattended the common schools, Lyndon (Vt.) Academy,and Italy; returned to Washington, D.C., March 15, 1950, forRandolph (Vt.) Academy, and was graduated from Burr and work in the State Department; resigned from the diplomaticBurton Seminary at Manchester in 1839; taughtschool for service in 1950; returned to Owosso, Mich.; delegate to Re-several years; moved to Lancaster, Coos County, N.H.,in publican State conventions in 1950, 1951, and 1952; vice 1843 and president, Lake Huron Broadcasting Co., Saginaw, Mich., 1842; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1952; director of Mitchell-Bentley Corp.; elected as a Republi-commenced practice in Lancaster; member of the State the three succeeding Con-house of representatives 1854-1856; delegate to theRepubli- can to the Eighty-third and to can National Convention in 1860;brigadier general, com- gresses (January 3, 1953-January 3,1961); was not a candi- the date for renomination in 1960, but was unsuccessful for elec-manding State Volunteers; elected as a Republican to candidate inFortieth and Forty-first Congresses (March 4, 1867-March3, tion to the United States Senate; unsuccessful in 1870; 1962 for election to the Eighty-eighth Congress; appointed by1871); declined to be a candidate for renomination ofresumed the practice of law; died in Lancaster, Coos County, Governor George Romney in 1966 to the board of regents Street the University of Michigan, a position he held at thetime ofN.H., September 29, 1892; interment in the Summer his death in Tucson, Ariz., April 10, 1969; interment inOakCemetery. Hill Cemetery, Owosso, Mich. BENTON, Lemuel (great-grandfather of George William BENTLEY, Helen Delich, a Representative from Mary-Dargan), a Representative from South Carolina; bornin land; born in Ruth, White Pine County, Nev., November 28,Granville County, N.C., in 1754; as a young man moved to 1923; was graduated from the University of MissouriSchoolthat section of Cheraw District which is nowDarlington 612 Biographical Directory

County, S.C.; engaged as a planter and subsequently becamesuits in Washington, D.C., until his death there on April 10, an extensive landowner; elected major of the Cheraw Regi-1858; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo. ment in 1777 and served throughout the Revolutionary War, Bibliography: DAB; Benton, Thomas H. Thirty Years View: O A History being promoted to the rank of colonel in 1781; resigned his of the American Government for Thirty Years From 18f10-1850. 2 vols. commission in 1794; member of the State house of represent- 1854, 1856. Reprint. New York: Greenwood Press, 1968; Smith, Elbert B: atives 1782-1788; county court justice of Darlington County Magnificent Missourian. Thomas Hart Benton. Philadelphia: Lippincott, in 1785 and 1791; escheator of Cheraw District (composed of 1957. what is now Chesterfield, Darlington, and Marlboro Coun- BENTON, William, a Senator from Connecticut; born in ties) in 1787; delegate to the State convention at CharlestonMinneapolis, Hennepin County, Minn., April 1, 1900; attend- that ratified the Federal Constitution in 1788; sheriff ofed Shattuck Military Academy, Faribault, Minn., and Carle- Cheraw District in 1789 and 1791; delegate to the Stateton College, Northfield, Minn., in 1917 and 1918; graduated constitutional convention at Columbia in 1790; elected to thefrom Yale University in 1921; worked for advertising agen- Third Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Fourthcies in New York and Chicago until 1929 and then cofound- and Fifth Congresses (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1799);unsuc-ed his own advertising agency in New York; moved to Nor- cessful candidate for reelection in 1798 to the Sixth Con-walk, Conn., in 1932; part-time vice president of the Univer- gress; resumed agricultural pursuits; died in Darlington,sity of Chicago 1937-1945; Assistant Secretary of State, Darlington County, S.C., May 18, 1818; intermenton hisWashington, D.C., August 31, 1945, to September 30, 1947, estate, "Stony Hill," near Darlington, S.C. during which time he was active in organizing the United BENTON, Maecenas Eason, a Representative from Mis-Nations; member of and delegate to numerous United Na- souri; born near Dyersburg, Obion County, Tenn., Januarytions and international conferences and commissions; chair- 29, 1848; attended two west Tennessee academies and St.man of the board and publisher of Encyclopedia Britannica Louis University; was graduated from the law department of1943-1973; trustee of several schools and colleges; appointed Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1870; served into the United States Senate, December 17, 1949, and subse- the Confederate Army during the Civil War; was admitted toquently elected as a Democrat toifilthe vacancy caused by the bar and commenced practice in Neosho, Newton County,the resignation of Raymond E. Baldwin to the term ending Mo.; prosecuting attorney of Newton County 1878-1884;January 3, 1953 and served from December 17, 1949, to United States attorney from March 1885 to July 1889; dele-January 3, 1953; unsuccessful candidate for election for the gate to the Democratic National Convention in 1896; electedfull term in 1952; United States Ambassador to UNESCO in as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh,Paris 1963-1968; died in New York City, March 18, 1973; and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1905);cremated; ashes scattered at family estate, Southport, Conn. unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty- Bibliography: Hyman, Sidney. The Lives of William Benton. Chicago: ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Neosho, Mo.; University of Chicago Press, 1969; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 93rd member of the State constitutional conventions in 1922 andCong., 1st sess., 1973. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973. 1924; died in Springfield, Greene County, Mo., April 27, 1924; BENTSEN, Lloyd Millard Jr., a Representative and a Sen- interment in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Neosho, Mo. ator from Texas; born in Mission, Tex., February 11, 1921; attended the public schools; graduated, University of Texas BENTON, Thomas Hart (father-in-law of John C. Fre-Law School at Austin 1942 and was admitted to the bar the mont), a Senator and a Representative from Missouri; bornsame year; served in the United States Army 1942-1945; at Harts Mill, near Hillsboro, N.C., March 14, 1782; attendedentered the private practice of law in McAllen, Tex., in 1945; Chapel Hill College (now the University of North Carolina)county judge of Hidalgo County 1946-1948; elected as a Dem- and the law department of William and Mary College, Wil-ocrat in November 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress and, at liamsburg, Va.; was admitted to the bar at Nashville, Tenn.,a special election in December 1948, toifilthe vacancy in in 1806 and commenced practice in Franklin, Williamsonthe Eightieth Congress caused by the death of Milton H. County, Tenn.; member, State senate 1809-1811; servedasWest; reelected to the Eighty-second and Eighty-third Con- aide-de-camp to General Andrew Jackson; colonel ofa regi- gresses and served from December 4, 1948, to January 3, ment of Tennessee volunteers 18 12-1813; lieutenant colonel1955; was not a candidate for renomination in 1954; founded of the Thirty-ninth United States Infantry 1813-1815; movedand operated a financial holding company in Texas; elected to St. Louis, Mo., where he edited the Missouri Inquirer andas a Democrat in 1970 to the United States Senate for the continued the practice of law; upon the admission of Missou-term commencing January 3, 1971; reelected in 1976 and ri as a State into the Union, was elected in 1821as aagain in 1982 for the term ending January 3, 1989; chair- Democrat to the United States Senate; reelected in 1827,man, Joint Economic Committee (Ninety-eighth Congress), 1833, 1839, and 1845 and served from August 10, 1821, toDemocratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (Ninety-eighth March 3,1851; chairman, Committee on Indian AffairsCongress), Committee on Finance (One-hundreth Congress); (Eighteenth through Twentieth Congresses), Committee onDemocratic candidate for Vice President of the United MilitaryAffairs(Twentieth through Twenty-sixth andStates 1988. Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses), Committee on For- eign Relations (Thirtieth Congress); author of the resolution BERESFORD, Richard, a Delegate from South Carolina; to expunge from the Senate Journal the resolution of cen-born near Charleston, St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, sure on Andrew Jackson; unsuccessful candidate for reelec-Berkeley County, S.C., in 1755; educated in South Carolina tion to the Senate in 1850; censure proceedings were initiat-and in England; studied law at the Middle Temple in ed against Benton in 1850, arising from an incident of disor-London; was admitted to the bar in 1773 and practiced in derly conduct on the Chamber floor, but the Senate took noCharleston, S.C.; engaged in planting, with extensive estates action; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congressin Berkeley and Colleton Counties, S.C., and in England; (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); chairman, Committee ontook an active part in the Revolution, serving under General Military Affairs (Thirty-third Congress); unsuccessful candi-Huger in the Georgia campaign in 1778; was captured at the date for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress andfall of Charleston in 1780 and imprisoned at St. Augustine for Governor of Missouri in 1856; engaged in literary pur-until 1781, when he was exchanged; member of the State Biographies 613 house of representatives in 1781; elected by the State gener-Kings County, N.Y., 1836-1859; member of the State consti- al assembly a member of the privy council in 1782; electedtutional conventions in 1846, 1867, and 1868; delegate to the Lieutenant Governor in January 1783, but resigned shortlyDemocratic National Conventions at Baltimore and Charles- afterward, having been elected to Congress; Member of theton in 1860; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth Con- Continental Congress in 1783 and 1784; resumed planting;gress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); was not a candidate for later engaged in literary pursuits; published the Vigil inrenomination in 1866; resumed agricultural pursuits and Charleston in 1798; died in Charleston, S.C., February 6,surveying near New Utrecht; also engaged in literary and 1803. historical work; served as ensign, captain, adjutant, lieuten- BEREUTER, Douglas Kent, a Representative from Ne-ant colonel, and colonel of the Two Hundred and Forty-first braska; born in York, York County, Nebr., October 6, 1939;Regiment, New York State Militia, known as Kings County attended St. Paul's Lutheran School, Utica, Nebr.; graduat- Troop; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., April 24, 1881; interment in ed, Utica High School, 1957; B.A., University of Nebraska,Greenwood Cemetery. Lincoln, 1961; M.C.P., Harvard University, 1963; M.P.A., BERGER, Victor Luitpold, a Representative from Wiscon- Harvard University, 1973; attended Eagleton Institute ofsin; born in Nieder Rebbach, Austria-Hungary, February 28, Politics, 1976; urban planner and economic development con-1860; attended the Gymnasia at Leutschau and the universi- sultant in surrounding States; interest in family retail auto-ties at Budapest and Vienna; immigrated to the United motive, petroleum business; officer and counter-intelligenceStates in 1878 with his parents, who settled near Bridgeport, agent, First Infantry Division, United States Army, 1963-Conn.; moved to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1880; taught school 1965;State senator (Nebraska Unicameral Legislature),1880-1890; editor of the Milwaukee Daily Vorwaerts 1892- 1975-1978; chaired the Washington-based Urban Develop- ment Committee on the National Conference of State Legis-1898; editor of the Wahrheit, the Social Democratic Herald, latures, 1977-1978; division director, Nebraska Departmentand the Milwaukee Leader, being publisher of the last of Economic Development, 1966-1968; director, State Officenamed at the time of his death; delegate to the People's Party Convention at St. Louis in 1896; one of the organizers of Planning and Programming, 1968-197 1; Federal-State Re-- lations Coordinator for Nebraska State Government, 1967-of the Social Democracy in 1897 and of the Social Democrat- 1971; member, Nebraska Crime Commission, 1969-1971;ic Party in 1898, known since 1900 as the Socialist Party; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-sixth and to the fourunsuccessful candidate of the Socialist Party for election in succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1989); is1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress; elected a member of the a resident of Utica, Nebr. charter convention of Milwaukee in 1907, and alderman at large in 1910; elected as a Socialist to the Sixty-second Con- BERGEN, Christopher Augustus, a Representative fromgress (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1913); presented credentials New Jersey; born in Bridge Point, Somerset County, N.J.,as a Member-elect to the Sixty-sixth Congress, but theHouse August 2, 1841; attended Harlingen School and Edge Hillby a resolution adopted on November 10, 1919, declared him Classical School and was graduated from Princeton Collegenot entitled to take the oath of office as a Representative or in 1863; studied law; was licensed by the supreme court ofto hold a seat as such; having been opposed to the entrance New Jersey in 1866 as an attorney and commenced practiceof the United States in the First World War and having in Camden, N.J.; licensed as a counselor in 1869; elected as awritten articles expressing his opinion on that question, he Republican to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresseswas indicted in various places in the Federal courts,tried at (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893); unsuccessful candidate forChicago, found guilty, and sentenced by Judge Kenesaw M. renomination in 1892; resumed the practice of law; in 1903Landis in February 1919 to serve twenty years in the Feder- moved to Haverford, Montgomery County, Pa., where heal penitentiary; this judgment was reversed by the United died on February 18, 1905; interment in Evergreen Ceme-States Supreme Court in 1921, whereupon the Government tery, Camden, N.J. withdrew all cases against him in 1922; his election to the BERGEN, John Teunis (second cousin of Teunis GarretSixty-sixth Congress was unsuccessfully contested by Joseph Bergen), a Representative from New York; born in Gowanus, P. Carney and the seat was declared vacant; presented cre-- Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1786; completed preparatory studies; ap-dentials as a Member-elect to fill the vacancy caused by the pointed a lieutenant in the New York State Militia in 1812action of the House and on January 10, 1920, the House and promoted to captain in 1815; served in the War of 1812;again decided that he was not entitled to a seat in the Sixty- sheriff of Kings County, N.Y., 1821-1825 and again fromsixth Congress and declined to permit him to take the oath 1828 until 1831, when he resigned; purchased the Longor qualify as a Representative; Henry H. Bodenstab unsuc- Island Patriot in 1829, the name of which was subsequentlycessfully contested this election, and on February 25, 1921, changed to the Brooklyn Advocate, and which ultimatelythe House again declared the seat vacant; elected as a So-- became the Brooklyn Daily Eagle; elected as a Jacksonian tocialist to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, and Seventieth Con- the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833);gresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1929);unsuccessful candi- chairman, Committee on Accounts (Twenty-second Con- date for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress; gress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1832; en- resumed his editorial work; died in Milwaukee, Wis., August gaged in agricultural pursuits near Bay Ridge, New Utrecht,7, 1929; interment in Forest Home Cemetery. N.Y.; moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., and engaged in the grocery Bibliography: DAB; Miller, Sally M. Victor Berger and the Promise of business; in 1837, with his sons, conducted a planing mill in Constructive Socialism, 1910-1920. Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1973; New York City; moved to Genesee County and engaged in U.S. Congress. House. Special Committee on Victor L. Berger Investigation. agricultural pursuits; died in Batavia, Genesee County, N.Y., Case of Victor L. Berger of Wisconsin. New York: DaCapo Press, 1972. on March 9, 1855; interment in Batavia Cemetery. BERGLAND, Robert Selmer, a Representative from Min- BERGEN, Teunis Garret (second cousin of John Teunisnesota; born in Roseau, Roseau County, Minn., July 22, 1928; Bergen), a Representative from New York; born in Brooklyn,attended the Roseau public schools; University of Minnesota N.Y., October 6, 1806; attended the common schools andSchool of Agriculture, St. Paul, Minn., 1948; farmer; chair- Erasmus Hail Academy, Flatbush, N.Y.; engaged in agricul-man, Minnesota Agriculture Stabilizationand Conservation tural pursuits and surveying; supervisor of New Utrecht,Service, March 1961-January 1963; midwest director, U.S. 614 Biographical Directory

Department of Agriculture, January 1963 to May 1968; un-burg, Cumberland County, Pa., July 23, 1799; attended the successful candidate for election in 1968 to the Ninety-firstcommon schools; was graduated from the medical depart- Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second and toment of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; the three succeeding Congresses and served from Janaury 3,commenced the practice of medicine in New York City; 1971, until his resignation Janaury 22, 1977, to become Sec-moved to Nauvoo, Hancock County, ilL, in 1843, and thence retary of Agriculture; served in that capacity until Januaryto the Territory of Utah; settled in Salt Lake City in 1848 20, 1981; president, Farmland World Trade, March 1981-and continued the practice of medicine; elected as a Whig to September 1982; vice president and general manager, Na-the Thirty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses tional Rural Electric Cooperatives Association, Washington,(March 4, 1851-March 3, 1859); was not a candidate for D.C., September 1982 to present; is a resident of Annandale,renomination in 1858; resumed the practice of medicine; Va. elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861- BERLIN, William Markle, a Representative from Pennsyl-March 3, 1863); was not a candidate for renomination in vania; born on a farm near Delmont, Westmoreland County,1862; resumed the practice of his profession; served as regent Pa., March 29, 1880; attended the public schools; was grad-of the University of Utah; died in Salt Lake City September uated from Laird Institute at Murrysville, Pa., in 1896;28, 1881; interment in Salt Lake City Cemetery. moved to Greensburg, Pa., in 1916 and engaged as an auto- Bibliography: Barrett, Gwynn W. "Dr. John M. Bernhisel: Mormon mobile distributor, in the wholesale oil and gas business, andElder in Congress." Utah Historical Quarterly 36 (Spring 1968): 14-67; in coal mining; chairman of the Democratic County Commit-Barrett, Gwn W. "John M. Bernhisel: Mormon Elder in Congress." tee in 1916; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and Ph.D. dissertation, Brigham Young University, .1968. Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937); BERRIEN, John Macpherson, a Senator from Georgia; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1936; clerk of theborn at Rocky Hill, near Princeton, N.J., August 23, 1781; court of Westmoreland County, Pa., 1937-1941; resumed themoved with his parents to Savannah, Ga., in 1782; was grad- mining of coal in Pennsylvania and West Virginia in 1941;uated from Princeton College in 1796; studied law in Savan- delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicagonah; was admitted to the bar and began practice in Louis- in 1944; unsuccessful for the Republican congressional nomi-ville, then the capital of Georgia, in 1799; returned to Savan- nation in 1950; assistant librarian, United States House ofnah; elected solicitor of the eastern judicial circuit of Geor- Representatives, February 1, 1957, until 1961 when promot-gia in 1809; judge of the same circuit from 1810 until Janu- ed to librarian, and served in that capacity until his death inary 30, 1821, when he resigned; captain of the Georgia Hus- Greensburg, Pa., October 14, 1962; interment in Westmore-sars, a Savannah volunteer company, in the War of 1812; land County Memorial Park. member, State senate 1822-1823; elected as a Jacksonian to BERMAN, Howard Lawrence, a Representative from Cali-the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1825, fornia; born in Los Angeles, Calif., April 15, 1941; graduated,until March 9, 1829; resigned to accept the position of Attor- Hamilton High School, Los Angeles, 1959; B.A., Universityney General in the Cabinet of President Andrew Jackson of California at Los Angeles, 1962; LL.B., University of Cali-and served from March 9, 1829, until June 22, 1831, when he fornia at Los Angeles School of Law, 1965; admitted to theresigned; resumed the practice of law; again elected, as a California bar, 1966; attorney specializing in labor law, 1967-Whig, to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1973; Vista volunteer, 1966-1967; elected to California as-1841, until May 1845, when he again resigned to accept an sembly, 1973-1982; delegate, Democratic National Conven-appointment to the supreme court of Georgia; again elected tion, 1968, 1976, and 1984; elected as a Democrat to thein 1845 to the United States Senate to ifil the vacancy Ninety-eighth and to the two succeeding Congresses (Janu-caused by his second resignation; reelected in 1846 and ary 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Los Angeles,served from November 13, 1845, until May 28, 1852, when he Calif. resigned for the third time; chairman, Committee on Judici- ary (Twentieth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congress- BERNARD, John Toussaint, a Representative from Min-es); president of the American Party convention at Miledge- nesota; born in Bastia, Island of Corsica, France, March 6,ville in 1855; died in Savannah, Ga., January 1, 1856; inter- 1893; in 1907 immigrated to the United States with hisment in Laurel Grove Cemetery. parents, who settled in Eveleth, St. Louis County, Minn.; Bibliography: DAB; Govan, Thomas P. "John Macpherson Berrien and attended public schools in France and in Eveleth, Minn.;the Administration of Andrew Jackson." Journal of Southern History 5 employed as an iron-ore miner 1910-1917 and as city fire- (November 1939): 447-67; McCrary, Royce, Jr. "John Macpherson Berrien man 1920-1936; served in the United States Army during of Georgia: A Political Biography." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Geor- the First World War as a corporal in the One Hundred and gia, 1971. Twenty-fifth Field Artifiery, and also as a civilian employee BERRY, Albert Seaton, a Representative from Kentucky; in the Army and Navy Intelligence 1917-1919, serving over-born in Fairfield (now Dayton), Campbell County, Ky., May seas fifteen months; delegate to the State Farmer-Labor13, 1836; attended the public schools; was graduated from Party conventions in 1936, 1938, and 1940; elected as aMiami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1855 and from the Cin- Farmer-Labor candidate to the Seventy-fifth Congress (Janu-cinnati Law School in 1858; was admitted to the bar and ary 3, 1937-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for re-- practiced; prosecuting attorney of Newport, Ky., in 1859; election in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for elec-served in the Confederate Army throughout the Civil War; tion in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; engaged as amayor of Newport in 1870 and served five terms; member of labor organizer, legislative director and civil rights activist;the State senate in 1878 and 1884; elected as a Democrat to moved to Long Beach, Calif., where he lived until his deaththe Fifty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses there on August 6, 1983. (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1901); unsuccessful candidate for Bibliography: "A Common Man's Courage: The Story of John Bernard." renomination in 1900; resumed the practice of law; appoint-- 1977. Produced by University Community Video, Minneapolis, Mimi. 29 ed and subsequently elected judge of the seventeenth judicial minutes. district of Kentucky and served from 1905 until his death in BERNHISEL, John Milton, a Delegate from the TerritoryNewport, Campbell County, Ky., January 6, 1908; interment of Utah; born at Sandy Hill, Tyrone Township, near Harris-in Evergreen Cemetery. Biographies 615

BERRY, Campbell Polson (cousin of James Hendersontice in Berryville, Carroll County, Ark.; elected to the State Berry), a Representative from California; born in Jacksonhouse of representatives in 1866; reelected in 1872, and County, Ala., November 7, 1834; moved to Arkansas in 1841served as speaker in 1874; moved to Bentonville, Ark., in with his parents, who settled in Berryville; attended the1869 and continued the practice of law; chairman of the grammar school; moved to California in 1857 and settledDemocratic State convention in 1876; judge of the circuit near Yuba City; was graduated from the Pacific Methodistcourt 1878-1882; elected Governor of Arkansas in 1882; elect- College, Vacaville, Solano County, Calif., in 1865; served ased as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1885 to ifil supervisor of Sutter County 1866-1869; engaged in agricul-the vacancy caused by the resignation of Augustus H. Gar- tural pursuits and for a short time, in 1872, was also in theland; reelected in 1889, 1895, and 1901, and served from mercantile business; member of the State assembly in 1869,March 20, 1885, to March 3, 1907; unsuccessful candidate for 1871, 1873, 1875, 1877, and 1878, serving as speaker in 1877 reelection in 1906; chairman, Committee on Public Lands and 1878; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and(Fifty-third Congress), Committee on Engrossed Bills (Fifty- Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); de-ninth Congress); died in Bentonville, Benton County, Ark., clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1882; subtrea-January 30, 1913; interment in the Knights of Pythias Ceme-- surer of the United States at San Francisco, Calif., 1894-tery. 1898; died in Wheatland, Yuba County, Calif., on January 8, Bibliography: DAB; Berry, James. An Autobiography of James Berry. 1901; interment in Fairview Cemetery, Sutter County, Calif. Bentonville, Ark.: Democrat Press, 1918. BERRY, Ellis Yarnal, a Representative from South BERRY, John, a Representative from Ohio; born near Dakota; born in Larchwood, Lyon County, Iowa, October 6,Carey, in that portion of Crawford County which is now 1902; attended Philip (S.Dak.) High School; student in Morn-Wyandot County, Ohio, April 26, 1833; attended the public ingside College, Sioux City, Iowa, 1920-1922; was graduatedschools, and Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware; was from the law school of the University of South Dakota atgraduated from the law department of Cincinnati College, Vermillion in 1927; was admitted to the bar the same yearOhio, in 1857; was admitted to the bar in April 1857 and and commenced the practice of law in Kennebec, Lymancommenced practice in Upper Sandusky; elected prosecuting County, S.Dak., and at McLaughlin, Corson County, in 1929;attorney of Wyandot County in 1862; reelected in 1864; served as State's attorney, mayor of McLaughlin, and judgemayor of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, in 1864; elected as a Demo- of Probate Court, Corson County, 193 1-1939; publisher of thecrat to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, McLaughlin Messenger since 1938, McIntosh News and Mor-1875); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1874; ristown World since 1952; delegate to State Republican Con-resumed the practice of law in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, where ventions in 1934, 1936, and 1938; editor of the State Barhe died May 18, 1879; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, near Association Journal 1938-1950; member of the State senateUpper Sandusky, Ohio. in 1939 and 1941 legislative sessions, and legislative assist- BESIILIN, Earl Hanley, a Representative from Pennsyl- ant to the Governor during the 1943 session; member of thevania; born in Conewango Township, Warren County, Pa., Missouri River States Committee, 1940-1943; member of theApril 28, 1870; was raised on a farm; attended the public State Board of Regents of Education, 1946-1950; elected as aschools and was graduated from Warren High School; stud- Republican to the Eighty-second and to the nine succeedingied law; was admitted to the bar of Warren County in 1893 Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1971); was not aand commenced practice in Warren, Warren County, Pa.; candidate for reelection in 1970 to the Ninety-second Con-elected burgess of Warren County in 1906 for a term of three gress; is a resident of Rapid City, S.Dak. years; served as borough solicitor from1914 to 1918; elected BERRY, George Leonard, a Senator from Tennessee; bornas a Democrat and Prohibitionist to the Sixty-fifthCongress in Lee Valley, Hawkins County, Tenn., September 12, 1882;to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Omin D. attended the common schools; employed as a pressman fromBleakley and served from November 8, 1917, to March 3, 1891 to 1907 in various cities; served during the First World1919; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the War in the American Expeditionary Forces, with the rank ofSixty-sixth Congress; member and later chairman, Board of major, in the Railroad Transportation Engineers 19 18-1919;Education, Warren County, 1919-1935; member and chair- president of the International Pressmen and Assistants'man, Warren State Hospital, 1935-1939; resumedand con- Union of North America 1907-1948; also engaged in agricul-tinued the practice of law until his death, July 12, 1971, in tural pursuits and banking; delegate to many national andWarren, Pa.; interment in Oakland Mausoleum. international labor conventions; appointed as a Democrat to BETIIUNE, Edwin Ruthvin, Jr., a Representative from the United States Senate to ifil the vacancy caused by theArkansas; born in Pocahontas, Randolph County, Ark., De- death of Nathan L. Bachman and served from May 6, 1937,cember 19, 1935; attended the public schools of Little Rock, to November 8, 1938, when a successor was elected; unsuc-Ark.; graduated, Pocahontas High School, 1953; B.A., Uni- cessful candidate for nomination in 1938 to ifil the vacancy;versity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1961; J.D., University of resumed the presidency of the International Pressmen andArkansas School of Law, 1963; admitted to the Arkansas Bar Assistants' Union of North America, and also his agricultur-in 1963 and commenced practice in Pocahontas; admitted to al pursuits at Pressmen's Home, Tenn., until his death onpractice before the United States Supreme Court, 1972; December 4, 1948; interment in Pressmen's Home Cemetery.served in United States Marine Corps, sergeant, 1954-1957, Bibliography: DAB. with service in ; deputy prosecuting attorney, Ran- BERRY, James Henderson (cousin of Campbell Polsondolph County, Ark.,1963-1964;specialagent, Federal Berry), a Senator from Arkansas; born in Jackson County,Bureau of Investigation, 1964-1968; private practice of law Ala., May 15, 1841; moved to Arkansas with his parents, whoin Searcy, Ark., 1968-1978; prosecuting attorney, first judi- settled in Carroll County in 1848; attended a private schoolcial district of Arkansas, 1970-1971; chairman, Ninth Dis- in Berryville, Ark.; entered the Confederate Army in 1861 astrict Federal Home Loan Bank Board, 1973-1976; elected as a second lieutenant, Sixteenth Regiment, Arkansas Infantry;a Republican to the Ninety-sixth and to the twosucceeding lost a leg in the Battle of Corinth, Miss., in 1862; studiedCongresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1985); was not a law; was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced prac-candidate for reelection in 1984 to the Ninety-ninth Con- 616 Biographical Directory gress but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to theMass., in 1806; studied law in Hudson, N.Y.; was admitted to United States Senate; resumed the practice of law; is athe bar in 1807 and commenced practice in Monticello, Sulli- resident of Little Rock, Ark. van County, N.Y.; served as judge advocate of Volunteers in BETHUNE, Lauchlin, a Representative from North Caro-the War of 1812; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth lina; born near Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C., AprilCongress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); was not a candidate 15, 1785; attended private schools and Lumberton (N.C.)for renomination in 1816; moved to Newburgh, Orange Male Academy; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member ofCounty, N.Y., where he continued the practice of law; ap- the State senate in 1817, 1818, 1822-1825, and 1827; electedpointed circuit judge under the new State constitution in as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1823; appointed and subsequently elected judge of the 1831-March 3, 1833); unsuccessful candidate for reelection toUnited States District Court for the Southern District of the Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-fifth Congress-New York and served from 1826 until 1867, when he re- es; returned to his plantation near Fayetteville, N.C., andsigned; died in New Haven, Conn., November 2, 1868; inter- continued agricultural pursuits until his death on Octoberment in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City. 10, 1874; interment in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Aberdeen, Bibliography: DAB. Moore County, N.e. BElTS, Thaddeus, a Senator from Connecticut; born in BETHUNE, Marion, a Representative from Georgia; bornNorwalk, Conn., February 4, 1789; completed preparatory near Greensboro, Greene County, Ga., April 8, 1816; attend-studies; was graduated from Yale College in 1807; studied ed private schools and Dc Hagan's Academy; moved with hislaw; was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced prac- widowed mother to Talbotton, Talbot County, Ga., in 1829;tice in Norwalk; member, State house of representatives in engaged in mercantile pursuits; studied law; was admitted to1815 and 1830; member, State senate 1831; elected lieuten- ant governor of Connecticut in 1832 and 1836; elected as a the bar in 1842 and commenced practice at Talbotton; pro-- bate judge of Talbot County from 1852 to 1868, when heWhig to the United States Senate and served from March 4, voluntarily retired; member of the constitutional convention1839, until his death in Washington, D.C., April 7, 1840; of Georgia at the time of the repeal of the ordinance ofinterment in Union Cemetery, Norwalk, Conn. secession; member of the State house of representatives BEVERIDGE, Albert Jeremiah, a Senator from Indiana; 1867-1871; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Con-born near Sugar Tree Ridge, Concord Township, Highland gress to fill the vacancy caused by the House declaring that William P. Edwards was not entitled to the seat and servedCounty, Ohio, October 6, 1862; attended the common schools; from December 22, 1870, to March 3, 1871; unsuccessfulwas graduated from Indiana Asbury (now DePauw) Universi- candidate for reelection in 1870 to the Forty-second Con-ty, Greencastle, md., in 1885; studied law; was admitted to gress; resumed the practice of law; unsuccessful candidatethe, bar in 1887 and commenced practice in Indianapolis, for election in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; Unitedmd.; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on States census supervisor in 1890; died in Talbotton, Ga.,January 17, 1899, reelected in 1905, and served from March February 20, 1895; interment in Oakhill Cemetery. 4, 1899, until March 3, 1911; unsuccessful candidate for re-- election in 1910; chairman, Committee on Forest Reserva- BE11ON, Silas, a Representative from New Hampshire;tions and Game Protection (Fifty-sixth Congress), Committee born in Londonderry, N.H., August 26, 1768; studied under aon Territories (Fifty-seventh through Sixty-first Congresses), private tutor, and was graduated from Dartmouth College,Committee on Indian Depredations (Fifty-ninth Congress); Hanover, N.H., in 1787; studied law; was admitted to the barreturned to Indianapolis and engaged in literary and histori- and commenced practice in Salem, Rockingham County,cal pursuits; unsuccessful Progressive candidate for Gover- N.H., in 1790; member of the State house of representativesnor of Indiana in 1912; chairman of the National Progressive 1797-1799; member of the State senate 1801-1803; elected asConvention at Chicago in 1912; unsuccessful candidate as a a Federalist to the Eighth and Ninth Congresses (March 4,Progressive in 1914 and as a Republican in 1922 for election 1803-March 3, 1807); resumed the practice of law; again ato the United States Senate; died in Indianapolis, md., April member of the State house of representatives in 1810 and27, 1927; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery. 1811; served as high sheriff of Rockingham County 1813- Bibliography: DAB; Bowers, Claude. Beveridge and the Progressive Em. 1818; died in Salem, N.H., January 22, 1822; interment in Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Company, 1932; Braeman, John. Albert ,L Bever- Old Parish Cemetery, Center Village, Salem, N.H. idge: American Nationalist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. BE'11S, Jackson Edward, a Representative from Ohio; BEVERIDGE, John Lourie, a Representative from Illi- born in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, May 26, 1904; at-nois; born in Greenwich, Washington County, N.Y., July 6, tended the public schools of Findlay, Ohio; graduated from 1824; attended the public schools; moved with his parents to Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in 1926, and from Yale LawDe Kalb, Ill., in 1842; attended the Rock River Seminary, School, New Haven, Conn., in 1929; was admitted to the barMount Morris, Ill.; moved to Tennessee in 1845 and taught in 1930, and commenced the practice of law in Findlay,school until 1851; studied law; was admitted to the bar and Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Hancock County, Ohio, 1933-practiced; moved to Sycamore, Ill., in 1851 and continued the 1937; member of the State house of representatives 1937-practice of law; moved to Evanston in 1854 and practiced 1947, serving as speaker in 1945 and 1946; elected as alaw in Chicago; during the Civil War served in the Union Republican to the Eighty-second and to the ten succeedingArmy; appointed major of the Eighth illinois Cavalry Sep- - Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1973); was not atember 18, 1861; colonel of the Seventeenth illinois Cavalry candidate in 1972 for reelection to the Ninety-third Con-January 28, 1864; brevetted brigadier general and mustered gress;part-time teacher at Findlay College,1973-1983;out February 7, 1866; elected sheriff of Cook County, Ill., in acting judge, Findlay Municipal Court, 1981 to present; is a1866; member of the State senate in 1871; resigned, having resident of Findlay, Ohio. been elected as a Republican to the Forty-second Congress to if! the vacancy caused by the resignation of John A. Logan BElTS, Samuel Rossiter, a Representative from Newand served from November 7, 1871, until January 4, 1873, York; born in Richmond, Berkshire County, Mass., June 8,when he resigned; elected Lieutenant Governor of Illinois in 1787; was graduated from Williams College, Wihiamstown,1872 and upon the resignation of Gov. R. J. Oglesby in 1873 Biographies 617 became Governor and served from January 23, 1873, to Jan-Ga., and began the practice of medicine; member, State uary 1877; United States subtreasurer at Chicago 1877-1881;house of representatives 1803-1805; resumed the practice of moved to California in 1895 and resided in Hollywood, untilmedicine; elected as a Republican to the Ninth Congress to his death on May 3, 1910; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery,fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas Spald- Chicago, Ill. ing; reelected to the Tenth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 26, 1807, until his res- BEVILL, Tom, a Representative from Alabama; born inignation November 6, 1813, having been elected Senator; Townley, Walker County, Ala., March 27, 1921; graduatedelected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill from Walker County High School in 1939; graduated fromthe vacancy caused by the resignation of William H. Craw- University of Alabama School of Commerce and Businessford and served from November 6, 1813, to November 9, Administration in 1943; graduated from University of Ala-1816, when he resigned; moved to Alabama Territory and bama School of Law in 1948; entered United States Army in elected as the 1943; served in European theater of operations; retired lieu-was appointed the first Territorial Governor; tenant colonel, United States Army; practiced law in Jasper,first Governor under the State Constitution and served from Ala.; elected to the State house of representatives in 1958March 1817 until his death near Coosada Station, Elmore and reelected in 1962; elected as a Democrat to the Nineti-County, Ala., July 9, 1820; interment in the family cemetery, Coosada Station, Ala. eth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967- Bibliography: DAB; Mellichamp, Josephine. "William Bibb." In Senators January 3, 1989); is a resident of Jasper, Ala. From Georgia.pp. 72-74. Huntsville, Ala.: The Strode Publishers, Inc., BIAGGI, Mario, a Representative from New York; born in 1976. New York City October 26, 1917; graduated from P.S. 171 BIBIGHAUS, Thomas Marshal, a Representative from and Harren High School, New York City; LL.B., New YorkPennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 17, 1817; Law School, 1963; admitted to the bar of the State of Newattended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to York; senior partner of Biaggi, Ehrich & Lang, New Yorkthe bar in 1839 and commenced practice in Lebanon, Pa.; City; served as community relations specialist with the Newelected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, York State Division of Housing and assistant to the secre-1851-March 3, 1853); was not a candidate for renomination tary of state, New York State, 1961-1965; member of thein 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress owing to ill health; New York City Police Department, 1942-1965; retired onresumed the practice of law in Lebanon, Lebanon County, line of duty disability as lieutenant; holds police depart-Pa., and died there June 18, 1853; interment in Mount Leba- ment's medal of honor plus twenty-seven other decorations; also holds Medal of Honor for Valor from National Police non Cemetery. Officers Association of America, and is included in Associa- BIBLE, Alan Harvey, a Senator from Nevada; born in tion's Hall of Fame; elected president, National Police Offi-Lovelock, Pershing County, Nev., November 20, 1909; grad- cers Association of America, 1967; elected as a Democrat touated from the University of Nevada at Reno in 1930 and the Ninety-first and to the nine succeeding Congresses andfrom Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C., served from January 3, 1969, until his resignation August 5,in 1934; was admitted to the Nevada bar in 1935 and com- 1988; is a resident of the Bronx, N.Y. menced the practice of law in Reno, Nev.; district attorney BIBB, George Mortirner, a Senator from Kentucky; bornof Storey County 1935-1938; appointed deputy attorney gen- in Prince Edward County, Va., October 30, 1776; pursuederal of Nevada in 1938; State attorney 1942-1950; resumed preparatory studies; was graduated from Hampden-Sidneyprivate practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the United (Va.) College and from William and Mary College, Williams-States Senate, November 2, 1954, to fill the vacancy caused burg, Va., in 1792; studied law; was admitted to the bar andby the death of Patrick A. McCarran for the term ending practiced for a short time in Virginia; moved to Lexington,January 3, 1957; reelected in 1956, 1962, and again in 1968 Ky., in 1798; elected to the State house of representatives inand served from December 2, 1954, until his resignation 1806, 1810, and 1817; appointed judge of the Kentucky CourtDecember 17, 1974; was not a candidate for reelection in of Appeals 1808; chief justice of that court 1809-1810, when1974; chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Eighty- he resigned; elected to the United States Senate and servedfifth through Ninetieth Congresses), Joint Committee on from March 4, 1811, to August 23, 1814, when he resigned;Washington Metropolitan Problems (Eighty-fifth and Eighty- resumed the practice of law in Lexington; moved to Frank-sixth Congresses), Select Committee on Small Business fort in 1816; was again appointed chief justice of the court of(Ninety-first through Ninety-third Congresses); lawyer; is a appeals 1827-1828, when he again resigned; elected to theresident of Reno, Nev. United States Senate as a Jacksonian and served from BICKNELL, Bennet, a Representative from New York; March 4, 1829, to March 3, 1835; chairman, Committee onborn in Mansfield, Conn., November 14, 1781; attended the Post Office and Post Roads (Twenty-first Congress); chancel- lor of the Louisville chancery court 1835-1844; appointedpublic schools; moved to Morrisville, N.Y., in 1808; served in Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President Johnthe War of 1812; member of the State assembly in 1812; Tyler 1844-1845; resumed the practice of law in Washington,served in the State senate 1814-1818; clerk of Madison D.C., and was an assistant in the office of the AttorneyCounty, N.Y., 1821-1825; editor of the Madison Observer; General; died in Washington, D.C., April 14, 1859; intermentelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in the State Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky. Bibliography: DAB; Goff, John. "The Last Leaf: George Mortimer Bibb." in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; died in Morrisville, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 59 (1961): 331-42. Madison County, N.Y., September 15, 1841; interment in Morrisville Rural Cemetery. BIBB, William Wyatt, a Representative and a Senator from Georgia; born in Amelia County, Va., October 2, 1781; BICKNELL, George Augustus, a Representative from In- pursued an academic course; attended William and Marydiana; born in Philadelphia, Pa., February 6, 1815; was grad- College, Williamsburg, Va., and was graduated from theuated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia medical department of the University of Pennsylvania atin 1831; attended Yale Law School one year; completed the Philadelphia in 1801; moved to Petersburg, Elbert County,study of law; was admitted to the bar in 1836 and corn- 618 Biographical Directory menced practice in New York City; moved to Lexington,County, Mich.; went to White Sulphur Springs, Va., for the Scott County, md., in 1846; elected prosecuting attorney ofsummer, and died there August 25, 1859; interment in Elm- Scott County in 1848; circuit prosecutor in 1850; moved towood Cemetery, Detroit, Mich. New Albany in 1851; judge of the second judicial circuit of Indiana 1852-1876; professor of law at the University of BIDDLE, Joseph Franklin, a Representative from Penn- Indiana 1861-1870; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifthsylvania; born near Bedford, Bedford County, Pa., September and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881); 14, 1871; educated in the public schools; was graduated from unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1880; appointedMillersville State Teachers' College at Milersville, Pa., in commissioner of appeals in the supreme court of Indiana in1894 and from the law department of Dickinson College, 1881, which office he held until the completion of its work inCarlisle, Pa., in 1897; was admitted to the bar in 1897 and 1885; resumed the practice of law; elected judge of the cir-commenced practice in Bedford, Pa.; moved to Everett, Pa., cuit court of Indiana in 1889 and held that office until hisin 1903 and engaged in the practice of law and in newspaper death, April 11, 1891, in New Albany, Floyd County, Ind.;publishing; moved to Huntingdon, Pa., in 1918 and engaged interment in Fairview Cemetery. in the printing and publishing business and in banking; member of the Pennsylvania Publishers' Association 1924- BIDDLE, Charles John (nephew of Richard Biddle), a1936; director of the National Editorial Association 1926- Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia,1936; member of the Republican State committee 1932-1936; Pa., April 30, 1819; was graduated from Princeton College inelected as a Republican to the Seventy-second Congress to 1837; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commencedif! the vacancy caused by the death of Edward M. Beers and practice in Philadelphia in 1840; served in the Mexican Warserved from November 8, 1932, to March 3, 1933; was not a and was brevetted major for meritorious services; resumedcandidate for election to the Seventy-third Congress in 1932; the practice of law in Philadelphia; entered the Union Armyresumed the printing and newspaper publishing business in in 1861 as colonel of a regiment of the Pennsylvania ReserveHuntingdon, Pa., where he died on December 3, 1936; inter- Corps; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh Congressment in Trinity Churchyard, Friends' Cove, near Bedford, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of E. Joy MorrisPa. and served from July 2, 1861, to March 3, 1863; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Con- BIDDLE, Richard (nephew of Edward Biddle and uncle of gress; chairman of the Democratic State central committeeCharles John Biddle), a Representative from Pennsylvania; in 1863; one of the proprietors and editor in chief of theborn in Philadelphia, Pa., March 25, 1796; pursued classical Philadelphia Age until his death in Philadelphia Septemberstudies; was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania 28, 1873; interment in Old St. Peter's Church Cemetery.at Philadelphia in 1811; served as a volunteer in the Wash- ington Guards during the War of 1812; studied law; was BIDDLE, Edward (uncle of Richard Biddle), a Delegateadmitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1817 and commenced from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1738; en-practice in Pittsburgh the same year; went to England in tered the provincial army as an ensign in 1754, promoted to1827, remained there three years, and published works upon lieutenant and captain, and served until 1763, when he re-American discovery and travel; elected as an Anti-Masonic signed; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commencedcandidate to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses practice in Reading, Pa.; member of the State assemblyand served from March 4, 1837, until his resignation in 1840; 1767-1775, serving as speaker in 1774; member of the provin-resumed the practice of law in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he cial convention held at Philadelphia in1775; again adied on July 6, 1847; interment in Allegheny Cemetery. member of the State assembly in 1778; Member of the Conti- nental Congresses in 1774 and 1775; died at Chatsworth, BIDEN, Joseph Robinette, Jr., a Senator from Delaware; near Baltimore, Md., September 5, 1779; interment in St.born in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pa., November 20, Paul's Churchyard, Baltimore, Md. 1942; educated at St. Helena's School, Wilmington, Del., and Archmere Academy, Calymont, Del.; graduated, University BIDDLE, John, a Delegate from the Territory of Michi-of Delaware, Newark, 1965, and Syracuse (N.Y.) University gan; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 2, 1792; attended theCollege of Law 1968; admitted to the Delaware bar in 1969 common schools and Princeton College; enlisted in the Warand commenced practice in Wilmington; served on the New of 1812; appointed a second lieutenant in the Third ArtilleryCastle County Council 1970-1972; elected as a Democrat to July 6, 1812, first lieutenant March 13, 1813, and captain inthe United States Senate in 1972 for the term commencing the Forty-second Infantry October 1, 1813; assistant inspec-January 3, 1973; reelected in 1978 and in 1984 for the term tor general with the rank of major June 19, 1817, until Juneending January 3, 1991; chairman, Committee on the Judici- 1, 1821; attached to the staff of General Scott on the Niagara frontier; paymaster and Indian agent at Green Bay, Wis.,ary (One-hundreth Congress). 1821 and 1822; register of the land at Detroit, Territory of BIDLACK, Benjamin Alden, a Representative from Penn- Michigan, 1823-1837; commissioner for determining the an-sylvania; born in Paris, Oneida County, N.Y., September 8, cient land claims at Detroit, Mackinaw, Sault Ste. Marie,1804; moved to Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; attended the public Green Bay, and Prairie du Chien; mayor of Detroit in 1827schools; was graduated from the Wilkes-Barre Academy; and 1828; elected a Delegate from the Territory of Michiganstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced to the Twenty-first Congress and served from March 4, 1829,practice in Wilkes-Barre; elected district attorney of Luzerne until Feb. 21, 1831, when he resigned; president of the con-County in 1825; moved to Milford, Pike County, Pa., in 1830; vention that framed the State constitution for Michigan incounty treasurer in 1834; returned to Wilkes-Barre; elected a 1835; president of the Michigan Central Railroad Co. in 1835;member of the State house of representatives in 1835 and unsuccessful candidate for election in 1835 to the United1836; editor of the Republican Farmer and the Democratic States Senate; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Michi-Journal, Wilkes-Barre; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty- gan; member of the State house of representatives in 1841seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses (March 4,1841- and served as speaker; retired from public life and activeMarch 3, 1845); appointed Chargé d'Affaires to Colombia pursuits and resided on his farm near Wyandotte, Mich.;May 14, 1845; successfully negotiated a "treaty of peace, later spent much time on his estate near St. Louis, Gratiotamity, and navigation" with Colombia and secured for the Biographies 619

United States the right to build a canal or railroad across1950 to the Eighty-second Congress; special assistant to the the Isthmus of Panama; died in Bogota, Colombia, FebruarySecretary of the Interior, 1951-1952; public relations counsel- 6, 1849; interment in the English Cemetery. or and lobbyist for the AFL-CIO, Washington,D.C., 1953- Bibliography: DAB. 1979; resided in Bethesda, Md. until his death there on April 3, 1982; interment in Ellicott Family Cemetery, Ellicott, Md. BIDWELL, Barnabas, a Representative from Massachu- setts; born in Tyringham (now Monterey), Mass., August 23, BIERMANN, Frederick Elliott, a Representative from 1763; was graduated from Yale College in 1785; studied lawIowa; born in Rochester, Olmstead County, Minn., March 20, at Brown University, Providence, RI.; was admitted to the 1884; moved to Decorah, Iowa, in 1888; attended the public bar in 1805 and commenced practice in Stockbridge, Mass.;and high schools of Decorah, Iowa, and the University of served in the State senate 1801-1804; member of the StateMinnesota at Minneapolis; was graduated from Columbia house of representatives 1805-1807; elected as a RepublicanUniversity, New York City, in 1905 and later attended to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses and served from MarchValder's Business College, Decorah, Iowa, and Harvard Law 4, 1805, until his resignation on July 13, 1807; attorneySchool; homesteaded in North Dakota in 1906 and 1907; general of Massachusetts from June 15, 1807, to August 30,editor and publisher of the Decorah (Iowa) Journal 1908- 1810; moved to Canada about 1815 and settled near Kings-1931; volunteered for service in the United States Army ton; became interested in political affairs and engaged in theduring the First World War; was commissioned a second practice of law; died in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, July 27,lieutenant August 15, 1917, and a first lieutenant on Decem- 1833; interment in Cataraqui Cemetery, Cataraqui, Ontario.ber 31, 1917, in the Eighty-eighth Division; served from Bibliography: DAB. April 1917 until June 1919, being overseas ten months; post- BIDWELL, John, a Representative from California; bornmaster of Decorah, Iowa, 19 13-1923; served as park commis- in Chautauqua County, N.Y., August 5, 1819; moved with hissioner of Decorah beginning in 1922; delegate to the Demo- - parents to Erie, Pa., in 1829 and to Ashtabula County, Ohio,cratic National Conventions in 1928, 1940, and 1956; delegate in 1831; attended the country schools and Kingsville Acade-to the Interparliamentary Union Conference at Paris in my, Ashtabula, Ohio; taught school in Ohio; spent two years1937; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third, Seventy- in Missouri and taught school; crossed the Rockies and Sier-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January ras with the first overland expedition, arriving in the Sacra-3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the mento Valley, California, on November 4, 1841; secured em-Seventy-sixth Congress; appointed United States Marshal for ployment on the ranch of John A. Sutter; later engaged innorthern Iowa in October 1940, in which capacity he served mining; served in the War with Mexico, attaining the rankuntil 1953; died in La Crosse, Wis., July 1, 1968; interment of major; member of the State senate in 1849; supervisor inin Phelps Cemetery, Decorah, Iowa. California of the United States census in 1850 and in 1860; delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Charles- BIERY, James Soloman, a Representative from Pennsyl- ton in 1860; was appointed brigadier general of the Califor-vania; born on a farm near Emlenton, Venango County, Pa., nia Militia in 1863; delegate to the Republican NationalMarch 2, 1839; attended the district schools, a select school Convention in 1864; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-of the county, and Emlenton (Pa.) Academy; taught school ninth Congress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); chairman,for three years in the oil regions of Pennsylvania; moved to Committee on Agriculture (Thirty-ninth Congress); was not aAllentown, Lehigh County, Pa., in 1861 and continued teach- candidate for renomination in 1866; engaged extensively ining for eight years; studied theology for two years; subse-- agricultural pursuits; unsuccessful candidate for Governor ofquently studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1868 and California in 1875 on the Anti-Monopoly ticket; presidedcommenced practice in Allentown; member of the State over the Prohibition State convention in 1888 and was thehouse of representatives in 1869; elected as a Republican to unsuccessful candidate of that party for Governor of Califor-the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was nia in 1890 and for President of the United States in 1892;not a candidate for renomination in 1874; resumed the prac- died in Chico, Butte County, Calif., April 4, 1900; intermenttice of law at Allentown and also engaged in literary pur- in Chico Cemetery. suits; died in Allentown, Pa., December 3, 1904; interment in Bibliography: DAB; Hunt, Rockwell D. John Bidwell; Prince of Califor- Fairview Cemetery. nia Pioneers. Caidwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, 1942; Royce, C. C. John Bidwell; Pioneer Statesman, Philanthropist: A Biographical Sketch. hESTER, Edward George, Jr., a Representative from Chico, California, 1906. Pennsylvania; born in Trevose, Bucks County, Pa., January 5, 1931; attended Doylestown public schools, graduated from BIEMILLER, Andrew John, a Representative from Wis-the George School in 1948, Wesleyan University in 1952, and consin; born in Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio, July 23, 1906;Temple University School of Law in 1955; admitted to Penn- attended the public schools; was graduated from Cornellsylvania bar in 1956; assistant district attorney, Bucks University, Ithaca, N.Y., A.B., 1926, and also took graduateCounty, 1958-1964; elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth work at the University of Pennsylvania; taught history atand to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967- Syracuse (N.Y.) University 1926-1928 and at the UniversityJanuary 3, 1977); was not a candidate for reelection in 1976 of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia 1929-1931; moved to Mil-to the Ninety-fifth Congress; attorney general, Common- waukee, Wis., in 1932; organizer from the Wisconsin Statewealth of Pennsylvania, 1979-1980; judge, court of common Federation of Labor (A. F. of L.); member of the State assem-pleas of Bucks County, seventh judicial district, 1980 to bly 1937-1941, serving as party floor leader 1939-1941; as-present; is a resident of Furlong, Pa. sistant to the vice chairman for labor production, War Pro- duction Board, Washington, D.C., 1941-1944; elected as a BIGBY, John Summerfield, a Representative from Geor- Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, 1945-gia; born near Newnan, Coweta County, Ga., February 13, January 3, 1947); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in1832; attended the common schools; was graduated from 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; engaged as a public relationsEmory College, Oxford, Ga., in 1853; studied law; was admit- counselor; delegate, Democratic National Convention inted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Newnan, 1948; elected to the Eighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949-Coweta County, Ga.; member of the State constitutional con- January 3, 1951); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inventions of 1867-1868; solicitor general of the Tallapoosa 620 Biographical Directory circuit from August 1867 to September 22, 1868; judge of the BIGGS, Asa, a Representative and a Senator from North superior court of the same circuit from September 22, 1868,Carolina; born in Williamston, Martin County, N.C., Febru- to March 3, 1871; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ary 4, 1811; attended the common schools; pursued classical second Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); unsuccessfulstudies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1831 and candidate for reelection in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress;commenced practice in Williamston, N.C.; member of the resumed the practice of law in Atlanta, Ga.; delegate to theState constitutional convention in 1835; member, State Republican National Convention at Cincinnati in 1876;house of commons 1840-1842; member, State senate 1844- became president of the Atlanta & West Point Railroad in1845; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress 1876; died in Atlanta, Ga., March 28, 1898; interment in(March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); unsuccessful candidate for West View Cemetery. reelection in 1846; member of a commission to codify the BIGELOW, Abijah, a Representative from Massachusetts;State laws in 1851; elected as a Democrat to the United born in Westminster, Mass., on, December 5, 1775; attendedStates Senate and served from March 4, 1855, until May 5, Leicester (Mass.) Academy and an academy at New Ipswich,1858, when he resigned, having been appointed United N.H.; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover,States judge of the district of North Carolina by President N.H., in 1795; studied law in Groton, Mass.; was admitted toJames Buchanan; served as judge of the district court until the bar in 1798 and commenced practice in Leominster, 1861; member of the secession convention of North Carolina Mass., in the same year; town clerk of Leominster 1803-in 1861; Confederate judge 1861-1865; resumed the practice 1809; member of the State house of representatives 1807-of law in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, N.C., in 1865; moved 1809; justice of the peace 1809-1860 and justice of theto Norfolk, Va., in 1869 and continued the practice of law quorum 1812-1860; elected as a Federalist to the Eleventhuntil his death in that city on March 6, 1878; interment in Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofElmwood Cemetery. ; reelected to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Bibliography: DAB; Riggs, Asa. Autobiography of Asa Biggs, Including a Congresses and served from October 8, 1810, to March 3, Journal of a Trip from North Carolina to New York in 1832. Edited by 1815; moved to Worcester in 1817; clerk of the courts ofRobert D. W. Connor. North Carolina Historical Commission Publications. Worcester County 1817-1833; resumed the practice of law; Bulletin No. 19. Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton Printing Company, 1915. served as trustee of Leicester Academy in 1819 and 1820 and BIGGS, Benjamin Thomas, a Representative from Dela- as treasurer 1820-1853; appointed a master in chancery inware; born near Summit Bridge, New Castle County, Del., 1838; died in Worcester, Worcester County, Mass., April 5,October 1, 1821; attended the public schools and Pennington 1860; interment in the Rural Cemetery. Bibliography: Scotti, N. David. "An Addition to the Letters of AbijahSeminary in New Jersey; taught school for a short time and Bigelow." American Antiquarian Society, Proceedings 79, Pt. 2 (Octoberlater attended the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.; 1969): 245-52. engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State consti- tutional convention in 1853; became interested in railroad BIGELOW, Herbert Seely, a Representative from Ohio;operations and was a director of the Kent & Queen Annes born in Elkhart, Elkhart County, md., January 4, 1870; at-Railroad; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in tended the public schools, and Oberlin College, Oberlin,1860 to the Thirty-seventh Congress; elected as a Democrat Ohio; was graduated from Western Reserve University,to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses (March 4, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1894; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and1869-March 3, 1873); was not a candidate for renomination studied in Lane Theological Seminary; ordained as a Congre-in 1872; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in gational minister in 1895 and became pastor of the Vine1872; elected Governor of Delaware and served from Janu- Street Congregational Church in Cincinnati, Ohio; delegateary 1887 to January 1891; died in Middletown, New Castle to the fourth constitutional convention of Ohio in 1912, serv- County, Del., December 25, 1893; interment in Bethel Ceme- - ing as president; member of the State house of representa-tery, near Chesapeake City, Cecil County, Md. tives in 1913 and 1914; served in the Cincinnati City Council 1936; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress BIGGS, Marion, a Representative from California; born (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidatenear Curryville, Pike County, Mo., May 2, 1823; attended the for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; membercommon schools; moved to California in 1850; returned to of the city council in 1940 and 1941; resumed his dutiesasMissouri; was elected sheriff of Monroe County, Mo., in 1852 pastor of the Vine Street Congregational Church (Peoplesand reelected in 1854; returned to California in 1864; was a Church), Cincinnati, Ohio, where he died November 11, 1951; cattle buyer and was also engaged in agricultural pursuits; remains were cremated and the ashes scattered over hiselected to the State assembly from Sacramento County in farm near Forestville, Hamilton County, Ohio. 1867 and from Butte County in 1869; elected to the State constitutional convention from the State at large in 1878; BIGELOW, Lewis, a Representative from Massachusetts;elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Con- born in Petersham, Worcester County, Mass., August 18,gresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); was not a candidate 1785; was graduated from Williams College, Williamstown,for renomination in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; com- Mass., in 1803; studied law; was admitted to the bar andmissioner to attend the centennial celebration of the inaugu- commenced practice in Petersham; member of the Stateration of George Washington as President of the United senate 1819-1821; editor of the first seventeen volumes ofStates, in 1889; resided in Gridley, Butte County, Calif. and Massachusetts Reports and of a digest of six volumes oflived in retirement until his death there on August 2, 1910; Pickering's Reports; elected as a Federalist to the Seven-interment in Helvetia Cemetery, Sacramento, Calif. teenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823); moved to Peoria, ill., in 1831 and continued the practice of law; inter- BIGLER, William, a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in ested in the real estate business and in the operation ofShiremanstown, Cumberland County, Pa., on January 1, ferry boats; served as justice of the peace; appointed clerk of1814; attended the public schools; in 1829 was apprenticed to the circuit court of Peoria County, November 26, 1835, andthe printing trade; moved to Clearfield, Clearfield County, served until his death in Peoria, Ill., October 2, 1838; inter-Pa., in 1833 and established the Clearfield Democrat; en- ment presumed to be in the Old Centre Cemetery, Peter-gaged in the lumber business; member, State senate 1841- sham, Mass. 1847, twice serving as speaker; elected Governor in 1851 and Biographies 621 served one term; elected as a Democrat to the United Statesmoved to Wisconsin the same year and settled in Juneau, Senate to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4,Dodge County; continued the practice of his profession; elect- 1855, caused by failure of the legislature to elect and serveded as a member of the first State legislature of Wisconsin in from January 14, 1856, to March 3, 1861; unsuccessful candi-1848; was elected a presidential elector on the Democratic date for reelection; chairman, Committee on Engrossed Billsticket in 1852; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth (Thirty-sixth Congress), Committee on Patents and Patentand Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); Office (Thirty-sixth Congress); member of the constitutionalunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1858 to the Thirty- convention of Pennsylvania; member of the board of financesixth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Juneau, Wis., of the Centennial Exposition in 1876; president of the Phila-where he died August 18, 1865; interment in Juneau Ceme- delphia & Erie Railroad; died in Clearfield, Pa., August 9,tery. 1880; interment in Hillcrest Cemetery. 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BILLMEYER, Alexander, a Representative from Pennsyl- vania; born in Liberty Township, Montour County, Pa., Jan- BILBO, Theodore Gilmore, a Senator from Mississippi;uary 7, 1841; attended the common schools; engaged in agri- born on a farm near Poplarville, Pearl River County, Miss.,cultural pursuits; interested in the manufacture of lumber; October 13, 1877; attended the public schools, Peabody Col-director of a national bank in Washingtonville, Montour lege, Nashville, Tenn., the law department of VanderbiltCounty, Pa.; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh Con- University, Nashville, Tenn., and the University of Michigangress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rufus K. at Ann Arbor; teacher in district and high schools of Missis-Polk and served from November 4, 1902, to March 3, 1903; sippi for five years; was admitted to the bar in 1908 andwas not a candidate for renomination in 1902; resumed agri- commenced practice in Poplarville, Miss.; member, Statecultural pursuits in Montour County, Pa.; died near Wash- senate 1908-1912; elected lieutenant governor 1912-1916;ingtonville, Pa., May 24, 1924; interment in Odd Fellows twice elected Governor and served 1916-1920 and 1928-1932;Cemetery, Danville, Pa. elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1934, 1940 and again in 1946 and served from January 3, 1935, BINDERUP, Charles Gustav, a Representative from Ne- until his death in New Orleans on August 21, 1947; did notbraska; born in Horsens, Denmark, March 5, 1873; when six take the oath of office in 1947 at the beginning of themonths old immigrated to the United States with his par- Eightieth Congress; chairman, Committee on District of Co-ents, who settled on a farm near Hastings, Adams County, lumbia (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses), Com-Nebr.; attended the county schools and Grand Island (Nebr.) mittee on Pensions (Seventy-eighth Congress); interment inBusiness College; engaged in agricultural pursuits near Juniper Grove Cemetery, near Poplarville, Miss. Hastings and Minden, Nebr., and also in the mercantile and Bibliography: DAB; Morgan, Chester. Redneck Liberal:Theodore G. creamery business at Minden, Nebr.; elected as a Democrat Bilbo and the New Deal. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 1985; Smith, Charles P. "Theodore G. Bilbo's Senatorial Career, The Final 3, 1935-January 3, 1939); was an unsuccessful candidate for Years: 1941-1947." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress and for 1988. election as an Independent in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh BILBRAY, James Hubert, a Representative from Nevada;Congress; organized and was active in the Constitutional born in Las Vegas, Nev., May 19, 1938; attended publicMoney League of America in Minden, Nebr., until his death; schools, Brigham Young University and the University ofdied in Minden, Nebr., August 19,1950; interment in Nevada-Las Vegas; B.A., , Washington,Minden Cemetery. D.C., 1962; J.D., American University Law School, 1964; served in the U.S. Army Reserve in Nevada National Guard, BINES, Thomas, a Representative from New Jersey; born 1955-1963; practiced law in Las Vegas; department districtin Trenton, N.J.; attended the common schools; appointed attorney, Clarke County, Nev., 1965-1967; chief legal coun-coroner for Salem County on October 16, 1802; electedsher- sel, Clarke County juvenile court, 1967-1968; alternate judge,iff of Salem County in 1808 and served until 1810; elected as City of Las Vegas, 1978-1980; member, Nevada senate, 1980-a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress toifil the vacancy 1986; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundredth Congresscaused by the death of Jacob Hufty and served from Novem- (January 3, 1987-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Clarkber 2, 1814, to March 3, 1815; was not a candidate for re- County, Nev. nomination in 1814 to the Fourteenth Congress; elected jus- tice of the peace of Lower Penns Neck Township in 1822 and BILIRAKIS, Michael, a Representative from Florida; bornserved in this capacity until 1826; died in Lower Penns Neck in Tarpon Springs, Pinellas County, Fla., July 16, 1930;Township, Salem County, April 9, 1826. raised in western Pennsylvania; attended public schools in Clairton, Pa.; business major, Douglas Business College, BINGAMAN, Jesse Francis, Jr. (Jeff), a Senator from McKeesport, Pa., 1949; B.S., , Pitts- New Mexico; born in El Paso, Tex., October 3, 1943; attended burgh, Pa., 1959; attended George Washington University,public schools of Silver City, N.Mex.; graduated, Harvard Washington, D.C., 1960; J.D., University of Florida, Gaines-College 1965 and Stanford Law School, Stanford, Calif., 1968; ville, Fla., 1963; served, United States Air Force, 1950-1954;served in the United States Army Reserve 1968-1974; admit- steelworker, engineer, college instructor; admitted to theted to the New Mexico bar 1968; assistant New Mexico attor- Florida bar, 1964, and commenced practice in 1968; munici-ney general 1969; counsel to State constitutional convention pal judge, City of Tarpon Springs and City of New Port1969; commenced private practice in 1970; elected New Richey; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-eighth and toMexico attorney general 1979-1982; elected as a Democrat to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3,the United States Senate in 1982 for the term commencing 1989); is a resident of Palm Harbor, Fla. January 3, 1983, and ending January 3, 1989. BILLINGHURST, Charles, a Representative from Wiscon- BINGHAM, Henry Harrison, a Representative from Penn- sin; born in Brighton, Franklin County, N.Y., July 27, 1818;sylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., December 4, 1841; was attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted tograduated from Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., in 1862 the bar in 1847 and commenced practice in Rochester, N.Y.;and from the law department of Washington and Jefferson 622 Biographical Directory

College, Washington, Pa.; during the Civil War entered theTuscarawas County, Ohio, 1846-1849; elected as a Republi- Union Army as a first lieutenant in the One Hundred andcan to the Thirty-fourth and to the three succeeding Con- FortiethRegiment,PennsylvaniaVolunteerInfantry,gresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1863); unsuccessful candi- August 22, 1862; commissioned captain September 9, 1862;date for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; major and judge advocate September 20, 1864; brevettedappointed by President Lincoln as judge advocate of the major of Volunteers August 1, 1864; brevetted lieutenantUnion Army with the rank of major in 1864; later appointed colonel of Volunteers April 9, 1865; colonel and brigadiersolicitor of the court of claims; special judge advocate in the general of Volunteers April 9, 1865; honorably mustered outtrial of the conspirators against the life of President Lincoln; of service July 2, 1866; awarded a Congressional Medal ofelected to the Thirty-ninth and to the three succeeding Con- Honor August 26, 1893, for actions at the Battle of thegresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1873); chairman, Committee Wilderness, Virginia, May 6, 1864; appointed postmaster ofon Claims (Fortieth Congress), Committee on the Judiciary Philadelphia in March 1867 and served until December 1872, when he resigned to accept the clerkship of the courts of(Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses); unsuccessful candi- oyer and terminer and quarter sessions of the peace indate for renomination in 1872; one of the managers appoint- Philadelphia, having been elected by the people; reelecteded by the House of Representatives in 1862 to conduct the clerk of courts in 1875; delegate to the Republican Nationalimpeachment proceedings against West H. Humphreys, Conventions 1872-1900; elected as a Republican to the Forty-United States judge for the several districts of Tennessee, sixth and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses and servedand in 1868 in the proceedings against Andrew Johnson; from March 4, 1879, until his death in Philadelphia Marchappointed Minister to Japan and served from May 31, 1873, 22, 1912; chairman, Committee on the Post Office and Pestuntil July 2, 1885; died in Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, Roads (Forty-seventh and Fifty-first Congresses), CommitteeMarch 19, 1900; interment in Cadiz Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB; Riggs, C. Russell. "The Ante-Bellum Career of John on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Fifty-fourth A. Bingham: A Case Study in the Coming of the Civil War." Ph.D. disser- Congress); interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery. tation, New York University, 1959. BINGHAM,Hiram(fatherofJonathanBrewster BINGHAM, Jonathan Brewster, (son of Hiram Bingham), Bingham), a Senator from Connecticut; born in Honolulu,a Representative from New York; born in New Haven, Hawaii, November 19, 1875; educated at Punahou SchoolConn., April 24, 1914; attended Groton School; graduated and Oahu College, Hawaii, 1882-1892, Phillips Academy, An- from Yale University in 1936 and from Yale Law School in dover, Mass., 1892-1894, Yale University 1894-1898, Univer-1939; commenced practice in New York City; admitted to the sity of California at Berkeley 1899-1900, and Harvard Uni-New York bar in 1940; enlisted as a private in the United versity 1900-1905; professor of history and politics at Har-States Army in April 1943 and was discharged as a captain vard and then Princeton Universities; South American ex-in October 1945 with War Department Staff Citation; special plorer, credited with the discovery of the Incan ruins atassistant to Assistant Secretary of State in 1945 and 1946; Machu Picchu; delegate to the First Pan American Scientificdeputy administrator, Technical Cooperation Administra- Congress at Santiago, Chile, in 1908; captain, Connecticuttion, 1951-1953; secretary to Governor Averell Harriman, National Guard 1916; became an aviator in the spring of1955-1958; United States representative on United Nations 1917; organized the United States Schools of Military Aero-Trusteeship Council with rank of Minister in 1961 and 1962 nautics in May 1917; served in the Aviation Section, Signaland serving as president in 1962; United States representa- Corps, and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel; com-tive on United Nations Economic and Social Council with manded the flying school at Issoudun, France, from Augustrank of Ambassador in 1963 and 1964; United States dele- to December 1918; lieutenant governor of Connecticut 1922-gate to four United Nations General Assemblies; elected as a 1924; elected Governor of Connecticut on November 4, 1924 but served only briefly; elected as a Republican to theDemocrat to the Eighty-ninth and to the eight succeeding United States Senate on December 16, 1924, to ifil the va-Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1983); was not a cancy caused by the death of Frank B. Brandegee in thecandidate for reelection in 1982; was a resident of the Bronx, term ending March 3, 1921; reelected in 1926 and served N.Y., until his death in New York City July 3, 1986. from December 17, 1924, to March 3, 1933; unsuccessful BINGHAM, Kinsley Scott, a Representative and a Senator candidate for reelection in 1932; chairman, Committee onfrom Michigan; born in Camillus, Onondaga County, N.Y., Printing (Seventieth Congress), Committee on TerritoriesDecember 16, 1808; attended the common schools; studied and Insular Possessions (Seventieth through Seventy-secondlaw in Syracuse, N.Y.; moved to Green Oak, Mich., in 1833; Congresses); censured by the Senate in 1929 on charges ofadmitted to the bar and practiced law; engaged in agricul- placing of a lobbyist on his payroll; appointed a member oftural pursuits; held a number of local offices, including those the President's Aircraft Board by President Calvin Coolidgeof justice of the peace, postmaster, and first judge of probate 1925; engaged in banking and literary work in Washington,of Livingston County; member, Michigan house of represent- D.C.; during the Second World War, lectured at naval train-atives 1837; reelected four times and served as speaker for ing schools 1942-1943; chairman of the Civil Service Com-three terms; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth and mission's Loyalty Review Board 1951-1953; died in Washing-Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1851); chair- ton, D.C., June 6, 1956; interment in Arlington Nationalman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Cemetery, Arlington, Va. State (Thirty-first Congress); was not a candidate for reelec- Bibliography: DAB; Miller, Frai* L "Fathers and Sons: The Binghains tion in 1850; resumed agricultural pursuits; elected Gover- and American Reform, 1790-1970." Ph.D. dissertation, Johns Hopkins Uni- nor in 1854 and was reelected in 1856; instrumental in estab- versity, 1970. lishing the Michigan Agricultural College and other educa- BINGHAM, John Armor, a Representative from Ohio;tional institutions; elected as a Republican to the United born in Mercer, Mercer County, Pa., January 21, 1815; pur-States Senate and served from March 4, 1859, until his sued academic studies; apprentice in a printing office for twodeath on October 5, 1861; chairman, Committee on Enrolled years; attended Franidin College, Ohio; studied law; wasBills (Thirty-seventh Congress); died in Green Oak, Living- admitted to the bar in 1840 and commenced practice in Newston County, Mich.; interment in , Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio; district attorney forBrighton, Livingston County, Mich. Biographies 623

BINGRAM, William, a Delegate and a Senator from Penn-1829; attended the public schools, and a classical academy at sylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 8, 1752; was grad-Hackettstown, N.J.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in uated from Philadelphia College in 1768; agent of the Conti-1855 and commenced practice in Bloomsbury, N.J.; moved to nental Congress at Martinique, and afterwards consul at St.Clinton in 1858; prosecutor of the pleas for Hunterdon .Pierre, in the West Indies 1777-1780; Member of the Conti-County 1862-1867; moved to Flemington in 1865; elected as a nental Congress 1786-1788; member, State house of repre-Democrat to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses sentatives 1790-1791, serving as speaker in 1791; served in,(March 4, 1869-March 3, 1873); was not a candidate for and was president of, the State senate 1794-1795; elected asrenomination in 1872; resumed the practice of law in Flem- a Federalist to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1795, to March 3, 1801; was not a candidate forington, N.J.; member of the New Jersey constitutional con- reelection; served as President pro tempore of the Senatevention in 1876; moved to Trenton, N.J., in 1882; vice chan- during the Fourth Congress; withdrew from public life andcellor of New Jersey 1882-1896; master in chancery 1900- engaged in the management of his extensive estates; moved1909; died in Trenton, N.J., May 6, 1911; interment in River- in 1801 to Bath, England, and resided with his daughter view Cemetery. until his death in that city on February 7, 1804; interment BIRD, Richard Ely, a Representative from Kansas; born in Paris Church, Bath, England. in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 4, 1878; moved with his par- Bibliography: DAB; Alberta, Robert. The Golden Voyage: The Life andents to Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kans., in 1887; attended Times of . New York: Houghton Muffin, 1969. the public schools and was graduated from Wichita High BINNEY, Horace, a Representative from Pennsylvania;School in 1898; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1901 born in Philadelphia, Pa., January 4, 1780; attended a classi-and commenced practice in Wichita; judge of the district cal school in Bordentown, N.J., three years; was graduatedcourt of the eighteenth judicial district of Kansas 1916-1921; from Harvard University in 1797; studied law; was admittedelected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress to the bar and commenced practice in Philadelphia in 1800;(March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for member of the State house of representatives in 1806 andreelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; resumed the 1807; between 1807 and 1814 prepared and published sixpractice of law; United States referee in bankruptcy, Wich- volumes of reported decisions of the supreme court of Penn-ita, Kans., 1925-1927; retired from public life in 1937 and sylvania; director of the United States Bank; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4,moved to Long Beach, Calif., where he died January 10, 1833-March 3, 1835); was not a candidate for renomination1955; interment in Maplegrove Cemetery, Wichita, Kans. in 1834; except for his appearance before the supreme court BIRDSALL, Ausburn, a Representative from New York; in 1844 as counsel for Philadelphia in the Girard will case,born in Otego, Otsego County, N.Y.; moved to Binghamton, he retired from his practice in the courts and confmed him-Broome County, N.Y.; studied law; was admitted to the bar self to giving written opinions; died in Philadelphia, Pa.,and practiced; district attorney of Broome County; elected as August 12, 1875; interment in St. James the Less Cemetery,a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March Falls of the Schuylkill (now a part of Philadelphia), Pa.3, 1849); appointed United States naval storekeeper in New Bibliography: DAB; Binney, Charles Chauncy. Life of Horace Binney,York City; returned to Binghamton, N.Y., and resumed the with Selections from His Letters. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1903. practice of law until 1890, when he retired and moved to BIRCH, William Fred, a Representative from New Jersey;New York City, where he resided until his death July 10, born in Newark, N.J., August 30, 1870; moved with his par-1903; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City. ents to Phillipsburg, N.J., in 1872 and to Dover, Morris County, N.J., in 1874; attended the public schools and was BIRDSALL, Benjamin Pixley, a Representative from graduated from the New Jersey State Model School at Tren-Iowa; born in Weyauwega, Waupaca County, Wis., October ton and from Coleman's Business College at Newark in 1887;26, 1858; attended the common schools of Iowa and Iowa engaged in the manufacture of boilers and smokestacks atState University, Iowa City; studied law; was admitted to the Dover; member of the Dover Common Council for severalbar in 1878 and practiced; served as district judge of the years; city recorder 1904-1909; member of the State house ofeleventh judicial district of Iowa from January 1893 to Octo- assembly 1910-1912; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ber 1900; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty- fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofninth, and Sixtieth Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, John H. Capstick and served from November 5, 1918, to1909); resumed the practice of law in Clarion, Wright March 3, 1919; was not a candidate for renomination inCounty, Iowa, where he died May 26, 1917; interment in 1918; resumed his former manufacturing pursuits; also en- Evergreen Cemetery. gaged in the fire-insurance and automobile businesses and was interested in banking; retired from business activities in BIRDSALL, James, a Representative from New York; 1941; died in Glen Ridge, N.J., January 25, 1946; intermentborn in that State in 1783; studied law; was admitted to the in Orchard Street Cemetery, Dover, N.J. bar in 1806 and was the first lawyer to settle in Norwich, Chenango County, N.Y.; surrogate of Chenango County, BIRD, John, a Representative from New York; born in Litchfleld, Conn., November 22, 1768; pursued classical stud-N.Y., in 1811; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth ies; was graduated from Yale College in 1786; studied law;Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); member of the was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Litch-State assembly in 1827; one of the incorporators of the Bank field, Conn.; moved to Troy, N.Y., in 1793 and engaged in theof Chenango; moved to Fenton, Genesee County, Mich., in practice of law; member of the State assembly 1796-1798;1839 and later to Flint, Mich., where he died July 20, 1856; elected as a Federalist to the Sixth and Seventh Congressesinterment in Glenwood Cemetery. and served from March 4, 1799, to July 25, 1801, when he BIRDSALL, Samuel, a Representative from New York; resigned; again resumed the practice of his profession; diedborn in Hilisdale, Columbia County, N.Y., May 14, 1791; in Troy, N.Y., on February 2, 1806; interment in Mount Idaattended the common schools; studied law in the office of Cemetery. Martin Van Buren; was admitted to the bar in 1812 and BIRD, John Taylor, a Representative from New Jersey;commenced practice in Cooperstown, N.Y.; master in chan- born in Bloomsbury, Hunterdon County, N.J., August 16,cery in 1815; moved to Waterloo, N.Y., in 1817; division 624 Biographical Directory judge advocate with rank of colonel in 1819; counselor in theRepublican to the Seventy-seventh and to the six succeeding supreme court and solicitor in chancery in 1823; surrogate ofCongresses (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1955); chairman, Seneca County 1827-1837; bank commissioner in 1832; elect-Special Committee on Campaign Expenditures (Eighty-third ed as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4,Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 to 1837-March 3, 1839); was not a candidate for renominationthe Eighty-fourth Congress; congressional liaison assistant, in 1838; admitted to practice before the United States Su-Post Office Department, Washington, D.C., 1955-1957; super- preme Court in 1838; district attorney of Seneca County inintendent of Division of Industrial Planning and Develop-- 1846; postmaster of Waterloo, Seneca County, N.Y., 1853-ment, State of illinois, in 1957 and 1958; Department of 1863; died in Waterloo, N.Y., February 8, 1872; interment inLabor concffiator for State of illinois, 1958-1960; retired; Maple Grove Cemetery. died in Marion, III., September 21, 1971; interment in Oak- BIRDSEYE, Victory, a Representative from New York;wood Cemetery, Carterville, ill. born in Cornwall, Conn., December 25, 1782; attended the BISHOP, James, a Representative from New Jersey; born public schools, and was graduated from Williams College,in New Brunswick, N.J., May 11, 1816; attended Spaulding Wilhiamstown, Mass., in 1804; studied law; was admitted toSchool and Rutgers College Preparatory School, New Bruns- the bar in 1807 and commenced practice in Pompey Hill,wick, N.J.; engaged in mercantile pursuits in New Bruns- Onondaga County, N.Y.; elected as a Republican to the Four- teenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); was not awick; member of the State house of assembly in 1849 and candidate for renomination in 1816; postmaster of Pompey1850; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-fourth Congress Hill 1817-1838; district attorney of Onondaga County 1818-(March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); unsuccessful candidate for 1833; master of chancery of Onondaga County 1818-1822;reelection in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; prominent in delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1821;the rubber trade in New York City; chief of the bureau of member of the State assembly 1823 and 1838-1840; served inlabor statistics of New Jersey 1878-1893 and a resident of the State senate in 1827; unsuccessful candidate for electionTrenton; died at Kemble Hall, near Morristown, Morris in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; elected as a Whig toCounty, N.J., May 10, 1895; interment in Elmwood Ceme- the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843);tery, New Brunswick, Middlesex County, N.J. was not a candidate for renomination in 1842; resumed the BISHOP, Phanuel, a Representative from Massachusetts; practice of law; died in Pompey, Onondaga County, N.Y.,born in Rehoboth, Mass., September 3, 1739; attended the September 16, 1853; interment in Pompey Hill Cemetery.common schools; was an innkeeper; served in the State BISBEE, Horatio, Jr., a Representative from Florida; bornsenate 1787-179 1; member of the State house of representa- in Canton, Oxford County, Maine, May 1, 1839; attended thetives in 1792, 1793, 1797, and 1798; elected as a Republican public schools, and was graduated from Tufts College, Med-to the Sixth through Ninth Congresses (March 4, 1799- ford, Mass., in 1863; during the Civil War served as a privateMarch 3, 1807); died in Rehoboth, Mass., January 6, 1812; for three months in the Fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Vol-interment in Old Cemetery, Rumford, East Providence, R.I. unteer Infantry; mustered out the middle of July 1861; ap- BISHOP, Roswell Peter, a Representative from Michigan; pointed captain in the Ninth Regiment, Maine Volunteerborn in Sidney, Delaware County, N.Y., January 6, 1843; Infantry, in September 1861; promoted to the rank of lieu-attended Unadilla Academy, Cooperstown Seminary, and tenant colonel and afterwards to the rank of colonel; honor-Walton Academy, New York; taught school several years; ably mustered out of the service with the latter rank induring the Civil War enlisted as a private in Company C, March 1863; moved to Illinois in 1863; studied law; wasForty-third Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, in 1861 admitted to the bar in Chicago in 1864 and commencedand was discharged in December 1862 because of a wound practice in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1865; United States attor-which necessitated the amputation of his right arm; entered ney for the northern district of Florida 1869-1873 and for athe University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in September 1868 short period filled the office of attorney general of the State;where he remained until December 1872; studied law; was presented credentials as a Republican Member-elect to theadmitted to the bar in Ann Arbor in May 1875 and com- Forty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1877, to Feb-menced practice in Ludington, Mason County, Mich.; elected ruary 20, 1879, when he was succeeded by Jesse J. Finley,prosecuting attorney of Mason County in 1876, 1878, and who contested the election; successfully contested the elec- tion of Noble A. Hull to the Forty-sixth Congress and served1884; member of the State house of representatives in 1882 from January 22, 1881, to March 3, 1881; successfully con-and 1892; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to tested the election of Jesse J. Finley to the Forty-sevenththe five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, Congress and served from June 1, 1882, to March 3, 1883;1907); chairman, Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics reelected to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March(Fifty-seventh through Fifty-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful 3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884 to thecandidate for renomination in 1906; resumed the practice of Forty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of his profession;law in Ludington, Mich.; served as a member of the Michi- died in Dixfield, Oxford County, Maine, March 27, 1916;gan constitutional convention in 1907; was appointed a interment in Greenwood Cemetery. member of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission in De- Bibliography: Klingman, Peter D. "Inside the Ring: Bisbee-Lee Corre- cember 1907 and served until the work of the commission spondence, February-April 1880." Florida Historical Quarterly 57 (October was completed; moved to Hollister, Calif., in 1910 and en- 1978): 187-204. gaged in fruit growing; died at Pacific Grove, Monterey County, Calif, March 4, 1920; interment in the El Carmelo BISHOP, Cecil William (Runt), a Representative fromCemetery. Illinois; born on a farm near West Vienna, Johnson County, ill., June 29, 1890; attended the public schools, and Union BISHOP, William Darius, a Representative from Con- Academy, Anna, ill.; learned the tailoring trade; worked asnecticut; born in Bloomfield, Essex County, N.J., September coal miner, telephone linesman, professional football and14, 1827; pursued preparatory studies; was graduated from baseball player and manager; engaged in the cleaning-tailor-Yale College in 1849; studied law; was admitted to the bar ing business 1910-1922; city clerk of Carterville, Ill., 1915-but did not practice, instead carrying on his father's railroad 1918; postmaster at Carterville, 111., 1923-1933; elected as aenterprises which involved the construction of the Nauga- Biographies 625 tuck and the New York and New Haven Railroads in Con-Twenty-eighth Congress and served from January 3, 1842, to necticut and the railroad between Saratoga Springs andMarch 3, 1845; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844 Whitehall in New York; founder of the Eastern Railroadto the Twenty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law; Association and its president until the time of his death;died in Millettville, Barnwell District, S.C., September 1, elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4,1846; interment in the family burying ground near Millett- 1857-March 3, 1859); chairman, Committee on Manufacturesville, Allendale County, S.C. (Thirty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress; commissioner of pat- BLACK, Eugene, a Representative from Texas; born near ents from May 23, 1859, to January 1860; vice president andBlossom, Lamar County, Tex., July 2, 1879; attended the president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroadpublic schools of Blossom; taught school in Lamar County Co.; member of the State house of representatives in 18661898-1900; employed in the post office at Blossom; was grad- and 1871; served in the State senate in 1877 and 1878; dieduated from the law department of Cumberland University, in Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. 4, 1904; interment in MountainLebanon, Tenn., in 1905; was admitted to the bar the same Grove Cemetery. year and commenced practice in Clarksville, Red River Bibliography: DAB. County, Tex.; was also engaged in the wholesale grocery business; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth and to BISSELL, William Harrison, a Representative from Illi- nois; born in Hartwick, Otsego County, N.Y., on April 25,the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1929); 1811; attended the public schools, and was graduated fromunsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1928; appointed the Philadelphia Medical College in 1835; moved to Monroeby President Hoover to the United States Board of Tax County, Ill., in 1837; taught school and practiced medicineAppeals (now the United States Tax Court) on November 5, until 1840; member of the State house of representatives1929 to fill an unexpired term; reappointed in 1932 and 1840-1842; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com-again in 1944 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a term menced practice in Belleville, St. Clair County, Ill.; prosecut-of twelve years and served until his retirement November ing attorney of St. Clair County in 1844; served in the Mexi- 1953; recalled December 1, 1953, to perform further judi- can War as colonel of the Second Regiment, Illinois Volun-cial service with the United States Tax Court until March teer Infantry; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and 1966; resided in Washington, D.C., until his death there Thirty-second Congresses and as an Independent Democraton May 22, 1975; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suit- to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1855); land, Md. chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Thirty-second and BLACK, Frank Swett, a Representative from New York; Thirty-third Congresses); was not a candidate for renomina-born near Limington, York County, Maine, March 8, 1853; tion in 1854; elected Governor of Illinois in 1856 and servedattended the district schools, and was graduated from Leba- from January 12, 1857, until his death; died in Springfield,non Academy, West Lebanon, Maine, in 1871; taught school Sangamon County, Iii., March 18, 1860; interment in Oakfor several years; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Ridge Cemetery. Hanover, N.H., in 1875; editor of the Johnstown (N.Y.) Jour- Bibliography: DAB. nal; moved to Troy, N.Y., and engaged in newspaper work; BIXLER, Harris Jacob, a Representative from Pennsylva-studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1879 and commenced nia; born in New Buffalo, Perry County, Pa., September 16,practice in Troy; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth 1870; attended the public schools and Lock Haven StateCongress and served from March 4, 1895, to January 7, 1897, Normal School; taught school in the country districts inwhen he resigned to become Governor; Governor of New Perry and Clinton Counties 1878-1892; attended Potts Busi-York 1897-1899; resumed the practice of law in New York ness College, Williamsport, Pa.; moved to Johnsonburg, ElkCity; died in Troy, N.Y., March 22, 1913; the remains were County, Pa., in 1892 and worked as a shipping clerk; latercremated and placed in a sepulcher on his farm near Free- was engaged in banking and manufacturing; director of the dom, Carroll County, N.H. Johnsonburg National Bank; served as president of the city Bibliography: DAB. council 1900-1904 and as president of the board of education 1904-1910; mayor of Johnsonburg 1908-1912; sheriff of Elk BLACK, George Robison (son of Edward Junius Black), a County, Pa., 19 16-1920; chairman of the Republican countyRepresentative from Georgia; born on his father's plantation committee 1916-1925; treasurer of Elk County 1920-1922;near Jacksonboro, Screven County, Ga., March 24, 1835; at- elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth,tended the common schools, the University of Georgia at and Sixty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1927);Athens, and the University of South Carolina at Columbia; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1926; engaged instudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced business as a freight contractor and also interested in agri-practice in Savannah, Ga.; during the Civil War entered the cultural pursuits; died in Johnsonburg, Pa., on March 29,Confederate service as first lieutenant of the Phoenix Rifie- 1941; interment in Duncannon Cemetery, Duncannon, Pa.men and afterwards was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the Sixty-third Georgia Regiment; delegate to the State con- BLACK, Edward Junius (father of George Robison Black),stitutional convention in 1865; delegate o the Democratic a Representative from Georgia; born in Beaufort, S.C., Octo-National Convention in 1872; member of the State senate ber 30, 1806; attended the common schools and was graduat-1874-1877; vice president of the Georgia State Agricultural ed from Richmond Academy, Augusta, Ga.; studied law; wasSociety; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh Congress admitted to the bar in 1827 and commenced practice in(March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); was an unsuccessful candi- Augusta, Ga.; member of the State house of representativesdate for renomination in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; 1829-1831; moved to Screven County, Ga., in 1832; elected asdied in Sylvania, Screven County, Ga., November 3, 1886; a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-Marchinterment in Sylvania Cemetery. 3, 1841); unsuccessful Democratic candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress; subsequently elected BLACK, Henry, a Representative from Pennsylvania; as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill in partborn near the borough of Somerset, Somerset County, Pa., the vacancies caused by the resignations of Julius C. Alford,February 25, 1783; attended the common schools; engaged in William C. Dawson, and Eugenius A. Nisbet; reelected to theagricultural pursuits; member of the State house of repre- 626 Biographical Directory

sentatives 1816-1818; justice of the peace; associate judge of9, 1842; attended the common schools and the high school at Somerset County, Pa., 1820-1840; elected as a Whig to theNewcastle, Ky., and was graduated from Georgetown Col- Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by thelege, Kentucky, in 1862; during the Civil War enlisted as a death of Charles Ogle and served from June 28, 1841, untilprivate in Company A, Ninth Kentucky Cavalry, in the Con- his death in Somerset, Pa., on November 28, 1841; interment federate Army; moved to Augusta, Ga., in 1865; studied law; in the family cemetery, Stony Creek Township, Somersetwas admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in County, Pa. Augusta, Ga.; member of the State house of representatives BLACK, Hugo Lafayette, a Senator from Alabama; born1873-1877; served as president of the Augusta Orphan near Ashland, Clay County, Ala., February 27, 1886; attend-Asylum 1879-1886; member of the city council; served as city ed the public schools and Ashland College, Ashland, Ala.;attorney; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and Fifty- was graduated from the law department of the University offourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1893, to March Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1906; was admitted to the Ala-4, 1895, when he resigned; subsequently elected to fill the bama bar the same year and commenced practice in Ash-vacancy caused by his own resignation and served from land, Ala.; moved to Birmingham, Ala., in 1907 and contin-October 2, 1895, to March 3, 1897; was not a candidate for ued the practice of law; during the First World War servedrenomination in 1896; resumed the practice of law in Augus- as a captain of the Eighty-first Field Artifiery and as compa-ta, Ga., until his death there on October 1, 1928; interment ny regimental adjutant in the Nineteenth Artifiery Brigadein Magnolia Cemetery. 1917-1918; police court judge in Birmingham, Ala.; prosecut- BLACK, John, a Senator from Mississippi; born in Massa- ing attorney of Jefferson County, Ala.; elected as a Democratchusetts, but date of birth is unknown; engaged in teaching; to the United States Senate in 1926; reelected in 1932 andstudied law; commenced practice in Louisiana; moved to served from March 4, 1927, until his resignation on AugustMississippi; elected judge of the fourth circuit and supreme 19, 1937, having been appointed by President Franklin D.court 1826-1832; appointed to the United States Senate to Roosevelt as an Associate Justice of the United States Su-fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Powhatan Ellis preme Court; chairman, Committee on Education and Laborand served from November 12, 1832, to March 3, 1833; elect- (Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses); was confirmeded as a Whig to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy by the Senate on August 17, 1937, took his seat as an Associ-in the term commencing March 4, 1833, and served from ate Justice on October 4, 1937 and served until his death inNovember 22, 1833, to January 22, 1838, when he resigned; Bethesda, Md., September 25, 1971; interment in Arlingtonchairman, Committee on Private Lands cFwenty-third and National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. Twenty-fourth Congresses); resumed the practice of law in Bibliography: Dunne, Gerald T. Hugo Black and the Judicial Revolu-Winchester, Va., and died there August 29, 1854; interment tion. New York: Simon and Schuster,1917; Hamilton, Virginia. Hugo Black: The Alabama YearsBaton Rouge: Louisiana State Universityin Mount Hebron Cemetery. Press, 1972. BLACK, John Charles, a Representative from Illinois; BLACK, James, a Representative from Pennsylvania; bornborn in Lexington, Holmes County, Miss., January 27, 1839; in Newport, Perry County, Pa., March 6, 1793; attended themoved to Danville, Vermifion County, ill., in 1847; attended common schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits; member ofthe common schools and Wabash College, Crawfordsville, the State house of representatives in 1830 and 1831; electedhid., but was not graduated until after the close of the Civil as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill theWar; served in the Union Army from April 14, 1861, to vacancy caused by the resignation of Jesse Miller and servedAugust 15, 1865; entered as a private, and was successively from December 5, 1836, to March 3, 1837; associate judge ofsergeant major, major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel; bre- Perry County in 1842 and 1843; elected as a Democrat to thevetted brigadier general for service in the storming of Fort Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-Blakeley on April 9, 1865; received the Congressional Medal; March 3, 1847); State collector of tolls on the Juniata Canal;studied law in Chicago, ill.; was admitted to the bar in 1867 died in New Bloomfield, Perry County, Pa., on June 21, 1872;and commenced practice in Danville, ill.; appointed United interment in New Bboomfield Cemetery. States Commissioner of Pensions by President Cleveland and served from March 17, 1885, to March 27, 1889; elected as a BLACK, James Augustus, a Representative from SouthDemocrat to the Fifty-third Congress and served from March Carolina; born on his father's plantation in Ninety Six Dis-4, 1893, to January 12, 1895, when he resigned; United trict, near Abbevifie, S.C., in 1793; attended the commonStates attorney for the northern district of illinois 1895- schools on his father's plantation; during the War of 18121899; department commander of the Loyal Legion of Illinois was appointed a second lieutenant in the Eighth Infantry1895-1897; department commander of the illinois depart- March 12, 1812; promoted to first lieutenant December 2,ment, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1898; commander in 1813, and was honorably discharged June 15, 1815; engagedchief of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1903 and 1904; in the mining of iron ore on what is now the present site ofmember of the United States Civil Service Commission 1904- Cherokee Falls, S.C.; moved to Georgia and settled in Savan-1913 and served as its president; resigned and returned to nah; engaged in cotton dealing; served as tax collector ofChicago, ill., where he died August 17, 1915; interment in Chatham County, Ga.; returned to South Carolina and set-Spring Hill Cemetery, Danville, ill. tled in Columbia; cashier of the State (branch) bank; Bibliography: DAB. member of South Carolina house of representatives, 1826- 1828 and 1832-1835; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty- BLACK, Loring Milton, Jr., a Representative from New eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses and servedYork; born in New York City, May 17, 1886; attended the from March 4, 1843, until his death in Washington, D.C., onpublic schools and was graduated from Fordham University, April 3, 1848; chairman, Committee on the Militia (T'wenty-New York City, in 1907; studied law at Columbia University, ninth Congress); interment in the graveyard of the FirstNew York City; was admitted to the bar in 1909 and com- Presbyterian Church, Columbia, S.C. menced practice in New York City; member of the State senate in 1911 and 1912; resumed the practice of hi.s profes- BLACK, James Conquest Cross, a Representative fromsion in I"ew York City; again a member of the State senate Georgia; born in Stamping Ground, Scott County, Ky., Mayin 1919 and 1920; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Biographies 627 and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-Janu-and returned to his estate in Woodford County, KY.; died in ary 3,1935); chairman, Committee on Claims (Seventy-Washington, D.C., September 12, 1918; interment in the second and Seventy-third Congresses); was not a candidateState Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky. for renomination in 1934; resumed the practice of law in Bibliography: DAB; Schiup, Leonard. "Joseph Blackburn of Kentucky New York City and Washington, D.C.; died in Washington,and the Panama Question." The Filson Club Quarterly 51 (October 1977): D.C., May 21, 1956; interment in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. 350-62. BLACKBURN, Benjamin Bentley, a Representative from BLACKBURN, Robert E Lee, a Representative from Ken- Georgia; born in Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga., February 14,tucky; born on a farm near Furnace, Estifi County, Ky., 1927; attended the public schools in Atlanta, Ga.; graduatedApril 9, 1870; as an infant moved with his parents to Stan- from the University of North Carolina in 1947, and fromton, Powell County, Ky.; attended the county schools, and Emory University School of Law in 1954; during the SecondElliott Academy at Kirksville, Madison County, Ky.; travel- World War served in the United States Navy, 1944-1946;ing salesman for an oil company 1891-1900; during the during the Korean conflict again served in the United StatesSpanish-American War served as a second lieutenant in Navy, 1950-1952; was retired as a lieutenant commander inCompany C, Fourth Infantry, United States Volunteers; en- the United States Naval Reserve; served in the State attor-gaged in general merchandising at Stanton, Ky., and in ney general's office, 1955-1957; admitted to the bar in 1954agricultural pursuits 1900-1907; member of the State house and commenced private practice in Atlanta, Ga., after serv-of representatives in 1904 and 1905; served as clerk of the ice with the State attorney general; elected as a Republicancourt of Powell County 1906 to 1910; was engaged in the to the Ninetieth and to the three succeeding Congressesinsurance and stock brokerage business 1910-1919; moved to (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1975); was an unsuccessful can-Lexington, Ky., in 1919 and continued the insurance and didate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress;brokerage business; also engaged in the oil-development is a resident of Atlanta, Ga. business; appointed a member of the State board of agricul- ture in 1926 and served until 1928; elected as a Republican BLACKBURN, Edmond Spencer, a Representative fromto the Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1931); North Carolina; born near Boone, Watauga County, N.C.,unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy- September 22, 1868; attended the common schools and acade-second Congress and for election in 1932 to the Seventy-third mies of his native State; studied law; was admitted to theCongress; resumed his former activities in the oil business bar in 1890 and commenced practice in Jefferson, Asheand resided in Lexington, Ky., until his death there on Sep- County, N.C.; reading clerk of the State senate in 1894 andtember 20, 1935; interment in Stanton Cemetery, Stanton, 1895; member of the State house of representatives in 1896 and 1897, serving as speaker pro tempore the latter year; Ky. assistant United States attorney in 1898; elected as a Repub- BLACKBURN, William Jasper, a Representative from lican to the Fifty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1901-March 3,Louisiana; born on the Fourche de Mau, Randolph County, 1903); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902 to theArk., on July 24, 1820; received his early education from his Fifty-eighth Congress; elected to the Fifty-ninth Congressmother; moved to Batesville in 1839 and learned the print- (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1907); was not a candidate forer's trade; moved to Little Rock in 1845, to Fort Smith in renomination in 1906; resumed the practice of law in1846, and to Minden, La., in 1849, where he established the Greensboro, N.C.; died in Elizabethton, Carter County,Minden Herald; moved to Homer, La., and established the Tenn., March 10, 1912; interment in Old Hopewel Cemetery,Homer iliad in 1859; member of the State constitutional near Boone, N.C. convention in 1867; county judge of Claiborne Parish, La., for four years; upon the readmission of the State of Louisi- BLACKBURN, Joseph Clay Stiles, a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky; born near Spring Station, Woodfordana to representation was elected as a Republican to the County, Ky., October 1,1838; attended Sayres Institute,Fortieth Congress and served from July 18, 1868, to March 3, Frankfort, Ky., and was graduated from Centre College,1869; was not a candidate for renomination in 1868; member Danvifie, Ky., in 1857; studied law in Lexington, KY.; wasof the State senate 1874-1878; returned to Little Rock, Ark., admitted to the bar in 1858 and practiced in Chicago, ill.,in 1880; published the Arkansas Republican from 1881 to until 1860, when he returned to Woodford County, Ky.; en-1884 and the Free South from 1885 to 1892; died in Little tered the Confederate Army as a private in 1861 and wasRock, Ark., November 10, 1899; interment in Mount Holly promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel before the closeCemetery. of the Civil War; settled in Arkansas in 1865, where he was BLACKLEDGE, William (father of William Salter Black- engaged as lawyer and planter in Desha County until 1868,ledge), a Representative from North Carolina; born in when he returned to Kentucky and opened law offices inCraven County, N.C.; member of the State house of com- Versailles; member, State house of representatives 1871-mons 1797-1799 and again in 1809; elected as a Republican 1875; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and to theto the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Congresses (March 4, 1803- four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1885);March 3, 1809); one of the managers appointed by the House chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Forty-of Representatives in 1804 to conduct the impeachment pro- fifth Congress), Committee on Expenditures in the Depart-ceedings against John Pickering, judge of the United States ment of War (Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses); electedDistrict Court for New Hampshire; unsuccessful candidate as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1885; reelectedfor reelection in 1808 to the Eleventh Congress; elected to in 1890, and served from March 4, 1885, to March 3, 1897;the Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); unsuc- unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896; chairman,cessful candidate for reelection in 1812 to the Thirteenth Committee on Rules (Fifty-third Congress); again elected toCongress; died at Spring Hill, Craven County, N.C., October the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1901, to 19, 1828. March 3, 1907; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1907; Democratic caucus chairman 1906-1907; appointed Governor BLACKLEDGE, William Salter (son of William Black- of the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, by President Theo-ledge), a Representative from North Carolina; born in Pitt dore Roosevelt on April 1, 1907; resigned in November 1909County, N.C., in 1793; moved to Craven County, N.C., and 628 Biographical Directory settled in New Bern; graduated from the University ofPa., January 31, 1830; was graduated from Washington Col- North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1813; member of the Statelege, Washington, Pa., in 1847; taught at the Western Mifi- house of commons in 1820; elected to the Sixteenth Congresstary Institute, Blue Lick Springs, Ky.; returned to Pennsyl- to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jesse Slocumb;vania; studied law; taught at the Pennsylvania Institution reelected to the Seventeenth Congress and served from Feb-for the Blind in Philadelphia 1852-1854; moved in 1854 to ruary 7, 1821, until March 3, 1823; died in New Bern,Maine, where he edited the Portland Advertiser and the Craven County, N.C., March 21, 1857; interment in NewKennebec Journal; member, State house of representatives Bern Cemetery. 1859-1862, serving the last two years as speaker; elected as a BLACKMAR, Esbon, a Representative from New York;Republican to the Thirty-eighth and to the six succeeding born in Freehold, Greene County, N.Y., June 19, 1805; at-Congresses and served from March 4, 1863, to July 10, 1876, tended the district schools and was graduated from the highwhen he resigned; Speaker of the House of Representatives school;engaged in the general merchandise business;(Forty-first through Forty-third Congresses); chairman, Com- member of the State senate in 1838 and 1841; elected as amittee on Rules (Forty-third through Forty-fifth Congresses); Whig to the Thirtieth Congress to ifil the vacancy caused byunsuccessful candidate for nomination for President on the the death of John M. Holley and served from December 4,Republican ticket in 1876 and 1880; appointed and subse- 1848, to March 3, 1849; resumed his former business activi-quently elected as a Republican to the United States Senate ties; died in Newark, Wayne County, N.Y., on November 19,to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lot M. 1857; interment in Willow Avenue Cemetery. Morrifi; reelected and served from July 10, 1876, to March 5, BLACKMON, Fred Leonard, a Representative from Ala-1881, when he resigned to become Secretary of State; chair- bama; born at Lime Branch, Polk County, Ga., Septemberman, Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Forty- 15, 1873; moved with his parents to Calhoun County, Ala., infifth Congress), Committee on Rules (Forty-fifth Congress); 1883; attended the public schools in Dearmanville and Choc-Secretary of State in the Cabinets of Presidents James Gar- colocco, the State normal college at Jacksonville, Ala., Doug-field and Chester Arthur from March 5 to December 12, lasville (Ga.) College, and Mountain City Business College,1881; unsuccessful Republican candidate for President of the Chattanooga, Tenn.; was graduated from the law departmentUnited States in 1884; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1894; wasPresident Benjamin Harrison 1889-1892, when he resigned; admitted to the bar in the same year and commenced prac-aided in organizing and was the first president of the Pan tice m Anniston, Calhoun County, Ala, city attorney forAmerican Congress; died in Washington, D.C., January 27, Anniston 1898-1902; member of the State senate 1900-1910;1893; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery; reinterment at the chairman of the congressional committee for the fourth Ala-request of the State of Maine in the Blame Memorial Park, bama district from 1906 until 1910, when he resigned; elect-Augusta, Maine, in June 1920. ed as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and to the four suc- Bibliography: DAB; Blame, James G. Twenty Years of Congress: From ceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1911, until hisLincoln to Ga,lielcL 2 vole. Norwich, Conn.: The Henry Bifi Publishing death; had also been reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress; Company, 1884-1886; Muzzey, David S. James G. Blame: A Political Idol died in Bartow, Polk County, Fla., on February 8, 1921; of Other Days.1943. Reprint. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, interment in the Hillside Cemetery, Anniston, Ala. 1963. BLACKNEY, William Wallace, a Representative from BLAINE, John James, a Senator from Wisconsin; born on Michigan; born in Clio, Genesee County, Mich., August 28,a farm in Wingville Township, Grant County, Wis., May 4, 1876; attended the public schools, Olivet College, Olivet,1875; attended the common schools; was graduated from the Mich., and Ferris School, Big Rapids, Mich.; moved to Flint,law department of Valparaiso (md.) University in 1896; was Mich., in 1904; served as county clerk of Genesee Countyadmitted to the bar in 1896 and commenced practice in 1905-1912; was graduated from the law department of theMontford; moved to Boscobel in 1897 and continued the prac- University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1912; was admittedtice of law; mayor of Boscobel 1901-1904, 1906-1907; member to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Flint,of the Grant County Board of Supervisors 1901-1904; Mich.; served as assistant prosecuting attorney of Geneseemember, State senate 1909-1913; unsuccessful candidate for County 1913-1917; member of the Flint School Board 1924-Governor in 1914; attorney general of the State of Wisconsin 1934; member of the Republican State central committee1919-1921; Governor of Wisconsin 1921-1927; elected as a 1925-1930; instructor in the General Motors Co. technicalRepublican to the United States Senate for the term begin- night school for sixteen years; elected as a Republican to thening March 4, 1927, and served from March 4, 1927, to Seventy-fourth Congress (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1937);March 3, 1933; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy- fifth Congress; elected to the Seventy-sixth and to the six1932; resumed the practice of law at Boscobel; appointed a succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1953);director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1933 was not a candidate for renomination in 1952; retired toand served until his death in Boscobel, Wis., April 16, 1934; interment in Hillside Cemetery. Flint, Mich., until his death there March 14, 1963; interment Bibliography: DAB; O'Brien, Patrick. "Senator John J. Blame: An Inde- in Woodlawn Cemetery, Clio, Mich. pendent Progressive During 'Normalcy'." Wisconsin Magazine of History 60 BLACKWELL, Julius W., a Representative from Tennes- (Autumn 1976): 25-41. see; born in Virginia; attended the public schools; moved to BLAIR, Austin, a Representative from Michigan; born in Tennessee and settled in Athens, McMinn County; elected asCaroline, Tompkins County, N.Y., February 8, 1818; attend- a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-ed the common schools, Cazenovia Seminary, and Hamilton March 3, 1841); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1840College, Clinton, N.Y.; was graduated from Union College, to the Twenty-seventh Congress; elected to the Twenty-Schenectady, N.Y., in 1837; studied law in Oswego; was ad- eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); unsuccessfulmitted to the bar in Tioga County, N.Y., in 1841; moved to candidate for reelection in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Con- Michigan and settled in Eaton Rapids, where he commenced gress. the practice of his profession in 1842; county clerk of Eaton BLAINE, James Gillespie, a Representative and a SenatorCounty; moved to Jackson, Mich., in 1844; elected to the from Maine; born in West Brownsville, Washington County,State house of representatives in 1845; delegate to the Free- Biographies 629

Soil National Convention at Buffalo, N.Y., in 1848; electedprivate academies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in prosecuting attorney of Jackson County in 1852; elected to1859 and commenced practice in Plymouth, N.H.; appointed the State senate in 1854; was present at the organization ofprosecuting attorney for Grafton County 1860; during the the Republican Party in Jackson, Mich., on July 6, 1854, andCivil War served in the Union Army as lieutenant colonel of was a member of the platform committee; delegate tothethe Fifteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infan- Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1860; Gover-try; member, State house of representatives 1866; member, nor of Michigan from January 1, 1861, to January 1, 1865;State senate 1867-1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty- elected as a Republican to the Fortieth, Forty-first, andfourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3,1873); 1879); was not a candidate for renomination in 1878; elected chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Forty-firstas a Republican to the United StatesSenate on June 17, and Forty-second Congresses); was not a candidate for re-1879, for the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1885, and nomination in 1872, but was an unsuccessful Liberal Repub- served from June 20, 1879, to March 3, 1885; the State lican candidate for Governor; resumed the practice of law inlegislature not being in session, he was appointed on March Jackson, Mich., and died there August 6, 1894; interment in5, 1885, and elected on June 17, 1885, to fill the vacancy in Mount Evergreen Cemetery. the term beginning March 4, 1885, and served from March Bibliography: DAB; Crofts, Daniel W. "The Blair Bill and the Elections 10, 1885, to March 3, 1891; unsuccessful candidate for re- - Bill: The Congressional Aftermath to Reconstruction." Ph.D. dissertation, nomination in 1891; chairman, Committee on Education and

Yale University, 1968; Harris, Robert C. "Austin Blair of Michigan: A Po- Labor (Forty-seventh through Fifty-first Congresses); de-- litical Biography." Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State University, 1969. clined an appointment as judge of the district court for the BLAIR, Bernard, a Representative from New York; borndistrict of New Hampshire tendered by President Benjamin in Williamstown, Mass., May 24, 1801; attended the publicHarrison in 1891; was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and schools and pursued preparatory studies; was graduatedMinister Plenipotentiary to China March 6, 1891; he was from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1825; movedobjected to by the Chinese Government as being persona non to Salem, Washington County, N.Y., in 1825; studied law;grata; subsequently tendered his resignation which was ac- was admitted to the bar in 1828 andcommenced practice incepted October 6, 1891; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- Salem, subsequently being admitted as counselor and solici-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); was not a tor in chancery; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventhcandidate for reelection in 1894; engaged in the practice of Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); discontinued thelaw in Washington, D.C., until his death on March 14, 1920; practice of his profession and engaged in business pursuits;interment in Campton Cemetery, Campton, N.H. died in Salem, Washington County, N.Y., May 7, 1880; inter- Bibliography: DAB. ment in Evergreen Cemetery. BLAIR, Jacob Beeson, a Representative from Virginia BLAIR, Francis Preston, Jr., a Representative and a Sen-and from West Virginia; born in Parkersburg, Wood County, ator from Missouri; born in Lexington, Ky., on February 19,Va. (now West Virginia), April 11, 1821; attended the public 1821; as a child moved with his father to Washington, D.C.;schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1844 and attended private schools and the University of North Caroli-commenced practice at Harrisville, Ritchie County, Va. (now na at Chapel Hill; was graduated from Princeton College inWest Virginia); prosecuting attorney of Ritchie Countyfor 1841; studied law at Transylvania University, Lexington,several years; returned to Parkersburg in 1856; elected as a Ky.; was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced prac-Unionist from Virginia to the Thirty-seventh Congress to fill tice in St. Louis in 1843; enlisted as a private during thethe vacancy caused by the resignation of John S. Carlileand Mexican War; served as attorney general of the Territory ofserved from December 2, 1861, to March 3, 1863; upon the New Mexico; resumed the practice of law in St. Louis;admission of West Virginia as a State into the Union was member, State house of representatives 1852-1856; elected aselected as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-eighth a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4,1857-Congress and served from December 7, 1863, to March 3, March 3, 1859); successfully contested the election of John R. 1865; United States Minister to Costa Rica 1868-1873; served Barret to the Thirty-sixth Congress and served from June 8as an associate justice of the supremecourt of Wyoming to June 25, 1860, when he resigned; unsuccessful candidate1876-1888; moved to Utah in 1888; probate judge for Salt for reelection to the Thirty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancyLake County, Utah, 1892-1895; surveyor general of Utah caused by his own resignation; elected to the Thirty-seventhfrom 1897 until his death in Salt Lake City on February12, Congress and served from March 4, 1861, until his resigna-1901; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery. tion in July 1862 to become a colonel in the Union Army; BLAIR, James, a Representative from South Carolina; chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Thirty-seventhborn in the Waxhaw settlement, Lancaster County, S.C., Congress); presented credentials as a Member-elect to theabout 1790; engaged in planting; sheriff of Lancaster Dis- Thirty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1863, to served from June 10, 1864, when he was succeeded by Samuel Knox, whotrict; elected to the Seventeenth Congress and contested the election; unsuccessful Democratic candidateMarch 4, 1821, to May 8, 1822, when he resigned; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-firstthrough Twenty-third Con- for Vice President of the United States in 1868; member, until his death in State house of representatives 1870; elected as a Democrat togresses and served from March 4, 1829, the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by theWashington, D.C., April 1, 1834; interment in Congressional resignation of Charles D. Drake and served from January 20,Cemetery. 1871, to March 3, 1873; was not a candidate for reelection; BLAIR, James Gorrall, a Representative from Missouri; State insurance commissioner in 1874; died in St. Louis, Mo.,born near Blairville, Ky., January 1, 1825; was self-educated, July 8, 1875; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery. having attended the public schools only three months; Bibliography: DAB; Smith, William E. The Francis Preston Blair Familymoved to Monticello, Lewis County, Mo., in 1840 and en- in Politics. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1933. gaged in agricultural pursuits; elected circuit clerk in 1848 BLAIR, Henry William, a Representative and a Senatorand served until 1854; studied law; was admitted to the bar from New Hampshire; born in Campton, Grafton County,and commenced practice in Canton, Mo., in 1854; delegate to N.H., December 6, 1834; attended the common schools andthe Republican State convention in 1870; elected as a Liberal 630 Biographical Directory

Republican to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871-the vacancy caused by the death of Cyrus Spink; reelected to March 3, 1873); was not a candidate for renomination inthe Thirty-seventh Congress and served from October 11, 1872; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in agri-1859, to March 3, 1863; was not a candidate for renomina- cultural pursuits; died in Monticello, Lewis County, Mo.,tion in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; entered the March 1, 1904; interment in Forest Grove Cemetery, Canton,Union Army in 1864 as colonel of the One Hundred and Mo. Sixty-sixth Regiment; declined the appointment of Governor BLAIR, John, a Representative from Tennessee; born atof Idaho Territory; resumed the practice of law; also inter- Blairs Mill, near Jonesborough (now Jonesboro), Washingtonested in banking and mercantile pursuits; delegate to the County, Tenn., September 13, 1790; attended Martain Acade-Loyalist Convention at Philadelphia in 1866; died in Medina, my, and was graduated from Washington (Tenn.) College inMedina County, Ohio, April 16, 1876; interment in Spring 1809; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1813 andGrove Cemetery. practiced; member of the State house of representatives BLAKE, John, Jr., a Representative from New York; born 1815-1817; served in the State senate 1817-1821; elected toin Ulster County, N.Y., December 5, 1762; attended the the Eighteenth Congress; reelected to the Nineteenth Con-public schools; during the Revolutionary War served in the gress and reelected as a Jacksonian to the TwentiethNew York State Militia; appointed deputy sheriff of Ulster through Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3,County in 1793; member of the State assembly 1798-1800; 1835); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Depart- ment of State (Twentieth Congress); unsuccessful candidatesheriff of Orange County 1803-1805; elected as a Republican for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; retiredto the Ninth and Tenth Congresses (March 4, 1805-March 3, 1809); again a member of the State assembly in 1812 and to private life; again a member of the State house of repre-- sentatives, in 1849 and 1850; resumed the practice of law;1813; judge of the court of common pleas for Orange County died in Jonesboro, Tenn., July 9, 1863; interment in the Old1815-1818; again served in the State assembly in 1819; su- Cemetery. pervisor of the town of Montgomery fifteen terms; died in Bibliography: Bloomer, Faye T. "The Legislative Career of John Blair."Montgomery, Orange County, N.Y., January 13, 1826; inter- Master's thesis, East Tennessee State University, 1956. ment in the Berea Churchyard, near Newburgh, N.Y. BLAIR, Samuel Steel, a Representative from Pennsylva- BLAKE, John Lauris, a Representative from New Jersey; nia; born in Indiana, Indiana County, Pa., December 5, 1821;born in Boston, Mass., March 25, 1831; received a classical attended the public schools and was graduated from Jeffer-education; moved to Orange, N.J., in 1846; studied law; was son College, Canonsburg, Pa., in 1838; studied law; was ad-admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced practice in mitted to the bar in 1845 and commenced practice in Holli-Orange, N.J.; member of the State house of assembly in daysburg, Blair County, Pa., in 1846; delegate to the Republi-1857; delegate to the Republican National Convention in can National Convention in 1856; elected as a Republican to1876; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth Congress the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4,(March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); declined to be a candidate for 1859-March 3, 1863); chairman, Committee on Private Landsrenomination in 1880; resumed the practice of his profession (Thirty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelec-in Orange; became president of the Citizens' Gas Light Co. of tion in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; resumed theNewark, N.J., in 1893; died in West Orange, Essex County, practice of law; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1874 toN.J., October 10, 1899; interment in Rosedale Cemetery, the Forty-fourth Congress; died in Hollidaysburg, Pa., De-Orange, N.J. cember 8, 1890; interment in the Presbyterian Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. BLAISDELL, Daniel, a Representative from New Hanip- BLAKE, Thomas Holdsworth, a Representative from Indi- shire; born in Amesbury, Mass., January 22, 1762; attendedana; born in Calvert County, Md., June 14, 1792; attended the public schools; served in the Revolutionary War fromthe public schools; studied law in Washington, D.C.; member August 1776 to August 1777; moved to Canaan, N.H., inof the militia of the District of Columbia which took part in 1780; taught school and also acquired some legal knowledge;the Battle of Bladensburg in 1814; moved to Kentucky and engaged in agricultural pursuits; held several local offices;thence to Indiana; was admitted to the bar and commenced member of the State house of representatives in 1793, 1795,practice in Terre Haute, md.; prosecuting attorney and and 1799; served as a member of the executive council 1803-judge of the circuit court; abandoned the practice of law to 1808; moderator of Canaan in 1808, 1809, 1812, 1822, 1824,engage in business; member of the State house of represent- 1826, and 1830; elected as a Federalist to the Eleventh Con-atives; elected to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827- gress (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1811); served in the War ofMarch 3, 1829); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection 1812; again a member of the State house of representatives, in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress; was appointed Commis- in 1812, 1813, 1824, and 1825; served as selectman of Canaansioner of the General Land Office by President Tyler on May in 1813, 1815, and 1818; resumed agricultural pursuits; 19, 1842, and served until April 1845; chosen president of the member of the State senate in 1814 and 1815; chief justice ofErie & Wabash Canal Co.; visited England as financial agent the court of sessions in 1822; died in Canaan, N.H., Januaryof the State of Indiana and, while returning, died in Cincin- 10, 1833; interment in Wells Cemetery. nati, Ohio, November 28, 1849; interment in Woodlawn Cem- BLAKE, Harrison Gray Otis, a Representative from Ohio;etery, Terre Haute, md. born in Newfane, Windham County, Vt., March 17, 1818; BLAKENEY, Albert Alexander, a Representative from moved to Salem, N.Y., and. in 1830 to Guilford, MedinaMaryland; born in Riderwood, Baltimore County, Md., Sep- County, Ohio; attended the public schools; studied medicinetember 28, 1850; attended private schools; learned the busi- at Seville for one year; moved to Medina in 1836 and en-ness of cotton manufacturing and established the large gaged in mercantile pursuits; also studied law; was admittedcotton-duck mills located in Franklinville, Md.; commission- to the bar and commenced practice in Medina; member ofer of Baltimore County 1895-1899; elected as a Republican to the State house of representatives in 1846 and 1847; memberthe Fifty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); of the State senate in 1848 and 1849, serving as its president;declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1902; re- elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress to ifilsumed his former business activities in Franklinville, Md.; Biographies 631 elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March BLANCHARD, Jonathan,a Delegate from New Hamp- 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to theshire; born in Dunstable, N.H., September 18, 1738; attended Sixty-eighth Congress; died in Baltimore, Md., October 15,the public schools; chosen a member of the council of twelve 1924; interment in the Baltimore Cemetery. in 1775; delegate to the Fifth Provincial Congress in 1775; served in the first house of representatives of the State in BLAKLEY, William Arvis, a Senator from Texas; born in1776; appointed State attorney general in 1777; member of Miami Station, Saline County, Mo., November 17, 1898;the committee of safety in 1777 and 1778; one of the commis- moved with his parents to Arapaho, Custer County, Okla.;sioners from New Hampshire to the convention at New during the First World War served in the United StatesHaven, Conn., in 1778 to regulate prices; Member of the Army; admitted to the bar in 1933 and commenced practiceContinental Congress in 1784; first judge of probate under in Dallas, Tex.; appointed as a Democrat by the Governor to the United States Senate on January 15, 1957, to fill thethe State constitution of 1784; brigadier general of militia vacancy caused by the resignation of PriceDaniel and1784-1788; died in Dunstable, N.H., July 16, 1788; interment served from January 15, 1957, to April 28, 1957; declined toin the Old South Burying Ground at Dunstable, now merged be a candidate for election to the vacancy; unsuccessful can-into the town of Nashua, N.H. didate for the Democratic nomination for a full term to the BLANCHARD, Newton Cram, a Representative and a United States Senate in 1958; again appointed by the Gover-Senator from Louisiana; born in Rapides Parish, La., Janu- nor on January 3, 1961, to the United StatesSenate to fillary 29, 1849; completed academic studies;studied law in the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lyndon B. JohnsonAlexandria, La., in 1868 and was graduated from the law and served from January 3, 1961, to June 14, 1961; wasdepartment of the University of Louisiana in 1870; was ad- unsuccessful for election to fill the vacancy; resumed formermitted to the bar and commenced practice in Shreveport, business interests; died in Dallas, Tex., January 5, 1976;La., in 1871; delegate to the State constitutional convention interment in Restland Memorial Park. in 1879; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and to BLANCHARD, George Washington, a Representativethe six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, from Wisconsin; born in Colby, Marathon County, Wis., Jan-1881, until his resignation, effective March 12, 1894; chair- uary 26, 1884; attended the graded and highschools; wasman, Committee on Rivers and Harbors(Fiftieth through graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison inFifty-third Congresses); appointed and subsequently elected 1906 and from its law department in 1910; was admitted toas a Democrat to the United StatesSenate to fill the vacan- the bar in 1910 and commenced practice in Edgerton, Rockcy caused by the resignation of EdwardD. White and served County, Wis.; city attorney of Edgerton from 1912 until hisfrom March 12, 1894, to March 3, 1897; was not a candidate resignationin1932, having been elected to Congress;for reelection; chairman, Committee on Improvement of the member of the State assembly 1925-1927; served in the StateMississippi River and its Tributaries (Fifty-third Congress); senate 1927-1933; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-elected associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana third Congress (March 3, 1933-January 3, 1935); was a candi-and served from 1897 to 1903, when he resigned; Governorof date for renomination, but withdrew after being nominated;Louisiana 1904-1908; resumed the practice of law in Shreve- practiced law in Edgerton, Wis., until his death there Octo-port, La.; member of the State constitutionalconvention in ber 2, 1964; interment in Fassett Cemetery. 1913 and served as president; died in Shreveport, La.,June BLANCHARD, James Johnston, a Representative from22, 1922; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. Michigan; born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., August 8, Bibliography: DAB. 1942; attended the public schools of Ferndale, Mich.; B.A., BLAND, Oscar Edward, a Representative from Indiana; Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1964; M.B.A., sameborn near Bloomfield, Green County, md., November21, university, 1965; J.D., University of Minnesota Law School, 1877; attended the public schools, ValparaisoUniversity, Minneapolis, 1968; admitted to the Michigan bar in 1968 andValparaiso, md., and the University of Indiana at Blooming- commenced practice in Lansing; legal advisor to Michiganton; taught school for three years; studied law; wasadmitted Secretary of State, 1968-1969; Assistant Attorney General ofto the bar in 1901 and commenced practice inLinton, md.; Michigan, 1969-1974; administrative assistant to the attor-member of the State senate 1907-1909; unsuccessfulRepubli- ney general, 1970-197 1; assistant deputy attorneygeneral,can candidate for election to Congressin 1910, 1912, and 197 1-1972; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth and to 1914; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth,Sixty-sixth, the three succeeding Congresses (Janaury 3, 1975-January 3,and Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1917-March 3,1923); 1983); was not a candidate for reelection in 1982 but was achairman, Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions successful candidate for Governor of Michigan; reelected in(Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses); unsuccessful can- 1986 and served from 1983 to 1991; is a resident of Pleasantdidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; Ridge, Mich. appointed by President Warren G. Harding as associate BLANCHARD, John, a Representative from Pennsylva-judge of the United States Court of CustomsAppeals (now nia; born in Peacham Township, Cadedonia County, Vt., Sep- the United States Court of Customs and PatentAppeals) on tember 30,1787; attended the common schools; taughtMarch 4, 1923, and served until his resignation on December school; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover,1, 1949; resumed the private practice of law inWashington, N.H., in 1812; moved to Pennsylvania in 1812 and settled inD.C., where he died August 3, 1951; interment in Fort Lin- York, where he again taught school; studied law; was admit-coln Cemetery. ted to the bar March 31, 1815, and commenced practice in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pa.; moved to Bellefonte the BLAND, Richard (uncle of Theodorick Bland), a Delegate same year and continued thepractice of law; elected as afrom Virginia; born in Orange County, Va., May 6, 1710; Whig to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses (Marchcompleted preparatory studies; attended the College of Wil- 4, 1845-March 3, 1849); was not a candidate for renomina-liam and Mary; member of the Virginia House of Burgesses tion in 1848; died in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pa., en1742-1775; member of the Virginia committee of correspond- route from Washington, D.C., to his home, March 9,1849; ence in 1773; Member of theContinental Congress in 1774 interment in Union Cemetery, Bellefonte, Centre County,and 1775; again chosen, but declined to serve; memberof the Virginia Revolutionary conventions of 1775 and 1776; elected Pa. 632 Biographical Directory to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1776; died in Williams- Trinity Churchyard; reinterred in the Congressional Ceme-- burg, Va., October 26, 1776; interment in a private cemeterytery, Washington, D.C., August 31, 1828. on the Jordan Point plantation, on the James River. Bibliography: DAB. Bibliography: DAB; Detweiler, Robert C. "Richard Bland: Conservator of Self-government in Eighteenth-century Viriginia." Ph.D. dissertation, Uni- BLAND, William Thomas (grandson of John George Jack- versity of Washington, 1968; Rossiter, Clinton L. "Richard Bland: Theson and cousin of James Monroe Jackson), a Representative Whig in America." William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser.,10 (January from Missouri; born in Weston, Lewis County, Va. (now 1953): 33-79. West Virginia), January 21, 1861; was graduated from the BLAND, Richard Parks, a Representative from Missouri;University of West Virginia at Morgantown in 1883 and born near Hartford, Ohio County, Ky., August 19, 1835;re-from the law department of that university in 1884; took a ceived an academic education; moved to Missouri in 1855,special course in law at the University of Virginia at Char- thence to California, and later to that portion of Utah whichlottesville in 1885; was admitted to the bar and commenced is now the State of Nevada; taught school for several years;practice in Weston, W.Va.; moved to Atchison, Kans., in studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- 1887; prosecuting attorney of Atchison County, Kans., 1890- tice in Virginia City; also interested in mining; treasurer of1892; mayor of Atchison in 1894; elected judge of the second Carson County from 1860 until the organization of the StateKansas district in 1896; reelected in 1900, and served until government of Nevada; returned to Missouri in 1865 and1901, when he resigned; entered the wholesale drug business continued the practice of law in Rolla; moved to Lebanon,in 1901; moved to Kansas City, Mo., in 1904 and continued in Laclede County, in August 1869; elected as a Democrat tobusiness until 1917 when he engaged in banking; chairman the Forty-third and to the ten succeeding Congresses (Marchof the Kansas City River and Harbor Improvement Commis- 4, 1873-March 3, 1895); chairman, Committee on Mines andsion 1909-1918; director of the National Rivers and Harbors Mining (Forty-fourth Congress), Committee on Coinage,Congress; vice president of the Mississippi Valley Waterway Weights, and Measures (Forty-eighth through Fiftieth Con-Association; elected to the Kansas City Board of Education gresses and Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses); sponsorin 1912 for a six-year term and served as vice president and of the Bland-Allison silver purchase act of 1878; unsuccessfulpresident; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress;(March 4, 1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for elected to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses andreelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress, moved to served from March 4, 1897, until his death; in 1896 wasaFlorida and settled in Orlando in 1921; engaged in banking; prominent candidate for the Democratic nomination forserved as a member of the Orlando Utilities Commission for President, receiving two hundred and ninety votes; died inthree years; died in Orlando, Orange County, Fla., January Lebanon, Mo., June 15, 1899; interment in Lebanon Ceme-15, 1928; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. tery. BLANTON, Leonard Ray, a Representative from Tennes Bibliography: DAB; Byars, William V. "An American Commoner": The Life and Times of Richard Parks Bland. Columbia, Mo.: E. W. Stephens, see; born on a farm in Hardin County, Term., April 10, 1930; 1900; Haswell, Harold A., Jr. "The Public Life of Congressman Richardattended the public schools of Hardin County; University of Parks Bland." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Missouri-Columbia1 1951. Tennessee at Knoxville, B.S., 1951; in 1954, with his father and brother, organized the B & B Construction Co.; in 1964, BLAND, Schuyler Otis, a Representative from Virginia;elected to Tennessee house of representatives from McNairy born near Gloucester, Gloucester County, Va., May 4, 1872;and Chester Counties; elected as a Democrat to the Nineti- attended private schools, Gloucester (Va.) Academy, and theeth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967- College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; taughtJanuary 3, 1973); was not a candidate for reelection in 1972 school in Accomac and Northampton Counties for severalbut was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United years; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1900 andStates Senate; elected Governor of Tennessee in 1974 and commenced practice in Newport News, Va.; elected as aserved from January 18, 1975, until January 17, 1979; was Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress to ff1 the vacancynot a candidate for reelection as Governor in 1978; is a caused by the death of William A. Jones; reelected to theresident of Nashville, Tenn. Sixty-sixth and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses and served from July 2, 1918, until his death at the naval hospi- BLANTON, Thomas Lindsay, a Representative from tal, Bethesda, Md., February 16, 1950; chairman, CommitteeTexas; born in Houston, Harris County, Tex., October 25, on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Seventy-third through1872; educated in the public schools; was graduated from the Seventy-ninth Congresses and Eighty-first Congress); inter-law department of the University of Texas at Austin in 1897, ment in Greenlawn Cemetery, Newport News, Va. with three years in the academic department; was admitted to the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in Cleburne, BLAND, Theodorick (nephew of Richard Bland), a Dele-Tex.; moved to Albany, Tex., and continued the practice of gate and a Representative from Virginia; born at Cawsons,Jaw until 1908, when he was elected judge of the forty-second on the Appomattox River, near Petersburg, Prince Georgejudicial district of Texas; reelected in 1912 and served in County, Va., March 21, 1742; was sent to England to bethat capacity from 1908 until elected to Congress; elected as educated; studied medicine in Edinburgh and was admitteda Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and to the five succeeding to practice; returned to his home in 1759 and engaged inCongresses (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1929); censured by the extensive practice; took an active part in the RevolutionaryHouse of Representatives on October 24, 1921, for abuse of War; entered the Continental Army as captain of the Firstleave to print; was not a candidate for renomination in 1928 Troop of Virginia Cavalry; Member of the Continental Con-but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the gress 1780-1783; appointed by Governor Henry as lieutenantUnited States Senate; subsequently elected on May 20, 1930, of Prince George County Militia in 1785; member, Stateto the Seventy-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by house of delegates, 1786-1788; member of the Virginia con-the death of Robert Q. Lee; reelected to the Seventy-second, vention of 1788 on the adoption of the Federal ConstitutionSeventy-third, and Seventy-fourth Congresses and served and was one of the minority which opposed its ratification;from May 20, 1930, to January 3, 1937; unsuccessful candi- elected to the First Congress and served from March 4, 1789,date for renomination m 1936, engaged m the practice of until his death in New York City June 1, 1790; interment inlaw in Washington, D.C., in 1937 and 1938; returned to Biographies 633

Albany, Tex., in 1938, and continued practicing law; alsoState senate 1905-1909, serving as president pro temporein engaged in the raising of Hereford cattle; died in Albany,1906 and 1907; mayor of Newberry in 1910; Governorof Tex., August 11, 1957; interment in Albany Cemetery. South Carolina 1911-1915; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1925, to BLATNIK, John Anton, a Representative from Minnesota;March 3, 1931; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in born in Chishoim, St. Louis County, Minn., August 17, 1911; 1980; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic gubernatori- attended the public schools and was graduated from Chis-al nomination in 1934 and 1938; elected a member of the hoim High School in June 1929; taught a one-room ruralState unemployment compensation commission for afour- school in St. Louis County in 1930 and 1931; State Teachersyear term beginning in 1941; died inColumbia, S.C., Janu- College, Winona, Minn., B.E., June 1935; also attended the Cemetery, Newberry, University of Chicago during summer of 1938 and the Uni-ary 19, 1942; interment in Rosemont S.C. versity of Mmnesota at Minneapolis in 1941 and 1942, en Bibliography: DAB; Burnside, Ronald D. "The Governorship of Coleman gaged in CCC work in Superior National Forest in Minneso- Livingston Blease of S.C." Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1963; ta 1935-1937; taught chemistry in high school at Chisholm, Hollis, Daniel W. "Cole Blease and the Senate Campaign of 1924." Pro- Minn., 1937-1939; assistant county superintendent of schools ceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association 48 (1978): 53-68. of St. Louis County, Minn., 1939-1941; member of the State senate 1941-1946; served with the United States Army Air BLEDSOE, Jesse(uncleof Robert Emmett Bledsoe Corps and the Office of Strategic Services from August 1942Baylor), a Senator from Kentucky; born in Culpeper County, until his discharge as a captain on January 1946 with eight-Va., April 6, 1776; when quite young moved with an elder een months' service overseas; awardedthe Bronze Starbrother to Kentucky; attended Transylvania Seminary and Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Air Medal; elected asTransylvania University, Lexington KY.; studied law in Lex- a Democrat to the Eightieth Congress;reelected to the thir-ington; was admitted to the bar about 1800 and commenced teen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3,practice; appointed secretary of state 1808; member, State 1947, until his resignation December 31, 1974; chairman,house of representatives 1812; elected as a Republican tothe Committee on Public Works (Ninety-second and Ninety-thirdUnited States Senate and served from March 4, 1813, until Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection in 1974 to thehis resignation on December 24, 1814; member, State senate Ninety-fourth Congress; became a part-time consultant for1817-1820; judge of the Lexington circuit in 1822; settled in shippers; environmental and economic development consult-Lexington and was professor of law in Transylvania Univer- ant; is a resident of Chisholm, Minn. sity; minister in the Disciples Church; moved toMississippi in 1833 and to Texas in 1835; died near Nacogdoches, Nacog- BLAZ, Ben Garrido, a Delegate from Guam; born indoches County, Tex., June 25, 1836. Agana, Guam, February 14, 1928; lived on the island during the 3 years of Japanese occupation during World War II; BLEECKER, Harmanus, a Representative from New was graduated from the University ofNotre Dame, SouthYork; born in Albany, N.Y., October 9, 1779; studiedlaw; Bend, md., in 1951; received an M.A. from George Washing-was admitted to the bar in1801 and commenced practice in ton University, Washington, D.C., in 1963; was graduatedAlbany; elected as a Federalist to the TwelfthCongress from the Naval War College, Newport, R.I., in 1971; commis-(March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); was not a candidatefor sioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1951, renomination in1812; resumed the practice of law in awarded the Legion of Merit, Bronze Medal with CombatAlbany, N.Y.; member of the State assembly in1814 and "V", Navy Commendation Medal, and the Vietnamese Cross1815; regent of the University of the State of NewYork of Gallantry, and retired with the rank of brigadier general1822-1834; Chargé d'Affaires to the NetherlandsMay 12, in 1980; professor at the University of Guam 1983-1984;1837, to June 28, 1842; retired from public life andbusiness elected as a Republican to the Ninety-ninth and One Hun-pursuits; died in Albany, N.Y., July 19, 1849; intermentin dredth Congresses (January 8, 1985-January 3, 1989); is athe Rural Cemetery. resident of Ordot, Guam. BLILEY, Thomas Jerome, Jr., a Representative from Vir- BLEAKLEY, Orrin Dubbs, a Representative from Penn-ginia; born in Chesterfield County, Va., January28, 1932; sylvania; born in Franklin, Venango County, Pa., May 15,attendedprivateschools;graduated,Benedictine High 1854; attended the common schools, the local academy of hisSchool, Richmond, 1948; B.A., Georgetown University, Wash- native city, and the University of Bonn, in Prussia; engagedington, D.C., 1952; served in the United States Navy,lieuten- in banking with his father until 1876; interested in theant, 1952-1955; president, Joseph W. BlileyCo. Funeral production of oil from 1876 to 1883; organized the FranklinHome; vice-mayor, Richmond, 1968-1970; mayor,Richmond, Trust Company in the latter year, and became its president;1970-1977; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh delegate at large to the Republican National Convention inand to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1981- 1904; served as chairman of the Venango County Republican committee; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Con- January 8, 1989); is a resident of Richmond, Va. gress and served from March 4 toApril 3, 1917, when he BLISS, Aaron Thomas, a Representative fromMichigan; resigned without having qualified; resumed banking inborn in Peterboro, Madison County, N.Y., May 22,1837; Franklin, Pa.; died in Robinson, Ill., December 3, 1927; inter-attended the common schools; employed as a clerk in a store ment in Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Pa. in Morrisville, N.Y., in 1853 and 1854; attended aselect Southschool in Munnsville, N.Y., in 1854; moved toBouckville, BLEASE, Coleman Livingston, a Senator from N.Y., in 1855 and engaged in mercantile pursuits; enlisted as Carolina; born near Newberry, Newberry County, S.C., Octo- New York Volunteer Cav- ber 8, 1868; attended the common schools; wasgraduateda private in the Tenth Regiment, Wash-alry, October 1, 1861; served three years, beingconfmed six from the law department of Georgetown University, months of this time in the prisons of Andersonville, Charles- ington, D.C., in 1889; was admitted to the bar the same year service from and commenced practice in Newberry, S.C.; member, Stateton, Macon, and Columbia; rose while in the servingprivate to captain; moved to Saginaw, Mich., inDecember house of representatives 1890-1894, 1899, and 1900, of as speaker pro tempore1892-1894; mayor of Helena, S.C., in1865 and engaged in the manufacture of lumber; member 1897; city attorney of Newberry in 1901 and 1902; member,the State senate in 1882; appointed aide-de-camp onthe staff 634 Biographical Directory

of Governor Alger in 1885; held thesame position on theattended the public schools of Vidalia, Douglas, Fitzgerald, staff of the commander in chief of the Grand Army of theand Homerville, Ga., and Hagerstown, Md.; student at the Republic in 1888; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-firstUniversity of Georgia at Athens in 1929 and attended South Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candi- Georgia College at Douglas in 1949; associated with husband date for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress;re- sumed the lumber business and also engaged in banking;in drug business, naval stores operations, and farming in department commander of the Grand Army of the RepublicHomerville, Ga.; elected to the State senate in 1946; elected in Michigan in 1897; Governor of Michigan 1900-1904; diedto the State house of representatives in 1948 and defeated in Milwaukee, Wis., September 16, 1906, while on a visit forfor reelection in 1950; again elected to the State senate in medical treatment; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, 1952 and served until December 31, 1954, Democratic nation Saginaw, Mich. a! committeewoman for Georgia 1948-1956; elected as a Bibliography: DAB. Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the three succeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1963); was not a BLISS, Archibald Meserole, a Representative from Newcandidate for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Con York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., January 25, 1838; attendedgress; is a resident of St. Simons Island, Ga. the common schools; alderman of Brooklyn, N.Y., 1864-1867, serving as president of the board of aldermen in 1866;unsuc- BLODGETT, Rufus, a Senator from New Jersey; born in cessful Republican candidate for mayor of Brooklyn in 1867;Dorchester, N.H., October 9, 1834; attended the common delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1864 andschools and Wentworth (N.H.) Academy; learned thema- 1868, to the Liberal National Convention in 1872, and to thechinist's trade; moved to New Jersey in 1866 and settled in Democratic National Conventions in 1876, 1880, 1884, andLong Branch; builder of railroad equipment; president of the 1888; member of the board of water commissioners of Brook-Long Branch City Bank; member, State assembly 1878-1879; lyn in 1871 and 1872; president and vice president of thesuperintendent of the New York & Long Branch Railroad Bushwick Railroad Co., 1868-1878; director of the New York1884-1910; elected as a Democrat to the United States & Long Island Bridge Co.; elected as a Democrat to theSenate and served from March 4, 1887, to March 3, 1893; Forty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (Marchwas not a candidate for reelection; mayor of Long Branch 4, 1875-March 3, 1883); was not a candidate for renomina- 1893-1898; engaged in the railroad business and in banking; tion in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; elected to thedied in Long Branch Monmouth County N J, October 3, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1910; interment in Village Cemetery, Wentworth, Grafton 1889); chairman, Committee on Pensions (Fiftieth Congress);County, N.H. was not a candidate for renomination in 1888 to the Fifty- first Congress; engaged in the real estate business in Wash- BLOODWORTH, Timothy, a Delegate, a Representative, ington, D.C., until his death there on March 19, 1923; inter-and a Senator from North Carolina, born m New Hanover ment in Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. County, N.C., in 1736; teacher; in 1776 was employed in making muskets and bayonets for the Continental Army; BLISS, George, a Representative from Ohio; born in Jeri-member, State house of commons 1778-1779; treasurer of cho, Vt., January 1, 1813; attended Granville College; stud- ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1841 and commencedWilmington District 178 1-1782; appointed commissioner of practice in Akron, Ohio; appointed presiding judge of theconfiscated property in 1783; Member of the Continental eighth judicial district in 1850 and served until the officeCongress in 1786; member, State senate 1788-1789; elected to was discontinued, owing to a change in the constitution;the First Congress and served from April 6, 1790, to March elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1791; member, State house of representatives 1793-1794; 1853-March 3, 1855); was a candidate for renomination inelected to the United States Senate and served from March 1855 but subsequently withdrew; moved to Wooster, Ohio, 1795, to March 3, 1801; collector of customs at Wilming- and continued the practice of law; elected to the Thirty- ton; died in Wilmington, N.C., August 24, 1814. eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); unsuccessful Bibliography: DAB. candidate for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Con- BLOOM, Isaac, a Representative from New York, born in gress; delegate to the Union National Convention at Phila-Jamaica, Queens County, N.Y., about 1716; moved to Dutch- delphia in 1866; died in Wooster, Ohio, October 24, 1868;ess County about 1740; captain of minutemen of Charlotte interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. precinct, Dutchess County, in 1775; was engaged in mercan- Bibliography: DAB. tile pursuits in 1784; member of the State assembly 1788- BLISS, Philemon, a Representative from Ohio; born in1792; delegate to the State convention in 1801; served in the Canton, Conn., July 28, 1813; attended Fairfield AcademyState senate 1800-1802; elected to the Eighth Congress and and Hamilton College; studied law; was admitted to the barserved from March 4,1803, until his death in Clinton, in 1840 and commenced practice at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio;Dutchess County, N.Y., April 26, 1803; interment probably in later practiced in Elyria, Ohio; presiding judge of the four-Jamaica. teenth judicial circuit of Ohio 1848-185 1; elected as a Repub- BLOOM, So!, a Representative from New York; born in licanto the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth CongressesPekin, Tazewell County, Ill., March 9, 1870; moved with his (March 4, 1855-March 3,1859); was not a candidate forparents to San Francisco, Calif., in 1873; attended the public renomination in 1858; appointed chief justice of the supreme court of the Territory of Dakota by President Lincoln inschools; engaged in the newspaper, theatrical, and music- 1861; subsequently moved to St. Joseph, Mo.; associate jus-publishing businesses; superintendent of construction of the tice of the supreme court of Missouri 1868-1872; dean of theMidway Plaisance at the World's Columbian Exposition at law division of the State University of Missouri at ColumbiaChicago in 1893; moved to New York City in 1903 and en- 1872-1889; died in St. Paul, Minn., August 25, 1889; inter-gaged in the real estate and construction business; captain ment in the Columbia Cemetery, Columbia, Mo. in the New York Naval Reserve in 1917; elected as a Demo- Bibliography: DAB. crat to the Sixty-eighth Congress on January 30, 1923, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative-elect BLITCH, Iris Faircioth, a Representative from Georgia;Samuel Marx; reelected to the Sixty-ninth and to the twelve born in Toombs County, near Vidalia, Ga., April 25, 1912;succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until Biographies 635 his death in Washington, D.C., March 7, 1949; chairman,Post Roads (Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses), Committee Committee on Foreign Affairs (Seventy-sixth through Seven-on Foreign Affairs (Fifty-second Congress); wasnot a candi- ty-ninth Congresses and Eighty-first Congress), Special Com- date for renomination in 1892; appointed by President Cleve-- mittee on Chamber Improvements (Eighty-first Congress); land commissioner to the Hawaiian Islands on March 20, director of the United States George Washington Bicenten-1893; retired from that position in 1893 and devoted his time nial Commission; director general of the United States Con-to his plantation interests; died in Macon, Ga., March 8, stitution Sesquicentennial Commission; chairman of the1903; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery. Committee on Celebration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Bibliography: DAB. Anniversary of the United States Supreme Court; director BLOUNT, Thomas (brother of William Blount and uncle and United States Commissioner, New York World's Fair, inof William Grainger Blount), a Representative from North 1939; interment in Mount Eden Cemetery, WestchesterCarolina; born at "Blount Hall," Craven (now Pitt) County, Hills, N.Y. Bibliography: DAB; Bloom Sol. The Autobiography of Sol Bloom. New N.C., May 10, 1759; educated at home; at the age of sixteen York: Putnam's, 1948. years entered the Continental Army; wascaptured and sent to England as a prisoner of war; after the Revolutionary BLOOMFIELD, Joseph, a Representative from NewWar engaged in the mercantile business in Tarboro, Edge- Jersey; born in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, N.J., Octobercombe County, N.C.; member of the State house of commons 18, 1753; educated at Rev. Enoch Green's school in Deerfield,in 1788; elected to the Third Congress and as a Republican N.J.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1775 andto the Fourth and Fifth Congresses (March 4, 1793-March 3, commenced practice in Bridgeton, N.J.; entered the Revolu- 1799); unsuccessful candidate for election in 1802 to the tionary Army as captain of the Third New Jersey RegimentEighth Congress; elected to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses on February 9, 1776; attained the rank of major;resumed(March 4, 1805-March 3, 1809); unsuccessful candidate for the practice of law in Burlington, N.J.; registrar of the admi-reelection in 1808 to the Eleventh Congress; elected to the ralty court 1779-1783; State attorney general from 1783 toTwelfth Congress and served from March 4, 1811, until his 1792, when he resigned; trustee of Princeton College fromdeath in Washington, D.C., February 7, 1812; interment in 1793 until his resignation in 1801; Governor of New Jersey 1801-1812; commissioned brigadier general on March 13,the Congressional Cemetery. 1812, and served until June 15, 1815; elected as a Republican Bibliography: DAB. to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth BLOUNT, William (father of William Grainger Blount Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); unsuccessful candi-and brother of Thomas Blount), a Delegate from North Caro- date for reelection to the Seventeenth Congress; died inlina and a Senator from Tennessee; born near Windsor, Burlington, Burlington County, N.J., October 3, 1823; inter-Bertie County, N.C., March 26, 1749; pursued preparatory ment in St. Mary's Episcopal Churchyard. studies in New Bern, N.C.; paymaster of the Continental Bibliography: DAB. troops, North Carolina Line, in 1777; member, State house of BLOUIN, Michael Thomas, a Representative from Iowa; commons 1780-1784; Member of theContinental Congress in born in Jacksonville, Duval County, Fla., November 7, 1945;1782, 1783, 1786, and 1787; delegate to the conventionthat attended elementary and secondary schools of Miami Shores,framed the Federal Constitution in 1787; member, State Fla., and Chicago, Ill.; B.A., political science, Loras College,senate 1788-1790; appointed Governor of the TerritorySouth Dubuque, Iowa, 1966; taught in the elementary schools ofof the Ohio river by President George Washington in1790; Dubuque, Iowa, later worked as advertising consultant;Superintendent of Indian Affairs 1790-1796; chairman of the elected in 1968 and 1970 to the Iowa house of representa-convention which framed the first State constitution of Ten- tives; elected in 1972 to the Iowa State senate for a four-yearnessee 1796; upon the admission of Tennessee as aState into term and served from 1973 to 1974; delegate to Iowa Statethe Union was elected to the United States Senateand Democratic conventions, 1966-1973; elected as a Democrat toserved from August 2, 1796, until he was found guilty "of a the Ninety-fourth and to the Ninety-fifth Congresses (Janu-high misdemeanor, entirely inconsistent with his public ary 3, 1975-January 3, 1979); unsuccessfulcandidate for re-trust and duty as a Senator," because he had been activein election in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; assistant direc-a plan to incite the Creekand Cherokee Indians to aid the tor for community action, Community Services Administra-British in conquering the Spanish territory of West Florida; tion, 1980-1981; executive director of foundations and grants,expelled from the Senate July 8, 1797; impeachment pro- Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1981-ceedings were instituted but dismissed; during the trial was 1987; director of economic development, Cedar Rapids Cham- elected to the State senate of Tennessee and chosen its presi- ber of Commerce, 1987 to present; is a resident of Cedardent; died in Knoxville, Tenn., March 21, 1800; intermentin Rapids, Iowa. the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB; Masterson, William. William Blount. 1954. Reprint. BLOUNT, James Henderson, a Representative from Geor- New York: Greenwood Press, 1969. gia; born near Clinton, Jones County, Ga., September 12, 1837; attended private schools in Clinton, Ga., and Tuscaloo- BLOUNT, William Grainger (son of William Blount and sa, Ala.; was graduated from theUniversity of Georgia atnephew of Thomas Blount), a Representative from Tennes- Athens in 1858; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859see; born near New Bern, CravenCounty, N.C., in 1784; and commenced practice in Clinton, Jones County, Ga.;attended the New Bern Academy; moved with his parents to moved to Macon, Ga., in 1872 and continued the practice ofKnoxville, Tenn., in 1792; studied law; was admitted to the law; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Armybar in 1805 and commenced practice in Knoxville; also en- as a private in the Second GeorgiaBattalion, Floyd Rifles,gaged in agricultural pursuits; member of State house of for two years, and was later lieutenant colonel for two years;representatives in 1811; secretary of state of Tennessee delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1865; elect-1811-1815; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Con- ed as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to the nine succeed-gress to fill the vacancy caused bythe death of John Sevier; ing Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1893); chairman,reelected to the Fifteenth Congress and served from Decem- Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justiceber 8, 1815, to March 3, 1819; declined to be a candidatefor (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on the Post Office andrenomination; resumed the practice of his profession in 636 Biographical Directory

Knoxville; moved to Paris, Henry County, Tenn., in 1826 andnation in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress; member of continued the practice of law until his death on May 21,the State house of representatives in 1845, 1849, and 1851, 1827; interment in the City Cemetery. serving as speaker in 1845; resumed the practice of law; died BLOW, Henry Taylor, a Representative from Missouri;in New Haven, Conn., August 27, 1871; interment in Grove born in Southampton County, Va., July 15, 1817; moved toStreet Cemetery. St. Louis, Mo., in 1830; attended St. Louis University in 1830 BOARMAN, Alexander (Aleck), a Representative from and 1831; engaged in the paint and oil business and laterLouisiana; born in Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Miss., Decem- became especially interested in lead mines; member of theber 10, 1839; lost his parents in infancy and was raised by State senate 1854-1858; served as Minister Resident at Ven-relatives in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, La.; attended the ezuela from June 8, 1861, to February 22, 1862; electedas ancommon schools of Shreveport, La., and Kentucky Military Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-eighth Congress andasInstitute at Frankfort; was graduated from the University of a Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1863- March 3, 1867); was not a candidate for renomination inKentucky at Lexington in 1860; at the outbreak of the Civil 1866; resumed his former business pursuits; Minister toWar enlisted in the Confederate Army and served as lieuten- Brazil from May 1,1869, to February 11, 1871; was aant of the Caddo Rifles; was subsequently promoted to the member of the Board of Commissioners of the District ofrank of captain and served throughout the war; studied law; Columbia in 1874 and 1875; died in Saratoga, Saratogawas admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in County, N.Y., September 11, 1875; interment in Bellefon-Shreveport, La.; mayor of Shreveport from May 7, 1866, to tame Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo. August 8, 1867; city attorney of Shreveport 1868-1872; un- Bibliography:DAB. successful candidate for election as secretary of state in 1872; elected as a Liberal Republican to the Forty-second BLUE, Richard Whiting, a Representative from Kansas;Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Repre- born near Parkersburg, Wood County, Va. (now West Virgin-sentative-elect James McCleery and served from December ia), September 8, 1841; worked on a farm in the summertime3, 1872, to March 3, 1873; unsuccessful candidate for renomi- and studied in the select schools of that locality during thenation in 1872; resumed the practice of law in Shreveport, winter season; attended Monongalia Academy, Morgantown,La.; judge of the tenth judicial district court, Caddo Parish, Va., in 1859 and Washington (Pa.) College until his enlist-La., 1877-1880; appointed United States judge for the west- ment, on June 29, 1863, as a private in Company A, Thirdern district of Louisiana by President Garfield on May 18, Regiment, West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, during the1881, and served until his death, while on a visit, at Loon Civil War; became second and then first lieutenant of theLake, Franklin County, N.Y., August 30, 1916; interment in company; honorably discharged May 22, 1866, at Leaven-Oakland Cemetery, Shreveport, La. worth, Kans., when he returned to Grafton, W.Va.; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Virginia, and BOATNER, Charles Jahleal, a Representative from Lou- commenced practice in Linn County, Kans., in 1871; probateisiana; born in Columbia, Caldwell Parish, La., January 23, judge of Linn County 1872-1876; county attorney 1876-1880; 1849; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admit- member of the State senate 1880-1888; electedas a Republi-ted to the bar in 1870 and practiced; member of the State can to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3,senate from 1876 until May 1878; elected as a Democrat to 1897); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to thetheFifty-first,Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses Fifty-fifth Congress; engaged in the practice of law until his(March 4, 1889-March 3, 1895); presented credentials as a death in Bartlesville, Washington County, Okla., JanuaryMember-elect to the Fifty-fourth Congress but on March 20, 28, 1907; interment in Pleasanton Cemetery, Pleasanton,1896, the House declared the seat vacant, the election Linn County, Kans. having been contested by Alexis Benoit; elected to ff1 the vacancy caused by the House declaring the seat vacant and BOARDMAN, Elijah (father of William Whiting Board-served from June 10, 1896, to March 3, 1897; declined to be a man), a Senator from Connecticut; born in New Milford,candidate for reelection in 1896; moved to New Orleans and Conn., March 7, 1760; educated under private tutors; servedresumed the practice of law; died in New Orleans, La., on in the Revolutionary War; employed as clerk in a mercantileMarch 21, 1903; interment in Monroe Cemetery, Monroe, La. establishment; engaged in mercantile pursuits 1781-18 12; member, State house of representatives 1803-1805 and again BOCKEE, Abraham, a Representative from New York; in 1816; member, State upper house 1817-1819; member,born in Shekomeko, Dutchess County, N.Y., February 3, State senate 1819-1821; elected as a Democrat to the United1784; attended the public schools; was graduated from Union States Senate and served from March 4, 1821, until hisCollege, Schenectady, N.Y., 1803; studied law in Poughkeep- death while on a visit to Boardman, Ohio, August 18, 1823;sie; was admitted to the bar in 1806 and practiced in Pough- interment in the Center Cemetery, New Milford, Conn. keepsie until 1815, when he returned to Shekomeko; en- gaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State assem- BOARDMAN, William Whiting (son of Elijah Boardman), a Representative from Connecticut; born in New Milford,bly in 1820; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Conn., October 10, 1794; attended Bacon Academy, Colches-Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3,1831); elected to the ter, Conn.; was graduated from Yale College in 1812; studiedTwenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833- law in Cambridge and Litchfield Law Schools and com-March3,1837);chairman, Committee on Agriculture menced the practice of his profession in New Haven in 1819;(Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses); served in the clerk of the State senate in 1820; judge of probate; memberState senate 1840-1844; elected judge of the court of errors of the State house of representatives 1836-1839, serving asin 1843; first judge of the Dutchess County Court in 1846; speaker in 1836 and 1839; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-died in Shekomeko, N.Y., June 1, 1865; interment on his sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignationestate near Shekomeko. of William L. Storrs; reelected to the Twenty-seventh Con- BOCOCK, Thomas Stanley, a Representative from Virgin- gress and served from December 7, 1840, to March 3, 1843;ia; born at Buckingham Court House, Buckingham (now Ap- chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Groundspomattox) County, Va., May 18, 1815; educated by private (Twenty-seventh Congress); was not a candidate for renomi-tutors; was graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, Virgin- Biographies 637 ia, in 1838; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1840 andelected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and Sixty-second commenced practice at Buckingham Court House; memberCongresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1913); was not a candi- of the State house of delegates 1842-1844; served as pros-date for renomination in 1912; director of the Federal Re- ecuting attorney of Appomattox County in 1845 and 1846;serve Bank at St. Louis, Mo.; retired from active business elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth and to the six suc-pursuits; died in Evansville, md., December 27, 1946; inter- ceeding Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1861); chair-ment in the Lutheran Cemetery. man, Committee on Naval Affairs (Thirty-third and Thirty- fifth Congresses); elected a Representative to the Confeder- BOEHNE, John William,Jr.,(son of John William ate Congress in 1861, being chosen speaker of that bodyBoehne), a Representative from Indiana; born in Evansville, February 18, 1862; again served as a member of the StateVanderburgh County, md., March 2, 1895; attended the house of delegates 1877-1879; was a delegate to the Demo-public and parochial schools; was graduated from the Uni- cratic National Conventions in 1868, 1876, and 1880; died inversity of Wisconsin at Madison in 1918; during the First Appomattox County, Va., on August 5, 1891; interment inWorld War served as a private and sergeant in the Detached Old Bocock Cemetery (private burying ground), near Wild-Service, Ordnance, United States Army, from January 9, way, Va. 1918, to April 8, 1919; secretary and treasurer of the Indiana Bibliography: DAB. Stove Works at Evansville, md., 1920-1931; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress; reelected to the BODEN, Andrew, a Representative from Pennsylvania;five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1943); born in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa.; attended theunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy- public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar andeighth Congress; corporation tax counselor in Washington, practiced; also engaged in the real estate business; elected asD.C., 1943-1957; retired; died in Irvington, Md., July 5, 1973; a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to theinterment in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); resumed the practice of law; died in Carlisle, Pa., December 20, 1835. BOEN, Haldor Erickson, a Representative from Minneso- ta; born in Sondre Aurdal, Valders, Norway, January 2, BODINE, Robert Nail, a Representative from Missouri;1851; immigrated to the United States in 1868 and settled in born near Paris, Monroe County, Mo., December 17, 1837;Mower County, Minn.; attended the St. Cloud Normal School attended Paris Academy and was graduated from the Uni-in 1869 and 1870; located near Fergus Falls, Ottertail versity of Missouri at Columbia in 1859; principal of theCounty, January 1, 1871; employed in the auditor's office in Paris public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar1872, computing the first taxes levied in Ottertail County; and began practice in Paris, Mo.; prosecuting attorney oftaught in the common schools of that county 1874-1879; Monroe County; delegate to the State convention in 1890;justice of the peace 1875-1900; elected county commissioner member of the State house of representatives 1895-1897; in 1880; register of deeds 1888-1892; elected as a Populist to elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); un- 1897-March 3, 1899); unsuccessful candidate for renomina-successful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth tion in 1898; resumed the practice of law in Paris, Mo., andCongress; editor of the Fergus Falls Globe; resumed agricul- died there March 16, 1914; interment in Walnut Grove Cem-tural pursuits in Ottertail County, Minn.; died in Aurdal etery. Township, Ottertail County, Minn., July 23, 1912; interment BODLE, Charles, a Representative from New York; bornin Aurdal Cemetery, near Fergus Falls, Minn. near Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., in 1787; was a BOERUM, Simon, a Delegate from New York; born in wagon maker by trade; justice of the peace; held severalNew Lots (now Brooklyn), Long Island, N.Y., February 29, political offices in Bloomingburg, Sullivan County; elected as1724; attended the Dutch school at Flatbush, N.Y., from a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress(March 4, 1833-which he was graduated; engaged in agricultural pursuits March 3, 1835); died in New York City October 31, 1835;and milling; appointed county clerk of Kings County by interment in Bloomingburg Cemetery, Bloomingburg, N.Y.Governor Clinton in 1750; also became clerk of the board of BOEHLERT, Sherwood Louis, a Representative fromsupervisors and held both positions until his death; member New York; born in Utica, Oneida County, N.Y., Septemberof the colonial assembly 176 1-1775; deputy to the provincial 28, 1936; attended Roosevelt Elementary School, Utica, N.Y.;convention in April 1775; Member of the Continental Con- graduated, Whitesboro Central High School, 1954; B.A.,gress in 1774 and 1775; died in Brooklyn,N.Y., July 11, 1775; Utica College, 1961; served, United States Army, 1956-1958;interment in Glenwood Cemetery. congressional aide,1964-1979; elected, county, executive, BOGGS, Corinne Claiborne (Lindy), (wife of Thomas Oneida County, N.Y., 1979-1982; delegate, New York StateHale Boggs, Sr., great, great grandniece of John Francis Republican Convention, 1980; delegate, Republican NationalHamtramck Claiborne, great, great, great grandniece of Na- Convention, 1980; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-thaniel Herbert Claiborne and William ,Charles Cole Clai- eighth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3,borne, and great, great, great, great grandniece of Thomas 1983-January 3, 1989); is a resident of New Hartford, N.Y.Claiborne [1749-1812]), a Representative from Louisiana; BOEHNE, John William (father of John William Boehne,born Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne, on Brunswick Plan- Jr.), a Representative from Indiana; born in Scott Township,tation, Pointe Coupee Parish, La., March 13, 1916; graduat- Vanderburgh County, md., October 28, 1856; attended theed, St. Joseph's Academy, New Roads, La., 1931; B.A., Sophie district schools, the German parochial school of the Luther-Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, La., an Church, and Evansville Business College;moved to Ev- 1935;teacher; president, Woman's National Democratic ansville, md., in 1872, becoming an accountant; engaged inClub,1958-1959, and DemocraticCongressional Wives the manufacture of stoves and ranges and was interested inForum, 1962; president, The Congressional Club, 197 1-1972; other manufacturing enterprises; elected councilman atcochairman, inaugural balls for President Kennedy, 1961, large in 1897 and reelecte4 in 1899; unsuccessful Democraticand President Johnson, 1965; elected as a Democrat to the candidate for mayor of Evansville in 1901; mayor 1905-1908;Ninety-third Congress, by special election, March 20, 1973, to delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1908;fill the vacancy caused by the disappearance of her husband, 638 Biographical Directory

Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr., in a plane in October 1972; reelect-attended the common and high schools and the Danville ed to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 20, 1973-Janu-(md.) Normal College; was graduated from the Medical Col- ary 3, 1989); chairman, Joint Committee on Bicentenniallege of Indiana, Indianapolis, md., in 1890; moved to Seney, Arrangements (Ninety-fourth Congress), Commission on theMich., in 1890 and engaged in the practice of medicine; Bicentenary of the U.S. House of Representatives (Ninety- ninth and One Hundredth Congresses); is a resident of Newmoved to Newberry, Luce County, Mich., in 1898 and prac- Orleans, La. ticed his profession until 1923; also engaged in banking in 1905; served as village president of Newberry 1904 to 1q19; BOGGS, James Caleb, a Representative and a Senatormember of the Newberry School Board 1908-1914; member from Delaware; born in Cheswold, Kent County, Del., Mayof the State senate 1923-1926; elected as a Republican to the 15, 1909; attended the rural schools; was graduated from theSeventieth,Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses University of Delaware at Newark in 1931 and from George-(March 4, 1927-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for town University Law School, Washington, D.C., in 1937; wasreelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; resumed admitted to the bar in 1938 and commenced practice in Dover, Del; served during the Second World War in thebanking activities in Newberry, Mich.; member of the Michi- United States Army 1941-1946; deputy judge of the familygan State Hospital Commission 1935-1937; died in New- court of New Castle County, Del., 1946; elected as a Republi-berry, Mich., June 1, 1944; interment in Forest Home Ceme- can to the Eightieth, Eighty-first, and Eighty-second Con-tery. gresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1953); was not a candi- BOlES, William Dayton, a Representative from Iowa; date for renomination in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress;born on a farm in Boone County, Ill., January 3, Governor of Delaware from January 1953, until his resigna- 1857; tion December 30, 1960; elected as a Republican to themoved with his parents to Buchanan County, Iowa, in 1873 United States Senate in 1960; reelected in 1966 and servedand settled near Quasqueton; attended country schools and from January 3, 1961, to January 3, 1973; unsuccessful can- the public schools of Belvidere, Ill.; was graduated in law didate for reelection in 1972; practiced law in Wilmington,from the State University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1880; was Del.; is a resident of Wilmington, Del. admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Sanborn, O'Brien County, Iowa; moved to Sheldon, Iowa, in BOGGS, Thomas Hale, Sr. (husband of Corinne Claiborne1887 and continued the practice of law; unsuccessful candi- Boggs), a Representative from Louisiana; born in Longdate for election as judge of the district court in 1890; Beach, Harrison County, Miss., February 15, 1914; attendedmember of the school board of the independent school dis- the public and parochial schools of Jefferson Parish, La.; was graduated from Tulane University, New Orleans, La., intrict of Sheldon 1900-1912; appointed judge of the district 1935 and from the law department of the same university incourt of the fourth judicial district of Iowa January 1, 1913; 1937; was admitted to the bar in 1937 and commenced prac-on a division of this district became judge of the twenty-first tice in New Orleans, La.; elected as a Democrat to thejudicial district of the State and in 1914 was elected for a Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1943);term of four years, which position he resigned on March 31, unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1942; resumed1918, to become a candidate for the Republican nomination the practice of law in New Orleans, La.; enlisted in thefor Congress; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and United States Naval Reserve in November 1943; was com-to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, missioned an ensign and attached to the Potomac River 1929); one of the managers appointed by the House of Repre- Naval Command and the United States Maritime Servicesentatives in 1926 to conduct the impeachment proceedings until separated in January 1946; again elected as a Demo-against George W. English, judge of the United States Dis- crat to the Eightieth and to the thirteen succeeding Con-trict Court for the Eastern District of Illinois; was not a gresses; chairman, Special Committee on Campaign Expendi-candidate for renomination in 1928; died in Sheldon, Iowa, tures (Eighty-second Congress); majority whip (Eighty-sev-May 31, 1932; interment in Eastlawn Cemetery. enth throughNinety-firstCongresses),majority leader (Ninety-second Congress); disappeared while on a campaign BOILEAU, Gerald John, a Representative from Wiscon- flight from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska, October 16, 1972;sin; born in Woodruff, Oneida County, Wis., January 15, served from January 3, 1947, until January 3, 1973, when he1900; moved to Minocqua, Oneida County, Wis., in 1909; was presumed dead pursuant to House Resolution 1, Ninety-attended the public and high schools; during the First World third Congress. War enlisted in the United States Army on February 25, BOGY, Lewis Vital, a Senator from Missouri; born in Ste.1918, as a private in the Eleventh Field Artillery, Battery D, Genevieve, Mo., April 9, 1813; attended the public schools; and was honorably discharged as a corporal on July 16, 1919, employed as clerk in a mercantile establishment; studiedhaving served twelve months overseas; was graduated from law in Illinois; was graduated from Transylvania University,the law department of Marquette University, Milwaukee, Lexington, Ky., in 1835 and commenced practice in St.Wis., LL.B., 1923; was admitted to the bar the same year and Louis; served in the Black Hawk War; member of the boardcommenced practice in Wausau, Marathon County, Wis.; of aldermen of St. Louis in 1838; member, State house ofserved as district attorney of Marathon County, Wis., 1926- representatives1840- 1841,1854-1855;Commissionerof1931; delegate to the Republican National Convention in Indian Affairs in 1867 and 1868; president of the city council1928; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-second and of St. Louis in 1872; one of the founders of the St. Louis &Seventy-third Congresses and as a Progressive to the Seven- Iron Mountain Railway, acting as president for two years;ty-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1931-Janu- elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate andary 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to served from March 4, 1873, until his death in St. Louis, Mo.,the Seventy-sixth Congress and for election in 1940 to the September 20, 1877; interment in Calvary Cemetery. Seventy-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law; Bibliography: DAB; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses for Lewis Bogy. elected circuit judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit of Wis- 45th Cong., 2nd sess., 1877-1878. Washington, D.C.: Government Printingconsin in 1942; reelected in 1945, 1951, 1957, and again in Office, 1878. 1963 for a six-year term; retired in 1970; appointed to serve BOHN, Frank Probasco, a Representative from Michigan;as temporary circuit judge in Milwaukee County in 1970, for born in Charlottesville, Hancock County, md., July 14, 1866;an unexpired term ending in 1974; resided in Wausau, Wis., Biographies 639 until his death January 30, 1981; interment in RestlawnCongress and served from February 9, 1872, until March 3, Memorial Park. 1873; was not a candidate for renomination in 1872; resumed the practice of law at Dardanelle, Ark.; served many years BOKEE, David Alexander, a Representative from New of the York; born in New York City, October 6, 1805; attended theas school director and alderman; appointed receiver public schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits; studied law;land office at Dardanelle by President Hayes in February was admitted to the bar and practiced; president of the1878; United States marshal for the western district of Ar- Brooklyn Board of Aldermen 1840-1843 and 1845-1848;kansas 188 1-1889; delegate to every Republican State con- member of the State senate 1846-1849; trustee of the Newvention from the organization of the party until his death; York Life Insurance Co., 1848-1860; elected as a Whig to the clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the Eighth Judi- Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); appoint- cial Circuit from September 1897 until his death in Fort ed by President Fillmore as naval officer of customs of theSmith, Sebastian County, Ark, March 13, 1905, interment m port of New York and served from 1851 to 1853; engaged asBrealey Cemetery, Dardanelle, Ark. a shipping merchant; died in Washington, D.C., March 15, 1860; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. BOLLES, Stephen, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Springboro, Crawford County, Pa., June 25, 1866; attended BOLAND, Edward Patrick, a Representative from Massa- chusetts; born in Springfield, Hampden County, Mass., Octo-the public schools; was graduated from the State Normal ber 1, 1911; educated in Central High School, Bay PathSchool of Pennsylvania at Slippery Rock, Pa., in 1888 and Institute; attended Boston College Law School; member offrom the law department of Milton College, Milton, Wis.; the State house of representatives 1935-1940; register ofserved as reporter correspondent, managing editor, and pub- deeds for Hampden County 1941-1952; enlisted in May 1942lisher of newspapers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, as a private in the United States Army and served through1893-1901; chairman of the congressional committee of the the ranks until his discharge as a captain in 1946, servingEleventh Ohio District and secretary of the Republican city eleven months overseas in the Philippines; elected as a Dem-committee of Toledo in 1894; chairman of the congressional ocrat to the Eighty-third and to the seventeen succeedingcommittee of the Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania District and Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3,1989); chairman,secretary of the Pennsylvania Republican League of Clubs in Select Committee on Intelligence(Ninety-fifth through1896; superintendent of the press department of the Pan Ninety-eighth Congresses); is a resident of Springfield, Mass.American Exposition at Buffalo, N.Y., in 1901; managing BOLAND, Patrick Joseph (husband of Veronica G.editor of the Buffalo (N.Y.) Enquirer in 1902 and 1903; super- Boland), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Scran-intendent of graphic arts of the St. Louis Exposition 1903- ton, Lackawanna County, Pa., January 6, 1880; attended the1905; director of publicity of the Jamestown Exposition in parochial schools and St. Thomas College, Scranton, Pa.;1907; engaged as a special writer and also in private busi- began work as a carpenter; member of the firm of Bolandness, including the brokerage business,in Atlanta, Ga., Brothers, general building contractors; also associated with a1907-1919; moved to Janesville, Wis., in 1920 and again en- sewer and paving contract company; member of the citygaged as a newspaper editor until elected to Congress; dele- council of Scranton, Pa., 1905-1906; served on the schoolgate to the Republican National Convention in 1928; elected board of Scranton 1907-1909; county commissioner of Lacka- and Seventy-seventh wanna County, Pa., 1915-1919; elected as a Democrat to theas a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Seventy-second and to the five succeeding Congresses andCongresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his death served from March 4, 1931, until his death in Scranton, Pa.,in Washington, D.C., July 8, 1941; interment in Oak Hill May 18, 1942; majority whip (Seventy-fourth through Seven-Cemetery, Janesville, Wis. ty-seventh Congresses); interment in Cathedral Cemetery. BOLLING, Richard Walker (great-great-grandson of John BOLAND, Veronica Grace (wife of Patrick J. Boland), aWilliams Walker and great-great-nephew of Percy Walker), Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Scranton, Lacka-a Representative from Missouri; born inNew York City, wanna County, Pa., March 18, 1899; attended the publicMay 17, 1916; attended grade schools and Phillips Exeter schools and Scranton Technical High School; elected as aAcademy, Exeter, N.H.; at the age of fifteen, upon his fa- Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress to fill the vacan-ther's death, returned to his home in Huntsville, Ala.; B.A., cy caused by the death of her husband, Patrick J. Boland,1937, M.A., 1939, University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.; and served from November 19, 1942, to January 3, 1943; wasgraduate studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., not a candidate for reelection to the Seventy-eighth Con-1939-1940; taught at Sewanee Military Academy in 1938 and gress; was a resident of Scranton, Pa., until her death there1939; served as assistant to the head of the Department of on June 19, 1982; interment in Cathedral Cemetery. Education, Florence State Teachers College, in Alabama, in BOLES, Thomas, a Representative from Arkansas; born1940; educational administrator by profession; entered the near Clarksville, Johnson County, Ark.,July 16, 1837; at-United States Army as a private in April 1941, and served tended the common schools; taught school for several years;until discharged as a lieutenant colonel in July 1946, with sheriff of Yell County in 1858; deputy clerk of the circuitfour years' overseas service in Australia, New Guinea, Phil- court of Yell County in 1859 and 1860; studied law; wasippines, and in Japan as assistant to chief of staff to General admitted to the bar in 1860 and commenced practice inMacArthur; awarded the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star Danville, Ark.; during the Civil War served as captain ofMedal; veterans' adviser at the University of Kansas City in Company E, Third Regiment, Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry; 1946 and 1947; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and judge of the fourth judicial circuit from 1865 to April 20,to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-Janu- 1868, when he resigned; upon the readmission of Arkansas of to representation was elected as a Republican to the Forti-ary 3, 1983); chairman, Select Committee on Committees eth Congress; reelected to the Forty-first Congress andthe House (Ninety-third Congress), Joint Economic Commit- served from June 22, 1868, until March 3, 1871; successfullytee (Ninety-fifth Congress); Committee on Rules (Ninety- contested the election of John Edwards to the Forty-secondsixth and Ninety-seventh Congresses); was not a candidate 640 Biographical Directory for reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress; isacommitteeman from Ohio in 1950 and 1951; publisher of resident of Crumpton, Md. Lake County News Herald, Willoughby, Ohio, and the Daily Bibliography: Boiling, Richard. House Out of Order. New York: Dutton,Reporter, Dover, Ohio, 1952-1963; elected as a Republican to 1965; Boiling, Richard. Power in the House: A History of the Leadership ofthe Eighty-third and to the Eighty-fourth Congresses (Janu- the House of Representatives. New York: Capricorn Books, 1974. ary 3, 1953-January 3, 1957); was not a candidate for renomi- BOLTON, Chester Castle (husband of Frances P. Boltonnation m 1956, director of commerce, State of Ohio, from and father of Oliver P. Bolton), a Representative from Ohio;February 4 to August 2, 1957; elected to the Eighty-eighth born in Cleveland, Ohio, September 5, 1882; attended theCongress (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1965); unsuccessful public schools; was graduated from the University School,candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Con- Cleviand, Ohio, in 1901 and from Harvard University ingress; partner, Prescott, Merrill, Thrben & Co., investment 1905; employed in the steel industry in Cleveland 1905-1917;bankers, 1965-1972; died December 13, 1972, in Palm Beach, member of the Ohio National Guard 1905-1915; commis-Fla.; interment in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio. sioned a captain in the Reserve Corps and ordered into active service in March 1917; detailed first to the War Indus- BOLTON, William P., a Representative from Maryland; tries Board, then served as aide to the Assistant Secretary ofborn near Whiteford, Harford County, Md, July 2, 1885; War; transferred to the General Staff in 1917; promoted toattended the public schools and St. Francis Parochial School the rank of lieutenant colonel and detailed to the One Hun-in Baltimore County, Md.; was graduated from the Balti- dred and First Division as Assistant Chief of Stafidis-more University Law School in 1909; was admitted to the charged in December 1918; returned to Cleveland, Ohio, andbar in 1909 and commenced the practice of law in Towson, served as a director of several large business corporations;Md.; served as trial magistrate 1941-1946; member of the also engaged in raising and breeding cattle; member of theState senate 1946-1948; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty- Lyndhurst Village Council 1918-1921; served in the Statefirst Congress (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1951); was an senate 1923-1928, serving as president pro tempore in 1927unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950 to the Eighty- and 1928; delegate to the Republican National Convention insecond Congress; resumed the practice of law in Towson, 1928; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first and to theMd.; appointed Baltimore County Civil Defense director in three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1929-January 3,January 1951; died in Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, 1937); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to theMd., November 22, 1964; interment in Mount Maria Ceme- Seventy-fifth Congress; served as chairman of the Republi-tery, Towson, Md. can Congressional Campaign Committee in 1934 and 1936; resumed his former business pursuits; elected to the Seven- BOND, Charles Grosvenor (nephew of Charles Henry ty-sixth Congress and served from January 3, 1939, until hisGrosvenor), a Representative from New York; born in Ce- death in Cleveland, Ohio, October 29, 1939; interment inlumbus, Franklin County, Ohio, May 29, 1877; attended the Lake View Cemetery. public schools; was graduated from the law department of Ohio State University at Columbus in 1899; was admitted to BOLTON, Frances Payne (wife of Chester C. Bolton,the bar the same year and commenced the practice of law in granddaughter of Henry B. Payne, and mother of Oliver P.Columbus, Ohio; moved to New York City in 1903 and con- Bolton), a Representative from Ohio; born Francis Paynetinued the practice of his profession; elected as a Republican Bingham, March 29, 1885, in Cleveland, Ohio; attended pri-to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); vate schools in United States and France; active in publicunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty- health, nursing education and other social service, educa-eighth Congress; resumed the practice of law; also interested tion, and philanthropic work; vice regent for Ohio of thein banking; unsuccessful Republican candidate for president Mount Vernon Ladies' Association; member of the Republi-of the borough of Brooklyn in 1926; delegate to the Republi- can State central committee, 1937-1940; delegate to Republi-can National Convention in 1936; member of the New York can National Conventions and member of Resolutions Com- City Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, 1934-1970, chair- mittee, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968; first woman appointed asman, 1960-1970; retired; died in Bound Brook, N.J., January congressional delegate to United Nations General Assembly, 10, 1974; cremated; ashes interred at West Union Cemetery, 1953; elected as a Republican by special election, FebruaryAthens, Ohio. 27, 1940, to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Chester C. Bolton; BOND, Christopher Samuel (Kit), a Senator from Missou- reelected to the fourteen succeeding Congresses and servedri; born in St. Louis, Mo., March 6, 1939; attended public from February 27, 1940, to January 3, 1969; unsuccessfulschools; graduated, Princeton University 1960; graduated, candidate for reelection in 1968 to the Ninety-first Congress;University of Virginia Law School 1963; practiced law in resided in Lyndhurst, Ohio, where she died March 9, 1977;Washington, D.C., and returned to Missouri in 1967; assist- interment in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio. ant attorney general of Missouri 1969; State auditor 1970; Bibliography: Loth, David. A Long Way Forward: The Biography of Con- Governor of Missouri 1973-1977, 1981-1985; elected as a Re- gresswoman Frances P. Bolton. New York: Longmans, Green, 1957. publican to the United States Senate in 1986 for the term beginning January 3, 1987, and ending January 3, 1993. BOLTON, Oliver Payne (son of Chester Castle Bolton and Frances Payne Bolton and great-grandson of Henry B. BOND, Shadrack, a Delegate from Illinois Territory; born Payne), a Representative from Ohio; born in Cleveland,in Frederick, Md., November 24, 1773; received a common- Ohio, February 22, 1917; graduated from Milton (Mass.)school education; moved to Kaskaskia, Ill. (then Indiana Ter- Academy in 1985, Harvard College in 1939, and Westernritory),in 1794 and engaged inagriculturalpursuits; Reserve University Law School in 1947; was admitted to themember of the legislative council of 1805- bar in 1947 and began practice in Cleveland, Ohio; member1808; when illinois Territory was formed was elected a Dele-- of the One Hundred and Seventieth Cavalry, Ohio Nationalgate on October 10, 1812, and served from December 3, 1812, Guard, 1939-1941; spent five years in the service 1941-1946,to August 2, 1813; served as receiver of public moneys in the one of which was in the Pacific Theater on the staff of C-2general land office at Kaskaskia, Ill., 1814-1818; upon the section of Fifth Amphibious Corps; chairman of Ohio Youngadmission of illinois as a State into the Union was elected Republicans in 1948 and 1949; Young Republicans nationalits first Governor and served from 1818 to 1822; appointed Biographies 641 register of the land office for the district of Kaskaskia onWar was lieutenant colonel and colonel of the Twelfth Regi- January 28, 1823, and served until his death in Kaskaskia,ment, United States Infantry; major general of theSouth Randolph County, Iii., April 12, 1832; interment in Ever-Carolina Militia; member of the State house of representa- green Cemetery, Chester, Randolph County, Ill. tives 1840-1843; solicitor of the southern circuit ofSouth Bibliography: DAB. Carolina 1848-1857; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1857, BOND, William Key, a Representative from Ohio; born inuntil his retirement on December 21, 1860; appointed major St. Marys County, Md., October 2, 1792; attended the schoolsgeneral and commander of the Army of South Carolina by at Litchfield, Conn., where he also studied law at the Litch-Gov. F. W. Pickens in February 1861; appointed brigadier field Law School; moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1812; wasgeneral in the Confederate Army April 19, 1861; resigned his admitted to the bar in 1813 and commenced practice incommission January 27, 1862, to enter the Confederate Con- Chilhicothe; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth, Twenty- December 1862 fifth, and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1835-March 3,gress; elected Governor of South Carolina in and served until December 1864; appointed brigadier general 1841);chairman,CommitteeonPublicExpenditures (Twenty-sixth Congress); declined to be a candidate for re-of Cavalry in the Confederate Army in February 1865; again nomination in 1840; moved to Cincinnati in 1841 and contin-a member of the State house ofrepresentatives 1865-1866; ued the practice of his profession; appointed surveyor of thedelegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1868; port of Cincinnati by President Fillmore May 2, 1849, andmember of the South Carolina taxpayers' convention in 1871 served until September 28, 1853; became interested in theand 1874; resumed the practice of law in Edgefield, engaged development of railroads in the west; died in Cincinnati,in planting, and also conducted an insurance business in Ohio, February 17, 1864; interment in Spring Grove Ceme- Edgefield, S.C., and Atlanta, Ga., 1865-1878; appointed State tery. railroad commissioner in 1878 and served until his death at White Sulphur Springs, N.C., August 27, 1890; interment in BONE, Homer Truett, a Senator from Washington; bornElmwood Cemetery, Columbia, S.C. in Franklin, Johnson County, md., January 25, 1883; attend- Bibliography: DAB. ed the public schools; employed in the postal service and in the accounting and credit department of a furniture compa- BONIN, Edward John, a Representative, from Pennsylva- ny; was graduated from the Tacoma (Wash) LawSchool innia; born in Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pa., December 23, 1911; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced1904; attended the parochial and public schools of Hazieton; practice in Tacoma, Wash.; special deputy prosecuting attor-served in the United States Navy 1922-1926; graduated from ney of Pierce County, Wash., 1912; corporationcounsel ofWyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa., in 1929, Dickinson Col- the port of Tacoma, Wash., 19 18-1932; member, State houselege, Carlisle, Pa., in 1933, and Temple University,Philadel- of representatives 1923-1924; unsuccessful candidate for thephia, Pa., in 1937; studied law; was admitted to thebar in Republican nomination in 1928 to the Seventy-first Con-February 1938 and began practice in Hazleton, Pa.-; served in gress; elected as a Democrat to the United StatesSenate inthe United States Army 1942-1944; resumed lawpractice; 1932; reelected in 1938 and served from March 4, 1933, untilassistant district attorney of Luzerne County1949-1952; his resignation on November 13, 1944; chairman, Committeemayor of Hazleton, Pa.,1951-1953; elected as a Republican on Patents (Seventy-sixth through Seventy-eighth Congress-to the Eighty-third Congress (January 3,1953-January 3, es); appointed a judge of the United States Circuit Court of1955); was- an unsuccessful candidate for reelectionin 1954 Appeals for the Ninth Judicial Circuit 1944-1956; resumedto the Eighty-fourth Congress; assistant toPhiladelphia re-- the practice of law in San Francisco and sat on the benchgional director, Post Office Department, from February1955 occasionally until 1968; returned to Tacoma, Wash., whereto March 1963; general attorney, Post OfficeDepartment,

he died on March 11, 1970; cremated and ashes interred inWashington, D.C., from March 1963 to December 1966; re-- Oakwood Cemetery. sumed the practice of law; is a resident of Hazleton,Pa. BONER, William Hill, a Representative from Tennessee; BONIOR, David Edward, a Representative from Michi- born in Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., February 14,gan; born in Detroit, WayneCounty, Mich., June 6, 1945; 1945; attended Warner public school, 1953-1959; graduated,attended the parochial schools; graduated, Notre DameHigh East Nashville Senior High School, 1963; B.S., Middle Ten-School, 1963; B.A., University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1967; M.A., nessee State University, Murfreesboro, 1967; M.A., GeorgeChapman College, Orange, California, 1972; served inUnited Peabody College, Nashville, 1969; served in the TennesseeStates Air Force, staff sergeant, 1968-1972; member,Michi- house of representatives, 1970-1972, 1974-1976; engaged in 1973-1977; delegate to Michi- banking profession, 1972-1976; law clerk, 1976-1977; servedgan house of representatives, gan State Democratic conventions,1972-1977; elected as a in Tennessee State senate, 1976-1978; J.D., YMCA NightDemocrat to the Ninety-fifth and to the five succeedingCon- Law School, Nashville, 1978; elected as a Democrat to the 3, 1989); is a resident of Ninety-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses andgresses (January 3, 1977-January served from January 3,- 1979, until his resignation on Octo-Mount Clemens, Mich. ber 5, 1987; elected mayor of Nashville, Tenn., on September BONKER, Don Leroy, a Representative from Washington; 22, 1987, for a four-year term beginning October 5, 1987; is aborn in Denver, Cob., March 7, 1937; attended the public resident of Nashville, Tenn. schools in Westminister, Cob.; A.A., Clark College,, Vancou- ver, Wash., 1962; B.A., Lewis andClark College, Portland, BONHAM, Milledge Luke, a Representative from South Washing- Carolina; born near Red Bank (now Saluda), Edgefield Dis-Oreg., 1964; graduate work, American University, trict, S.C., December 25, 1813; attended private schools inton, D.C., 1964; served in United States CoastGuard, first Edgefield District and at Abbeville, S.C.; was graduated fromclass yeoman, 1955-1959; Clark County auditor, Vancouver, South Carolina College (now the University of South Caroli-Wash., 1966-1970; unsuccessful candidate for Washington na) at Columbia in 1834; studied law; was admitted tothesecretary of state, 1972; delegate to WashingtonState Demo- bar and commenced practice in Edgefield in 1837; served ascratic conventions, 1968-1970; elected as a Democrat tothe major and adjutant general of the South Carolina Brigade inNinety-fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January the Seminole War in Florida in 1836; during theMexican3, 1975-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Vancouver,Wash. 642 Biographical Directory

BONNER, Herbert Covington, a Representative fromelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; delegate to the North Carolina; born in Washington, Beaufort County, N.C.,Democratic National Conventions in 1884 and 1892; presi- May 16, 1891; attended a private school;was graduated fromdent of Berkeley Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1886-1922; elect- Graham School, Warrenton, N.C.; engagedas a salesmaned as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress and served and in agricultural pursuits; during the First World Warfrom March 4 to October 13, 1891, when he resigned, having served as sergeant in Company I,Three Hundred andbecome a candidate for mayor; mayor of Brooklyn in 1892 Twenty-second Infantry, with overseas service in the Eighty-and 1893; resumed his former banking and brokerage busi- first Division; secretary to Congressman Lindsay C. Warrenness; served as president of the board of trustees of the 1924-1940; elected as a Democrat on November 5, 1940, toBrooklyn Public Library from 1897 until his death; was a the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by themember of the New York Stock Exchange but retired in resignation of Lindsay C. Warren and on the same daywas elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress; reelected to the1926, and resided in Brooklyn, N.Y., until his death thereon Seventy-eighth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses andJanuary 20, 1930; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. served from November 5, 1940, until his death November 7, BOOHER, Charles Ferris, a Representative from Missou- 1965, at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, D.C.;ri; born on a farm near East Groveland, Livingston County, chairman, Committee on Election of President, Vice Presi-N.Y., January 31, 1848; attended the common schools and dent, and Representatives (Seventy-ninth Congress), Commit-the Geneseo Academy, Geneseo, N.Y.; taught school and tee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries(Eighty-fourthstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1871 and commenced through Eighty-ninth Congresses); interment in Oakdalepractice in Rochester, Mo.; moved to Savannah, Mo., in 1875, Cemetery, Washington, N.C. having been appointed prosecuting attorney of Andrew BONYNGE, Robert William, a Representative from Colo-County, in which capacity he served until 1877, and again rado; born in New York City September 8, 1863; attendedfrom 1883 to 1885; resumed the practice of law in Savannah, the public schools; was graduated from the College of theMo., and also, in 1888, engaged in the loan and real estate City of New York in 1882 and from the law department ofbusiness; mayor of Savannah, Mo., 1886-1890; elected as a Columbia College, New York City, in 1885;was admitted toDemocrat to the Fiftieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused the bar in 1885 and commenced practice in New York City;by the death of James N. Burnes and served from February moved to Denver, Cob., in 1888 and continued the practice19 to March 3, 1889; was not a candidate for election for the of law; member of the State house of representatives in 1893full term; elected to the Sixtieth and to the six succeeding and 1894; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1900 to theCongresses and served from March 4, 1907, until his death; Fifty-seventh Congress; contested the election to the Fifty-was not a candidate for renomination in 1920; died in Savan- eighth Congress of John F. Shafroth, who inan addressnah, Andrew County, Mo., January 21, 1921; interment in before the House of Representatives conceded his defeat andCity Cemetery. withdrew from the contest; reelected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses and served from Febru- BOOKER, George William, a Representative from Virgin- ary 16, 1904, until March 3, 1909; unsuccessful candidate foria; born near Stuart, Patrick County, Va., December 5, 1821; reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress; member of theattended the public schools; taught school; studied law; was National Monetary Commission 1908-1912; resumed theadmitted to the bar in 1846 and commenced practice in practice of law in Denver, Cob.; moved to New York City inPatrick County; elected a justice of the peace in Henry November 1912 and continued the practice of law; chiefCounty; member and presiding justice of the county court counsel of the New York State Industrial Commission 1916-from August 1856 to February 1868; member of the State 1918; appointed United States agent before the Mixedhouse of delegates in 1865-1867 and 1871-1873; nominated Claims Commission (United States and Germany) in 1923by the Republican Party and elected attorney general in and before the Tripartite Claims Commission (United States,1868, but resigned in 1869; upon the readmission of the State Austria, and Hungary) in 1927; died in New York City,of Virginia to representation was elected as a Conservative September 22, 1939; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. to the Forty-first Congress and served from January 26, 1870, to March 3, 1871; resumed the practice of law in Mar- BOODY, Azariah, a Representative from New York; borntinsville, Henry County, Va., where he died June 4, 1883; in Stanstead County, Province of Quebec, Canada, April 21,interment in the family cemetery. 1815; moved to Massachusetts with his parents, who settled in Lowell; attended the common schools; moved to Roches- BOON, Ratliff, a Representative from Indiana; born in ter, N.Y., in 1850 and engaged in agricultural pursuits;Franklin County, N.C., January 18, 1781; moved with his trustee of the University of Rochester 1853-1865; elected asparents to Warren County, Ky.; attended the public schools; a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and served from Marchmoved to Danville, Ky., and learned the gunsmith's trade; 4 until his resignation in October 1853, before the conveningmoved to what is now Boon Township, Warrick County, md., of Congress; moved to New York City in 1855 and engaged inin 1809; on the organization of Warrick County was appoint- the construction of railroads, canals, and bridges; servedased its first treasurer in 1813; member of the State house of president of the Wabash Railroad Co.; retired from activerepresentatives in 1816 and 1817; served in the State senate business pursuits in 1875, retaining his residence in Newin 1818; elected Lieutenant Governor of Indiana in 1819; York City, where he died on November 18, 1885; intermentupon the resignation of became Gover- in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, N.Y. nor and served from September 12 to December 5, 1822; reelected Lieutenant Governor in August 1822 and served BOODY, David Augustus, a Representative from Newuntil January 30, 1824, when he resigned to become a candi- York; born in Jackson, Waldo County, Maine, August 13,date for Congress; elected to the Nineteenth Congress 1837; attended the common schools and Phillips Academy,(March 4, 1825-March 3, 1827); unsuccessful candidate for Andover, Mass.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1860reelection in 1826 to the Twentieth Congress; elected as a at Belfast, Maine, and commenced practice in Camden,Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through Twenty-fourth Con- Maine; moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1862 and engaged in thegresses and as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress banking and brokerage business; unsuccessful candidate for(March 4, 1829-March 3,1839); chairman, Committee on Biographies 643

Public Lands (Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses); BOOZE, William Samuel, a Representative from Mary- unsuccessful candidate for election to the United Statesland; born in Baltimore, Md., January 9, 1862; attended the Senate in 1836; moved to Pike County, Mo., in 1839; died inpublic schools; was graduated from Baltimore City College in Louisiana, Mo., on November 20, 1844; interment in River-1879 and afterwards attended the University of Maryland view Cemetery. School of Medicine; was graduated in medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, in 1882 BOONE, Andrew Rechmond, a Representative from Ken-and practiced his profession in Baltimore until 1896, when tucky; born in Davidson County, Tenn., April 4, 1831; moved with his parents to Mayfield, Graves County, Ky., in 1833;he was elected to Congress; unsuccessfully contested the attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted to theelection of Harry Welles Rusk to the Fifty-fourth Congress; bar in 1852 and practiced in Mayfield; elected judge of theelected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, Graves County court in 1854; reelected in 1858 and served1897-March 3, 1899); was not a candidate for renomination until 1861, when he resigned; member of the State house ofin 1898; engaged in banking and in the brokerage business representatives in 1861; circuit judge for the first judicialin Baltimore, Md., until 1915, when he again engaged in the district of Kentucky 1868-1874; elected as a Democrat to thepractice of medicine; delegate to the Republican National Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-Conventions in 1904 and 1908; died in Wilmington, Del., March 8, 1879); was not a candidate for reelection in 1878;December 6, 1933, while en route to his home from a trip to chairman of the State railroad commission 1882-1886; diedSouth America; interment in Loudoun Park Cemetery, Balti- in Mayfield, Ky., January 26, 1886; interment in Mayfieldmore, Md. Cemetery. BORAH, William Edgar, a Senator from Idaho; born on a BOOTH, Newton, a Senator from California; born infarm near Fairfield, Wayne County, Ill., June 29, 1865; at- Salem, Washington County, md., December 30, 1825; attend-tended the common schools of Wayne County and Southern ed the common schools, and was graduated from AsburyIllinois Academy at Enfield; attended the University of (later DePauw) University, Greencastle, md., in 1846; stud- Kansas at Lawrence until 1889; studied law; was admitted to ied law in Terre Haute, md.; was admitted to the bar inthe bar in 1890 and commenced practice in Lyons, Kans.; 1850; moved the same year to California, where he tempo-moved to Boise, Idaho, in 1891 and practiced law; unsuccess- rarily engaged in the wholesale grocery business at Sacra-ful candidate on the Silver Republican ticket for election in mento; returned to Terre Haute in 1857 and engaged in the1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for practice of law until 1860, when he returned to Sacramento,nomination as United States Senator in 1903; elected as a Calif., and again engaged in mercantile pursuits; member,Republican to the United States Senate in 1907; reelected in State senate 1863; Governor of California from 1871 until1913, 1918, 1924, 1930, and again in 1936, and served from 1874, when he resigned, having been elected Senator; electedMarch 4, 1907, until his death in Washington, D.C, on Janu- as an Anti-Monopolist to the United States Senateandary 19, 1940; chairman, Committee onEducation and Labor served from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1881; was not a(Sixty-first,Sixty-second,Sixty-seventh, and Sixty-eighth candidate for reelection in 1880; chairman, Committee onCongresses), Committee on Indian Depredations (Sixty-third Manufacturers (Forty-fifth Congress), Committee on Patentsand Sixty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in (Forty-fifth Congress); engaged in the wholesale mercantilethe Department of Justice (Sixty-fifth Congress),Committee business in Sacramento, Calif., where he died on July 14,on Interoceanic Canals (Sixty-sixthand Sixty-seventh Con- 1892; interment in the City Cemetery. gresses),Committee on Foreign Relations(Sixty-eighth Bibliography: DAB; Booth, Newton. of California, His through Seventy-second Congresses); unsuccessful candidate Speeches and Addresses. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. for the Republican presidential nomination in 1936; funeral BOOTH, Walter, a Representative from Connecticut; bornservices were held in the Chamber of the United States in Woodbridge, Conn., December 8,1791; attended theSenate; interment in Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Idaho. common schools; settled in Meriden and engaged in manu- Bibliography: DAB; Ashby, Leroy. The Spearless Leader, Senator Borah facturing; colonel of the Tenth Regiment, Second Battalion and the Progressive Movement in the 1920's. Urbana: University of Illinois of Militia, 1825-1827, brigadier general in 1827 and 1828, Press, 1972; McKenna, Marian C. Borah. Ann Arbor: University ofMichi- and major general of the First Division 1831-1834; judge of gan Press, 1961. the county court in 1834; member of the State house of BORCIIERS, Charles Martin, a Representative from Illi- representatives in 1838; elected as a Free-Soiler to thenois; born in Lockville, Fairfield County, Ohio, November 18, Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 8, 1851); unsuc-1869; moved to Illinois with his parents, who settled in cessful candidate for reelection in 1850 to the Thirty-secondMacon County in 1875; attended the common schools;taught Congress; resumed his former manufacturing pursuits; diedschool in Macon County for seven years; studied law; was in Meriden, New Haven County, Conn., April 30, 1870; inter-admitted to the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in ment in East Cemetery. Decatur, Macon County, Ill.; mayor of Decatur 1909-1911; BOOTHMAN, Melvin Morella, a Representative fromelected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, Ohio; born near Bryan, Williams County, Ohio, October 16,1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1846; attended the public schools; engaged in agricultural1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of pursuits; enlisted in Company H, Thirty-eighth Regiment,law; again served as mayor of Decatur 1919-1923; unsuccess- Ohio Volunteer Infantry, January 4, 1864; served throughful Democratic candidate for Governor in 1924; died in Deca- the Atlanta campaign; was graduated from the law depart-tur, Ill., December 2, 1946; interment in Frantz Cemetery, ment of Michigan University at Ann Arbor in 1871; wasMacon County, Ill. admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Bryan, Ohio; elected treasurer of Williams County in 1871 and reelected BORDEN, Nathaniel Briggs, ,a Representative from Mas- in 1873; elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-sachusetts; born in Fall River, Mass., April 15, 1801; attend- first Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); was not aed the district school and Plainfield (Conn.) Academy; orga- candidate for renomination in 1890; resumed the practice ofnized the Pocasset Manufacturing Co., in Fall River, Mass.; law in Bryan, Ohio, and died there March 5, 1904; intermentmember of the State house of representatives in 1831 and in Fountain City Cemetery. 1834; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress 644 Biographical Directory

and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth CongressUniversity, Shawnee, Okla., 1970-1974; member of the Okla- (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1839); unsuccessful Whig candidatehoma State house of representatives 1967-1975; Governor of for reelection to the Twenty-sixth Congress in 1838; electedOklahoma 1975-1977; elected as a Democrat to the United as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 184 1-States Senate in 1978 for the term commencing January 3, March 3, 1843); member of the State senate from 1845 to1979; reelected in 1984 for the term ending January 3, 1991; 1848; served in the State house of representatives in 1851;chairman, Select Committee on Intelligence (One-hundreth elected mayor of Fall River in 1856 and reelected in 1857; again a member of the State house of representatives in Congress).

1864; engaged in banking and served as president of the Fall BOREN, Lyle H. (father of David Lyle Boren), a Repre-- River Savings Bank and of the Fall River Union Bank;wassentative from Oklahoma; born near Waxahachie, Ellis president also of the Fall River Railroad Co.; died in FallCounty, Tex., May 11, 1909; moved to Lawton, Okla., in 1917; River, Bristol County, Mass., April 10, 1865; interment inattended the public schools; was graduated from the East Oak Grove Cemetery. Central College at Ada, Okla., in 1930 and from Oklahoma BOREING, Vincent, a Representative from Kentucky;Agricultural and Mechanical College at Stillwater; teacher born near Jonesboro, Washington County, Tenn., Novemberin the schools at Wolf, Okia., 1930-1935; served as a deputy 24, 1839; moved with his father to Laurel County, Ky., inprocurement officer of the United States Treasury Depart- 1847; attended Laurel Seminary, London, Ky., and Tusculumment; engaged in agricultural pursuits and also was interest- College, Greenville, Tenn.; enlisted as a private in the Unioned in the mercantile business; author; lieutenant command- Army in Company A, Twenty-fourth Regiment, Kentuckyer in the United States Naval Reserve; elected as a Demo- Volunteer Infantry, November 1, 1861; for meritorious con-crat to the Seventy-fifth and to the four succeeding Con- duct was commissioned first lieutenant; county superintend-gresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1947); unsuccessful can- ent of public schools 1868-1872; established the Mountaindidate for renomination in 1946; resumed former mercantile Echo at London, Ky., in 1875, the first Republican newspa-business and agricultural pursuits; president of a petroleum per published in southeastern Kentucky; county judge incorporation; representative of the Association of Western 1886; president of the Cumberland Valley Land Co. in 1887;Railroads, 1954-1970; assistant to the Insurance Commission- president of the First National Bank of London in 1888;er, State of Oklahoma; is a resident of Oklahoma City, Okia. department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in Kentucky in 1889; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- BORLAND, Charles, Jr., a Representative from New sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses and servedYork; born in Minisink, Orange County, N.Y., June 29, 1786; from March 4, 1899, until his death in London, Laurelpursued preparatory studies; was graduated from Union Col- County, Ky., September 16, 1903; interment in Pine Grovelege, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1811; studied law; was admitted Cemetery. to the bar and practiced; president of the board of trustees of Montgomery for ten years; member of the State assembly in BOREMAN, Arthur Inghram, a Senator from West Vir-1820 and 1821; elected to the Seventeenth Congress to fill ginia; born in Waynesburg, Pa., July 24, 1823; moved tothe vacancy caused by the death of Selah Tuthill and served Virginia with his parents, who settled in Middlebourne,from November 8, 1821, to March 3, 1823; district attorney of Tyler County, in 1827, and in Moundsville, Marshall County,Orange County 1835-1841; again a member of the State in 1840; attended the public schools; studied law; was admit-assembly, in 1836; died in Wardsbridge, N.Y., February 23, ted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in Parkers-1852; interment in Riverside Cemetery, Montgomery, N.Y. burg; member, Virginia house of delegates 1855-186 1; presid- ed over the convention of supporters of the Union of the BORLAND, Solon, a Senator from Arkansas; born near northwestern counties of Virginia held at Wheeling, JuneSuffolk, Nansemond County, Va., September 21, 1808; at- 19, 1861, to form the new State of West Virginia; electedtended preparatory schools in North Carolina; studied medi- judge of the circuit court, nineteenth circuit of Virginiacine and afterwards practiced; settled in Little Rock, Ark.; 1861-1863; the first Governor of West Virginia 1863-1869,served throughout the Mexican War as a major in the Ar- when he resigned to accept the nomination as United Stateskansas Volunteer Cavalry; was appointed and subsequently Senator; elected as a Republican to the United States Senateelected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the and served from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1875; was not avacancy caused by the resignation of Ambrose H. Sevier and

candidate for reelection in 1874; chairman, Select Committeeserved from March 30, 1848, to April 3, 1853, when he re-- on the Removal of Political Disabilities (Forty-second Con-signed;chairman, Committee onPrinting(Thirty-first gress), Committee on Territories (Forty-third Congress); re-through Thirty-thirdCongresses), Committee on Public sumed the practice of law in Parkersburg, W.Va.; electedLands (Thirty-third Congress); served as United States Min- judge of the circuit court for the fifth judicial circuit of Westister to Nicaragua and to the other Central American Re-- Virginia in 1888 and served until his death in Parkersburg,publics 1853-1854; declined an appointment as Governor of Wood County, W.Va., April 19, 1896; interment in the Oddthe Territory of New Mexico; returned to Arkansas and Fellows Cemetery. resumed the practice of medicine in Little Rock until 1861; Bibliography: DAB; Woodward, Isaiah Alfonso. "Arthur Inghram Bore- during the Civil War raised a brigade of troops for the malr A Biography." Ph.D. dissertation, West Virginia University, 1970. Confederate Army; later was appointed a brigadier general BOREN, David Lyle (son of Lyle H. Boren), a Senatorin the Confederate Army; died near Houston, Tex., on Janu- from Oklahoma; born in Washington, D.C., April 21, 1941;ary 1, 1864; interment in City Cemetery, Houston, Tex. attended the public schools in Seminole, Okla., and Bethes- Bibliography: DAB. da, Md.; graduated, Yale University 1963; attended Oxford BORLAND, William Patterson, a Representative from

University, Oxford, England, as a Rhodes Scholar and re-- Missouri; born in Leavenworth, Kans., October 14, 1867; at- ceived a graduate degree in 1965; graduated, University oftended the public schools; was graduated from the law de- Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, Okla., 1968; admitted topartment of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in the Oklahoma bar in 1968 and commenced practice in Semi-1892; was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice nole; captain in the Oklahoma National Guard 1968-1974;of law in Kansas City, Mo., the same year; assisted in the chairman, department of government, Oklahoma Baptistorganization of the Kansas City School of Law and served as Biographies 645 dean 1895-1909; member of the board of freeholders directedette University, Salem, Oreg., 1968; J.D., Wilamette Univer- to draft a charter for Kansas City in 1898; also engaged assity, 1971; admitted to the California bar, 1971, and com- an author on law subjects; elected as a Democrat to themenced practice in San Rafael; director, Department of Sixty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses and servedHuman Relations, Mann County, Calif., 1973; executive di- from March 4, 1909, until his death; unsuccessful candidaterector, Mann County Housing Authority, 1974; elected, Cali- for renomination in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; diedfornialegislature,1979-1982;delegate,California State near Coblenz, Germany, while on a Masonic mission abroad,Democratic convention, 1982; delegate, Democratic National on February 20, 1919; interment in Elmwood Cemetery,Convention, 1980; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety- Kansas City, Mo. eighth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, BORSKI, Robert Anthony, Jr., a Representative from1983-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Occidental, Calif Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., October 20, 1948; BOSONE, Reva Zilpha Beck, a Representative from Utah; attended St. Joan of Arc, Philadelphia, Pa.; graduated,born in American Fork, Utah County, Utah, April 2, 1895; Frankford High School, Philadelphia, 1966; B.A., Universityattended the public schools; graduated from Westminster of Baltimore, 1971; stockbroker; elected, Pennsylvania houseJunior College in 1917 and from the University of California of representatives, 1976-1982; elected as a Democrat to theat Berkeley in 1919; taught high school 1920-1927; graduated Ninety-eighth, Ninety-ninth and One Hundredth Congressesfrom the University of Utah College of Law at Salt Lake (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Philadel-City in 1930 and was admitted to the bar the same year; phia, Pa. practiced law in Helper, Carbon County, Utah, 1931-1933 BORST, Peter I., a Representative from New York; bornand Salt Lake City, 1933-1936; member of the State house of in Middleburg, Schoharie County, N.Y., April 24, 1797; at-representatives 1933-1935, serving as floor leader in 1935; tended the common schools; served as an officer of Stateelected Salt Lake City judge in 1936 and served until elected troops and on the staff of Gov. William C. Bouck; heldto Congress; during the Second World War was chairman of various local positions; elected as a Jacksonian to theWomen's Army Corps Civilian Advisory Committee of the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831); servedNinth Service Command; official observer at United Nations as a member of the committee appointed by the countyConference at San Francisco in 1945; first director of Utah board of supervisors to oversee the building of the firstState Board for Education on Alcoholism in 1947 and 1948; county almshouse in 1838; died in Middleburg, N.Y., Novem-elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second ber 14, 1848; interment in the family burying ground on hisCongresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1953); unsuccessful estate, "The Hook," in Schoharie County. candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress and for election in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress; dele- BOSCH, Albert Henry, a Representative from New York;gate to Democratic National Conventions in 1952 and 1956; born in New York City October 30, 1908; attended the publicresumed the practice of law in Salt Lake City, 1953-1957; schools and was graduated from the School of Law, St. Johnslegal counsel to Safety and Compensation Subcommittee of College, LL.B., 1933; was admitted to the bar in 1938 andHouse Committee on Education and Labor 1957-1960; judi- commenced the practice of law in New York City; also ad-cial officer, Post Office Department in 1961-1968; was a mitted to practice before the Treasury Department and theresident of Vienna, Va., until her death there July 21, 1983. Supreme Court of the United States; trustee of Hamburg Bibliography: Clopton, Beverly B. Her Honor, the Judge: The Story of Savings Bank, Ridgewood, N.Y.; elected as a Republican to . Ames Iowa State University Press, 1980. the Eighty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1953, until his resignation December BOSS, John Linscom, Jr., a Representative from Rhode 31, 1960, having been elected judge of county court ofIsland; born in Charleston, S.C., September 7, 1780; complet- Queens and served until September 1, 1962; elected justice,ed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar supreme court of New York State, eleventh judicial district,and commenced practice in Newport, R.I.; held many impor- and served until his retirement, December 31, 1974; is atant local offices; member of the State house of representa- resident of Whiting, N.J. tives from 1806 to 1815; elected as a Federalist to the Four- teenth and Fifteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, BOSCHWITZ, Rudolph Eli (Rudy), a Senator from Min-1819); died in Newport, R.I., August 1, 1819; interment in the nesota; born in Berlin, Germany, November 7, 1930; attend-Common Burial Ground. ed the public schools in New Rochelle, N.Y., and Penning- ton, N.J.; attended Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, BOSSIER, Pierre Evariste John Baptiste, a Representa- Md.; graduated, New York University, New York City, 1950,tive from Louisiana; born in Natchitoches, La., March 22, and New York University Law School 1953; admitted to the1797; received a classical education; engaged as a sugar and New York bar in 1954 and the Wisconsin bar in 1959, andcotton planter; member of the State senate 1833-1843; elect- commenced practice in New York City in 1956; served in theed as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress and served United States Army Signal Corps 1954-1955; founder andfrom March 4, 1843, until his death in Washington, D.C., on chairman of a plywood firm; elected as a Republican to theApril 24, 1844; interment in the Congressional Cemetery, United States Senate in November 1978 for the term com-Washington, D.C.; reinterment in the Catholic Cemetery, mencing January 3, 1979; subsequently appointed by theNatchitoches, La. Governor, December 30, 1978, to fill the vacancy caused by BOTELER, Alexander Robinson, a Representative from the resignation of Wendell B. Anderson for the term endingVirginia; born in Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, Va. (now January 3, 1979; reelected in 1984 for the term ending Janu-West Virginia), May 16, 1815; was graduated from Princeton ary 3, 1991; chairman, Republican Senatorial CampaignCollege in 1835; engaged in agriculture and literary pursuits; Committee (One-hundreth Congress). elected as the candidate of the Opposition Party to the BOSCO, Douglas Harry, a Representative from California;Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); during born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., July 28, 1946; attend-the Civil War entered the Confederate Army and was a ed Homestead High School, Sunnyvale, Calif.; graduated,member of Stonewall Jackson's staff; chosen by the State Capitol Page School, Washington, D.C., 1963; B A, Wham-convention a Representative from Virginia to the Confeder- 646 Biographical Directory

ate Provisional Congress November 19, 1861; elected fromfrom Abingdon High School in 1964; B.A., Roanoke College, Virginia to the Confederate Congress, serving from February1968; J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1971; associ- 1862 to February 1864; appointed a member of the Centenni-ate, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York City; al Commission in 1876; appointed a member of the Tariffpartner, Boucher & Boucher, Abingdon, Va.; elected to the Commission by President Arthur and subsequently madeVirginia State senate in 1975 and reelected in 1979; elected pardon clerk in the Department of Justice by Attorney Gen-as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the two succeed- eral Brewster; died in Shepherdstown, Jefferson County,ing Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); is a resi- W.Va., May 8, 1892; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. dent of Abingdon, Va. BOTKIN, Jeremiah Dunham, a Representative from BOUCK, Gabriel (nephew of Joseph Bouck), a Representa- Kansas; born near Atlanta, Logan County, Ill., April 24,tive from Wisconsin; born in Fultonham, Schoharie County, 1849; attended the country schools; spent one year at DeN.Y., December 16, 1828; was graduated from Union College, Pauw University, Greencastle, md.; pursued theologicalSchenectady, N.Y., in 1847; studied law; moved to Oshkosh, studies, and entered the Methodist ministry in 1870; unsuc-Winnebago County, Wis., in 1848; was admitted to the bar cessful Prohibition candidate for Governor of Kansas inthe same year and commenced practice in Oshkosh; attorney 1888; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1894 to the Fifty-general of the State in 1858 and 1859; member of the State fourth Congress; chaplain of the Kansas senate in 1897;assembly in 1860 and 1874, serving the last year as speaker; elected as a Populist to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4,served in the Union Army as captain of Company E, Second 1897-March 3, 1899); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, from July 11, 1861, 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; resumed ministerial duties;to April 21, 1862, and as colonel of the Eighteenth Regiment, unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1908; warden of theWisconsin Volunteer Infantry, from April 22, 1862, to Janu- State penitentiary, Lansing, Kans., 1913-1915; again re-ary 4, 1864; delegate to the Democratic National Conven- sumed his ministerial duties; became a Chautauqua lecturertions in 1868 and 1872; unsuccessful Democratic candidate in 1921; died in Liberal, Seward County, Kans., Decemberfor election in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; elected as a 29, 1921; interment in Winfield Cemetery, Winfield, CowleyDemocrat to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses County, Kans. (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881); unsuccessful candidate for BOTTS, John Minor, a Representative from Virginia;reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; resumed born in Dumfries, Va., September 16, 1802; attended thethe practice of law in Oshkosh, Wis., and died there on common schools in Richmond, Va.; studied law; was admit-February 21, 1904; interment in the Riverside Cemetery. ted to the bar in 1830 and commenced practice in Richmond, Va.; moved to Henrico County and engaged in agricultural BOUCK, Joseph (uncle of Gabriel Bouck), a Representa- pursuits; member of the State house of delegates 1833-1839;tive from New York; born on Bouck's Island, near Fulton- elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventhham, Schoharie County, N.Y., July 22, 1788; attended the Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); unsuccessful can- rural schools of his native county; engaged in agricultural didate for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress;pursuits for many years in Schoharie County until his elected to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3,change of residence to Middleburgh; served as inspector of 1849); chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Thirtiethturnpike roads in Schoharie County in 1828; elected as a Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1848 andJacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831- 1850 to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses, re-March 3, 1833); resided in Middleburgh, N.Y., until his death spectively; member, State constitutional convention, 1850-on March 30, 1858; interment in his son's plot in Middle- 1851; resumed the practice of law in Richmond, Va., in 1852;burgh Cemetery. delegate to the Southern Loyalists' Convention in 1866; died in Richmond, Va., January 8, 1869; interment in Shockoe BOUDE, Thomas, a Representative from Pennsylvania; Hill Cemetery. born in Lancaster, Pa., May 17, 1752; attended private Bibliography: DAB. schools; during the Revolutionary War served as a lieuten- ant under Gen. Anthony Wayne with the Second, Fourth, BOTTUM, Joseph H., a Senator from South Dakota; bornand Fifth Pennsylvania Battalions from January 5, 1776, to in Faulkton, Faulk County, S.Dak., August 7, 1903; attendedNovember 3, 1783, and was promoted to captain and brevet the public schools of Faulkton; attended Yankton Collegemajor; engaged in business as a lumber dealer in Columbia, and the University of South Dakota 1920-1921; graduatedLancaster County, Pa.; member and one of the organizers of from the law school of the University of South Dakota atthe Society of the Cincinnati; member of the State house of Vermillion in 1927; was admitted to the bar in 1927 andrepresentatives 1794-1796; elected as a Federalist to the Sev- commenced the practice of law in St. Paul, Minn., in 1928;enth Congress (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1803); unsuccessful state's attorney at Faulkton 1932-1936; director of taxationcandidate for reelection in 1802 to the Eighth Congress; for the State of South Dakota 1937-1943; unsuccessful in seeking the Republican nomination for Governor in 1942resumed his former business as a lumber dealer; died in and for Representative in 1950; lieutenant governor of SouthColumbia, Pa., October 24, 1822; interment in that part of Dakota 1960-1962; appointed as a Republican to the UnitedMount Bethel Cemetery known as the "Brick Graveyard." States Senate July 9, 1962, to fill the vacancy caused by the BOUDINOT, Elias, a Delegate and a Representative from death of Francis Case and served until January 3,1963; New Jersey; born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1740; received unsuccessful candidate in 1962 for election to the vacancy;a classical education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in circuit judge of Seventh Judicial Circuit; was a resident of1760 and commenced practiceinElizabethtown,N.J.; Rapid City, S.Dak. until his death there on July 4, 1984;member of the board of trustees of Princeton College 1772- interment in Pine Lawn Cemetery, Rapid City, S.Dak. 1821; member of the committee of safety in 1775; commis- Bibliography: Clem, Alan. The Nomination of Joe Bottum: Analysis of a sary general of prisoners in the Revolutionary Army 1776- Committee Decision to Nominate a United States Senator. Vermillion: Go- 1779; Member of the Continental Congress in 1778, 1781, vermental Research Bureau, University of South Dakota, 1963. 1782 and 1783, serving as President in 1782 and 1783, and BOUCHER, Frederick C., a Representative from Virginia;signing the treaty of peace with England; resumed the prac- born in Washington County, Va., August 1, 1946; graduatedtice of law; elected to the First, Second, and Third Congress- Biographies 647 es (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1795); was not a candidate forMember to retain his seat after the State seceded on Janu- renomination in 1794 to the Fourth Congress; Director of theary 26, 1861; retired to private life and remained in the Mint from October 1795 to July 1805, when he resigned;North during the Civil War; died in Washington, D.C., Feb- elected first president of the American Bible Society, inruary 20, 1864; interment in the Congressional Cemetery. 1816; died in Burlington, Burlington County, N.J., October 24,1821; interment in St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal BOULTER Eldon Beau a Representative from Texas Church Cemetery. born in El Paso, El Paso County, Tex., February 23, 1942; Bibliography: DAB; Boudinot, Elias. The Life, Public Services, Addresses, was graduated from Levelland High School in 1960,the and Letters of Elias Boudinot. 2 vols. 1896. Reprint. New York: Da Capo University of Texas in 1965, and the Baylor University Law Press, 1971; Boyd, George Adams. Elias Boudinot: Patriot and Statesman, School, Waco, Tex., in 1968; admitted to the bar in 1968 and 1740-1821. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1952. practiced law in Amarillo, Tex.; member of the Amarillo BOULDIN, James Wood (brother of Thomas Tyler Boul-City Commission 1981-1983; unsuccessful candidate for nom- din), a Representative from Virginia; born in Charlotteination to the Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982; elected as a County, Va., in 1792; attended the common schools; studiedRepublican to the Ninety-ninth and One Hundredth Con- law; was admitted to the bar April 12, 1813, and commencedgresses (January 3, 1985-January 3, 1989); is a resident of practice at Charlotte Court House, Va.; member of stateAmarillo, Tex. house of delegates, 1825-1826; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the BOUND, Franklin, a Representative from Pennsylvania; death of Thomas T. Bouldin; reelected to the Twenty-fourthborn in Milton, Northumberland County, Pa., April 9, 1829; Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifthattended the common schools and old Milton Academy; stud- Congress and served from March 15, 1834, to March 3, 1839;ied law at Easton, Pa.; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Twenty-fifth commenced practice in Milton; member of the State senate Congress); resumed the practice of law and also engaged in1860-1863; delegate to the Republican National Convention agricultural pursuits; died at his country home, "Forestin 1868; served as a private in one of the emergency regi- Hill," Charlotte County, Va., March 30, 1854; interment inments called for the defense of the State; was mustered into the private burial ground on his estate. the United States service and discharged with his regiment; BOULDIN, Thomas Tyler (brother of James Wood Boul-elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Con- din), a Representative from Virginia; born near Charlottegresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); was not a candidate Court House, Charlotte County, Va., in 1781; attended thefor renomination in 1888; resumed the practice of law; died country schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar De-in Milton, Pa., on August 8, 1910; interment in Milton Ceme- cember 6, 1802, and commenced practice at Charlotte Courttery. House, Va.; appointed judge of the circuit court; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congress- BOUQUARD, Marilyn Lloyd, a Representative from Ten- es (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1833); unsuccessful candidate fornessee. See LLOYD, MarilynLaird.) reelection to the Twenty-third Congress; subsequently elect- ed to the Twenty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused BOURNE, Benjamin, a Representative from Rhode Island; by the death of John Randolph and served from August 26,born in Bristol, R.I., September 9, 1755; was graduated from 1833, until his death in Washington, D.C., February 11, 1834, Harvard College in 1775; studied law; was admitted to the while addressing the House of Representatives; interment inbar and commenced practice in Providence; held several a private cemetery on his farm, "Golden Hills," near Drakespublic offices; quartermaster of the Second Rhode Island Branch, Charlotte County, Va. Regiment in 1776; member of the general assembly in 1789 and 1790; upon the ratification of the Constitution by the BOULIGNY, Charles Dominique Joseph (uncle of JohnState of Rhode Island was elected to the First through Third Edward Bouligny), a Senator from Louisiana; born in New Orleans, La., August 22, 1773; was educated by privateCongresses and as a Federalist to the Fourth and Fifth tutors; served as ensign in his father's Spanish Regiment;Congresses and served from August 31, 1790, until his resig- commissioner of the municipal council in 1800; assumednation in 1796, before the close of the Fourth Congress; American citizenship when the United States acquired Lou-appointed judge of the United States District Court for the isiana through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803; studied law;District of Rhode Island in 1801 and, later, judge of the was admitted to the bar and practiced in New Orleans;United States Circuit Court for the Eastern Circuit; died in member, Louisiana Territorial house of representatives 1806;Bristol, R.I., September 17, 1808; interment in Juniper Hill appointed justice of the peace in New Orleans 1807; servedCemetery. on the committee on public defense during the Britishinva- BOURNE, Jonathan, Jr., a Senator from Oregon; born in sion in 1814 and 1815; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry JohnsonNew Bedford, Bristol County, Mass., February 23, 1855; at- and served from November 19, 1824, to March 3, 1829; diedtended private schools and Harvard University; settled in in New Orleans, La., on March 4, 1833; interment in St.Portland 1878; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1881 Louis Cemetery No. 1. and practiced in Portland 1881-1886; interests in mining, Bibliography: DAB. farming, cotton mills, and commercial enterprises; member, Oregon house of representatives 1887-1899; elected as a Re- BOULIGNY, John Edward (nephew of Charles Joseph Do-publican to the United States Senate and served from March minique Bouligny), a Representative from Louisiana; born in New Orleans, La., February 5, 1824; attended the public4, 1907, to March 3, 1913; unsuccessful candidate for renomi- schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com-nation in 1912; chairman, Committee on Fisheries (Sixtieth menced practice in New Orleans; held several local offices;and Sixty-first Congresses), Committee on Post Offices and elected as the candidate of the American Party to thePost Roads (Sixty-second Congress); president of the Nation- Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); wasal Republican Progressive League; resumed his former pur- strongly opposed to secession and was the only Louisianasuits in Oregon and Massachusetts; engaged in newspaper 648 Biographical Directory work in Washington, D.C., until his death there on Septem-28, 1818; attended the public schools; taught school in Shir- ber 1, 1940; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery. ley, Mass.; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Groton, Mass., Bibliography: DAB; Pike, Albert Jr. "Jonathan Bourne Jr., Progressive."1841; appointed postmaster of Groton 1841; studied law; Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oregon, 1957. member, State house of representatives 1842-1844, 1847- BOURNE, Shearjashub, a Representative from Massachu-1850; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election to both setts; born in Barnstable, Mass., June 14, 1746; was graduat-Congress and the governorship on several occasions between ed from Harvard College in 1764; studied law; was admitted1844 and 1850; State bank commissioner 1849-1851; Gover- to the bar and commenced practice in Boston; member of thenor of Massachusetts 1851-1852; member of the State consti- State house of representatives 1782-1785 and 1788-1790;tutional convention in 1853; secretary of the State board of member of the convention in 1788 which ratified the Consti-education 1855-1861; member of the board of overseers of tution; elected to the Second and Third Congresses (March 4,Harvard University 1850-1860; member of the peace conven- 1791-March 3,1795); served as justice of the court oftion of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise common pleas of Suffolk County from 1799 until his death inmeans to prevent the impending war; served on the military Boston, Mass., March 11, 1806. commission under the War Department in 1862; first Com- BOUTELL, Henry Sherman, a Representative from Illi-missioner of Internal Revenue in 1862 and 1863; elected as a nois; born in Boston, Mass., March 14, 1856; moved to Chica-Republican to the Thirty-eighth and to the three succeeding go, Ill., in 1863; pursued academic studies; was graduatedCongresses and served from March 4, 1863, to March 12, from , Evanston, Ill., in 1874 and1869, when he resigned; one of the managers appointed by from Harvard University in 1876; studied law; was admittedthe House of Representatives in 1868 to conduct the im- to the bar in 1879 and commenced practice in Chicago, Ill.;peachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson; member of the State house of representatives in 1884 andappointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Ulysses 1885; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress toGrant 1869-1873, when he resigned; elected as a Republican fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward D. Cooke;to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the reelected to the Fifty-sixth and to the five succeeding Con-resignation of Henry Wilson and served from March 17, gresses and served from November 23, 1897, to March 3, 1873, until March 3, 1877; chairman, Committee on the Revi- 1911; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Depart-sion of the Laws of the United States (Forty-fourth Con- ment of the Navy (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses); un-gress); appointed by President Rutherford Hayes as commis- successful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-sioner to codify and edit the Statutes at Large in 1877; second Congress; trustee of Northwestern University 1899-United States counsel before the French and American 1911; delegate to the Republican National Convention inClaims Commission 1880; declined appointment as Secretary 1908; appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-of the Treasury in 1884; practiced law in Washington, D.C.; tentiary to Portugal March 2, 1911, and to Switzerland Aprilcounsel for Haiti in 1885, for Hawaii in 1886, and for Chile 24, 1911, and served until 1913, when he resigned; professorin 1893 and 1894; president of the Anti-Imperialist League of constitutional law at Georgetown University, Washington, 1898-1905; died in Groton, Middlesex County, Mass., Febru- D.C., 1914-1923; died while on a trip in San Remo, Italy,ary 27, 1905; interment in Groton Cemetery. March 11, 1926; interment in Pine Grove Cemetery, West- Bibliography: DAB; Boutwell, George S. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in boro, Worcester County, Mass. Public Affairs. 1902. Reprint. New York: Greenwood Press, 1968; Brown, Bibliography: DAB. Thomas M. "George Sewel Boutwell: Public Servant (1818-1905)." Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1979. BOUTELLE, Charles Addison, a Representative from Maine; born in Damariscotta, Lincoln County, Maine, Febru- BOVEE, Matthias Jacob, a Representative from New ary 9, 1839; attended the public schools at Brunswick andYork; born in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, N.Y., July the Yarmouth Academy; adopted the profession of shipmas-24, 1793; attended the rural school until the death of his ter; in the spring of 1862 volunteered and was appointedfather in 1807; taught school in winter and worked the acting master in the United States Navy; served in thefamily farm in summer; engaged in mercantile pursuits in North and South Atlantic and West Gulf Squadrons; promot-1815; chairman of the town of Amsterdam; member of the ed to lieutenant, May 5, 1864; participated in the capture ofcounty board of supervisors; elected a member of the State Mobile and in receiving surrender of the Confederate Fleet;assembly in 1826; trustee of the village of Amsterdam in afterwards assigned to command of naval forces in Mississip-1831; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress pi Sound; honorably discharged January 14, 1866; engaged in(March 4, 1835-March 3, 1837); returned to Amsterdam and business in New York; became managing editor of the resumed mercantile pursuits; moved to Milwaukee, Wis., in Bangor (Maine) Whig and Courier in 1870 and purchasedJune 1843 and two months later settled near Eagle, Wauke- controlling ownership in 1874; delegate to the Republicansha County, and engaged in agricultural pursuits; justice of National Convention at Cincinnati in 1876; elected as a Re-the peace for 10 years; died in Eagle, Wis., September 12, publican to the Forty-eighth and to the nine succeeding1872; interment in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Congresses and served from March 4, 1883, until his resigna- BOW, Frank Townsend, a Representative from Ohio; born tion, March 3, 1901, before the commencement of the Fifty-in Canton, Stark County, Ohio, February 20, 1901; attended seventh Congress, to which he had been reelected; chairman,the public schools in Canton and Plain Township, Stark Committee on Naval Affairs (Fifty-first Congress and Fifty-County, Ohio, the University School, Cleveland, Ohio, arid fourth through Fifty-sixth Congresses); by joint resolution ofCulver Military Academy, Culver, md.; attended the law Congress on January 16, 1901, was placed on the retired listschool of Ohio Northern University at Ada in 1921; postgrad- of the Navy, with the rank of captain; died in Waverley,uate work at Columbia University, New York City; was Middlesex County, Mass., May 21, 1901; interment in Mountadmitted to the bar in 1923 and commenced, the practice of Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine. law in Canton, Ohio; assistant attorney general of Ohio Bibliography: DAB. 1929-1932; during the Second World War became news BOUTWELL, George Sewel, a Representative and a Sena-editor of radio station WHBC, Canton, Ohio, and in 1945 was tor from Massachusetts; born in Brookline, Mass., Januaryselected to serve as a war correspondent with Ohio's Thirty- Biographies 649 seventh Division in the Philippines; general counsel to Sub- BOWEN, Christopher Columbus, a Representative from committee on Expenditures and to the Select Committee ToSouth Carolina; born in Providence, R.I., January 5, 1832; Investigate the Federal Communications Commission duringattended the public schools; moved to Georgia in 1850; en- the Eightieth Congress; served as legislative assistant to Sen-gaged in agricultural pursuits; studied law; was admitted to ator Andrew F. Schoeppel in the Eighty-first Congress; elect-the bar in 1862 and commenced practice in Charleston, S.C.; ed as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the tenduring the Civil War enlisted in the Confederate Army and succeeding Congresses; served from January 3, 1951, untilserved throughout the war as a captain in the Coast Guard; his death November 13, 1972, in Bethesda, Md.; interment inresumed the practice of law in Charleston, S.C.; member of West Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio. the Republican State convention at Charleston in May 1867; BOWDEN, George Edwin (nephew of Lemuel Jacksonfirst chairman of the Republican State central committee; Bowden), a Representative from Virginia; born in Williams-delegate to the State constitutional convention in November burg, James City County, Va., July 6, 1852; attended a pri-1867; upon the readmission of South Carolina to representa- vate school; studied law; was admitted to the bar but nevertion was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth and Forty- practiced; engaged in banking; collector of customs for thefirst Congresses and served from July 20, 1868, to March 3, port of Norfolk from September 1879 until May 1885; elected1871; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the as a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first CongressesForty-second Congress; member of South Carolina house of (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate forrepresentatives, 187 1-1872; elected sheriff of Charleston in reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; again collec-November 1872; died in New York City, June 23, 1880; inter- tor of customs for the port of Norfolk; clerk of the Unitedment in St. Laurence Cemetery, Charleston, S.C. States Court for the Eastern District of Virginia from March 10, 1899, until his death in Norfolk, Va., January 22, 1908; BOWEN, David Reece, a Representative from Mississippi; born in Houston, County, Miss., October 21, 1932; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. graduated, Cleveland (Miss.) High School, 1950; attended BOWDEN, Lemuel Jackson (uncle of George EdwinUniversity of Missouri, 1950-1952; A.B., Harvard University, Bowden), a Senator from Virginia; born in Williamsburg,1954; M.A., Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1956; served James City County, Va., January 16, 1815; graduated fromin the United States Army, private first class, 1957-1958; William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.; studied law;assistant professor of political science and history, Mississip- was admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice inpi College, 1958-1959, and Millsaps College, 1959-1964; em- Williamsburg; member, State house of delegates 184 1-1846;ployed by U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, 1966-1967; delegate to the Virginia constitutional conventions in 1849U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1967-1968; first coordinator of and 1851; elected as a Republican to the United Statesfederal-state programs, State of Mississippi, 1968-1972; elect- Senate and served from March 4, 1863, until his death ined as a Democrat to the Ninety-third and to the four suc- Washington, D.C., on January 2, 1864; interment in Congres-ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1983); was sional Cemetery. not a candidate for reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth BOWDLE, Stanley Eyre, a Representative from Ohio;Congress; visiting lecturer, Mississippi State University, born in Clifton, Hamilton County, Ohio, September 4, 1868;1985-1987; is a resident of McLean, Va. attended the public schools until fifteen years of age; served BOWEN, Henry (son of Rees Tate Bowen, nephew of John an apprenticeship of three years in the machine shops ofWarfield Johnston, and cousin of William Bowen Campbell), Cramp's shipyard, Philadelphia, Pa.; studied law, and wasa Representative from Virginia; born at "MaidenSprings," graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1889; was ad-near Tazewell, Tazewell County, Va., December 26, 1841; mitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice inattended the public schools and Emory and Henry College, Cincinnati; because of ill health, moved to Colorado andEmory, Va.; engaged in agricultural pursuits; entered the later to Mexico, where he resided from 1897 to 1900; re-Confederate Army in 1861 as a captain of Cavalry in Payne's turned to Cincinnati and resumed his profession; member ofbrigade, Lee's division, Army of Northern Virginia, and the State constitutional convention in 1912; elected as aserved until December 21, 1864, when he was captured by Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-MarchSheridan's cavalry at Lacy Springs, Va.; released June 19, 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the1865; returned to his native county and resumed farming; Sixty-fourth Congress and in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Con-member of the State house of delegates 1869-1873; elected as gress; mayor of Clifton, Ohio; engaged in the practice of lawa Readjuster to the Forty-eighth Congress (March4, 1883- in Cincinnati, Ohio, until his death there April 6, 1919;March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in interment in Spring Grove Cemetery. 1884; elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth Congress BOWDON, Franklin Welsh (uncle of Sydney Johnston(March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful candidate for Bowie), a Representative from Alabama; born in Chesterreelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; delegate to the District,S.C., February 17, 1817; attended the commonRepublican National Convention in 1892; resume4 agricul- schools and was graduated from the University of Alabamatural interests and stock raising in Tazewell County, Va.; at Tuscaloosa in 1836; studied law; was admitted to the bardied at his home, "Maiden Springs," in Tazewell County, and commenced practice in Talladega, Ala.; member of theApril 29, 1915; interment in Jeffersonville Cemetery, Taze- State house of representatives in 1844 and 1845; elected as awell, Va. Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Felix G. McConnell; reelected to the BOWEN, John Henry, a Representative from Tennessee; Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses and served from De-born in Washington County, Va., in September 1780; attend- cember 7, 1846, to March 3, 1851; chairman, Committee oned the schools of Lexington, Ky.; studied law; was admitted Public Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-first Congress); wasto the bar and commenced practice in Gallatin, Tenn.; elect- not a candidate for renomination in 1850; moved to Hender-ed as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, son, Rusk County, Tex., in 1852, where he resumed the1813-March 3, 1815); engaged in the practice of law in Galla- practice of his profession; died in Henderson, Tex., June 8,tin, Cherokee County, Tenn., until his death there Septem- 1857; interment in the City Cemetery. ber 25, 1822. 650 Biographical Directory

BOWEN, Rees Tate (father of Henry Bowen), a Represent-County, N.C., and died there May 11, 1910; interment in ative from Virginia; born at "Maiden Springs," near Taze-Elkville Cemetery, Caldwell County, N.C. well, Tazewell County, Va., January 10, 1809; attended Ab- ingdon Academy, Virginia; engaged in agricultural pursuits; BOWERS, Eaton Jackson, a Representative from Missis- appointed brigadier general of the State militia; member ofsippi; born in Canton, Madison County, Miss., June 17, 1865; the State house of delegates 1863-1865; magistrate of Taze-attended the public schools, and Mississippi Military Insti- well County for several years prior to the war and presidingtute at Pass Christian; studied law; was admitted to the bar justice of the county court a portion of that time; elected asin 1883 at the age of seventeen and practiced in Canton a Democrat to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-until August 1884, when he moved to Bay St. Louis; engaged March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination inin the practice of law and in newspaper work; editor and 1874; resumed agricultural pursuits; died at his home,proprietor of the Gulf Coast Progress at Bay St. Louis; "Maiden Springs," in Tazewell County, Va., August 29, 1879; member of the Democratic -State executive committee 1886- interment in the family burying ground on his estate,1900; retired from the newspaper business in 1890; member "Maiden Springs." of the State senate in 1896; served in the State house of representatives in 1900; delegate to the Democratic National BOWEN, Thomas Mead, a Senator from Colorado; bornConventions in 1900 and 1916; elected as a Democrat to the near the present site of Burlington, Iowa, October 26, 1835;Fifty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March attended the public schools and the academy at Mount4, 1903-March 3, 1911); was not a candidate for renomina- Pleasant, Iowa; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1853tion in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; resumed the prac- and practiced; moved to Wayne County, Iowa, in1856; tice of law in Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, Miss.; moved member, Iowa house of representatives 1856; moved toto New Orleans, La., and continued the practice of law until Kansas in 1858; during the Civil War served in the Unionhis death there October 26, 1939; interment in Cedar Rest Army 1861-1865, as captain, then as a colonel; brevetted Cemetery, Bay St. Louis, Miss. brigadier general;locatedin Arkansas afterthe war; member and president of the constitutional convention of BOWERS, George Meade, a Representative from West Arkansas 1866; justice of the supreme court of ArkansasVirginia; born in Gerrardstown, Berkeley County, W.Va., 1867-1871; appointed Governor of Idaho Territory by Presi- September 13, 1863; educated by private tutors and attended dent Ulysses Grant in 1871; resigned and returned to Arkan-high school; engaged in banking; member of the State house sas; moved to Colorado in 1875 and resumed the practice ofof delegates 1883-1887; supervisor of the United States law; upon the organization of the State government wascensus for West Virginia in 1890; delegate to the Republican elected judge of the fourth judicialdistrict1876-1880; National Convention in 1892; member and treasurer of the member, State house of representatives1882;resigned,board of World's Fair commissioners for West Virginia in having been elected as a Republican to the United States1893; Commissioner of Fisheries from 1898 to 1913, when he Senate, and served from March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1889;resigned; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth Con- chairman, Committee on Mining (Forty-eighth Congress),gress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William G Committee on Enrolled Bills (Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Con-Brown, Jr.; reelected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and gresses); engaged in mining in Colorado, with residence inSixty-seventh Congresses and served from May 9, 1916, to Pueblo, Cob., where he died December 30, 1906; intermentMarch 3, 1923; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 in Roselawn Cemetery. to the Sixty-eighth Congress; president of the People's Trust Bibliography:DAB. Co.; died in Martinsburg, W.Va., December 7, 1925; inter- ment in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Gerrardstown, W.Va. BOWER, Gustavus Miller, a Representative from Missou- ri; born near Culpeper, Culpeper County, Va., December 12, BOWERS, John Myer, a Representative from New York; 1790; attended the public schools; studied medicine in Phila-born in Boston, Mass., September 25, 1772; attended the delphia, Pa.; moved to Kentucky prior to 1812 and residedcommon schools and was graduated from Columbia College, near Nicholasville; enlisted during the War of 1812 as aNew York City; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1802 surgeon-dresser; was one of the few survivors of the massa- and commenced practice in Cooperstown, N.Y.; moved to his cre at Frenchtown, near Detroit, January 23, 1813; moved tocountry home, "Lakelands," near Cooperstown, in 1805; pre- Monroe County, Mo., in 1833, settled near Paris, and en-sented credentials as a Federalist Member-elect to the Thir- gaged in the practice of medicine and also in agriculturalteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of pursuits; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Con-Representative-elect William Dowse and served from May gress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); resumed the practice of26, 1813, to December 20, 1813, when he was succeeded by medicine; died near Paris, Monroe County, Mo., NovemberIsaac William, Jr., who contested the election; resumed the 17, 1864; interment in the family burying ground north ofpractice of law in Cooperstown, Otsego County, N.Y., where Paris, Mo. he died February 24, 1846; interment in Lakewood Ceme- BOWER, William Horton, a Representative from Northtery. Carolina; born near Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, N.C., June BOWERS, William Wallace, a Representative from Cali- 6, 1850; attended the Finley High School at Lenoir, N.C.;fornia; born in Whitestown, Oneida County, N.Y., October studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced20, 1834; attended the common schools; moved to Wisconsin practice in Lenoir; moved to California in 1876 and taughtin 1854; enlisted as a private in Company I, First Wisconsin school there four years; returned to Lenoir, N.C., in 1881;Cavalry, February 22, 1862; discharged from the service as member of the State house of representatives in 1882; servedsecond sergeant February 22, 1865; moved to San Diego, in the State senate in 1884; solicitor of the tenth judicialCalif., in 1869; engaged in ranching; member of the State district of North Carolina in 1885 and 1886; unsuccessfulassembly in 1873 and 1874; appointed collector of customs of candidate for Congress in 1890; elected as a Democrat to thethe port of San Diego, Calif., September 25, 1874, and served Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); unsuc-until his resignation on February 3, 1879; owned and operat- cessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourthed a hotel in San Diego 1884-1891; member of the State Congress; resumed the practice of law in Lenoir, Caldwellsenate 1887-1889; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- Biographies 651 second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4,from Maryland; born in Queen Anne, Prince Georges 1891-March 3, 1897); chairman, Committee on Revision ofCounty, Md., April 7, 1808; attended Charlotte Hall Acade- the Laws (Fifty-fourth Congress); unsuccessful candidate formy in St. Marys County, Md., and Princeton College, Prince- reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; again appoint-ton, N.J.; was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, ed collector of customs of the port of San Diego, Calif., onN.Y., in 1827; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1829 March 15, 1902, and served until March 4, 1906; resided inand commenced practice in Upper Marlboro, Md.; deputy San Diego, Calif., in retirement until his death there on Mayattorney general for Prince Georges County 1833-1842; 2, 1917; interment in the Masonic Cemetery. member of the State house of delegates 1842-1846; unsuc- BOWERSOCK, Justin De Witt, a Representative fromcessful candidate for Governor in 1843; unsuccessful candi- Kansas; born near Columbiana, Columbiana County, Ohio,date for election in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; September 19, 1842; moved to Iowa City, Iowa, in 1860 andmember of the State constitutional convention in 1851; engaged in mercantile pursuits and grain shipping; moved tomember of the judicial committee assisting in framing the Lawrence, Kans., in 1877 and engaged in banking and in theState's new constitution; presidential elector on the Whig manufacture of flour, paper, and barbed wire; mayor of Law-ticket in 1852; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fourth rence 1881-1885; elected to the Kansas house of representa-and Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); tives in 1887; member of the State senate in 1895; elected aswas an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1858 to a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to the three succeedingthe Thirty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of his pro- Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1907); was not a candi-fession; died in Upper Marlboro, Md., October 30, 1869; in- date for renomination in 1906; interested in banking andterment in the Waring family burying ground at Mount manufactures in Lawrence, Kans., until his death there onPleasant, near Upper Marlboro, Md. October 27, 1922; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. BOWIE, Walter (granduncle of Thomas Fielder Bowie), a BOWIE, Richard Johns, a Representative from Maryland;Representative from Maryland; born in Mattaponi, near born in Georgetown, D.C., June 23, 1807; attended the publicNottingham, Prince Georges County, Md., in 1748; attended schools and Brookville Academy; studied law and was grad-Rev.JohnEversfield'sSchool,nearNottingham, the uated from the Georgetown Law School in 1826; commencedcommon schools in Annapolis, and Craddock's School, near practice in Washington, D.C., in 1826; admitted to practiceBaltimore, Md.; engaged in agricultural pursuits, was a before the Supreme Court in 1829; moved to Rockville, Md.,large landowner, and also was interested in shipping; and engaged in agricultural pursuits and also practiced law;member of the State constitutional convention in 1776; cap- member of the State house of delegates 1835-1837; served intain and, later, major of a Prince Georges County company the State senate 1837-1841; delegate to the Whig Nationalduring the Revolution; member of the State house of dele-- Convention at Harrisburg, Pa., in 1840; State's attorney forgates 1780-1800; served in the State senate 1800-1802; elect- Montgomery County 1844-1849; elected as a Whig to theed as a Republican to the Seventh Congress to fill the vacan- Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849-cy caused by the resignation of Richard Sprigg, Jr.;reelected March 3, 1853); unsuccessful Whig candidate for Governor into the Eighth Congress and served from March 24, 1802, to 1853; resumed the practice of his profession in Rockville;March 3, 1805; declined to be a candidate for renomination chief judge of the court of appeals of Maryland 1861-1867;in 1804 to the Ninth Congress; died near Collington, Prince chief judge of the sixth judicial circuit, and as such also anGeorges County, Md., November 9, 1810; interment in the associate judge of the court of appeals of Maryland, fromfamily burying ground on his estate. November 7, 1871, until his death near Rockville, Montgom- ery County, Md., March 12, 1881; interment in Rockville BOWLER, James Bernard, a Representative from Illinois; Cemetery. born in Chicago, Ill., February 5, 1875; attended the parochi- Bibliography: DAB. al and public schools; professional bicycle rider and racer; member of the Chicago City Council 1906-1923; served as BOWIE, Sydney Johnston (nephew of Franklin Welshcommissioner of compensation for the city of Chicago 1923- Bowdon), a Representative from Alabama; born in Talla-1927; public vehicle license commissioner for the city of Chi- dega, Talladega County, Ala., July 26, 1865; attended privatecago in 1934; again served as a member in the city council schools, and was graduated from the law department of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1885; was admitted1928-1953, serving as president pro tempore for eight years; to the bar June 1, 1885, and commenced practice in Talla-engaged in the insurance business; elected as a Democrat to dega, Ala.; city clerk of Talladega in 1885 and 1886; memberthe Eighty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the of the board of aldermen in 1891; member of the Democraticdeath of Adolph J. Sabath; reelected to the Eighty-fourth State executive committee 1894-1899; moved to Anniston,and Eighty-fifth Congresses and served from July 7, 1953, Ala., in 1899; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh,until his death in Chicago, Ill., July 18, 1957; interment in Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1901-All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Ill. March 3, 1907); declined to be a candidate for renomination BOWLES, Chester Bliss, a Representative from Connecti- in 1906; moved to Birmingham and continued the practice ofcut; born in Springfield, Hampden County, Mass., April 5, law until 1919, when he engaged in business there as an 1901; graduated from Choate School, Wallingford, Conn., in automobile dealer; member of the Southern Education Board 1919 and from Yale University in 1924; businessman in in 1908 and 1909; member of the Birmingham Board ofSpringfield, Mass., and New York City, 1924-1929; cofounder Education 1915-1919; chairman of the State educationalBenton & Bowles, Inc., an advertising agency, New York commission in 1920; delegate at large to the DemocraticCity, in 1929 and was chairman of the board 1936-1941; National Convention in 1920; president of the Alabama Tu-Connecticut State rationing administrator in 1942, State di- berculosis Commission 1920-1922; member of the Staterector in 1942 and 1943, and general manager July-October harbor commission in 1922 and 1923; died in Birmingham,1943; administrator, Office of Price Administration, 1943- Ala., May 7, 1928; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. 1946; member, War Production Board and Petroleum Board BOWIE, Thomas Fielder (grandnephew of Walter Bowiefor War 1943-1946; chairman, Economic Stabilization Board, and brother-in-law of Reverdy Johnson), a Representative1946; delegate to the United Nations Economic, Scientific 652 Biographical Directory and Cultural Organization Conference at Paris in 1946; Gov-ette, Chambers County, Ala.; studied law; was admitted to ernor of Connecticut 1949-1951; Ambassador to India andthe bar in 1900 and commenced practice in Lafayette; solici- Nepal 1951-1953; author and lecturer; trustee of Rockefellertor of the fifth judicial circuit of Alabama 1905-1920; Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and Franklin D.member of the board of trustees of Alabama Polytechnic Roosevelt Foundation; delegate to the Democratic NationalInstitute at Auburn; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Conventions in 1940, 1948, and 1956; chairman of the plat-Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of form committee, Democratic National Convention, in 1960;J. Thomas Heflin; reelected to the Sixty-seventh and to the elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth Congress (Januarythree succeeding Congresses and served from December 14, 3, 1959-January 3, 1961); was not a candidate for renomina- tion in 1960; Under Secretary of State, 1961; President's1920, until his resignation effective August, 16, 1928, having special representative and advisor, 196 1-1963; returned tobeen appointed judge for the fifth judicial circuit of Ala- India as United States Ambassador and served from 1963 tobama, in which capacity he served until his death; died in 1969; was a resident of Essex, Conn., until his death there onLafayette, Ala., on December 27, 1946; interment in Lafay- May 25, 1986. ette Cemetery. Bibliography: Bowles, Chester. Promi.ses to Keep: My Years in Public BOWMAN, Charles Calvin, a Representative from Penn- Life, 1941-1969. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. sylvania; born in Troy, Rensselaer County, N.Y., November BOWLES, Henry Leland, a Representative from Massa-14, 1852; attended the public schools and Lansingburg Acad- chusetts; born in Athens, Windham County, Vt., January 6,emy, Troy, N.Y.; learned the woodworking trade; was grad- 1866; attended the district schools at Kendricks Corner anduated in civil engineering from Union College, Schenectady, Vermont Academy at Saxtons River, Vt.; at the age of eight-N.Y., in 1875; engaged in civil engineering work for the een moved to Osage, Iowa, and engaged in agricultural pur-State of Massachusetts at Danvers in 1875; organized the suits; later moved to California, where for four years hewestern shipping department of the Pennsylvania Coal Co., worked as lumberjack, rancher, and farmer; returned eastPittston, Pa., in 1876, which he managed until 1883; served and settled in Massachusetts, working in Waltham, Salem,as general manager of the Florence Coal Co., in 1883 and and Lynn at various businesses; trustee of the Vermont1884, later operating as an independent miner and shipper Academy; moved to Springfield, Mass., in 1898 and operatedof anthracite coal; mayor of the city of Pittston in 1886; also a chain of restaurants; member of the Governor's council inserved as a member of the city council for sixteen terms; 1913, 1918, and 1919; delegate to the Republican Nationaldelegate to the Independent Republican State convention in Convention in 1920 and in 1924; elected as a Republican to1890 and to the Republican State convention in 1898; pre- the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by thesented credentials as a Republican Member-elect to the death of George B. Churchill; reelected to the SeventiethSixty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1911, to Congress and served from September 29, 1925, to March 3,December 12, 1912, when the seat was declared vacant; un- 1929; was not a candidate for renomination in 1928; resumedsuccessful candidate for election in 1912 to the Sixty-third his former business pursuits; died in Springfield, Mass., MayCongress; resumed the coal business; died in Pittston, Pa., 17, 1932; the remains were cremated and the ashes interred in Springfield Cemetery. July 3, 1941; interment in Pittston Cemetery. BOWLIN, James Butler, a Representative from Missouri; BOWMAN, Frank Liewellyn, a Representative from West born near Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Va., Janu- Virginia; born in Masontown, Fayette County, Pa., January ary 16, 1804; apprenticed to a trade, but abandoned it to21, 1879; attended the public schools; moved with his parents teach school; received a classical education; moved to Lewis-to Morgantown, W.Va.; was graduated from the University burg, Greenbrier County, Va., in 1825; studied law; was ad-of West Virginia at Morgantown in 1902; teller in a bank at mitted tO the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in Green-Morgantown from 1902 until 1904, when he resigned to take brier County; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1833 and continuedup the study of law; was admitted to the bar in 1905 and the practice of law; established the Farmers and Mechanics'commenced practice in Morgantown, W.Va.; was also inter- Advocate; chief clerk of the State house of representatives inested in coal mining; appointed postmaster of Morgantown 1836; member of the State house of representatives in 1836May 25, 1911, and served until April 14, 1915, when a succes- and 1837; appointed district attorney for St. Louis in 1837;sor was appointed; city mayor in 1916 and 1917; declined unsuccessful candidate for the State house of representativesrenomination for mayor; elected as a Republican to the in 1838; elected judge of the criminal court in 1839 andSixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March served until his resignation in 1842; elected as a Democrat to4, 1925-March 3, 1933); unsucessful candidate for reelection the Twenty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congressesin 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; organized a coal com- (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1851); chairman, Committee onpany in Washington, D.C., and served as president until Private Land Claims (Twenty-ninth Congress), Committee onappointed a member of the Board of Veterans Appeals of the Public Lands (Thirty-first Congress); unsuccessful candidateVeterans' Administration in 1935 and served until his death for reelection in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; appoint-in Washington, D.C., on September 15, 1936; interment in ed Minister Resident to New Granada by President PierceOak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, W.Va. December 13, 1854; appointed commissioner to Paraguay by President Buchanan September 9, 1858, and served until BOWMAN, Selwyn Zadock, a Representative from Massa- February 10, 1859; resumed the practice of law; died in St.chusetts; born in Charlestown, Middlesex County, Mass., Louis, Mo., July 19, 1874; interment in Bellefontaine Ceme-May 11, 1840; attended the Charlestown public schools; tery. moved to Somerville, Mass., with his parents in 1855; was graduated from Harvard University in 1860 and from its law BOWLING, William Bismarck, a Representative fromschool in 1863; was admitted to the bar in 1863 and com- Alabama; born near Iron City, Calhoun County, Ala., Sep-menced practice in Boston, Mass., and continued his resi- tember 24, 1870; attended the common schools, and wasdence in Somerville, Mass.; member of the State house of graduated from the State normal school, Jacksonville, Ala.,representatives in 1870, 1871, and again in 1875; city solici- in 1892; taught in the public schools of Montgomery, Ala.,tor of Somerville, Mass., in 1872 and 1873; served in the 1893-1895 and of Columbus, Ga., 1896-1899; moved to Lafay- State senate in 1876 and 1877; elected as a Republican to the Biographies 653

Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-tute (later Lon Morris College), Kilgore, Tex.; studied law; March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commencedpractice in to the Forty-eighth Congress; returned to Somerville, Mass.,Lufldn, Tex.; moved to Jacksonville, Cherokee County, Tex., and resumed the practice of law in Boston, Mass.; againin 1897 and continued the practice of his profession; also a served as city solicitor of Somerville, Mass., 1888-1897;licensed Methodist minister; judge of the Cherokee County moved to Cohasset, Mass., in 1914, and continued the prac-Court 1898-1901; mayor of Jacksonville 1902-1905; member tice of law in Boston, Mass.; died in Framingham, Mass.,of the Democratic State committee 1908-19 10; member of September 30, 1928; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery,the board of education and served as chairman 19 13-1918; Cambridge, Mass. elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth and to the five BOWMAN, Thomas, a Representative from Iowa; born in succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1931), unsuc Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine, May 25, 1848; moved tocessful candidate for renomination in 1930; resumed the Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1868; engaged in mercantile pur-practice of law in Jacksonville, Tex., until his death there suits; elected treasurer of Pottawattamie County in 1875,May 17, 1941; interment in the City Cemetery. and reelected in 1877 and 1879; mayor of Council Bluffs in BOXER, Barbara, a Representative from California; born 1882; appointed postmaster in 1885 and served until 1889,Barbara Levy in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., November when he resigned; purchased controlling ownership of the11, 1940; attended public schools of Brooklyn; graduated, Council Bluffs Globe in 1883; elected as a Democrat to theWingate High School, 1958; B.A., Brooklyn College, 1962; Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); wasstockbroker, 1962-1965; newspaper editor, 1972-1974; con- not a candidate for renomination in 1892; again postmastergressional aide, 1974-1976; elected member, board of supervi- of Council Bluffs 1904-1908; engaged in railroad contracting;sors, Mann County, Calif., 1976-1982; delegate, California died in Council Bluffs, Iowa, December 1, 1917; interment inState Democratic convention, 1983; elected as a Democrat to Pine Grove Cemetery, Dresden Mills, Maine. the Ninety-eighth and to the two succeeding Congresses BOWNE, Obadiah, a Representative from New York; born(January 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Green- near Richmond, Richmond County, Staten Island, N.Y., Maybrae, Calif. 19, 1822; attended private schools, and was a student at BOYCE, William Henry, a Representative from Delaware; Princeton College 1838-1840; held several local offices; elect-born at Peppers Mills, near Laurel, Sussex County, Del., ed as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-November 28, 1855; attended the public schools and Laurel March 3, 1853); declined to be a candidate for renominationAcademy; was principal of the public schools at Laurel 1875- in 1852; quarantine commissioner 1857-1859; presidential1880 and at Oxford, Md., in 1880 and 1881; recorder of deeds elector on the Republican ticket in 1864; died in Richmondfor Sussex County at Georgetown 1881-1886; studied law; Village, Staten Island, N.Y., April 27, 1874; interment in St.was admitted to the bar in 1887 and practicedin George- Andrew's Cemetery. town, Del., until 1897; president of the board of education BOWNE, Samuel Smith, a Representative from New1883-1886; captain of Company G, Delaware National York; born in New Rochelle, Westchester County, N.Y.,Guard, 1887-1890; president of the town commissioners April 11, 1800; moved to Otsego County with his parents, 1895-1897; chairman of the Sussex County Democratic com- who settled near Morris, N.Y.; attended the common schools; mittee 1893-1897; delegate to the Democratic National Con- engaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to Laurens, Otsegoventions in 1896 and 1924; appointed secretary of State of County, in 1825; studied law; was admitted to the bar inDelaware January 19, 1897, and served until June 17, 1897, 1832 and commenced practice in Laurens; moved to Coopers-when he resigned; associate judge of the Delaware Supreme town, N.Y.; member of the State assembly in 1834; elected asCourt 1897-1921 and ex officio judicial reporter 1909-1921; a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-retired June 15, 1921; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- March 3, 1843); was not a candidate for renomination ineighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); renominated 1842; moved to Rochester, N.Y., in 1846 and continued theby acclamation but was unsuccessful for reelection in 1924 practice of his profession; judge of Otsego County 1851-1855;to the Sixty-ninth Congress; resumed the practiceof law resumed the practice of law; died on his farm near Morris,until retirement from active practice in 1936; died in Dover,

Otsego County, N.Y., July 9, 1865; interment in FriendsDel., February 6, 1942; interment in Christ Church Ceme-- Burying Ground. tery. BOWRING, Eva Kelly, a Senator from Nebraska; born in BOYCE, William Waters, a Representative from South Nevada, Vernon County, Mo., January 9, 1892; rancher; viceCarolina; born in Charleston, S.C., October 24, 1818; attend- chairwoman of the Nebraska Republican Central Committeeed South Carolina College (now the University of South 1946-1954; director of the Women's Division of the Republi-Carolina) at Columbia and the University of Virginia at can Party in Nebraska 1946-1954; appointed as aRepublicanCharlottesville; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1839 to the United States Senate April 16, 1954, to fill the vacan-and practiced in Winnsboro, S.C.; member of the State house cy caused by the death of Dwight PalmerGriswold, andof representatives, 1846-1847; elected as a Democrat to the served until November 7, 1954; was not a candidate forThirty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses and election to fill the vacancy; member of the National Adviso-served from March 4, 1853, until his retirement on Decem- ry Council, National Institutes of Health1954-1958, 1960-ber 21, 1860; chairman, Committee on Elections (Thirty-fifth 1961; appointed a member of the Board of Parole, Depart-Congress); appointed a delegate for South Carolina to the ment of Justice 1956-1964; died in Gordon, Nebr., January 8,Confederate Provisional Congress January 4, 1861; elected as 1985; interment in Gordon Cemetery. a member of the First and SecondConfederate Congresses Bibliography: Donovan, R.G. "Lady from the Sand Hills." Independent 1862-1864; moved to Washington, D.C., in 1866 and practiced Woman 33 (June 1954): 204-06. law until his retirement a few years before his death; died at BOX, John Calvin, a Representative from Texas; bornhis country home, "Ashland," in Fairfax County, Va., Febru- near Crockett, Houston County, Tex., March 28, 1871; at-ary 3, 1890; interment in the Episcopal Cemetery,Winns- tended the country schools, and Alexander Collegiate Insti-boro, Fairfield County, S.C. 654 Biographical Directory

BOYD,Adam, a Representative from New Jersey; born inin 1852; elected Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in 1859, Mendham, N.J., March 21, 1746; moved to Bergen Countybut when the senate convened was too ill to preside over its about 1770 and to Hackensack a few years later; member ofdeliberations; died in Paducah, Ky., December 17, 1859; in- the board of freeholders and justices in 1773, 1784, 1791,terment in Oak Grove Cemetery. 1794, and 1798; sheriff of Bergen County 1778-1781 and again in 1789; member of the State house of assembly in BOYD,Sempronius Hamilton, a Representative from Mis- 1782, 1783, 1787, 1794, and 1795; judge of the court ofsouri; born near Nashville,. Williamson County, Tenn., May common pleas of Bergen County 1803-1805; elected as a28, 1828; moved to Missouri in 1840 with his parents, who Republican to the Eighth Congress (March 4, 1803-March 3,settled on a farm near Springfield, Greene County; educated 1805); elected to the Tenth Congress to fill the vacancyby private tutors; moved to California in 1849, where he caused by the death of Ezra Darby; reelected to the Eleventhprospected for gold and taught school; returned to Missouri and Twelfth Congresses and served from March 8, 1808, toin 1854; clerk of the court of Greene County 1854-1856; March 3, 1813; again judge of the court of common pleasstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced 1813-1833; died in Hackensack, Bergen County, N.J., Augustpractice in Springfield, Mo.; mayor of Springfield in 1856; 15, 1835; interment in the First Reformed Church Cemetery. during the Civil War raised the Twenty-fourth Missouri In- BOYD,Alexander, a Representative from New York; bornfantry and served as colonel until his election to Congress; in Albany, N.Y., September 14, 1764; moved to Middleburg,elected as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-eighth Schoharie County, N.Y., and engaged in agricultural pur-Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); chairman, Commit- suits; elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congresstee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Thirty-eighth Con- (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); died in the town of Esper-gress); appointed judge of the court of the fourteenth judicial ence, Schoharie County, N.Y., April 8, 1857; interment indistrict in 1865; member of the Republican National Com- Schoharie Cemetery, Schoharie, N.Y. mittee 1864-1868; delegate to the Republican National Con- vention in 1864; interested in building and operating the BOYD,John Frank, a Representative from Nebraska; born in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pa., August 8, 1853;Southwest Pacific Railroad 1867-1874; elected as a Republi- moved with his parents to Henry County, Ill., in 1857; at-can to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, tended the public schools and Abingdon (Ill.) College; studied1871); chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Forty- law; was admitted to the bar in 1878 and commenced prac-first Congress); operated a wagon factory 1874-1876; re- tice in Galva, Ill.; moved to Nebraska in 1883 and settled insumed the practice of law; appointed Minister Resident and Oakdale, Antelope County; prosecuting attorney of Antelopeconsul general to Siam by President Harrison on October 1, County, Nebr., 1888-1894; judge of the Ninth Judicial Dis- 1890, and served until October 26, 1892; died in Springfield, trict Court of Nebraska 1900-1907; moved to Neligh, Ante-Greene County, Mo., June 22, 1894; interment in the Hazel- lope County, Nebr., in 1901; elected as a Republican to thewood Cemetery. Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1909); unsuccess- ful candidate for reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first Con- BOYD,Thomas Alexander, a Representative from Illinois; gress; resumed the practice of law in Neligh, Nebr., untilborn near Bedford, Adams County, Pa., June 25, 1830; at- 1929, when he retired and moved to Los Angeles, Calif.; diedtended the public schools; was graduated from Marshall Col- in Los Angeles, Calif., May 28, 1945; interment in Forestlege, Mercersburg, Pa., in 1848; studied law in Chambers- Lawn Cemetery. burg, Pa.; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Bedford, Pa.; moved to Lewistown, Ill., in 1856 and en- BOYD,John Huggins, a Representative from New York;gaged in the practice of law until 1861; during the Civil War born in Salem, N.Y., July 31, 1799; attended the commonenlisted in the Seventeenth Regiment, Illinois Infantry, in schools, and was graduated from Washington Academy,1861 and obtained the commission of captain; member of the Salem, N.Y., in 1818; studied law; was admitted to the bar inState senate in 1866 and was reelected in 1870; elected as a 1823 and commenced practice in Salem, N.Y., but shortlyRepublican to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses afterward moved to Whitehall, N.Y.; elected justice of the(March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881); was not a candidate for peace in 1828 and served for many years; member of therenomination in 1880; resumed the practice of law; died in State assembly in 1840; supervisor of Whitehall in 1845,Lewistown, Fulton County, Ill., May 28, 1897; interment in 1848, and 1849; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Con- Oak Hill Cemetery. gress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); special surrogate of Washington County 1857-1859; elected president of the vil- BOYDEN,Nathaniel, a Representative from North Caroli- lage; resumed the practice of law; died in Whitehall, Wash- na; born in Conway, Mass., August 16, 1796; attended the ington County, N.Y., on July 2, 1868; interment in Ever-common schools; served in the War of 1812; was graduated green Cemetery, Salem, N.Y. from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1821; moved to BOYD,Linn, a Representative from Kentucky; born inStokes County, N.C., in 1822; taught school for several years; Nashville, Tenn., November 22, 1800; pursued preparatorystudied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; member studies; moved with his parents to New Design, Triggof the State house of commons in 1838 and 1840; moved to County, KY.; engaged in agricultural pursuits in CallowaySalisbury, N.C., in 1842 and continued the practice of law; County; member of the State house of representatives 1827-served in the State senate in 1844; elected as a Whig to the 1832; returned to Trigg County in 1834; elected as a Jackso-Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); was not a nian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3,candidate for renomination in 1848; resumed the practice of 1837); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1836 to thelaw; member of the State constitutional convention of 1865; Twenty-fifth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-upon the readmission of North Carolina to representation sixth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4,was elected as a Conservative to the Fortieth Congress and 1839-March 3,1855); chairman, Committee on Accountsserved from July 13, 1868, to March 3, 1869; unsuccessfully (Thirtieth Congress), Committee on Territories (Thirty-firstcontested the election of Francis E. Shober to the Forty-first Congress); Speaker of the House of Representatives (Thirty-Congress; resumed the practice of law until elected associate second and Thirty-third Congresses); moved to Paducah, Ky.,justice of the supreme court of North Carolina in 1872 and Biographies 655 served until his death in Salisbury, N.C., November 20, 1873;the Chicago Motor Coach Co. while a student; was graduated interment in the Lutheran Cemetery. from Loyola University, Chicago, Ill.,in 1930 and from Loyola Law School in 1933; was admitted to the Illinois bar BOYER, Benjamin Markley, a Representative from Penn-in 1934 and commenced the practice of law in Chicago, Ill.; sylvania; born in Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pa., Janu-zone attorney for the Federal Housing Administration in ary 22, 1823; attended the common schools, and was graduat-1937 and 1938; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth, ed from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia inEighty-fifth, and Eighty-sixth Congresses and served from 1841; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1844 andJanuary 3, 1955, until his death in an automobile accident in practiced; deputy attorney general of Montgomery CountyChicago, Ill., November 4,1959; interment in All Saints 1848-1850; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth andCemetery, Des Plaines, Ill. Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1869); was not a candidate for renomination in 1868; appointed judge of BOYLE, Charles Edmund, a Representative from Penn- Montgomery County Court in 1882 and served until hissylvania; born in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pa., February death in Norristown, Pa., August 16, 1887; interment in4, 1836; attended the common schools, and Waynesburg Col- West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. lege, Waynesburg, Greene County, Pa.; studied law; was ad- mitted to the bar in December 1861 and practiced; elected BOYER, Lewis Leonard, a Representative from Illinois;district attorney for Fayette County in 1862; member of the born on a farm near Richfield, Richfield Township, AdamsState house of representatives in 1865 and 1866; president of County, Ill., May 19, 1886; attended the rural schools; taughtthe Democratic State convention in 1867 and 1871; delegate school at Douglas, Franklin, Pin Oak, and Liberty, Ill., 1904- 1915, and, while teaching, studied civil engineering; movedto the Democratic National Convention in 1876 and 1880; to Quincy, Ill., in 1915 and engaged in engineering as countyelected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth superintendent of highways of Adams County, Ill., fromCongresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); was not a candi- March 1915 until December 1936; elected as a Democrat todate for renomination in 1886; appointed judge of the Terri- the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937-January 3,tory of Washington in September 1888 and served until his 1939); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to thedeath in Seattle, Wash., December 15, 1888; interment in Seventy-sixth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for the StateOak Grove Cemetery, Uniontown, Pa. senate in 1940 and 1942; died in Quincy, Ill., March 12, 1944; BOYLE, John, a Representative from Kentucky born at interment in Zander Cemetery, Liberty, Ill. "Castle Woods," Botetourt County, Va., October 28, 1774; BOYKIN, Frank William, a Representative from Ala-moved with his father to Whitleys Station, Ky., in 1779; bama; born in Bladon Springs, County, Ala., Febru-educated by private tutors and in private schools; studied ary 21, 1885; attended the public schools; moved to Fairford,law; was admitted to the bar in 1797 and commenced prac- Ala., in 1890 and was employed as a clerk in a store andtice in Lancaster, KY.; member of the State house of repre- later as store manager; moved to Malcolm, Ala., in 1905 andsentatives in 1800; elected as a Republican to the Eighth, engaged in the manufacture of railroad cross ties; moved to Ninth, and Tenth Congresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1809); Mobile, Ala., in 1915 and was occupied with real estate,one of the managers appointed by the House of Representa- farming, livestock, timber, lumber, and naval stores intives, in January 1804, to conduct the impeachment proceed- southern Alabama; during the First World War served as anings against John Pickering, and, in December of the same official in shipbuilding companies; elected as a Democrat toyear, against Samuel Chase; chairman, Committee on Public the Seventy-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused byLand Claims (Ninth and Tenth Congresses); appointed Gov- the resignation of John McDuffie; reelected to the Seventy-ernor of Illinois Territory in 1809, but declined; judgeof the fifth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses and servedCourt of Appeals of Kentucky from April 1809 to April 1810, from July 30, 1935, to January 3, 1963; chairman, Committeeserving as chief justice from April 1810 to November 8, 1826, on Patents (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses);when he resigned; United States judge for the district of unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1962 to theKentucky from November 9, 1826, until his death near Dan- Eighty-eighth Congress; returned to his many business ac-ville, Boyle County, Ky., February 28, 1835; interment in tivities; died in Washington, D.C., March 12, 1969; intermentBellevue Cemetery. in Pine Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Ala. BRABSON, Reese Bowen (uncle of Charles Keith Bell), a Bibliography:Boykin, Edward. Everything's Made for LoveinThis Representative from Tennessee; born at Brabsons Ferry, Man s World; Vignettes from the Life of Frank W. Boykin. Privately Print- near Knoxville, Tenn., September 16, 1817; attended the ed in Mobile, Alabama, 1973. Dandridge Academy, Dandridge, Tenn.; was graduated from BOYLAN, John Joseph, a Representative from New York;Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn., in 1840; studied law; born in New York City September 20, 1878; attended thewas admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in public schools, Cathedral School, De La Salle Institute, andChattanooga, Tenn.; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; Manhattan College, all in New York City; employed as amember of the State house of representatives in 1851 and postal clerk and afterward engaged in the real estate busi-1852; elected as a candidate of the Opposition Party to the ness; member of the State assembly 1909-1913; served in theThirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); was State senate 1913-1922; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-not a candidate for renomination in 1860; engaged in the eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses and servedpractice of his profession until his death in Chattanooga, from March 4, 1923, until his death; was not a candidate forTenn., August 16, 1863; interment in the Citizens Cemetery. renomination in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; died in BRACE, Jonathan, a Representative from Connecticut; New York City, October 5, 1938; interment in Calvary Ceme-born in Harwinton, Conn., November 12, 1754; pursued pre- tery, Long Island City, N.Y. paratory studies; was graduated from Yale College in 1779; BOYLE, Charles Augustus, a Representative from Illinois;studied law; was admitted to the bar in Bennington, Vt., in born in Spring Lake, Ottawa County, Mich., August 13, 1907; 1779 and commenced practice in Pawlet, Vt.; moved to Man- after leaving the farm of his parents he graduated fromchester, Vt., in 1782 and continued the practice of law; Mount Carmel High School, Chicago, Ill., in 1925; worked formember of the council of censors to revise the constitution; 656 Biographical Directory

prosecuting attorney for Bennington County 1784-1785; BRADBURY, Theophilus, a Representative from Massa- moved to Glastonbury, Conn., in January 1786 but was notchusetts; born in Newbury, Mass., November 13, 1739; was admitted to the Connecticut bar until 1790; member of thegraduated from Harvard, College in 1757; taught school and general assembly 1788 and 1791-1794 and was chosen assist-studied law in Portland Maine, was admitted to the bar and ant in the council in May 1798; moved to Hartford, Conn., incommenced practice in Portland in 1761, moved to Newbury 1794; judge of the city court from 1797 until 1815, with theport, Mass., in 1764 and continued the practice of law; exception of two years; elected as a Federalist to the Fifthmember of the State senate 1791-1794; elected as a Federal- Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joshuaist to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses and served from Coit; reelected to the Sixth Congress and served from De-March 4 1795, until July 24, 1797, when he resigned, ap- cember 3, 1798, until his resignation in 1800; assistant in thepointed judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts in 1797, council of the State 1802-1818; appointed prosecuting attor- ney for Hartford County in December 1807 and served untilwhich position he held until his death; member of the elec- May 1809, when he resigned; appointed judge of the countytoral college in 1800; died in Newburyport, Mass., September court and of probate in May 1809; continued as judge of the6, 1803; interment in Newburyport Cemetery. county court until 1821 and as judge of probate until 1824; Bibliography: DAB. mayor of Hartford 1815-1824; member of the State senate in BRADEMAS, John, a Representative from Indiana; born 1819 and 1820; died in Hartford, Conn., August 26, 1837;in Mishawaka, Saint Joseph County, md., March 2, 1927; interment in the Old North Cemetery. graduate of Central High School, South Bend, md, served in BRACKENRIDGE, Henry Marie, a Representative fromthe United States Navy in 1945 and 1946; graduated from Pennsylvania; born in Pittsburgh, Pa., May 11, 1786; in-Harvard University in 1949 and from Oxford University structed by his father and private tutors; attended a French(Rhodes Scholar for Indiana) in 1954; legislative assistant to academy at St. Genevieve, La.; studied law; was admitted toUnited States Senator Pat McNamara of Michigan in 1955, the bar in 1806 and practiced in Somerset, Pa., until 1810; administrative assistant to Representative Thomas L. Ashley appointed deputy attorney general of the Territory of Or-of Ohio in 1955, executive assistant to Adlai E Stevenson in leans (Louisiana) in 1811; district judge of Louisiana in 1812;1955 and 1956, assistant professor of political science, Saint appointed secretary of a mission to South America in 1817;Mary's College, Notre Dame, md., in 1957 and 1958; member judge for the western district of Florida 1821-1832; returnedof congressional delegation to First Inter-American Confer- to Pennsylvania in 1832 and became owner of a large tractence, Lima, Peru, in 1959; unsuccessful Democratic candi- of land upon which he founded the town of Tarentum, Pa.;date for election to the Eighty-fourth Congress in 1954 and elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress to fill the to the Eighty-fifth Congress in 1956; elected as a Democrat vacancy caused by the resignation of Richard Biddle andto the Eighty-sixth and to the ten succeeding Congresses served from October 13, 1840, to March 3, 1841; unsuccessful(January 3, 1959-January 3, 1981); majority whip (Ninety- candidate for renomination in 1840; member of the commis-fifth and Ninety-sixth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate sion under the treaty with Mexico in 1841; engaged in liter-for reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress; presi- ary pursuits until his death in Pittsburgh, Pa., January 18,dent, New York University, New York City, 1981 to present; 1871; interment in Prospect Cemetery, Brackenridge, Pa.is a resident of New York City. Bibliography: DAB; Keller, William F The Nation's Advocate: Henry Bibliography: Brademas, John. Washington, D.C. to Washington Square. Marie Brackenridge and Young America. Pittsburgh: University of Pitts- New York: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1986. burgh Press, 1956. BRADFORD, Allen Alexander, a Delegate from the Terri- BRADBURY, George, a Representative from Massachu-tory of Colorado; born in Friendship, Maine, July 23, 1815; setts; born in Falmouth, Mass., October 10, 1770; was grad-moved to Missouri in 1841; studied law; was admitted to the uated from Harvard University in 1789; studied law; wasbar and practiced; clerk of the circuit court of Atchison admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Portland,County, Mo., 1845-1851; moved to Iowa and was judge of the Maine (until 1820 a district of Massachusetts); member ofsixth judicial district 1852-1855; moved to the Territory of the Massachusetts house of representatives 1806-18 12; elect-Nebraska; served as a member of the Territorial house of ed as a Federalist to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Con- representatives in 1856, 1857, and 1858; moved to the Terri- gresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); unsuccessful candi- date for renomination in 1816; resumed the practice of law;tory of Colorado in 1860; appointed judge of the supreme associate clerk of the Portland Court 1817-1820; member ofcourt of the Territory by President Lincoln on June 6, 1862; the State senate in 1820; died in Portland, Maine, Novemberelected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 7, 1823; interment in Eastern Cemetery. 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); resumed the practice of law; elected to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); BRADBURY, James Ware, a Senator from Maine; born inengaged in the practice of law in Pueblo, Cob., until his Parsonsfield, Maine, June 10, 1802; attended the commondeath there March 12, 1888; interment in the City Cemetery. schools and Gorham Academy; was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1825; principal of Hallowell BRADFORD, Taul, a Representative from Alabama; born Academy and founder of the first normal school in Newin Talladega, Talladega County, Ala., January 20, 1835; at- England, at Effingham, N.H., in 1829; studied law; was ad-tended the local school; was graduated from the University mitted to the bar and commenced practice in Augusta,of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1854; studied law; was admitted Maine, in 1830; prosecuting attorney 1834-1838; elected as ato the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in Talladega, Democrat to the United States Senate and served fromAla.; served in the Confederate Army as major of the Tenth March 4, 1847, until March 3, 1853; declined to be a candi-Regiment, Alabama Infantry, and subsequently became lieu- date for reelection; chairman, Committee on Printing (Thir-tenant colonel of the Thirtieth Regiment, Alabama Infantry; tieth Congress), Committee on Retrenchment (Thirty-firstmember of the State house of representatives in 1871 and and Thirty-second Congresses); trustee of Bowdoin College1872; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress 1861; president of the Maine Historical Society 1867-1887;(March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for practiced law in Augusta, Maine; died in Augusta, Maine,renomination in 1876; continued the practice of law in Talla- January 6, 1901; interment in Forest Grove Cemetery. dega, Ala., until his death on October 28, 1883; interment in Bibliography: DAB. 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BRADFORD, William, a Senator from Rhode Island; borncity of Philadelphia, 1954-1962; became a member of Board in Plympton, Plymouth County, Mass., November 4, 1729;of Revision of Taxes, city of Philadelphia, April 1955; retired studied medicine in Hingham, Mass., and afterwards prac-in 1976; resided in Philadelphia, Pa., where he died Novem- ticed in Warren, R.I.; moved to Bristol, R.I.; abandoned theber 27, 1979; interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, Pa. profession of medicine and studied law; was admitted to the Rhode Island bar in 1767 and commenced practice in Bristol; BRADLEY, Nathan Ball, a Representative from Michi- member, State house of representatives for several termsgan; born in Lee, Berkshire County, Mass., May 28, 1831; between 1761 and 1803, serving as speaker on several occa-moved with his parents to Lorain County, Ohio, in 1835; sions; member of the Rhode Island Committee of Corre-attended the common schools; moved to Wisconsin in 1849; spondence in 1773; deputy governor of Rhode Island 1775-employed in a sawmill in the pine region; returned to Ohio 1778; elected as a Delegate to the Continental Congress inin 1850 and built and operated a sawmill until 1852, when 1776 but did not attend; elected to the United States Senatehe moved to Lexington, Mich., and engaged in the manufac- and served from March 4, 1793, until October 1797, when heture of lumber; moved to St. Charles, in the Saginaw Valley, resigned; served as President pro tempore of the Senatein 1855 and engaged in the lumber industry, purchased a during the Fifth Congress; retired to his home in Bristol,mill in Bay City, Mich., which he operated from 1858 to R.I., and died there on July 6, 1808; interment in East Burial1864; engaged in the salt industry in Bay City; justice of the Ground. peace three terms, a supervisor one term, an alderman three BRADLEY, Edward, a Representative from Michigan;terms, and the first mayor of Bay City after it obtained its born in East Bloomfield, Ontario County, N.Y., in Aprilcharter in 1865; member of the State senate 1866-1868; en- 1808; attended the common schools and the local academy ingaged in banking in 1867; vice president of the First Nation- Canandaigua; associate judge of the common pleas court ofal Bank of Bay City; elected as a Republican to the Forty- Ontario County, N.Y., in 1836; moved to Detroit, Mich., inthird and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1839; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1841 and1877); was not a candidate for renomination in 1876 to the commenced practice in Marshall, Calhoun County, Mich.;Forty-fifth Congress; again engaged in the lumber business prosecuting attorney of Calhoun County in 1842; member ofin Bay City and also was instrumental in establishing the the State senate in 1842 and 1843; elected as a Democrat tofirst beet-sugar factory in the State; died in Bay City, Bay the Thirtieth Congress and served from March 4, 1847, untilCounty, Mich., November 8, 1906; interment in Elm Lawn his death on August 5, 1847, in New York City while enCemetery. route to Washington, D.C., before the assembling of Con- BRADLEY, Stephen Row (father of William Czar Brad- gress; interment in the Congressional Cemetery, Washing-ley), a Senator from Vermont; born in Wallingford, Conn., ton, D.C. February 20, 1754; was graduated from Yale College in 1775; BRADLEY, Frederick Van Ness, a Representative fromstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1779 and commenced Michigan; born in Chicago, Ill., April 12, 1898; moved topractice in Westminster, Vt.; captain of a volunteer compa- Rogers City, Mich., in 1910; attended the public schools, ny during the Revolutionary War; State's attorneyfor Cum- Rogers City (Mich.) High School, and Montclair (N.J.) Acade- berland County 1780; register of probate for Westminster my; served in the Student Army Training Corps at Platts-1782; appointed judge of Windham County 1783; member, burg, N.Y., in 1918; was graduated from Cornell University,State-house of representatives 1785, serving as speaker; ap- Ithaca, N.Y., in 1921; salesman with the Michigan Limestonepointed associate judge of the superior court of Vermont and Chemical Co., Buffalo, N.Y., 1921-1923, and purchasing1788; member of the city council of Westminster 1798; upon agent 1928-1938; also purchasing agent, Bradley Transporta-the admission of Vermont as a State into the Union was tion Co., Rogers City, Mich., 1924-1938; elected as a Republi-elected to the United States Senate and served from October can to the Seventy-sixth and to the four succeeding Con-17, 1791, to March 3, 1795; unsuccessful candidate for reelec- gresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his deathtion in 1795; again elected to the United States Senate in May 24, 1947, at New London, Conn., while there as a1801 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Elijah member of the Board of Visitors to the Coast Guard Acade-Paine; reelected in 1807, and served from October 15, 1801, my; chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisher-to March 3, 1813; served as President pro tempore of the ies (Eightieth Congress); interment in Rogers City MemorialSenate during the Seventh and Tenth Congresses; retired Park, Rogers City, Mich. from public lifa and returned to Westminster; moved to BRADLEY, Michael Joseph, a Representative from Penn-Walpole, N.H., in 1818 and died there December 9, 1830; sylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 24, 1897; attendedinterment in the Old Cemetery, Westminster, Vt. the parochial and public high schools; engaged as a telegra- Bibliography: DAB. pher 1914-1917; during the First World War served overseas BRADLEY, Thomas Joseph, a Representative from New as a chief radio electrician in the United States Navy 19 17-York; born in New York City January 2, 1870; attended the 1919; engaged in the security and brokerage business inpublic schools; was graduated from the College of the City of Philadelphia, Pa., 1921-1935; deputy insurance commissioner of Pennsylvania 1935-1937; unsuccessful candidate for elec-New York in 1887; taught in the public schools of New York tion in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; elected as aCity from 1887 until 1891; was graduated from the law de- Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and to the four succeedingpartment of the University of New York, New York City, in Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1947); was not a1889; was admitted to the bar in 1891 and commenced prac- candidate for renomination in 1946 to the Eightieth Con-tice in New York City; deputy assistant district attorney of gress; chairman of the Democratic county executive commit- the county of New York 1892-1895; resumed the practice of tee of Philadelphia, 1946-1948; collector of customs for dis-law; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth trict No. 11, Port of Philadelphia, 1948-1953; deputy manag-Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901); was not a candi- ing director, city of Philadelphia, 1953-1955; member ofdate for renomination in 1900; continued the practice of law Pennsylvania Navigation Commission for the Delawareuntil his death in New York City April 1, 1901; interment in River, 1954-1964; chairman, Board of Fair Labor Standards,Calvary Cemetery. 658 Biographical Directory

BRADLEY, Thomas Wilson, a Representative from Newserved in the United States Air Force Reserve 1967-1978; York; born in Yorkshire, England, April 6, 1844; immigratedauthor; professional basketball player 1967-1977; business- to the United States in 1846 with his parents, who settled inman; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in Walden, Orange County, N.Y.; attended school until nine1978 for the term commencing January 3, 1979; reelected in years of age; during the Civil War entered the Union Army1984 for the term ending January 3, 1991. as a private; promoted to captain in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry; was BRADLEY, Willis Winter, a Representative from Califor- aide-de-camp to Major General Mott, Third Division, Secondnia; born in Ransomville, Niagara County, N.Y., June 28, Army Corps; awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor1884; moved with his parents to Milnor, N.Dak., in July 1884 "for gallantry at Chancellorsville"; was brevetted major ofand to Forman, N.Dak., in 1891; attended the public schools, United States Volunteers; member of the State house ofand Hamlin University, St. Paul, Minn.; deputy registrant of assembly in 1876; delegate to the Republican National Con-deeds of Sargent County, N.Dak., in 1902 and 1903; was ventions in 1892, 1896, and 1900; elected as a Republican tograduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1906; the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congressesduring the First World War served as gunnery officer and as (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1913); was not a candidate forchief of the Explosives Section, Bureau of Ordnance, Navy renomination in 1912; engaged in banking; president andDepartment; awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor; treasurer of the New York Knife Co.; died in Walden, N.Y.,Governor of Guam 1929-1931; captain of the Pearl Harbor May 30, 1920; interment in Wallkill Valley Cemetery. Navy Yard 1933-1935; attached to the Board of Inspection BRADLEY, William Czar (son of Stephen Row Bradley), aand Survey, Pacific Coast Section, 1940-1946; in 1946 retired Representative from Vermont; born in Westminster, Vt.,from the United States Navy because of physical incapacity March 23, 1782; received his early education in the schoolsincurred in line of duty; took up residence in Long Beach, of Cheshire, Conn., and Charlestown, N.H., and for a shortCalif., in 1931; elected as a Republican to the Eightieth time attended Yale College, New Haven, Conn.; studied law;Congress (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); was an unsuc- was admitted to the bar in 1802 and commenced practice incessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Westminster; prosecuting attorney for Windham CountyCongress; assistant to the president of the Pacific Coast 1804-1811; member of the State house of representatives inSteamship Co., 1949-1952; member of the State assembly 1806, 1807, and 1819; member of the Governor's council infrom 1952 until his death; died in Santa Barbara, Calif., 1812; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth CongressAugust 27, 1954; interment in Fort Rosecrans National Cem- (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); agent of the United Statesetery, San Diego, Calif. under the treaty of Ghent to fix the boundary line between BRADSHAW, Samuel Carey, a Representative from Penn- Maine and Canada 1815-1820; elected to the Eighteenth andsylvania; born in Plumstead, Bucks County, Pa., June 10, Nineteenth Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1827); re-1809; attended the public schools; was graduated from Penn- sumed the practice of law; unsuccessful Democratic candi-sylvania Medical College in 1833 and practiced in Quaker date for Governor in 1830, 1834, and 1838; again a membertown, Bucks County, Pa.; elected as a Whig to the Thirty- of the State house of representatives in 1850; presidentialfourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); unsuccessful elector on the Republican ticket in 1856; member of thecandidate for reelection in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; State constitutional convention in 1857; retired from thedied in Quakertown, Pa., June 9, 1872; interment in Friends practice of his profession in 1858; died in Westminster,Burial Ground. Windham County, Vt., March 3, 1867; interment in the Old Cemetery. BRADY, James Dennis, a Representative from Virginia, Bibliography: DAB. born in Portsmouth, Va., April 3, 1843; moved to New York BRADLEY, William O'Connell, a Senator from Kentucky;City when twelve years of age; attended the public schools; born near Lancaster, Garrard County, Ky., March 18, 1847;engaged in mercantile pursuits; during the Civil War enlist- educated by private tutors and at a private school in Somer-ed as a private in the Thirty-seventh New York Volunteers set, Ky.; during the Civil War entered the Union Army atand was successively promoted to the grades of lieutenant the age of fifteen, but because of his youth served only aand adjutant, captain, major, and lieutenant colonel of the short time; studied law and was licensed to practice in 1865;Sixty-third New York Volunteers, holding the latter rank prosecuting attorney of Garrard County 1870; appointedwhen mustered out of service in July 1865; returned to Minister to Korea in 1889 but declined; member of the Re-Portsmouth, Va., after the war and was elected clerk of the publican National Committee 1890-1896; Republican Gover-corporation court of Portsmouth, which position he held nor of Kentucky 1895-1899; elected as a Republican to theuntil June 1877; appointed collector of internal revenue for United States Senate and served from March 4, 1909, untilthe second district of Virginia and served from June 1877 his death in Washington, D.C., May 23, 1914; chairman,until his death, with the exception of eight years under the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justicetwo Cleveland administrations; delegate to the Republican (Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses), Committee to In-National Conventions in 1880, 1888, and 1896; elected as a vestigate Trespassers upon Indian Land (Sixty-first Con-Republican to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885- gress), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Sixty-third Con-March 3, 1887); was not a candidate for renomination in gress); interment in State Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky. 1886; member of the Republican National Committee 1888- Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for William Bradley. 1892; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1892 and 64th Cong., 1st sess., 1915-1916. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing commenced practice in Washington, D.C.; died in Peters- Office, 1917. burg, Dinwiddie County, Va., November 30, 1900; interment in St. Joseph's Cemetery. BRADLEY, William Warren (Bill), a Senator from New Jersey; born in Crystal City, Jefferson County, Mo., July 28, BRADY, James Henry, a Senator from Idaho; born in 1943; attended Crystal City public schools and privateIndiana County, Pa., June 12, 1862; moved with his parents schools in Palm Beach, Fla.; graduated, Princeton Universityto Johnson County, Kans., in 1865; attended the public 1965; attended Oxford University, Oxford, England, as aschools and Leavenworth Normal College; taught school; Rhodes Scholar and received a graduate degree in 1968;edited a newspaper in Enterprise, Kans.; engaged in the real Biographies 659 estate business at Abilene, Kans.; moved to Chicago, Ill., in1877-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Expenditures 1890 and engaged in the sale of Texas lands; moved to Idahoin the Department of Justice (Forty-fifth Congress), Commit- in 1895 and became interested in the development of watertee on War Claims (Forty-sixth Congress); was not a candi- power and in irrigation projects; chairman of the Republicandate for renomination in 1882; elected to the Forty-ninth State central committee 1904-1908; president of the Trans-Congress (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1887); chairman, Commit- Mississippi Commercial Congress; vice president of the Na-tee on Military Mfairs (Forty-ninth Congress); was not a tional Irrigation Congress 1904-1906; Governor of Idahocandidate for renomination in 1886; resumed the practice of 1909-1911; elected as a Republican to the United Stateslaw in Fond du Lac, Wis.; appointed Envoy Extraordinary Senate on January 24, 1913, to fill the vacancy caused by the and Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico January 16, 1888, death of Weldon B. Heyburn; reelected in 1914, and servedand served from March 5, 1888, to May 27, 1889; appointed from February 6, 1913, until his death in Washington, D.C.,consul general at Habana, Cuba, May 19, 1902, and assumed January 13, 1918; chairman, Committee on National Banks (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Disposition of Uselesscharge June 30, 1902; appointed consul general at Hong Executive Papers (Sixty-fifth Congress); was cremated andKong, China, September 15, 1902, and assumed his duties the ashes deposited in the James H. Brady Memorial ChapelMarch 1, 1903; resigned, effective May 1, 1906; died in Fond in Mountain View Cemetery, Pocatello, Bannock County,du Lac, Wis., June, 20, 1912; interment in the Rienzi Ceme- Idaho. tery. Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Menwrial Services for James Henry Brady. Bibliography: DAB. 65th Cong., 3rd sess., 1918-1919. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing BRAGG, John, a Representative from Alabama; born near Office, 1919. Warrenton, Warren County, N.C., January 14, 1806; attend- BRADY, Jasper Ewing, a Representative from Pennsylva-ed the local academy at Warrenton, and was graduated from nia; born in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa., Marchthe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1824; 4, 1797; attended the common schools; learned the hatter'sstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1830 and commenced trade; taught school in Franklin County, Pa.; studied law;practice in Warrenton; member of the State house of com- was admitted to the bar in 1827 and commenced practice inmons of North Carolina 1830-1834; moved to Mobile, Ala., in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pa.; served as treasurer of1836 and continued the practice of law; was appointed judge Franklin County for three years; member of the State houseof the tenth judicial circuit in 1842; member of the State of representatives in 1844 and 1845; elected as a Whig to thehouse of representatives; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); unsuc-Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); de- cessful candidate for reelection in 1848 to the Thirty-firstclined to be a candidate for reelection in 1852; resumed the Congress; moved to Pittsburgh, Pa., in September 1849 andpractice of his profession; delegate from Mobile to the State resumed the practice of law; clerk in the office of the pay-constitutional convention in1861; died in Mobile, Ala., master general in the War Department, Washington, D.C.,August 10, 1878; interment in Magnolia Cemetery. 1861-1869; retired from active business pursuits in 1869 and resided in Washington, D.C., until his death in that city on BRAGG, Thomas, a Senator from North Carolina; born in January 26, 1871; interment in City Cemetery, Sunbury,Warrenton, Warren County, N.C., November 9, 1810; attend- Northumberland County, Pa.; reinterment in Rock Creeked the Warrenton Academy; was graduated from Captain Cemetery, Washington, D.C., in 1893. Partridge's Military Academy, Middletown, Conn.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced prac- BRADY, Nicholas Frederick, a Senator from New Jersey;tice in Jackson, Northampton County, N.C.; member, State born in New York City, April 11, 1930; graduated, St. Mark'shouse of commons 1842-1843; prosecuting attorney for School, Southboro, Mass., 1948, Yale University in 1952, andNorthampton County; Governor of North Carolina 1855- in 1954; investment counselor and banker; appointed as a Republican to the United States1859; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and Senate April 12, 1982, to fill the vacancy caused by theserved from March 4, 1859, until March 6, 1861, when he resignation of Harrison A. Williams, Jr., and served fromwithdrew; expelled from the Senate for support of the rebel- April 12, 1982, until his resignation December 20, 1982; didlion in 1861; appointed Attorney General of the Confederate not seek election in 1982; resumed banking and businessStates November 21, 1861, and served two years; resumed interests in New York City; is a resident of Far Hills, N.J.the practice of law; died in Raleigh, N.C., January 21, 1872; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. BRAGG, Edward Stuyvesant, a Representative from Wis- Bibliography: DAB; Cowper, Pulaski. "Thomas Bragg." In Lives of Dis- consin; born in Unadilla, Otsego County, N.Y., February 20, tinguished North Carolinians. pp. 306-32. Edited by William Peele. Ra- 1827; attended the district schools, the local academy, and leigh: North Carolina Publishing Society, 1898. Geneva (later Hobart) College at Geneva, N.Y.; studied law; BRAINERD, Lawrence, a Senator from Vermont; born in was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice inEast Hartford, Conn., March 16, 1794; went to Troy, N.Y., in Unadilla; moved to Fond du Lac, Wis., in 1850 and continued1803 to reside with an uncle and in 1808 moved with him to the practice of law; elected district attorney in 1853; delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Charleston inSt.Albans, Vt.;completed preparatory studies; taught 1860; entered the Union Army as a captain in the Sixthschool; employed as a clerk in a mercantile establishment Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, July 16,1861; until 1816; engaged in mercantile, banking, navigation, and major September 17, 1861; lieutenant colonel June 21, 1862;railroad enterprises; elected to the state legislature in 1834; colonel March 24, 1863; brigadier general of Volunteers Juneaffiliated with the Whig Party until 1840, when he became a 25, 1864; mustered out of the service October 9, 1865; ap-member of the Liberty Party; unsuccessful candidate for pointed postmaster of Fond du Lac by President Johnson inGovernor in 1846, 1847, 1848, 1852, and 1854; elected as a 1866; member of the State senate in 1868 and 1869; delegatemember of the Free-Soil Party to the United States Senate to the Democratic National Convention in 1872, 1880, andto fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Upham 1896; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Unitedand served from October 14, 1854, to March 3, 1855; was not States Senate in 1874; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-a candidate for reelection; nonimated for Governor but de- fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4,clined; resumed business activities; died in St. Albans, 660 Biographical Directory

Franklin County, Vt., May 9, 1870; interment in Greenwoodthere; moved to Tallahassee, Fla., in 1840; was admitted to Cemetery. the bar in Florida in 1840 by a special act of the legislature Bibliography: DAB. and commenced practice in Tallahassee; fought in the Semi- BRAINERD, Samuel Myron, a Representative from Penn-nole War in 1841; moved to Raleigh, N.C., in 1852 and con- sylvania; horn in Albion, Erie County, Pa., November 13,tinued the practice of law; president of the Raleigh & Gaston 1842; attended the public schools, Edinboro Normal School,Railroad Co.; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fourth, and Ann Arbor (Mich.) Law School; was admitted to the barThirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1855- in 1869 and commenced practice in North East, Erie County,March 3, 1861); was not a candidate for renomination in Pa.; district attorney of Erie County 1872-1875; moved to1860; appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Bu- Erie, Pa., in 1874 and continued the practice of law; chair-chanan December 2, 1860, but declined; entered the Confed- man of the Republican county committee in 1880; elected aserate Army in May 1861 and was appointed brigadier gener- a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-al the same year; senior brigadier general in A.P. Hill's March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate for renomination indivision, Stonewall Jackson's corps; killed in the Battle of 1884; resumed the practice of law in Erie, Pa., and diedAntietam, Sharpsburg, Md., while in command of the Fourth there November 21, 1898; interment in the City Cemetery.Brigade, North Carolina Troops, September 17, 1862; inter- ment in Old City Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C. BRAMBLEVI', Ernest King, a Representative from Cali- Bibliography: DAB. fornia; born in Fresno, Calif., April 25, 1901; attended the public schools; was graduated from Stanford University in BRANCH, William Augustus Blount (son of Lawrence 1925; took graduate work at Stanford, Fresno State, SanO'Bryan Branch and great-nephew of ), a Rep- Jose State, and the University of Southern California; en-resentative from North Carolina; born in Tallahassee, Fla., gaged in the insurance and automobile business 1925-1928,February 26, 1847, moved with his father to Raleigh, N C, m and in educational work 1928-1946; mayor of Pacific Grove1852; attended Lovejoy's Academy, Raleigh, N.C., Bingham 1939-1947; coordinator of Monterey County schools 1943-Military Academy near Mebane, N.C., the University of 1946; member of the Republican Central Committee 1944-North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Virginia Military Insti- 1946; elected as a Republican to the Eightieth and to thetute at Lexington; joined the Confederate Army and served three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3,as a courier on the staff of Gen. R. F. Hoke; surrendered 1955); was not a candidate for renomination in 1954; engagedwith Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army in 1865; studied law as a consultant in southern California, 1955-1966; was abut never practiced; in 1867 took charge of his landed estate resident of Woodland Hills, Calif., until his death Decembernear Washington, Beaufort County, N.C., and engaged in 27, 1966. agricultural pursuits; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, BRANCH, John (uncle of Lawrence O'Bryan Branch and1895); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the great-uncle of William Augustus Blount Branch), a SenatorFifty-fourth Congress; again engaged in agricultural pursuits and a Representative from North Carolina; born in Halifax,on his estate; member of the State house of representatives Halifax County, N.C., November 4, 1782; appointed commis-in 1896; died in Washington, N.C., November 18, 1910; inter- sioner for valuation of lands and dwellings and enumerationment in Oakdale Cemetery. of slaves, third district of North Carolina 1799; was graduat- ed from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill m BRAND, Charles, a Representative from Ohio; born in 1801; studied law; was admitted to the bar; member, StateUrbana, Champaign County, Ohio, November 1, 1871; at- senate 1811-1817, 1822, serving as speaker 1815-1817; Gover- tended the graded schools of his native city and Ohio Wes- nor of North Carolina 18 17-1820; appointed Federal judgeleyan University, Delaware, Ohio; engaged in agricultural for the western district of Florida by President Jamespursuits, manufacturing, and banking at Urbana; member Monroe 1822, elected to the United States Senate m 1822,and president of the Urbana City Council 1911-1912; reelected in 1829, and served from March 4, 1823, to Marchmember of the State senate in 1921 and 1922; served as a 9, 1829, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Agricul-member of the advisory committee of the War Finance Cor- ture (Twentieth Congress); appointed Secretary of the Navyporation in 1921; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth by President Andrew Jackson and served from March 9,and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 1829, until his resignation, effective May 12, 1831, having3, 1933); was not a candidate for renomination in 1932; re- been elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to thesumed former business pursuits until his retirement; died in Twenty-second Congress and served from May 12, 1831, toMelbourne Beach, Fla., May 23, 1966; interment in Mel- March 3, 1833; was not a candidate for renomination inbourne Cemetery. 1832; member of the State constitutional convention in 1835; appointed Governor of Florida by President John Tyler and BRAND, Charles Hillyer, a Representative from Georgia; served from June 21, 1844, until the election of a Governorborn in Loganville, Walton County, Ga., April 20, 1861; at- under the State constitution in 1845; died in Enfield, Halifaxtended the common schools, and was graduated from the County, N.C., January 3,1863; interment in the familyUniversity of Georgia at Athens in 1881; was admitted to the burial ground. bar in 1882 and commenced practice in Lawrenceville, Gwin- Bibliography: DAB. nett County, Ga.; member of the State senate in 1894 and 1895 and served as president pro tempore; served as presi- BRANCH, Lawrence O'Bryan (father of William Augustusdent and director of the Brand Banking Co., Lawrenceville, Blount Branch and nephew of John Branch), a Representa-Ga., and director of the Georgia National Bank and of the tive from North Carolina; born in Enfield, Halifax County,American State Bank, Athens, Ga.; solicitor general for the N.C., November 28, 1820; pursued a preparatory coursewestern judicial circuit of Georgia 1896-1904; judge of the under a private teacher in Washington, D.C., and at the superior court 1906-1917; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- Bingham Military Academy in North Carolina; attended thefifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for a short timeRepresentative-elect Samuel J.Tribble; reelected to the and was graduated from Princeton College in 1838; studiedSixty-sixth and to the seven succeeding Congresses and law at Nashville, Tenn., and owned and edited a newspaperserved from March 4, 1917, until his death in Athens, Ga., Biographies 661

Lawn Cemetery, BRASCO, Frank James, a Representative from New York; on May 17, 1933; interment in Shadow in St. Lawrenceville, Ga. born in Brooklyn, N.Y., October 15, 1932; educated Michael's High School; graduated from Brooklyn College, BRANDEGEE, Augustus (father of Frank Bosworth Bran-B.A., 1955, and Brooklyn Law School, LL.B., 1957; staff attor- degee), a Representative from Connecticut; born in Newney, Legal Aid Society for fourand one-half years; assistant London, Conn., July 15, 1828; pursued preparatory studies;district attorney and assistant chief of Rackets Bureau, was graduated from Yale College in 1849and from the YaleKings County; captain, United States Army Reserve,JAGC, Law School in 1851; was admitted to the bar in 1851 andFourth Judge Advocate General Corps; Speakers Bureauof commenced practice in New London; member of the Statethe district attorney's office, Kings County; elected as a house of representatives 1854, 1858, 1859, and 1861, andDemocrat to the Ninetieth and to the three succeedingCon- served as speaker the last term; elected as a Republican togresses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1975); wasnot a candi- the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4,date for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; 1863-March 3, 1867); was not a candidate for reelection in 1866; delegate to the Republican National Convention inresumed the practice of law in New York City; is a resident 1864, the Loyalist Convention at Philadelphia in 1866, andof Woodmere, N.Y. the Republican National Conventions in 1880 and 1884; re- BRATTON, John, a Representative from South Carolina; sumed the practice of law; corporation counsel of Newborn in Winnsboro, Fairfield County, S.C., March 7, 1831; London in 1897 and 1898; died in New London, Conn., No-attended the Academy of Mount Zion Institute in Winns- vember 10, 1904; interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery. boro; was graduated from South Carolina College at Colum- BRANDEGEE, Frank Bosworth (son of Augustus Brande-bia in 1850 and from South Carolina Medical College at gee), a Representative and a Senator from Connecticut; bornCharleston in 1853; engaged in the practice of medicine in in New London, Conn., July 8, 1864; attended the commonWmnsboro from 1853 to 1861, also engaged as a planter, schools, and was graduated from Yale College in 1885; stud-volunteered in the Confederate Army as a private and ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1888 and practiced inserved throughout the Civil War attaining the rank of brig New London; member, State house of representatives 1888;adier general, member of the State constitutional convention corporation counsel of New London 1889-1893, 1894-1897,in 1865; served in the State senate in 1866; chairmanof the when he resigned; member, State house of representativesSouth Carolina delegation in the Democratic NationalCon- 1899, and served as speaker; again elected corporation coun-vention in 1876; delegate to the Democratic NationalCon- sel of New London 1901-1902, when he resigned to become avention in 1880; elected comptroller general of South Caroli- Member of Congress; chairman of the Republican State con-na by the legislature, to fill a vacancy,in 1881; elected to the vention in 1904; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventhForty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charlesdeath of John H. Evins and served from December8, 1884, A. Russell; reelected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con-to March 3, 1885; was not a candidate forrenomination in gresses and served from November 5,1902, until May 10,1884; retired from active politics and again engaged inplant- 1905, when he resigned, having been elected a United Statesing at "Farmington," near Winnsboro;died in Winnsboro, Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Orville H.S.C., January 12, 1898; interment in the EpiscopalCemetery. Platt; reelected in 1908, 1914, and 1920, and served from Bibliography: DAB. May 10, 1905, until his death in Washington, D.C., October 14, 1924; served as President pro tempore during the Sixty- BRATTON, Robert Franklin, a Representativefrom second Congress; chairman, Committee on Forest Reserva-Maryland; born in Barren Creek Springs, Somerset(now tions and Game Protection (Fifty-ninth through Sixty-firstWicomico) County, Md., May 13, 1845; was graduatedfrom Congresses), Committee on Interoceanic Canals (Sixty-secondWashington College, Chestertown, Md., in 1864;deputy reg- Congress), Committee on Panama (Sixty-second Congress),ister of wills for Somerset County; admitted tothe bar in Committee on Pacific Railroads (Sixty-third through Sixty-1867; member of the State convention of 1865which sent fifth Congresses), Committee on Library (Sixty-sixth anddelegates to a peace convention held in Philadelphiain the Sixty-seventh Congresses), Committee on Judiciary (Sixty-following year; member of several State andcongressional eighth Congress); interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Newconventions; member of the State house ofrepresentatives in London, Conn. 1869; served in the State senate in 1873,1879, 1887, and Bibliography: DAB; Janick, Herbert. "Senator Frank B. Brandegee and1890; elected president of the senate in 1890;engaged in the the Election of 1920." Hi.torian 35 (May 1973): 434-51; U.S. Congress. Me- practice of law in Princess Anne, SomersetCounty, Md.; morial Addresses. 68th Cong., 1st sess., 1924-1925. Washington, D.C.: Gov- elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congressand served ernment Printing Office, 1925. from March 4, 1893, until his death inPrincess Anne, Md., BRANTLEY, William Gordon, a Representative fromMay 10, 1894; interment in St. Andrew's Cemetery. Georgia; born in Blackshear, Pierce County, Ga., September BRAVFON, Sam Gilbert, a Senator from NewMexico; 18, 1860; attended the public schools, and theUniversity of August 19, 1888; bar inborn in Kosse, Limestone County, Tex., Georgia at Athens; studied law; was admitted to the attended the public schools; graduated fromState Normal 1881 and commenced practice in Blackshear, Pierce County,School and taught school for several years atClaude and Ga.; member of the State house of representatives in1884 Hereford, Tex.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in1909 and 1885; served in the State senate in 1886 and 1887; solici- County, Tex.; Brunswick Circuitand commenced practice in Farwell, Parmer tor general (prosecuting attorney) of the moved to Clovis, N.Mex., in 1915 and continued thepractice Court of Georgia 1888-1896; moved to Brunswickin 1889 and fifth judicial district continued the practice of law; elected as a Democrat totheof law; judge of the district court for the (March 4,of New Mexico 1919-1921, when, this districtbeing divided, Fifty-fifth and to the seven succeeding Congresses he became judge of the ninth judicial district1921-1923; 1897-March 3, 1913); was not a candidate for renominationassociate justice of the supreme court of NewMexico 1923- in 1912; delegate to the DemocraticNational Convention in for Sena- 1912; moved from Brunswick, Ga., to Washington,D.C., in1924, when he resigned to accept the nomination Washington,tor; elected as a Democrat to theUnited States Senate in 1913 and resumed the practice of law; died in March 4, 1925, until Ceme-- 1924; reelected in 1930 and served from D.C., September 11, 1934; interment in Blackshear Commit- tery, Blackshear, Ga. his resignation, effective June 24, 1933; chairman, 662 Biographical Directory

tee on Irrigation and Reclamation (Seventy-third Congress); BRAY, William Gilmer, a Representative from Indiana; resigned to accept an appointmentas circuit judge of theborn on a farm near Mooresville, Morgan County, md., June United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the TenthJudi-17, 1903; attended the public schools of Mooresville, md.;was cial Circuit 1933-196 1; died in Albuquerque, N.Mex., Septem-graduated from Indiana University Law School at Blooming- ber 22, 1963; interment in Fairview Park Cemetery. ton in 1927 and was admitted to the bar the same year; BRA WLEY, William Huggins (cousin of John Jamesprosecuting attorney of the fifteenth judicial district of Indi- Hemphill and great-uncle of Robert Witherspoon Hemphill),ana, Martinsville, md., 1926-1930; commenced the private a Representative from South Carolina; born in Chester,practice of law in Martinsville, md., in 1930; called from the Chester County, S.C., May 13, 1841; attended thecommonArmy Reserve June 21, 1941, with the rank of captain and schools, and was graduated from South Carolina Collegeatserved with a tank company throughout the Pacificcam- Columbia in 1860; enlisted as a private in Company F, Sixthpaign, receiving the Silver Star; after the war was trans- Regiment, South Carolina Infantry,Confederate Statesferred to Military Government and served nine months in Army, April 11, 1861; lost an arm in the Battle of SevenKorea as deputy property custodian; released from active Pines and was retired from service; traveled and studied induty in November 1946 with the rank of colonel; returned to Europe in 1864 and 1865; studied law; was admitted to the private law practice in Martinsville, md.; elected asa Re-- bar in 1866 and commenced practice at Chester, S.C.; electedpublican to the Eighty-second and to the eleven succeeding solicitor of the sixth judicial circuit of South Carolina inCongresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful 1868 and served until his resignation in 1874; movedto Charleston and continued the practice of his profession;candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Con- member of the State house of representatives 1882-1890;gress; resumed the practice of law; named to be a commis- elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty-thirdsioner to the American Battle Monuments Commission by Congresses and served from March 4, 1891, until FebruaryPresident , 1975-1978; resided in Martinsviile, 12, 1894, when he resigned to accept a positionon the bench;md., where he died June 4, 1979; interment in White Lick appointed January 18, 1894, United States district judge ofCemetery, Mooresville, md. the district of South Carolina and served from February 12, BRAYTON, William Daniel, a Representative from Rhode 1894, until his resignation June 14, 1911; lived in retirementIsland; born in Warwick, Kent County, R.I., November 6, until his death in Charleston, S.C., November 15, 1916; inter- ment in Magnolia Cemetery. 1815; attended Kent Academy in East Greenwich and Kings- Bibliography: DAB; Brawley, William H. Journal of William H Braw- ton Academy; spent two years in Brown University, Provi- ley, 1864-1865. Edited with an introduction by Frances Poe Brawley. Char-dence, R.I.; engaged in mercantile pursuits; major of the lottesville, Va.: 1970. Fourth Regiment of Rhode Island Militia in the Dorr Rebel- lion; town clerk of Warwick in 1844; member of the town BRAXTON, Carter (great-grandfather of Elliott Musecouncil; member of the State house of representatives in Braxton), a Delegate from Virginia; born at "Newington,"on 1841 and 1851; served in the State senate in 1848 and 1853; the Mattaponi River, near King and Queen Court House,elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Va., September 16, 1736; was graduated from the CollegeofCongresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); chairman, Com- William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1755;spent threemittee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Thirty-sixth years in England and attended Cambridge University;Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1860 to member of the Virginia House of Burgesses 1761-1771 andthe Thirty-seventh Congress; appointed collector of internal 1775-1776; elected a Member of the Continental Congresstorevenue for the second district of Rhode Island in 1862 and fill the vacancy caused by the death of Peyton Randolph andserved until 1871, when he resigned; delegate to the Republi- served from February to August 1776, when Virginiare-can National Convention in 1872; for a number of years in duced her representation from seven to five;a signer of the Declaration of Independence; member, Virginia house of del- charge of the money-order division of the Providence post egates, 1776-1783, 1785-1786, and 1790-1794; member of theoffice; died in Providence, R.I., June 30, 1887; interment in Virginia Council of State 1786-1791 and from 1794 until hisBrayton Cemetery, Apponaug, R.I. death in Richmond, Va., October 10, 1797; intermenton his BREAUX, John Berlinger, a Representative and a Sena- estate, "Chericoke," King William County, Va. tor from Louisiana; born in Crowley, La., March 1, 1944; Bibliography: DAB; Dill, Alonzo T. Carter Braxton; Last Virginia Signer. graduated, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Richmond, Va.: Virginia Independence Bicentennial Commission, 1976; Dill, 1965; graduated, Louisiana State University Law School, Alonzo T.Carter Braxton,Virginia Signer: A Conservativein Revolt. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1983. Baton Rouge, 1967; practiced law; assistant to Representa- tive Edwin W. Edwards 1968-1972; elected as a Democrat to BRAXTON, Elliott Muse (great-grandson of Carter Brax-the Ninety-second Congress in a special election, September ton), a Representative from Virginia; born in Matthews,30, 1972, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Matthews County, Va., October8,1823; attended theEdwin Edwards; reelected to the seven succeeding Congress- common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar ines and served from September 30, 1972, to January 3, 1987; 1849 and commenced practice in Richmond, Va.; subsequent-was not a candidate for reelection to the House of Repre- ly moved to Richmond County; member of the State senatesentatives in 1986, but was elected to the United States 1852-1856; moved to Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County,Senate in 1986 for the term ending January 3, 1993. in 1860 and continued the practice of law; during the Civil War raised a company for the Confederate Army andwas BREAZEALE, Phanor, a Representative from Louisiana; elected its captain; subsequently commissioned a major andborn in Natchitoches Parish, La., December 29, 1858; attend- served on the staff of Gen. John R. Cooke; elected a membered private schools; moved, to Natchitoches, La., in 1877; of the common council of Fredericksburg in 1866; electedasclerked in a mercantile establishment for two years; studied a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871-law; clerk in the supreme court of the State; was graduated

March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872from the law department of Tulane University, New Orle-- to the Forty-third Congress; resumed the practice of law inans, in 1881; was admitted to the bar the same year and Fredericksburg, Va., where he died on October 2, 1891; inter-commenced practice in Natchitoches; also engaged in news- ment in Confederate Cemetery. paper work 1882-1884; president of the school board of Nat- Biographies 663 chitoches Parish 1888-1891; district attorney for the tenthserved until December 13, 1897, when he returned to Pine judicial district 1892-1900; member of the State constitution-Bluff, Ark.; member of the Dawes Commission, 1900-1905; al convention in 1898; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-engaged in banking at Fort Smith, Ark., serving as president sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4,of the Arkansas Valley Trust Co.; member of the State con- 1899-March 3, 1905); unsuccessful candidate for renomina-stitutional convention in 1917; was a resident of Fort Smith, tion in 1904; resumed the practice of law in Natchitoches,Ark., until 1925, when he moved to Wendover, Leslie La.; appointed in October 1908 member of a commission toCounty, Ky., where he died on December 3, 1932; interment codify the criminal laws of Louisiana and to prepare a codein Old Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky. of criminal procedure; member of the Democratic State cen- tral committee since 1908 and a member of the executive BRECKINRIDGE, James (brother of John Breckinridge, committee; delegate to the Democratic National Conventiongreat-great-great-uncle of John Bayne Breckinridge, and in 1908 and 1916; member of the constitutional conventioncousin of John Brown of Virginia and Kentucky, James to frame a constitution for the State of Louisiana in 1921;Brown, and Francis Preston), a Representative from Virgin- died in Natchitoches, La., April 29, 1934; interment in theia; born near Fincastle, Botetourt County, Va., March 7, Catholic Cemetery. 1763; studied under private tutors; during the Revolutionary War served in Colonel Preston's rifle regiment under Gener- BRECK, Daniel (brother of Samuel Breck), a Representa-al Greene; attended Washington College (now Washington tive from Kentucky; born in Topsfield, Essex County, Mass.,and Lee University), Lexington, Va., and was graduated February 12, 1788; attended the local school; taught school;from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in was graduated from Dartmouth College,Hanover, N.H., in 1812; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1814 and1785; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in commenced practice in Richmond, Madison County, Ky., inFincastle; member of the State house of delegates 1789-1802, October of the same year; judge of the Richmond County1806-1808, 1819-1821 and 1823-1824; took a special interest in the construction of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal; elected Court; member of the State house of representatives 1824- succeeding 1827 and again in 1834; president of the Richmond branch ofas a Federalist to the Eleventh and to the three the State Bank of Kentucky 1835-1843; appointed associateCongresses (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1817); was an associate judge of the supreme court of Kentucky April 7, 1843, andof Thomas Jefferson in the establishment of the University served until 1849; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Con-of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.; served as brigadier general gress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); returned to Richmond, in the War of 1812; resumed the practice of law; died at his Ky., and again served as president to the Richmond branchcountry home, "Grove Hill," Botetourt County, Va., May13, of the State bank; died in Richmond, Ky., February 4, 1871;1833; interment in the family burial plot on his estate near interment in Richmond Cemetery. Fincastle, Va. BRECK, Samuel (brother of Daniel Breck), a Representa- BRECKINRIDGE, James Douglas, a Representative from tive from Pennsylvania; born in Boston, Mass., July 17, 1771;Kentucky; born in Woodville, near Louisville, Jefferson attended the Royal Military School of Loreze, France; movedCounty, KY.; attended Washington College (nowWashington to Pennsylvania and settled in Philadelphia in 1792, whereand Lee University), Lexington, Va., 1800-1803; studied law; he engaged in business as a merchant; served as corporalwas admitted to the bar andcommenced practice in Louis- during the Whisky Rebellion; member of the State house ofville, KY.; member of the State house of representatives representatives 18 17-1820; served in the State senate 1832-1809-1811; appointed judge by Gov. Robert Desha in April 1834; elected to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-1826, but declined to serve; elected to the Seventeenth Con- March 3, 1825); withdrew from active business pursuits andgress to fill the vacancy causedby the death of Wingfield lived in retirement until his death in Philadelphia, Pa.,Bullock and served from November 21, 1821, to March 3, August 31, 1862; interment in St. Peter's Churchyard. 1823; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in1822 to the Bibliography: DAB; Wainwright, Nicholas B. "The Diary of SamuelEighteenth Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Breck, 1814-1835, 1838." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and BiographyLouisville, Ky., May 6, 1849; interment in St. John's Ceme- 102 (October 1978): 469-508; 103 (1979): 85-113, 222-51, 356-82. tery; reinterment in St. Louis Catholic Cemeteryat Louis- BRECKINRIDGE, Clifton Rodes (son of John Cabellville in 1867. Breckinridge and great-grandson of John Breckinridge), a BRECKINRIDGE, John (brother of James Breckinridge, Representative from Arkansas; born near Lexington, Ky.,grandfather of John Cabell Breckinridge and William Camp- November 22, 1846; attended the rural schools; served in thebell Preston Breckinridge, great-grandfather of Clifton Rodes Confederate Army and was a midshipman in the Navy; afterBreckinridge, great-great-grandfather of John Bayne Breck- the Civil War he attended Washington College (now Wash-inridge, cousin of John Brown, James Brown, and Francis ington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., for three years;Preston), a Senator from Kentucky; born near Staunton, settled near Pine Bluff, Ark., in 1870 and engaged in cottonAugusta County, Va., December 2, 1760; educated at Augus- planting and in the commission business for 13 years; elect-ta Academy, near Staunton (now Washingtonand Lee Uni- ed as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fifti-versity, Lexington, Va.), and at William and MaryCollege, eth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1889); presentedWilliamsburg, Va.; elected a member of the house of bur- credentials as a Member-elect to the Fifty-first Congress and gesses in 1780 when nineteen years of age,but being under served from March 4, 1889, until September 5, 1890, when his seat until elected the third John M. Clayton was declared to have been duly elected,age was not allowed to take but, owing to the death of Mr. Clayton while the contest wastime; served as subaltern in the Virginia Militia during the pending, the seat was declared vacant; subsequently electedRevolutionary War; studied law; was admitted to the bar in to the Fifty-first Congress to fill the vacancy thuscaused;1785 and commenced practice in Charlottesville, Va.; elected as a Democrat to theThird Congress, but resigned in 1792 reelected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses and moved served from November 4, 1890, to August 14, 1894, when hebefore the commencement of the congressional term; resigned to accept a consular position; unsuccessful candi-to Kentucky in 1793 and resumed the practiceof law in date for renomination for Congress in 1894; appointedMinis-Lexington; unsuccessful candidate for election to theUnited ter to Russia by President Cleveland July 20,1894, andStates Senate in 1794; appointed attorney general of Ken- 664 Biographical Directory

tucky in 1795 and served until November 30, 1797, whenheLexington & Big Sandy Railroad Co.; died in Lexington, Ky., resigned; member, State house of representatives 1798-1800,May 17, 1875; interment in Lexington Cemetery. serving as speaker in 1799 and 1800; member of the State Bibliography: DAB; Davis, William. John C. Breckinridge: Statesman, constitutional convention in 1799; elected as a Republicanto Soldier, Symbol. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,1974; the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1801, Heck, Frank. Proud Kentuckian, John C. Breckinridge, 1821-1875. Lexing- until August 7, 1805, when he resigned to accept the position ton: The University Press of Kentucky, 1976. of Attorney General of the United States in the Cabinetof BRECKINRIDGE, William Campbell Preston (grandson President Thomas Jefferson; served in this capacity until hisof John Breckinridge, uncle of Levin Irving Handy, and death at "Cabell's Dale," near Lexington, Ky., December 14,great-uncle of John Bayne Breckinridge), a Representative 1806; interment in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky. Bibliography: DAB; Harrison, Lowell. John Breckinridge, Jeffersonianfrom Kentucky; born in Baltimore, Md., August 28, 1837; Republican. Louisville: Filson Club, 1969; Kiotter, James C. The Breckin- attended the common schools, Jefferson College, Chambers- ridges of Kentucky: Two Centuries of Leadership. Lexington: The Universi- burg, Pa., and Pisgah Academy, Woodford County, KY.;was ty Press of Kentucky, 1986. graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky. in 1855 and from the law department of the University of Louisville in BRECKINRIDGE, John Bayne (great-great-grandson of1857; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commencedprac- JohnBreckinridge,great-great-great-nephewof Jamestice in Lexington, KY.; entered the Confederate Army in Breckinridge, and great-nephew of William Campbell Pres-1861 as captain and was subsequently promoted to the rank ton Breckinridge), a Representative from Kentucky; born inof colonel in the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry; was in command Washington, D.C., November 29, 1913; attended various Lex- of the Kentucky cavalry designated to act as bodyguard for ington schools, Massie Preparatory, Versailles, Ky., TomePresident Jefferson Davis and the members of his cabinet at Preparathrr, Port Deposit, Md.; A.B., University of Ken-the close of the Civil War; returned to Lexington, Ky., and tucky, 1937; LL.B., same university, 1939; admitted to thewas attorney for Fayette County; edited the Lexington (Ky.) Kentucky Bar in 1940 and commenced practice in Lexing-Observer and Reporter 1866-1868; professor of equity and ton; special attorney, Anti-Trust Division, United States De-jurisprudence in the University of Kentucky at Lexington; partment of Justice, 1940-1941; served in United Statesdelegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1876 Army, 1941-1946, and attained rank of lieutenant colonel;and 1888; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and to private law practice, 1946-1972; member, Kentucky house ofthe four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, representatives, 1956-1960; attorney general of Kentucky,1895); unsuccessful candidate for election in 1896 to the 1960-1964 and 1968-1972; corporation counsel, city of Lex-Fifty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law and also ington, 1964; commissioner, National Conference of Commis-edited the Lexington Herald; died in Lexington, Ky., Novem- sioners on Uniform State Law, 1960-1964; delegate to Demo-ber 18, 1904; interment in Lexington Cemetery. cratic National Convention, 1960; electedas a Democrat to Bibliography: DAB; Kiotter, James C. The Breckinridges of Kentucky, the Ninety-third and to the two succeeding Congresses (Jan- 1760-1981. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1986. uary 3, 1973-January 3, 1979); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; resumed BREEDING, James Floyd, a Representative from Kansas; the practice of law in Lexington, Ky., where he died July 29,born near Robinson, Brown County, Kans., September 28, 1979; cremated; ashes interred at Lexington Cemetery. 1901; educated in grade schools,Moonlight, Dickinson Bibliography: Klotter, James C. The Breckinridges of Kentucky, 1760- County, Kans., and Berryton High School in Shawnee 1981. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1986. County, Kans.; attended Kansas State College at Manhattan in 1921 and 1922; moved to Rolla, Kans., in 1928; farmer- BRECKINRIDGE, John Cabell (grandson of John Breck-stockman near Rolla, Morton County, 1928-1956; member of inridge, father of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, and cousin ofState house of representatives 1947-1949, serving as minori- Henry Donnel Foster), a Representative anda Senator fromty leader in 1949 session; Democratic nominee for Lieuten- Kentucky and a Vice President of the United States; born atant Governor of Kansas in 1950; president of Western "Cabell's Dale," near Lexington, Ky., January 15, 1821; at-Kansas Development Association in 1951; delegate to the tended Pisgah Academy, Woodford County, KY.;was grad- uated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1839; later at-Democratic National Conventions in 1960 and 1964; elected tended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton Universi-as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth and to the two succeeding ty); studied law in the Transylvania Institute, Lexington,Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1963); unsuccessful KY.; was admitted to the bar in 1840; moved to Burlington,candidate for reelection in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Con- Iowa, but soon returned and began practice in Lexington,gress; appointed by President Kennedy as assistant to Secre- KY.; major of the Third Kentucky Volunteers during thetary of Agriculture, Grain and Feed Division, 1963-1966; Mexican War in 1847 and 1848; member, State house ofunsuccessful candidate for election to the United States representatives 1849; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-Senate in 1966; died in Dodge City, Kans., October 17, 1977; second and Thirty-third Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3,interment in Rolla Cemetery, Rolla, Kans. 1855); was not a candidate for renomination in 1854;was BREEN, Edward G., a Representative from Ohio; born in tendered the mission to Spain by President Franklin Pierce,Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, June 10, 1908; attended but declined; elected Vice President of the United States inCorpus Christi Grammar School; graduated from the Univer- 1856 on the Democratic ticket with James Buchananassity of Dayton and attended the Ohio State University; en- President; unsuccessful candidate for President in 1860;gaged in the hotel business in Dayton; during the Second elected to the United States Senate and served from MarchWorld War served as a major in the United States Air Force 4, 1861, until expelled by resolution of December 4, 1861, forin North Africa and Italy until released from active service support of the rebellion; entered the Confederate Armyas a lieutenant colonel in the Infantry Reserve; mayor of during the Civil War as brigadier general and soon becameaDayton, Ohio, from November 1945 until his resignation in major general; Secretary of War in the Cabinet of the Con-April 1948 to seek nomination to Congress; elected as a federate States from January until April 1865; resided inDemocrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses Europe until 1868; returned to Lexington, Ky., and resumedand served from January 3, 1949, until his resignation Octo- the practice of law; vice president of the Elizabethtown,ber 1,1951, due toill health; member of Montgomery Biographies 665

County Board of Commissioners 1955-1960; engaged in theMich., March 3, 1887; interment in Park Cemetery,Mar- real-estate and insurance business; is a resident of Dayton,quette, Mich. Ohio. BREMNER, Robert Gunn, a Representative from New BREESE, Sidney, a Senator from Illinois; born in Whites-Jersey; born in Keiss, Caithness, Scotland, December17, boro, N.Y., July 15, 1800; attended Hamilton College, Clin-1874; immigrated with his parents to Canada; attended the ton, N.Y., and was graduated from Union College, Schenec-public schools; moved to the United States, and was em- tady, N.Y., in 1818; moved to Illinois; studied law; was ad-ployed as a carpenter and electrician in New York City in mitted to the bar in 1820 and commenced practice in Kas-1894 and 1895; became a newspaper reporter in Paterson, kaskia; appointed postmaster of Kaskaskia in 1821; prosecut-N.J., in 1895; served as a private in Company C,Second ing attorney of the third judicial circuit 1822-1826; UnitedRegiment, New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, during the Span- States district attorney for Illinois 1827-1829; was the firstish-American War; resumed newspaper work in Paterson; reporter of the proceedings of the State supreme court ineditor and publisher of the Daily Herald, Passaic, N.J., 1902- 1831; held several commissions in the militia and served as a1914; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress and lieutenant colonel of Volunteers in the Black Hawk War inserved from March 4, 1913, until his death in a hospital in 1832; circuit judge of the second district 1835-184 1; judge ofBaltimore, Md., February 5, 1914; interment in Laurel Grove the State supreme court in 1841-1842; elected as a DemocratCemetery, Totowa Borough, N.J. to the United States Senate and served from March 4,1843, to March 3, 1849; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in BRENGLE, Francis, a Representative from Maryland; 1849; chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Twenty-born in Frederick, Md., November 26, 1807; completed aca- ninth Congress), Committee on Public Lands (Twenty-ninthdemic studies; studied law; was admitted to the barand and Thirtieth Congresses); member, State house of repre-practiced in Frederick, Md.; member of the State house of sentatives 1851-1852, serving as speaker in the former year;delegates 1832, 1834, and 1836; elected as a Whig to the judge of the circuit court of Illinois 1855-1857; judge of theTwenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); died supreme court of Illinois from 1857 until hisdeath; served asin Frederick, Frederick County, Md., December 10, 1846; chief justice 1867-1870, 1873, and 1874; died in Pinkneyville,interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Perry County, Ill., June 27, 1878; interment in Carlyle Ceme- Representative from tery, Carlyle, Ill. BRENNAN, Joseph Edward, a Bibliography: DAB; McNulty, John W. "Sidney Breese: His Early Career Maine; born in Portland, Maine, November 2, 1934;attended in Law and Politics in Illinois." Journal of the Illinois State Historical So- public schools; B.S., Boston College, 1958; LL.B., University ciety 61 (Summer 1968): 164-81. of Maine Law School, 1963; member, Maine houseof repre- sentatives, 1965-1971, Maine senate, 1973-1975; state attor- BREHM, Walter Ellsworth, a Representative from Ohio;ney general, 1975-1977; elected Governorof Maine in 1978 born in Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, May 25, 1892; attend-and served from January 3, 1979, to January 3, 1987;elected ed the public schools, Boston (Mass.) University, and Ohio Hundredth Congress (January 3, Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio; was graduated fromas a Democrat to the One the Ohio State University Dental School at Columbus in1987-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Portland, Maine. 1917; worked in steel mills, rubber factories, and oil fields BRENNAN, Martin Adlai, a Representative fromIllinois; after graduation from high school; member of Company D,born in Bloomington, McLean County, Iii.,September 21, Seventh Regiment, Ohio Infantry, 1908-19 13; engaged in the1879; attended parochial schools; employed as a reporterfor practice of dentistry in Logan, Ohio, 1921-1942; treasurer ofthe Bloomington Bulletin; was graduated from theWesleyan the Republican executive committee of Hocking County,College of Law, Bloomington, Ill., in 1902; wasadmitted to Logan City Council, 1936-1938; served in the State house ofthe bar the same year and commenced practice inBlooming- representatives 1938-1942; elected as a Republican to theton, Ill.; served as presiding judge of theIllinois Court of Seventy-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (Janu- Claims 1913-1917; served as census supervisorfor McLean ary 3, 1943-January 3, 1953); was not acandidate for reelec- County, Ill., in 1920; member of the State house ofrepresent- tion in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress; resumed the prac-atives 1921-1923; delegate to the DemocraticNational Con- tice of dentistry and affiliated with a dental supply companyvention in 1924; elected as a Democrat to theSeventy-third after retirement from active practice; resided in Columbus,and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4,1933-January 3, Ohio, until his death there August 24, 1971. 1937); was not a candidate for renomination in1936; re- BREITUNG, Edward, a Representative from Michigan;sumed the practice of law in Bloomington, Ill., untilhis born in the city of Schalkau, Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, Ger-death there on July 4, 1941; interment in St.Mary's Ceme- many, November 10, 1831; attendedthe College of Mining,tery. Meiningen, Germany, in 1849; after the revolution in Ger- BRENNAN, Vincent Morrison, a Representative from many immigrated to the UnitedStates and settled in Kala-Michigan; born in Mount Clemens, Macomb County,Mich., mazoo County, Mich.; moved to Detroitin 1851 and becameApril 22, 1890; moved with his parents to Detroit in 1895; a clerk in a mercantile house;moved to Marquette, Mich., hewas graduated from SS. Peterand Paul's Parochial School, and engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1859, when from Detroit College in 1909, from the law departmentof went to Negaunee, Marquette County; sold out his mercan-Harvard University in 1912, and from theUniversity of tile business to engage exclusively in iron-mining operations and Menomi-Detroit in 1914; was admitted to the bar in 1912 and com- in 1864; explored the iron range in Marquette menced practice in Detroit; legal adviser to the Michigan nec Counties, locating severalprofitable mines, 1864-1867; Colora-State Labor Department in 1912 and 1913; assistant corpora- later became interested in gold and silver mining in member of the do; member of the State house of representatives in1873 tion counsel for the city of Detroit 19 15-1920; and 1878;State senate in 1919 and 1920; drafted theautomobile traffic and 1874; member of the State senate in 1877 cities; served as mayor of Negaunee, Mich., in 1879, 1880, and1882; ordinance of Detroit, used as a model for many other (Marchelected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventhCongress elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress 1923); was not a candidate for 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); declined to be acandidate for re-- (March 4, 1921-March 3, nomination in 1884; died in Negaunee, Marquette County,reelection in 1922; elected judge of the circuitcourt of 666 Biographical Directory

Wayne County, Mich., for the term commencing in January BRENTON, Samuel, a Representative from Indiana; born 1924; reelected for six successive terms and served until hisin Gallatin County, Ky., November 22, 1810; attended the resignation December 31, 1954; practiced law; died in De-public schools; was ordained to the Methodist ministry in troit, Mich., February 4, 1959; interment in Holy Sepulchre1830 and served as a minister; located at Danville, md., in Cemetery, Birmingham, Mich. 1834 because of ill health, and studied law; member of the BRENNER, John Lewis, a Representative from Ohio; bornState house of representatives 1838-1841; in 1841, returned in Wayne Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, February 2,to the ministry and served at Crawfordsville, Perryville, La- 1832; attended the common schools and Springfield (Ohio)fayette, and finally at Fort Wayne, where he suffered a Academy; engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1862, inter-paralytic stroke in 1848 and was compelled to abandon his ested in the nursery business until 1872, and then engagedministerial duties; appointed register of the land office at in the production of tobacco; moved to Dayton, Ohio, in 1866;Fort Wayne, md., on May 2, 1849, and served until July 31, member of the board of police commissioners 1885-1887;1851, when he resigned; elected as a Whig to the Thirty- elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Con-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); unsuccessful gresses (March 4, 1897-Marëh 3, 1901); unsuccessful candi-candidate for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress; date for renomination in 1900; resumed his formeroccupa-elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth tion as a dealer in leaf tobacco; died in Dayton, MontgomeryCongresses and served from March 4, 1855, until his death County, Ohio, November 1, 1906; interment in Woodlandin Fort Wayne, md., March 29, 1857; interment in Linden- Cemetery. wood Cemetery. BRENT, Richard (uncle of William Leigh Brent and nephew of Daniel Carroll), a Representative and a Senator BRENTS, Thomas Hurley, a Delegate from the Territory from Virginia; born at "Richland," on the Potomac River, atof Washington; born near Florence, Pike County, Ill., Decem- Aquia Creek, Stafford County, Va., in 1757; studied law; wasber 24, 1840; attended the common schools, Portland (Oreg.) admitted to the bar and practiced; member of the Virginia Academy,Baptist Seminary, Oregon City,Oreg.,and house of delegates from Stafford County in 1788 and from McMinnville (Oreg.) College; justice of the peace in 1862; Prince William County in 1793, 1794, 1800, and 1801; electedengaged in the general mercantile business at Canyon City, to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses (March 4, 1795-March 3,Oreg., 1863-1866; postmaster of Canyon City in 1863 and 1799); elected again to the Seventh Congress (March 4, 1801-1864; clerk of Grant County, Oreg., 1864-1866; delegate to March 3, 1803); member, State senate 1808-1810; elected tothe Union-Republican convention of Oregon in 1866; member the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1809,of the State house of representatives in 1866; studied law; until his death in Washington, D.C., on December 30, 1814;was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in interment in the family burial ground at "Richland,"on theSan Francisco, Calif., in 1867; moved to Walla Walla, Wash., Potomac River, at Aquia Creek. in 1870; city attorney of Walla Walla in 1871 and 1872; presided over the Republican Territorial convention at Van- BRENT, William Leigh (nephew of Richard Brent), a Rep- resentative from Louisiana; born at Port Tobacco, Charlescouver in 1874; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth, County, Md., February 20, 1784; studied law and Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1879- was admit-March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in ted to the bar; moved to Louisiana about 1809 andcom- menced practice; appointed by President Madisonas deputy1884; resumed the practice of law; judge of the superior attorney general for the western district of the Territory ofcourt of Walla Walla 1896-1913; died in Walla Walla, Wash., Orleans; elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenti-October 23, 1916; interment in Blue Mountain Cemetery. eth Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1829); affiliated BRETZ, John Lewis, a Representative from Indiana; born with the Whig Party upon its formation; resumed theprac-near Huntingburg, Dubois County, md., September 21, 1852; tice of law in Louisiana, and in Washington, D.C.; died in St.attended the country schools and Huntingburg High School; Martinsville, La., July 7, 1848; interment in St. Martin'staught school 1876-1880; studied law, and was graduated Catholic Cemetery. from the Cincinnati Law School in 1880; was admitted to the BRENTANO, Lorenzo, a Representative from Illinois;bar and commenced practice in Jasper, md.; prosecuting born in Manneheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, No-attorney of the eleventh judicial circuit 1884-1890; elected as vember 4, 1813; studied jurisprudence in the Universities ofa Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses Heidelberg and Freiburg and was graduated; practiced(March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful candidate for before the supreme court of Baden; elected to the Chamberreelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; judge of the of Deputies and in 1848 to the Frankfort Parliament; presi-circuit court of Pike and Dubois Counties from 1895 until his dent of the provisional republic established by the revolu-death; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in tionists in 1849; sentenced to imprisonment for life after the1900; died in Jasper, Dubois County, md., December 25, 1920; failure of the revolution, but sought refuge in the Unitedinterment in Fairmount Cemetery, Huntingburg, md. States; settled in Kalamazoo County, Mich., and engaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to Chicago in 1859; was admit- BREVARD, Joseph, a Representative from South Caroli- ted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Chicago,na; born in Iredell, Iredell County, N.C., July 19, 1766; en- Ill; became editor in chief and principal proprietor of thetered the Continental Army when still a boy; was commis- sioned lieutenant in the North Carolina Line in 1782 and Illinois Staats-Zeitung; member of the State house of repro-- sentatives in 1862; member of the Chicago Board of Educa-servedthroughouttheRevolutionary War; movedto tion 1862-1868; delegate to the Republican National Conven-Camden, S.C.; sheriff of Camden District 1789-1791; commis- tion in 1864; appointed United States consul at Dresden insioner in equity October 14, 1791; studied law; was admitted 1872 and served until April 1876; elected as a Republican toto the bar in 1792 and commenced practice in Camden, S.C.; the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); un-engaged in the compilation of the law reports which bear his successful candidate for renomination in 1878; engaged inname 1793-1815; member of South Carolina house of repro-- literary pursuits; died in Chicago, Ill., September 18, 1891;sentatives, 1796-1799; elected judge of the State supreme interment in Graceland Cemetery. court December 17, 1801, and served until December 1815, Bibliography: DAB. when he resigned; resumed the practice of law in Camden; Biographies 667 elected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3,studied law; was admitted to the bar in1870 and commenced 1821); was not a candidate for renomination in 1820; unsuc-practice at Haynesville, Ala.; treasurer of LowndesCounty cessful candidate for Congress at a special election heldinin 1871; State auditor 1876-1880; memberof the State house 1821; died in Camden, Kershaw County, S.C., October 11,of representatives 1880-1882; served in theState senate 1821; interment in the Quaker Cemetery. 1882-1890; again a member of the State house ofrepresenta- tives 1890-1894; again served in the Statesenate 1894-1897; BREWER, Francis Beattie, a Representative from Newelected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth andFifty-sixth Con- York; born in Keene, Cheshire County, N.H., October 8,gresses (March 4, 1897-March 3,1901); unsuccessful candi- 1820; attended the Barnet (Vt.) public schools, Newbury (Vt.)date for renomination in 1900; resumed thepractice of law Seminary, and Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N.H.;and continued his work as an author until hisdeath in was graduated from DartmouthCollege, Hanover, N.H., inMontgomery, Ala., on October 30, 1912; intermentin the 1843 and from the medical department of the same institu-family mausoleum on Cedars plantation, near Montgomery, tion in 1846; practiced medicine in Barnet, Vt.,Plymouth, Mass., and Titusville, Pa., from 1849 to1861; pioneer oilAla. operator and lumberman in Titusville, Pa.; moved toWest- BREWSTER, Daniel Baugh, a Representative and aSena- field, N.Y., in 1861 and engaged in banking, manufacturing,tor from Maryland; born in Baltimore County,Md., Novem- and agricultural pursuits; State military agent withrank ofber 23, 1923; educated at Gilman School, Baltimore,Md., St. major during the Civil War; member of theboard of supervi-Paul's School, Concord, N.H., Princeton University,and sors of Chautauqua County,N.Y., 1868-1879; delegate to theJohns Hopkins University; during the SecondWorld War Republican National Convention in 1872; memberof theenlisted as a private in the United States Marine Corpsin State assembly in 1873 and 1874; Government directorof the1942; commissioned as a second lieutenant in1943 and Union Pacific Railroad four years under PresidentsGrantserved until 1946; graduated from the University ofMary- and Hayes; appointed manager of the State insaneasylum,land Law School in 1949; was admitted to thebar in 1949 Buffalo, N.Y., in 1881; elected as a Republican to theForty-and commenced practice in Towson, Md.; member,Maryland eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); was not ahouse of delegates 1950-1958; elected as a Democratto the candidate for reelection in 1884; resumed the practiceofEighty-sixth and Eighty-seventh Congresses(January3, medicine; died in Westfield, Chautauqua County,N.Y., July for renomination Pittsburgh, Pa. 1959-January 3, 1963); was not a candidate 29, 1892; interment in Allegheny Cemetery, in 1962; elected as a Democrat to theUnited States Senate BREWER, John Hart, a Representative from New Jersey;in 1962 and served from January 3, 1963, toJanuary 3, 1969; born in Hunterdon County, N.J., March 29, 1844;attendedunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1968;after indict- the Lawrenceville schools and Trenton Academy; wasgrad-ment in 1969, trial, conviction, andreversal, pleaded no uated from the Delaware Literary Institution,Franklin,contest in 1975 to a felony charge ofaccepting an illegal Delaware County, N.Y., in 1862; moved to Trenton, N.J.,ingratuity while a United States Senator; farmer;is a resident 1865 and engaged in the manufacture of pottery; memberofof Glyndon, Md. Nation- the State house of assembly in 1876; president of the BREWSTER, David P., a Representative fromNew York; al Potters' Association in 1879; elected as a Republican to 15, 1801; attended the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses(March 4,born in Cairo, Greene County, N.Y., June the common schools, and was graduatedfrom Union College, 1881-March 3, 1885); resumed the manufacture of pottery studied until 1895, when he engaged in the insurance business; ap-Schenectady, N.Y., in 1823; moved to New York City; oflaw; was admitted to the bar in 1825and commenced prac- pointed assistant appraiser of merchandise at the port village of Oswego in New York City by President McKinley and serveduntil histice in Oswego, N.Y.; trustee of the in1828, 1836, and 1845; prosecuting attorneyof Oswego County death in Trenton, N.J., December 21, 1900; interment 1832-1834, and Riverview Cemetery. 1829-1833; treasurer of the village of Oswego served as its president in 1837; judgeof the court of common BREWER, Mark Spencer, a Representative from Michi-pleas 1833-1841; elected as a Democrat tothe Twenty-sixth gan; born in Addison Township,Oakland County, Mich. and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March4, 1839-March 3, October 22, 1837; attended the rural schools and Romeoand1843); appointed postmaster of Oswego,N.Y., on July 21, Oxford Academies; studied law; was admitted to thebar in1845, and served until January 10, 1849,when his successor 1864 and commenced practice in Pontiac, Mich.; city attor-was appointed; resumed thepractice of law; also engaged in ney of Pontiac in 1866and 1867; circuit court commissioneragricultural pursuits; member of the exciseboard commis- for Oakland County 1866-1869; member of theState senatesion and served as president 1870-1873;died in Oswego, 1872-1874; elected as a Republican to theForty-fifth andOswego County, N.Y., February 20, 1876;interment in River- 1881); ap- Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, side Cemetery. pointed consul general to Berlin on June 30, 1881, byPresi- dent Garfield and served from August 29,1881, until June 7, BREWSTER, Henry Colvin, a Representativefrom New 1885; elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-firstCongressesYork; born in Rochester, N.Y., September7, 1845; attended (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); declined to be acandidate forthe public schools; became a clerk in theTraders' National renomination in 1890; resumed the practice of law inPonti-Bank in 1863; employed as cashier1868-1894, president ac, Mich.; delegate to theRepublican National Convention in1907-19 17, and chairman of the board 1917-1923;vice presi- 1896; appointed a member of the United StatesCivil Servicedent of the New York State League ofRepublican Clubs and Commission by President William McKinley January18, president of the Monroe County League;president of the 1898, and served until his death in Washington,D.C., MarchRochester Chamber of Commerce in1893 and 1902; one of 18, 1901; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery,Pontiac, Mich.the organizers of the New York StateBankers' Association, Bibliography: DAB. serving as vice president in 1894and president in 1899; bornelected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourthand Fifty-fifth BREWER, Willis, a Representative from Alabama; Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3,1899); chairman, Corn- near Livingston, SumterCounty, Ala., March 15, 1844; at- Confederate Armymittee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Fifty-fifthCongress); was tended the common schools; entered the 1898; vice president of at the age of eighteen years; journalist,author, and planter;not a candidate for renomination in 668 Biographical Directory

the National League of Republican Clubs in1897; resumedber 6, 1893; attended the country schools; graduated from banking and other business activities; delegateto the Repub-Ohio State University at Columbus in 1916 and from its law lican National Convention in 1900; retired in 1923;died Jan-department in 1920; was admitted to the bar in 1917 and uary 29, 1928, in Canandaigua, N.Y., while on a visit; inter-commenced practice in Columbus, Ohio, in 1920; during the ment in Mount Hope cemetery, Rochester, N.Y. First World War served as first lieutenant and chaplain in BREWSTER, Ralph Owen, a Representative anda Sena-the United States Army in 1917 and 1918; solicitor for tor from Maine; born in Dexter, Penobscot County,Maine,Grandview Heights, Ohio, 1920-1928; assistant attorneygen- February 22, 1888; attended the public schools;was graduat-eral of Ohio 1923-1927; member of the Public Utilities Com- ed from Bowdoin College, Br'.inswick, Maine, in1909, andmission of Ohio 1929-1932; attorney general of Ohio 1933- from the law department of Harvard University 1913;high1937; Governor of Ohio 1939-1945; unsuccessful Republican school principal 1910; was admitted to the bar in 1913andcandidate for Vice President in 1944; elected asa Republican commenced practice in Portland, Maine; member oftheto the United States Senate in 1946, reelected in 1952 and Portland school committee 1915-1923; member, Statehouseserved from January 3, 1947, to January 3, 1959;unsuccess- of representatives 1917-1918, but resigned toenter militaryful candidate for reelection in 1958; chairman, Committeeon service; served successively as private, second lieutenant,Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Eighty-third Congress); captain, and regimental adjutant, Third Infantry, Maine Na resumed the practice of law; died in Columbus, Ohio, March tional Guard; member, State house of representatives 1921-22, 1986; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery. 1923; member of the State senate 1923-1925; Governorof Bibliography: Tanantaum, Duane. "The Bricker Amendment Controver- Maine 1925-1929; unsuccessful candidate for electionto the sy: The Interaction Between Domestic and Foreign Affairs." Ph D disserta- Seventy-third Congress in 1932; electedas a Republican to tion, Columbia University, 1980; Zahniser, Marvin R. ed. "John W. Bricker the Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixthCon-Reflects Upon the Fight for the Bricker Amendment." Ohio History 87 gresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1941); did not seek re- (Summer 1978) 322-33 nomination in 1940, having becomea candidate for United States Senator; elected as a Republican to the United States BRICKNER, George II., a Representative from Wisconsin; Senate in 1940; reelected in 1946 and served from born in Anspach, Bavaria, Germany, January 21, 1834; im- January 3,migrated to the United States in 1840 with his parents, who 1941, until his resignation December 31, 1952;unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1952; chairman, Special Com-settled in Seneca County, Ohio; attended the public schools; mittee on National Defense (Eightieth Congress); diedinengaged in mercantile pursuits in Tiffin, Ohio, 1850-1855; Boston, Mass., December 25,1961; interment in Mountmoved to Cascade, Wis., in 1855 and again engaged inmer- Pleasant Cemetery, Dexter, Maine. cantile pursuits; operated a flour mill until 1868, when he Bibliography: DAB. engaged in the manufacture of woolens at Sheboygan Falls, Wis.; established a glass factory in Tiffin, Ohio, in 1889; BRICE, Calvin Stewart, a Senator from Ohio; borninelected as a Democrat to the Fifty firstFifty second and Denmark, Ashtabula County, Ohio, September 17,1845; at-Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1895); chair- tended Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; duringthe Civilman Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the War enlisted in the universitycompany in April 1861 andTreasury (Fifty-second Congress); was not a candidate for served in West Virginia; was graduated from MiamiUniver-reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; lived in re- sity in June 1863; recruited a company, reenteredthe Civiltirement in Sheboygan Falls, Sheboygan County, Wis., until War as captain of that company and served until July1865,his death on August 12, 1904; interment in St. Mary's Ceme- attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel; studied lawat thetery. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor;was admitted to the Cincinnati bar in 1866 and commenced practice inLima, BRIDGES, George Washington, a Representative from Allen County, Ohio; member of the DemocraticNationalTennessee; born in Charleston, Bradley County, Tenn., Octo- Committee, serving as chairman in 1889; electedas a Demo-ber 9, 1825; attended East Tennessee University at Knox- crat to the United States Senate and served from March4, ville; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and 1891, to March 3, 1897; was not a candidate for reelection;commenced practice in Athens, McMinn County, Tenn.; also chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads (Fifty-third Con-engaged in agricultural pursuits; attorney general of Tennes- gress); died in New York City, December 15, 1898; intermentsee 1849-1860; elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh in Woodlawn Cometery, Lima, Ohio. Congress, but was arrested by Confederate troops whileen Bibliography: DAB; Havighurst, Walter. "The World of Calvin Brice." Inroute to Washington, D.C., taken back to Tennessee, and Men of Old Miami, 1809-1873. pp. 209-24. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, held as a prisoner for more than a year; finally made, his 1974. escape and went to Washington, D.C., and assumed his BRICK, Abraham Lincoln, a Representative from Indi-duties; qualified and took his seat in the House of Represent- ana; born on his father's farm, near South Bend, St. Josephatives on February 25, 1863, and served until March 3, 1863; County, md., May 27, 1860; attended thecommon schoolsenlisted in the Union Army as a captain on August 25, 1863; and was graduated from the South Bend High School; latermustered in as a lieutenant colonel in the Tenth Tennessee attended Cornell and Yale Colleges, and was graduated fromVolunteer Cavalry February 23, 1864, and was discharged the law department of the University of Michigan at AnnDecember 29, 1864; elected circuit judge of the fourth judi- Arbor in 1883; was admitted to the bar the sameyear andcial district of Tennessee in 1866 and served, about one year; commenced practice in South Bend, St. Joseph County, md.;died in Athens, Tenn, March 16, 1873; interment in cedar prosecuting attorney for the counties of St. Joseph and LaGrove cemetery. Porte in 1886; delegate to the Republican National Conven- tion in 1896; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to BRIDGES, Henry Styles, a Senator from New Hampshire; the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4,born in West Pembroke, Washington County, Maine, Sep- 1899, until his death in Indianapolis, IndApril 71908, tember 9, 1898; attended the public schools; was graduated interment in Riverview cemetery, South Bend, Ind. from the University of Maine at Orono in 1918; instructor at Sanderson Academy, Ashfield, Mass., 1918-1919; member of BRICKER, John William, a Senator from Ohio; bornon athe extension staff of the University of New Hampshire at farm near Mount Sterling, Madison County, Ohio, Septem-Durham 1921-1922; secretary of the New Hampshire Farm Biographies 669

Bureau Federation 1922-1923; editor of the Granite Monthly1899-1902; member of the State board of education in 1901 Magazine 1924-1926; director and secretary of the Newand 1902; State treasurer 1902-1907; chairman of the Repub- Hampshire Investment Co. 1924-1929; member of the Newlican State committee 1904-1911; elected as a Republican to Hampshire Public Service Commission 1930-1934; lieutenantthe United States Senate and served from March 4, 1907, to in the United States Army Reserve Corps 1925-1937; Gover-March 3, 1913; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chair- nor of New Hampshire 1934-1936; elected as a Republican toman, Committee on Geological Survey (Sixty-firstCongress), the United States Senate in 1936, 1942, 1948, 1954, and againCommittee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense in 1960, and served from January 3, 1937, until his death on(Sixty-second Congress); resumed his former business pur- November 26, 1961; minority leader 1952-1953; served assuits in Trenton, N.J., where he died May 8, 1913; interment President pro tempore of the Senate during the Eighty-thirdin Riverview Cemetery. Congress; chairman, Joint Committee on Foreign Economic Cooperation (Eightieth Congress), Joint Committee on Inau- BRIGGS, Frank Parks a Senator from Missouri, born m gural Arrangements (Eighty-second and Eighty-fourth Con-Armstrong, Howard County, Mo., February 25, 1894; attend- gresses),Committee onAppropriations(Eightiethanded Armstrong and Fayette schools and Central College at Eighty-thirdCongresses),RepublicanPolicy CommitteeFayette, Mo., 1911-1914; was graduated from the University (Eighty-fourth through Eighty-seventh Congresses); died inof Missouri at Columbia in 1915; engaged in the newspaper East Concord, N.H.; interment in Pine Grove Cemetery. business in 1915 and in the publishing business at Macon, Bibliography: DAB; U.S. Congress. Memorial Servicesfor Henry S. Mo., in 1925; mayor of Macon, Mo., 1930-1932; member, Bridges. 87th Cong., 2nd sess., 1962. Washington, D.C.: Government Print- State senate 1933-1944; appointed as a Democrat to the tog Office, 1962. United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- BRIDGES, Samuel Augustus, a Representative fromnation of Harry S. Truman and served from January 18, Pennsylvania; born in Coichester, Conn., January 27, 1802;1945, to January 3, 1947; unsuccessful candidate for election pursued an academic course, and was graduated from Wil-to the United States Senate in 1946; resumed the newspaper liams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1826; studied law;publishing business; chairman, Missouri State Conservation was admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice inCommission 1955-1956; Assistant Secretary of the Interior Doylestown, Pa.; moved to Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa., infor Fish and Wildlife 1961-1965; is a resident of Macon, Mo. 1830, where he continued the practice of law; town clerk 1837-1842; deputy attorney general of the State for Lehigh BRIGGS, George, a Representative from New York; born County 1837-1844; delegate to the Democratic State conven- near Broadalbin, Fulton County, N.Y., May6, 1805; moved tion in 1841; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congressto Vermont, in 1812 with his parents, who settled in Ben- to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John W. Hornbecknington; attended the public schools; engaged in business as and served from March 6, 1848, to March 3, 1849; was not aa dealer in hardware; memberof the Vermont house of candidate for renomination in 1848; elected to the Thirty-representatives in 1837 returned to New York settled m third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); unsuccessfulNew York City in 1838 and continued in the hardware candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Con-business; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first andThirty- gress; resumed the practice of law; elected to the Forty-fifthsecond Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); declined Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); was not a candidateto be a candidate for renomination in1852 elected as a for renomination in 1878; continued the practice of law inRepublican to the Thirty sixth Congress (March 4, 1859- Allentown, Pa., where he died January 14, 1884; intermentMarch 3,1861); chairman, Committee on Revolutionary in Union Cemetery. Claims (Thirty-sixth Congress); declined to be acandidate for renomination in 1860 and retired; delegate to theUnion BRIDGES, Styles, a Senator from New Hampshire. (See his BRIDGES, Henry Styles.) National Convention at Philadelphia in 1866; died at summer home, "Woodlawn," at SaratogaSprings, N.Y., June BRIGGS, Clay Stone, a Representative from Texas; born1, 1869; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, New York City. in Galveston, Tex., January 8, 1876; attended private and public schools, the University of Texas at Austin, and Har- BRIGGS, George Nixon, a Representative from Massachu- vard Unversity; was graduated from the law department ofsetts; born in Adams, Mass., April 12, 1796;when seven Yale University in 1899; was admitted to the bar the sameyears of age moved with his parents toManchester, Vt., and, year and commenced the practice of law inGalveston, Tex.;two years later, to White Creek, N.Y.;attended the public member of the State house of representatives 1906-1908;schools; moved to Lanesboro, Mass., in 1814; apprenticed to served as judge of the tenth judicial district of Texas fromthe hatter's trade; studied law; was admitted to thebar in June 15, 1909, until February 1, 1919, when he resigned,1818 and commenced practice in Lanesboro; register ofdeeds having been elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to for Berkshire County 1824-1831; elected town clerkin 1824; the Sixty-sixth and to the seven succeeding Congresses andappointed chairman of the board of commissioners of high- served from March 4, 1919, until his death in Washington,ways in 1826; elected as anAnti-Jacksonian to the Twenty- D.C., April 29, 1933; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Syra-second and Twenty third Congresses and as a Whig to the cuse, N.Y. Twenty-fourth through Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1843); chairman, Committee on PublicEx- BRIGGS, Frank Obadiah (sonof James Franklandpenditures (Twenty-sixth Congress), Committee on the Post Briggs), a Senator from New Jersey; born in Concord, N.H.,Office and Post Roads (Twenty-seventh Congress); was not a August 12, 1851; attended the public schools, Francestowncandidate for renomination in 1842; moved to Pittsfield in (N.H.) Academy, and Phillips Academy, Exeter, N.H.; was the graduated from the United States Military Academy at West1843; Governor of Massachusetts 1844-1851; resumed practice of law in Pittsfield; member of the State constitu- Point in 1872; served in the Second Regiment, United Statestional convention in 1853; judge of the court of common Infantry, as second lieutenant until 1877, when he resigned of a com- from the Army; moved to Trenton, N.J., in 1877 andengagedpleas 1853-1858; appointed in 1861 as a member in the manufacture of wire and wire products; memberofmission to adjust differences between the United States and the Trenton School Board 1884-1892; mayor of TrentonNew Granada; accidentally killed in Pittsfield,Berkshire 670 Biographical Directory

County, Mass., on September 11, 1861; intermentin theelected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth Congress (March Pittsfield Cemetery. 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); unsuccessful candidate for reelection Bibliography: DAB. in 1880 to the Forty-eighth Congress; resumed the practice BRIGGS, James Frankland (father of Frank Obadiahof law in New York City; died in Jersey City, N.J., February Briggs), a Representative from New Hampshire; born in19, 1885; interment in Old Bergen Church Cemetery. Bury, Lancashire, England, October 23, 1827; immigratedto BRIGHT, Jesse David, a Senator from Indiana; born in the United States in 1829 with his parents, who settled inNorwich, Chenango County, N.Y., December 18, 1812; moved Holderness (now Ashland), N.H.; attended thecommon schools and Newbury Academy; studied law; was admitted towith his parents to Madison, md., in 1820; attended the the bar in 1851 and practiced in Hillsboro, N.H., until 1871;public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1831 moved to Manchester, N.H.; member of the State house ofand commenced practice in Madison, Jefferson County, md.; representatives 1856-1858 and in 1874; during the Civil Warelected judge of the probate court of Jefferson County in served as major of the Eleventh Regiment, New Hampshire1834; United States marshal for the district of Indiana 1840- Volunteer Infantry; served in the State senate in 1876; elect-184 1; member, State senate 184 1-1843; lieutenantgovernor ed as a Republican to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-of Indiana 1843-1845; elected as a Democrat to the United seventh Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1883); chair-States Senate in 1845; reelected in 1850 and 1856 and served man, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Warfrom March 4, 1845, to February 5, 1862, when he was (Forty-seventh Congress); was not a candidate for renomina-expelled for acknowledging Jefferson Davis as "President of tion in 1882; resumed the practice of law; againa member ofthe Confederate States" and support of the rebellion; served the State house of representatives in 1883, 1891, and 1897,as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Thirty- serving as speaker in 1897; delegate to the State constitu-third, Thirty-fourth and Thirty-sixth Congresses; chairman, tional convention in 1889; died in Manchester, N.H., Janu-Committee on Enrolled Bills (Twenty-ninth Congress), Com- ary 21, 1905; interment in Green Grove Cemetery, Ashland,mittee on Public Buildings (Twenty-ninth Congress), Com- Grafton County, N.H. mittee on Revolutionary Claims (Thirtieth Congress), Com- mittee on Roads and Canals (Thirty-first through Thirty BRIGHAM, Elbert Sidney, a Representative from Ver-third Congresses), Committee on Public Buildings and mont; born in St. Albans, Franklin County, Vt., October 19,Grounds (Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses); unsuc- 1877; attended the graded schools; was graduated from St.cessful candidate for election in 1863 to the United States Albans High School in 1898 and from Middlebury (Vt.) Col-Senate to fill the vacancy caused by his expulsion; moved to lege in 1903; engaged in agricultural pursuits and the breed-Carrollton, Ky., in 1863 and then to Covington, Ky.; member, ing of dairy cattle; auditor for the town of St. Albans in 1911State house of representatives 1866; president of the Ray- and 1912; State commissioner of agriculture 1913-1924;mond City Coal Co., 1871-1875; moved to Baltimore in 1874; member of the National Agricultural Advisory Committeedied in Baltimore, Md., May 20, 1875; interment in Green- and of the United States Food Administration, Washington,mount Cemetery. D.C., in 1918; trustee of Middlebury College 1922-1960;direc- Bibliography: DAB; Cooney, Charles F. "Treason or Tyranny? The Great tor, National Life Insurance Co., in 1925; electedas a Repub- Senate Purge of '62." Civil War Times Illustrated 18 (July 1979): 30-31; lican to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first Con-Murphy, Charles. "The Political Career of Jesse Bright." Indiana Histori- gresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1931); was not a candidate cal Society Publications 10 (1931): 101-45. for renomination in 1930; member of Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932; chairman of Vermont Advisory Bank- BRIGHT, John Morgan, a Representative from Tennessee; ing Board, 1933-1936; president, National Life Insurance Co., born in Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tenn., January 20, Montpelier, Vt., 1937-1948; president, Franklin County Sav-1817; attended the schools of Fayetteville and Bingham's ings Bank & Trust Co., St. Albans, Vt., 1944-1957 and chair-School,Hillsboro,N.C.; was graduated from Nashville man of the board 1957-1962; died in St. Albans City, Vt.,(Tenn.) University in September 1839 and from the law de-- July 5, 1962; interment in St. Albans Bay Cemetery, St.partment of Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., in Albans Town, Vt. March 1841; was admitted to the bar in 1841 and com- menced practice in Fayetteville, Tenn.; member of the State BRIGHAM, Elijah, a Representative from Massachusetts;house of representatives in 1847 and 1848; served as general born in Westboro (now Northboro), Mass., July 7, 1751;wason the staff of Gov. Isham G. Harris 1861-1865; elected as a graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1778;Democrat to the Forty-second and to the four succeeding studied law, but did not practice; engaged in mercantileCongresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1881); chairman, Com- pursuits at Westboro; member of the State house ofrepre-mittee on Claims (Forty-fourth through Forty-sixth Con- sentatives 1791-1793; justice of the court of common pleasgresses), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of 1795-1811; served in the State senate in 1796, 1798, 1801-the Treasury (Forty-fourth Congress); unsuccessful candidate 1805, and 1807-1810; State councilor in 1799, 1800, and 1806; for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; re- elected as a Federalist to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Four-sumed the practice of law; died in Fayetteville, Tenn., Octo- teenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, until hisber 3, 1911; interment in the Presbyterian Churchyard. death in Washington, D.C., February 22, 1816; interment in the Congressional Cemetery. BRINKERHOFF, Henry Roelif (cousin of Jacob Brinker- hoff), a Representative from Ohio; born in Adams County, BRIGHAM, Lewis Alexander, a Representative from NewPa., September 23, 1787; moved with his parents to Cayuga Jersey; born at New York Mills, Oneida County, N.Y., Janu-County, N.Y., in 1793; attended the country schools; com- ary 2, 1831; attended the district schools and Whitestownmanded a company of militia in the War of 1812, distin- Seminary, Whitesboro, N.Y.; was graduated from Hamiltonguishing himself in the Battle of Queenstown Heights;en- College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1849; studied law; was admitted togaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State assem- the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in New York City;bly in 1828 and 1829; senior major general of the New York superintendent of public schools, Bergen, N.J., 1866-1870;State Militia in 1824; commanded the military escort which member of the board of police commissioners of Jersey Cityaccompanied General Lafayette in his progress through the 1874-1876; member of the State house of assembly in 1877; State; moved to Huron County, Ohio, in 1837; elected as a Biographies 671

Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress and served fromsenate in 1846; delegate to the Stateconstitutional conven- March 4, 1843, until his death in Huron County, Ohio,Apriltion in 1849; elected as a Whig to theThirty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the deathof Presley Under- 30, 1844; interment in the Pioneer Cemetery, Plymouth, March 3, Richiand County, Ohio. wood Ewing and served from December 4, 1854, to 1855; elected as a candidate of the Opposition Party tothe BRINKERHOFF, Jacob (cousin of Henry Roelif Brinker-Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); was hoff), a Representative from Ohio; born in Niles, Cayuganot a candidate for reelection in 1860;resumed the practice County, N.Y., August 31, 1810; attended the public schoolsof law; member of the House Committeeof Thirty-three and Plattsburg Academy, Steuben County, N.Y.; studied law;appointed by the Speaker in December 1860 toconsider was admitted to the bar in 1837and commenced practice inproposals to avert the impending disaster and alsoattended Mansfield, Richiand County, Ohio; moved toPlymouth,the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington,D.C., in an Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Richiand County, Ohio,1839- effort to devise means to prevent the impending war;died in 1843; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth andElkton, Todd County, Ky., June 10, 1864; intermentin the Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847);family burying ground. chairman, Committee on Invalid Pensions(Twenty-eighth Bibliography: Webb, Ross A. "Francis Marion Bristow, A Study inUn- Congress); resumed the practice of law in Mansfield,Ohio; ionism." Filson Club History Quarterly 37 (April 1963): 142-58. affiliated with the Republican Party on its formationin 1856; delegate to numerous Republican National Conven- BRISTOW, Henry, a Representative from New York;born tions; justice of the supreme court of Ohio 1856-1871;died inin St. Michael, Azores Islands, June 5,1840; immigrated to Mansfield, Ohio, July 19, 1880; interment in Mansfield Cem-the United States with his parents, who settled inBrooklyn, etery. N.Y.; attended public and private schools; engaged in mer- Bibliography: DAB. cantile pursuits until 1896; served as a private inCompany B Seventh Regiment, New York State Militia,from April BRINKLEY, Jack Thomas, a Representative from Geor-26, 1861, to June 3, 1861; appointed city magistratein 1896; gia; born in Faceville, Decatur County, Ga., December22, member of the board of education of Brooklyn1880-1889; 1930; attended the public schools of Faceville, Ga.;graduated 1949- elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Congress from Young Harris College in 1949; taught school, (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); unsuccessfulcandidate for 1951; was a pilot in the United States Air Force,1951-1956; reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress;appointed graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1904 and served inpublic administrator of Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1959; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice until his death in that city October 11, 1906; intermentin Columbus, Ga., in 1959; elected to the State house of repre- sentatives in 1965-1966; elected as a Democrat to the Nineti-Greenwood Cemetery. eth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, BRISTOW, Joseph Little, a Senator fromKansas; born 1967-January 3, 1983); was not a candidate for reelection innear Hazel Green, WolfCounty, Ky., July 22, 1861; moved 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress; is a resident of Colum-with his father to Fredonia, Kans., in 1873;attended the bus, Ga. country schools, and was graduatedfrom Baker University, Baldwin, Kans., in 1886; clerk of thedistrict court of Doug- BRINSON, Samuel Mitchell, a Representative from Northlas County 1886-1890; in 1890 boughtthe Salina (Kans.) Carolina; born in New Bern, Craven County, N.C., March20, Daily Republican, which he editedfor five years; elected 1870; attended private and public schools, and was graduat- in 1894; private in 1891;secretary of the Republican State committee ed from Wake Forest College, North Carolina, secretary to the Governor 1895-1897;purchased the Ottawa taught school in New Bern one year; was graduated from than ten years; at(Kans.) Herald, which he owned for more the law department of the University of North Carolina again elected secretary of the RepublicanState committee in Chapel Hill in 1895; was admitted to the North Carolina bar 1897-1905; pur- Bern,1898; Fourth Assistant Postmaster General in 1896 and commenced the practice of law in New chased the Salina Daily Republican-Journal in1903; appoint- N.C.; served as county superintendent of publicinstruction Railroad in 1905; Atlantic &ed a special commissioner of the Panama in Craven County 1902-19 19; president of the elected as a Republican to the UnitedStates Senate and North Carolina Railroad Company in 1918; elected as aDem- 1915; was an unsuc- andserved from March 4, 1909, to March 3, ocrat to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses cessful candidate for reelection in1914; chairman, Commit- served from March 4, 1919, until his death in New Bern,tee on Expenditures in the Post OfficeDepartment (Sixty- N.C., April 13, 1922; interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery.first and Sixty-second Congresses),Committee on Cuban Re- BRISBIN, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania;lations (Sixty-third Congress);temporarily engaged in agri- born in Sherburne, Chenango County, N.Y., July13, 1818; cultural pursuits with his son near Fairfax,Va.; chairman of taught school; studied law; was admitted to thebar andthe Kansas Utilities Commission1915-1918; engaged in agri- commenced practice in Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, Pa.,cultural pursuits on his estate, "OssianHall," near Fairfax, about 1843; elected as a Democrat to theThirty-first Con-Va., from 1918 until his death there July14, 1944; interment gress to fill the vacancy causedby the death of Chesterin Gypsum Hill Cemetery, Salina, Kans. Butler and served from January 13 toMarch 3, 1851; presi- Bibliography: DAB; Sageser, A. Bower. Joseph L.Bristow: Kansas Pro- dent of the Delaware, Lackawanna & WesternRailway Co. gressive. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,1968. 1863-1867 and member of the board of managers and gener- BRITT, Charles Robin, a Representativefrom North Caro- al counsel from 1867 until his death inNewark, N.J., Febru-lina; born in San Antonio, Bexar County,Tex., June 29, ary 3, 1880; interment inEvergreen Cemetery, Elizabeth, 1942; educated in Asheville, N.C. schools;graduated, Enka N.J. High School, Asheville, N.C., 1959;B.A., University of North university, 1973; BRISTOW, Francis Marion, a Representativefrom Ken-Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1963; J.D., same LL.M., New York University, NewYork City, 1976; admitted tucky; born in Clark County, Ky., August11, 1804; pursued and commenced practice in preparatory studies; studied law; wasadmitted to the barto the North Carolina bar, 1973, of the StateGreensboro; United States Naval Reserve,1963-1984; chair- and commenced practice in Elkton; member Democratic Party, 1979-1981; dele- house of representatives 1831-1833;served in the Stateman, Guilford County 672 Biographical Directory

gate, North Carolina State Democratic convention, 1980;del- United States attorney for the eastern district of Missouri in egate, Democratic National Convention, 1980; electedas a 1861; commissioned by President Lincolnas lieutenant cole-- Democrat to the Ninety-eighth Congress (January3, 1983-nel of Volunteers and appointed provost marshal general of January 3, 1985); unsuccessful candidate for reelectionto the Ninety-ninth Congress; Missouri in 1863; delegate to the Democratic National Con- president anddirector,Projectventions in 1868 and 1872; appointed by President Grantas Uplift, Greensboro; is a resident of Greensboro, N.C. special United States attorney to assist in the prosecution of BRITT, James Jefferson, a Representative fromNorththe so-called "whisky ring" at St. Louis in 1876; president of Carolina; born in Unico County,near Johnson City, Tenn.,the American Bar Association in 1878; elected asa Demo- March 4, 1861; attended the common schools and studiedcrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, under private tutors; principal of Burnsville (N.C.) Academy1885); was not a candidate for renomination in 1884; appoint- 1886-1893; superintendent of the public schools ofMitchelled a special commissioner on French spoliation claims by County 1894-1896; headmaster of Bowman Academy, Ba-President Cleveland in 1885; Minister to Switzerland 1893- kersville, N.C., 1895-1896; deputy collector of internalreve- 1897; died in St. Louis, Mo., August 7, 1898; interment in nue at Asheville, N.C., 1896-1899; studied law at the Univer-Bellefontaine Cemetery. sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; was admitted to the Bibliography: DAB. bar in 1900 and commenced practice in Asheville, N.C.; dele- BROCK, Lawrence, a Representative from Nebraska; born gate to the Republican National Convention in 1904;unsuc-in Platte County, near Columbus, Nebr., August 16, 1906; cessful candidate for election in 1906 to the SixtiethCon-graduated from Leigh High School and from the University gress; special assistant United States attorney in 1906 andof Nebraska College of Pharmacy at Lincoln, Nebr., in 1929; 1907; member of the State senate 1909-19 11; specialcounselengaged as a pharmacist in Madison, Nebr.; cattle feeder to the Post Office Department from July 1, 1909, to Decem-and farmer; former president of Nebraska Livestock Feeders ber 1, 1910; special assistant to the Attorney General fromAssociation, Cornbelt Livestock Feeders Association, and July 13, 1910, to December 1, 1910; appointed Third Assist- Northeast Nebraska Rural Electric Association; member Ne-- ant Postmaster General by President Tafton December 1, 1910, and served until March 17,1913; elected braska Highway Advisory Commission; delegate to the as a Republi-Democratic National Convention in 1956; electedas a Demo- can to the Sixty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1915-March 3,crat to the Eighty-sixth Congress (January 3, 1959-January 1917); successfully contested the election of ZebulonWeaver3, 1961); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1960 to the Sixty-fifth Congress and served from March 1,toto the Eighty seventh Congress, appomted assistant adminis March 3, 1919; unsuccessful candidate in 1918 for reelectiontrator, Farmers Home Administration, Washington, D.C., in to the Sixty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of lawinFebruary 1961; died in Zion, Ill., on August 28, 1968; inter- Asheville, N.C.; served as chief counsel for the Bureau ofment in the Wakefield Cemetery, Wakefield, Nebr. Prohibition, Treasury Department, 1922-1932;was an unsuc- cessful candidate for chief justice of thesupreme court of BROCK, William Emerson (grandfather of William Emer- North Carolina in 1926; resumed the practice of law in 1933;son Brock III), a Senator from Tennessee; born near Mocks- died in Asheville, N.C., on December 26, 1939; intermentinville, Davie County, N.C., March 14, 1872; attended the Riverside Cemetery. public schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1894; moved to Winston-Salem, N.C., in 1894 and was employed as BRITTEN, Frederick Albert, a Representative from Illi-a clerk in a general store until 1896, tobacco salesman 1896- nois; born in Chicago, Iii., November 18, 1871; attendedthe1901; moved to Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1909 and became public schools, and Healds Business College at SanFrancis-engaged in the manufacture of candy; also was interested in co, Calif.; engaged in general building construction work in banking and various other business enterprises andwas di- Chicago in 1893; member of the Chicago City Council 1908-rector in a life and accident insurance company; served as 19 12; member of the city civil service committeein 1909,trustee of the University of Chattanooga, Emory and Henry serving as chairman; member of the executive committeeofCollege, and Martha Washington College for Girls; appointed the American group of the Interparliamentary Union 1923-and subsequently elected as a Democrat to the United States 1934; became a member of the Republican NationalCongres-Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lawrence sional Committee in 1926; delegate to the Republican Na-D. Tyson and served from September 2, 1929, to March 3, tional Convention in 1936; elected as a Republican to the1931; was not a candidate for election to the full term; Sixty-third and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March4, resumed the candy manufacturing business until his death 1913-January 3, 1935); chairman, Committee on Naval Af-in Chattanooga, Tenn., August 5, 1950; interment in Forest fairs (Seventieth and Seventy-first Congress); unsuccessfulHills Cemetery. candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Con- Bibliography: DAB. gress; corporation executive in Chicago and New York; re- tired from public life and resided in Washington, D.C., until BROCK, William Emerson, III (grandson of William Em- his death in Bethesda, Md., on May 4, 1946; interment inerson Brock), a Representative and a Senator from Tennes- Abbey Mausoleum (adjoining Arlington National Cemetery),see; born in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tenn., Novem- Arlington, Va. ber 23, 1930; attended schools in Lookout Mountain and Chattanooga Tenn.; graduated from Washington and Lee BROADHEAD, James Overton, a Representative fromUniversity, Lexington, Va., 1953; served in the United States Missouri; born in Charlottesville, Va., May 29, 1819; attend-Navy 1953-1956; employed by the Brock Candy Co., becom- ed the high school in Albemarle County and the Universitying vice president of marketing; member of the board of of Virginia at Charlottesville; moved to Missouri in 1837;directors of Brock Candy Co.; elected as a Republican to the studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commencedEighty-eighth Congress; reelected to the three succeeding practice in Bowling Green, Pike County, Mo.; delegate to theCongresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1971); was nota State constitutional conventions in 1845, 1861, 1863, andcandidate for reelection; was elected as a Republican in 1970 1875; member of the State house of representatives in 1846to the United States Senate and served from January 3, and 1847; served in the State senate 1850-1853; moved to St.1971, to January 3, 1977; unsuccessful candidate for reelec- Louis in 1859 and continued the practice of law; appointedtion in 1976; chairman, Republican National Committee Biographies 673

1977-1981; U.S Trade Representative 1981-1985; appointedduring the Civil War enlisted as a private inthe Second Secretary of Labor by President Ronald Reagan 1985-1987;Kansas Battery in 1862 and was mustered outat Leaven- consultant in Washington, D.C.; is a resident of Washington,worth in August 1865; studied law; was admitted tothe bar Kans.; mayor of D.C. in 1870 and commenced practice in Holton, Holton in 1874 and 1875; prosecuting attorneyof Jackson BROCKENBROUGH, William Henry, a RepresentativeCounty 1876-1880; member of the State senate1880-1884; from Florida; born in Virginia February 23, 1812;studiedappointed by President Arthur as an associate justiceof the law; was admitted to the bar and settled in Tallahassee, Fla.;supreme court of the Territoryof Idaho in March 1884 and member of the State house of representatives in 1837; servedtook up his residence in Boise City, Idaho; serveduntil the in the State senate 1840-1844, being its president in 1842;fall of 1888, when he returned to Holton, Kans.,and re- United States district attorney 1841-1843; upon the admis- the sion of Florida as a State into the Union successfully con-sumed the practice of law; elected as a Republican to tested as a Democrat the election of Edward C. Cabell to theFifty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1899); unsuccessful candidate forrenomina- Twenty-ninth Congress and served from January 24, 1846, to law in Holton, March 3, 1847; died in Tallahassee, Fla., January 28, 1850;tion in 1898; again engaged in the practice of Kans.; retired from the practice of law and devotedhis time interment in the Episcopal Cemetery. to farming and livestock interests; died inHolton, Kans., BROCKSON, Franklin, a Representative from Delaware;April 1, 1920; interment in Holton Cemetery. born in Blackbird Hundred, Newcastle County, Del., August 6, 1865; attended the public schools; was graduated fromthe BRODERICK, David Colbreth (cousin of Andrew Kenne-- Wilmington Conference Academy at Dover, Del., in 1890;dy and ), a Senator from California;born in engaged in mercantile pursuits; teacher and principal in theWashington, D.C., February 4, 1820, his father havingemi- public schools at Port Penn and Marshaliton, Del.; wasgrad-grated from Ireland to work as a stonecutter on theCapitol; uated from the law department of Washington and Lee Uni-moved with his parents to New York City in 1823; attended versity, Lexington, Va., in 1896; was admitted to the barthe common schools; apprenticed to a stonecutterin early September 21, 1896, and commenced practice in Wilmington,youth; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1846 tothe Del.; member of the State house of representatives1908-Thirtieth Congress; moved to CRlifornia in 1849and engaged 1910; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congressin smelting and assaying gold; member, Statesenate 1850- (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for1851, serving as president in 1851; elected as aDemocrat to reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; resumed thethe United States Senate and served fromMarch 4, 1857, practice of law in Clayton, and Wilmington, Del,died inuntil mortally wounded in a duel with thechief justice of Clayton, Del., March 16, 1942; interment in Odd Fellowsthe supreme court of California; died nearSan Francisco, Cemetery, Smyrna, Del. Calif., September 16, 1859; intermentunder a monument

Mountain Ceme-- BROCKWAY, John Hall, a Representative from Connecti-erected by the people of the State in Lone 31, tery, San Francisco. cut; born in Ellington, Tolland County, Conn., January Bibliography: DAB; Lynch, Jeremiah. The Life of David C.Broderick: A 1801; pursued preparatory studies and was graduated from Senator of the Fifties. New York: The Baker andTaylor Co., 1911; Wil- Yale College, New Haven, Conn., in 1820; taught school; liams, David. David C. Broderick: A PoliticalPortrait. San Marino: Hun- studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1823 and commenced tington Library, 1969. practice in Ellington; member of the State house of repre- sentatives 1832-1838; served in the State senate in 1834; BRODHEAD, John, a Representative from NewHamp- elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventhshire; born in Lower Smithfield, Pa.,October 5, 1770; attend- Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); prosecuting attor-ed the common schools and Stroudsburg(Pa.) Academy; ney for Tolland County from 1849 to1867, when he resigned;studied theology; was ordained a minister and activein min- died in Ellington, Conn., July 29, 1870; interment in Elling-isterial service for forty-four years; moved in1796 to New ton Center Cemetery. England where he became supervisor of Methodistsocieties in the Connecticut Valley; settled in Canaan,N.H., in 1801; BRODBECK, Andrew R., a Representative from Pennsyl-moved to Newfields Village, Newmarket, N.H.,in 1809; vania; born in Jefferson (now Codorus), York County, Pa.,member of the State senate 1817-1827; officiated aschaplain April 11, 1860; attended the public schools; engaged in agri-of the State house of representatives in1825; elected as a cultural pursuits; taught in the public schools of York Congress- and en-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second County 1878-1880; moved to Hanover, Pa., in 1880 es (March 4, 1829-March3, 1833); declined to be a candidate gaged in the farm implement and fertilizer businessuntilfor renomination in 1832 and resumed hisministerial duties; 1896; sheriff of York County, Pa., 1896-1899; member of thedied in Newfields, Rockingham County, N.H.,April 7, 1838; board of directors of various business enterprises; unsuccess- ful candidate for election in 1910 to the Sixty-second Con-interment in Locust Cemetery. gress; elected as a Democrat to theSixty-third Congress BRODHEAD, John Curtis, a Representative fromNew (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessfulcandidate forYork; born in Modena, Ulster County, N.Y.,October 27, reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; elected to1780; attended the district schools; engaged inmercantile the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1917-March 3,1919); un- and agricultural pursuits; sheriff of UlsterCounty 1825- successful candidate for reelection in 1918 to theSixty-sixth1828; elected as a Jacksonian to theTwenty-second Congress Congress; delegate at large to the DemocraticNational Con-(March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); was not acandidate for vention in 1920; retired in 1920; died in Hanover,Pa., Febru-reelection in 1832; elected as a Democrat to theTwenty-fifth ary 27, 1937; interment in MountOlivet Cemetery. Congress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); chairman,Commit- of the Navy BRODERICK, Case (cousin of David Colbreth Brodericktee on Expenditures in the Department Kansas; born(Twenty-fifth Congress); declined to be a candidate for re-- and Andrew Kennedy), a Representative from nomination in 1838; resumed mercantile andagricultural near Marion, Grant County, md.,September 23, 1839; at- January 2, tended the common schools; moved to Holton,Jacksonpursuits; died in Modena, Ulster County, N.Y., County, Kans., in 1858 and engaged in agriculturalpursuits;1859; interment in Modena Rural Cemetery. 674 Biographical Directory

BRODHEAD, Joseph Davis (son of Richard Brodhead),a1868-1872; appointed postmaster of Mobile in July 1869 but Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Easton, North-was removed in June 1871; chairman of the Alabama delega- ampton County, Pa., January 12, 1859; attended the publiction to the Liberal Republican Convention at Cincinnati in schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1881and1872; elected as a Liberal Republican to the Forty-third Con- commenced practice in Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pa.;gress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessfully contest- elected district attorney of Northampton County in 1889;ed the election of Jeremiah Haralson to the Forty-fourth delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1892Congress; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1877 and and 1904; elected to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4,1907- March 3, 1909); unsuccessful candidate for renomination commenced practice in Mobile, Ala.; Alabama commissioner inof the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893; 1908; resumed the practice of law in South Bethlehem,president of the State bar association in 1906; died in Northampton County, Pa.; appointed judge of the courts ofMobile, Ala., on September 4, 1930; interment in Magnolia record of Northampton County in 1914; died in Washington,Cemetery. D.C., April 23, 1920; interment in Easton Cemetery,Easton, Pa. Bibliography: Sizemore, Margaret Davidson. "Frederick G. Bromberg of Mobile: An Illustrious Character, 1837-1928." The Alabama Review 29 BRODHEAD, Richard (father of Joseph Davis Brodhead), (April 1976): 104-12. a Representative and a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in BROMWELL, Henry Peiham Holmes, a Representative Lehman Township, Pike County, Pa., January 5,1811; from Illinois; born in Baltimore, Md., August 26, 1823; moved to Easton in 1830; studied law; was admitted to themoved with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1824, and bar in 1836 and commenced practice in Easton; member,thence to Cumberland, Ill., in 1836; attended private schools State house of representatives 1837-1839; appointed treasur-in Ohio and Illinois, and Marshall Academy, Marshall, Ill.; er of Northampton County in 1841; elected as a Democrat tobecoming an instructor in that academy in 1844; studied the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, law; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commencedprac- 1849); chairman, Committee ontice in Vandalia, Ill.; edited his father's newspaper forsever- Revolutionary Pensions (Twenty-ninth Congress);was not aal years; judge of Fayette County 1853-1857; took an active candidate for renomination in 1848; electedas a Democrat topart in the founding and building of the Republican Party; the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1851,to March 3, moved to Charleston, Coles County, Ill., in 1857; delegate to 1857; chairman, Committee on Claims (Thirty-the State constitutional convention in 1870; elected as a second and Thirty-third Congresses), Committeeon Revolu-Republican to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses tionary Claims (Thirty-second Congress); died in Easton, Pa.,(March 4, 1865-March 3, 1869); unsuccessful candidate for September 16, 1863; interment in Easton Cemetery. renomination in 1868; moved to Denver, Cob., in 1870 and BRODHEAD, William McNulty, a Representative fromcontinued the practice of law; president of the Denver Michigan; born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Sep-School Board 187 1-1874; member of the Territorial council tember 12, 1941; attended elementary and secondary schoolsin 1874; delegate to the constitutional convention of Colora- of Cleveland; A.B., Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.,do in 1875; declined the office as judge of Arapahoe County 1965; J.D., University of Michigan Law School, AnnArbor,in 1878 and the appointment as chief justice of Utah Terri- 1967; admitted to the Michigan Bar in 1968 andcommencedtory in 1879; appointed by the Governor in 1879 to compile practice in Detroit; elected to Michigan house ofrepresenta-the general statutes of Colorado; died in Denver, Cob., Janu- tives, 1970; reelected in 1972; delegate to MichiganStateary 7, 1903; interment in Riverside Cemetery. Democratic conventions, 1968-1974; elected asa Democrat to the Ninety-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses BROMWELL, Jacob Henry, a Representative from Ohio; (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1983); was nota candidate forborn m Cincinnati Ohio, May 11 1848 resided durmg his reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress; resumedboyhood in Newport, Ky.; attended the public schools of the practice of law; is a resident of Detroit, Mich., andCincinnati and was graduated from Hughes High School in Washington, D.C. 1864; taught in the public schools of southern Indiana and of Cincinnati for twenty-three years; was graduated from Cin- BROGDEN, Curtis Hooks, a Representative from Northcinnati Law College in 1870; was admitted to the bar of Carolina; born in Goldsboro, Wayne County, N.C., NovemberHamilton County in 1888 and commenced practice in Cincin- 6,1816; pursued academic studies; member of the Statenati; mayor of Wyoming, Hamilton County, Ohio, 1880-1886; house of representatives 1840-1850; comptroller of the Stateassistant county solicitor of Hamilton County 1888-1892; 1857-1867; appointed collector of internal revenue in 1869;elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the member of the State senate 1868-1872; Lieutenant Governorvacancy caused by the resignation of John A. Caldwell; re- of North Carolina in 1872 and Governorupon the death ofelected to the Fifty-fourth and to the three succeeding Con- Governor Caidwell, July 14, 1874; elected as a Republican togresses and served from December 3, 1894, to March 3, 1903; the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3,1879); was not a candidate for renomination in 1902; resumed the again a member of the State house of representatives 1886-practice of law in Cincinnati; judge of the court of common 1888; represented North Carolina at the centennial celebra-pleas of Hamilton County 1907-1913; declined to be a candi- tion in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1876; died in Goldsboro, N.C.,date for renomination; again engaged in the practice of law; January 5, 1901; interment in Willowdale Cemetery. died in Wyoming, Ohio, June 4, 1924; interment in Spring BROMBERG, Frederick George, a Representative fromGrove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. Alabama; born in New York City June 19, 1837; moved with BROM WELL, James Edward, a Representative from his parents to Mobile, Ala., in February 1838; attended theIowa; born in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, March 26, public schools; was graduated from Harvard University in1920; attended Johnson School; graduated from Franklin 1858; studied chemistry at Harvard University 186 1-1863;High School in 1938 and from the University of Iowa in tutor of mathematics at Harvard University 1863-1865;ap- 1942; during the Second World War entered the United pointed treasurer of the city of Mobile in July 1867 by Maj.States Army as a private, was assigned to the European Gen. John Pope, who commanded the department, andtheater with Headquarters Information and Education Divi- served until January 19, 1869; member of the State senatesion, served four years, and was discharged as a captain; Biographies 675

general of the graduated from the Harvard University School of Businesssion, city of Boston 1961-1962; elected attorney Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1962; reelectedin 1964; Administration in 1947; returned to the University of Iowa Senate in 1966; to study law and was graduated in 1950; wasadmitted to theelected as a Republican to the United States bar and began practice in Cedar Rapids; elected as aRepub-reelected in 1972 and served from January3, 1967, to Janu- lican to the Eighty-seventh and Eighty-eighthCongressesary 3, 1979; unsuccessfulcandidate for reelection in 1978; (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1965); unsuccessful candidateinthe only black person ever to beelected to the Senate by 1964 for reelection to the Eighty-ninth Congress; unsuccess-popular vote; lawyer; is a resident of Warrenton, Va. ful candidate for the Republican nominationfor United Bibliography: Brooke, Edward. The Challenge of Change: Crisisin Our until Two-Party System. Boston: Little Brown, 1966; Cutler,John Henry. Ed States Senator in 1968; resumed the practice of law Company, 1972. 1974, and practiced again from 1979 to 1986; is aresident ofBrooke: Biography of a Senator. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Cedar Rapids, Iowa. BROOKE, Walker, a Senator from Mississippi;born at Page Brooke, near Winchester, Clarke County,Va., Decem- BRONSON, David, a Representative from Maine; born in Richmond, Va., Suffield, Conn., February 8, 1800; was graduatedfrom Dart-ber 25, 1813; attended the public schools in mouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1819; studiedlaw; wasand Georgetown, D.C.; was graduated fromthe University of admitted to the bar in 1823 and commencedpractice inVirginia at Charlottesville in 1835; studiedlaw; was admit- North Anson, Maine; member of the Statehouse of repre-ted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practicein Lexington, sentatives in 1832 and 1834; justice of the peace;elected as aMiss.; member, State house of representatives1848; member, Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fillthe vacancyState senate 1850 and 1852; elected as a Whig tothe United caused by the resignation of George Evans andserved fromStates Senate to fill the vacancy caused bythe resignation of May 31, 1841, to March 3, 1843; moved toAugusta, Maine, inHenry S. Foote and served from February18, 1852, to March 1843 and resumed the practice of law; memberof the State3, 1853; was not a candidate forreelection; resumed the senate in 1846; moved to Bath, Maine, in1850 and served aspractice of law; moved to Vicksburg, Miss.,in 1857 and collector of customs until 1853; judge of probatefor Sagada-continued the practice of law; delegate to theState constitu- hoc County 1854-1857; unsuccessfulcandidate for election intional convention in 1861; becameaffiliated with the Demo-- 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; died inSt. Michaels,cratic Party in 1861; elected a memberof the Provisional Talbot County, Md., November 20, 1863; intermentin theConfederate Congress from Mississippi in 1861and served Episcopal Cemetery of St. Michael's Parish. one year; appointed amember of the permanent military court of the Confederate States;died in Vicksburg, Miss., BRONSON, Isaac Hopkins, a Representative from NewFebruary 18, 1869; interment in VicksburgCemetery. York; born in Rutland, N.Y., October 16, 1802;attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted to thebar in 1822 BROOKHART, Smith Wildman, a Senatorfrom Iowa; and commenced practice in Watertown, Jefferson County,born near Arbela, Scotland County,Mo., February 2, 1869; N.Y.; elected as a Democrat to theTwenty-fifth Congressattended the country schools in Missouriand Bloomfield, (March 4, 1837-March 3,1839); chairman, Committee onIowa: graduated from the SouthernIowa Normal and Scien- Territories (Twenty-fifth Congress); unsuccessfulcandidatetific Institute at Bloomfield in 1889;taught school for five for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress;appoint- years at Keosauqua; studiedlaw; was admitted to the bar in ed judge of the fifth judicial district of NewYork, April 18,1892 and commenced practice in Washington,Iowa; attorney 1838; moved to St. Augustine, Fla., and anumber of years of Washington County 1895-190 1;during the Spanish-Ameri- later moved to Palatka, Putnam County, Fla.;appointedcan War served assecond lieutenant; resumed the practice United States judge for the eastern district ofFlorida,of law and also engaged in agriculturalpursuits; chairman March 14, 1840; upon the admission of Florida as aStateof the Republican State Conventionin 1912; major and lieu- into the Union in 1845 was unanimously chosen asjudge fortenant colonel during the First WorldWar; president of the the eastern circuit; appointed UnitedStates judge for theNational Rifle Association 1921-1925;elected as a Progres- district of Florida, August 8, 1846; when theState was divid-sive Republican to the United StatesSenate to fill the va- ed he retained the judgeship of the northerndistrict andcancy caused by theresignation of William S. Kenyon and served until his death in Palatka, Fla., on August13, 1855;served from November 7, 1922, to March3, 1925; presented interment in the Episcopal Church Cemetery. credentials as a Republican Senator-electfor the term com- BROOCKS, Moses Lycurgus, a Representativefrommencing March 4, 1925, and serveduntil April 12, 1926, Texas; born near San Augustine, SanAugustine County,when he was succeeded by DanielF. Steck, who contested Tex., November 1, 1864; attended the commonschools; washis election; again elected as aRepublican in 1926 and graduated from the law department of theUniversity ofserved from March 4, 1927, to March 3,1933; unsuccessful Texas at Austin in 1891 andcommenced practice at Sancandidate for renomination in 1932and for election as an Augustine; member of the State house ofrepresentatives inindependent candidate; foreign-tradeadvisor in the Agricul- 1892; moved to Beaumont, Jefferson County,Tex.; electedtural Adjustment Administration1933-1935; unsuccessful district attorney of the first judicial districtof Texas in 1896candidate for the Republican senatorialnomination in 1936; and served one term; elected as aDemocrat to the Fifty-practiced law in Washington, D.C., until1943;, died in a ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3,1907); resumed theveterans' hospital in Whipple, Ariz.,November 15, 1944; practice of law in San Augustine, Tex., anddied there Mayinterment in Elm Grove Cemetery,Washington, Iowa. 27, 1908; interment in Old Broocks Cemetery,about four Bibliography: DAB; McDaniel, George William. "SmithWildman Brook- miles east of San Augustine, Tex. hart: Agrarian Radical in New EraAmerica." Ph.D. dissertation, Universi- ty of Iowa, 1985; Neprash, Jerry. TheBrookhart Campaigns in Iowa 1920- BROOKE, Edward William, III, a Senatorfrom Massa- 1926: A Study in the Motivation of PoliticalAttitudes. 1932. Reprint. New chusetts; born in Washington, D.C.,October 26, 1919; attend- York: AMS Press, 1968. D.C.; graduated from ed the public schools of Washington, BROOKS, Charles Wayland, a Senator fromIllinois; born Howard University, Washington, D.C., in1941; graduated, captain, United Statesin West Bureau, Ill., March 8, 1897;attended the public Law School 1948; schools at Wheaton, Ill., the Universityof Illinois at Urbana, Army, infantry, with five years of activeservice in the Euro- Ill.; during the First pean theater of operations;chairman of Finance Commis-and Northwestern University, Chicago, 676 Biographical Directory

World War served as a first lieutenant in theUnited Statesin 1924-1930; assistant attorney general 1930-1932; died in Marines 19 17-1919; wounded several times;was graduatedNewton, Ill., September 18, 1933; interment in River Side from the law department of NorthwesternUniversity inCemetery. 1926; was admitted to the bar thesame year and commenced practice in Chicago, Ill.; instructor of law at Northwestern BROOKS, Franklin Eli, a Representative from Colorado, University in 1926 and 1927; assistant State'sattorney 1926-born in Sturbridge, Worcester County, Mass., November 19, 1932; unsuccessful Republican candidatefor Governor in1860; attended the public schools; was graduated from South- 1936; elected as a Republican to the United StatesSenate tobridge High School in 1879 and from Brown University, fill the vacancy caused by the death of JamesHamiltonProvidence, R.I., in 1883; taught school for severalyears; Lewis, reelected in 1942, and served fromNovember 22,attended the law school of Boston University in 1887 and 1940, to January 3, 1949; unsuccessful candidate forreelec-1888; was admitted to the bar in 1888 and commencedprac- tion in 1948; chairman, Committeeon Rules and Administra-tice in Boston, Mass.; moved to Colorado Springs, El Paso tion (Eightieth Congress), Joint Committeeon the LibraryCounty, Cob., in 1891, where he continued the practice of (Eightieth Congress), Joint Committeeon Inaugural Ar-law; delegate to the Republican State conventions in 1900 rangements (Eightieth Congress); resumed the practice ofand 1907, serving as chairman the latter year; electedas a law in Chicago, Ill.; Republican National CommitteemanforRepublican to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses Illinois 1952; died in Chicago, Ill., January 14, 1957; inter-(March 4, 1903-March 3, 1907); was not a candidate for ment in Pleasant View Cemetery, Kewanee, Ill. renomination in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress; resumed the BROOKS, David, a Representative from New York; bornpractice of law in Colorado Springs, Cob., but devoted him- in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1756; attended the public schools;self principally to land development, being president of the during the Revolutionary War entered the ContinentalCostilla Estates Development Company, appomteda member Army as a lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Battalionof theof the State board of agriculture and trustee of the State Flying Camp in 1776; was captured at Fort Washington,agricultural college, Fort Collins, Cob, m 1907, trustee of Brown University; died February 7, 1916, in St. Augustine, November 16, 1776, and exchanged in January 1780;ap- pointed assistant clothier general; studied law;was admittedFla.; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, to the bar and practiced; after the war settled in New YorkCob. County, N.Y.; member of the State assembly 1787 and1788; BROOKS, George Merrick, a Representative from Massa- moved to Dutchess County, N.Y.; member of the Stateas-chusetts; born in Concord, Mass., July 26, 1824; attendedan sembly 1794-1796 and 1810; judge of Dutchess County, 1795-academy in Concord and a boarding school at Waltham,was 1807; elected as a Federalist to the Fifth Congress(March 4,graduated from Harvard University in 1844, studied law, 1797-March 3, 1799); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inwas admitted to the barin1847 and commenced practicein 1798 to the Sixth Congress and in 1800 to the Seventh Con-Concord, member of the State house of representatives in gress; appointed commissioner to negotiate a treaty with the1858, served in the State senatein1859, elected as a Repub- Seneca Indians; clerk of Dutchess County, June 5,1807, tolican to the Forty first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by January 25, 1809 and from February 9, 1810, to February14, the resignation of George S Boutwell, reelected to the Forty 1811, and again from February 23, 1813, to February13, second Congress and served from November 2, 1869, to May 1815; appointed an officer in the United StatesCustoms 131872, when he resigned, having been appointed to a Service; an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati;judicial position, judge of probate for Middlesex County and died in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y.,August 30,served until his death in Concord, Mass., September 22, 1838; interment probably in the Old Rural Cemetery. 1893, interment in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery BROOKS, Edward Schroeder,a Representative from BROOKS, Jack Bascom, a Representative from Texas; Pennsylvania; born in York, Pa.; June 14, 1867;attended theborn in Crowley, Acadia Parish, La., December 18, 1922; public schools, York County Academy, York, Pa., and Yorkmoved with his family to Beaumont, Tex., in 1927; attended (Pa.) Collegiate Institute; engaged as a banker, manufacturerpublic schools and Lamar Junior College, Beaumont, Tex., of steel forgings, and as a contractor; member of thecity 1939-1941; University of Texas at Austin, B. J., 1943; enlist- council 1897-1902; treasurer of York County 1903-1905;ed as a private in the United States Marine Corps November member of the Republican State committee in 1917 and7, 1942, serving overseas twenty-three and one-half months 1918; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixthand Sixty-on Guadalcanal, Guam, Okinawa, and in North China, and seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923);was not adischarged as a first lieutenant April 23, 1946; colonel in the candidate for renomination in 1922; acting postmaster ofUnited States Marine Corps Reserve, 1946-1972; member of York, Pa., from September 30, 1925, until February 23,1926, State house of representatives 1946-1950, graduated from and postmaster 1926-193 1; engaged in the clothing businessthe law school of the University of Texas in 1949; was admit- from 1937 until his retirement; died in York, Pa., July 12,ted to the bar the same year and commenced the practice of 1957; interment in Prospect Hill Cemetery. law in Beaumont, Tex.; owns and operates a farm; elected as BROOKS, Edwin Bruce (cousin of Edmund Howard Hin-a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the seventeen suc- shaw), a Representative from Illinois; born in Newton,ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1989); chair- Jasper County, Ill., September 20, 1868; attended the publicman, Joint Committee on Congressional Operations (Ninety- schools, and was graduated from Valparaiso (md.) Universi-second and Ninety-fourth Congresses), Committeeon Gov- ty in 1892; superintendent of schools at Newman 1894-1897,ernment Operations (Ninety-fourth through One Hundredth at Newton 1897-1903, at Greenville 1903-1905, and at ParisCongresses); is a resident of Beaumont, Tex. 1905-1912; engaged in banking at Newton, Ill., 1912-1914; BROOKS, James, a Representative from New York, born county superintendent of schools of Jasper County 1914-in Portland, Maine, November 10, 1810; attended the public 1918; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-schools; attended the academy at Monmouth, Maine; taught seventh Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923);unsuc- school at sixteen years of age in Lewiston;. was graduated cessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighthfrom Watervilbe (Maine) College in 1831; studied law and Congress; superintendent of charities for the State of Illinoisalso edited the Portland Advertiser, and in 1832was its Biographies 677

Washington correspondent; member of the State house ofda, Md., September 16, 1961; chairman, Committee on Sci- representatives in 1835; unsuccessful candidate for electionence and Astronautics (Eighty-sixth and Eighty-seventh Con- in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress; moved to New Yorkgresses); interment in Forest Hills Cemetery, Shreveport, La. City in 1836 and established the New York Daily Express, of Bibliography: DAB. which he was editor in chief the remainder of his life; served BROOKS, Preston Smith, a Representative from South in the State assembly in 1847; elected as a Whig to theCarolina; born in Edgefield District, S.C., August 5, 1819; Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849-attended the common schools and was graduated from South March 3, 1853); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at to the Thirty-third Congress; resumed his editorial pursuits;Columbia in 1839; studied law; was admitted to the bar in elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); presented credentials as a Member-1845 and commenced practice in Edgefield, S.C.; member of elect to the Thirty-ninth Congress and served from March 4,the State house of representatives in 1844; 'served in the 1865, to April 7, 1866, when he was succeeded by William E.Mexican War as captain in the Palmetto Regiment of South Dodge, who contested the election; elected to the FortiethCarolina Volunteers; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty- and to the three succeeding Congresses and served fromthird and Thirty-fourth Congresses and served from' March March 4, 1867, until his death; censured by the House of4, 1853, until July 15, 1856, when he resigned even though Representatives on February 27, 1873, for attempted briberythe attempt to expel him for his assault upon Charles in connection with the Ctedit Mobilier scandal; member ofSumner on May 22, 1856, had failed through lack of the the State constitutional convention in 1867; appointed a Gov-necessary two-thirds vote; chairman, Committee on Expendi- ernment director of the Union Pacific Railroad in Octobertures in the Department of State (Thirty-fourth Congress); 1867; died in Washington, D.C., April 30, 1873; interment inreelected to the Thirty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. caused by his own resignation and served from August 1, Bibliography: DAB. 1856, until his death in Washington, D.C., January 27, 1857; had been reelected to the Thirty-fifth Congress; interment in BROOKS, Joshua Twing, a Representative from Pennsyl- Willow Brook Cemetery, Edgefield, S.C. vania; born in Edgeworth (now Sewickley), Allegheny Bibliography: DAB; U.S. Congress. House Select Committee on Assault County, Pa., February 27, 1884; attended the public schools upon Senator Sumner. Thirty-fourth Congress, report no. 182. Washington, and was graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School of' 1856. Yale University in 1908; engaged in the steel industry, BROOKSHIRE, Elijah Voorhees, a Representative from during the First World War served in the QuartermasterIndiana; born near Ladoga, Montgomery County, md., Division in Washington, D.C., purchasing steel products forAugust 15, 1856; attended the common schools, and was the Army; returned to Sewickley, Pa., and continued in thegraduated from Central Indiana Normal College at Ladoga steel industry; later established his own business, being ain August 1878; taught in the common schools of Montgom- distributor of railway supplies and steel products; elected as in agricultural pur- a Democrat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Con-ery County, md. 1879-1882; also engaged gresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937); unsuccessful candi-suits; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1883 and date for renomination in 1936; member of the State Liquorcommenced practice in Crawfordsville the same year; elected Board at Harrisburg, Pa., 1937-1939; assistant director ofas a Democrat to the Fifty-first,Fifty-second, and Fifty-third aviation for Allegheny County, Pa., 1940-1948; manager ofCongresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful can- Allegheny County Airport, 1949-1956; died in Sewickley, Pa.,didate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; February 7, 1956; interment in Sewickley Cemetery. resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court BROOKS, Micah, a Representative from New York; born in 1894; moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1925, and to Seattle, in Brooksvale, near Cheshire, Conn., May 14, 1775; receivedWash., in 1935, having retired from active law practice in his early education from his father; a pioneer and one of the1925; died in Seattle, Wash., April 14, 1936; interment in earliest surveyors of western New York; justice of the peaceHarshbarger Cemetery, near Ladoga, Montgomery County, in 1806; member of the State assembly in 1808 and 1809;md. colonel on the frontier and at Fort Erie 1812-1814; major general of the New York State Infantry 1828-1830; elected BROOM, Jacob (son of James Madison Broom), a Repro-- as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-sentative from Pennsylvania; born in Baltimore, Md., July March 3, 1817); engaged in agricultural pursuits; delegate25, 1808; received a classical education; moved to Philadel- from Ontario County to the State constitutional conventionphia, Pa., with his parents in 1819; studied law; was admit- in 1821; presidential elector on the Adams ticket in 1824;ted to the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Philadel- died in Fillmore, Allegany County, N.Y., on July 7, 1857;phia, Pa.; appointed deputy auditor of the State in 1840; interment in Nunda Cemetery, Nunda, Livingston County,clerk of the Philadelphia orphans' court 1848-1852; nominat- ed by the Native American Party in 1852 for President of N.Y. the United States; elected as a candidate of the American BROOKS, Overton (nephew of John Holmes Overton), aParty to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, Representative from Louisiana; born near Baton Rouge, East1857); chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Pensions Baton Rouge Parish, La., December 21, 1897; attended the(Thirty-fourth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomi- public schools; during the First World War served overseasnation in 1856 and for election to the Thirty-sixth Congress as an enlisted man in the Sixth Field Artillery, First Divi-in 1858; died in Washington, D.C., November 28, 1864; inter- sion, Regular Army, in 1918 and 1919; was graduated fromment in Congressional Cemetery. the law department of Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge in 1923; was admitted to the bar the same year and BROOM, James Madison (father of Jacob Broom), a Rep- commenced practice in Shreveport, La.; served as Unitedresentative from Delaware; born near Wilmington, Del., in States Commissioner 1925-1935; elected as a Democrat to1776; was graduated from Princeton College in 1794; studied the Seventy-fifth and to the twelve succeeding Congresseslaw; was admitted to the bar in 1801 and practiced in New and served from January 3, 1937, until his death in Bethes-Castle and Wilmington, Del., and Baltimore, Md.; elected as 678 Biographical Directory a Federalist to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses and served20, 1864; honorably discharged December 28, 1864, and on from March 4, 1805, until his resignation in 1807, before theFebruary 28, 1865, was commissioned a second lieutenant for assembling of the Tenth Congress; moved to Philadelphia,bravery on the field of battle; after the war attended the Pa., in 1819 and resumed the practice of law; member of theState normal school at Millersville and the law department Pennsylvania house of representatives in 1824; died in Phila-of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; was admitted delphia, Pa., January 15, 1850; interment in St. Mary'sto the bar in 1868 and commenced practice in Lancaster, Churchyard, Hamilton Village (now a part of Philadelphia),Lancaster County, Pa.; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- Pa. first and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from BROOMALL, John Martin, a Representative from Penn-March 4, 1889, until his death in Lancaster, Pa., March 16, sylvania; born in Upper Chichester Township, Delaware1901; chairman, Committee on Reform in the Civil Service County, Pa., January 19, 1816; attended private schools;(Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Bank- taught school for several years; studied law; was admitted toing and Currency (Fifty-sixth Congress); interment in Green- the bar in 1840 and commenced practice in Chester, Pa.;wood Cemetery. member of the State house of representatives in 1851 and BROTZMAN, Donald Glenn, a Representative from Colo- 1852; served on the State revenue board in 1854; unsuccess-rado; born on a farm in Logan County, Cob., near Sterling, ful candidate for election in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Con-Cob., June 28, 1922; educated in Logan County schools; grad- gress and in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860; moved touated from University Colorado School of Business at Boul- Media in 1860 and continued the practice of law; served inder in 1949 and from the University of Colorado School of the Union Army as captain of Company C, Twenty-ninthLaw in 1949; was admitted to the bar in 1950 and began Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Men, from June 18 topractice in Boulder, Cob.; served as a first lieutenant with August 1, 1863; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth,the Eighty-first Infantry Division in the South Pacific, 1945- Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1863-March1946; served in the State house of representatives, 1952-1954 3, 1869); chairman, Committee on Accounts (Fortieth Con-and in the State senate 1954-1956; Republican caucus leader gress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1868; re-in 1956; Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1954 and 1956; sumed the practice of law; delegate to the State constitution-appointed United States attorney for Colorado by President al convention in 1874; appointed judge of the courts of Dela-Eisenhower and served from 1959-1961; elected as a Republi- ware County in March 1874 and served until January 1875,can to the Eighty-eighth Congress (January 3, 1963-January being an unsuccessful candidate for election to succeed him-3, 1965); unsuccessful nominee in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth self; again resumed the practice of law in Media, DelawareCongress; elected to the Ninetieth and to the three succeed- County, Pa.; died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 3, 1894; inter-ing Congresses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1975); unsuccess- ment in Media Cemetery, Media, Pa. ful candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower BROOMFIELD, William S., a Representative from Michi-and Reserve Affairs, 1975-1977; president of Rubber Manu- gan; born in Royal Oak, Oakland County, Mich., April 28,facturers Association and National Rubber Shippers Associa- 1922; graduated from high school in 1940; attended Michigantion; chairman, Industry Safety Council, Washington, D.C.; State College at East Lansing; during the Second World Waris a resident of Fort Washington, Md. served in the United States Army Air Corps; engaged in the real-estate and property-management business; member of BROUGHTON, Joseph Melville, a Senator from North the State house of representatives 1949-1954, serving asCarolina; born in Raleigh, Wake County, N.C., November 17, speaker pro tempore in 1953; served in the State senate in1888; attended the public schools; was graduated from Hugh 1955 and 1956; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifthMorson Academy in 1906 and Wake Forest (N.C.) College in and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1957- 1910; taught school in Bunn, N.C., 1910-1912; reporter on a January 3, 1989); is a resident of Birmingham, Mich. newspaper in Winston-Salem, N.C., in 1912; attended Har- vard University Law School in 1912 and 1913; was admitted BROPHY, John Charles, a Representative from Wiscon-to the bar in 1914 and commenced practice in Raleigh, N.C., sin; born in Eagle, Walworth County, Wis., October 8, 1901;the same year;also engaged in agriculturalpursuits; attended the public and parochial schools of Milwaukee,member, State senate 1927-1929; Governor of North Caroli- Wis.; was graduated from St. Patrick's and Marquette Acad-na 1941-1945; served as a member of the board of trustees of emy; enlisted in the United States Navy during the FirstWake Forest College and of the University of North Caroli- World War and served as a seaman from August 1919 untilna; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate on honorably discharged in May 1921; worked as a mechanicNovember 2, 1948, to fill the vacancy in the term ending 1922-1938; alderman of the city of Milwaukee from AprilJanuary 3, 1949, caused by the death of Josiah W. Bailey 1939 to December 1946; unsuccessful candidate for electionand at the same time was elected for the full term commenc- in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; elected as a Republi-ing January 3, 1949, and served from December 31, 1948, can to the Eightieth Congress (January 3, 1947-January 3,until his death in Washington, D.C., March 6, 1949; inter- 1949); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to thement in Montlawn Memorial Park, Raleigh, N.C. Eighty-first Congress and for election in 1950 to the Eighty- Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Joseph Broughton. second Congress; engaged in sales and public relations until 81st Cong., 1st sess., 1949. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, retirement in 1969; resided in Milwaukee, Wis., where he 1950. died December 26, 1976; interment in Mount Olivet Ceme- tery. BROUSSARD, Edwin Sidney (brother of Robert Foligny Broussard), a Senator from Louisiana; born near Loreauville, BROSIUS, Marriott, a Representative from Pennsylvania;in Iberia Parish, La., December 4, 1874; attended the public born in Colerain Township, Lancaster County, Pa., March 7,schools and was graduated from the Louisiana State Univer- 1843; attended the common schools and Thomas Baker'ssity and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Academy in Colerain Township; enlisted as a private inRouge in 1896; taught in the public schools of Iberia and St. Company K, Ninety-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun-Martin Parishes 1896-1898; at the outbreak of the Spanish- teers, in October 1861, for three years, and reenlisted MayAmerican War volunteered for service and served as a cap- Biographies 679

tam in Cuba 1898-1899; accompanied the Taft CommissionTwenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-eighth Congress- to the Philippine Islands in 1899 and served as an assistantes (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1845); chairman, Committee on secretary; returned to the United States in 1900; was grad-Territories (Twenty-eighth Congress); was not a candidate uated from the law department of Tulane University, Newfor reelection in 1844; Governor of Tennessee 1845-1847; Orleans, La., in 1901; was admitted to the bar the same year,unsuccessful candidate for reelection; delegate to the Demo- and commenced practice in New Iberia, La.; prosecutingcratic National Convention in 1852; appointed Postmaster attorney for the nineteenth district of Louisiana 1903-1908;General in the Cabinet of President Buchanan on March 6, unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor in 1916;1857, and served until his death in Washington, D.C., on elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1920;March 8, 1859; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nash- reelected in 1926 and served from March 4, 1921, to Marchville, Tenn. 3, 1933; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; Bibliography: DAB. resumed the practice of law in New Iberia, La., where he died on November 19, 1934; interment in St. Peters Ceme- BROWN, , a Representative and a Senator tery. from Mississippi; born in Chester District, S.C., May 31, 1813; moved with his parents to Copiah County, Miss., in BROUSSARD, Robert Foligny (brother of Edwin Sidney 1823; attended Mississippi College, Clinton, Miss., and Jeffer- Broussard), a Representative and a Senator from Louisiana;son College, Washington, Miss.; studied law; was admitted to born on the "Mary Louise" plantation, near New Iberia,the bar in 1833 and commenced practice in Gallatin, Miss.; Iberia Parish, La., August 17, 1864; attended public andmember, State house of representatives 1835-1839; elected as private schools; attended Georgetown University, Washing-a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839- ton, D.C., 1879-1882; night inspector of customs in New Orle-March 3, 1841); declined tO be a candidate for renomination ans 1885-1888, when he was appointed assistant weigher andin 1840; judge of the circuit superior court 1842-1843; Gover- statistician 1888-1889; studied law at Tulane University,nor of Mississippi 1844-1848; elected to the Thirtieth, Thirty- New Orleans, La., and was graduated in 1889; was admittedfirst, and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, to the bar the same year and commenced practice in New1853); chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia Iberia; elected prosecuting attorney of the nineteenth judi-(Thirty-first Congress); was not a candidate for reelection in cial district 1892-1897; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-1852; elected to the United States Senate in 1854 to fill the fifth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1853; reelected in March 3, 1915); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in1859 and served from January 7, 1854, until January 12, the Department of Justice (Sixty-third Congress); did not1861, when he withdrew; chairman, Committee on the Dis- seek renomination in 1914, having become a candidate fortrict of Columbia (Thirty-fourth through Thirty-sixth Con- Senator; elected as a Democrat in 1914 to the United Statesgresses), Committee on Enrolled Bills (Thirty-sixth Con- Senate and served from March 4, 1915, until his death ingress); during the Civil War entered the Confederate Army New Iberia, La., April 12, 1918; chairman, Committee on Senate in National Banks (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses); in-as a captain; elected a member of the Confederate terment in the Catholic Cemetery. 1862 and served in the First and Second Confederate Con- Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Robert F. Broussard. gresses; engaged in agricultural pursuits; died nearTerry, 65th Cong., 3rd sess., 1918-1919. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Hinds County, Miss., June 12, 1880; interment in Greenwood Office, 1919. Cemetery, Jackson, Miss. Bibliography: DAB; McCutchen, Samuel. "The Political Career of Albert BROWER, John Morehead, a Representative from NorthGallatin Brown." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1930; Ranck, Carolina; born in Greensboro, Guilford County, N.C., JulyJames B. Albert Gallatin Brown: Radical Southern Nationalist. New York: 19, 1845; moved to Surry County, N.C., with his parents, who Appleton-Century Company, 1937. settled in Mount Airy in 1845; educated by private tutors and attended the Mount Airy Male Academy; engaged in BROWN, Anson, a Representative from New York; born agricultural pursuits, the raising and processing of tobacco,in Charlton, Saratoga County, N.Y., in 1800; attended the and mercantile pursuits; delegate to all Republican Statepublic schools, and was graduated from Union College, Sche- conventions from 1872 to 1896; member of the State senatenectady, N.Y., in 1819; studied law; was admitted to the bar 1876-1878; elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-and commenced practice in Ballston Spa; one of the first first Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); chairman,directors of the Ballston Spa State Bank (later the Ballston Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office DepartmentSpa National Bank), which was organized in 1830; elected as (Fifty-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection ina Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congressand served from March 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; member of the State4, 1839, until his death in Ballston Spa, N.Y., June 14, 1840; house of representatives 1896-1898; resumed his former agri-interment in the cemetery of the Ballston Spa Cemetery cultural and business pursuits; moved to Oklahoma and set-Association. tled in Boswell, Choctaw County, in 1907 and engaged in the BROWN, Arthur, a Senator from Utah; born near Kala- manufacture of lumber, agricultural pursuits, and stock rais-mazoo, Kalamazoo County, Mich., March 8, 1843;attended ing; died in Paris, Lamar County, Tex., August 5, 1913;the common schools and was graduated from Antioch Col- interment in Oakdale Cemetery, Mount Airy, N.C. lege, Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1862; pursued graduate work BROWN, Aaron Venable, a Representative from Tennes-at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; was graduated see; born in Brunswick County, Va., August 15, 1795; attend-from the law department of the University of Michigan in ed Westrayville Academy, North Carolina, and was graduat-1864; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in ed from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill inKalamazoo; moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1879; upon 1814; moved to Nashville, Tenn., in 1815; studied law; wasthe admission of Utah as a State into the Union was elected admitted to the bar in 1817 and commenced practice inas a Republican to the United States Senateand served from Nashville; moved to Giles County in 1818 and continued theJanuary 22, 1896, until March 3, 1897; was not a candidate practice of law; became the partner of James K. Polk; servedfor renomination; resumed the practice of law in Salt Lake in the State senate 1821-1825; member of the State house ofCity; shot and killed in Washington, D.C. by a woman who representatives 1831-1833; elected as a Democrat to theclaimed to be the mother of his children on December 12, 680 Biographical Directory

1906; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City,resumed the practice of law; died in Kirkwood, near St. Utah. Louis, Mo., December 13, 1885; interment in Oak Hill Ceme- tery, Kirkwood, Mo. BROWN, Bedford, a Senator from North Carolina; born in Bibliography: DAB; Peterson, Norma L. Freedom and Franchise: The Po- Caswell County, N.C., near Greensboro, June 6, 1795; was litical Career of . Columbia: University of Missouri graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Press, 1968. Hill in 1813; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1815 but did not practice; planter; elected to the house of com- BROWN, Charles, a Representative from Pennsylvania, mons of North Carolina in 1815, 1816, 1817, and 1823;born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 23, 1797; attended the member, State senate 1828-1829; elected in 1829 as a Demo-public schools; in early boyhood moved with his father to crat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy causedCumberland County, N.J., and resided near Bridgeton; offi- by the resignation of John Branch; reelected in 1835 andcer in the State militia 1817-1819; town clerk of Dover served from December 9, 1829, until November 16, 1840,Township 1819; taught school at Dividing Creek in 1820 and when he resigned, because he would not obey the instruc-1821; returned to Philadelphia in 1823 and engaged in the tions of the general assembly of North Carolina; chairman,cordwood business; appointed a director of the Philadelphia Committee on Agriculture (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourthpublic schools in 1828; member of the Philadelphia City Congresses), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Twenty-Council in 1830 and 1831; served in the State house of repre- fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses), Committee to Auditsentatives 1830-1833; delegate to the convention to revise and Control the Contingent Expense (Twenty-fifth Congress);the constitution of Pennsylvania 1834-1838; served in the again elected to the State senate in 1842; unsuccessful candi-State senate 1838-1841; elected as a Democrat to the date for election to the United States Senate in 1842; movedTwenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); to Missouri in 1843; subsequently moved to Virginia; re-was not a candidate for reelection in 1842; president of the turned to North Carolina and engaged in agricultural pur-State convention to nominate candidates for the board of suits; member, State senate 1858-1860; delegate to the recon-canal commissioners in 1843; member of the board of com- struction convention in 1865; again elected to the Statemissioners, Northern Liberties Township, m 1843, elected to senate in 1868, but was not permitted to take his seat; diedthe Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); was at "Rose Hill," Caswell County, N.C., near Greensboro, De-not a candidate for reelection in 1848; member of the board cember 6, 1870; interment in the family cemetery at "Roseof inspectors of the Eastern State Penitentiary 1851-1853; Hill." collector of customs at the port of Philadelphia 1853-1857; Bibliography: DAB; Jones,HoustonBedford Brown:StatesRights Unionist. Carrolton, Ga.: West Georgia College, 1955. member of the board of guardians of the poor of Philadel- phia in 1860, moved to Dover, Del, in 1861 and engaged in BROWN, Benjamin (nephew of John Brown), a Represent-agricultural pursuits, town commissioner of Dover m 1864 ative from Massachusetts; born in Swansea, Mass., Septem-and 1865; delegate to the Union National Convention at ber 23, 1756; pursued academic studies; studied medicine andPhiladelphia in 1866, president of the board of trustees of commenced practice in Waldoboro, Maine (until 1820 a dis-the Dover public schools 187 1-1878; died at Dover, Del., Sep- trict of Massachusetts); surgeon in 1778 on the Americantember 4, 1883; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadel- frigate Boston, commanded by Commodore Tucker, whichphia, Pa. conveyed John Adams as American commissioner to France; with Commander Tucker, was captured in 1781 on the BROWN, Charles Elwood, a Representative from Ohio; American warship Thorne at the mouth of the St. Lawrenceborn in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 4, 1834; attended the common River and imprisoned on Prince Edward Island; escaped inschools and Greenfield Academy, and was graduated from an open boat and reached Boston, Mass.; member of theMiami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1854; went south and, Massachusetts house of representatives in 1809, 1811, 1812,while serving as tutor at Baton Rouge, La., studied law; was and again in 1819; elected as a Federalist to the Fourteenthadmitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); resumed the prac-Chillicothe, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Ross County in tice of medicine; died in Waldoboro, Lincoln County, Maine,1859 and 1860; enlisted as a private in Company B, Sixty- September 17, 1831; interment in Waldoboro Cemetery. third Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, September 2, 1861, and was commissioned captain October23,1861; promoted BROWN, Benjamin Gratz (grandson of John Brown ofthrough the ranks to colonel June 6, 1865, and brevetted Virginia and Kentucky [1757-1837], a Senator from Missou- brigadier general March 13, 1865; mustered out July 8, 1865; ri; born in Lexington, Ky., May 28, 1826; completed prepara-resumed the practice of law in Chillicothe, Ross County, tory studies; was graduated from Transylvania University,Ohio; postmaster of Chillicothe 1866-1872; commissioned Lexington, Ky., in 1845 and from Yale College in 1847; stud- pension agent at Cincinnati in 1872, which position he held ied law in Louisville, Ky.; was admitted to the bar in 1849until President Hayes' administration; elected as a Republi- and commenced practice in St. Louis, Mo.; member, Statecan to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, house of representatives 1852-1858; one of the founders of1885-March 3, 1889); was not a candidate for renomination the Missouri Democrat and its chief editor in 1854; unsuc- in 1888; resumed the practice of law; member of the State cessful candidate for election in 1857 as Governor of Missou- senate in 1900 and 1901; died at College Hill, Hamilton ri; took an active part in preventing the secession of Missou-County, Ohio, on May 22, 1904; interment in Spring Grove ri in 1861; during the Civil War enlisted in the Union Army; Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio raised a regiment and commanded it; elected as an Uncondi- tional Unionist to the United States Senate to fill the vacan- BROWN, Charles Harrison, a Representative from Mis- cy caused by the expulsion of Waldo P. Johnson and servedsouri; born in Coweta, Wagoner County, Okla., October 22, from November 13, 1863 to March 3, 1867; chairman, Com-1920; attended the public schools in Humansville and Repub- mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-ninth Con-lic, Mo., and high school in Springfield, Mo.; attended Drury gress), Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Ex-College, Springfield, Mo., in1937,1938, and 1940, and pense (Thirty-ninth Congress); Governor of Missouri 1871;George Washington University, Washington, D.C., in 1939; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Vice President of theprogram director for a radio station in Springfield, Mo., in United States on the ticket with Horace Greeley in 1872;1937 and 1938; radio publicity director for Missouri Conser- Biographies 681 vation Commission in 1940; account executive for an adver- BROWN, Ernest S., a Senator from Nevada; born in Al- tising company in St. Louis, Mo., 1943-1945; founder andturas, Modoc County, Calif, September 25, 1903; moved with president of Brown Radio-TV Productions, Inc., Springfield,his family to Reno, Nev., in 1906; attended the public Mo.; partner, Brown Brothers Advertising Agency, Nash-schools; graduated from the University of Nevada at Reno in ville, St. Louis, and Springfield; delegate to Democratic State1926; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 192? and and National Conventions in 1956, 1960, and 1964; elected ascommenced practice in Reno, Nev.; member, State assembly a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Congresses1933; district attorney of Washoe County 1935-1941, resign- (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1961); unsuccessful candidateing in December 1941 to enter active service in the United for reelection in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress; publicStates Army as a second lieutenant; commissioned a colonel relations consultant in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles;and discharged in December 1945; returned to Reno and senior vice president of an oil refining company in Los Ange-resumed the practice of law; appointed as a Republican to les, 1973-1979; is a resident of Incline Vifiage, Nev. the United States Senate October 1, 1954, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Pat McCarran, and served until BROWN, Clarence J. (father of Clarence J. Brown, Jr.) aDecember 1, 1954; was unsuccessful for election to the vacan- Representative from Ohio; born in Blanchester, Clintoncy; resumed the practice of law; died in Reno, Nev., July 23, County, Ohio, July 14, 1893; attended the Blanchester public 1965; interment in Masonic section of Mountain View Ceme-- schools and the law school of Washington and Lee Universi-tery. ty, Lexington, Va., 1913-1915; State statistician in 1915 and 1916; engaged in newspaper work at Blanchester, Ohio, in BROWN, Ethan Alien, a Senator from Ohio; born in 1917 and was publisher of several country newspapers; presi-Darien, Conn., July 4, 1776; pursued academic studies; stud- dent of the Brown Publishing Co., Blanchester, Ohio; alsoied law under Alexander Hamilton; was admitted to the bar owned and operated several large farms; Lieutenant Gover-in 1802; moved to Cincinnati in 1804, where he began the nor of Ohio 1919-1923; secretary of state of Ohio 1927-1933;practice of law; associate judge of the supreme court of Ohio Republican nominee for Governor in 1934; delegate to the1810-1818; Governor of Ohio 1818-1822; resigned on being Republican National Conventions in 1936, 1940, 1944, andelected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy 1948; member of the Republican National Committee sincecaused by the death of William A. Trimble and served from 1944; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to theJanuary 3, 1822, to March 3, 1825; unsuccessful candidate thirteen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3,for reelection in 1825; canal commissioner of Ohio 1825- 1939, until his death in Washington, D.C., August 23, 1965; 1830; Chargé d'Affaires to Brazil 1830-1834; commissioner of chairman, Select Committee on Newsprint (Eightieth Con-the General Land Office in Washington 1835-1836; moved to gress); interment in I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Blanchester, Ohio.Rising Sun, Ohio County, md., 1836; member, Indiana house Bibliography:DAB. of representatives 1842; died in Indianapolis, md., February 24, 1852; interment in Cedar Hedge Cemetery, Rising Sun, BROWN, Clarence J., Jr. (son of Clarence J. Brown), ahid. Representative from Ohio; born in Columbus, Ohio, June 18, Bibliography:DAB. 1927; attended the public schools in Blanchester, Ohio; also attended Stoddard Elementary, Gordon Junior High, and BROWN, Foster Vincent (father of Joseph Edgar Brown), Western High School in Washington, D.C.; graduated froma Representative from Tennessee; born nearSparta, White Duke University in 1947; Harvard Business School, M.A.,County, Tenn., December 24, 1852; attended the common 1949; served in the United States Navy, 1944-1946 (V-12schools; was graduated from Burritt College, Spencer, Van Program), and again in 1950-1953 in the Korean conflict;Buren County, Tenn., in 1871 and from the law department worked for Brown Publishing Co. and newspaper businessof Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1873; was from youth to 1953 and 1957 to present, serving as president,admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Jasper,

1965-1976, and chairman of the board, 1976 to present; ce-- Tenn., in 1874; delegate to the Republican National Conven- owner of Franklin, Ohio, Chronicle, 1953-1959; farm owner;tions in 1884, 1896, 1900, and 1916; attorney general of the general manager radio station in Urbana, Ohio, 1965; dele-- fourth judicial district 1886-1894; moved to Chattanooga, gate, Republican National Conventions, 1968, 1972, 1976 andTenn., in May 1890 and continued the practice of law; elect- 1984; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-ninth Congress,ed as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, by special election, November 2, 1965, to ff1 the vacancy1895-March 3, 1897); declined to be a candidate for renomi- caused by the death of his father, Clarence J. Brown; reelect-nation in 1896; resumed the practice of law; appointed attor- served until ed to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from No-- ney general of Puerto Rico on May 10, 1910, and vember 2, 1965, to January 3, 1983; was not a candidate forApril 20, 1912, when he resigned; resumed the practice of reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress, but was anlaw in Chattanooga, Tenn., until his death there on March unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Ohio; deputy Secre-26, 1937; interment in Forest Hills Cemetery. tary of Commerce, October 24, 1983, to present; is a resident BROWN, Fred Herbert, a Senator from New Hampshire; of Urbana, Ohio. born in Ossipee, Carroll County, N.H., April 12, 1879; attend- BROWN, Elias, a Representative from Maryland; borned the public schools and Dow Academy, Franconia, N.H., near Baltimore, Md., on May 9, 1793; attended the commonDartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., and Boston (Mass.) Uni- schools; presidential elector on the ticket of Monroe andversity School of Law; was admitted to the bar in 1907 and Tompkins in 1820 and on the ticket of Adams and Rush incommenced practice in Somersworth, N.H.; city solicitor 1828; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress19 10-1914, delegate to the State constitutional convention m (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831); member of the State house of1912; mayor of Somersworth, N.H., 1914-1922; United States representatives in 1834 and 1835; member of the Stateattorney for the district of New Hampshire 1914-1922, Gov senate 1836-1838; presidential elector on the ticket of Harri-ernor of New Hampshire 1923-1924, member of the New son and Tyler in 1836; delegate to the State constitutional Hampshire Public Service Commission 1925-1933; elected as convention in 1836; died near Baltimore, Md., July 7, 1857;a Democrat to the United States Senateand served from interment in a private cemetery near Eldersburg, CarrollMarch 4, 1933, to January 3, 1939; unsuccessful candidate County, Md. for reelection in 1938; appointed Comptroller General of the 682 Biographical Directory

United States by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in April BROWN, James (brother of John Brown of Virginia and 1939 and served until his resignation on June 19, 1940;Kentucky [1757-1837], cousin of John Breckinridge, James served as a member of the United States Tariff CommissionBreckinridge, and Francis Preston), a Senator from Louisi- 1940-1941; retired from public and political activities; diedana; born near Staunton, Va., September 11, 1766; attended in Somersworth, N.H., February 3, 1955; interment in Ossi-Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), pee Cemetery, Ossipee, N.H. Lexington, Va., and William and Mary College, Williams- BROWN, Garry Eldridge, a Representative from Michi-burg, Va.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- gan; born in Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo County, Mich., Augustmenced practice in Frankfort, KY.; commanded a company 12, 1923; Kalamazoo College, B.A., 1951, and George Wash-of sharpshooters in an expedition against the Indians in ington University Law School, LL.B., 1954; admitted to the1789; secretary to the Governor 1792; soon after the cession bar in 1954 and commenced practice in Kalamazoo, Mich.;of the Territory of Louisiana moved to New Orleans and was commissioner of the United States District Court for theappointed as secretary of the Territory in 1804; subsequently western district of Michigan, 1957-1962; delegate to thebecame United States district attorney for the Territory; Michigan constitutional convention of 1961-1962; served twoelected to the United States Senate on December 1, 1812, to terms in the Michigan State senate, 1962-1966; minorityfill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John N. Destré- floor leader and chairman of the Republican senate policyhan, and served from February 5, 1813, to March 3, 1817; committee, served in the Twenty-fourth Infantry Division asunsuccessful candidate for reelection; again elected to the second lieutenant in Japan; elected as a Republican to theUnited States Senate in 1819 and served from March 4, Ninetieth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3,1819, until December 10, 1823, when he resigned; chairman, 1967-January 3, 1979); unsucessful candidate for reelectionCommittee on Foreign Relations (Sixteenth Congress); ap- in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; resumed the practice ofpointed United States Minister to France 1823-1829; re- law; is a resident of Washington, D.C. turned to the United States and settled in Philadelphia, Pa., where he died on April 7, 1835. BROWN, George Edward, Jr., a Representative from Cali- Bibliography: DAB; Padgett, James A., ed. "Letters of James Brown to fornia; born in Holtville, Imperial County, Calif., March 6, Henry Clay, 1804-1835." Louisiana Historical Quarterly 24 (1941): 921-1177. 1920; attended the public schools of Holtville; graduated from Holtville Union High School in 1935, El Centro Junior BROWN, James Sproat, a Representative from Wisconsin; College in 1938, and from the University of' California at Losborn in Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine, February 1, Angeles in 1946; studied industrial physics; employed by the1824; attended the public schools; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, city of Los Angleles in personnel and engineering for twelvein 1840; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1843 and years between 1940 and 1957; management consultant, 1957-commenced practice in Milwaukee, Wis., in 1844; elected 1962; served in the United States Army, 1944-1946; mayorprosecuting attorney for Milwaukee County in 1846; attor- and city councilman of Monterey Park, 1954-1958; memberney general of Wisconsin in 1848 and 1849; mayor of Mil- of the State assembly, Forty-fifth District of California,waukee in 1861; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth 1959-1962; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and toCongress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); unsuccessful candi- the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3,date for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress; in 1971); was not a candidate for reelection, but was an unsuc-1865 went to Europe to recuperate his health; returned to cessful candidate for nomination to the United States Senatethe United States in 1873; resumed the practice of law in in 1970; elected to the Ninety-third and to the seven succeed-Milwaukee, Wis.; died on April 15, 1878, in Chicago, Ill.; ing Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1989); is a resi-interment in Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis. dent of Riverside, Calif. BROWN, James W. (son-in-law of Thomas Marshall BROWN, George Hanks (Hank), a Representative fromHowe); a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Pitts- Colorado; born in Denver, Cob., February 12, 1940; attendedburgh, Pa., July 14, 1844; attended the common schools of the public schools; graduated, Menlo-Atherton High School,Allegheny County and also private schools; became interest- 1957; B.S., University of Colorado, Boulder, Cob., 1961; J.D., University of Colorado, 1969; M.L. (tax), George Washingtoned in the iron and steel industry and served as vice presi- University, 1986; served in the United States Navy, lieuten-dent of the Crucible Steel Co.; also engaged in banking and ant, 1962-1966; admitted to the Colorado bar in 1969; vicewas trustee of the Dollar Savings Bank; elected as an Inde- president, Monfort of Colorado, 1969-1980; served in the Col-pendent Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, orado senate, 1972-1976; elected as a Republican to the1903-March 3, 1905); declined to be a candidate for renomi- Ninety-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (Jan-nation in 1904; resumed his former business pursuits and uary 3, 1981-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Greeley, Cob.served as president of the Colonial Steel Co.; died at Point Mouille, Mich., on October 23, 1909; interment in Allegheny BROWN, George Houston, a Representative from NewCemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa. Jersey; born in Lawrenceville, N.J., February 12, 1810; at- tended the common schools and Lawrenceville Academy and BROWN, Jason Brevoort, a Representative from Indiana; was graduated from Princeton College in 1828; teacher inborn in Dilisboro, Dearborn County, lad., February 26, 1839; Lawrenceville Academy 1828-1830; studied law at Yale Col-attended the common schools and Wilmington Academy, lege for one year and also in a law office in Somerville, N.J.;Dearborn County, md.; studied law; was admitted to the bar was admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice inin 1860 and commenced practice in Brownstown, md.; Somerville; member of the State council 1842-1845; delegatemember of the State house of representatives 1862-1866; to the State constitutional convention in 1844; elected as amember of the State senate in 1870; secretary of the Tern- Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3,tory of Wyoming 1873-1875; moved to Seymour, lad., in 1853); was not a candidate for renomination in 1852; re-1875; again a member of the State senate 1880-1883; elected sumed the practice of law; associate justice of the supremeas a Democrat to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third court of New Jersey from 1861 until his death in Somerville,Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1895); chairman, Com- Somerset County, N.J., August 1, 1865; interment in the Oldmittee on Elections (Fifty-third Congress); unsuccessful can- Cemetery. didate for renomination in 1894; resumed the practice of law Biographies 683 in Seymour, Jackson County, md., and died there March 10,being the last survivor of the Continental Congress; inter- 1898; interment in Riverview Cemetery. ment in Frankfort Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB; Sprague, Stuart S. "Senator John Brown of Ken- BROWN, Jeremiah, a Representative from Pennsylvania; tucky, 1757-1837: A Political Biography." Ph.D. dissertation, New York born in Little Britain (now Fulton) Township, Lancaster University, 1972; Warren, Elizabeth. "John Brown and His Influence on County, Pa., April 14, 1785; engaged in milling and agricul- Kentucky Politics: 1784-1805." Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, tural pursuits; member of the State house of representatives 1937. in 1826; delegate to the convention to revise the State consti- BROWN, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born tution in 1836; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh andin Kishacoquillas Valley, near Lewistown, Muffin County, Twenty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1845);Pa., August 12, 1772; attended the common schools; moved to wa not a candidate for renomination in 1844 to the Twenty-Lewistown, Pa., in 1800; engaged in the gristmill and saw- ninth Congress; first associate judge for Lancaster andmill business; member of the State house of representatives served from 1851 to 1856; died in Goshen, Fulton Township,1809-18 13; elected to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Con- Lancaster County, Pa., March 2, 1858; interment in the cem-gresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1825); resumed his former etery adjoining Penn Hill Quaker Meeting House, Littlebusiness pursuits; moved to Limestone, Buncombe County, Britain (later Fulton) Township, Pa. N.C., in 1827 and engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the real estate business; died in a section of Buncombe County, BROWN, John (uncle of Benjamin Brown and grandfatherN.C., then called Limestone, near Skyland, on October 12, of John Brown Francis), a Representative from Rhode1845; interment in Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, N.C. Island; born in Providence, R.I., January 27, 1736; engaged in mercantile pursuits; one of the party which destroyed the BROWN, John Brewer, a Representative from Maryland; British sioop of war Gaspee in Narragansett Bay June 17,born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 13, 1836; attended Centerville 1772; sent in irons to Boston for trial, but released through(Maryland) Academy and Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.; the efforts of his brother Moses; laid the cornerstone of thestudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and practiced first building of the College of Rhode Island (now Brownin Centerville, Queen Annes County, Md.; member of the University) May 14, 1770; trustee of Brown University, Prov-State house of delegates in 1870; served in the State senate idence, R.I., 1774-1803; treasurer 1775-1796; member of the1888-1892; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Con- State house of representatives 1782-1784; chosen as a Dele-gress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry gate to the Continental Congress in 1784 and 1785, but didPage and served from November 8, 1892, to March 3, 1893; not serve; elected as a Federalist to the Sixth Congressdeclined to be a candidate for renomination in 1892; re- (March 4, 1799-March 3, 1801); resumed his former businesssumed the practice of law; died in Centerville May 16, 1898; pursuits; died in Providence, R.I., September 20, 1803; inter-interment in Chesterfield Cemetery. ment in the North Burial Ground. BROWN, John Robert, a Representative from Virginia; Bibliography: DAB. born near Snow Creek, Franklin County, Va., January 14, BROWN, John, a Representative from Maryland; member1842; attended private schools in Franklin and Henry Coun- of the State house of delegates in 1807 and 1808; elected as aties; entered the Confederate Army in 1861 as a private in Republican to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses andCompany D, Twenty-fourth Regiment, Virginia Volunteers; served from March 4, 1809, until his resignation in 1810,formed a partnership with his father in the tobacco business before the close of the Eleventh Congress, to accept an ap-at Shady Grove in 1870; moved to Martinsville, Henry pointment as clerk of the court of Queen Annes County,County, in 1882 and continued in the tobacco business; also Md., which office he held until his death in Centerville,engaged in banking; mayor of Martinsville 1884-1888; elect- Queen Annes County, December 13, 1815; interment in Ches-ed as a Republican to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887- terfield Cemetery. March 3,1889); unsuccessfully contested the election of Claude A. Swanson to the Fifty-fifth Congress; reengaged in BROWN, John (brother of James Brown and grandfatherthe tobacco business; retired from active business pursuits; of Benjamin Gratz Brown, cousin of John Breckinridge,died in Martinsville August 4, 1927; interment in Oakwood James Breckinridge, and Francis Preston), a Delegate and aCemetery. Representative from Virginia and a Senator from Kentucky; BROWN, John W., a Representative from New York; born born in Staunton, Va., September 12, 1757; attended Wash-in Dundee, Scotland, October 11, 1796; immigrated to the ington College (now Washington and Lee University), Lex-United States in 1802 with his father, who settled in New- ington, Va., and Princeton College; enlisted in the Revolu-burgh, N.Y.; attended the public schools; studied law; was tionary Army and served until the close of the war; complet-admitted to the New York bar in 1818 and commenced the ed his studies at William and Mary College, Williamsburg,practice of law in Newburgh, N.Y.; elected justice of the Va.; taught school for several years; studied law; was admit-peace in 1820; elected as a Jacksonian tothe Twenty-third ted to the bar in 1782 and commenced practice in Frankfort, and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, KY.; member, Virginia senate from the district of Kentucky1837); resumed the practice of law; elected judge of the su- 1784-1788; Delegate from the Kentucky district of Virginiapreme court for the second judicial district ofNew York in to the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788; elected from1849; reelected in 1857, and served until 1865; resumed the Virginia to the First and Second Congresses and served frompractice of law; died in Newburgh September 6, 1875; inter- March 4, 1789, to June 1, 1792, when that portion of Virgin-ment in Cedar Hill Cemetery. ia which is now Kentucky was admitted as a State into the Union; elected on June 18, 1792, to the United States Senate BROWN, John Young (nephew of Bryan Rust Young and from Kentucky for the term ending March 3, 1793; reelectedWilliam Singleton Young), a Representative from Kentucky; on December 11, 1792, and again in 1799 and served fromborn in Claysville, Hardin County, Ky., June 28, 1835; was June 18, 1792, to March 3, 1805; served as President prograduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1855; stud- tempore of the Senate during the Eighth Congress; resumedied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced the practice of law; died in Frankfort, Ky., August 29, 1837,practice in Elizabethtown, Ky.; elected as a Democrat to the 684 Biographical Directory

Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861), but1880, until March 3, 1891; died in Atlanta, Ga., November because he had not attained the age required by the Consti-30, 1894; interment in Oakland Cemetery. tution he did not take his seat until the second session; Bibliography: DAB; Parks, Joseph. Joseph E. Brown of Georgia. Baton member of the Douglas National Committee in 1860; elected Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977; Roberts, Derrell C. Joseph to the Fortieth Congress, but his seat was declared vacant E. Brown and the Politics of Reconstruction. University, Ala.: University because of alleged disloyalty; elected to the Forty-third and of Alabama Press, 1973. Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); cen- BROWN, Lathrop, a Representative from New York; born sured by the House of Representatives on February 4, 1875,in New York City February 26, 1883; was graduated from for the use of unparliamentary language; resumed the prac-Groton School, Massachusetts, in 1900 and from Harvard tice of law in Louisville; Governor of Kentucky 189 1-1895;University in 1903; engaged in the real estate business; returned to Louisville, where he practiced law until hisserved in Squadron A, National Guard of New York, for five death in Henderson, Henderson County, Ky., January 11,years; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress 1904; interment in Fernwood Cemetery. (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessfully contested the Bibliography: DAB. election of Frederick C. Hicks to the Sixty-fourth Congress; BROWN, John Young, a Representative from Kentucky,special assistant to the Secretary of the Interior from March born on a farm near Geigers Lake, Union County, Ky., Feb-1917 to October 1918; served as a private in the Tank Corps ruary 1, 1900; attended the county schools and the highduring the First World War; joint secretary of President school at Sturgis, KY.; Centre College, Danville, Ky., A.B.,Wilson's Industrial Conference in 1919; delegate to the 1921, and from the law department of the University ofDemocratic National Conventions in 1920, 1924, and 1936; Kentucky at Lexington, LL.B., 1926; was admitted to the barstudied monetary theory at the Graduate School of Harvard the same year and commenced practice in Lexington, KY.;University 1928-1932; moved to California in 1946 and set- also engaged in agricultural pursuits; city representative oftled on a cattle ranch; elected to the sheriff's posse of Monte- Lexington, Ky., in 1930; county representative of Fayetterey County in 1947; member of committee to supervise Grad- County, Ky., in 1932 and again in 1946; member of the Stateuate School of Public Administration of Harvard University house of representatives 1930 to 1932, serving as speaker inin 1954 and 1955; died in Fort Myers, Fla., November 28, 1932; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress1959; cremated; ashes interred in Abbey of the Light, Mana- (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); unsuccessful candidate forsota Memorial Park, Sarasota, Fla. renomination in 1934; resumed the practice of law; unsuc- BROWN, Milton, a Representative from Tennessee; born cessful Democratic candidate for the United States Senate inin Lebanon, Ohio, February 28, 1804; moved to Nashville, 1946; member, State legislature in 1953 and 1954; defeatedTerm.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced for the Democratic nomination in 1960 for United Statespractice in Paris, Tenn.; later moved to Jackson, Tenn.; Senator; member, Kentucky house of representatives, 1962-became judge of the chancery court of west Tennessee in 1963, and 1966-1967, during which time he served as majori-1835 and held this position until elected as a Whig to the ty floor leader; returned to law practice in Lexington andTwenty-seventh Congress; reelected to the two succeeding Louisville; died in Louisville, Ky., June 16, 1985; interment Congresses (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1847); resumed the prac- at Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Ky. tice of law; one of the founders of Southwestern University (later Union University) and of Lambuth College, both in BROWN, Joseph Edgar (son of Foster Vincent Brown), aJackson, Madison County, Tenn.; president of the Mississippi Representative from Tennessee; born in Jasper, MarionCentral & Tennessee Railroad Co., 1854-1856; president of County, Tenn., February 11, 1880; attended Baylor's Prepar-the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Co., 1856-1871; died in Jackson, atory School, Chattanooga, Tenn., and was graduated fromTenn., on May 15, 1883; interment in Riverside Cemetery. Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1902; studied law; was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1904 and com- BROWN, Norris, a Senator from Nebraska; born in Ma- menced practice in Jasper, Tenn.; moved to Chattanooga,quoketa, Jackson County, Iowa, May 2, 1863; attended the Tenn., in 1907 and continued the practice of law; elected as acommon schools; was graduated from the law department of Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1883; was admitted to March 3, 1923); was not a candidate for renomination inthe bar in 1884 and commenced practice in Perry, Dallas 1922; served as chairman of the Republican State executiveCounty, Iowa; moved to Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebr., in committee 1922-1924; resumed the practice of law in Chatta-1888 and continued the practice of law; prosecuting attorney nooga, Tenn.; delegate to the Republican National Conven-of Buffalo County 1892-1896; deputy attorney general of Ne- tion in 1924; died in Chattanooga June 13, 1939; intermentbraska 1900-1904; attorney general of Nebraska 1904-1906; in Forest Hills Cemetery. elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1907, to March 3, 1913; unsuccessful BROWN, Joseph Emerson, a Senator from Georgia; borncandidate for renomination 1912; chairman, Committee on in the Pickens District of South Carolina April 15, 1821;Patents (Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses); resumed moved to Georgia; attended Calhoun Academy in Souththe practice of law in Omaha, Nebr., 19 13-1942; retired and Carolina; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the barmoved to Seattle, Wash., where he died January 5, 1960; in 1845 and later was graduated from the Yale Law School;interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Nebr. returned to Georgia and commenced practice in1846; member, State senate 1849; judge of the superior court of the BROWN, Paul, a Representative from Georgia; born near Blue Ridge circuit in 1855; Governor of Georgia 1855-1865,Hartwell, Hart County, Ga., March 31, 1880; attended the when he resigned; chief justice of the supreme court of Geor-public schools; was graduated in 1901 from the Lumpkin gia 1865-1870, when he resigned and accepted the presiden-Law School, University of Georgia, at Athens; was admitted cy of the Western & Atlantic Railroad Co.; appointed andto the bar the same year and practiced law in Lexington, subsequently elected in 1880 as a Democrat to the UnitedGa., until 1920; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; mayor States Senate to ifil the vacancy caused by the resignation ofof Lexington, Ga., 1908-19 14; member of the State house of John B. Gordon; reelected in 1885 and served from May 26,representatives in 1907 and 1908; moved to Elberton, Ga., in Biographies 685

1920; county attorney of Elbert County 1928-1933; delegate(March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901); unsuccessful candidate for to the Democratic National Convention in 1932; elected as arenomination in 1900; resumed the practice of law in Leba- Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress to fill the vacancynon and Cincinnati, Ohio; writer on political and govern- caused by the death of Charles H. Brand; reelected to themental subjects; died in Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, Seventy-fourth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses andFebruary 24, 1923; interment in Miami Cemetery, Waynes- served from July 5, 1933, to January 3, 1961; chairman,ville, Ohio. Joint Committee on Defense Production (Eighty-fourth and Eighty-sixth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomina- BROWN, Titus, a Representative from New Hampshire; tion in 1960; died in Elberton, Ga., September 24, 1961;born in Alstead, Cheshire County, N.H., February 11, 1786; interment in Elmhurst Cemetery. was graduated from Middlebury (Vt.) College in 1811; stud- ied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in BROWN, Prentiss Marsh, a Representative and a SenatorReading, Vt., in 1814; moved to Francestown, N.H., in 1817 from Michigan; born in St. Ignace, Mackinac County, Mich., and continued the practice of law; member of the State June 18, 1889; attended the public schools, and the Universi-house of representatives 1820-1825; solicitor of Hillsborough ty of Illinois at Urbana; was graduated from Albion (Mich.)County 1823-1825 and 1829-1834; elected to the Nineteenth College in 1911; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1914and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1829); and commenced practice in St. Ignace, Mich.; prosecutingwas not a candidate for reelection in 1828; member of the attorney of Mackinac County 1914-1926; city attorney of St.State senate and served as its president in 1842; chairman of Ignace 19 16-1928; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1924 the boards of bank and railroad commissioners at the time to the Sixty-ninth Congress and for election in 1928 as jus-of his death; died in Francestown, N.H., January 29, 1849; tice of the Michigan Supreme Court; member of the Stateinterment in Mill Village Cemetery. board of law examiners 1930-1942; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fourth BROWN, Webster Everett, a Representative from Wiscon- Congress and served from March 4, 1933, until his resigna-sin; born near Peterboro village, Madison County, N.Y., July tion, effective November 18, 1936; elected as a Democrat on16, 1851; moved with his parents to Wisconsin in 1857; re- November 3, 1936, to the United States Senate for the termsided for a time in Newport, Columbia County, and then in beginning January 3, 1937, but was subsequently appointedHull and Stockton, Portage County; attended the common to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by theschools; completed a preparatory course at Lawrence Uni- death of James Couzens for the term ending January 3,versity, Appleton, Wis., and later, in 1870, a business course 1937, and served from November 19, 1936, to January 3,at the Spencerian Business College, Milwaukee, Wis.; was 1943; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942; chair-graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in man, Committee on Claims (Seventy-seventh Congress); ad-1874; engaged in the logging and lumber business at Stevens ministrator in the Office of Price Administration 1943; re-Point, Wis., in 1875; moved to Rhinelander, Oneida County, sumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and Detroit,Wis., in 1882 and continued in the logging and lumber busi- Mich.; chairman of the Mackinac Bridge Authority until hisness; also engaged in manufacture of paper; mayor of Rhine- death; interested in atomic reactor company; resided in St.lander in 1894 and 1895; elected as a Republican to the Ignace, Mich., where he died December 19, 1973; intermentFifty-seventh,Fifty-eighth,andFifty-ninthCongresses in Lakeside Cemetery. (March 4, 1901-March 3,1907); chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining (Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses); BROWN, Robert, a Representative from Pennsylvania;was not a candidate for renomination in 1906; resumed his born in Weaversville, East Allen Township, Northamptonformer business and manufacturing pursuits in Rhinelander, County, Pa., December 25,1744; attended the commonWis.; died in Chicago, Ill., while on a visit for medical treat- schools and was apprenticed to the blacksmith trade; at the ment, December 14, 1929; interment in Forest Home Ceme-- beginning of the Revolutionary War was commissioned firsttery, Rhinelander, Wis. lieutenant in the Pennsylvania "Flying Camp" on Septem- ber 10, 1776; captured at the surrender of Fort Washington BROWN, William, a Representative from Kentucky; born November 16, 1776; worked at the blacksmith trade while ain Frederick County, Va., April 19,1779; attended the prisoner; later put aboard the prison ship Judith and subse-common schools; moved with his father to Bourbon County, quently imprisoned in the old city hall, New York City;Ky., in 1784 and to Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., about paroled on board ship December 10, 1777; member of the1795; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; State senate 1783-1787; elected as a Republican to the Fifthserved as a colonel in the War of 1812; member of the State Congress to ifil the vacancy caused by the resignation ofhouse of representatives; elected to the Sixteenth Congress Samuel Sitgreaves; reelected to the Sixth and to the seven(March 4,1819-March 3,1821); moved to Jacksonville, succeeding Congresses and served from December 4, 1798, toMorgan County, Ill., in 1832, where he died October 6, 1833. March 3, 1815; was not a candidate for renomination in BROWN, William Gay (father of William Gay Brown, Jr.), 1814; retired from public life and lived on his farm; dieda Representative from Virginia and from West Virginia; near Weaversville, Northampton County, Pa., February 26,born in Kingwood, Preston County, Va. (now West Virginia), 1823; interment in East Allen Presbyterian Churchyard. September 25, 1800; attended the public schools; studied law; BROWN, Seth W., a Representative from Ohio; born nearwas admitted to the bar in 1823 and commenced practice in Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio, January 4, 1841; attend-Kingwood, Va.; member of the State house of delegates in ed the public schools; during the Civil War served in Compa- 1832 and 1840-1843; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty- ny H, Seventy-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; en-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, gaged in the newspaper business; studied law; was admitted1849); delegate to the State constitutional conventions in to the bar in 1873 and commenced practice in Waynesville,1850 and 1861; delegate to the Democratic National Conven- Ohio; prosecuting attorney for Warren County 1880-1883;tions at Charleston and Baltimore in 1860; elected as a resumed the practice of law in Lebanon, Ohio; member ofUnionist to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861- the State house of representatives 1883-1887; elected as aMarch 3, 1863); upon the admission of West Virginia as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth CongressesState into the Union was elected as an Unconditional Union- 686 Biographical Directory ist to the Thirty-eighth Congress and served from Decemberthe State house of representatives 1872-1876; appointed aide- 7, 1863, to March 3, 1865; died in Kingwood, W.Va., April 19,de-camp to Governor Hartranft in 1876 and was associated 1884; interment in Maplewood Cemetery. with the National Guard of Pennsylvania; moved to Brad- BROWN, William Gay, Jr. (son of William Gay Brownford, Pa., in 1878 and continued the practice of law; elected [1800-1865]), a Representative from West Virginia; born inas a Republican to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Con- Kingwood, Preston County, Va. (now West Virginia), April 7,gresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candi- 1856; attended the common schools; was graduated from thedate for renomination in 1886; resumed the practice of law; University of West Virginia at Morgantown in 1877; studiedcity solicitor of Bradford 1892-1897; auditor for the War law; was admitted to the bar in 1877 and commenced prac-Department 1897-1899; auditor for the Navy Department tice in Preston County, W.Va.; also engaged in banking;1899-1907; appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt in elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and1907, and served until 1910, as Assistant Attorney General, Sixty-fourth Congresses and served from March 4,1911, in charge of defense of Spanish treaty claims; resumed the until his death in Washington, D.C., March 9, 1916; inter-practice of law in Bradford, Pa., where he died November 4, ment in Kingwood Cemetery, Kingwood, W.Va. 1926; interment inAlfred Cemetery,Alfred,Allegany County, N.Y. BROWN, William John, a Representative from Indiana; born near Washington, Mason County, Ky., August 15, 1805; BROWNE, Charles, a Representative from New Jersey; moved to Clermont County, Ohio, in 1808 with his parents,born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 28, 1875; attended pri- who settled near New Richmond; attended the commonvate schools in Philadelphia; was graduated from Princeton schools and Franklin Academy in Clermont County; movedUniversity in 1896; studied medicine, and was graduated to Rushville, Rush County, md., in 1821; studied law; wasfrom the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in1900; attended the University of Berlin in 1902 and 1903; Rushville; member of the State house of representativesoverseer of the poor, Princeton, N.J., 1912-1914; mayor of 1829-1832; prosecuting attorney 1831-1835; secretary of statePrinceton 1914-1923; served as first lieutenant and captain of Indiana 1836-1840; moved to Indianapolis, md., in 1837;in the Medical Corps from March 1917 to April 1919; re- again a member of the State house of representatives 1841-sumed the practice of his profession in Princeton; elected as 1843; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congressa Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1923- (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); appointed Second AssistantMarch 3, 1925); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924 Postmaster General by President Polk and served from 1845to the Sixty-ninth Congress; member of the Board of Public until 1849; elected to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4,Utility Commissioners of New Jersey 1925-1931; served in 1849-March 3, 1851); unsuccessful candidate for renomina-the New Jersey house of assembly 1937-1939, and again in tion in 1850; chief editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel 1850-1941 and 1942; adviser in the department of politics at 1855; many times chairman of the Democratic State centralPrinceton University; died in Princeton, August 17, 1947; committee of Indiana; appointed by President Pierce as spe- remains were cremated and the ashes interred in the cial agent of the Post Office Department for Indiana andgrounds of his home in Princeton. Illinois, which position he held from 1853 until his death near Indianapolis, Ind., March 18, 1857; interment in Crown BROWNE, Edward Everts, a Representative from Wiscon- Hill Cemetery. sin; born in Waupaca, Waupaca County, Wis., February 16, 1868; attended the public schools and Waupaca High School; BROWN, William Ripley, a Representative from Kansas;was graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison born in Buffalo, N.Y., July 16, 1840; was prepared for college in Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., and was graduat- in 1890 and from the law department of the same university ed from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1862; wentin 1892; was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced immediately to Kansas and settled in Emporia; studied law;practice in Waupaca, Wis.; district attorney of Waupaca was admitted to the bar in 1864 and commenced practice inCounty 1898-1905; delegate to the Republican State conven- Emporia, Lyon County, Kans.; judge of the ninth judicialtions in 1902, 1904, and 1906; member of the board of re- district of Kansas 1867-1877; elected as a Republican to thegents of the University of Wisconsin in 1905 and 1906; Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); unsuc- member of the State senate 1907-1912; elected as a Republi- cessful candidate for renomination in 1876; resumed thecan to the Sixty-third and to the eight succeeding Congresses practice of law in Hutchinson, Kans.; register of the United(March 4, 1913-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for States land office in Lamed, Kans., 1883-1885; moved to Elrenomination in 1930; resumed the practice of law; member Reno, Okia., in 1892; probate judge of Canadian Countyof the State conservation commission 1936-1941; died in Ev- 1894-1898; died in Kansas City, Mo., March 3, 1916; inter- anston, Ill., November 23, 1945; interment in Lakeside Ceme- ment in Lawrence Cemetery, Lawrence, Douglas County,tery, Waupaca, Wis. Kans. BROWNE, George Huntington, a Representative from BROWN, William Wallace, a Representative from Penn-Rhode Island; born in Gloucester, R.I., January 6, 1811; at- sylvania; born in Summer Hill, Cayuga County, N.Y., Apriltended the public schools and was graduated from Brown 22, 1836; moved with his parents to Elk County, Pa., in 1838;University in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the bar in attended the common schools and Smethport Academy; was1843 and commenced practice in Providence, R.I.; elected a graduated from Alfred University, Allegany County, N.Y., inrepresentative to the so-called "Charter" General Assembly 1861; enlisted in the Twenty-third New York Volunteers inof Rhode Island in 1842; at the same time was elected a 1861; transferred to the First Pennsylvania Rifles Decemberrepresentative to what was termed the "Suffrage" legisla- 18, 1861; appointed recorder of deeds of McKean County inture and attended the latter; member of the general assem- 1864 and its superintendent of schools in 1866; studied law;bly under the constitution 1849-1852; appointed United was admitted to the bar in 1866 and practiced; elected dis-States district attorney in 1852 and served until 1861 when trict attorney of McKean County the same year; moved inhe resigned; delegate to the Charleston and Baltimore Demo- 1869 to Corry, Erie County, Pa., where he served three yearscratic National Conventions in 1860; delegate to the peace as city attorney and two years in the city council; member ofconvention held in Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to Biographies 687

devise means to prevent the impending war; elected as a tam and served in France; was discharged from the service candidate of the Democratic and Constitutional Union Par-in 1919 and resumed the practice of law in Huntingdon, ties to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3,Tenn.; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1920 to the 1863); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to theSixty-seventh Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- Thirty-eighth Congress; declined the appointment as Gover-eighth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923- nor of the Territory of Arizona in 1861; entered the UnionJanuary 3, 1935); was not a candidate for renomination in Army as colonel of the Twelfth Regiment, Rhode Island1934, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Volunteer Infantry, October 13, 1862, and served throughoutnomination to the United States Senate; one of the manag- the Civil War; member of the State senate in 1872 and 1873;ers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1933 to elected chief justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island inconduct the impeachment proceedings against Harold Lou- May 1874 but declined the office; died in Providence, R.I.,derback, judge of the United States District Court for the September 26, 1885; interment in Swan Point Cemetery. Northern District of California; resumed the practice of law; BROWNE, Thomas Henry Bayly, a Representative fromGovernor of Tennessee 1937-1939; unsuccessful candidate for Virginia; born at Accomac Court House, Accomac County,renomination in 1938; chancellor of the Eighth Tennessee Va., February 8, 1844; instructed by private tutors; attendedChancery Division 1942-1949; was appointed a captain in the Hanover and Bloomfield Academies in Virginia; during theUnited States Army on February 17, 1943; attended the Civil War enlisted as a private in Company F, Thirty-ninthSchool of Military Government at Charlottesville, Va.; ad- Regiment, Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Confederate Army;vanced through the ranks to lieutenant colonel; acted as afterwards served as a private in Chew's battery of thedeputy head of the Belgium-Luxembourg missions until Jan- Stuart Horse Artillery; was surrendered with the Army ofuary 1946; with the military government in Germany for Northern Virginia in April 1865; was graduated from theone year, serving as civil-affairs adviser on the supreme law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottes-commander's staff; again Governor of Tennessee from Janu- ville in 1867; admitted to the bar in 1868 and commencedary 1949 to January 1953; unsuccessful candidate for re- practice in Accomac, Va.; elected prosecuting attorney fornomination in 1952 and for nomination as governor in 1954; Accomac County in 1873; elected as a Republican to theengaged in the practice of law and in the operation of a Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3,dairy farm; president of insurance firm before retirement; 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to theresided in Huntingdon, Tenn., where he died May 23, 1976; Fifty-second Congress; resumed the practice of law; died ininterment in Oak Hill Cemetery. Accomac, Va., August 27, 1892; interment in Mount Curtis Bibliography: Adams, J.W. "Governor Gordon Browning, Campaigner Ex- traordinary-The 1936 Election for Governor." West Tennessee Historical Cemetery. Society Papers 30 (1976): 5-23; Majors, William R The End of Arcadia: BROWNE, Thomas McLelland, a Representative from In- Gordon Browning and Tennessee Politics. Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis State diana; born in New Paris, Preble County, Ohio, April 19, University Press, 1982. 1829; moved to Indiana in January 1844; attended the BROWNING, Orville Hickman, a Senator from Illinois; common schools; moved to Winchester, Randolph County,born in Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., February 10, 1806; Ind., in 1848; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849attended Augusta College; studied law; was admitted to the and commenced practice in Winchester; elected prosecutingbar in 1831; moved to Quincy, Ill., in 1831 and practiced; attorney for the thirteenth judicial circuit in 1855; reelectedserved in the Illinois Volunteers during the Black Hawk in 1857 and 1859; secretary of the State senate in 1861;War 1832; member, State senate 1836-1843; unsuccessful member of the State senate in 1863; assisted in organizingcandidate for election as a Whig in 1850 to the Thirty-second the Seventh Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Cavalry of theCongress and in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress; delegate Union Army, and went to the field with that regiment asto the anti-Nebraska convention held at Bloomington, Ill., in captain of Company B, August 28, 1863; commissioned lieu-May 1856, which laid the foundations of the Republican tenant colonel October 1, 1863; promoted to colonel OctoberParty; appointed as a Republican to the United States 10, 1865, and subsequently commissioned by President Lin-Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Stephen A. coln as brigadier general by brevet March 13, 1865; mus-Douglas and served from June 26, 1861, to January 12, 1863, tered out February 18, 1866; appointed United States attor-when a successor was elected; was not a candidate for elec- ney for the district of Indiana in April 1869 and served untiltion in 1863; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills (Thirty- his resignation August 1, 1872; unsuccessful candidate forseventh Congress); appointed by President Andrew Johnson Governor in 1872; delegate to the Republican National Con-as Secretary of the Interior 1866-1869, also discharging for a vention in 1876; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifthtime the duties of Attorney General; delegate to the State and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-Marchconstitutional convention in 1869; resumed the practice of 3, 1891); chairman, Committee on Invalid Pensions (Forty-law; died in Quincy, Adams County, Ill., August 10, 1881; seventh Congress), Committee on Revision of the Lawsinterment in Woodland Cemetery. (Fifty-first Congress); was not a candidate for renomination Bibliography: DAB; Baxter, Maurice. Orville H. Browning: Lincoln's in 1890; died in Winchester, Ind., July 17, 1891; interment in Friend and Critic. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957; Browning, Fountain Park Cemetery. Orville. The Diary of Orville H. Browning, 1850-1881. Edited by T. C. Pease and J. Randall. Springfield: Trustees of the Illinois State Historical BROWNING, Gordon Weaver, a Representative from Ten- Society, 1925-1931. nessee; born near Atwood, Carroll County, Teun., November 22, 1889; attended the public schools; B.S., Valparaiso Uni- BROWNING, William John, a Representative from New versity, Valparaiso, md., 1913; graduated from CumberlandJersey; born in Camden, N.J., April 11, 1850; attended the University Law School in 1915; was admitted to the bar andFriends' School; at an early age engaged in the wholesale commenced practice in Huntingdon, Tenn., in 1915; enlisteddry goods business in Camden; member of the Camden in the National Guard in June 1917, and commissioned aBoard of Education and of the city council; appointed post- second lieutenant of the First Tennessee Field Artillery,master of Camden on June 18, 1889, and served until June 1, afterwards the One Hundred and Fourteenth Field Artillery,1894, when his successor was appointed; Chief Clerk of the Thirtieth Division; promoted to first lieutenant and to cap-House of Representatives of the United States 1895-1911; 688 Biographical Directory elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress to fillEngland and combat in Europe until V-E Day; transferred the vacancy caused by the death of Henry C. Loudenslager;with First Army Planning Headquarters to Canlubang, Phil- reelected to the Sixty-third and to the three succeeding Con-ippine Islands, August 5, 1945; released from active duty gresses and served from November 7, 1911, until his death inFebruary 27, 1946, as lieutenant colonel, Army Reserve, and the Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., March 24, 1920; in-retired as colonel in 1974; Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, and terment in Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, N.J. French Medaille de Reconnaissance; chairman Marion BROWNLOW, WalterPreston(nephewofWilliamCounty Juvenile Court Advisory Council in 1948 and 1949; Gannaway Brownlow), a Representative from Tennessee;elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the born in Abingdon, Washington County, Va., March 27, 1851;three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, attended the common schools; employed as a telegraph mes-1959); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the senger boy when only ten years of age; became an appren-Eighty-sixth Congress; assistant administrator for public af- tice in the tinning business at the age of fourteen and laterfairs and congressional liaison, Housing and Home Finance became a locomotive engineer; entered upon newspaperAgency, Washington, D.C., 1959-1964; editor and publisher work as a reporter for -the Knoxville Whig and Chronicle inof Congressional Staff Directory; engaged in public relations 1876; in the same year purchased the Herald and Tribune inin Washington, D.C., 1961-1985; was a resident of Coral Jonesboro, Tenn.; delegate to the Republican National Con-Gables, Fla., and Mount Vernon, Va., until his death in ventions in 1880, 1884, 1896, 1900, and 1904; appointed post-Alexandria, Va., on August 4, 1988; interment in Arlington master at Jonesboro in March 1881; resigned in the follow-National Cemetery. ing December to accept the position of Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives in the Forty-seventh Congress and BROWNSON, Nathan, a Delegate from Georgia; born in served in that capacity from 1881 to 1883; member of theWoodbury, Conn., May 14, 1742; was graduated from Yale Republican National Committee in 1884, 1896, and 1900;College in 1761; studied medicine and practiced in Wood- elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and to the sixbury; moved to Liberty County, Ga., about 1764; member of succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, untilthe Provincial Congress in 1775; surgeon in the Revolution- his death; member of the Board of Managers for the Nation-ary Army; Member of the Continental Congress in 1777; al Soldiers' Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1902-1910;member of the State house of representatives in 1781 and died at the National Soldiers' Home, Johnson City, Washing-served as speaker; chosen by that body as Governor of Geor- ton County, Tenn., July 8, 1910; interment in the Soldiers'gia in 1782; again elected to the State house of representa- Home Cemetery. tives in 1788 and served as speaker; delegate to the State Bibliography: Beeson, Helen S. "Walter P. Browniow, Republican." Mas- convention to ratify the Federal Constitution in 1788 and to ter's thesis, East Tennessee State University, 1967. the State constitutional convention in 1789; member of the State senate 1789-179 1 and served as president of that body; BROWNLOW, William Gannaway (uncle of Walter Pres-died on his plantation near Riceboro, Liberty County, Ga., ton Brownlow), a Senator from Tennessee; born near Wythe- yule, Wythe County, Va., August 29, 1805; attended theNovember 6, 1796; interment in the Old Midway Burial common schools; entered the Methodist ministry in 1826;Ground. - moved to Elizabethton, Tenn., in 1828 and continued his BROYHILL, James Thomas, a Representative and a Sen- ministerial duties; published and edited a newspaper calledator from North Carolina; born in Lenoir, Caldwell County, the Whig at Elizabethton in 1839; moved the paper to Jones-N.C., August 19, 1927; attended the public schools; graduated boro, Tenn., in 1840 and to Knoxville, Tenn., in 1849 andfrom the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in from his caustic and trenchant editorials became widely1950; employed with the Broyhill Furniture Factories of known as "the fighting parson"; unsuccessful candidate forLenoir in a variety of capacities 1945-1962; member of the election in 1842 to Congress; appointed by President MillardPlanning and Zoning Commission and the Recreation Com- Fillmore in 1850 a member of the Tennessee River Commis-mission of Lenoir; served on the board of directors of the sion for the Improvement of Navigation; delegate to theNorthwest North Carolina Forestry Association and as vice constitutional convention which reorganized the State gov-chairman of the Furniture, Plywood, and Veneer Council; ernment of Tennessee in 1864; elected Governor in 1865 andmember of the North Carolina Development Association; again in 1867; elected as a Republican to the United Stateselected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth and to the Senate and served from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1875;eleven succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, was not a candidate- for reelection; chairman, Committee on1963, until July 14, 1986, when he resigned; appointed to the Revolutionary Claims (Forty-third Congress); returned toUnited States Senate July 3, 1986, to fill the vacancy caused journalism in Knoxville, Tenn., until his death there onby the death of John East, and served from July 14, 1986, to April 29, 1877; interment in the Old Grey Cemetery. November 10, 1986, when as successor was elected; unsuc- Bibliography: DAB; Coulter, E. Merton. William G. Browniow: Fighting Parson of the Southern Highlands. 1937. Reprint. Knoxville: University of cessful candidate for election to the Senate seat in 1986; is a Tennesee, 1971; Humphrey, Steven. That D....d Browniow. Boone, NC.: Ap- resident of Lenoir, N.C. palachian Consortium Press, 1978. - BROYHILL, Joel Thomas, a Representative from Virgin- BROWNSON, Charles Bruce, a Representative from Indi-ia; born in Hopewell, Prince George County, Va., November ana; born in Jackson, Mich., February 5, 1914; moved with4, 1919; attended the public schools, Fork Union Military his parents to Flint, Mich., in 1916; attended the publicAcademy, Fork Union, Va., and George Washington Univer- schools; was graduated from the University of Michigan atsity, Washington, D.C., 1939-1941, engaged in the building Ann Arbor in 1935; entered Infantry Reserve training inbusiness in the firm of M. T. Broyhill & Sons since 1945; 1935; moved to Indianapolis, md., in October 1936 and estab-entered the United States Army in February 1942 as an lished the Central Wallpaper & Paint Corp.; entered onenlisted man; served in- European Theater as a captain in active duty as first lieutenant Infantry Reserve, FebruaryOne Hundred and Sixth Infantry Division and was taken 10, 1941; served as Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1, Eighty-thirdprisoner in Battle of the Bulge; after six months in German Infantry Division, in 1943; executive officer to Assistantprison camps escaped and rejoined advancing American Chief of Staff G-1, First Army, during invasion planning inforces; after four years of services was released from active Biographies 689 duty November 1, 1945, as a captain of Infantry; resumed BRUCE, William CaheIl, a Senator from Maryland; born real estate pursuits; president, Arlington County Chamber ofin Staunton Hill, Charlotte County, Va., March 12, 1860; Commerce; chairman, Arlington County Planning Commis-received an academic education at Norwood High School and sion; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third CongressCollege, Nelson County, Va.; attended the University of Vir- and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from Janu-ginia at Charlottesville; was graduated from the University ary 3, 1953, until his resignation December 31, 1974; unsuc-of Maryland Law School at Baltimore in 1882; was admitted cessful candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourthto the Maryland bar the same year and commenced practice Congress; resumed business interests in the building andin Baltimore, Md.; lawyer and writer; received the Pulitzer construction industries; is a resident of Arlington, Va. Prize in 1917 for his biography of Benjamin Franklin; BRUCE, Blanche Kelso, a Senator from Mississippi; bornmember, State senate 1894-1896, serving as president in in slavery near Farmville, Prince Edward County, Va.,1896; head of the city law department of Baltimore 1903- March 1, 1841; was tutored by his master's son; left his 1908; member, Baltimore Charter Commission 1910; general master at the beginning of the Civil War; taught school incounsel to the Public Service Commission of Maryland 19 10- Hannibal, Mo., and later attended Oberlin College, Ohio;1922, when he resigned; unsuccessful candidate for the after the war became a planter in Mississippi; member ofDemocratic nomination for United States Senator in 1916; the Mississippi Levee Board; sheriff and tax collector of'elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and Bolivar County 1872-1875; elected as a Republican to theserved from March 4, 1923, to March 3, 1929; unsuccessful United States Senate and served from March 4, 1875, tocandidate for reelection in 1928; resumed the practice of law March 3, 1881; was the first black person to serve a full termin Baltimore until 1937, when he retired; died in Ruxton, in the United States Senate; appointed Register of the Treas-Baltimore County, Md., May 9,1946; interment in St. ury by President James Garfield 1881; recorder of deeds forThomas' Episcopal Church Cemetery, Garrison, Md. the District of Columbia 1891-1893; again Register of the Bibliography: DAB; Bruce, William C. Recollections. Baltimore: King Treasury from 1897 until his death in Washington, D.C., on Brothers, Inc., 1936. March 17, 1898; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. BRUCKER, Ferdinand, a Representative from Michigan; Bibliography: DAB; Mann, Kenneth Eugene. "Blanche Kelso Bruce: born in Bridgeport, Saginaw County, Mich., January 8, 1858; United States Senator Without a Constituency." Journal of Mississippi attended the common schools; member of the State militia History 38 (May 1976): 183-98; St. Clair, Sadie. "The National Career of 1878-1881; was graduated from the law department of the Blanche Kelso Bruce." Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1948. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1881; was admitted BRUCE, Donald Cogley, a Representative from Indiana;to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Sagi- born in Troutville, Clearfield County, Pa., April 27, 1921;naw, Mich.; alderman of East Saginaw 1882-1884; judge of graduated from high school in Allentown, Pa., and attendedthe probate court of Saginaw County 1888-1896; delegate to Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio; engaged in thethe Democratic National Convention in 1896, elected as a radio broadcasting industry, serving as program director,Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March business manager, and general manager, 1941-1960; elected3 1899), was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection m 1898 as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and Eighty-eighthto the Fifty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law; died Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1965); was not ain Saginaw, Mich., on March 3, 1904; interment in Bridge- candidate in 1964 for renomination to the Eighty-ninth Con- port Cemetery, Bridgeport, Mich. gress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination for BRUCKNER, Henry, a Representative from New York; United States Senator in primary election; on leaving Con- born in New York City, June 17, 1871; attended the common gress, he helped form the American Conservative Union, aand high schools in New York; became engaged in the man- political action group; created a management and politicalufacture of mineral waters in 1892; member of the State consulting firm, Bruce Enterprises in Round Hill, Va.; diedassembly in 1901; commissioner of public works for the Bor- in Round Hill, Va., August 31, 1969; interment in Ebenezerough of the Bronx, New York City, 1902-1905; elected as a Cemetery near Round Hill. Democrat to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth BRUCE, Phineas, a Representative from Massachusetts;Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, until December born in Mendon, Mass., June 7, 1762; received a classical31, 1917, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Rail- education and was graduated from Yale College in 1786;ways and Canals (Sixty-fifth Congress); resumed his former studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1790 and commencedbusiness pursuits in New York City; also interested in bank- practice in Machias, Maine (then a district of Massachu-ing; president of the Borough of the Bronx 19 18-1933; died setts); member of the Massachusetts house of representativesin New York City on April 14, 1942; interment in Woodlawn 1791-1798 and in 1800; elected as a Federalist to the EighthCemetery. Congress commencing March 4, 1803, but was prevented by BRUMBAUGH, Clement Laird, a Representative from ifiness from qualifying; died in Uxbridge, Mass., October 4,Ohio; born on a farm near Pikeville, Darke County, Ohio, 1809; interment in the Old Burying Ground; reinterment inFebruary 28, 1863; attended the district schools and the Prospect Hill Cemetery. Greenville (Ohio) High School; taught school, worked on a BRUCE, Terry L., a Representative from Illinois; born infarm, and tutored; was graduated from National Normal Olney, Richland County, ill., March 25, 1944; was graduatedUniversity, Lebanon, Ohio, in 1887, founded and conducted from East Richland High School in Olney in 1962, from thethe Van Buren Academy 1887-1891; attended Ohio Wesleyan University of Illinois in Urbana in 1966, and from the Uni-University, Delaware, Ohio, 1891-1893; was graduated from versity of illinois Law School in Urbana in 1969; was admit-Harvard University in 1894; taught school in Washington, ted to the bar in 1969; member of the State senate, 1971-D.C., 1894-1896; superintendent of schools in Greenville, 1984, and assistant majority leader, 1975-1984; unsuccessfulOhio, 1896-1900; studied law; was admitted to the bar in candidate for election to the Ninety-sixth Congress in 1978; 1900 and commenced practice in Columbus, Ohio; member of elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-ninth and to the Onethe State house of representatives 1900-1904, serving as mi- Hundredth Congresses (January 3, 1985-January 3, 1989); isnority leader; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and a resident of Olney, Ill. to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 690 Biographical Directory

1921); chairman, Committee on Railways and Canals (Sixty-Philadelphia in 1901 and from its law school in 1907; was fifth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination inadmitted to the bar of Pennsylvania in 1908 and commenced 1920; lived in retirement in Columbus, Ohio, until his deathpractice in Pottsville, Pa.; served in 1916 as a private and there on September 28, 1921; interment in Greenville Ceme-corporal in Company C, Pennsylvania Engineers, on the tery, Greenville, Ohio. Mexican border; appointed by Governor Brumbaugh in 1918 BRUMBAUGH, David Emmert, a Representative fromas election commissioner for Texas to take the vote of serv- Pennsylvania; born in Martinsburg, Blair County, Pa., Octo-icemen at cantonments; during the First World War was ber 8, 1894; attended the public schools of North Woodburyattorney for the conscription board; in 1918 and 1920 was Township, Pa., and the summer normal school at Martins-unsuccessful Republican candidate for the nomination to burg, Pa.; student of the International CorrespondenceCongress; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and School of Scranton, Pa.; in 1914 became interested in bank-Sixty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1927); chair- ing at Claysburg, Pa.; during the First World War was aman, Committtee on Expenditures in the Department of the private in the Thirty-third Division, Fifty-eighth BrigadeNavy (Sixty-ninth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for re-- Headquarters, serving overseas in 1918 and 1919; in 1921nomination in 1926; resumed the practice of law in Miners- became interested in the lumber business and later estab-ville, Pa.; elected to the Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and lished an insurance agency; trustee of the Pennsylvania In-Seventy-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1929, dustrial School, Huntingdon, Pa., 1939-1943; elected as auntil his death in the Methodist Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress to fill the vacan-May 29, 1934; interment in Charles Baber Cemetery, Potts- cy caused by the resignation of James E. Van Zandt; reelect-ville, Pa. ed to the Seventy-ninth Congress and served from November 2, 1943, to January 3, 1947; was not a candidate for renomi- BRUNIMDGE, Stephen, Jr., a Representative from Arkan- nation in 1946; secretary of banking of the Commonwealthsas; born in Searcy, White County, Ark., January 1, 1857; of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pa., 1947-1951; resumed bank-educated by private tutors and in the public schools in his ing interests as president of the First National Bank ofnative city; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1879 and Claysburg; served in Pennsylvania State senate 1963-1967;commenced practice in Newport, Ark.; returned to Searcy, resided in Claysburg, Pa., where he died April 22, 1977;Ark., in 1880 and continued the practice of law; elected interment in Fairview Cemetery, Martinsburg, Pa. prosecuting attorney of the first judicial district of Arkansas in 1886; reelected in 1888 and served until 1890; resumed the BRUMM, Charles Napoleon (father of George Franklinpractice of law; member of the Democratic State central Brumm), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Potts-committee 1890-1892; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- ville, Schuylkill County, Pa., June 9, 1838; attended thefifth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897- common schools and Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa.;March 3, 1909); was not a candidate for renomination in studied law for two years; under the first call of President1908, but was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor that Lincoln for three-months' men enlisted as a private and wasyear; resumed the practice of law in Searcy, Ark.; unsuccess- elected first lieutenant of Company I, Fifth Regiment, Penn-ful candidate for election to the United States Senate in sylvania Volunteer Infantry; reenlisted September 15, 1861,1918; died in Searcy, Ark., January 14, 1938; interment in for three years and was elected first lieutenant of CompanyOak Grove Cemetery. K, Seventy-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infan- try, November 18, 1861; detailed on the staff of General BRUNNER, David B., a Representative from Pennsylva- Barton as assistant quartermaster and aide-de-camp, whichnia; born in Amity, Berks (now Washington) County, Pa., position he held under Generals Barton and PennypackerMarch 7, 1835; attended the common schools; learned the until the expiration of his term of service in 1871; resumedcarpenter's trade; taught school from 1853 to 1856, during the study of law; was admitted to the bar in 1871 andwhich time he studied the classics; was graduated from Dick- commenced practice in Pottsville; unsuccessful candidate forinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1860; principal of Reading election in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress; elected as aClassical Academy, Reading, Pa., 1860-1869; established the Greenbacker to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Con-Reading Business College in 1880; elected as a Democrat to gresses and as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieththe Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses (March 4, 1889- Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful can-March 3, 1893); was not a candidate for renomination in 1892; taught at the Reading Business College; died in Read- didate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; dele-- gate to the Republican National Convention in 1884; electeding, Pa., on November 29, 1903; interment in Amityville as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congress-Cemetery, Berks County, Pa. es (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899); chairman, Committee on BRUNNER, William Frank, a Representative from New Claims (Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses); unsuccessfulYork; born in Woodhaven, Queens County, N.Y., September candidate for renomination in 1898; elected to the Fifty-15, 1887; attended the public schools, the high school at Far ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofRockaway, N.Y., and Packard Commercial School at New George R. Patterson; reelected to the Sixtieth Congress andYork City; moved to Rockaway Park, Queens County, N.Y., served from November 6, 1906, to January 4, 1909, when he resigned, having been elected judge of the court of commonin 1901; engaged in the general insurance and real-estate pleas of Schuylkill County, in which capacity he served untilbusiness; served in the United States Navy as a yeoman first his death at Minersville, Pa., January 11, 1917; chairman,class 1917-1919; member of the State assembly 1922-1928; Committee on Mileage (Sixtieth Congress); interment inelected as a Democrat to the Seventy-first and to the three Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Pa. succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1929, until his resignation on September 27, 1935, having been elected BRUMM, George Franklin (son of Charles Napoleonsheriff of Queens County, N.Y.; served as sheriff from 1935 Brumm), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Mm- until his resignation in 1936; president of the board of aler- ersville, Schuylkill County, Pa., January 24, 1880; attendedmen of New York City 1936-1938; resumed the insurance the common schools of Minersville, Washington, and Potts-and real-estate business; commissioner of borough works, ville; was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania atQueens County, N.Y., from July 1, to December 31, 1941; Biographies 691 unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination inin the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in 1942 and for election on the American Labor ticket to the1860; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress Seventy-eighth Congress; president of Rockaway Beach Hos-(March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); was not a candidate for pital (later named Peninsula General Hospital) 1946-1965;renomination in 1858; during the Civil War served as volun- died in Far Rockaway, N.Y., April 23, 1965; interment in St.teer aide-de-camp on the staff of General Herbert and after- John's Cemetery, Middle Village, N.Y. wards as assistant adjutant general, with the rank of major, BRUNSDALE, Clarence Norman, a Senator from Northof the trans-Mississippi Department; established a cotton Dakota; born in Sherbrooke, Steele County, N.Dak., July 9,bureau in Houston, Tex., in order to escape the blockade 1891; resided on a farm near Hatton, N.Dak., until 1899,along the Gulf; moved to Galveston, Tex., in 1872; again a when family moved to Portland, N.Dak.; attended privatemember of the State house of representatives in 1873, 1879, and public schools; graduated from Luther College, Decorah,and 1887-1891, and served as speaker in 1873; moved to Iowa, in 1913; taught business at Portland, N.Dak., 1913-Quintana, Tex., in 1890 and to Austin, Travis County, Tex., 1914; also a farmer and businessman; member, State senatein 1898; elected president of the Texas Veterans Association 1927-1935, 1940-1951, serving as president pro tempore inin 1892 and served until his death in Austin, Tex., June 4, 1943 and majority floor leader 1945, 1947, and 1949; Gover-1901; interment in the State Cemetery. nor of North Dakota 1951-1957; appointed as a Republican BRYAN, Henry U., a Representative from Tennessee; born to the United States Senate, November 19, 1959, to fill thein Martin County, N.C.; attended grammar and high schools; vacancy caused by the death of William Langer and servedmoved to Tennessee and held several local offices; elected to from November 19, 1959, to August 7, 1960; was not a candi-the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); had date for election to the vacancy; resumed agricultural pur-been reelected to the Seventeenth Congress but did not qual- suits until retirement in 1968; resided in Mayville, N.Dak., where he died on January 27, 1978; interment in Mayvilleify; died in Montgomery County, Tenn., May 7, 1835. Cemetery. BRYAN, James Wesley, a Representative from Washing- BRUSH, Henry, a Representative from Ohio; born inton; born in Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, La., March 11, Dutchess County, N.Y., in June 1778; completed preparatory1874; attended the public schools and Lake Charles College studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1803 andat Lake Charles, La.; was graduated from Baylor University, commenced practice in Chillicothe, Ohio; member of theWaco, Tex., in 1895 and from Yale University in 1897; stud- State house of representatives in 1810; served in the Stateied law; was admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced senate in 1814; moved to London, Ohio; elected to the Six-practice at Lake Charles, La.; moved to Bremerton, Wash., teenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); chairman,in 1905 and continued the practice of law; city attorney in Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Six-1907, 1908, and again in 1911; member of the State senate teenth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in1908-1912; elected as a Progressive to the Sixty-third Con- 1820 to the Seventeenth Congress; judge of the supremegress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); was an unsuccessful court of Ohio in 1828; retired to his farm near London,candidate for renomination in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Con- Madison County, Ohio, where he died January 19, 1855;gress; owned and published the Navy Yard American from interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. 1915 to 1917; resumed the practice of law; prosecuting attor- ney of Kitsap County 1926-1930; president of the Bremerton BRUYN, Andrew DeWitt, a Representative from NewPort Commission 1933-1936; practiced law in Bremerton, York; born in Warwarsing, Ulster County, N.Y., NovemberWash., until his death there on August 26, 1956; interment 18, 1790; attended Kingston Academy, Kingston, N.Y., andin Forest Lawn Cemetery. was graduated from Princeton College in 1810; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1814 and commenced practice in BRYAN, John Heritage, a Representative from North Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y.; justice of the peace in 1817;Carolina; born in New Bern, N.C., November 4, 1798; studied first surrogate of Tompkins County 18 17-1821; member ofunder private teachers and attended New Bern Academy; the State assembly in 1818; appointed trustee of Ithaca inwas graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1821; president of the village in 1822; unsuccessful candidate1815; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1819 and for election to the State senate in 1825; county supervisor incommenced practice in New Bern, N.C.; member of the State 1825; treasurer of the village 1826-1828; judge of the court ofsenate in 1823 and 1824; trustee of the University of North common pleas 1826-1836; served as a director of the IthacaCarolina at Chapel Hill 1823-1868; elected to the Nineteenth & Owego Railroad in 1828; also interested in banking; elect-and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1829); ed as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress and servedwas not a candidate for renomination in 1828; resumed the from March 4, 1837, until his death in Ithaca, Tompkinspractice of law in New Bern; moved to Raleigh in 1839 and County, N.Y., on July 27, 1838; interment in Ithaca Citycontinued the practice of law; died in Raleigh, N.C., May 19, Cemetery. 1870; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. BRYAN, Guy Morrison, a Representative from Texas; BRYAN, Joseph, a Representative from Georgia; born in born in Herculaneum, Jefferson County, Mo., January 12,Savannah, Ga., August 18, 1773; was educated by private 1821; moved to the Mexican State of Texas in 1831 with histutors and attended Oxford University in England; traveled parents, who settled near San Felipe; attended privatein France during the Revolutionary War; engaged in agricul- schools; joined the Texas Army at San Jacinto in 1836; wastural pursuits on Wilmington Island, Ga.; elected as a Re- graduated from Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in 1842;publican to the Eighth and Ninth Congresses and served studied law, but never practiced; engaged in planting; servedfrom March 4, 1803, until his resignation in 1806; engaged in as a private in the Brazoria company, under the command ofplanting; died on his estate, "Nonchalance," Wilmington Captain Ballowe, during the Mexican War with the TexasIsland, near Savannah, Ga., on September 12, 1812; inter- Volunteers on the eastern bank of the Rio Grande; memberment in the family burial ground on his estate. of the State house of representatives 1847-1853; served in the State senate 1853-1857; delegate to the Democratic Na- BRYAN, Joseph Hunter, a Representative from North tional Convention in 1856; chairman of the Texas delegationCarolina; born in Windsor, Bertie County, N.C.; member of 692 Biographical Directory the State house of commons 1804, 1805, and 1807-1809; trust-in 1896, 1900, and 1908; was endorsed by the Populist and ee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1809-Silver Republican Parties in the first and second campaigns; 1817, and was sent to Tennessee on behalf of the universityduring the Spanish-American War raised the Third Regi- to secure from the general assembly of Tennessee its claimsment, Nebraska Volunteer Infantry, in May 1898 and was to escheated lands; elected as a Republican to the Four-commissioned colonel; established a newspaper, "The Com- teenth and Fifteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 3,moner," at Lincoln, Nebr., in 1901; engaged in editorial writ- 1819). ing and delivering Chautauqua lectures; Secretary of State BRYAN, Nathan, a Representative from North Carolina;in the Cabinet of President Wilson and served from March 4, born in Craven (now Jones) County, N.C., in 1748; member of1913, until June 9, 1915, when he resigned, resumed his the house of commons of North Carolina in 1787 and 1791-former pursuits of lecturing and writing, established his 1794; elected as a Republican to the Fourth and Fifth Con-home m Miami, Fla, m 1921, died while attending court in gresses and served from March 4, 1795, until his death inDayton, Tenn, July 26 1925, interment m Arlmgton Nation Philadelphia, Pa., June 4, 1798; interment in the Baptistal Cemetery. burial ground on Second Street; reinterred at an unknown Bibliography: DAB; Bryan, William Jennings, and Mary Baird Bryan. location when the burial ground was used as a building site. Memoirs of , by Himself and hisWife. 2 vols. 1925. Reprint. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat, 1971; Coletta, Paolo E. BRYAN, Nathan Philemon (brother of William James William Jennings Bryan. 3 vois. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Bryan), a Senator from Florida; born near Fort Mason, 1964-1969. Orange (now Lake) County, Fla, April 23, 1872; attended the common schools; was graduated from Emory College, Oxford, BRYANT, John Wiley, a Representative from Texas; born Ga. (now Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.), in 1893 and fromin Lake Jackson, Brazoria County, Tex., February 22, 1947; the law department of Washington and Lee University, Lex-attended Lake Jackson Elementary School; graduated, Bra- ington, Va., in 1895; was admitted to the bar in 1895 andzosport High School, Freeport, Tex., 1965; B.A., Southern commenced practice in Jacksonville, Fla.; chairman of theMethodist University, Dallas, Tex., 1969; J.D., Southern board of control of the Florida State institutions of higherMethodist University School of Law, 1972; admitted to the education 1905-1909; appointed on February 22, 1911, theTexas bar, 1972 and commenced practice in Dallas; served as legislature having failed to elect, and subsequently electedcounsel to a committee of the , 1973; elected, in as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served froma special election, to Texas house of representatives, 1974, March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1917; unsuccessful candidate forand reelected, 1974-1982; delegate, Democratic National renomination in 1916; chairman, Committee on ClaimsConvention, 1976; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety- (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses); resumed the prac-eighth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, tice of law; declined the appointment as Governor General of1983-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Dallas, Tex. the Philippine Islands by President Woodrow Wilson in 1917; trustee of Emory University; judge of the United BRYCE, Lloyd Stephens, a Representative from New States Circuit Court of Appeals of the Fifth Judicial CircuitYork; born in Flushing, Queens County, N.Y., September 4, from April 1920 until his death in Jacksonville, Fla., on1851; attended the public schools and Georgetown Universi- August 8, 1935; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. ty, Washington, D.C.; was graduated from Oxford Universi- ty, England, in 1869; studied law at Columbia Law School, BRYAN, William James (brother of Nathan PhilemonNew York City; paymaster general for the State of New Bryan), a Senator from Florida; born near Fort Mason,York in 1886 and 1887; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth Orange (now Lake) County, Fla., October 10, 1876; attendedCongress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful candi- the public schools; was graduated from Emory College,date for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; editor Oxford, Ga., (now Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.) in 1896of the North American Review 1889-1896; appointed Envoy and from the law department of Washington and Lee Uni-Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Nether- versity, Lexington, Va., in 1899; was admitted to the bar inlands August 12, 1911, and served to September 10, 1913; 1899 and commenced practice in Jacksonvifie, Fla.; solicitordied in Flushing, N.Y., April 2, 1917; interment in Green- of the Duval County Criminal Court of Record 1902-1907;wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to ifil Bibliography: DAB. the vacancy caused by the death of Stephen R. Mallory and served from December 26, 1907, until his death in Washing- BRYSON, Joseph Raleigh, a Representative from South ton, D.C., March 22, 1908; interment .in Evergreen Cemetery,Carolina; born in Brevard, Transylvania County, N.C., Janu- Jacksonville, Fla. ary 18, 1893; moved, with his parents, to Greenville, Green- Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 60th Cong., 1st sess., ville County, S.C., in 1900; attended the public schools; was 1907-1908. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909. graduated from Furman University, Greenville, S.C., in 1917 BRYAN, William Jennings (father of ),and from the law department of the University of South a Representative from Nebraska; born in Salem, MarionCarolina at Columbia in 1920; enlisted on September 28, County, Ill., March 19, 1860; attended the public schools and1915, as a private in Company A, First Infantry, South Whipple Academy, Jacksonville, ill.; was graduated fromCarolina National Guard, and served until discharged on Illinois College, Jacksonville, ill., in 1881; studied law atAugust 9, 1916; reenlisted on August 3, 1917, in the Medical Union College in Chicago; was graduated in 1883 and com-Reserve Corps, being discharged as a second lieutenant of menced practice at Jacksonville, Ill., in 1883; moved to Lin-Infantry on December 12, 1918; was admitted to the bar in coln, Nebr., in 1887 and continued the practice of law; elect-1920 and commenced practice in Greenville, S.C.; member of ed as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Con-the State house of representatives 1921-1924; served in the gresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); declined to be aState senate 1929-1932; elected as a Democrat to the Seven- candidate for reelection in 1894; unsuccessful candidate forty-sixth and to the seven succeeding Congresses, and served election to the United States Senate in 1894; delegate to thefrom January 3, 1939, until his death in the naval hospital Democratic National Conventions in 1896, 1904, 1912, 1920,at Bethesda, Md., March 10, 1953; interment in Woodlawn and 1924; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for PresidentMemorial Park, Greenville, S.C. 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BUCHANAN, Andrew, a Representative from Pennsylva-23, 1791; moved to Mercersburg, Pa., with his parentsin nia; born in Chester County, Pa., April 8, 1780; was graduat-1799; was privately tutored and then attended the village ed from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.; studied law; wasacademy; was graduated from Dickinson College,Carlisle, admitted to the bar in 1798 and commenced practice inPa., in 1809; moved to Lancaster, Pa., the same year;studied York, Pa.; located in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pa., inlaw; was admitted to the bar in 1812 and practiced in Lan- 1803; member of the State house of representatives; servedcaster; was one of the first volunteers in the Warof 1812 in the State senate; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-and served in the defense of Baltimore; member, State house fourth Congress, and as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Con-of representatives 1814-1815; elected to the Seventeenth and gress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1839); chairman, Committeeto the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,1821-March 3, on Elections (Twenty-fifth Congress);resumed the practice of1831); chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-first his profession until his death in Waynesburg, Pa., on Decem-Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1830; one ber 2, 1848; interment in Greene Mount Cemetery. of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives against BUCHANAN, Frank, a Representative from Illinois; bornin 1830 to conduct the impeachment proceedings on a farm near Madison, Jefferson County,md., June 14,James H. Peck, judge of the United States District Court for 1862; attended the rural schools of the county; engaged inthe District of Missouri; Minister to Russia 1832-1834; elect- agricultural pursuits at home and subsequently became aed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the bridge builder and structural iron worker in Chicago; servedvacancy caused by the resignation of WilliamWilkins; re-- as business agent for the Bridge and StructuralIron Work-elected in 1837 and 1843 and served from December 6, 1234, er's Union and was elected president of the Internationaluntil he resigned on March 5, 1845, to accept a Cabinet Structural Iron Worker's Union in 1901; unsuccessful candi- portfolio;chairman,Committee onForeignRelations date for election in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress and again(Twenty-fourth through Twenty-sixth Congresses); Secretary in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress; elected as a Democrat toof State in the Cabinet of President James Polk 1845-1849; the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth CongressesMinister to Great Britain 1853-1856; elected as a Democrat (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1917); unsuccessful candidate forPresident of the United States in 1856 and served from reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress; resumed hisMarch 4,1857, to March 3,1861; retired to his home former business pursuits as a structural iron worker; died in"Wheatland," near Lancaster, Pa., where he died June 1, Chicago, Ill., April 18, 1930; interment in Irving Park Boule-1868; interment in Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa. vard Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB; Buchanan, James. The Works of James Buchanan. Edited by John B. Moore.12 vole. Philadelphia: Lippincott Company, BUCHANAN, Frank (husband of Vera Daerr Buchanan), a1908-1911; Klein, Philip President James Buchanan: A Biography.Univer- Representative from Pennsylvania; born in McKeesport, Al- sity Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1962. legheny County, Pa;, December 1, 1902; attended the public schools and was graduated from the University of Pittsburgh BUCHANAN, James, a Representative from New Jersey; in 1925; teacher in high schools of Homestead and McKees-born in Ringoes, Hunterdon County, N.J., June 17,1839; port, Pa., 1924-1928 and 1931-1942; automobile dealer 1928-attended the public schools and Clinton Academy;studied 1931; economic consultant 1928-1946; served as mayor oflaw at Albany University; was admitted to thebar in 1864 McKeesport, Pa., 1942-1946; elected as a Democrat to theand commenced practice in Trenton, N.J.;reading clerk of Seventy-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by thethe New Jersey House of Assembly in 1866;member of the resignation of Samuel A. Weiss; reelected to the Eightieth,Trenton Board of Education in 1868 and 1869;presiding Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses and served fromjudge of Mercer County 1872-1877; delegate to theRepubli- May 21, 1946, until his death in Bethesda, Md., April 27,can National Convention in1872; appointed a member of the 1951; chairman, Select Committee on Lobbying Activitiesboard of trustees of Peddie Institute, Hightstown, N.J.,in (Eighty-first Congress); interment in Mount Vernon Ceme- 1875; member of the Common Council of Trenton1883-1885; tery, Elizabeth Township (near McKeesport), Pa. elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and tothe three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1893); chair-

BUCHANAN, Hugh, a Representative from Georgia; bornman, Committee on Manufactures(Fifty-first Congress); de-- in Argyleshire, Scotland, September 15, 1823; immigrated toclined to be a candidate for renomination in 1892;resumed the United States and settled in Vermont; attended thethe practice of law in Trenton; elected citysolicitor of Tren- public schools of that State; studied law; was admitted to theton May 7, 1900, and served until hisdeath; trustee of bar in 1845 and commenced practice in Newnan, CowetaBucknell College, Lewisburg, Pa.; died in Trenton, N.J., on County, Ga., in 1846; member of the State senate in 1855October 30, 1900; interment in Mountain ViewCemetery, and 1857; delegate to the Democratic National ConventionsCherryville, Hunterdon County, N.J. in 1856 and 1868; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of Breckinridge and Lane in 1860; during the Civil BUCHANAN, James Paul (cousin of Edward William Pou), War enlisted in the Confederate Army in June 1861anda Representative fromTexas; born in Midway, Orangeburg served until 1865; elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, but County, S.C., April 30, 1867; moved to Texas in 1867with his his credentials were not presented to the House as the Stateparents, who settled near Chapel Hill, WashingtonCounty; had not been readmitted to representation; appointed judgeattended the district school; was graduated from thelaw of the superior court of the Coweta circuit in August1872 department of the University of Texas at Austin in1889; and served until September 1880; delegate to the State con- was admitted to the barand commenced practice in Bren- stitutional convention of 1877; elected as a Democrat to theham, Washington County, Tex.; justice of the peaceof Wash- Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1881-ington County 1889-1892; prosecuting attorney1892-1899; March 3, 1885); was not a candidate for renominationindistrict attorney for the twenty-first judicial districtof Texas

1884; died in Newnan, Ga., June 11, 1890; interment inOak1899-1906; served as a member of the State house of repre-- Hill Cemetery. sentatives 1906-1913; elected as a Democrat to theSixty- BUCHANAN, James, a Representative and a Senator fromthird Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation Pennsylvania and 15th President of the United States; bornof Albert Sidney Burleson; reelected to theSixty-fourth and at Cove Gap, near Mercersburg, Franklin County,Pa., Aprilto the eleven succeeding Congressesand served from April 5, 694 Biographical Directory

1913, until his death in Washington, D.C., February 22, 1937; my, Franklin College, Lancaster, Pa., and Marshall College, chairman, Committee on Appropriations(Seventy-thirdMercersburg, Pa.; by appointment of Governor Porterwas through Seventy-fifth Congresses); interment in PrairieLeaan associate judge of Dauphin County from 1839 until his Cemetery, Brenham, Tex. death in Harrisburg, Pa., October 15, 1851; interment in the BUCHANAN, John Alexander, a Representative from Vir-City Cemetery. ginia; born near Groseclose, Smyth County, Va., October 7, 1843; attended the "old field" school and the local academies BUCK, Alfred Eliab, a Representative from Alabama; at Chatham Hill and Marion, Va.; during the Civil Warborn in Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine, February 7, served as a private in Company D, Virginia Infantry, Stone-1832; was graduated from Waterville (Maine) College in wall Brigade, of the Confederate Army;was captured at the1859; during the Civil War entered the Union Armyas Battle of Gettysburg July 3, 1868, and remaineda prisonercaptain of Company C, Thirteenth Regiment, Maine Volun- until February 1865; attended Emory and Henry College,teer Infantry; appointed lieutenant colonel of the Ninety- Emory, Va., 1865-1870 and was graduated in June 1870;first United States Colored Troops in August 1863; trans- studied law at the University of Virginia at Charlottesvilleferred to the Fifty-first United States Colored Troops in in 1870 and 1871; was admitted to the bar in 1872 andOctober 1864; brevetted colonel of Volunteers for gallant commenced practice in Abingdon, Va.; member of the Stateconduct; mustered out of the service at Baton Rouge, La., in house of delegates 1885-1887; elected as a Democrat to theJune 1866; delegate to the constitutional convention of Ala- Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses (March 4, 1889-Marchbama in 1867; clerk of the circuit court of Mobile County in 3, 1893); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 18921867 and 1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first to the Fifty-third Congress; returned to the practice of law;Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); appointed president elected associate judge of the court of appeals of Virginiaof the city council of Mobile in 1878; served as clerk of the January 1, 1895, and served until January 1915; retired fromUnited States circuit and district courts in Atlanta, Ga., political activities and engaged in agricultural pursuits; died1874-1889; United States marshal for the northern district near Emory, Washington County, Va., on September 2, 1921;of Georgia 1889-1893; appointed Minister to Japan by Presi- interment in the Old Glade Spring Presbyterian Cemetery,dent William McKinley in April 1897 and served until his Glade Spring, Va. death in Tokyo, Japan, on December 4, 1902; interment in BUCHANAN, John Hall, Jr., a Representative from Ala-Arlington National Cemetery. bama; born in Paris, Tenn., March 19, 1928; served in the Bibliography: Bhurtel, Shyam Krishna. "Alfred Eliab Buck: Carpetbag- United States Navy 1945-1946; graduated from Sainford ger in Alabama and Georgia." Ph.D. dissertation, Auburn University, 1981. University, Birmingham, Ala., in 1949, did graduate work at BUCK, Charles Francis, a Representative from Louisiana; the University of Virginia, and graduated from the Southern born in Durrheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, No-- Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., in 1957; served as pastor of churches in Tennessee, Virginia, and Alabama forvember 5, 1841; immigrated to the United States in 1852 ten years; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Eighty-with his parents, who settled in New Orleans, La.; was grad- eighth Congress in 1962; served as a supply pastor in theuated from the high school of New Orleans in 1861; attended Birmingham, Ala., area and as director of finance for theLouisiana State Seminary and Military Academy at Alexan- , 1962-1964; electedas a Republi-dria; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and can to the Eighty-ninth and to the seven succeeding Con-commenced practice in New Orleans, La.; member of the gresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1981); unsuccessful can-school board of New Orleans for many years; city attorney of didate for renomination in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Con-New Orleans 1880-1884; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- gress; member, United States delegation to the United Na-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); declined to tions, 1973 and 1984; member, United States delegation,be a candidate for reelection in 1896; resumed the practice of United Nations Human Rights Committee, 1978-1980; chair-law; unsuccessful candidate for mayor of New Orleans in man, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Educa-1896 and again 1904; member of the supreme court board of tion in the Department of Education, 198 1-1983; chairman,examiners for admission to the bar 1898-1900; died in New People for the American Way, 1982 to present; isa residentOrleans, La., January 19, 1918; interment in the Metairie of Bethesda, Md. Cemetery. BUCHANAN, Vera Daerr (wife of Frank Buchanan),a BUCK, Clayton Douglass (great-grandnephew of John M. Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Wilson (lateraClayton), a Senator from Delaware; born at "Buena Vista," part of Clairton), Allegheny County, Pa., July 20, 1902;the family estate, in New Castle County, Del., March 21, moved to Duquesne, Pa., and attended the public andparo-1890; was graduated from Friends School, Wilmington, Del., chial schools; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-secondand for two years attended the University of Pennsylvania Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of herEngineering School at Philadelphia; engaged in road build- husband, Frank Buchanan; reelected to the Eighty-third anding and engineering work in Delaware; chief engineer of the Eighty-fourth Congresses and served from July 24, 1951,Delaware State Highway Department 1922-1929; Governor until her death in McKeesport, Pa., November 26, 1955;of Delaware 1929-1937; engaged in the banking business; interment in Mount Vernon Cemetery, in Elizabeth Town-member of the Republican National Committee 1930-1937; ship (near McKeesport), Pa. elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1942 BUCHER, John Conrad, a Representative from Pennsyl-and served from January 3, 1943, to January 3, 1949; unsuc- vania; born in Harrisburg, Pa., December 28, 1792; attendedcessful candidate for reelection in 1948; chairman, Commit- the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar andtee on the District of Columbia (Eightieth Congress); re- commenced practice in Harrisburg; clerk of the land depart-sumed the banking business; tax commissioner of Delaware ment of Pennsylvania in 1813; member of the borough coun- 1953-1957; was a resident of "Buena Vista," New Castle cil of Harrisburg; member of the board of school directors;County, Del., until his death January 27, 1965; interment in elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congressfamily plot in Immanuel Episcopal Church Grounds, New (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); trustee of Harrisburg Acade-Castle, Del. 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BUCK, Daniel (father of Daniel Azro Ashley Buck), a BUCK, Frank Henry, a Representative fromCalifornia; Representative from Vermont; born in Hebron, Conn., No-born on a ranch near Vacaville, Solano County, Calif., Sep- vember 9, 1753; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1783tember 23, 1887; attended the public schools; wasgraduated and practiced in Thetford, Vt.; prosecuting attorney offrom the University of California at Berkeley in 1908and Orange County 1783-1785; clerk of the court in 1783 andfrom the law department of Harvard University in1911; was 1784; moved to Norwich, Vt., in 1785; delegate to the Stateadmitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice constitutional convention in 1791; member of the Statein San Francisco, Calif.; fruit grower and farmer atVaca- house of representatives in 1793 and 1794 and served asville, Calif.; also engaged in the lumber business and inoil speaker; elected as a Federalist to the Fourth Congressrefining; delegate to the Democratic National Conventionsin (March 4, 1795-March 3, 1797); unsuccessful candidate for1928, 1936, and 1940; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- renomination in 1796; attorney general of Vermont in 1802third and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from and 1803; moved to Chelsea, Vt., about 1805; again aMarch 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., Septem- member of the State house of representatives in 1806 andber 17, 1942; interment in Vacaville-Elmira Cemetery, Vaca- 1807; resumed the practice of law in Chelsea, Vt., where heville, Calif. died August 16, 1816; interment in the Old Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. BUCK, John Ransom, a Representative from Connecticut; 6, BUCK, Daniel Azro Ashley (son of Daniel Buck), a Repro-born in Glastonbury, Hartford County, Conn., December sentative from Vermont; born in Norwich, Vt., April 19,1835; attended the common schools, Wilbraham (Mass.) 1789; moved with his parents to Chelsea; was graduatedAcademy, and Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.; from Middlebury College in 1807 and from the United Statestaught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1862 Military Academy at West Point in 1808; commissioned aand practiced in Hartford; assistant clerk of the State house lieutenant in the Engineer Corps of the United States Armyof representatives in 1864 and clerk in 1865; clerk of the in the latter year; resigned in 1811 and studied law; appoint-senate in 1866; president of the Hartford Courtof Common ed a second lieutenant in the Third Artillery in 1811; raisedCouncil in 1868; city attorney 187 1-1873; treasurer of Hart- a volunteer company of rangers in1813 and served untilford County 1873-1881; member of the State senate in 1880 1815; appointed a captain of the Thirty-first Infantry inand 1881; elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventhCon- 1813; was honorably discharged June 15, 1815; was admittedgress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883);unsuccessful candidate to the bar in 1814 and commenced the practice of lawinfor reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress;elected Chelsea, Vt.; member of the State house of representativesto the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885-March3, 1887); 1816-1826, 1828-1830, and 1833-1835, and served as speakerunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth of the house 1820-1822, 1825, 1826, and 1829; State's attor-Congress; resumed the practice of law in Hartford,Conn., ney for Orange County 1819-1822 and1830-1834; elected towhere he died February 6, 1917; interment inCedar Hill the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); Cemetery. elected to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1828; was BUCKALEW, Charles Rollin, a Senator and a Representa- a clerk in the War Department1835-1839; clerk in thetive from Pennsylvania; born in Fishing CreekTownship, Treasury Department in 1840; died in Washington, D.C.,Columbia County, Pa., December 28, 1821; wasgraduated December 24, 1841; interment in the Congressional Ceme-from Harford Academy, Susquehanna County,Pa.; studied tery. law; was admitted to the bar in 1843 andcommenced prac- tice in Bloomsburg, Pa., in 1844; prosecutingattorney for BUCK, Ellsworth Brewer, a Representative from NewColumbia County 1845-1847; member, State senate1850- York; born in Chicago, Ill., July 3, 1892; attended the public1853; commissioner to exchange ratifications of atreaty with schools in Chicago and Morgan Park (Ill.) Academy; wasParaguay in 1854; chairman of the DemocraticState com- graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1914; 1857-1858; appointed engaged in the chewing gum industry 1914-1917; enlisted inmittee in 1857; member, State senate one of the commissioners torevise the penal cede of the the United States Naval Reserve on July 5, 1917; attended Republic of Ecuador Naval Aviation Ground School, Massachusetts Institute ofState in 1857; Minister Resident to the Technology; commissioned an ensign and assigned as in-1858-1861; elected as a Democrat to the UnitedStates structor in meteorology and as custodian of meteorologicalSenate and served from March 4, 1863, toMarch 3, 1869; instruments at the United States Naval Observatory, Wash- member, State senate 1869; unsuccessful candidatefor Gov- ington, D.C., in 1918; moved to Staten Island, N.Y., in1919 ernor in 1872; delegate to theconstitutional convention of and became associated with L.A. Dreyfus Co., serving as1873; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth andFifty-first chairman of the board 1932-1957; chairman of the ChewingCongresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); resumedthe prac- Gum Code Authority, under N.R.A., in 1934 and 1935;tice of his profession in Bloomsburg, ColumbiaCounty, Pa., member of the board of education of New York City 1935-where he died on May 19, 1899; interment in Rosemont 1944, serving as vice president, 1938-1942, and as presidentCemetery. 1942-1944; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Bibliography: DAB; Hummel, William W. "Charles R. Buckalew: Demo- Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of JamesA.cratic Statesman in a Republican Era." Ph.D. dissertation,University of O'Leary; reelected to the Seventy-ninth and EightiethCon- Pittsburgh, 1964. gresses and served from June 6,1944, to January 3, 1949; BUCKBEE, John Theodore, a Representative from Illi- was not a candidate for renominationin 1948; delegate tonois; born on a farm near Rockford, Winnebago County,Ill., the Republican National Convention in 1952; director, OfficeAugust 1, 1871; attended the public schoolsof Rockford; of Trade Investment and Monetary Affairs,Foreign Oper- Hol- United Statesstudied agriculture and horticulture in Austria, France, ations Administration, in 1954; public advisor, land, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Italy, and GreatBritain; delegation to United Nations Economic and Social Council,established and engaged in a seed business in Rockford,Ill.; Geneva, Switzerland, in 1955; died at his summer home at the four Thunder Mountain Ranch, Township of Stephenson, Mann-elected as a Republican to the Seventieth and to ashes placed insucceeding Congresses; served from March 4, 1927,until his ette County, Wis., August 14, 1970; cremated; candidate Burial Stone at Thunder Mountain Ranch Cemetery. death in Rockford, Ill., April 23, 1936; was not a 696 Biographical Directory

for renomination in 1936; interment in GreenwoodCeme- ful candidate for renomination in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth tery. Congress; died in New York City, January 22, 1967; inter- BUCKINGHAM, William Alfred, a Senator from Connecti-ment in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y. cut; born in Lebanon, Conn., May 28, 1804; attended the BUCKLEY, Charles Waldron, a Representative from Ala- common schools and Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn.;en-bama; born in Unadilla, Otsego County, N.Y., February 18, gaged in mercantile pursuits and in manufacturing;mayor1835; attended the public schools in Unadilla and Freeport, of Norwich, Conn., 1849-1850, 1856-1857; Governor of Con-Ill., where his parents moved in 1846; was graduated from necticut 1858-1866; resumed his former business pursuits;Beloit College, Wisconsin, in 1860 and from the Union Theo- elected as a Republican to the United States Senate andlogical Seminary in New York City in 1863; entered the served from March 4, 1869, until his death in Norwich,Union Army February 9, 1864, and served as chaplain of the Conn., February 5, 1875; chairman, Committeeon Engrossed Bills (Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses), CommitteeForty-seventh Regiment, United States Colored Volunteer on Investigation and Retrenchment (Forty-second Congress),Infantry, and of the Eighth Regiment, Louisiana Colored Committee on Indian Affairs (Forty-third Congress); inter-Infantry, until January 5, 1866, when he was mustered out; ment in Yantic Cemetery, Norwich, Conn. Alabama superintendent of education for the bureau of refu- Bibliography: DAB; Buckingham, Samuel. The Life of William A. Buck- gees and freedmen in 1866 and 1867 and resided in Mont- ingham. Springfield: W.F. Adams Co., 1894; U.S. Congress. Memorial Ad-gomery; delegate to the Alabama constitutional convention dresses. 43rd Cong., 2nd sess., 1874-1875. Washington, D.C.: Government in 1867; engaged in agricultural pursuits, banking, the fire Printing Office, 1875. insurance business, and mining; upon the readmission of the State of Alabama to representation was elected as a Republi- BUCKLAND, Ralph Pomeroy, a Representative fromcan to the Fortieth Congress; reelected to the Forty-first and Ohio; born in Leyden, Mass., January 20, 1812; moved withForty-second Congresses and served from July 21, 1868, to his parents to Ravenna, Ohio, the same year; attended theMarch 3, 1873; was not a candidate for renomination in country schools, Tallmadge (Ohio) Academy, and Kenyon1872; probate judge of Montgomery County 1874-1878; re- College, Gambier, Ohio; studied law; was admitted to the barsumed banking and also engaged in the fire insurance busi- in 1837 and commenced practice in Fremont, Ohio;mayor ofness; postmaster of Montgomery 1881-1885, 1890-1893, and Fremont 1843-1845; delegate to the Whig National Conven-1897-1906; delegate to the Republican National Convention tion in 1848; member of the State senate 1855-1859; enteredin 1896; died in Montgomery, Ala., on December 4, 1906; the Union Army as colonel of the Seventy-second Regiment,interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, January 10, 1862; commissioned brigadier general of Volunteers November 29, 1862; brevet- BUCKLEY, James Lane, a Senator from New York; born ted major general March 13, 1865; resigned from the Armyin New York City, March 9, 1923; received secondary educa- January 6, 1865; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninthtion at the Millbrook School, Millbrook, N.Y.; graduated and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1869);wasYale University 1943 and received his law degree from the not a candidate for renomination in 1868 to the Forty-firstsame university in 1949; enlisted in United States Navy in Congress; resumed the practice of law; delegate to the Phila-1942 and was discharged with rank of lieutenant (jg.) in delphia Loyalists' Convention in 1866 and to the Pittsburgh1946; admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1950 and com- Soldiers' Convention; delegate to the Republican Nationalmenced practice in New Haven; joined the Catawba Corp. of Convention in 1876; Government director of the Union Pacif-New York as a vice president and director 1953-1970; elected ic Railroad 1877-1880; died in Fremont, Sandusky County,as the candidate of the Conservative Party of New York Ohio, May 27, 1892; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. State to the United States Senate in 1970, and served from Bibliography: DAB. January 3, 1971, to January 3, 1977; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1976 and for election from Connecticut in BUCKLER, Richard Thompson, a Representative from1980; Under Secretary for Security, Science, and Technology, Minnesota; born on a farm near Oakland, Coles County, Ill.,United States Department of State 1981-1982; president, October 27, 1865; attended the public schools; engaged inRadio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc., 1982-1985; federal agricultural pursuits in Cole County, Ill.; moved to Andoverjudge, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Township, Polk County, Minn., in 1904 and continued agri-Circuit 1985 to the present; is a resident of Washington, D.C. cultural pursuits; active in Farm Bureau and Farmers' Bibliography: Buckley, James Lane. If Men Were Angels: A View From Union organizations; held numerous township and local the Senate. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975. school district offices; served in the State senate 1915-1919, 1923-1927, and 1931-1933; elected on the Farmer-Labor BUCKLEY, James Richard, a Representative from Illi- ticket to the Seventy-fourth and to the three succeedingnois; born in Chicago, Ill., November 18, 1870; attended the Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1943); was notapublic and parochial schools and Christian Brothers' Com- candidate for renomination in 1942; resumed agriculturalmercial Academy; engaged in mercantile pursuits; permit pursuits; died in Crookston, Minn., January 23, 1950; inter-clerk of the department of public works 1893-1897; deputy ment in Oakdale Cemetery. city gas inspector 1897-19 10; unsuccessful Democratic candi- date for clerk of the supreme court of Cook County, Ill., in BUCKLEY, Charles Anthony, a Representative from New1908; member of the Chicago Board of Aldermen 1910-1912; York; born in New York City, June 23, 1890; attended thedelegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1908, public schools; contractor and builder in New York City1912 and 1916; chief deputy criminal court clerk 1912-1918; since 1914; member of the board of aldermen of New Yorkmanager of the State personal property tax collection de- City 1918-1923; State tax appraiser 1923-1929; chamberlainpartment 1918-1923; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- of New York City 1929-1933; elected as a Democrat to theeighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful Seventy-fourth and to the fourteen succeeding Congressescandidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1965); chairman, Committee onvice president of the Universal Granite Quarries; was serv- Pensions (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses),ing as chief drain inspector at the time of his death in Committee on Public Works (Eighty-second Congress and Chicago, Ill., on June 22, 1945; interment in Calvary Ceme-- Eighty-fourth through Eighty-eighth Congresses); unsuccess-tery, Evanston, ifi. 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BUCKLEY, James Vincent, a Representative from Illi-Congress), Committee on Banking and Currency (Forty-fifth, nois; born on a farm in Saginaw County, Mich., May 15,Forty-sixth, and Forty-eighth Congresses); declined to be a 1894; attended the public schools of Saginaw County, Mich.;candidate for reelection in 1884 and retired from public life; moved to Chicago, Ill., at an early age and worked in thedied in Mexico, Mo., February 5, 1894; interment inElm- automobile industry; engaged in the real estate and buildingwood Cemetery. business in the Calumet region of Cook County, ill., and BUCKNER, Aylette (son of Richard Aylett Buckner), a Lake County, md.; during the Second World War was activeRepresentative from Kentucky; born in Greensburg, Green in war-plant production service and was elected president ofCounty, Ky., July 21, 1806; attended the New Athens Semi- Local Union 714, United Automobile Workers; elected as a the bar and commenced Democrat to the Eighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949-Jan-nary; studied law; was admitted to reelection in 1950practice in Greensburg; member of the State house of repre-- uary 3, 1951); unsuccessful candidate for sentatives in 1842 and 1843; elected as a Whig to the Thirti- to the Eighty-second Congress; engaged in the real estate unsuccessful and building business at Calumet City, Ill., from 1951 untileth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); candidate in 1848 for reelection to the Thirty-first Congress; his death; died in Hammond, md., July 30, 1954; intermentmoved to St. Louis, Mo., and continued the practice of his in Calvary Cemetery, Gary, md. profession; returned to Lexington, Ky., in 1864, where he BUCKMAN, Clarence Bennett, a Representative fromdied July 3, 1869; interment in Lexington Cemetery. Minnesota; born in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pa., April 1, 1851; attended the public and normal schools; moved to Min- BUCKNER, Richard Aylett (father of Aylette Buckner), a nesota in 1872 and settled in what is now known as Buck-Representative from Kentucky; born in Fauquier County, man; engaged in agricultural pursuits and inthe lumberVa., July 16, 1763; received a liberal education; moved to business; appointed justice of the peace in 1873; member ofGreen County, Ky., in 1803; studied law; was admitted to the the State house of representatives 1881-1883; served in thebar; taught school; moved to Greensburg in 1811 and prac- State senate 1887-1891 and 1899-1903; elected as a Republi-ticed law; county attorney and Commonwealth's attorney of can to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses(March 4,Green County; member of the State house of representatives 1903-March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for renomina-in 1813 and 1815; elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and tion in 1906; deputy United States marshal 1912-1917; re-Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1829); chair- sumed the lumber business in Little Falls, Morrison County,man, Committee on PrivateLand Claims (Nineteenth and Minn.; died in Battle Creek, Mich., March 1, 1917; intermentTwentieth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in Oakland Cemetery, Little Falls, Minn. in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress; appointedassociate judge of the court of appeals December 31, 1831, but re- BUCKNER, Alexander, a Senator from Missouri; born insigned shortly afterwards; unsuccessful candidate for Gover- Jefferson County, Ky., in1785; studied law; moved tonor of Kentucky in 1832; again amember of the State house Charleston, Clark County, md., in 1812; moved to Missouriof representatives 1837-1839; presidential elector on the in 1818 and settled near Jackson, Cape Girardeau County;Harrison tickets in 1836 and 1840; circuit judge in 1845; practiced law and also engaged in agricultural pursuits; ap-judge of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky;died in Greens- pointed by the Territorial Governor as circuit attorney forburg, Ky., December 8, 1847; interment in the family grave-- the Cape Girardeau district; president of the State constitu-yard at the ancestral home, "Buckner's Hill." tional convention in 1820; member, State senate 1822-1826; elected to the United States Senate and served from March BUDD, James Herbert, a Representative from California; 4, 1831, until his death in Cape Girardeau County, Mo., Juneborn in Janesville, Rock County, Wis., May 18,1851; moved 6, 1833; interment on his farm in Cape Girardeau County;to California in 1859 with his parents, whosettled in Stock- reinterment in City Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Mo., in 1897.ton; attended the public schools in Stocktonand Brayton College, Oakland, in 1869; was graduated from theUniversi- BUCKNER, Aylett Hawes (nephew of Aylett Hawes andty of California at Berkeley in 1873; served aslieutenant cousin of Richard Hawes and Albert Gallatin Hawes), acolonel on the Governor's staff in 1873 and 1874; deputy Representative from Missouri; born in Fredericksburg, Va.,district attorney in 1873 and 1874; studied law; was admitted December 14, 1816; attended Georgetown College, Washing-to the bar in 1874 and commenced practicein Stockton; ton, D.C., and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville;served as first lieutenant in the California NationalGuard engaged in teaching for several years; moved to Palmyra,and was promoted to major of the line; elected as aDemo- Mo., in 1837; served as deputy sheriff; studied law; wascrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4,1883-March 3, admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice in1885); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1884; ap- Bowling Green, Mo.; became editor of the Salt River Jour-pointed police and fire commissioner of Stockton in 1889; nal; elected clerk of the Pike County Court in 1841; moved tomember of the board for drafting the city charter in1889; St. Louis, Mo., in 1850 and continued the practice of law;Governor of California 1894-1898; resumed the practiceof attorney for the Bank of the State of Missouri in1852; law in San Francisco; died in Stockton, Calif., July30, 1908; appointed commissioner of public works in 1854 and servedinterment in Rural Cemetery. until 1855; returned to Pike County and settled on a farm Idaho; near Bowling Green; electedjudge of the third judicial cir- BUDGE, Hamer Harold, a Representative from cuit in 1857; delegate to the convention held in Washington,born in Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho, November 21, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the1910; attended the public schools of Boise, Idaho,and the impending war; moved to St. Charles, Mo., in 1862 andCollege of Idaho at Caldwell 1928-1930; graduatedfrom became interested in the manufacture of tobacco in St.Stanford University in 1933 and from the law school of the Louis; also engaged in mercantile pursuits; moved to Mexico,University of Idaho at Moscow in 1936; was admitted to the Audrain County; member of the Democratic central commit-bar in 1936 and commenced the practice of law in Boise, ConventionIdaho; member of the State house of representatives in 1939 tee in 1868; delegate to the Democratic National leader; in 1872; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-thirdand to theand 1941, serving as assistant Republican floor five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3,1885); served in the United States Navy from 1942 untildischarged chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Forty-fourthin 1945 as a lieutenant commander, United StatesNaval 698 Biographical Directory

Reserve; again a member of the State house ofrepresenta-elected as a candidate of the American Party to the Thirty- tives in 1949, serving as Republican floor leader; electedas afourth Congress and as a Republican to the three succeeding Republican to the Eighty-second and to the four succeedingCongresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1863); chairman, Com- Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1961); unsuccessfulmittee on Accounts (Thirty-seventh Congress), Committee on candidate for reelection in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Con- Military Mfairs (Thirty-seventh Congress); was not a candi- gress; judge of the Third Judicial District of Idaho, 1961-date for renomination in 1862; was mustered into the service 1964; appointed to the Securities and Exchange CommissionApril 24, 1861, and was discharged June 15, 1861; special by President Johnson in 1964, became chairman in 1969, andagent of the United States Treasury and internal revenue served until his resignation, January 2,1971; president,collector for the district of Massachusetts 1867-1869; elected mutual funds group in Minneapolis, Minn., until 1978; isaas a Republican to the Forty-first and to the three succeed- resident of Palm Desert, Calif. ing Congresses and served from March 4, 1869, until his BUECHNER, John William (Jack), a Representative fromdeath in Fall River, Mass., March 7, 1875; chairman, Com- Missouri; born in Kirkwood, Mo., June 4, 1940; attendedmittee on Accounts (Forty-second and Forty-third Congress- parochial schools; A.B., Benedictine College, Atchison, Kans.,es); interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. 1962; J.D., St. Louis University Law School, 1965; admitted to the Missouri State bar in 1965 and commenced practice in BUFFINGTON, Joseph, a Representative from Pennsylva- St. Louis County; real estate developer; member, Missourinia; born in West Chester, Pa., November 27, 1803; attended house of representatives, 1972-1982; elected as a Republicanthe common schools and Western University, Pittsburgh, to the One Hundredth Congress (January 3, 1987-January 3,Pa.; moved to Butler County, Pa., and edited a weekly news- 1989); is a resident of Kirkwood, Mo. paper; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in Butler; moved to Kittanning, Pa., in BUEL, Alexander Woodruff, a Representative from1827 and continued the practice of law; elected as a Whig to Michigan; born in Castleton, Vt., December 13, 1813; attend-the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, ed the public schools in Poultney, Vt., and was graduated1843-March 3, 1847); was not a candidate for renomination from Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1830; taught schoolin 1846; appointed president judge of the eighteenth district and studied law; moved to Detroit, Mich., in 1834;was ad-in 1849 and served until 1851; declined the appointment as mitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in De-chief justice of the Territory of Utah tendered by President troit, Mich.; city attorney in 1837; member of the StateFillmore in 1852; judge of the tenth district of Pennsylvania house of representatives in 1838 and 1848, servingas speak-from 1855 until his retirement in 1871; died in Kittanning, er the latter year; prosecuting attorney for Wayne CountyPa., February 3, 1872; interment in Kittanning Cemetery. 1843-1846; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); unsuccessful candidate for BUFFUM, Joseph, Jr., a Representative from New Hamp- reelection in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; resumedshire; born in Fitchburg, Mass., September 23, 1784; attend- the practice of law; again a member of the State house ofed the public schools and the local academy; was graduated representatives, in 1859 and 1860; appointed postmaster offrom Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1806; studied Detroit on September 28, 1860, and served until March 18,law and practiced in Westmoreland and Keene, N.H.; elected 1861; died in Detroit, Mich., April 19, 1868; interment into the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 8, 1821); Elmwood Cemetery. appointed judge of the court of common pleas on January 21, 1825; engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Westmore- BUELL, Alexander Hamilton, a Representative from Newland, Cheshire County, N.H., February 24, 1874; interment York; born in Fairfield, Herkimer County, N.Y., July 14,in South Village Cemetery. 1801; attended the district schools and Fairfield Academy; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Fairfield, N.Y., and main- BUGG, Robert Malone, a Representative from Tennessee; tained general stores in other cities; served as a member ofborn in Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Va., January 20, the State assembly in 1845; elected as a Democrat to the1805; attended the public schools; moved to Tennessee and Thirty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1851, untilsettled in Williamson County in 1825, where he taught his death in Washington, D.C., on January 29, 1853; inter-school for several years; moved to Giles County and engaged ment in the Episcopal Cemetery, Fairfield, N.Y. in agricultural pursuits; justice of the peace in 1840; member of the State house of representatives in 1851 and 1852; elect-

BUFFETT, Howard Homan, a Representative from Ne-- ed as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853- braska; born in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebr., August 13,March 3, 1855); declined to be a candidate for renomination 1903; attended the public schools, and was graduated fromin 1854; resumed agricultural pursuits; served in the State the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1925; engaged insenate in 1871 and 1872; died in Lynnville, Giles County, the investment business in 1926; member of the Omaha Tenn., February 18, 1887; interment in McLaurine Ceme-- Board of Education 1939-1942; elected as a Republican to thetery, near Lynnville, Tenn. Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate BULKELEY, Morgan Gardner (cousin of Edwin Denison for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; elected toMorgan), a Senator from Connecticut; born in East Haddam, the Eighty-second Congress (January 3, 1951-January 3,Middlesex County, Conn., December 26, 1837; attended the district schools; moved with his parents to Hartford, Conn., 1953); was not a candidate for renomination in 1952; re-- sumed former business pursuits; was a resident of Omaha,in 1846; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nebr., until his death there on April 30, 1964; interment in1852-1872; member of the Republican general committee of Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Kings County; during the Civil War enlisted in the Thir- teenth Regiment, New York National Guard, and served at BUFFINGTON, James, a Representative from Massachu-Baltimore and at Suffolk, Va.; returned to Hartford, Conn., setts; born in Fall River, Mass., March 16, 1817; attended thein 1872; engaged in the life insurance business and served as common schools, and Friends College, Providence, R.I.; stud-president of the Aetna Life Insurance Co.; served in the ied medicine but never practiced; engaged in mercantile pur-Hartford city council in 1874; member of the board of alder- suits in Fall River; mayor of Fall River in 1854 and 1855;men in 1875 and 1876; first president of the National League Biographies 699 of Professional Baseball Clubs in 1876; mayor of HartfordGovernor of Rhode Island 1892-1894; elected as aRepublican 1880-1888; Governor of Connecticut 1889-1893; elected com-to the Fifty-fourth and to the three succeedingCongresses mander of the Department of Connecticut, Grand Army of(March 4, 1895-March 3, 1903); chairman, Committee on the Republic, in 1903; elected as a Republican to the UnitedAccounts (Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses); unsuc- States Senate and served from March 4, 1905, to March 3,cessful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth 1911; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chairman, Com-Congress; lived in Middletown, Newport County, R.I., until mittee to Examine Branches of the Civil Service (Fifty-ninthhis death July 5, 1909; interment in Island Cemetery, New- Congress), Committee on Railroads (Sixtieth and Sixty-firstport, R.I. Congresses); resumed his former business pursuits; died in Hartford, Conn., on November 6, 1922; interment in Cedar BULLARD, Henry Adams, a Representative from Louisi- Hill Cemetery. ana; born in Pepperell, Mass.,September 9, 1788; was grad- Bibliography: DAB. uated from Harvard University in 1807; studied law in Boston and Philadelphia; was admitted to the bar about BULKLEY, Robert Johns, a Representative and a Senator1812; accompanied Gen. José Alvarez Toledo as military sec- from Ohio; born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Octo-retary on his revolutionary expedition into Texas in1813; ber 8, 1880; attended the University School, Cleveland, Ohio,moved to Natchitoches, La., and commenced the practice of and was graduated from Harvard University in 1902; studiedlaw; appointed district judge in 1822, but resigned after a at Harvard Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1906 and commenced practice in Cleveland, Ohio; elected as a Demo-few years' service, returning to the bench later for another crat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4,period of service; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the 1911-March 3, 1915); during the First World War served asTwenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses and served chief of the legal section of the War Industries Board 19 17-from March 4, 1831, until January 4, 1834, when he re-- 1918; resumed the practice of law; elected as a Democrat tosigned, having been appointed judge; judge of the supreme court of Louisiana from 1834 to 1846; acted as secretary of the United States Senate on November 4, 1930, to fill the in vacancy caused by the death of Theodore E.Burton; reelect-state of Louisiana in 1839; resumed the practice of law ed in 1932 and served from December 1, 1930, to January 3,New Orleans, La.; appointed professor of civil law in the 1939; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938; chair-Law School of Louisiana in 1847; served as a member of the man, Committee on Manufactures(Seventy-third throughState house of representatives in 1850; elected as a Whig to Seventy-fifth Congresses); engaged in banking; resumed thethe Thirty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the practice of law; during the Second World War served as aresignation of Charles M. Conrad and served from December member of the board of appeals in visa cases; died in Cleve-5, 1850, to March 3, 1851; died in New Orleans onApril 17, land, Ohio, July 21, 1965; interment in Lakeview Cemetery. 1851; interment in Girod Street Cemetery. Bibliography: Jenkins, William D 'Robert Bulkley: Progressive Profile." Bibliography: DAB; Bonquois, Dora J. "The Career of Henry Adams Ph.D. dissertation, Case Western Reserve, 1969; Stegh, Leslie J. "A Para- Bullard, Louisiana Jurist, Legislator, and Educator." Louisiana Historical dox of Prohibition: Election of Robert J. Bulkley as Senator from Ohio, Quarterly 23 (October 1940): 999-1106. 1930." Ohio History 83 (Summer 1974): 57-72. BULLOCH, Archibald (father of William Bellinger Bul- BULL, John, a Delegate from South Carolina; born inloch and great-great-grandfather of Theodore Roosevelt), a Prince William's Parish, South Carolina, about 1740; justiceDelegate from Georgia; born in Charleston, S.C., about1730; of the peace of Greenville County; member of the Provincialcompleted preparatory studies; studied law, was admitted to house of commons in 1772; deputy secretary of the Provincethe bar and practiced; commissioned lieutenantin a South in 1772; delegate to the First and Second provincial congress-Carolina regiment in 1757; moved to Savannah, Ga.,about es in 1775 and 1776; member of thefirst general assembly in1762; appointed a member of the committee to correspond 1776; served in the State house of representatives 1778-1781with Benjamin Franklin for redress of grievancesin 1768 and in 1784; Member of the Continental Congress 1784-1787;and of the committee to sympathize with thecitizens of served in the State senate in 1798; died in South Carolina inBoston; elected speaker of the Georgia Royalassembly in 1802; interment in Prince William's Parish Churchyard,1772; president of the Georgia provincial congress in 1775 Beaufort County, S.C. and 1776; Member of the Continental Congress in1775; led a company to clear Tybee Island ofthe enemy; elected by the BULL, John, a Representative from Missouri; born in Vir-provincial congress president and commander inchief of ginia in 1803; studied medicine in Baltimore, Md.; moved toGeorgia and served from June 20, 1776, to February 5,1777, Howard County, Mo., and settled near Glasgow; engaged inwhen the State government was adopted; signed thefirst the practice of medicine; studied theology; was ordained to 22, the ministry and became a Methodist minister in that locali-constitution of Georgia; died in Savannah, Ga., February ty; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Missouri; presi-1777; interment in Colonial Cemetery. dential elector on the ticket of Jackson and Calhoun in 1828; Bibliography: DAB. elected to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833-March BULLOCH, William Bellinger (son of Archibald Bulloch), 3, 1835); resumed his ministerial duties and also the practicea Senator from Georgia; bornin Savannah, Ga., in 1777; of medicine; died near Rothville, Chariton County, Mo.,instudied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- February 1863; interment in Hutcheson Cemetery, a familytice in Savannah in 1797; appointed United Statesdistrict burial ground, near Rothville, Mo. attorney in 1804; mayor of Savannah in1812 and alderman in 1814; during the War of 1812 served in theSavannah BULL, Melville, a Representative from Rhode Island; born of in Newport, R.I., September 29,1854; attended PhillipsHeavy Artillery; solicitor general of the State; collector Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., and was graduatedfromcustoms 1849-1850; member, State house of representatives; Harvard University in 1877; engaged in agricultural pur-member, State senate; appointed as a Republican to the suits near Newport; member of the State house of represent-United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- atives 1883-1885; served in the State senate1885-1892; nation of William H. Crawford and served fromApril 8, 1813, until November 6, 1813, when a successor waselected; member of the Republican State central committee; delegate Georgia and served to the Republican National Convention in1888; Lieutenantone of the founders of the State Bank of 700 Biographical Directory

as its president 1816-1843; died in Savannah, Ga., May 6,February 26, 1960; interment in St. John's Catholic Ceme- 1852; interment in Laurel Grove Cemetery. tery, Beresford, S.Dak. Bibliography: Mellichamp, Josephine. "William Bulloch." In Senators From Georgia. pp. 70-71. Huntsville, Alabama: The Strode Publishers, Inc., BULWINKLE, Alfred Lee, a Representative from North 1976. Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., April 21, 1883; moved BULLOCK, Robert, a Representative from Florida; bornwith his parents to Dallas, N.C., in 1891; attended the in Greenville, Pitt County, N.C., December 8, 1828; attendedcommon schools; studied law at the University of North the common schools; moved to Florida in 1844 and settledatCarolina at Chapel Hill; was admitted to the bar in 1904 and Fort King, then a United States Government post,near thecommenced practice in Dallas, Gaston County, N.C.; pros- present city of Ocala; taught in the first school in Sumterecuting attorney for the municipal court of Gastonia 19 13- County; clerk of the circuit court of Marion County from1916; captain in Company B, First Infantry, North Carolina November 13, 1849, to November 11, 1855; commissioned byNational Guard, 1909-1917; served on the Mexican border in the Governor in 1856 a captain to raise a mountedcompany1916 and 1917; during the First World War servedas a of volunteers for the suppression of Indian hostilities; themajor in command of the Second Battalion, One Hundred company was mustered into the service of the United Statesand Thirteenth Field Artillery, Fifty-fifth Brigade, Thirtieth and served eighteen months, until the cessation of hostil-Division, American Expeditionary Forces; elected as a Demo- ities; entered the Confederate Army as captain in the Sev-crat to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Con- enth Regiment Florida Volunteers in 1862 and served untilgresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1929); unsuccessful candi- the close of the war; promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1863date for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress; and to brigadier general in 1865; studied law;was admittedelected to the Seventy-second and to the nine succeeding to the bar in 1866 and began practice in Marion County;Congresses and served from March 4, 1931, until his death; judge of probate court 1866-1868; member of the State housechairman, Committee on Memorials (Seventy-sixth Con- of representatives in 1879; again clerk of the circuit court ofgress); delegate to the International Aviation Conference at Marion County from 1881 to 1889; elected as a Democrat toChicago, Ill., in 1944; United States adviser, International the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses (March 4, 1889- CivilAviation Organization at Montreal, Canada, and March 3, 1893); was not a candidate for renomination inGeneva, Switzerland, in 1947; died in Gastonia, N.C., August 1892; engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected judge of31, 1950; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. Marion County in 1903 and served until his death in Ocala, Marion County, Fla., July 27, 1905; interment in Evergreen BUMPERS, Dale, a Senator from Arkansas; born in Cemetery. Charleston, Franklin County, Ark., August 12, 1925; attend- ed the public schools of Arkansas and the University of BULLOCK, Stephen, a Representative from Massachu-Arkansas, Fayetteville; graduated, Northwestern University setts; born in Rehoboth, Mass., October 10, 1735; attendedLaw School, Chicago, III., 1951; admitted to the Arkansas bar the common schools; taught school; during the Revolution-in 1952 and commenced practice in Charleston; served in the ary War was captain of the Sixth Company in Col. ThomasUnited States Marine Corps 1943-1946; Charleston city at- Carpenter's Regiment, and was in the Battle of Rhode Islandtorney 1952-1970; special justice, Arkansas Supreme Court in 1778; delegate to the first State constitutional convention1968; Governor of Arkansas 1970-1974; elected as a Demo- in 1780; member of the State house of representatives incrat to the United States Senate in 1974 for the term com- 1783, 1785, 1786, 1795, and 1796; elected asa Federalist tomencing January 3, 1975; reelected in 1980 and again in the Fifth Congress (March 4, 1797-March 3, 1799); judge of1986 for the term ending January 3, 1993; chairman, Com- the court of common pleas for Bristol County; member of themittee on Small Business (One-hundreth Congress). Governor's council 1803-1805; died in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Mass., February 2, 1816; interment in Burial Place BUNCH, Samuel, a Representative from Tennessee; born Hill. in Grainger County, Tenn., December 4, 1786; attended the public schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; served in BULLOCK, Wingfield, a Representative from Kentucky;the Creek War as captain of a company of mounted riflemen born in Spotsylvania, Va.; studied law; moved to Kentucky;under General Jackson and participated in the attack on member of the State senate from Shelby County 18 12-1814;Hillibeetown November 18, 1813; sheriff of Grainger County elected to the Seventeenth Congress and served from Marchfor several years; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty- 4, 1821, until his death in Shelbyville, Shelby County, Ky.,third Congress and reelected as a White supporter to the October 13, 1821; interment in an old burying groundnearTwenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); re- Shelbyville. sumed agricultural pursuits; died on his farm near Rutledge, BULOW, William John, a Senator from South Dakota;Grainger County, Tenn., September 5, 1849; interment in a born on a farm near Moscow, Clermont County, Ohio, Janu-private cemetery on his farm near Rutledge. ary 13, 1869; attended the public schools in Moscow, Ohio, BUNDY, Hezekiah Sanford, a Representative from Ohio; and was graduated from the law department of the Universi-born in Marietta, Ohio, August 15, 1817; moved with his ty of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1893; was admitted to theparents to Athens County in 1819; attended the public bar the same year and commenced practice in Beresford,schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; studied law; was Union County, S.Dak., in 1894; member, State senate 1899;admitted to the bar in 1850 and practiced until 1860, when served as city attorney of Beresford, S.Dak., 1902-1912 andhe became engaged in the iron business; member of the 1913-1927; mayor of Beresford 1912-1913; county judge ofState house of representatives in 1848 and 1850; served in Union County, S.Dak., 1918; Governor of South Dakotathe State senate in 1855; unsuccessful candidate for election 1927-1931; elected as a Democrat to the United Statesin 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; elected as a Republi- Senate in 1930; reelected in 1936 and served from March 4,can to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1931, to January 3, 1943; unsuccessful candidate for renomi-1867); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1866; nation in 1942; chairman, Committee on the Civil Serviceelected to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, (Seventy-third through Seventy-seventh Congresses); retired1875); chairman, Committee on Mileage (Forty-third Con- and resided in Washington, D.C., until his death there ongress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Biographies 701

Forty-fourth Congress; moved to Weliston, Jackson County,engaged in mercantile pursuits 1864-1869; moved to Tunk- in 1887 and resumed the practice of law; elected to the Fifty-hannock and engaged in agricultural pursuits and in bank- third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofing; unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1872 to the William H. Enochs and served from December 4, 1893, toForty-third Congress; subsequently elected to the Forty- March 3, 1895; died in Weliston, Jackson County, Ohio, De-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation cember 12, 1895; interment in the City Cemetery. of Ulysses Mercur and served from December 24, 1872, to March 3, 1873; president of the Wyoming County Agricultur- BUNDY, Solomon, a Representative from New York; bornal Society for over twenty years; elected burgess and bor- in Oxford, Chenango County, N.Y., May 22, 1823; attendedough treasurer of Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, in 1884; the common schools and Oxford (N.Y.) Academy; taughtelected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Con- school for several years; engaged in mercantile pursuits;gresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); was not acandidate studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commencedfor renomination in 1888; died in Philadelphia, Pa., Septem- practice in Oxford; while studying law served as justice ofber 11, 1911; interment in Gravel Hill Cemetery, Tunkhan- the peace and clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Chenango County; district attorney of Chenango County 1862-1865;nock, Pa. elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, BUNNER, Rudolph, a Representative from New York; 1877-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate for renominationborn in Savannah, Wayne County, N.Y., August 17,1779; in 1878; resumed the practice of law; died in Oxford, N.Y.,was graduated from Columbia College, atNew York City, in January 13, 1889; interment in Riverview Cemetery. 1798; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in BUNKER, Berkeley Lloyd, a Senator and a Representa-Newburgh, Orange County, N.Y., from 1819 until 1822; tive from Nevada; born in what was then St. Thomas, Clarkmoved to Oswego, Oswego County, N.Y., in October 1822; County, Nev., August 12, 1906; attended the public schools;engaged in manufacturing and served as a director in the engaged in the tire and oil business in Las Vegas, Nev., inOswego Cloth & Carpet Manufacturing Co.; also was an 1934; member, State assembly 1936-1941, serving as speakerextensive landowner; member of the first board of directors in 1939; appointed as a Democrat in 1940 to the Unitedof the Oswego Canal Co.; elected to the Twentieth Congress States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Key(March 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); died in Oswego, N.Y., July Pittman for the term ending January 3, 1941, and also for16, 1837; interment in Riverside Cemetery. the term ending January 3, 1947, and served from November BUNNING, James Paul David, a Representative from 27, 1940, until December 6, 1942, when a duly elected succes- Kentucky; born in Southgate, Ky., October 23, 1981; attend- sor qualified; unsuccessful candidate for nominationin 1942ed parochial schools in Southgate and Cincinnati, Ohio; B.S., for the vacancy; engaged in the life-insurance business inXavier University, Cincinnati, 1953; professional baseball Las Vegas, Nev.; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninthplayer, 1950-1971; investment broker and agent, 1960 to Congress (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1947); was not a candi-present; member, Ft. Thomas City Council, 1977-1979;Ken- date for renomination in 1946; unsuccessful Democratic can-tucky State senate, 1979-1983; elected as aRepublican to the didate for election to the United States Senate in 1946;One Hundredth Congress (January 3, 1987-January 3,1989); investment broker and president of a management andis a resident of Ft. Thomas, Ky. equity company; is a resident of Las Vegas, Nev. BUNTING, Thomas Lathrop, a Representative from New BUNN, Benjamin Hickman, a Representative from NorthYork; born in Eden, Erie County, N.Y., April 24,1844; was Carolina; born on a farm in Nash County, near Rockyeducated in the common schools and the Griffith Institute, Mount, N.C., October 19, 1844; attended the local schools;Springville, N.Y.; taught school in winters and attendedthe during the Civil War enlisted in the Confederate Army as aacademy in summer months; illness havinginterrupted his second lieutenant in Company A, Forty-seventh North Caro-preparation for college, he moved to Hamburg, N.Y., in1868 lina Regiment; promoted successively and became captain ofand later established a general mercantile store;engaged in the Fourth Company of Sharpshooters, MacRae's brigade,the canning business; elected as a Democrat tothe Fifty- Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865; studied law; was second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); declined to admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in resumed the can- Rocky Mount, N.C.; elected mayor of Rocky Mount in 1867;be a candidate for renomination in 1892; ning business and also became interested in farming,dairy- delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1875 anding, and stock raising; died in Buffalo,N.Y., December 27, to the Democratic National Convention in 1880; member of Hamburg, Erie the State house of representatives 1883-1885; elected as a1898; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery at Democrat to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Con-County, N.Y. gresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1895); chairman,Committee BURCH, John Chilton, a Representative from California; on Claims (Fifty-second and Fifty-thirdCongresses); was notborn in Boone County, Mo., February 1,1826; attended the a candidate for renomination in1894; postmaster of RockyBonne Femme Academy and Kemper College; studiedlaw in Mount, N.C., from April 23, 1895, until the appointment ofJefferson City; was admitted to the bar andpracticed; his successor on July 27, 1897; resumed the practice of law;deputy clerk of Cole County; assistant adjutantgeneral of died in Nash County, near Rocky Mount, N.C., August25, Missouri; moved to California in 1850 and worked inthe 1907; interment in Pineview Cemetery. mines until 1851; elected clerk of the newly organizedTrini- ty County; appointed district attorney in1853; member of BUNNELL, Frank Charles, a Representative from Penn- 1857- sylvania; born in Washington Township, Luzerne County,the State assembly in 1856; served in the State senate school and1859; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress Pa., March 19, 1842; attended the district rural (March 4, 1859-March 8, 1861); resumed the practiceof law Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa., until he enlisted as a served private in Company B, Fifty-second Regiment, Pennsylvaniain San Francisco; appointed a code commissioner and Volunteers, in September 1861; promoted andserved asfour years; declined to be a candidate for judge of the su- quartermaster sergeant of his regiment during thepeninsu-preme court of California;died in San Francisco, Calif., lar campaign under General McClellan; discharged from theAugust 31, 1885; interment in the City Cemetery, Sacramen- service April 2, 1863, on a surgeon's certificateof disability;to, Calif. 702 Biographical Directory

BURCII, Thomas Granville, a Representative anda Sena-Democrat to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943- tor from Virginia; born on a farm near Dyer's Store, inJanuary 3, 1945); was not a candidate for renomination in Henry County, Va., July 3, 1869; attended the public schools;1944; resumed his former business pursuits in New York engaged in agricultural pursuits and in the tobaccomanu-City; consultant; alien property custodian; died in New York facturing business; moved to Martinsville, Va., in 1886 andCity March 28, 1960; interment in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, engaged in the banking business; also interested in the in-Valhalla, N.Y. surance and real estate businesses; member of the State board of agriculture 1910-1913; mayor of Martinsville, Va., BURD, George, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born 1912-1914; United States marshal for the western district ofin 1793; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1810 at Virginia 1914-1921; member of the commission in 1927 toCarlisle, Cumberland County, Pa., and practiced; elected to simpli1and reorganize the State government; served withthe Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, the State transportation and public utility advisory commis-1831-March 3, 1835); moved to Mercer County in 1843; died sion in 1929; member of the State board of education in 1930in Bedford, Bedford County, Pa., on January 13, 1844; inter- and 1931; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Con-ment in Bedford Cemetery. gress and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1931, to May 31, 1946, when he resigned; BURDE11, Samuel Swinfin, a Representative from Mis- chairman, Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Seven-souri; born at Sutton-in-the-Elms, Leicestershire, England, ty-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses); appointed to theFebruary 21, 1836; when twelve years of age immigrated to United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the deaththe United States; worked on a farm in Lorain County, Ohio, of and served from May 31, 1946, until Novem- and attended the common schools; studied law at Oberlin ber 5, 1946, when a duly elected successor qualified;was notCollege, Ohio, was admitted to the bar in 1858 and com- a candidate for election to the vacancy in 1946; chairman ofmenced practice in Dewitt, Iowa; entered the Union Army as Governor's Commission on Reorganization of the State Gov-a private in the First Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, in ernment in 1947; resumed his business pursuits; died inMay 1861; promoted to the rank of lieutenant, later becom- Martinsville, Va., March 20, 1951; interment in Oakwooding captain, and served until August 1864; assistant provost Cemetery. marshal general from March 1 until August 1, 1864; moved to Osceola, St. Clair County, Mo., in December 1865; attor- BURCHARD, Horatio Chapin, a Representative from Illi-ney for the seventh circuit in 1868 and 1869; delegate to the nois; born in Marshall, Oneida County, N.Y., September 22,Republican National Convention in 1868; elected as a Repub- 1825; attended the public schools and private preparatorylican to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses (March schools; was graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton,4, 1869-March 3, 1873); chairman, Committee on Manufac- N.Y., in 1850; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1854tures (Forty-second Congress); unsuccessful candidate in 1872 and commenced practice in Freeport, Ill.; member of thefor reelection to the Forty-third Congress; resumed the prac- State house of representatives 1863-1866; electedas a Re-tice of law in Osceola, Mo.; appointed Commissioner of the publican to the Forty-first Congress to fill thevacancyGeneral Land Office in 1874; engaged in the practice of law caused by the resignation of Elihu B. Washburne; reelectedin Washington, D.C., residing at Glencarlyn, Va., during his to the Forty-second and to the three succeeding Congresseslast years; commander in chief of the Grand Army of the and served from December 6, 1869, to March 3, 1879;unsuc-Republic in 1885 and 1886; died at Sutton-in-the-Elms, cessful candidate for renomination in 1878; director of theLeicestershire, England, September 24, 1914; interment in United States Mint 1879-1885; resumed the practice of lawArlington National Cemetery. in Freeport, Ill.; member of the commission to revise the State revenue laws in 1885 and 1886; was placed in charge of BURDICK, Clark, a Representative from Rhode Island; the jury of awards of the mining department of the World'sborn in Newport, R.I., January 13, 1868; attended the public Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893; died in Freeport,schools; was a student at the Harvard Law School 1893-1895; Ill., May 14, 1908; interment in Oakland Cemetery. was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice in Newport; also interested in banking and served as president BURCHARD, Samuel Dickinson, a Representative fromof the Newport Trust Co.; member of the First Division, Wisconsin; born in Leyden, N.Y., July 17, 1836; moved withRhode Island Naval Militia, in 1896 and 1897; member of the his father to Beaver Dam, Wis., in 1845; attended Madisoncity school board 1899-1901; city solicitor of Newport in (now Colgate) University, Hamilton, N.Y.; engaged in the1901, 1902, and again in 1907 and 1908; member of the State wool manufacturing business in Beaver Dam; during thehouse of representatives 1906-1908; delegate to the Republi- Civil War entered the Union Army as a lieutenant in thecan National Convention in 1912; member of the Newport MissouriMilitia;appointedassistant quartermasterofrepresentativecouncil1906-1916, serving as chairman; United States Volunteers with the rank of captain;wasserved in the State senate in 1915 and 1916; awarded the stationed at New York; was mustered out with the rank ofthird class order of the Sacred Treasury of Japan for serv- major; member of the Wisconsin senate 1872-1874; electedasices rendered the representatives of the Emperor of Japan in a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-1917; mayor of Newport in 1917 and 1918; elected as a March 3, 1877); engaged in agricultural pursuits; died inRepublican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Con- Greenwood, Wise County, Tex., September 1, 1901; inter-gresses (March 4, .1919-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candi- ment in Greenwood Cemetery. date for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; BURCHILL, Thomas Francis, a Representative from Newreengaged in the practice of law and also in his banking York; born in New York City August 3, 1882; attended St.interests in Newport, R.I., until his death on August 27, Francis Xavier High School in New York City and Niagara1948; interment in St. Mary's Episcopal Cemetery, Ports- University, Niagara Falls, N.Y., A.B.; auctioneer, appraiser,mouth, R.I. and also interested in the insurance business in New York BURDICK, Quentin Northrop (son of Usher L. Burdick), a City after 1900; member of the State assembly 1919-1924;Representative and a Senator from North Dakota; born in served in the State senate 1924-1938; appointed a member ofMunich, Cavalier County, N.Dak., June 19, 1908; attended the New York World's Fair Commission in 1938; elected as athe public schools; graduated, University of Minnesota 1931 Biographies 703 and from the law department of the same university 1932;city of San Diego, 1953-1957; vice mayor of San Diego,1955- was admitted to the bar the same yearand commenced1956; State assemblyman, 1962-1966; State senator, 1967- practice in Fargo, N.Dak.; elected as a Democrat to the1972; president, California Association for RetardedChil- Eighty-sixth Congress and served from January 3, 1959,dren, 1959-1961; vice president, National Association for Re-- until his resignation August 8, 1960; elected to the Unitedtarded Children, 1961-1962; vice chairman, President's Com- States Senate June 28, 1960, to fill the vacancy caused bymittee on Mental Retardation, 1970-1973; delegate toRepub- the death of William Langer and took his seat August 8,lican National Conventions, 1960, 1964; elected as a Republi- 1960; reelected in 1964, 1970, 1976, and 1982 for the termcan to the Ninety-third and to the foursucceeding Congress- ending January 3, 1989; chairman, Committee on Environ-es (January 3, 1973-January 3,1983); was not a candidate ment and Public Works (One-hundreth Congress). forreelectionin1982tothe Ninety-eighth Congress; member, board of directors, Board for InternationalBroad- BURDICK, Theodore Weld, a Representative from Iowa;casting, 1983-1988; president, California State Personnel born in Evansburg, Crawford County, Pa., October 7, 1836;Board, 1983-1993; is a resident of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. attended the common schools; moved with his parents to Decorah, Iowa, in 1853 and engaged in banking; deputy BURGES, Dempsey, a Representative from North Caroli- treasurer and recorder of Winneshiek County1854-1857; na; born in Shiloh, Camden County, N.C.,in 1751; member treasurer and recorder from 1858 to 1862, when he resignedof the Provincial Congress in 1775 and 1776; took an active to recruit a company for the Union Army; was commis-part in the Revolutionary War, serving first as majorof the sioned as captain and assigned to the Sixth Regiment, IowaPasquotank Minutemen and later as lieutenant colonel of Volunteer Cavalry, in which he served for three years in theGregory's Continental Regiment; elected as a Republican to Department of the Northwest; after the regiment was mus-the Fourth and Fifth Congresses (March 4, 1795-March3, tered out in 1865 he returned to Decorah and became cash-1799); died in Camden County, N.C., January 13, 1800; inter- ier of the First National Bank; elected as a Republican toment in Shiloh Baptist Churchyard. the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); de- BURGES, Tristam (great-great-uncle of Theodore Francis clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1878; resumed banking at Decorah, Iowa, and Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.;Green), a Representative from Rhode Island; born in Roches- member of the State senate in 1886 and 1887; died in De-ter, Mass., February 26, 1770; attended the commonschools; corah, Iowa, July 16, 1898; interment in Phelps Cemetery.studied medicine at a school in Wrentham; upon the death of his father he abandoned the study of medicine; wasgrad- BURDICK, Usher Lloyd (father of Quentin N. Burdickuated from Rhode Island College (now Brown University), and father-in-law of Robert W. Levering), a RepresentativeProvidence, R.I., in 1796; studied law; was admitted to the from North Dakota; born in Owatonna, Steele County,bar in 1799 and commenced practice in Providence,R.I.; Minn., February 21, 1879; moved with his parents to Dakotamember of the State house of representatives in 1811and Territory in 1882; raised among the Sioux Indians; was grad-was prominent as amember of the Federal Party; appointed uated from the State normal school at Mayville, N.Dak., inchief justice of the supreme court of RhodeIsland in May 1900; deputy superintendent of schools of Benson County,1815; unsuccessful candidate for election to the samein N.Dak., 1900-1902; was graduated from the law department1816; professor of oratory in BrownUniversity; elected to of the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1904,the Ninteenth through Twenty-first Congressesand elected teaching school in a business college while attending theas an Anti-Jacksonian tothe Twenty-second and Twenty- university; was admitted to the bar in 1904 and commencedthird Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1835);chairman, practice in Munich, N.Dak.; member of the State house ofCommittee on Revolutionary Pensions(Nineteenth Con- representatives 1907-19 11, serving as speaker in 1909; movedgress), Committee on Military Pensions(Nineteenth and to Williston, N.Dak., in 1910 and continued the practiceofTwentieth Congresses), Committee on RevolutionaryClaims law; Lieutenant Governor 1911-1913; State's attorney of Wil- (Twenty-first Congress), Committee on Invalid Pensions liams County 1913-19 15; assistant United States district at-(Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses); unsuccessful torney for North Dakota 1929-1932; unsuccessful candidatecandidate for reelection; unsuccessful Whig candidatefor for the Republican nomination to the Seventy-third CongressGovernor in 1836; resumed the practice of law;died on his in 1932; also engaged in livestock breeding and farming;estate, "Watchemoket Farm" (now a partof East Provi- author; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fourth and todence, R.I.), October 13, 1853; interment inNorth Burial the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3,Ground, Providence, R.I. 1945); was not a candidate for renomination in 1944, but was Republican nomination for BURGESS, George Farmer, a Representative from Texas; an unsuccessful candidate for the born in Wharton, Wharton County, Tex.,September 21, United States Senator; unsuccessful Independent candidate his mother for election in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; elected to1861; attended the common schools; moved with (Janu-to Fayette County in 1880 and engaged inagricultural pur- the Eighty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses suits near Flatonia; was later employed as aclerk in a ary 3, 1949-January 3, 1959); wasnot a candidate for re-- bar in 1882 19, country store; studied law; was admitted to the nomination in 1958; died in Washington, D.C., August moved to Gon- 1960; interment on his ranch at Williston, N.Dak. and commenced practice in La Grange, Tex.; zales in 1884; prosecuting attorney of GonzalesCounty from Bibliography: DAB. 1886 to 1889, when he resigned; elected as a Democrat tothe BURGENER, Clair Walter, a Representative from Califor-Fifty-seventh and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March nia; born in Vernal, Uintah County, Utah,December 5,4, 1901-March 3, 1917); unsuccessful candidatefor the Demo- 1921; attended the public schools in Salt Lake City,Utahcratic nomination of United States Senator in 1916;resumed and graduated from California State University, San Diego,the practice of law at Gonzales, Tex., wherehe died Decem- 1950; served in the United States Army Air Corps,1943-ber 31, 1919; interment in the Masonic Cemetery. Air 1946; attained the rank of second lieutenant; awarded North Medal, 1945; recalled for duty with theUnited States Air BURGIN, William Olin, a Representative from Clair W.Carolina; born on a farm near Marion,McDowell County, Force during the Korean Conflict, 1951; president, Rutherford- Burgener Co., realtors, San Diego, Calif.; electedcouncilman,N.C., July 28, 1877; moved with his parents to 704 Biographical Directory

ton, N.C., where he attended the public schools and Ruther-man, Committee on Indian Affairs (Sixty-first Congress); mi- fordton Military Institute; also attended the Law School ofnority whip (Sixty-third Congress); did not seek renomina- the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;engaged astion in 1914 having received the Republican nomination for a clerk in a general store in Rutherfordton in 1893 and laterUnited States Senator, but was unsuccessful for election; as a traveling salesman and merchant; moved to Thomas-resumed the investment business; appointed Commissioner ville and engaged in the mercantile business;was admittedof Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C., on April 1, 1921, and to the bar; mayor of Thomasville, N.C., 1906-1910; moved toserved until his resignation on June 30, 1929; engaged in the Lexington, N.C., and continued the practice of law; presidentreal estate and loan business in Pierre S. Dak., and also and attorney of the Industrial Bank of Lexington; director inworked in the interest of Indians in Washington, D.C.; died a number of business enterprises in Lexington; served in thein Washington, D.C., April 7, 1944; interment in Riverside State house of representatives in 1931; member of the StateCemetery, Pierre, S.Dak. senate in 1933; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from BURKE, Edmund, a Representative from New Hamp- January 3, 1939, until his death in Washington, D.C.,onshire; born in Westminster, Vt., January 23, 1809; attended April 11, 1946; interment in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington,the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in N.C. 1826 and commenced practice in Colebrook, N.H.; moved to BURK, Henry, a Representative from Pennsylvania; bornClaremont, N.H., in 1833 and assumed editorial manage- in Wurttemberg, Germany, September 26, 1850; immigratedment of the New Hampshire Argus; moved to Newport in to the United States in 1854 with his parents, who settled in1834 and united the Argus with the Spectator of that place, Philadelphia, Pa.; attended the public schools about threecontinuing as editor for several years; commissioned as adju- years; became a repairer of shoemaking machinery and sub-tant in the State militia in 1837 and as brigade inspector in sequently engaged in supplying this machinery to the trade;1838; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth, Twenty- engaged in the manufacture of leather and in 1887 inventedseventh, and Twenty-eighth Congresses (March 4,1839- the alum and sumac process, which revolutionized the indus-March 3, 1845); was not a candidate for renomination in try; president of the Manufacturers' National Association in1844; appointed Commissioner of Patents by President Polk 1895; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-and served from May 5, 1846, to September 3, 1850; resumed eighth Congresses and served from March 4, 1901, until histhe practice of law in Newport, N.H.; delegate to the Demo- death in Philadelphia, Pa., December 5, 1903; interment incratic National Conventions in 1844 and 1852; delegate to Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. the Democratic State convention in 1867, and served as pre- siding officer; member of the State board of agriculture in BURKE, Aedanus, a Representative from South Carolina; 1871; died in Newport, Sullivan County, N.H., January 25, born in Galway, Ireland, June 16, 1743; attended the theo-1882; interment in Maple Grove Cemetery. logical college at St. Omer, France; visited the West Indies; immigrated to the American Colonies and settled in Charles BURKE, Edward Raymond, a Representative and a Sena- Town (now Charleston), S.C.; served in the militia forces oftor from Nebraska; born at Running Water, Bon Homme South Carolina during the Revolutionary War; appointedaCounty, S.Dak., November 28, 1880; moved with his parents judge of the State circuit court in 1778 and served until theto Sparta, Monroe County, Wis., in 1880; educated in the enemy overran the State; member of the South Carolinapublic schools of Sparta, Wis.; moved to Beloit, Rock County, house of representatives 1779-1788; again served in the Rev-in 1902; was graduated from Beloit (Wis.) College in 1906; taught school in Chadron, Nebr., 1906-1908; was graduated olutionary Army 1780-1782; when the courtswere reestab-- lished resumed his seat on the bench, and in 1785wasfrom the law department of Harvard University in 1911; was appointed one of three commissioners to prepare a digest ofadmitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice the State laws; member of the convention in 1788 called toin Omaha, Nebr.; during the First World War enlisted and consider ratification of the Constitution of the United States,was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Service which he opposed; elected to the First Congress (March 4,19 17-1919; president of the board of education of Omaha 1789-March 3, 1791); declined to be a candidate for reelec-1927-1930; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Con- tion in 1790 to the Second Congress, the legislature havinggress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); did not seek renomi- passed a law prohibiting a State judge from leaving thenation in 1934, having become a candidate for United States State; elected a chancellor of the courts of equity in 1799Senator; elected to the United States Senate in 1934 and and served until his death in Charleston, S.C., March 30,served from January 3, 1935, to January 3, 1941; unsuccess- 1802; interment in the cemetery of the Chapel of Ease of St.ful candidate for renomination in 1940; chairman, Commit- Bartholomew's Parish, near Jacksonboro, Colleton County,tee on Claims (Seventy-sixth Congress); resumed the practice S.C. of law in Omaha, Nebr.; moved to Washington, D.C., in 1942 Bibliography: DAB. and served as president of Southern Coal Producers Associa- BURKE, Charles Henry, a Representative from Southtion until 1947; Washington representative and general Dakota; born on a farm near Batavia, Genesee County, N.Y.,counsel for Hawaiian Statehood Commission until 1950; re-- April 1, 1861; attended the public schools of Batavia, N.Y.;tired and resided in Kensington, Md., until his death there moved to the Territory of Dakota in 1882 and settled on aon November 4, 1968; interment in Fort Lincoln Mausoleum. homestead in Beadle County; moved to Hughes County in BURKE, Frank Welsh, a Representative from Kentucky; 1883; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1886; engagedborn in Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky., June 1, 1920; edu- in the real estate investment business in Pierre, S.Dak.;cated in parochial schools of Louisville and St. Xavier High member of the State house of representatives in 1895 andSchool; attended the University of Southern California; 1897; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to thePh.B., Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1942; J.D., Uni- three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1907);versity of Louisville, 1948; was admitted to the bar in 1948 unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1906 to the Sixti-and commenced the practice of law in Louisville, KY.; served eth Congress; elected to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, andin the United States Army 1942-1946; assistant city attorney Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1915); chair-of Louisville in 1950 and 1951, director of public safety of Biographies 705

Louisville in 1952; executive assistant to the mayor of Louis-Republican National Committee in December 1927 and ville in 1952 and 1953; member of the Kentucky house ofserved until his death; parliamentarian of the Republican representatives in 1957 and 1958; elected as a Democrat toNational Convention at Kansas City, Mo., in 1928; died in the Eighty-sixth and Eighty-seventh Congresses (January 3,Washington, D.C., August 8,1932; interment in Calvary 1959-January 3, 1963); unsuccessful candidate in 1962 forCemetery, Pittsburgh, Pa. reelection to the Eighty-eighth Congress; served as mayor of BURKE, John Harley, a Representative from California; Louisville, 1969-1973; is a resident of Louisville, Ky. born in Excelsior, Richland County, Wis., June 2, 1894; BURKE, J. Herbert, a Representative from Florida; bornmoved to Milaca, Minn., with his parents in 1897, to San in Chicago, Ill., January 14, 1913; attended the public schoolsPedro, Calif., in 1900, and to Long Beach, Calif., in 1909; of Chicago, Ill.; attended Central Y.M.C.A. College in Chica-attended the public schools; attended the University of go, Ill., and Northwestern University;graduated from KentSanta Clara and the law department of the Universityof College of Law in 1940; served in the United States Army inSouthern California at Los Angeles; was admitted to the bar the European Theater in 1942-1945, was awarded the Purplein 1917 and commenced practice in Long Beach, Calif.; Heart, Bronze Star, the European Theater Medal, and theduring the First World War served as a private, first class, American Theater Ribbon, and was discharged with thein the Twelfth Training Battery, Field Artillery, Camp rank of captain; admitted to the bar in 1940 and practiced inTaylor, Ky.; in 1921 engaged in the oil business as an inde-- Chicago, 1940-1949, and Hollywood, Fla., 1949-1968; electedpendent producer; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- Republican county commissioner in Broward County, Fla., inthird Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); was not a 1952 and reelected in 1956, 1960, and 1964; Republican Statecandidate for renomination in 1934; engaged in the real committeeman, 1954-1958; delegate, Republican Nationalestate business in Long Beach, Calif., until his death there Convention, 1968; member, Republican Platform Committee,May 14, 1951; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1968; appointed by President Eisenhower to SoutheasternCalif. Advisory Board of Small Business in 1956; appointed by the National Republican Party as adviser to the National Rivers BURKE, Michael Edmund, a Representative from Wiscon- and Harbors Congress in 1957; elected as a Republican tosin; born at Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wis., October 15, the Ninetieth and to the five succeeding Congresses; (Janu-1863; attended the public schools and was graduated from ary 3, 1967-January 3, 1979);unsuccessful candidate for re-the Wayland Academy at Beaver Dam in 1884; studied law election in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; is a resident ofat the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1886and 1887; commenced practice at Alexandria, Va. was admitted to the bar in 1888 and Beaver Dam; town clerk 1887-1889; member of the State BURKE, James Anthony, a Representative from Massa-assembly 1891-1893; served in the State senate1895-1899; chusetts; born in Boston, Mass., March 30, 1910; educated incity attorney of Beaver Dam 1893-1908; delegate tothe the Boston public schools and Lincoln Preparatory School;Democratic National Convention in 1904; elected mayor of attended Suffolk University; registrar of vital statistics forBeaver Dam and served from 1908 to 1910; elected as a the city of Boston; during the Second World War was specialDemocrat to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth agent in the Counter-intelligence, attached to the Seventy-Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1917);unsuccessful can- seventh Infantry Division in the South Pacific; member ofdidate for reelection in 1916; died at Beaver Dam,Wis., the Massachusetts general court for ten years; member ofDecember 12, 1918; interment in St. Patrick's Cemetery. the Massachusetts house of representatives for four years, serving as assistant majority leader; vice chairman of the BURKE, Raymond Hugh, a Representative from Ohio; Massachusetts Democratic State committee for four years;born in Nicholsville, Clermont County, Ohio,November 4, elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the nine1881; attended Jackson School; worked on a farm and inthe succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1979);village while studying to teach in rural schools; taught at was not a candidate for reelection in1978 to the Ninety-Pendleton School near Point Pleasant in 1899and 1900; sixth Congress; was a resident of Milton, Mass. until hisstudent at Oberlin Academy and College 1900-1905; was death in Boston, Mass. on October 13, 1983; interment atgraduated from the University of Chicago in 1906; taught in Milton Cemetery, Milton, Mass. Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, 1906-1915; personnel and employment manager 1918-1923; secretary-treasurer of an BURKE, James Francis, a Representative from Pennsyl-automobile agency 1923-1926; special representative for an vania; born in Petroleum Center, Venango County, Pa., Oc-insurance company at Hamilton, Ohio, 1926-1954; mayorof tober 21, 1867; attended the public schools, and was graduat-Hamilton 1928-1940 and councilman 1928-1942;member of ed from the law department of the University of Michiganthe State senate 1942-1946; elected as a Republican tothe at Ann Arbor in 1892; was admitted to the bar the sameEightieth Congress (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); un- year and commenced practice inPittsburgh, Pa.; secretary ofsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first the Republican National Committee in1892, resigningCongress; lecturer in the finance department ofMiami Uni- during the same year to devote his entire time to his dutiesversity in 1949 and 1950; died in Hamilton, Ohio, August 18, as president of the AmericanRepublican College League; 1954; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. appointed by President Harrison to codify the navigation laws of the United States; officer of, or a delegate to, the BURKE, Robert Emmet, a Representative from Texas; Republican National Conventions from 1892 to 1924, withborn near Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Ala., August 1, the exception of the year 1912; appointed a delegate to the1847; attended the public schools of his native city; volun- Parliamentary Peace Conference at Brussels in 1905; electedteered as a private in Company D, Tenth. GeorgiaCavalry, as a Republican to the Fifty-ninthand to the four succeedingConfederate Army, at the age of sixteen and served through- Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1915); chairman, Com-out the Civil War; moved to Jefferson, Tex., in1866; studied mittee on Education (Sixty-first Congress); was not acandi- law; was admitted to the bar in November 1870 and com- date for renomination in 1914; United States Governmentmenced practice in Dallas, Tex., in 1871; judge of Dallas judicial district of director of War Savings during the First World War; re- - County 1878-1888; judge of the fourteenth sumed the practice of law; elected general counsel oftheTexas 1888-1896; elected as a Democrat to theFifty-fifth, 706 Biographical Directory

Fifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses and served fromCouncil for four years, and from 1906 to 1910 was a member March 4, 1897, until his death in Dallas, Tex., June 5,1901; of the greater city council of Pittsburgh; became extensively interment in Greenwood Cemetery. interested in the production of oil near Callery, Butler BURKE, Thomas, a Delegate from North Carolina; bornCounty, in 1904; identified with organized labor as chairman in Gaiway, Ireland, about 1747; studied medicine; immigrat-of the general committee of adjustment, Order of Railroad ed to America in 1764, settled in Accomac County, Va., andConductors, of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad system; elect- practiced; studied law; was admitted to the bar andcom- ed a member of the State senate in 1914 and served until menced practice in Norfolk, Va.; moved to Hiisboro, N.C., inJanuary 1, 1918, when he resigned to become a member of 1771; delegate to the State convention at New Bern andthe Pittsburgh City Council, serving until January 1919, Hilisboro in 1775 and at Halifax in 1776; member of thewhen he resigned, having been elected to Congress; elected State house of commons in 1777; Member of the Continentalas a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Con- Congress from 1777 to 1781, when he became the third Gov-gresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1923); did not seek renomi- ernor of North Carolina under its State constitution; kid-nation, but was an unsuccessful candidate for electionas naped by the Tories September 13, 1781, and carriedtoUnited States Senator in 1922; resumed activities with orga- Charleston, S.C., where he was heldas a hostage; succeedednized labor and served as chairman of the general commit- in escaping; resumed his dutiesas Governor February 1,tee of the Brotherhood of Railroad Conductors; also engaged 1782, and served until April 22, 1782; died at "Tyaquin,"in agricultural pursuits and in the production of oil; died at near Hillsboro, Orange County, N.C., December 2, 1783; in-his summer home in Callery Junction, Butler County, near terment in Mars Hill Churchyard, near Hilisboro, N.C. Pittsburgh November 7, 1925; interment in Calvary Ceme- Bibliography: DAB; Sanders, Jennings B. "Thomas Burke in the Conti-tery, Pittsburgh, Pa. nental Congress." North Carolina Historical Review 9 (January 1932): 22- 37; Watterson, John S. "Thomas Burke, Paradoxical Patriot." Historian 41 BURKE, Yvonne Brathwaite, a Representative from Cali- (August 1979): 664-81. fornia; born Perle Yvonne Watson in Los Angeles, Calif., BURKE, Thomas A., a Senator from Ohio; born in Cleve-October 5, 1932; attended the public schools in Los Angeles; land, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, October 30, 1898; attendedB.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1953; J.D., Uni- parochial schools; was graduated from Holy Cross College,versity of Southern California School of Law, Los Angeles, Worcester, Mass., in 1920, and Western Reserve University 1956; admitted to the California bar in 1956 and commenced Law School, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1923; during the First World practice in Los Angeles; served as deputy corporation com- War served in the United States Army; was admitted to themissioner, hearing officer for Los Angeles Police Commis- bar in 1923 and commenced practice in Cleveland, Ohio;sion, and attorney on the staff of the McCone commission; assistant prosecutor of Cuyahoga County 1930-1936; specialelected to California State legislature, 1967-1972; delegate to counsel to the Ohio attorney general in 1937; director of lawDemocratic National Convention, 1972; elected as a Demo- for the city of Cleveland 1942-1945; mayor of Clevelandcrat to the Ninety-third, Ninety-fourth, and Ninety-fifth 1945-1953; president of the National Conference of MayorsCongresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1979); was not a in 1953; appointed as a Democrat to the United Statescandidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress Senate October 12, 1953, to fill the vacancy caused by thebut was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomi- death of Robert A. Taft and served from November 10, 1953,nation for State Attorney General of California; appointed to December 2, 1954; unsuccessful candidate for election toby the Governor to the Los Angeles County Board of Super- the vacancy in 1954; resumed the practice of law; died invisors, and served from June 1979 until December 1980; Cleveland, Ohio, December 5, 1971; interment in Calvaryresumed the practice of law in Los Angeles; is a resident of Cemetery. Los Angeles, Calif. BURKE, Thomas Henry, a Representative from Ohio; BURKETT, Elmer Jacob, a Representative and a Senator born in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, May 6, 1904; attendedfrom Nebraska; born on a farm near Glenwood, Mills St. Patrick's grade school and St. John's College in Toledo,County, Iowa, December 1, 1867; attended the public schools; Ohio; served in the United States Navy as pharmacist'swas graduated from Tabor (Iowa) College in 1890 and from mate 1923-1927 and in the Naval Fleet Reserve 1927-1939;the law department of the University of Nebraska at Lin- worked for Dana Corp., Toledo, Ohio, 1928-1937; official ofcoln in 1893; principal of the Leigh, Nebr., public schools United Automobile Workers' Union 1938-1948; member of1890-1892; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced the Ohio State house of representatives in 1941 and 1942;practice in Lincoln, Nebr.; trustee of Tabor College 1895- member of Toledo city council 1944-1948; vicemayor of1905; member, State house of representatives 1896-1898; Toledo in 1948; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-firstelected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and

Congress (January 3, 1949-January 3,1951); unsuccessfulFifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1905); re-- candidate for reelection in 1950 to the Eighty-second Con- elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress, but resigned, effective gress; labor and manpower adviser in the National Produc- March 4, 1905, to become Senator; elected as a Republican to tion Authority in 1951; unsuccessful candidate for election inthe United States Senate and served from March 4, 1905, to 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress; moved to Alexandria, Va.;March 3, 1911; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in legislativerepresentative,United AutomobileWorkers'1910; chairman, Committee on Indian Depredations (Fifty- Union; died in Arlington, Va., September 12, 1959; inter-ninth Congress); Committee on Pacific Railroads (Fifty-ninth ment in Arlington National Cemetery. through Sixty-first Congresses); resumed the practice of law BURKE, William Joseph, a Representative from Pennsyl-in Lincoln, Nebr.; declined the candidacy for Governor of vania; born near London, England, September 25, 1862; im-Nebraska in 1912; was an unsuccessful candidate for the migrated to the United States in 1866 with his parents, whoVice Presidential nomination in 1912; died in Lincoln, Nebr., settled in Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, Pa.; attended theMay 23, 1935; interment in the Wyuka Cemetery. public schools; employed in the coal mines at the age of BURKHALTER, Everett Glen, a Representative from Cali- twelve; entered the railroad service in 1878 with residence infornia; born in Heber Springs, Cleburne County, Ark., Jan- Pittsburgh, Pa.; was a member of the Allegheny Commonuray 19, 1897; attended the public schools in Arkansas, mdi- Biographies 707 ana, Colorado, and Californiaelectrical and illuminatingattended the public schools; served as a private in theAroos- engineer in the motion picture industry; enlisted in thetook War in 1839; studied medicine in Burlington, Vt.,and United States Navy, 1918, honorable discharge 1919, activeNew York City, and commenced practice inRichmond, reserve until 1921; member, California Stateassembly, 1942-Maine; moved to Kittanning, Pa., in 1852; continuedthe 1952; delegate to the electoral college, 1946; appointed to thepractice of medicine and studied law; Indian agent at Green- California State legislative commission, American Legion;wood, Dak., 1861-1865; elected as a Republican to theThirty- elected to the Los Angeles City Council, and served threeninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, 1865-March3, terms, 1952-1962; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth1869); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in1868 to the Congress (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1965); was not a candi-Forty-first Congress; member of the Dakota Territorial coun- date for renomination in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress;cil in 1877; engaged as a contractor and in agricultural retired and resided in North Hollywood, Calif.; died inpursuits; moved to Miles City, Mont., in 1879 and practiced Duarte, Calif., May 24, 1975; interment in Forest Lawn Me-law; member of the special session of the Montana Territori- morial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Calif. al council in 1887; delegate to the State conventionthat framed the constitution of Montana in 1889; memberof the BURLEIGH, Edwin Chick, a Representative and a Sena-first State house of representatives; prosecuting attorneyof tor from Maine; born in Linneus, Aroostook County,Maine,Custer County in 1889 and 1890; returned to SouthDakota November 27, 1843; attended the common schools and wasin 1893; served in the State senate in 1893;resumed the graduated from the Houlton (Maine) Academy; taughtpractice of law; died in Yankton, Yankton County, S.Dak., school; clerk in the adjutant general's office; surveyor and farmer; clerk in the State land office at Bangor 1870-1876;March 7, 1896; interment in Yankton Cemetery. moved to Augusta in 1876; State land agent 1876-1878; as- BURLEIGH, William (father of John Holmes Burleigh), a sistant clerk in the State house of representatives in1878;Representative from Maine; born in Northwood, Rocking- clerk in the office of the State treasurer 1880-1884; Stateham County, N.H., October 24, 1785; moved with his parents treasurer 1884-1888; became principal owner of the Kenne-to Gilmanton, N.H., in 1788; attended the commonschools bec Journal in 1887; Governor of Maine 1889-1892; electedand taught for several years; studied law; was admitted to as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress in1897 to fill thethe bar in 1815 and commenced practice in SouthBerwick, vacancy caused by the death of Seth L. Milliken;reelected toMaine; elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenti- the Fifty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congressesandeth Congresses and served from March 4, 1823,until his served from June 21, 1897, to March 3, 1911; unsuccessfuldeath in South Berwick, York County, Maine, July2, 1827; candidate for reelection in 1910; resumed newspaper publish-chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Departmentof ing in Augusta, Maine, and the management of timberlands;the Treasury (Nineteenth Congress); interment inPortland elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1913, until his death in Augusta,Street Cemetery. Maine, June 16, 1916; interment in Forest Grove Cemetery. BURLESON, Albert Sidney, a Representative from Texas; Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Edwin C. Burleigh. born in San Marcos, Hays County, Tex., June 7,1863; at- 64th Cong., 2nd sess., 1916-1917. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing tended the public schools and Coronal Institute,San Marcos, Office, 1917. Tex., and the Agricultural and MechanicalCollege, College BURLEIGH, Henry Gordon, a Representative from NewStation, Tex.; was graduated from Baylor University,Waco, York; born in Canaan Grafton County, N.H., June 2, 1832;Tex., in 1881 and from the law departmentof the University attended the common schools; moved to New York in 1846of Texas at Austin in 1884; was admitted tothe bar in 1884 with his parents, who settled in Ticonderoga, Essex County;and commenced practice in Austin, Travis County,Tex., in engaged in the mining of iron ore and in the lumber, coal, 1885; assistant city attorney of Austin 1885-1890;served as and transportation business; supervisor of the town of Ticon-district attorney of the twenty-sixth judicialdistrict 1891- deroga in 1864 and 1865; moved to Whitehall, Washington1898; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixthand to the County, N.Y., in 1867; member of the State assembly inseven succeeding Congresses andserved from March 4, 1899, 1876; delegate to the Republican National Conventions inuntil March 6, 1913, when he resigned to becomePostmaster 1880, 1884, 1888, 1892, and 1896; elected as a Republican toGeneral in the Cabinet of President Wilson;served from the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 7, 1913, to March 4, 1921, when he retiredfrom March 3, 1887); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 public life; chairman of the United States Telegraphand to the Fiftieth Congress; died in Whitehall, N.Y., August10, Telephone Administration in 1918; chairman ofthe United 1900; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Ticonderoga, N.Y.States Commission to the International WireCommunica- tion Conference in 1920; returned to Austin,Tex., and en- BURLEIGH, John Holmes (son of William Burleigh), agaged in banking; also interested inagricultural pursuits Representative from Maine; born in South Berwick, Yorkand the raising of livestock; died in Austin, Tex.,November County, Maine, October 9, 1822; attended the local academy;24, 1937; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. became a sailor when sixteen years of age and commanded a Bibliography: DAB; Anderson, Adrian N. "Albert Sidney Burleson: A ship on foreign voyages from 1846 until 1853 when he en- Southern Politician in the Progressive Era." Ph.D. diss"rtation,Texas Tech gaged in woolen manufacturing at South Berwick, Maine; University,1967; Anderson, Adrian N."President Wilson'sPolitician: also engaged in banking; member of the State houseofAlbert Sidney Burleson of Texas." Southwestern HistoricalQuarterly 77

representatives in 1862, 1864, 1866, and again in 1872;dele-- (January 1974): 339-54. gate to the Republican National Conventionin 1864; elected BURLESON, Omar Truman, a Representativefrom as a Republican to theForty-third and Forty-fourth Con-Texas; born in Anson, Jones County, Tex., March19, 1906; gresses (March 4, 1873-March 3,1877); was an unsuccessfulattended the public schools, Abilene Christian College,and candidate for renomination in 1876; resumed his formerHardin-Simmons University at Abilene, Tex.; wasgraduated manufacturing pursuits; died in South Berwick, Maine, De-from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.,in 1929; was cember 5, 1877; interment in the Portland Street Cemetery.admitted to the bar the same year and commencedpractice BURLEIGH, Walter Atwood, a Delegate from the Terri-in Gorman, Tex.; county attorney of JonesCounty, Tex., tory of Dakota; born in Waterville, Maine,October 25, 1820; 1931-1934; judge of Jones County, Tex., 1934-1940; special 708 Biographical Directory

agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1940 and BURNES, Daniel Dee, a Representative from Missouri; 1941; secretary to Congressman Sam Russell ofTexas in born in Ringgold, Platte County, Mo., January 4, 1851;re-- 1941 and 1942; general counsel for the HousingAuthority, District of Columbia, in 1942; served in the United Statesceived his early schooling at Weston, Mo.; was graduated Navy from December 1942 to April 1946, with service in thefrom St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo., in 1873 and from South Pacific Theater; elected as a Democrat to the Eighti-the law department of Harvard University in 1874; went to eth Congress; reelected to the fifteen succeeding CongressesGermany and studied at Heidelberg University; returned to and served from January 3, 1947, until his resignation De-the United States and settled in St. Joseph, Mo., where he cember 31, 1978; chairman, Committeeon House Adminis-engaged in the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the tration (Eighty-fourth through Ninetieth Congresses), JointFifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); declined Committee on the Library (Eighty-fourth through Ninetiethto be a candidate for reelection in 1894; resumed the prac- Congresses), Joint Committee on Printing (Eighty-fourthtice of law; died on his estate, "Ayr Lawn," at St., Joseph, Congress); was not a candidate for reelection in 1978to theBuchanan County, Mo., November 2, 1899; interment in Ninety-sixth Congress; is a resident of Abilene, Tex. Mount Mora Cemetery. BURLINGAME, Anson, a Representative from Massachu- BURNES, James Nelson, a Representative from Missouri; setts; born in New Berlin, N.Y., November 14, 1820; movedborn in Marion County, md., August 22, 1827; moved with with his parents to Seneca County, Ohio, in 1823, and tohis parents to Platte County, Mo., in 1837; attended the Detroit, Mich., in 1833; attended private schools and thecommon schools; was graduated from the Harvard Law Detroit branch of the University of Michigan; was graduatedSchool in 1853; was admitted to the bar and commenced from the law department of Harvard University in 1846;was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Boston;practice in Missouri; attorney of the district of Missouri in served in the State senate in 1852; member of the Massachu- 1856; judge of the court of common pleas 1868-1872; engaged setts constitutional convention in 1853; elected asa candi- in banking and the construction of railroads; servedas presi- date of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congressdent of the Missouri Valley Railroad Co.; principal owner and as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixthand president of the St. Joseph Waterworks Co.; electedas a Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1861); unsuccessfulcan-Democrat to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Con- didate for reelection in 1860 to the Thirty-seventh Congress;gresses and served from March 4, 1883, until his death; had appointed Minister to Austria March 22, 1861, butwas notbeen reelected to the Fifty-first Congress, but died in Wash- accepted by the Austrian Government because of certainington, D.C. on January 23, 1889, before the commencement

opinions he was known to entertain regarding Hungary andof the congressional term; interment in Mount Mora Ceme-- Sardinia; Minister to China from June 14, 1861, to Novem-tery, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Mo. ber 21, 1867; appointed December 1, 1867, by the Chinese Government its ambassador to negotiate treaties with for- BURNET, Jacob (son of William Burnet), a Senator from eign powers; died in St. Petersburg, Russia, February 23,Ohio; born in Newark, N.J., February 22, 1770; pursued 1870; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge,preparatory studies; was graduated from the College of New Mass. Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1791; studied law; was Bibliography: DAB; Anderson, David L ": Reformer admitted to the bar in 1796 and commenced practice in and Diplomat." Civil War History 25 (December 1979): 293-308; Williams, Cincinnati, Ohio; one of three judges appointed to hold court Frederick Wells. Anson Burlingarne and the First Chinese Mission to For- in Cincinnati, Vincennes, and Detroit; member, Territorial eign Powers. New York: Russell & Russell, 1972.

councils of Ohio 1799-1802; member, State house of repre-- BURLISON, William Dean, a Representative from Mis- sentatives 1814-1816; appointed judge of the Ohio Supreme souri; born in Wardell, Pemscot County, Mo., March 15,Court in 1821 and served until his resignation in December 1933; B.A., Southeast Missouri State University, 1953; B.S.,1828; elected to the United States Senate to ifil the vacancy same university, 1959; M.Ed. and LL.B., University of Mis-caused by the resignation of William H. Harrison and served souri 1956; admitted to practice before United States Su-from December 10, 1828, to March 3, 1831; was not a candi- preme Court, United States Court of Military Appeals,date for renomination in 1831; member of the commission United States District Court, and all Missouri courts; presi-appointed in 1831 by the States of Virginia and Kentucky to dent, Missouri Prosecuting Attorneys Association; assistantsettle their controversy over the statute of limitation passed attorney general of Missouri, 1960-1962; prosecuting attor-by Kentucky; resumed the practice of law; president of the ney, Cape Girardeau County, for three terms; Head GeneralCincinnati College and the Medical College of Ohio; presi- Courts-MartialTrialCounsel, Second Marine Division,dent of the Cincinnati branch of the United States Bank; United States Marine Corps.;instructor, business law, Southeast Missouri State College; delegate, Democratic Na-died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 10, 1853; interment in tional Convention, 1964; elected as a Democrat to theSpring Grove Cemetery. Ninety-first and to the five succeeding Congresses (January Bibliography: DAB. 3, 1969-January 3, 1981); unsuccessful candidate for reelec- BURNET, William (father of Jacob Burnet), a Delegate tion in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress; resumed thefrom New Jersey; born in Newark, N.J., December 2, 1730; practice of law; is a resident of Crofton, Md. was graduated from Princeton College in 1749; studied medi- BURNELL, Barker, a Representative from Massachusetts;cine in New York and commenced practice in Newark; born in Nantucket, Mass., January 30, 1798; member of thechairman of the committee of public safety in Newark in State house of representatives in 1819; member of the Mas-1775; superintendent of a military hospital in Newark in sachusetts Constitutional convention in 1820; served in the1775; surgeon general of the eastern district of the United State senate in 1824 and 1825; delegate to the Whig NationalStates 1776-1783; returned to Newark and engaged in agri- Convention in 1840; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventhcultural pursuits; appointed presiding judge of the court of and Twenty-eighth Congresses and served from March 4,common pleas by the State legislature in 1776; Member of 1841, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 15, 1843;the Continental Congress from December 11, 1780, to April interment in Congressional Cemetery; reinterment in Pros-1, 1781, when he resigned; first judge of Essex County in pect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, Mass., in 1844. 1781; president of the State medical society in 1787; died in Biographies 709

Newark, N.J., October 7, 1791; interment in the First Pres-by the death of John A. Martin and served from November byterian Churchyard. 5, 1940, to January 3, 1941; was not a candidate for election Bibliography: DAB. to the full term in the Seventy-seventh Congress; was called to active duty in the Army as a major in January 1942 and BURNE11, Edward, a Representative from Massachu- October setts; born in Boston, Mass., March 16, 1849; attended St.was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in Paul's School; was graduated from St. Mark's School, South-1942; returned to the United States from India and took boro, Mass., in 1867 and from Harvard University in 1871;command of Camp Ross in May 1945; left the service in engaged in agricultural pursuits near Southboro, Mass.;December 1945 with the rank of colonel; resumed the life elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4,insurance business until his retirement; died in Denver, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inCob., January 29, 1969; interment in Fairmount Cemetery. 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; general manager of Flosham BURNHAM, Alfred Avery, a Representative from Con- Farms, Madison, N.J., 1892-1900; became engaged as a farmnecticut; born in Windham, Windham County, Coun., on architect in New York City from 1900 to 1925; died inMarch 8, 1819; completed a preparatory course and attended Milton, Mass., November 5, 1925; interment in St. Mark'scollege one year; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Churchyard, Southboro, Mass. 1843 and commenced practice in Windham; member of the BURNE'1'I, Henry Cornelius, a Representative from Ken-State house of representatives in 1844, 1845, 1850, and 1858, tucky; born in Essex County, Va., October 5, 1825; movedserving as speaker in 1858; clerk of the State senate in 1847; with his parents to Kentucky in early childhood; attendedLieutenant Governor in 1857; elected as a Republican to the the common schools and an academy at Hopkinsville, Chris-Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1859- tian County; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1847March 3, 1863); was not a candidate for renomination in and commenced practice in Cadiz, Ky.; clerk of the Trigg1862; again a member of the State house of representatives County circuit court 1851-1853; elected as a Democrat to thein 1870 and served as speaker; died in Windham, Conn., Thirty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses andApril 11, 1879; interment in Windham Cemetery, Windham served from March 4, 1855, to December 3, 1861, when heCenter, Conn. was expelled for support of secession; colonel of the Eighth Regiment, Kentucky Infantry, in the Confederate Army BURNHAM, George, a Representative from California; during the Civil War; president of the Kentucky Southern born in London, England, December 28, 1868; attended the Conference in Russeilville, October 29, 1861, and of the sov-public schools; immigrated in 1881 to the United States with ereignty convention in Russeilville, November 18, whichhis parents, who settled in Spring Valley, Minn.; employed passed an ordinance of secession and organized a State gov-as a clerk 1884-1886; moved to Jackson, Minn., in 1887 and ernment; Representative from Kentucky to the Provisionalengaged in the retail shoe business until 1901, when he Confederate Congress and served from November 18, 1861,moved to Spokane, Wash., and engaged in the real-estate to February 17, 1862; elected as a Senator from Kentucky tobusiness and in ranching; moved to San Diego, Calif., in 1903 the First and Second Confederate Congresses and servedand continued in the real estate business until 1917 when he from February 19, 1862, to February 18, 1865; resumed thetook up banking; one of the organizers of the Panama-Cali- practice of law; died in Hopkinsville, Ky., October 1, 1866;fornia Exposition in 1909, serving as vice president from interment in East End Cemetery, Cadiz, Trigg County, Ky.1909 to 1916; member of the Honorary Commercial Commis- Bibliography: Craig, Berry F. "Henry Cornelius Burnett: Champion ofsion to China in 1910; member of the San Diego Library Southern Rights." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 77 (Autumn Commission 1926-1932 and of the San Diego Scientific Li- 1979): 266-74. brary 1926-1932; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- BURNEfl', John Lawson, a Representative from Ala-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January bama; born in Cedar Bluff, Cherokee County, Ala., January3, 1937); was not a candidate for renomination in 1936; vice 20, 1854; attended the common schools of the county, Wes-president of the California-Pacific International Exposition leyan Institute, Cave Spring, Ga., and the local high school1935-1936; retired and resided in San Diego, Calif., until his at Gaylesville, Ala.; studied law and was graduated fromdeath there on June 28, 1939; interment in Greenwood Ca- Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; was admitted to thethedral Mausoleum, Greenwood Memorial Park. bar in Cherokee County, Ala., in 1876 and commenced prac- BURNHAM, Henry Eben, a Senator from New Hamp- tice in Gadsden; served in the State house of representativesshire; born in Dunbarton, Merrimack County, N.H., Novem- in 1884; member of the State senate in 1886; elected as aber 8, 1844; attended the public schools and Kimball Union Democrat to the Fifty-sixth and to the ten succeeding Con- Academy; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, gresses and served from March 4, 1899, until his death;N.H., in 1865; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1868 chairman, Committee on Immigration and Naturalizationand commenced practice in Manchester; was engaged in (Sixty-second through Sixty-fifth Congresses); member of thebanking and insurance; member, State house of representa- United States Immigration Commission 1907-1910; died intives 1873-1874; treasurer of Hillsboro County 1875-1877; Gadsden, Etowah County, Ala., May 13, 1919; interment injudge of probate for Hillsboro County 1876-1879; member of Forest Cemetery. the constitutional convention of 1889; chairman of the Re- BURNEY, William Evans, a Representative from Colora-publican State convention in 1888; served as ballot-law com- do; born in Hubbard, Hill County, Tex., September 11, 1893;missioner 1892-1900; elected as a Republican to the United attended the public schools in Texas and the University ofStates Senate in 1901; reelected in 1907 and served from New Mexico at Albuquerque; during the First World WarMarch 4, 1901, to March 3, 1913; was not a candidate for served in the United States Navy; moved to Pueblo, Cob., inreelection; chairman, Committee on Cuban Relations (Fifty- 1924 and engaged in the life insurance business until 1942;eighth through Sixtieth Congresses), Committee on Claims member of the Pueblo board of education 1937-1943;(Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Agriculture and Forest- member of the United States Army Reserve Corps 1924-ry (Sixty-second Congress); resumed thepractice of law; died 1942, serving in all grades up to major; elected as a Demo-in Manchester, N.H., February 8, 1917; interment in Pine crat to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy causedGrove Cemetery. 710 Biographical Directory

BURNS, John Anthony, a Delegate from the Territory ofenth Congress); interment in Swan Point Cemetery, Provi- Hawaii; born in Fort Assinneboine, Mont., March 30, 1909;dence, R.I. resident of Hawaii since May 30, 1913; attended school in Bibliography: DAB; Poore, Benjamin. Life and Public Service of Ambrose Honolulu and Kansas; attended the University of Hawaii in Burnside. Providence, RI.: J.A. and R.A. Reid, 1882; Thomas, Donna. "Am- 1930 and 1931; police officer, city and county of Honolulu, brose E. Burnside and Army Reform." Rhode Island History 37 (February 1934-1945; chairman, Traffic Safety Commission, city and 1978): 3-13. county of Honolulu, 1950-1954; president of Burns & Co., BURNSIDE, Maurice Gwinn, a Representative from West Ltd., real-estate broker; Honolulu Civil Defense Administra-Virginia; born near Columbia, Richland County, S.C., August tor 1951-1955; delegate to the Democratic National Conven-23, 1902; attended the public schools of South Carolina; stu- tions in 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968; chairman of Hono-dent at The Citadel, Charleston, S.C., 1920-1922; graduated lulu County Democratic Committee 1948-1952; chairman offrom Furman University Law School, Greenville, S.C., in Territorial Democratic Central Committee 1952-1956; elect-1926; M.A. in Latin American relations, University of Texas ed as a Democrat a Delegate to the Eighty-fifth and to theat Austin, 1928; studied and traveled in Europe and Asia Eighty-sixth Congresses and served from January 3, 1957, to August 21, 1959, when Hawaii became a State in the Union;1928-1931; Ph.D., Duke University,1937;instructor in unsuccessful candidate for election as Governor of the StateGreenville (S.C.) High School in 1931 and 1932; purchaser of of Hawaii in 1959; real-estate broker; elected Governor, Staterare documents for Duke University Library, Durham, N.C., of Hawaii, in 1962, and reelected in 1966 and 1970; died in1933-1935; instructor in Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Honolulu, Hawaii, April 5, 1975; interment in PunchbowlAuburn in 1936 and 1937; professor of political science at National Cemetery. MarshallUniversity,Huntington,W.Va., 1937-1948; member of Parole and Probation Examination Board of West BURNS, Joseph, a Representative from Ohio; born inVirginia 1939-1941; chairman of Workers Education for Waynesboro, Augusta County, Va., March 11, 1800; moved toWest Virginia 1942-1945; elected as a Democrat to the Ohio with his parents, who settled in New Philadelphia inEighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1949- 1815, and near Coshocton, Coshocton County, in 1816; at-January 3, 1953); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in tended the rural schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits;1952 to the Eighty-third Congress; with the National Securi- auditor of Coshocton County 1821-1838; member of the Statety Agency, Washington, D.C., from February 20 to March 27, house of representatives 1838-1840; county clerk 1843-1851;1953; elected to the Eighty-fourth Congress (January 3, 1955- served as a major general in the State militia; elected as aJanuary 3, 1957); unsuccessful candidate for election in 1956 Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-Marchto the Eighty-fifth Congress; president of Tn-State Tobacco 3, 1859); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1858 to theWarehouses, Inc., since 1957; legislative representative in Thirty-sixth Congress; engaged in the drug business in Co- Washington, D.C., for National Education Association from shocton, Ohio; probate judge of Coshocton County; died in1959 to 1961; legislative liaison, Department of Defense, Coshocton, Ohio, May 12, 1875; interment in Oak Ridge Cem-1961-1968; author; is a resident of Wilson, N.C. etery. BURNSIDE, Thomas, a Representative from Pennsylva- BURNS, Robert, a Representative from New Hampshire;nia; born near Newton Stewart, County Tyrone, Ireland, born in Hudson, Hillsboro County, N.H., December 12, 1792;July 28, 1782; immigrated to the United States with his moved with his parents in childhood to Rumney, Graftonfather's family, who settled in Norristown, Montgomery County; studied medicine in Warren; taught school; attendedCounty, Pa., in 1793; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Dartmouth Medical School in 1815; returned to Warren and1804 and commenced practice inBellefonte; appointed commenced the practice of medicine; moved to Hebron, Graf-deputy attorney general January 12, 1809; served in the ton County, in 1818 and continued the practice of his profes-State senate in 1811 and 1812; elected as a Republican to the sion until 1835; fellow of the New Hampshire Medical Socie-Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ty in 1824; member of the State senate in 1831; elected as aof David Bard and served from October 10, 1815, to April Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congress-1816, when he resigned; appointed president judge of the es (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); continued the practice ofLuzerne district courts in 1815, and resigned in 1819; again a medicine in Plymouth, N.H., until his death June 26, 1866;member of the State senate and its presiding officer in 1823; interment in the churchyard of Trinity Church, Holderness,president judge of the fourth judicial district 1826-184 1 and Grafton County, N.H. later presided in the same capacity over the seventh judicial BURNSIDE, Ambrose Everett, a Senator from Rhodedistrict; appointed an associate justice of the supreme court Island; born in Liberty, md., May 23, 1824; attended a semi-of Pennsylvania in 1845, which office he held until his death nary at Liberty and Beach Grove Academy; was graduatedin Germantown, Pa., March 25, 1851; interment in Union from the United States Military Academy at West Point inCemetery, Bellefonte, Centre County, Pa. 1847; served in the Mexican and Indian wars; resigned in BURR, Aaron (cousin of Theodore Dwight), a Senator 1852 to manufacture a breech-loading rifle of his own inven-from New York and a Vice President of the United States; tion; moved to Illinois, and was appointed treasurer of theborn in Newark, N.J., February 6, 1756; was graduated from Illinois Central Railroad in 1858; during the Civil War en-the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in tered the Union Army in 1861 as colonel; commanded a1772; studied theology but soon abandoned it for the law; brigade at the first Battle of Bull Run; commissioned briga-during the Revolutionary War entered the Continental dier general and major general and resigned in 1865; Gover-Army 1775-1779; was admitted to the bar in 1782 and prac- nor of Rhode Island 1866-1868; during a visit to Europe inticed in Albany, N.Y.; moved to New York City in 1783; 1870 acted as mediator between the French and the Ger-member, State assembly 1784-1785, 1798-1799; attorney gen- mans then at war; elected as a Republican to the Unitederal of New York 1789-1790; commissioner of Revolutionary States Senate in 1874; reelected in 1880 and served fromclaims in 1791; elected as a Democrat to the United States March 4, 1875, until his death in Bristol, R.I., September 13,Senate and served from March 4, 1791, to March 3, 1797; 1881; chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Forty-unsuccessful candidate for reelection; president of the State fifth Congress), Committee on Foreign Relations (Forty-sev-constitutional convention in 1801; in the presidential elec- Biographies 711 tion of 1801, Burr and Thomas Jefferson each had seventy-N.H., February 6, 1870; attended the public schools, and was three votes, and the House of Representatives on the thirty-graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1894; sixth ballot elected Jefferson President and Burr Vice Presi-private secretary to Congressman Henry M. Baker, 1894- dent; challenged and mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton1897; was graduated from the law school of Columbian Col- in a duel fought at Weehawken, N.J., July 11, 1804; thelege (now George Washington University), Washington, D.C., coroner's jury returned a verdict of murder, Burr escaped toin 1896; was admitted to the bar in 1896 and commenced South Carolina, then returned to Washington and completedpractice in Manchester, N.H., in 1897; member of the State his term of service as Vice President; arrested and tried forhouse of representatives in 1901 and 1902; member of the treason in August 1807 for attempting to form a republic inState board of charities and corrections 1901-1907; member the Southwest of which he was to be the head, but wasof the State board of equalization in 1909 and 1910; elected acquitted; went abroad in 1808; returned to New York Cityas a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress on May 29, 1917, in 1812 and resumed the practice of law; died in Port Rich-to ifil the vacancy caused by the death of Cyrus A. Sulloway; mond, Staten Island, N.Y., September 14, 1836; interment in the President's lot, Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, N.J. reelected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses Bibliography: DAB; Burr, Aaron.The Political Correspondence andand served from June 7, 1917, until his death; declined to be Public Papers of Aaron Burr. Edited by Mary-Jo Kline. 2 vols. Princeton: a candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighthCon- Princeton University Press, 1983; Parmet, Herbert S., and Hecht, Marie. gress; died in Washington, D.C., January 27, 1923; interment Aaron Burr: Portrait of an Ambitious Man. New York: Macmillan Press, in Valley Cemetery, Manchester, N.H. 1967. BURROUGHS, Silas Mainville, a Representative from BURR, Albert George, a Representative from Illinois; bornNew York; born in Ovid, N.Y., July 16, 1810; completed a near Batavia, Genesee County, N.Y., November 8,1829; preparatory course; village clerk of Medina, Orleans County, moved to Illinois with his mother, who settled near Spring-N.Y., in 1835; village trustee in 1836 and 1839-1843; studied field, Sangamon County, in 1830; completed preparatorylaw; was admitted to the bar in Orleans County in 1840 and studies; taught school for several years at Vandalia, Ill.;commenced practice in Medina; again trustee of Medina moved to Winchester, Scott County, in 1850 and engaged in1845-1847; village attorney 1845-1847; served as brigadier mercantile pursuits; studied law; was admitted to the bar ingeneral in the New York State Militia 1848-1858; member of 1856 and commenced practice in Winchester; member of thethe State assembly in 1837, 1850, 1851, and 1853; elected as a State house of representatives 1861-1864; moved to Carroll- ton, Greene County, in 1868 and continued the practice ofRepublican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses law; member of the State constitutional convention in 1870;and served from March 4, 1857, until his death in Medina, elected as a Democrat to the Fortieth and Forty-first Con-N.Y., June 3, 1860; interment in Boxwood Cemetery. gresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1871); was not a candidate BURROWS, Daniel (uncle of Lorenzo Burrows), a Repre-- for renomination in 1870; resumed the practice of law insentative from Connecticut; born at Fort Hill, Groton, Conn., Carroilton, Ill.; elected circuit judge of the seventh judicialOctober 26, 1766; pursued preparatory studies; engaged in circuit in 1877 and served until his death; died in Carroliton,the manufacture of carriages and wagons at New London, Ill., June 10, 1882; interment in the Carroliton Cemetery.Conn.; studied theology; was ordained as a minister of the BURRELL, Orlando, a Representative from Illinois; bornMethodist Church; member of the State house of representa- in Newton, Bradford County, Pa., July 26, 1826; moved withtives 1816-1820 and in 1826; delegate to the State constitu- his parents to White County, Ill., in 1834; attended thetional convention in 1818; one of the commissioners to estab- common schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; duringlish the boundary line between the States of Connecticut the Civil War raised a company of Cavalry in June 1861,and Massachusetts; elected to the Seventeenth Congress was elected its captain, and was attached to the First Regi-(March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823); was not a candidate for ment, Illinois Volunteer Cavalry; judge of White Countyrenomination in 1822; resident of Middletown, Conn., 1823- 1873-1881; sheriff of White County 1892-1894; delegate to1854; surveyor and inspector of customs for the port of Mid- the Republican National Convention at Minneapolis in 1892;dietown 1823-1847; died in Mystic, New London County, elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (MarchConn., January 23, 1858; interment in Elm Grove Cemetery. 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; retired from public life BURROWS, Joseph Henry, a Representative from Missou- and resumed his agricultural pursuits; died in Carmi, Whiteri; born in Manchester, England, May 15, 1840; immigrated County, Ill., June 7, 1921; interment in Maple Ridge Ceme-to the United States with his parents, who settled in Quincy, tery. Ill.;attended the common schools at Quincy,Ill., and Keokuk, Iowa; engaged in mercantile pursuits and later in BURRILL, James, Jr.(great-grandfather of Theodoreagricultural pursuits; moved to Cainsville, Harrison County, Francis Green), a Senator from Rhode Island; born in Provi-Mo., in 1862; was ordained as a minister in Cainsville in dence, R.I., April 25, 1772; was graduated from Rhode Island1867; member of the State house of representatives 1870- College (now Brown University) at Providence in 1788; stud-1874 and 1878-1880; elected as a Greenbacker to the Forty- ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1791 and commencedseventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); unsuccess- practice in Providence; attorney general of Rhode Islandful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Con- 1797-1814; member, State house of representatives 1813-gress; resumed ministerial duties and also engaged inagri- 1816 and served as speaker 1814-1816; chief justice of the State supreme court in 1816; elected to the United Statescultural pursuits; died in Cainsville, Mo., April 28, 1914; Senate and served from March 4, 1817, until his death ininterment in Oak Lawn Cemetery, near Cainsville. Washington, D.C., December 25, 1820; chairman, Committee BURROWS, Julius Caesar, a Representative and a Sena- on Judiciary (Fifteenth Congress);funeral services were heldtor from Michigan; born in North East, Erie County, Pa., in the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment inJanuary 9,1837; moved with his parents to Ashtabula Congressional Cemetery. County, Ohio; attended district school, Kingsville Academy, Bibliography: DAB. and Grand River Institute, Austinburg, Ohio; studied law; BURROUGHS, Sherman Everett, a Representative fromwas admitted to the bar at Jefferson, Ohio, in1859; moved to New Hampshire; born in Dunbarton, Merrimack County,Richland, Kalamazoo County, Mich., in 1860; principal of the 712 Biographical Directory

Richiand Seminary; commenced the practice of law in Kala-Colorado Springs, Cob., August 7, 1953; interment in So- mazoo in 1861; raised an infantry company in 1862; servedcorro Protestant Cemetery, Socorro, N.Mex. as its captain until the fall of 1863; elected circuit court Bibliography: Moorman, Donald R. "A Political Biography of Holm 0. commissioner in 1864; prosecuting attorney for Kalamazoo Bursum, 1899-1924." Ph.D. dissertation, University of New Mexico, 1962. County 1866-1870; declined appointment as supervisor of internal revenue for Michigan and Wisconsin in 1868; elect- BURT, Armistead, a Representative from South Carolina; ed as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4,born at Clouds Creek, near Edgefield, Edgefield District, 1873-March 3, 1875); chairman, Committee on ExpendituresS.C., November 13, 1802; moved with his parents to Pendle- in the Department of the Navy (Forty-third Congress); un-ton, S.C.; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was successful candidate for reelection in 1874; elected to theadmitted to the bar in 1823 and practiced in Pendleton; Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-moved to Abbeville, S.C., in 1828 and continued the practice March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Territories (Forty-of law; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inSouth Carolina house of representatives, 1834-1835, and 1882; elected a Republican to the Forty-ninth and to the five 1838-1841; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1885, untilto the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, his resignation on January 23, 1895, having been elected 1853); chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Thirty-first Senator; chairman, Committee on Levees and Improvementsand Thirty-second Congresses); served as Speaker pro tempo- of Mississippi River (Fifty-first Congress); elected as a Repub-re of the House of Representatives during the absence of lican to the United States Senate to if! the vacancy causedSpeaker Winthrop in 1848; was not a candidate for renomi- by the death of Francis B. Stockbridge; reelected in 1899 andnation in 1852; resumed the practice of law in Abbeville; 1905 and served from January 24, 1895, to March 3, 1911;delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1868; unsuccessful candidate for renomination; chairman, Commit-died in Abbeville, S.C., October 30, 1883; interment in Epis- tee on Revision of the Laws of the United States (Fifty-copal Cemetery. fourth through Fifty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Privi- BURTNESS, Olger Burton, a Representative from North leges and Elections (Fifty-seventh through Sixty-first Con-Dakota; born on a farm near Mekinock, Grand Forks gresses); member of the National Monetary Commission andCounty, N.Dak., March 14,1884; attended the country its vice chairman 1908-1912; retired from active businessschool; was graduated from the academic department of the pursuits and political life; died in Kalamazoo, Mich., Novem- ber 16, 1915; interment in Mountain Home Cemetery. University of North Dakota at Grand Forks in 1906 and Bibliography: DAB; Holsinger, M. Paul. "J.C. Burrows and the Fight from its law department in 1907; was admitted to the bar Against Mormonism, 1903-1907." Michigan History 52 (Fall 1968): 181-95; the same year and commenced practice in Grand Forks; Orcutt, Dana. Burrows of Michigan and the Republican Party. New York: prosecuting attorney of Grand Forks County 1911-19 16; dele- Longmans, Green and Company, 1917. gate to the Republican National Conventions in 1916, 1936, and 1948; member of the State house of representatives in BURROWS, Lorenzo (nephew of Daniel Burrows), a Rep-1919 and 1920; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh resentative from New York; born in Groton, Conn., Marchand to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 15, 1805; attended the academies at Plainfield, Conn., and3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; Westerly, R.I.; moved to New York and settled in Albion,resumed the practice of law; city attorncy of Grand Forks, Orleans County, in 1824; employed as a clerk until 1826,N.Dak., in 1936 and 1937; judge of the first judicial district when he engaged in mercantile pursuits; assisted in estab-of North Dakota from November 1950 until his death; died lishing the Bank of Albion in 1839, and served as cashier;in Grand Forks, N.Dak., January 20, 1960; interment in treasurer of Orleans County in 1840; assignee in bankruptcyMemorial Park Cemetery. for Orleans County in 1841; supervisor of the town of Barre in 1845; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first and Thirty- BURTON, Charles Germman, a Representative from Mis- second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); comptrol-souri; born in Cleveland, Ohio, April 4, 1846; moved to ler of the State of New York 1855-1857; director and presi-Warren, Ohio, and attended the public schools; enlisted as a dent of the Niagara Falls International Bridge Co.; chosen aprivate September 7, 1861, in Company C, Nineteenth Regi- regent of the University of New York in 1858 and appointedment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served with the regi- one of the commissioners of Mount Albion Cemetery in 1862,ment until discharged October 29, 1862; corporal in Compa- serving in both of these capacities at the time of his death inny A, One Hundred and Seventy-first Regiment, Ohio Na- Albion, Orleans County, N.Y., March 6, 1885; interment intional Guard, during the "one hundred days' "campaign of Mount Albion Cemetery. 1864; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Warren, Ohio, in 1867; moved to Virgil City, Mo., in 1868, to Erie, Kans., in BURSUM, Hoim Olaf, a Senator from New Mexico; born1869, and Nevada, Vernon County, Mo., in 1871, where he at Fort Dodge, Webster County, Iowa, February 10, 1867;practiced law; circuit attorney and judge of the twenty-fifth attended the public schools; moved to New Mexico in 1881;circuit; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in settled near Socorro, Socorro County, and engaged in stock raising; member, Territorial senate 1899-1900; chairman of1884 and 1904; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth the Territorial central committee in 1905 and 1911; memberCongress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful candi- date for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; re-- of the State constitutional convention in 1910; member ofsumed the practice of law; collector of internal revenue at the Republican National Committee 1920-1924; appointed,Kansas City, Mo., 1907-1915; commander in chief of the and subsequently elected as a Republican to the UnitedGrand Army of the Republic in 1908; died in Kansas City, States Senate to if! the vacancy caused by the resignation ofMo., February 25, 1926; interment in Deepwood Cemetery, Albert B. Fall and served from March 11, 1921, to March 3, 1925; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924; chair-Nevada, Mo. man, Committee on Pensions (Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth BURTON, Clarence Godber, a Representative from Vir- Congresses) engaged in the newspaper business at Washing-ginia; born in Providence, R.I., December 14, 1886; moved ton, D.C., and subsequently returned to Socorro, N.Mex., andwith his parents to Lynchburg, Campbell County, Va., at an resumed his former business interests until his death inearly age; attended the public schools; was graduated from Biographies 713

Piedmont Business College, Lynchburg, Va.; engaged in the1898; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in hosiery manufacturing industry, becoming treasurer of a1896, 1900, and 1908; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- firm in 1907 and president in 1921; also engaged in cattleninth and Sixtieth Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, raising and banking; member of the Lynchburg School1909); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1908 to Board 1938-1943, serving as vice chairman; member of thethe Sixty-first Congress; resumed the practice of medicine in Lynchburg City Council 1942-1948, serving as mayor 1946-Lewes, Del.; director of Lewes National Bank; died in Lewes, 1948; elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth Congress onJune 17, 1927; interment in St. Paul's Episcopal Churchyard, November 2, 1948, to ifil the vacancy caused by the resigna-Georgetown, Sussex County, Del. tion of J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., and at the same time was elected to the Eighty-first Congress; reelected to the Eighty- BURTON, Hutchins Gordon (nephew of Robert Burton), a second Congress and served from November 2, 1948, to Janu-Representative from North Carolina; born in Virginia in ary 3, 1953; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to1782; when three years of age his father died and he was the Eighty-third Congress; chairman of board of Lynchburgsent to Granvifie County, where he was reared by his uncle, Hosiery Mifis, Inc.; member, Lynchburg Board of ZoningCol. Robert Burton; moved to Mecklenburg County, N.C., in Appeals, 1957-1977; director, American Federal Savings and1803; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1806 and Loan Association, 1924-1968, and chairman until 1980; re-practiced; member of the State house of commons in 1809; sided in Lynchburg, Va., until his death there on Januaryelected attorney general of North Carolina in 1810 and 18, 1982; interment in Spring Hill Cemetery. served until his resignation in November 1816; moved to Halifax, N.C., in 1816, and again elected a member àf the BURTON, Danny Lee, a Representative from Indiana;State house of commons in 1817; elected to the Sixteenth, born in Indianapolis, Marion County, md., June 21, 1938;Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Congresses and served from attended Indianapolis public schools; graduated, ShortridgeDecember 6, 1819, until March 23, 1824, when he resigned; High School, Indianapolis, 1956; attended Indiana Universi-Governor of North Carolina 1824-1827; resumed the practice ty, Indianapolis, 1958; Cincinnati Bible College, Cincinnati,of law in Halifax; was the host of General Lafayette when Ohio, 1959-1960; businessman; served, United States Army,the latter visited Raleigh during his tour of the United 1957-1958; elected, Indiana house of representatives, 1967-States in 1825; died while on a visit to relatives in Iredell 1968 and 1977-1980; member, , 1969-1972 andCounty, N.C., April 21, 1836; interment in Unity Church- 1981-1982; unsuccessful candidate for the United States Con-yard, Beattys Ford, Lincoln County, N.C. gress in 1970; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-eighth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983- Bibliography: DAB. January 3, 1989); is a resident of Indianapolis, md. BURTON, John Lowell, (brother of Phillip Burton), a Rep- resentative from California; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, De- BURTON, Harold Hitz, a Senator from Ohio; born in Ja-cember 15, 1932; attended the public schools of San Francis- maica Plain, Mass., June 22, 1888; attended the publicco; A.B., San Francisco State College, 1954; LL.B., University schools; was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick,of San Francisco Law School, 1960; served in the United Maine, in 1909 and from the law department of HarvardStates Army, 1954-1956; admitted to the California bar in University in 1912; was admitted to the bar in 1912 and1961 and commenced practice in San Francisco; member, commenced practice in Cleveland, Ohio; assistant attorneyCalifornia State legislature, 1965-1974; served as chairman, for a power company in Salt Lake City, Utah, 19 14-1916 andState assembly rules committee; chairman, joint rules com- attorney for a power company in Boise, Idaho, 1916-1917;mittee; also as chairman, health and welfare budget subcom- during the First World War served in the army as lieuten-mittee; chairman, California State Democratic Party, 1973- ant, and later as captain, in 1917 and 1918; resumed the 1974; cochairman, California delegation, Democratic Nation- practice of law in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1919; instructor inal Convention, 1972; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety- Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1923-1925;third Congress, by special election, June 4, 1974, to fill the member of the board of education of East Cleveland in 1928vacancy caused by the resignation of Representative William and 1929; member, State house of representatives 1929; di-S. Mailliard; reelected to the four succeeding Congresses and rector of law of Cleveland 1929-1932; mayor of Clevelandserved from June 4, 1974, to January 3, 1983; was not a 1935-1940; elected as a Republican to the United Statescandidate for reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Con- Senate in 1940 and served from January 3, 1941, until his California resignation on September 30, 1945; associate justice of thegress; resumed the practice of law; elected to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1945 until hisassembly from the sixteenth district in 1988; is a resident of retirement October 13, 1958; was a resident of Cleveland,San Francisco, Calif. Ohio; died in Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, BURTON, Joseph Ralph, a Senator from Kansas; born

D.C., October 28, 1964; cremated at Highland Park Ceme-- near Mitchell, Lawrence County, Ind., November 16, 1852; tery, Cleveland, Ohio. attended the common schools, Franklin (md.) College, and Bibliography: DAB; Hudon, Edward. The Occasional Papers of Mr. Jus- DePauw University at Greencastle; studied law; was admit- tice Burton. Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College, 1969. ted to the bar in 1875 and commenced practice in Princeton, BURTON, Hiram Rodney, a Representative from Dela-hid.; moved to Abilene, Dickinson County, Kans., in 1878; ware; born in Lewes, Sussex County, Del., November 13,member, State house of representatives 1882-1886; appoint- 1841; attended the public schools and St. Peter's Academy ated a member of the World's Fair Columbian Commission at Lewes; taught for two years in the schools of Sussex County;Chicago in 1893, representing Kansas; elected as a Republi- engaged in the dry goods business in Washington, D.C.,can to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1862-1865; was graduated from the medical department of1901, until June 4, 1906, when he resigned; chairman, Com- the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1868 andmittee on Forest Reservations and Game Protection (Fifty- practiced in Frankford, Del., from 1868 until 1872, when heseventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses); returned to Abilene, moved to Lewes, Del.; deputy collector of customs for theKans., and engaged in the newspaper business; died in Los port of Lewes 1877-1888; acting assistant surgeon in theAngeles, Calif., February 27, 1923; was cremated and the United States Marine Hospital Service 1890-1893, stationedashes deposited in the columbarium of the Los Angeles Cre-- at Lewes; unsuccessful candidate for the State senate inmatory Association. 714 Biographical Directory

BURTON, Laurence Junior, a Representative from Utah;cratic National Conventions, 1956, 1976, 1980, and 1984; born in Ogden, Weber County, Utah, October 30, 1926; grad-elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth Congress by uated from Ogden High School in 1944; enlisted in thespecial election June 21, 1983, to fill the vacancy caused by United States Navy Air Corps and served from January 1945the death of her husband, United States Representative to July 1946; graduated from Weber College at Ogden, Utah,Phillip Burton; reelected to the two succeeding Congresses in 1948, from the University of Utah at Salt Lake City inand served from June 21, 1983, until her death in Washing- 1951, and from Utah State University at Logan in 1956; tookton, D.C., February 1, 1987; was a resident of San Francisco; postgraduate work at Georgetown and George Washingtoninterment in the Presidio of San Francisco. Universities, Washington, D.C., in 1957 and 1958; public re- lations director and athletic manager at Weber College, BURTON, Theodore Elijah, a Representative and a Sena- 1948-1956; regional director for American College Public Re- tor from Ohio; born in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio, lations Association in 1954 and 1955; editor of NationalDecember 20, 1851; attended the public schools, Grand River Junior College Athletic Association magazine, 1951-1961;Institute, Austinburg, Ohio, and Iowa College, Grinnell, legislative assistant to U.S. Representative Henry AldousIowa; was graduated from Oberlin (Ohio) College in 1872; Dixon in 1957 and 1958; assistant professor of political sci-studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1875 and commenced ence at Weber College, 1958-1960; administrative assistantpractice in Cleveland, Ohio; elected as a Republican to the to Utah Governor George Dewey Clyde, 1960-1962; delegate,Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); unsuc- Republican National Convention, 1968; elected as a Republi-cessful candidate for reelection in 1890; declined to be a can to the Eighty-eighth and to the three succeeding Con-candidate for the Republican nomination to Congress in gresses (January 3, 1968-January 3, 1971); was not a candi-1892; elected to the Fifty-fourth and to the seven succeeding date for reelection in 1970, but was an unsuccessful nomineeCongresses and served from March 4, 1895, until his resigna- in 1970 to the United States Senate; is a resident of Ogden,tion, effective March 8, 1909, having been elected United Utah. States Senator; chairman, Committee on Rivers and Harbors (Fifty-sixth through Sixtieth Congresses); chosen a member BURTON, Philip (brother of John Lowell Burton andof the American group of the Interparliamentary Union in husband of Sala Burton), a Representative from California;1904; appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as chair- born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, June 1, 1926;man of the Inland Waterways Commission 1907-1908 and of moved to San Francisco with his parents in 1939; attendedthe National Waterways Commission 1908-19 12; member of the public schools of Cincinnati and San Francisco; B.A.,the National Monetary Commission 1908-1912; elected as a University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1947; LL.B.,Republican to the United States Senate and served from Golden Gate Law School, San Francisco, 1952; admitted toMarch 4, 1909, to March 3, 1915; was not a candidate for California bar the same year; engaged as an attorney at law;renomination in 1914; chairman, Committee on Expendi- admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Courttures in the Treasury Department (Sixty-first and Sixty- in 1956; veteran of the Second World War and the Koreansecond Congresses); engaged in banking in New York City; conflict, serving in the Air Force, and was discharged as a first lieutenant; member of the State assembly, 1956-1964;elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the three represented the United States at Treaty Asso-succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1921, until ciation Conference in France in 1959; delegate, Californiahis resignation on December 15, 1928; did not seek renomi- State Democratic convention, 1968-1982; delegate, Democrat-nation, having become a candidate for Senator; appointed by ic National Convention, 1968 and 1970; elected as a Demo-President Warren Harding as a member of the World War crat to the Eighty-eighth Congress, by special election, Feb-Debt Funding Commission in 1922; chairman of the United ruary 18, 1964, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignationStates delegation to the conference for the control of inter- of John F. Shelley; reelected to the ten succeeding Congress-national traffic in arms at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1925; es and served from February 18, 1964, until his death in Sanelected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill Francisco, Calif., April 10, 1983 (February 18, 1964-April 10, the vacancy caused by the death of Frank B Willis and served from December 15, 1928, until his death in Washing- 1983); cremated; ashes interred in the National Cemetery ofton, D.C., October 28, 1929; funeral services were held in the the Presidio of San Francisco. Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in Lake BURTON, Robert (uncle of Hutchins Gordon Burton), aView Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio. Delegate from North Carolina; born near Chase City, Meck- Bibliography: DAB; Crissey,Forrest.Theodore E.Burton, American lenburg County, Va., October 20, 1747; attended private Statesman. Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1956; Stay, Clarence. schools; moved to Granville County, N.C., in 1775; engaged "Theodore B. Burton on Navigation and Conservation: His Role as Chair- as a planter; served in the Revolutionary Army and as quar- man of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, 1898-1909." Ph.D. disserta- termaster general attained the rank of colonel; member oftion, Case Western Reserve University, 1975. the Governor's council in 1783 and 1784; Member of the BURWELL, William Armisted, a Representative from Continental Congress in 1787; member of the commission toVirginia; born near Boydton, Mecklenburg County, Va., on establish the boundary line between the States of NorthMarch 15, 1780; was graduated from the College of William Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia in 1801; died in Gran-and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; moved to Franklin County in ville (now Vance) County, N.C., May 31, 1825; interment on 1802; member of the State house of delegates, 1804-1806; his estate, "Montpelier," at Williamsboro (now Henderson),private secretary to President Jefferson; elected as a Repub- Vance County, N.C. lican to the Ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Christopher Clark; reelected to the Tenth and BURTON, Sala, (wife of Phillip Burton), a Representativeto the six succeeding Congresses and served from December from California; born Sala Galante in Bialystok, Poland,1, 1806, until his death in Washington, D.C., February 16, April 1, 1925; attended public schools in San Francisco and1821; interment in Congressional Cemetery. San Francisco University;associatedirector,California Public Affairs Institute, 1948-1950; vice president, California BUSBEY, Fred Ernst, a Representative from Illinois; born Democratic Council, 1951-1954; president, San Franciscoin Tuscola, Douglas County, Ill., February 8, 1895; attended

Democratic Women's Forum, 1957-1959; delegate to Demo-- the public schools, Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Biographies 715

Ill., and Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; during thecandidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress; First World War enlisted September 24, 1917, in the Unitedagain engaged in banking; died in Urbana, Ill., August 12, States Regular Army and served overseas as a sergeant until1909; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. after the Armistice, when he was made a battalion sergeant major in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Field Artil- BUSH, Alvin Ray, a Representative from Pennsylvania; lery, Thirty-third Division, being discharged June 8, 1919; inborn on a farm in Boggs Township, Clearfield County, Pa., 1930 engaged in the investment brokerage business in Chica-June 4, 1893; attended the public schools; at the age of go, Ill.; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Con-thirteen started work as a laborer in Pennsylvania coal gress (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1945); unsuccessful candi-mines and later was an apprentice in a machine shop; date for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress;during the First World War served overseas as a corporal elected in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress (January 3, 1947-with the Five Hundred and Forty-first Motor Truck Compa- January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inny; established an automobile repair business inPhiipsburg, 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; elected to the Eighty-Pa.; purchased a bus line serving Phiipsburg and neighbor- second and Eighty-third Congresses (January 3, 1951-Janu-ing communities, later becoming president and general man- ary 3, 1955); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 toager of the Williamsport Transportation Co.; operated a the Eighty-fourth Congress; resumed the investment broker-dairy farm in Lycoming County, Pa.; director of Lowry Elec- age business until his retirement in 1958; resided in Cocoatric Co. and Muncy Valley Hospital; elected as a Republican Beach, Fla., until his death there on February 11, 1966;to the Eighty-second and to the four succeeding Congresses interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Chicago, Ill. and served from January 3, 1951, until his death in Wil- liamsport, Pa., November 5, 1959; interment in Twin Hills BUSBY, George Henry, a Representative from Ohio; bornCemetery, near Montoursville, Pa. in Davistown, Pa., June 10,1794; attended the public schools; moved to Ohio in 1810 with his father, who settled BUSH, George Herbert Walker (son of Prescott Sheldon in Royalton, Fairfield County; engaged in the general mer-Bush), a Representative from Texas and a Vice President of cantile business; major of militia in the War of 1812; movedthe United States; born in Milton, Suffolk County, Mass., to Marion County in 1823 and helped organize the town ofJune 12, 1924; graduated, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., Marion, where he continued mercantile pursuits; clerk of1942; graduated, Yale University 1948;lieutenant(jg.) the Marion County courts and clerk of the supreme courtUnited States Navy 1942-1945; formed Bush-Overby Oil De- 1824-1828; recorder of deeds 1831-1835; elected as a Demo-velopment, Inc., Midland, Tex., 1951; helped organize Zapata crat to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3,Petroleum Corp., Midland, Tex., 1953, and first president of 1853); was not a candidate for renomination in 1852; re-Zapata Off-Shore Co., Midland, Tex., 1954; unsuccessful sumed mercantile pursuits; member of the State senatenominee in 1964 to the United States Senate; elected as a 1853-1855; probate judge of Marion County from 1866 untilRepublican to the Ninetieth Congress; reelected to the his death in Marion, Ohio, August 22, 1869; interment inNinety-first Congress (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1971); was not a candidate for reelection in 1970 to the House of Repre-- Marion Cemetery. sentatives but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to BUSBY, Thomas Jefferson, a Representative from Missis-the United States Senate; United States Ambassador to the sippi; born near Short, Tishomingo County, Miss., July 26,United Nations 197 1-1973; chairman, Republican National 1884; attended the common schools of his native city, Oak-Committee 1973-1974; chief United States liaison officer, land College, Yale, Miss., and luka Normal College at luka,People's Republic of China 1974-1976; director, Central In- Miss., taught in the public schools of Tishomingo, Alcorn,telligence Agency 1976-1977; elected Vice President of the and Chickasaw Counties, Miss., 1903-1908; was graduatedUnited States on the Republican ticket with President from the George Robertson Christian College, Henderson,Ronald Reagan, November 4, 1980; inaugurated January 20, Tenn., in 1905 and from the law department of the Universi-1981; reelected in 1984 for the term ending January 20, 1989; ty of Mississippi at Oxford in 1909; was admitted to the barRepublican candidate for President of the United States in 1909 and commenced practice of law at Houston, Miss.; 1988. prosecuting attorney of Chickasaw County 1912-1920; elect- Bibliography: King, Nicholas.GeorgeBush: A Biography. New York: ed as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and to the five succeed- Dodd, Mead, 1980. ing Congresses (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1935); unsuccess- BUSH, Prescott Sheldon (fatherof George Herbert ful candidate for renomination in 1934; resumed the practiceWalker Bush), a Senator from Connecticut; born in Colum- of law in Houston, Miss., until his death there on Octoberbus, Franklin County, Ohio, May 15, 1895; attended the 18, 1964; interment in Houston Cemetery. Douglas School of Columbus, Ohio, and St. George's School, BUSEY, Samuel Thompson, a Representative from Illi-Newport, R.I., 1908-19 13; graduated from Yale University in nois; born in Greencastle, Putnam County, md., November1917; enlisted in Connecticut National Guard in 1916 and 16, 1835; moved with his parents to Urbana, Ill.; attendedserved as captain of Field Artillery in American Expedition- the public schools; studied law; attended commercial collegeary Forces 1917-1919; engaged inhardware business as a and law lectures in 1859 and 1860; during the Civil Warwarehouse clerk in St. Louis, Mo.; moved to Greenwich, served as first sergeant and then first lieutenant of theConn., in 1924; engaged in banking business in New York Urbana Zouaves in 1861 and 1862; town collector in 1862;City 1926; moderator, Greenwich Representative Town Meet- second lieutenant in the recruiting service in June 1862 anding 1935-1952; trustee, Yale University; unsuccessful Repub- helped to organize the Seventy-sixth Regiment, Illinois Vol-lican candidate for the United States Senate in 1950; elected unteer Infantry; captain of Company B of that regimentas a Republican to the United StatesSenate to fill the June 22, 1862; lieutenant colonel August 22, 1862; colonelvacancy caused by the death of James O'Brien McMahonin January 7, 1863; brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers1952; reelected in 1956 and served from November 4, 1952, to April 9, 1865; mustered out of the service July 22, 1865, inJanuary 2, 1963; was not a candidate for reelection in 1962; Chicago, Ill.; engaged in banking from 1867 to 1888; mayorresumed his career in the banking and investment field; died of Urbana 1880-1889; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-in New York City, October 8, 1972; interment in Putnam second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); unsuccessfulCemetery, Greenwich, Conn. 716 Biographical Directory

BUSHFIELD, Harlan John (husband of Vera C. Bush-1956-1958 and received a degree in secondary education field), a Senator from South Dakota; born in Atlantic, Cassfrom Sul Ross State College in Alpine, Tex., in 1961; school County, Iowa, August 6, 1882; moved with his parents toteacher and coach 1961-1968; assistant to Congressman South Dakota in 1883; attended the public schools in Miller,Henry Gonzalez 1968-197 1; member of the Bexar County S.Dak., and Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, S.Dak.,Commission 1973-1978; Bexar County judge 1979-1984; elect- 1899-1901; was graduated from the Minnesota Universityed as a Democrat to the Ninety-ninth and One Hundredth Law School at Minneapolis in 1904; was admitted to the barCongresses (January 3, 1985-January 3, 1989); is a resident the same year and commenced practice in Miller, S.Dak.;of San Antonio, Tex. Governor of South Dakota 1939-1942; elected as a Republi- can to the United States Senate in 1942 and served from BUTLER, Andrew Pickens (son of William Butler and January 3, 1943, until his death in Miller, S.Dak., Septemberuncle of Matthew Calbraith Butler), a Senator from South 27, 1948; interment in the G. A. R. Cemetery. Carolina; born in Edgefield, S.C., November 18, 1796; attend- Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial Services for Harlan John Bush- ed Doctor Waddell's Academy at Willington, Abbeville field. 81st Cong., 2nd sess., 1948. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing County, S.C., and was graduated from South Carolina Col- Office, 1950. lege (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in BUSHFIELD, Vera Cahalan (wife of Harlan J. Bushfield),1817; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1818 and a Senator from South Dakota; born in Miller, Hand County,practiced in Columbia, Edgefield, Lexington, Barnwell, and S.Dak., August 9, 1889; attended the public schools; wasNewberry; member, State house of representatives; member, graduated from Stout Institute, Menominee, Wis., in 1912;State senate 1824-1833; aide on the staff of the Governor also attended Dakota Wesleyan University and the Universi-1824; appointed judge of the session court in 1833; judge of ty of Minnesota; appointed as a Republican to the Unitedthe State court of common pleas 1835-1846; appointed and States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of hersubsequently elected as a States Rights Democrat to the husband, Harlan J. Bushfield, and served from October 6,United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- 1948, until her resignation on December 26, 1948; died innation of George McDuffie; reelected in 1848 and again in Fort Collins, Cob., April 16, 1976; interment in the G. A. R.1854 as a Democrat and served from December 4, 1846, until Cemetery, Miller, S.Dak. his death near Edgefield, S.C., May 25, 1857; chairman, Com- BUSHNELL, Allen Ralph, a Representative from Wiscon- mittee on Judiciary (Thirtieth through Thirty-fifth Con- sin; born in Hartford, Trumbull County, Ohio, July 18, 1833;gress); interment in Big Creek Butler Churchyard, Edgefield, attended the public schools and the academies of Oberlin S.C. and Hiram, Ohio; moved to Wisconsin in 1854 and settled in Bibliography: DAB. Platteville; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and BUTLER, Benjamin Franklin (grandfather of Butler commenced practice in Platteville; elected district attorneyAmes and father-in-law of Adelbert Ames), a Representative of Grant County in 1860; resigned to enter the Union Armyfrom Massachusetts; born in Deerfield, N.H., November 5, in August 1861; served as first lieutenant and afterwards as1818; moved with his mother to Lowell, Mass., in 1828; at- captain of Company C, Seventh Regiment, Wisconsin Volun- tended high school and Exeter Academy, and was graduated teer Infantry; member of the Iron Brigade; moved to Lancas-from Waterville College (now Colby College), Waterville, ter, Wis., in 1864; district attorney of Grant County in 1864;Maine, in 1838; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1840 member of the State assembly in 1872; elected first mayor ofand commenced practice in Lowell, Mass.; member of the Lancaster in 1875; United States district attorney for theState house of representatives in 1853; served in the State western district of Wisconsin 1886-1890; moved to Madison,senate in 1859; delegate to the Democratic National Conven- Wis., in 1891; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-secondtions at Charleston and Baltimore in 1860; entered the Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); was not a candidateUnion Army April 17, 1861, as a brigadier general; promoted for renomination in 1892; resumed the practice of law into major general May 16, 1861, and assigned to the com- Madison, Wis., and died there March 29, 1909; interment inmand of Fort Monroe and the Department of Eastern Vir- Hillside Cemetery, Lancaster. ginia; resigned November 30, 1865; elected as a Republican BUSHONG, Robert Grey (grandson of Anthony Elimakerto the Fortieth and to the three succeeding Congresses Roberts), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Read-(March 4, 1867-March 3,1875); chairman, Committee on ing, Berks County, Pa., June 10, 1883; attended PhillipsRevision of the Laws (Forty-second Congress), Committee on Academy, Andover, Mass.; was graduated from Yale Univer-the Judiciary (Forty-third Congress); one of the managers sity in 1903 and from the law school of Columbia University,appointed by the House of Representatives in 1868 to con- New York City, in 1906; was admitted to the bar in 1906 andduct the impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson, commenced practice in Reading, Pa.; member of the Penn-President of the United States; unsuccessful candidate for sylvania house of representatives in 1908 and 1909; presidentthe Republican nomination for Governor in 1871 and 1872 judge of the orphans' court of Berks County in 1914 andand for reelection to the Forty-fourth Congress in 1874; 1915; delegate to the Republican National Conventions inelected to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1916 and 1924; elected as a Republican to the Seventieth1879); declined to be a candidate for renomination; unsuc- Congress (March 4, 1927-March 3, 1929); was not a candidatecessful candidate for Governor as an independent in 1878 for renomination in 1928; resumed the practice of law inand as a Democrat in 1879; elected Governor in 1882 by the Reading, Pa., and resided in Sinking Springs, Pa.; died incombined efforts of the Greenback and Democratic Parties; Reading, Pa., April 6, 1951; interment in Charles Evansunsuccessful candidate for President of the United States on Cemetery. the Greenback and Anti-Monopolist ticket in 1884; died while attending court in Washington, D.C., January 11, 1893; BUSTAMANTE, Albert Garza, a Representative frominterment in Hildreth Cemetery, Lowell, Mass. Texas; born in Asherton, Dimmit County, Tex., April 8, 1935; Bibliography: DAB; Butler, Benjamin F. Autobiography and Personal Re- attended the public schools and was graduated from Asher- ,niniscences. Boston: A. M. Thayer, 1892; Trefousse, Hans L. Ben Butler: ton High School in 1954; paratrooper in the U.S. Army 1954-The South Called Him Beast! 1957. Reprint. New York: Octagon Books 1956; studied a liberal arts course at San Antonio College 1974. Biographies 717

BUTLER, Chester Pierce, a Representative from Pennsyl-(March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905); delegate to the Democratic vania; born in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pa., March 21,National Conventions in 1904 and 1908; resumed the prac- 1798; attended Wilkes-Barre Academy and was graduatedtice of law in St. Louis, Mo., and died there May 31, 1917; from Princeton College in 1817; trustee of Wilkes-Barreinterment in Calvary Cemetery. Academy 1818-1838 and served as secretary; studied law at Litchfield Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1820 and BUTLER, John Cornelius, a Representative from New commenced practice in Wilkes-Barre; register and recorderYork; born in Buffalo, Erie County, N.Y., July 2, 1887; at- of Luzerne County 1821-1824; member of the State house oftended the public schools and Old Central High School, Buf- representatives in 1832, 1838, 1839, and again in 1843; elect-falo, N.Y.; from boyhood was employed in waterfront indus- ed as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congressestries in Buffalo; held many offices in longshoremen's, grain and served from March 4, 1847, until his death in Philadel-elevator employees', and electrical workers' unions; elected phia, Pa., October 5, 1850; interment in Hollenbeck Ceme-as a Republican to the Seventy-seventhCongress to fill the tery, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. vacancy caused by the death of Pius L. Schwert;reelected to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses BUTLER, Ezra, a Representative from Vermont; born inand served from April 22, 1941, to January 3, 1949; unsuc- Lancaster, Worcester County, Mass., September 24, 1763;cessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first moved with his parents to West Windsor, Vt., in 1770; en-Congress; sales manager of Fire Equipment Sales Co., and gaged in agricultural pursuits in Claremont, N.H.; served inestimator for Beacon Electrical Engineering and Construc- the Revolutionary War for a short time; moved to Water-tion Co., Buffalo, N.Y.; elected to the Eighty-second Congress bury, Vt., in 1785; studied law; was admitted to the bar and(January 3, 1951-January 3, 1953); unsuccessful candidate commenced practice in Waterbury, Vt., in 1786; town clerkfor renomination in 1952; died in Buffalo, N.Y., August 13, in 1790; one of the first three town selectmen; member of1953; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery. the State house of representatives 1794-1797, 1799-1804, 1807, and 1808; served in the executive council for fifteen BUTLER, John Marshall, a Senator from Maryland; born years; first judge of the Chittenden County Court1803-1806;in Baltimore, Md., July 21, 1897; attended the public schools; chief justice 1806-1811; when Jefferson County (which hasduring the First World War enlisted in the United States since become Washington County) was formed in 1812 heArmy 1917-1919; student, Johns Hopkins University 1919 was elected chief justice and held the positioncontinuously,and 1921, and graduated from the University of Maryland with the exception of his congressional service, until 1825;Law School in 1926; was admitted to the bar in 1926 and elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress (Marchcommenced the practice of law in Baltimore, Md.; member 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); member of the State constitutionalof City Service Commission of Baltimore 1947-1949; elected convention in 1822; Governor of Vermont 1826-1828; died inas a Republican in 1950 to theUnited States Senate; reelect- Waterbury, Washington County, Vt., July 12, 1838; inter-ed in 1956 and served from January 3, 1951, to January 2, ment in Waterbury Cemetery. 1963; was not a candidate for reelection in 1962; resided in Bibliography: DAB. Baltimore, Md., until his death in Rocky Mount, N.C.,March BUTLER, Hugh Alfred, a Senator from Nebraska; born on14, 1978; interment in Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Md. a farm near Missouri Valley, Harrison County, Iowa, Febru- BUTLER, Josiah, a Representative from New Hampshire; ary 28, 1878; attended the public schools and was graduatedborn in Peiham, N.H., December 4, 1779; attendedthe Lan- from Doane College at Crete, Nebr., in 1900; constructiondonderry and Atkinson Academies and was instructed by engineer with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroadprivate tutors; was graduated from Harvard University in 1900-1908; member of the city board of Curtis, Nebr., 1908-1803; taught school in Virginia for three years; studiedlaw; 19 13; engaged in the flour-milling and grain business 1908-was admitted to the bar ofVirginia in 1807; returned to 1940; member of the board of education of Omaha, Nebr.;Pelham, N.H., and commenced practice in 1807; moved to Republican National committeeman for Nebraska 1936-1940;Deerfield in 1809; sheriff of Rockingham County 1810-1813; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1940;clerk of the court of common pleas; unsuccessful candidate reelected in 1946 and again in 1952 and served from Janu-for election in 1812 to the Thirteenth Congress; memberof ary 3, 1941, until his death in the naval hospital atBethes-the State house of representatives in 1815 and 1816; elected da, Md., July 1, 1954; chairman, Committee on Public Landsas a Republican to theFifteenth Congress and reelected to (Eightieth Congress), Committee on Interior and Insular Af-the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses (March 4, 1817- fairs (Eighty-third Congress); interment in Forest LawnMarch 3, 1823); chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Seven- Cemetery, Omaha, Nebr. teenth Congress); associate justice of the State courtof Bibliography: Paul, Justis F. Senator Hugh Butler and Nebraska Repub- Deerfield, Rockingham licanism. Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society, 1976. common pleas 1825-1835; died in County, N.H., October 27, 1854; interment in Granite Ceme-- BUTLER, James Joseph, a Representative from Missouri;tery, South Deerfield, N.H. born in St. Louis, Mo., August 29, 1862; attended the public schools; served an apprenticeship as a blacksmith, and BUTLER, Manley Caldwell, a Representative from Virgin- worked at that trade for several years; was graduated fromia; born in Roanoke, Va., June 2, 1925; attended the public St. Louis (Mo.) University in 1881; studied law at Washing-schools of Roanoke, Va.; A.B., University of Richmond (Va.), ton University, St. Louis, Mo.; was admitted to the barin1948; LL.B., University of Virginia Law School, Charlottes- ville, 1950; ensign, United States Navy, 1942-1946; admitted 1884 and commenced practice in St. Louis, Mo.; served as practice in city attorney of St. Louis 1886-1894; presented credentials asto the Virginia Bar in 1950 and commenced a Democratic Member-elect to theFifty-seventh CongressRoanoke; elected to Virginia house of delegates from Roa- and served from March 4, 1901, until June 28, 1902, whennoke, 1962-197 1, serving as chairman of the joint Republican the seat was declared vacant; subsequently presented cre-caucus, 1964-1966, and as minorityleader, 1966-1971; elect- dentials as a Member-elect to fill the vacancy thus causeded as a Republican to the Ninety-second Congress,November and served from November 4, 1902, until February 26, 1903,7, 1972, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the when he was succeeded by George C. R. Wagoner, who con-resignation of Richard H. Poff and at the same time elected tested his election; elected to the Fifty-eighth Congressto the Ninety-third Congress; reelected to thefour succeed- 718 Biographical Directory

ing Congresses and served from November 7, 1972, to Janu-1905-March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- ary 3, 1983; was not a candidate for reelection in 1982 to thetion in 1906; resumed the practice of his profession in Ninety-eighth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Roa-Gainesboro, Jackson County, Tenn., and died there February noke; is a resident of Roanoke, Va. 13, 1917; interment in Gainesboro Cemetery. BUTLER, Marion, a Senator from North Carolina; born BUTLER, Pierce, a Delegate and a Senator from South near Clinton, Sampson County, N.C., May 20, 1863; wasCarolina; born in County Carlow, Ireland, July 11, 1744; graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapelpursued preparatory studies; came to America in 1758 as an Hill in 1885; taught school for three years; moved to Clinton,officer in the British Army; resigned his commission prior to N.C., in 1888 and became editor and publisher of the Clintonthe Revolutionary War and settled in Charles Town (now Caucasian; moved to Raleigh in 1894, but continued theCharleston), S.C.; planter; aided the American cause during publication of the paper; elected to the State senate in 1890; president of the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrialthe Revolutionary War; delegate to the Continental Congress Union in 1894 and 1895; chairman of the People's Partyin 1787; member of the convention which framed the Feder- State committee in 1894; trustee and member of the execu-al Constitution in 1787; elected to the United States Senate tive committee of the University of North Carolina 189 1-in 1789 for the term ending March 3, 1793; reelected Decem- 1899; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1899 andber 5, 1792, and served from March 4, 1789, to October 25, commenced practice in Raleigh, N.C.; elected as a Populist to1796, when he resigned; again elected to the United States the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1895, toSenate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John March 3, 1901; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1901;Ewing Coihoun and served from November 4, 1802, until his chairman, Committee on Organization, Conduct, and Ex-resignation November 21, 1804; died in Philadelphia, Pa., penditures of Executive Departments (Fifty-fourth and Fifty-February 15, 1822; interment in Christ Churchyard, Phila- fifth Congresses); chairman of the Populist National Execu-delphia, Pa. Bibliography: DAB; Coglan, Francis. "Pierce Butler,1744-1822, First tive Committee 1896-1904; affiliated with the Republican Senator from South Carolina." South Carolina Historical Magazine 78 Party in 1904; assisted in organizing the Cotton and Tobacco (April 1977): 104-19. Cooperative Marketing Association of the South in 1923 and 1924; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; died BUTLER, Robert Reyburn (grandson of Roderick Randum June 3, 1938, in Takoma Park, Md., where he had beenButler), a Representative from Oregon; born in Butler, John- confined in a hospital; interment in Clinton Cemetery, Clin-son County, Tenn., September 24, 1881; attended the public ton, N.C. schools and Holly Springs College; was graduated from the Bibliography: DAB; Hunt, James. "The Making of a Populist: Marionlaw department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., Butler, 1863-1865." North Carolina Historical Review 62 (January 1985): in 1903; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in 53-77, 62 (April 1985): 179-202, 62 (July 1985): 317-43. Mountain City, Tenn.; moved to Condon, Oreg., in 1906 and BUTLER, Matthew Caibraith (son of William Butlerresumed the practice of law; mayor of Condon, Oreg.; ap- (1759-1821) and nephew of Andrew Pickens Butler), Senatorpointed circuit judge for the eleventh judicial district of from South Carolina; born near Greenville, GreenvilleOregon and served from February 1909 until his retirement County, S.C., March 8, 1836; attended the local academy inin January 1911; moved to The Dalles in 1911 and resumed Edgefield, S.C., and South Carolina College at Columbia;the practice of law; member of the State senate 19 13-1917 studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commencedand 1925-1929; elected on November 6, 1928, as a Republi- practice in Edgefield; elected to the State house of represent-can to the Seventieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by atives in 1860; entered the Confederate Army as captain inthe resignation of Nicholas J. Sinnott and on the same day June 1861 and served throughout the Civil War, attainingwas elected to the Seventy-first Congress; reelected to the the rank of major general; again elected to the State houseSeventy-second Congress and served until his death; unsuc- of representatives in 1866; unsuccessful candidate for lieu-cessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third tenant governor of South Carolina in 1870; elected as aCongress; died in Washington, D.C., January 7, 1933; inter- Democrat to the United States Senate in 1876; reelected inment in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, The Dalles, Oreg. 1882 and again in 1888 and served from March 4, 1877, until BUTLER, Roderick Randum (grandfather of Robert Rey- March 3, 1895; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chair-burn Butler), a Representative from Tennessee; born in man, Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Forty-Wytheville, Va., April 9, 1827; bound as an apprentice and sixth Congress), Committee on Interstate Commerce (Fifty-learned the tailor's trade; moved to Taylorsville (now Moun- third Congress); resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; during the Spanish-American War was appointedtain City), Tenn.; attended night school; studied law; was major general of United States Volunteers, and was one ofadmitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced practice in the commissioners appointed to supervise the evacuation ofTaylorsville; appointed postmaster of Taylorsville by Presi- Cuba by the Spanish forces in 1898; returned to Edgefield,dent Fillmore; major of the First Battalion of Tennessee S.C., and resumed the practice of law; died in Columbia, S.C.,Militia; member of the State senate 1859-1863; during the April 14, 1909; interment in Willow Brook Cemetery, Edge-Civil War served in the Union Army as lieutenant colonel of field, S.C. the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, Bibliography: DAB. from November 5, 1863, until April 25, 1864, when he was honorably discharged; delegate to the Republican National BUTLER, Mounce Gore, a Representative from Tennes-Conventions in 1864, 1872 and 1876; delegate to the State see; born in Gainesboro, Jackson County, Tenn., May 11,constitutional convention in 1865; county judge and judge of 1849; attended the common schools, Old Philomath Acade-the first judicial circuit of Tennessee in 1865; chairman of my, and the law department of Cumberland University, Leb-the first State Republican executive committee of Tennessee; anon, Tenn.; was admitted to the bar in 1871 and com-delegate to the Baltimore Border State Convention; elected menced the practice of law in Gainesboro; delegate to allas a Republican to the Fortieth and to the three succeeding Democratic State conventions from 1872 to 1916; attorneyCongresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1875); chairman, Com- general for the fifth judicial circuit of Tennessee 1894-1902;mittee on the Militia (Forty-third Congress); censured by the elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-ninth Congress (March 4,House of Representatives on March 16, 1870, for corruption Biographies 719 in regard to an appointment to West Point; unsuccessfulter, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1877 and candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Con- commenced practice in West Chester, Pa.; served as trustee gress; president of the Republican State conventions in 1869of the West Chester State Normal School 1885-1889 and and 1882; member of the State house of representativesagain in 1927 and 1928; appointed judge of the fifteenth 1879-1885; elected to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887-judicial district of Pennsylvania in 1888; unsuccessful candi- March 3, 1889); was not a candidate for renomination indate for reelection in 1889; delegate to the Republican Na- 1888; resumed the practice of law; again a member of thetional Convention in 1892; elected as an Independent Repub- State senate 1893-1901; died in Mountain City, Johnsonlican to the Fifty-fifth Congress and as a Republican to the County, Tenn., August 18, 1902; interment in Mountainfifteen succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, View Cemetery. 1897, until his death in Washington, D.C., May 26, 1928; chairman, Committee on PacificRailroads(Fifty-ninth BUTLER, Sampson Hate, a Representative from Souththrough Sixty-first Congresses), Committee on Naval Affiars Carolina; born near Ninety Six, Edgefield District, S.C., Jan-(Sixty-sixth through Seventieth Congresses); interment in uary 3, 1803; attended the country schools and South Caroli-Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, Pa. na College (now the University of South Carolina) at Colum- bia; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and com- BUTLER, Walter Halben, a Representative from Iowa; menced practice in Edgefield, S.C.; moved to Barnwell, S.C.,born in Springboro, Crawford County, Pa., February 13, and continued the practice of law; sheriff of Barnwell1852; moved to Minnesota in 1868 with his parents, who County 1832-1839; member of the State house of representa-settled in Mankato, Blue Earth County; attended public and tives 1832-1835; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixthprivate schools, and was graduated from the University of and Twenty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4,Wisconsin at Madison in 1875; studied law; was admitted to 1839, until September 27, 1842, when he resigned; resumedthe bar in 1875 and commenced practice in Princeton, Green the practice of law; moved to Florida; died in Tallahassee,Lake County, Wis.; moved to Iowa in 1876 and taught school Fla., March 16, 1848; interment in a cemetery in that city.at La Porte City until 1878 and at Manchester until 1880; moved to West Union, Iowa, in 1883 and became owner and BUTLER, Thomas, a Representative from Louisiana; born near Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa., April 14, 1785; at-publisher of the Fayette County Union; served as superin- tended the common schools and received a college educationtendent of the tenth division, railway mail service, at St. in Pittsburgh, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar inPaul, Minn., 1885-1889; returned to West Union, Iowa, and 1806 and commenced practice at Pittsburgh, Pa.; moved toresumed his former newspaper pursuits; elected as a Demo- Mississippi Territory about 1807; admitted to the bar therecrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, in 1808; captain of a Cavalry troop in the Mississippi Terri-1893); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 tory Militia in 1810; purchased land in the parish of Feli-to the Fifty-third Congress; moved to Des Moines, Iowa, in ciana, Orleans Territory and settled there in 1811; appointed1897 and to Kansas City, Mo., in 1907; engaged in the real parish judge December 14, 1812; appointed judge of the thirdestate and loan business and, later, in banking; died in district by Governor Claiborne of Louisiana March 4, 1813;Kansas City, Mo., April 24, 1931; interment in Forest Hill elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress to fill theCemetery. vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas B. Robertson; BUTLER, William (father of William Butler [1790-1850] reelected to the Sixteenth Congress and served from Novem-and Andrew Pickens Butler and grandfather of Matthew ber 16, 1818, to March 3, 1821; unsuccessful candidate forCalbraith Butler), a Representative from South Carolina; renomination in 1820; appointed special judge of the thirdborn in Prince William County, Va., December 17, 1759; judicial district in 1822 and again in 1840; member of theattended grammar schools; moved to South Carolina; served Whig Party and afterwards affiliated with the Americanin the Snow campaign under General Richardson in 1775 Party; owing to ill health declined to be a candidate forand in Gen. Andrew Williamson's expedition against the Congress in 1844; owner of sugar and cotton plantations;Cherokee Indians in 1776; lieutenant in Pulaski's legion, president of the board of trustees of the Louisiana College,under Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, in 1779; served under Gen. Jackson, La.; died in St. Louis, Mo., August 7, 1847; inter-Andrew Pickens at the siege of Augusta in 1780, as captain ment on his plantation, "The Cottage," near St. Francisville,under General Henderson in 1781, and as captain of Mount- West Feliciana Parish, La. ed Rangers under General Pickens in 1782; member of the BUTLER, Thomas Belden, a Representative from Con-State convention which adopted the Federal Constitution; necticut; born in Wethersfield, Conn., August 22, 1806; at-member of the State house of representatives in 1787-1795; tended the common schools; was graduated from the medicalsheriff of the Ninety-sixth District in 1791; elected major department of Yale University in 1828 and commenced prac-general of the upper division of State militia in 1796; elected tice in Norwalk, Conn.; member of the State house of repre-as a Republican to the Seventh and tothe five succeeding sentatives 1832-1846; studied law; was admitted to the bar inCongresses (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1813); was not a candi- 1837 and commenced practice in Norwalk; served in thedate for reelection; major general commanding the troops State senate in 1847 and 1848; elected as a Whig to theraised for the defense of South Carolina during the War of Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); unsuc- 1812; retired to his plantation on the Saluda River, near cessful candidate for reelection in 1850 to the Thirty-secondMount Willing, Edgefield County, S.C., and died there No- Congress; judge of the superior court in 1855; appointedvember 15, 1821; interment in the family burial ground at associate justice of the State supreme court in 1861 andButler Methodist Church, near Saluda, Edgefield (now became chief justice of the same court in 1870; died in Nor- Saluda) County, S.C. walk, Conn., June 8, 1873; interment in Norwalk Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. Bibliography: DAB. BUTLER, William (son of William Butler [1759-1821], BUTLER, Thomas Stalker, a Representative from Penn-brother of Andrew Pickens Butler, and father of Matthew sylvania; born in Uwchland Township, Chester County, Pa.,Caibraith Butler), a Representative from South Carolina; November 4, 1855; attended the common schools, West Ches-born in the Edgefield District, S.C., near the present town of ter State Normal School, and Wyer's Academy, West Ches-Saluda, February 1, 1790; attended the common schools, and 720 Biographical Directory

was graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia intended the common schools; moved to Palmyra, Wayne 1810; studied medicine and was licensed to practice; servedCounty, N.Y., in 1828 and engaged in the hardware business as a surgeon in the Battle of New Orleans during the War ofand also in the manufacture of rope and cordage; presiden- 1812; continued his service in the Navy until June 6, 1820,tial elector on the Whig ticket in 1848; elected as a Republi- when he resigned; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventhcan to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); agent of the Chero-1861); chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Thirty-sixth kee Indians from May 29, 1849, until his death in FortCongress); declined to be a candidate for renomination in Gibson, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), September 25,1860; resumed his former business pursuits; died in Palmyra, 1850; interment near Van Buren, Ark. N.Y., August 6, 1866; interment in the Village Cemetery. BUTLER, William Morgan, a Senator from Massachu- BUTTERWORTH, Benjamin, a Representative from Ohio; setts; born in New Bedford, Mass., January 29, 1861; attend-born near Maineville, Warren County, Ohio, October 22, ed the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar1837; attended the common schools of Warren County, the in 1883; was graduated from the law department of Bostonacademy in Maineville, Ohio, and Ohio University in University in 1884; practiced law in New Bedford until 1895;Athens; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1861 and member, State house of representatives 1890-1891; member,commenced practice in Cincinnati, Ohio; appointed assistant State senate 1892-1895, serving as president in 1894 andUnited States district attorney in 1868; member of the State 1895; moved to Boston, Mass., in 1895 and continued thesenate in 1874 and 1875; elected as a Republican to the practice of law until 1912, when he engaged in the manufac-Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879- ture of cotton goods; member of the commission to revise theMarch 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 statutes of Massachusetts 1896-1900; chairman of the Repub-to the Forty-eighth Congress; delegate to the Republican lican National Committee in 1924; appointed as a Republi-National Convention in 1880; Regent of the Smithsonian can to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused byInstitution; appointed a commissioner of the Northern Pacif- the death of and served from Novemberic Railroad by President Arthur in 1883; special Government 13, 1924, to December 6, 1926, when a successor was elected; counsel to prosecute the South Carolina election cases in unsuccessful candidate for election to fill the vacancy; chair-1883; elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Con- man, Committee on Patents (Sixty-ninth Congress); resumedgresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee his manufacturing interests; resided in Boston, until hison Patents (Fifty-first Congress); was not a candidate for death there on March 29, 1937; interment in Forest Hillsrenomination in 1890; resumed the practice of his profession Cemetery. in Washington, D.C.; served as Commissioner of Patents BUTLER, William Orlando, a Representative from Ken-from 1896 until his death in Thomasville, Ga., January 16, tucky; born in Jessamine County, Ky., April 19, 1791; moved1898; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. with his parents to Maysville, KY.; pursued preparatory Bibliography: DAB. studies; was graduated from Transylvania University, Lex- BUTTON, Daniel Evan, a Representative from New York; ington, Ky., in 1812; studied law at Lexington; during theborn in Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, N.Y., November 1, War of 1812 served as captain, and was brevetted major for1917; graduate of the University of Delaware, 1938; master's distinguished service in the Battle of New Orleans; aide todegree in journalism from Columbia University,1939; General Jackson in 1816 and 1817; was admitted to the barauthor; assistant to the president of the State University of in 1817 and commenced practice at Carrollton, KY.; memberNew York, 1952-1958; also on staffs of University of Dela- of the State house of representatives in 1817 and 1818; elect-ware and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; worked with ed as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventhnewspapers in Wilmington, Del., and the Associated Press in Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); was not a candi-New York City 1939-1947; executive editor of the Albany date for reelection; during the war with Mexico was commis- Times-Union, 1960-1966; elected as a Republican to the sioned major general of Volunteers June 29, 1846; receivedNinetieth and Ninety-first Congresses (January 3, 1967-Jan- the thanks of Congress and a sword for gallantry in theuary 3, 1971); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1970 storming of Monterey, Mexico; unsuccessful Democratic can-to the Ninety-second Congress; served as editor of Science didate for Vice President in 1848; declined appointment as Governor of Nebraska Territory in 1855; delegate to theDigest magazine and worked as an independent journalist; is peace convention held in Washington, D.C., in 1861 in ana resident of Delmar, N.Y. effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; died in BUTTZ, Charles Wilson, a Representative from South Carrollton, Ky., August 6, 1880; interment in a private bury-Carolina; born in Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pa., Novem- ing ground at the foot of Butlers Hill, near Carrollton, Ky.ber 16, 1837; moved with his parents to Buttzville, N.J., in Bibliography: DAB; Roberts, G.F. 'William 0. Butler." Master's thesis, 1839; completed academic studies; studied law in Belvidere, University of Kentucky, 1962. N.J.; entered the Union Army in 1861 as second lieutenant BUTMAN, Samuel, a Representative from Maine; born inin the Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry; was promoted to first Worcester, Worcester County, Mass., in 1788; moved tolieutenant in 1862; was wounded in 1863; resigned on ac- Maine in 1804, and settled in Dixmont, Penobscot County;count of impaired health in October 1863; received two engaged in agricultural pursuits; served as a captain in thebrevet ranks from the President, one as captain and the War of 1812; member of the State constitutional conventionother as major, both dating May 1865; was admitted to the in 1820; member of the house of representatives of Maine inbar in 1863 and commenced the practice of law in Norfolk, 1822, 1826, and 1827; elected to the Twentieth and Twenty-Va.; delegate to the Republican National Convention in first Congresses (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1831); county com-1864; appointed director of the Exchange Bank of Virginia in missioner of Penobscot County in 1846; served in the State 1864; Commonwealth attorney for King William County in senate and was its president in 1853; died in Plymouth, 1866; moved to Charleston, S.C., in 1870; solicitor of the first Maine, October 9, 1864. judicial circuit 1872-1880; contested as a Republican the election of Edmund W. M. Mackey to the Forty-fourth Con- BU'11ERFIELD, Martin, a Representative from Newgress, but the House decided that neither was entitled to the York; born in Westmoreland, N.H., December 8, 1790; at-seat; subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the Biographies 721 decision of the House and served from November 7, 1878, toShenandoah Valley Academy at Winchester, Va.; entered March 3, 1877; was not a candidate for renomination in the newspaper publishing business in 1903 and became pub- 1876; moved to Fargo, N.Dak., in 1878; procured the officiallisher of the Winchester (Va.) Star; also engaged extensively organization of Ransom County in 1882, and established hisin agricultural pursuits near Berryville, Va., in 1906, special- residence in what is now known as Buttzville, N.Dak.;izing in growing and storing apples and peaches; president of State's attorney 1884-1886; member of the State house ofthe Valley Turnpike Co. 1908-19 18; member, State senate representatives 1903-1909; died in Lisbon, Ransom County,1915-1925; State fuel commissioner in 1918; was elected N.Dak., July 20, 1913; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. chairman of the Democratic State committee in 1922; Gover- nor of Virginia 1926-1930; Democratic National committee- BYNUM, Jesse Atherton, a Representative from Northman 1928-1940; was appointed March 4, 1933, and subse- Carolina; born in Halifax County, N.C., May 23, 1797; at- tended Princeton College in 1818 and 1819; studied law; wasquently elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Halifax,to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Claude A. N.C.; member of the house of commons of North Carolina inSwanson; was reelected in 1934, 1940, 1946, 1952, 1958, and 1823, 1824, and 1827-1830; elected as a Jacksonian to the1964, and served from March 4, 1933, until his resignation Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses and as a Demo-November 10, 1965; chairman, Committee on Rules (Seventy- crat to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1833-Marchseventh through Seventy-ninth Congresses), Committee on 3, 1841); moved to Alexandria, Rapides Parish, La., where heFinance (Eighty-fourth through Eighty-ninth Congresses), engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Alexandria, La.,Joint Committee on the Reduction of Nonessential Federal September 23, 1868; interment in Rapides Cemetery, Pine-Expenditures (Eightieth through Eighty-ninth Congresses), yule, La. Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation (Eighty- fourth through Eighty-ninth Congresses); died in Berryville, BYNUM, William Dallas, a Representative from Indiana;Va., October 20, 1966; interment in Mount Hebron Ceme- born near Newberry, Greene County, md., June 26, 1846;tery, Winchester, Va. attended the country schools, and was graduated from the Bibliography: Hawkes, Robert T., Jr.The Career of Harry Flood Byrd, University of Indiana at Bloomington in 1869; studied law; Sr., to 1933." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 1975; Wilkinson, J. was admitted to the bar in 1872 and commenced practice in Harvie. Harry Byrd and the Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945-1966. Washington, md.; served as the first city clerk; city attorney Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1968. of Washington 1871-1875; mayor of Washington 1875-1879; BYRD, Harry Flood, Jr. (son of Harry Flood Byrd, Sr.), a moved from Daviess County to Indianapolis in 1880; memberSenator from Virginia; born in Winchester, Va., December of the State house of representatives 1881-1885, and served20, 1914; educated at Virginia Military Institute and the as speaker in 1885; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninthUniversity of Virginia; newspaper editor and fruit grower; and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885-Marchmember of Democratic State central committee 1940-1965; 3, 1895); served for some time as whip of the Democraticduring the Second World War, served in the United States minority; censured by the House of Representatives on May 17, 1890, for the use of unparliamentary language; unsuc-Naval Reserve as a lieutenant commander; member, State cessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourthsenate 1948-1965; appointed as a Democrat to the United Congress; was active in the organization of the NationalStates Senate November 12, 1965, to fill the vacancy caused (Gold-Standard) Democratic Party in 1896, and was chair-by the resignation of his father, Harry Flood Byrd, and was man of its national committee 1896-1898; settled in Wash-subsequently elected on November 8, 1966, to fill the unex- ington, D.C.; appointed by President McKinley in 1900 apired term ending January 3, 1971; reelected as an Inde- member of the commission to codify the United States crimi-pendent in 1970 and in 1976 and served from November 12, nal laws and served until 1906; retired from the practice of1965, to January 2, 1983; was not a candidate for reelection law; died in Indianapolis, md., October 21, 1927; intermentin 1982; is a resident of Winchester, Va. in Oak Grove Cemetery, Washington, md. BYRD, Robert Carlyle, a Representative and a Senator BYRD, Adam Monroe, a Representative from Mississippi;from West Virginia; born in North Wilkesboro, Wilkes born in Sumter County, Ala., July 6, 1859; moved to Ne-County, N.C., November 20, 1917; attended West Virginia shoba County, Miss.; attended the common schools andpublic schools; student at Beckley College, Concord College, Cooper Institute in Daleville; was graduated from the lawMorris Harvey College, and Marshall College, all in West department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., inVirginia, and George Washington University Law School, 1884; was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced prac-Washington, D.C.; graduated, American University Law tice in Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Miss.; superintendentSchool, Washington, D.C., 1963; member of the West Virgin- of education for Neshoba County 1887-1889; member of theia house of delegates 1947-1950; member of the West Virgin- State senate 1889-1896; served in the State house of repre-ia senate 1951-1952, resigning when elected to Congress; sentatives in 1896 and 1897, when he resigned; prosecutingelected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and attorney for the tenth judicial district in 1897; judge of theEighty-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1959); sixth chancery district from 1897 until his resignation inwas not a candidate for renomination to the House of Repre- 1903; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to thesentatives in 1958; elected as a Democrat to the United three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1911);States Senate in 1958 for the term commencing January 3, unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1910; resumed1959; reelected in 1964, 1970, 1976, and 1982 for the term the practice of law in Philadelphia, Miss.; died at Hotending January 3, 1989; secretary, Senate Democratic Con- Springs, Ark., June 21, 1912; interment in Town Cemetery,ference 1967-1971; Democratic whip 1971-1977; minority Philadelphia, Miss. leader 1981-1987; majority leader 1977-1981, 1987-1989. BYRD, Harry Flood (father of Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., and BYRNE, Emmet Francis, a Representative from Illinois; nephew of Henry De La Warr Flood and Joel West Flood), aborn in Chicago, Ill., December 6, 1896; educated in the Senator from Virginia; born in Martinsburg, Berkeleypublic and parochial schools of Chicago and graduated from County, W.Va., June 10, 1887; moved with his parents toSt. Ignatius Academy; attended Loyola University in 1916; Winchester, Va., in 1887; attended the public schools andveteran of the First World War; graduated from De Paul 722 Biographical Directory

University Law School, Chicago, Ill., in 1920; was admitted1945; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Harry to the bar in 1919 and commenced the practice of law inTruman 1945-1947; resumed the practice of law in Washing- Chicago, Ill.; assistant corporation counsel for city of Chicago ton, D.C.; Governor of South Carolina 1951-1955; retired and from June 1921 to June 1923; assistant State's attorney for resided in Columbia, S.C., where he died April 9, 1972; inter- Cook County, Ill., from June 1, 1923, to December 1, 1928; ment in Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery. unsuccessful candidate for election as judge of the municipal Bibliography: Byrnes, James Francis. All in One Lifetime. New York: court of Chicago in 1934 and again in 1936; hearing officer Harper, 1958; Moore, Winfred B. "New South Statesman: The Political for Illinois Commerce Commission in 1947 and 1948 and Career of James Francis Byrnes, 1911-1941." Ph.D. dissertation, University again in 1955 and 1956; elected as a Republican to the of California, Berkeley, 1975. Eighty-fifth Congress (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1959); un- successful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty- BYRNES, John William, a Representative from Wiscon- sixth Congress; resumed law practice; appointed by Secre-sin; born in Green Bay, Brown County Wis., June 12, 1913; tary of Commerce Stans to the Chicago Regional Exportattended the public and parochial schools; was graduated Expansion Council, April 17, 1970; resided in Evanston, Ill.,from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1936 and where he died September 25, 1974; interment in Holy Sepul- from the law school of the same university in 1938; was cher Cemetery, Worth, Ill. admitted to the bar in 1938 and commenced practice in Green Bay, Wis.; served as a special deputy commissioner of BYRNE, James Aloysius, a Representative from Pennsyl- banking for the State of Wisconsin from 1938 until his resig- vania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 22, 1906; attended thenation in 1940 to assume his duties as State senator; parochial school, St. Joseph's Preparatory School, publicmember of the State senate 1940-1944, serving as majority high school, and St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia; en-floor leader in 1943; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- gaged in business as a mortician 1937-1950; county registrar,ninth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, Bureau of Vital Statistics, 1934-1939; chief deputy United1945-January 3, 1973); was not a candidate for reelection in States marshal 1940-1943, and United States marshal for1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; returned to the practice eastern district of Pennsylvania 1943-1945; senior disbursingof law in Washington, D.C.; was a resident of Arlington, Va., officer of Pennsylvania State Treasury 1945-1950; delegateuntil his death in Marshfield, Wis., on January 12, 1985. to the Democratic National Convention in 1936; member State house of representatives in 1951 and 1952; elected as a BYRNS, Joseph Wellington, (father of Joseph Wellington Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the nine succeedingByrns, Jr.) a Representative from Tennessee; born near Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1973); unsuccessfulCedar Hill, Robertson County, Tenn., July 20, 1869; attended candidate for renomination in 1972 to the Ninety-third Con-the common schools; was graduated from Nashville High gress; was a resident of Philadelphia, Pa., where he diedSchool in 1887 and from the law department of Vanderbilt September 3, 1980; interment in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery,University, Nashville, Tenn., in 1890; was admitted to the Wyndmoor, Pa. bar in 1890 and commenced the practice of law in Nashville; member of the State house of representatives, 1895-1901; BYRNE, William Thomas, a Representative from Newmember of the State senate in 1901-1903; unsuccessful can- York; born in the town of Florida, Montgomery County,didate for district attorney general of Davidson County in N.Y., March 6, 1876; attended the public schools; was grad- 1902; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the uated from Albany (N.Y.) Law School (branch of Union Col-thirteen succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, lege) in 1904; was admitted to the bar the same year and1909, until his death; chairman, Committee on Appropria- commenced practice in Albany, N.Y.; member of the Statetions (Seventy-second Congress); majority leader (Seventy- senate 1923-1936; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifththird Congress), Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from(Seventy-fourth Congress); chairman of the Democratic Na- January 3, 1937, until his death in Troy, N.Y., January 27,tional Congressional Campaign Committee 1928-1930; was a 1952; interment in St. John's Cemetery, West Albany, Townnominee for reelection to the Seventy-fifth Congress at the of Colonie, N.Y. time of his death; died in Washington, D.C., on June 4, 1936; BYRNES, James Francis, a Representative and a Senatorfuneral services were held in the Hall of the House of Repro- from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., May 2, 1879;sentatives; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, attended the public schools; official court reporter for theTenn. second circuit of South Carolina 1900-1908; editor of the Bibliography: DAB; Galloway, Jewell M. "The Public Life of Joseph W. Byrns." Master's thesis, University of Tennessee, 1962; Galloway, J.M. Journal and Review, Aiken, S.C., 1903-1907; studied law; "Speaker Joseph W. Byrns: Party Leader in the New Deal." Tennessee was admitted to the bar in 1903 and commenced practice in Historical Quarterly 25 (Spring 1966): 63-76. Aiken, S.C.; solicitor for the second circuit of South Carolina 1908-19 10; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second Con- BYRNS, Joseph Wellington, Jr. (son of Joseph Wellington gress, reelected to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4,Byrns), a Representative from Tennessee; born in Nashville, 1911-March 3, 1925); was not a candidate for renominationDavidson County, Tenn., August 15,1903; attended the in 1924, but was an unsuccessful candidate for United Statespublic schools; was graduated from Emerson Institute at Senator; resumed the practice of law in Spartanburg, S.C.;Washington, D.C., in 1922 and from the law department of elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate on No-Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenn., in 1928; was ad- vember 4, 1930; reelected in 1936 and served from March 4,mitted to the bar in 1928 and commenced practice in Nash- 1931, until his resignation on July 8, 1941, having beenville; member of the Air Corps Reserve 1930-1938, with the appointed to the Supreme Court; chairman, Committee torank of captain; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Seventy-thirdCongress (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1941); unsuccessful through Seventy-seventh Congresses); Associate Justice ofcandidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Con- the United States Supreme Court from July 1941 until hisgress; resumed the practice of law; served in the United resignation on October 3, 1942, to head the wartime Office ofStates Army from June 23, 1942, to August 17, 1945, with Economic Stabilization until May 1943; director of the Officetwo and one-half years overseas in the European Theater of of War Mobilization, May 1943 until his resignation in AprilOperations; retired; resided in Daytona Beach, Fla., where Biographies 723 he died March 8, 1973; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, BYRON, William Devereux (husband of Katharine Edgar Nashville, Tenn. Byron and father of Goodloe Edgar Byron), a Representative from Maryland; born in Danville, Pittsylvania County, Va., BYRNS, Samuel, a Representative from Missouri; bornonMay 15, 1895; moved to Williamsport, Washington County, a farm in Jefferson County, Mo., March 4, 1848; studied law;Md. with his parents in 1899; attended the public schools, was admitted to the bar in 1872 and commenced practice inPhillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., and Pratt Institute, Hillsboro, Mo.; collector of revenue for Jefferson County in 1872; member of the State house of representatives in 1876Brooklyn, N.Y.; during the First World War enlisted as a and 1877; served in the State senate in 1878; member of theprivate in the Aviation Corps; commissioned a first lieuten- Democratic State central committee 1886-1888; elected as aant, and was assigned as an instructor in flying and in Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-aerial gunnery; engaged in the leather manufacturing busi- March 3, 1893); was an unsuccessful candidate for renomina-ness in 1919; served as mayor of Williamsport 1926-1930; tion in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress; resumed the prac-member of the State senate 1930-1934; member of the Mary- tice of his chosen profession in De Soto, Jefferson County, land Roads commission in 1934 and 1935; elected as a Demo- Mo., where he died on July 9, 1914; interment in Hillsborocrat to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses Cemetery, Hillsboro, Mo. and served from January 3, 1939, until his death in an airplane crash at Jonesboro, near Atlanta, Ga., February 27, BYRON, Beverly Barton Butcher, (wife Goodloe Edgar1941; interment in Riverview Cemetery, Williamsport, Md. Byron and daughter-in-law of William Devereux Byron and Katharine Edgar Byron), a Representative from Maryland; born Beverly Barton Butcher in Baltimore, Md., July 27, 1932; graduated, National Cathedral School, Washington, C D.C., 1950; attended Hood College, Frederick, Md., 1963- CABANISS, Thomas Banks (cousin of Thomas Chipman 1964; treasurer, Maryland Young Democrats, 1962 and 1965; active in the political career of her husband, Goodloe E.McRae), a Representative from Georgia; born in Forsyth, Byron; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-sixth and to theMonroe County, Ga., August 31, 1835; attended private four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3,schools and Penfield College; was graduated from the Uni- 1989); is a resident of Frederick, Md. versity of Georgia at Athens in 1853; studied law; was admit- ted to the bar in 1861; entered the Confederate Army April BYRON, Goodloe Edgar (husband of Beverly Barton1, 1861, and served throughout the Civil War; returned to Butcher Byron, son of Katharine Edgar Byron and WilliamForsyth, Ga., and commenced the practice of law; member of Devereux Byron, and great grandson of Louis Emery McCo-the State house of representatives 1865-1867; appointed as- mas), a Representative from Maryland; born in Williams-sistant secretary of the State senate in 1870 and secretary in port, Washington County, Md., June 22, 1929; attended the1873; resigned to become solicitor general of the Flint cir- Williamsport public schools and St. Albans School of Wash-cuit, which office he held until 1877; served in the State ington, D.C.; B.A., University of Virginia at Charlottesville,senate 1878-1880 and 1884-1886; elected as a Democrat to 1951; J.D., George Washington University, Washington, D.C.,the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); un- 1953; commissioned first lieutenant, United States Army,successful candidate for renomination in 1894; appointed a with judge advocate general's office, 1954, serving as legalmember of the Dawes Commission to adjust affairs in the officer with Third Armored Division in Germany; dischargedIndian Territory; mayor of Forsyth, Ga., in 1910; judge of the with rank of captain, 1957; subsequently joined Maryland National Guard, serving as aide-de-camp to Maj. Gen. Wil-city court in 1913 and 1914; died in Forsyth, Ga., August 14, liam Purnell, commander, Twenty-ninth Infantry Division;1915; interment in Oakland Cemetery. admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1953 and commenced prac- CABELL, Earle, a Representative from Texas; born on a tice in Frederick, 1958; Frederick County attorney, 1959-farm, south of Trinity River in Dallas County, Tex., October 1961; chairman, Maryland State Planning and Zoning Law27, 1906; graduated from North Dallas High School in 1925; Study commission, 1966-1970; member, Maryland house ofattended Texas A. & M. and Southern Methodist University; delegates, 1963-1967; member, , 1967-1971;in 1932 with two brothers organized Cabell's, Inc. (dairies elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second and to the threeand convenience stores) and became president and chairman succeeding Congresses; served from January 3, 1971, untilof the board; engaged in banking and investments; elected his death October 11, 1978, in Hagerstown, Md.; was a suc-mayor of Dallas May 1961 and reelectedin 1963, serving cessful candidate for renomination to the Ninety-sixth Con-until his resignation February 3, 1964, to be a candidate for gress; interment in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharps-Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth and to burg, Md. the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, BYRON, Katharine Edgar (wife of William Devereux1973); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1972 to the Byron, mother of Goodloe Edgar Byron, and granddaughterNinety-third Congress; retired and returned to Dallas where of Louis Emory McComas), a Representative from Maryland;he died September 24, 1975; interment in Restland Memorial born in Detroit, Mich., October 25, 1903; attended the public Park. schools, Westover School, Middlebury, Conn., and Holton Arms School, Washington, D.C.; moved to Williamsport, Md., CABELL, Edward Carrington, a Representative from in 1922; chairman of Red Cross flood disaster committee ofFlorida; born in Richmond, Va., February 5, 1816; attended Williamsport in 1936; town commissioner of WilliamsportWashington College (now Washington and Lee University), 1938-1940; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventhLexington, Va., in 1832 and 1833 and Reynolds' Classical Congress, by special election, May 27, 1941, to fill the vacan-Academy in 1833 and 1834; was graduated from the Univer- cy caused by the death of her husband, WilliamD. Byron,sity of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1836; moved to Florida and served from May 27, 1941, to January 3, 1943; was not ain 1837 and engaged in agricultural pursuits near Tallahas- candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Con-see; delegate to the Territorial convention toform a State gress; retired and resided in Washington, D.C., wheresheconstitution in 1838; returned to Virginia; studied law; was died December 28, 1976; interment in Riverview Cemetery,admitted to the bar in 1840; returned to Tallahassee, Fla.; Wihiamsport, Md. upon the admission of Florida as a State into theUnion 724 Biographical Directory presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Twenty-ninthcandidate for renomination in 1892; engaged in agricultural Congress and served from October 6, 1845, to January 24,pursuits as joint owner of a ranch near San Antonio, Tex.; 1846, when he was succeeded by William H. Brockenbrough,died in Rock Island, Ill., on December 13, 1923; interment in who contested the election; elected as a Whig to the Thirti- Chippiannock Cemetery. eth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1853); chairman, Committee on Expenditures CABLE, John Levi (great-grandson of Joseph Cable), a on Public Buildings (Thirtieth-Congress); unsuccessful candi-Representative from Ohio; born in Lima, Allen County, date in 1852 for reelection to the Thirty-third Congress;Ohio, April 15, 1884; attended the public schools; Kenyon resumed the practice of law in Tallahassee; moved to St.College, Gambier, Ohio, LL.B., 1906 and from the law de-- Louis, Mo., in 1859; during the Civil War served in thepartment of George Washington University, Washington, Confederate Army with rank of lieutenant colonel; engagedD.C., J.D., 1909; was admitted to the bar in 1909 and com- in the practice of law in New York City 1868-1872, andmenced practice in Lima, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of subsequently in St. Louis, Mo.; member of the State senateAllen County 1917-1921; elected as a Republican to the of Missouri 1878-1882; died in St. Louis, Mo., February 28,Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1921- 1896; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery. March 3, 1925); chairman, Committee on Alcoholic Liquor

Traffic (Sixty-eighth Congress); was not a candidate for re-- CABELL, George Craighead, a Representative from Vir-nomination in 1924; resumed the practice of law; again elect- ginia; born in Danville, Pittsylvania County, Va., Januaryed to the Seventy-first Congress; reelected to the Seventy- 25, 1836; attended the Danville Academy, and the law schoolsecond Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1857; wascandidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Con- admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Danville ingress; resumed the practice of law; special assistant to attor- 1858; edited the Republican and later the Democratic Appealney general of Ohio 1933-1937; special counsel to the Recon- in Danville; elected Commonwealth attorney for Danville instruction Finance Corporation in the liquidation of the Lima September 1858, and served until April 23, 1861, when heFirst American Bank & Trust Co.; appointed Government volunteered as a private in the Confederate Army; commis-appeal agent of Selective Service Board No. 2, Lima, Ohio, sioned major in June 1861 and was assigned to the Eight-1948-1960; author and publisher; died in Lima, Ohio, Sep- eenth Regiment, Virginia Infantry; promoted to the rank oftember 15, 1971; entombment in a niche in St. Boniface colonel and served until the close of the Civil War; resumedEpiscopal Church, Sarasota, Fla. the practice of his profession; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, CABLE, Joseph (great-grandfather of John Levi Cable), a 1875-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on Railways andRepresentative from Ohio; born in Jefferson County, then in Canals (Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses); unsuccessfulthe Terrritory Northwest of the River Ohio (now in the candidate for reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress;State of Ohio), April 17, 1801; attended the public schools; resumed the practice of law in Danville, Va.; died in Balti-studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- more, Md., June 23, 1906; interment in Green Hill Cemetery,tice in Jefferson County; established and published the Jef- Danville, Va. fersonian and Democrat at Steubenville, Ohio, in 1831 and later the Ohio Patriot at New Lisbon, Ohio; elected as a CABELL, Samuel Jordan, a Representative from Virgin-Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses ia; born in Albemarle (now Nelson) County, Va., December(March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); was not a candidate for 15, 1756; attended the College of William and Mary, Wil-renomination in 1852; moved to Sandusky, Ohio, in 1853 and liamsburg, Va.; left school to enter the Revolutionary Army;published the Daily Sandusky Minor; in 1857 established the appointed captain of Amherst County Volunteers in 1776;American and later the Bulletin at Van Wert, Ohio; moved assigned to the Sixth Virginia Regiment; promoted to theto Wauseon, Ohio, and established the Wauseon Republican; rank of major for gallantry at Saratoga in 1777; served insubsequently moved to Paulding, where he published the Washington's army in 1778 and 1779 and attained the rankPolitical Review; died in Paulding, Ohio, May 1, 1880; inter- of lieutenant colonel; was taken prisoner by the British May 12, 1780, at the capture of Charleston; after the war re-ment in Live Oak Cemetery. turned to Virginia and engaged in planting; member of the CABOT, George(great-grandfatherof Henry Cabot State house of delegates 1785-1792; member of ratification Lodge), a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Salem, Mass., convention in 1788; elected as a Republican to the FourthDecember 3, 1752; received a classical education and attend- and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1795-ed Harvard College; member of the State provincial congress March 3, 1803); was not a candidate for reelection in 1802;in 1775; delegate to the State constitutional convention in died on his estate "Soldiers' Joy," near New Market (now1777 and to the convention that ratified the Constitution of Norwood), Nelson County, Va., August 4, 1818; interment inthe United States in 1787; elected to the United States the family burying ground on his farm near Norwood, Va.Senate and served from March 4, 1791, to June 9, 1796, Bibliography: DAB. when he resigned; appointed the first Secretary of the Navy CABLE, Benjamin Taylor, a Representative from Illinois;in the Cabinet of President John Adams in 1798, but de-- born in Georgetown, Scott County, Ky., August 11, 1853;clined; member, executive council of Massachusetts 1808; moved with his parents to Rock Island, Ill., in Septemberdelegate to the Hartford convention of 1814 and served as its 1856; attended the public schools and Racine College, Racine,presiding officer; died in Boston, Mass., April 18, 1823; inter- Wis.; was graduated from the University of Michigan at Annment in the Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Mass.; reinter- Arbor in 1876; engaged in agricultural pursuits and alsoment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. became interested in various manufacturing enterprises; Bibliography: DAB; Lodge, Henry C.Life and Letters of . chairman of the western branch of the Democratic National 1877. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1974. Committee in 1892; chairman of the Democratic executive CADMUS, Cornelius Andrew, a Representative from New committee in 1902; delegate to the Democratic National Con-Jersey; born at Dundee Lake, Bergen County, N.J., October vention in 1904; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second7, 1844; attended the public schools; engaged in the feed and Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); declined to be agrain business in Paterson, N.J.; member of the State house Biographies 725 of assembly in 1884 and 1885; sheriff of Passaic CountyFourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); was not 1887-1890; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second anda candidate for renomination in1816; resumed the practice Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); wasof law; served as justice of the State supreme court, fourth not a candidate for renomination in 1894; member of thedistrict, from June 7, 1847, to January 1, 1855, when he board of inspectors of the State prison; resumed his formerresigned; served as judge of the court of appeals in 1853; business pursuits; died in Paterson, N.J., January 20, 1902;presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1856 and interment in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, near Paterson, N.J.served as president of the State electoral college; died in Johnstown, N.Y., October 31, 1859; interment in Johnstown CADWALADER, John, a Representative from Pennsylva-Cemetery. nia; born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 1, 1805; was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in Bibliography: DAB. 1821; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and CADY, John Watts (nephew of Daniel Cady), a Represent- commenced practice in Philadelphia; solicitor for the Bankative from New York; born in Florida, Montgomery County, of the United States in 1830; captain of a military companyN.Y., June 28, 1790; attended school at the Old Stone Manse during the riots of 1844 in Philadelphia; elected as a Demo-at Fort Hunter, and was graduated from Union College, crat to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3,Schenectady, N.Y., in 1808; studied law; was admitted to the 1857); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1858;bar and commenced practice in Johnstown (then in Mont- resumed the practice of law in Philadelphia; appointed judgegomery County), N.Y.; town clerk of Johnstown 1814,1816, of the United States District Court for the Eastern Districtand 1817; county supervisor 1818-1822 and 1826-1829; of Pennsylvania in 1858 and served until his death in Phila-member of the State assembly in 1822; elected to the Eight- delphia, Pa., January 26, 1879; interment in Christ Church-eenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); was not a yard. candidate for renomination in 1824; resumed the practice of Bibliography: DAB. law at Johnstown, N.Y.; district attorney of Fulton County CADWALADER, Lambert, a Delegate and a Representa-1840-1846; justice of the peace of Johnstown in 1853; died in tive from New Jersey; born near Trenton, N.J., in 1742;Johnstown, N.Y., January 5, 1854; interment in Johnstown attended Dr. Allison's Academy, and the University of Penn- Cemetery. sylvania at Philadelphia in 1760; member of the common CAFFERY, Donelson (grandfather of Patrick Thomson council of Philadelphia at the beginning of the Revolution;Caffery), a Senator from Louisiana; born near Franklin, St. signed the nonimportation agreement in 1765; delegate toMary Parish, La., September 10, 1835; attended private the provincial convention in Pennsylvania in 1775 and to theschools in Franklin, St. Mary's College, Baltimore, Md., and State constitutional convention in 1776; entered the Revolu-Louisiana University at New Orleans; studied law; during tionary Army and commanded a regiment of "The Greens";the Civil War served as a lieutenant in the Thirteenth Lou- lieutenant colonel of the Third Pennsylvania Battalion in isiana Regiment; served as clerk of court in 1866; was admit- 1776; colonel of the Fourth Pennsylvania Line; after beingted to the bar in 1867 and commenced the practice of law in taken a prisoner at Fort Washington on the Hudson re-Franklin, La.; sugar planter; delegate to the State constitu- signed from the Army; Member of the Continental Congresstional convention in 1879; member, State senate1892-1893; in 1785, 1786 and 1787; elected to the First Congress (Marchappointed and subsequently elected as a Democrat to the 4, 1789-March 3, 1791); elected to the Third Congress (MarchUnited States Senate in 1894 to fill the vacancy caused by 4, 1793-March 3, 1795); died on his estate, "Greenwood," December near Trenton, N.J., September 13, 1823; interment in thethe death of Randall Lee Gibson and served from Friends Burying Ground, Trenton, N.J. 31, 1892, to March 3, 1901; was not a candidate for reelection in 1900, chairman, Committee onEnrolled Bills (Fifty third Bibliography: DAB. Congress), Committee on Corporations Organized in the Dis- CADY, Claude Ernest, a Representative from Michigan;trict of Columbia (Fifty-sixth Congress); resumed the practice born in Lansing, Inghain County, Mich., May 28, 1878; at-of law; died in New Orleans, La., on December 30,1906; tended the common schools and the high school of his nativeinterment in Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, La. city; engaged in the wholesale and retail grocery business Bibliography: DAB. from 1899 to 1913; was active in the amusement business, being owner of three theaters in Lansing, and also had CAFFERY, Patrick Thomson (grandson of Donelson Caf- financial interests in other Michigan cities 1914-1925; in thefery), a Representative from Louisiana; born near Franklin, wholesale candy and fountain supplies business from 1925 toSt. Mary Parish, La., July 6, 1932; attended public schoolsof 1932; served as a member of the board of aldermen 1910-Franklin and Hanson Memorial High School, B A, Universi 1917; member of the Lansing Police and Fire Commissionty of Southwestern Louisiana, 1955; J.D., LouisianaState 19 18-1928; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Con-University Law School, 1956; associate and managing editor, gress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); unsuccessfulcandi-Louisiana Law Review, 1955-1956; was admitted to the bar date for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress;in 1956 and commenced practice in New Iberia, La.; assist- served as postmaster at Lansing, Mich., 1935-1943; retiredant district attorney, sixteenth judicial district ofLouisiana,

from political and business life; died in Lansing, Mich., No-- 1958-1962; elected to Louisiana house of representatives, vember 30, 1953; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery. 1964-1968; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-first and Ninety-second Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1973); CADY, Daniel (uncle of John Watts Cady), a Representa-was not a candidate for reelection in1972 to the Ninety- tive from New York; born in Canaan, Columbia County,third Congress; resumed the practice of law; is a residentof N.Y., April 29, 1773; attended the public schools; studied lawNew Iberia, La in Albany, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar in 1795 and com- menced practice in Florida, N.Y.; moved to Johnstown (then CAGE, Harry, a Representative from Mississippi; born at in Montgomery County), N.Y., and continued the practice ofCages Bend of the Cumberland River, Sumner County, law; member of the State assembly 1808-1813; village trust-Tenn.; moved to Wilkinson County, Miss., in early youth; ee in 1808 and supervisor in 1809and 1810; district attorneystudied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- of the fifth district in 1813; elected as a Federalist to thetice in Woodville, Miss.; judge of the supreme court of Mis- 726 Biographical Directory

sissippi 1829-1832; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty- CAIN, Richard Harvey, a Representative from South third Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); retired fromCarolina; born in Greenbrier County, Va., April 12, 1825; the practice of law and settled on Woodlawn plantation inmoved with his father to Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1831 and at- the parish of Terrebonne, near the town of Houma, in Lou-tended school; entered the ministry, and was a pastor in isiana; died while on a visit to New Orleans, La., in 1859;Brooklyn, N.Y., from 1861 to 1865; moved to South Carolina interment in the cemetery of the Stewart family in Wilkin-in 1865 and settled in Charleston; delegate to the constitu- son County, Miss. tional convention of South Carolina in 1868; member of the CAHILL, William Thomas, a Representative from NewState senate 1868-1872; manager of a newspaper in Charles- Jersey; born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 25, 1912; moved withton in 1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Con- his parents to New Jersey in 1919; graduated from Camdengress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for (N.J.) Catholic High School in 1929, St. Joseph's College inrenomination in 1874; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress 1933, and Rutgers Law School in 1937; special agent of the(March 4, 1877-March 3,1879); was not a candidate for Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1937 and 1938;was ad-renomination in 1878; appointed a bishop of the African mitted to the bar in 1939 and commenced the practice of lawMethodist Episcopal Church in 1880 and served until his in Camden, N.J.; city prosecutor of Camden, N.J., in 1944death in Washington, D.C., January 18, 1887; interment in and 1945; first assistant prosecutor of Camden County 1948-Graceland Cemetery. 1951; special deputy attorney general of the State of New Bibliography: DAB; Mann, Kenneth E. "Richard Harvey Cain, Congress- Jersey in 1951; member of the New Jersey general assemblyman, Minister and Champion for Civil Rights." Negro History Bulletin 35 1951-1953; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth and to (March 1972): 64-66. the five succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, CAINE, John Thomas, a Delegate from the Territory of 1959, until his resignation January 19, 1970, to become Gov-Utah; born in the parish of Kirk Patrick, Isle of Man, Janu- ernor of New Jersey and served in that office from Januaryary 8, 1829; attended the common schools in Douglas, Isle of 20, 1970, to January 15, 1974; senior fellow, Woodrow WilsonMan; immigrated to the United States in 1846 and lived in School, Princeton University, 1974-1978; resumed theprac-New York City until 1848, when he went to St. Louis; settled tice of law; is a resident of Haddonfield, N.J. in the Territory of Utah in 1852 and taught school; served as CAHOON, William, a Representative from Vermont; born secretary of the Territorial council during the sessions of in Providence, R.I., January 12, 1774; attended the common1856, 1857, 1859, and 1860; one of the founders of the Salt schools; moved with his parents to Lyndon, Vt., in 1791 andLake Herald in 1870, serving as managing editor and presi- engaged in milling and agricultural pursuits; member of thedent; delegate to the constitutional conventions in 1872 and State house of representatives 1802-1810; succeeded his 1882; member of the Territorial council in 1874, 1876, 1880, father as town clerk in 1808; presidential elector in 1808 andand 1882; recorder of Salt Lake City in 1876, 1878, 1880, and voted for Madison and Langdon; county judge 1811-1819;1882; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh Congress to appointed major general in the militia in 1808 and servedfill the vacancy caused by the action of the House declaring during the War of 1812; delegate to the State constitutionalthe Delegate-elect ineligible; reelected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses and on conventions in 1814 and 1828; member of the executivecoun- cil 1815-1820; Lieutenant Governor of Vermont in 1820 andthe People's Party ticket to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second 1821; elected on the Anti-Masonic ticket to the Twenty-firstCongresses and served from November 7, 1882, to March 3, and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3,1893; was not a candidate for renomination in 1892; was an 1833); unsuccessful candidate in 1832 for reelection to theunsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Utah in Twenty-third Congress; died in Lyndon, Vt., May 30, 1833;1895; member of the State senate in 1896; resumed the man- interment in Lyndon Town Cemetery, Lyndon Center, Vt.agement of the Salt Lake Herald; died in Salt Lake City, Utah, September 20, 1911; interment in Salt Lake City Cem- CAIN, Harry Pulliam, a Senator from Washington; bornetery. in Nashville, Davidson County Tenn., January 10, 1906; moved with his parents to Tacoma, Pierce County, Wash., in CAKE, Henry Lutz, a Representative from Pennsylvania; 1911; attended the public schools and Hill Military Academyborn near Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pa., at Portland, Oreg.; graduated, University of the South,on October 6,1827; attended the common and private Sewanee, Tenn., 1929; pursued graduate study in Englandschools; learned the art of printing, and published the Potts- and Germany; engaged in newspaper work in Portland,vile (Pa.) Mining Record until the Civil War; entered the Oreg., 1924-1925, and in the banking business at Tacoma,Union Army April 17, 1861, as a second lieutenant, and was Wash., 1929-1939; elected mayor of Tacoma, Wash., in 1940, elected colonel of the Twenty-fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania and again in 1942 for a four-year term; took leave of absenceVolunteer Infantry, in Washington, D.C., May 1, 1861; reor- in May 1943 to enter the United States Army as a major;ganized the regiment after three months' service; command- served in the United States Army in the European theatered the Ninety-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer In- 1943-1945; resumed his duties as mayor of Tacoma untilfantry, from September 23, 1861, to March 12, 1863, when he June 15, 1946; elected as a Republican to the United Statesresigned and settled in Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, Pa.; Senate on November 5, 1946, for the term commencing Jan-engaged in the mining and shipping of anthracite coal; elect- uary 3, 1947; subsequently appointed on December 26, 1946,ed as a Republican to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1947,(March 4, 1867-March 3,1871); chairman, Committee on caused by the resignation of Hugh B. Mitchell, and servedAccounts (Forty-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate for from December 26, 1946, to January 3, 1953; unsuccessfulrenomination in 1870; resumed the mining and shipping of candidate for reelection in 1952; member of the Subversivecoal; died in Northumberland, Pa., August 26, 1899; inter- ment in Riverview Cemetery. ActivitiesControl Board, Washington,D.C.,1953-1956; moved to Florida in 1957; resumed banking business and CALDER, William Musgrave, a Representative and a Sen- civic work; resided in Miami Lakes, Fla., where he diedator from New York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 3, 1869; March 3, 1979; cremated; ashes scattered on a golf course inattended the public schools of Brooklyn; apprenticed to the Bethesda, Md. carpenter's trade and studied at the evening school of Biographies 727

Cooper Institute, New York City; engaged in building con-the practice of law in Nashville, Tenn.; attorney general for struction in 1893; building commissioner of the Borough ofthe district of Davidson and Rutherford Counties, Tenn., Brooklyn 1902-1903; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-1870-1878; served as a member of the State house of repre- ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1905-sentatives in 1880 and 1882; elected as a Democrat to the March 3, 1915); was not a candidate for reelection in 1914;Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883- elected as a Republican to the United States Senate andMarch 3, 1887); was not a candidate for reelection to the served from March 4, 1917, to March 3, 1923; unsuccessfulFiftieth Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Nash- candidate for reelection in 1922; chairman, Committee toville, Tenn., November 22, 1906; interment in Mount Olivet Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Sixty-sixth and Cemetery. Sixty-seventh Congresses); again engaged in building con- struction and was also a director in many Brooklyn financial CALDWELL, Ben Franklin, a Representative from Illi- institutions; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 3, 1945; inter-nois; born near Carroliton, Greene County, Ill., August 2, 1848; moved to Illinois in April 1853 with his parents, who ment in Greenwood Cemetery. settled near Chatham, Ill.; attended the public schools; en- CALDERHEAD, William Alexander, a Representativegaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the Board of Su- from Kansas; born on a farm near New Lexington, Perrypervisors of Sangamon County in 1877 and 1878; member of County, Ohio, September 26, 1844; received private schoolingthe State house of representatives 1882-1886; served in the and also attended the common schools and Franklin College,State senate 1890-1894; upon his election to Congress in New Athens, Ohio; during the Civil War enlisted in August1898 he resigned the presidency of the Farmers' National 1862 as a private in Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-Bank of Springfield, which office he had held since 1885; sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was transferred topresident of the Caidwell State Bank of Chatham; elected as Company D, Ninth Veteran Reserves, for disability incurreda Democrat to the Fifty-sixth,Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth in service and discharged June 27, 1865; moved to HarveyCongresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1905); unsuccessful can- County, Kans., in 1868 and engaged in agricultural pursuitsdidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress; near Newton; moved to Newton, Kans., in 1872 andtaughtelected to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3, school and studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1875;1909); was not a candidate for renomination in 1908; again moved to Atchison, Kans., and continued to study law; alsoengaged in banking in Chatham, Ill.; died in Springfield, Ill., engaged in teaching; settled in Marysville, Marshall County,on December 29, 1924; interment inOak Ridge Cemetery. Kans., in 1879 and commenced the practice of law; served as prosecuting attorney of Marshall County 1889-189 1; elected CALDWELL, Charles Pope, a Representative from New as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4,1895-York; born near Bastrop, Bastrop County, Tex., June 18, March 3, 1897); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 18961875; attended the public schools; was graduated fromthe to the Fifty-fifth Congress; elected to the Fifty-sixth and tolaw department of the University of Texas at Austin in 1898 the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3,and the law department of Yale University in 1899; was 1911); chairman, Committee of Expenditures in the Depart-admitted to the bar in Austin, Tex., in 1898, and laterin ment of Justice (Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses);New York City, where he commenced practice in 1900; ap- unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1910; resumedpointed by Governor Dix a delegate to the Atlantic Deeper the practice of law in Marysville, Kans., until 1920, when heWater Ways Convention in 1910; delegate to theDemocratic retired from active business pursuits and moved to Enid,National Convention in 1912; elected as a Democrat to the Okia., where he died on December 18, 1928; interment in Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses (March Marysville Cemetery, Marysville, Kans. 4, 1915-March 3, 1921): declined to be a candidatefor re- nomination in 1920; resumed the practice of law in New CALDWELL, Alexander, a Senator from Kansas; born atYork City; appointed associate justice of the court ofspecial Drakes Ferry, Huntingdon County, Pa., March 1, 1830; at-sessions of New York City January 1, 1926, and serveduntil tended the public schools; enlisted in 1847 as a private in theDecember 1935; resumed the practice of law in LongIsland, Mexican War; moved to Columbia, Pa., in 1848; employed inN.Y.; died in Sunnyside, Queens County, N.Y., July 31, 1940; a bank and subsequently went into businessfor himself;remains were cremated and the ashes scattered over his moved to Leavenworth, Kans., in 1861 and engaged in the transportation of military supplies to the various posts onancestral estate in Bastrop County, Tex. the plains; engaged in the building of railroads, especially CALDWELL, George Alfred, a Representative from Ken- the Missouri River and Kansas Central Railroad; elected astucky; born in Columbia, Adair County, Ky., October 18, a Republican to the United States Senateand served from1814; attended the common schools; studied law; was admit- March 4, 1871, to March 24, 1873, when he resigned; manu-ted to the bar in 1837 and commenced practice inAdair factured wagons and carriages 1877-1897; president of theCounty; member of the State house of representativesin First National Bank of Leavenworth 1897-1915; died in1839 and 1840; elected as a Democrat to theTwenty-eighth Kansas City, Mo., May 19, 1917; interment in Mount MuncieCongress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); chairman, Commit- Cemetery, Leavenworth, Kans. tee on Expenditures in the Department of theTreasury Bibliography: DAB. (Twenty-eighth Congress); commissioned major and quarter- CALDWELL, Andrew Jackson, a Representative frommaster of Volunteers in the war with Mexico June 26,1846; Tennessee; born in Montevallo, Shelby County, Ala., July 22,major of Infantry March 3, 1847, and major of voltigeurs 1837; moved to Tennessee in 1844 with his parents, whoApril 9, 1847; brevetted lieutenant colonel September 13, settled near Nashville; attended the common schools; was1847 for service in the Battle of Chapultepec, Mexico; honor- graduated from Franklin College, Tennessee, in 1854; taughtably mustered out August 25, 1848; elected to the Thirty- school in Nashville 1854-1857; moved to Trenton in 1857 andfirst Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3,1851); chairman, studied law; during the Civil War served in the ConfederateCommittee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treas- Army as a private and regimental quartermaster in theury (Thirty-first Congress); was not acandidate for reelec- First Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry; resumed his law studies;tion to the Thirty-second Congress; resumed the practiceof was admitted to the Tennesseebar in 1867 and commencedlaw in Louisville; delegate to the Union National Convention 728 Biographical Directory

at Philadelphia in 1866; died in Louisville, Ky., Septemberthroughout the war; promoted to major and then to lieuten- 17, 1866; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery. ant colonel; served in the Army of Virginia; elected solicitor CALDWELL, Greene Washington, a Representative fromfor the tenth judicial circuit in 1863 but was deposed by the North Carolina; born in Belmont, Gaston County, N.C., AprilProvisional Governor in 1865; reelected the same year, and 13, 1806; pursued academic studies; was graduated from thein 1867 was removed from office for refusing to obey mili- medical department of the University of Pennsylvania attary orders; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and Philadelphia in 1831 and practiced; assistantsurgeon in theForty-fourth Congresses (March 4,1873-March 3,1877); United States Army 1832; studied law; was admitted to thechairman, Committee on Agriculture (Forty-fourth Con- bar and practiced in Charlotte, N.C.; member of the Stategress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1876; re- house of commons 1836-1841; elected as a Democrat to thesumed the -practice of law; died in Jacksonville, Ala., Sep- Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3,1843); tember 4, 1902; interment in Jacksonville Cemetery. was not a candidate for renomination in 1842; appointed superintendent of the United States Mint at Charlotte in CALDWELL, John William, a Representative from Ken- 1844; participated in the war with Mexicoas captain oftucky; born in Russellville, Logan County, Ky., January 15, Infantry; commissioned captain of the Third Dragoons April1837; attended the common schools and Bethel College; 9, 1847, and was mustered out July 20, 1848; member of themoved with his uncle to Texas in 1850, where he worked on State senate in 1849; unsuccessful candidate for election ina farm; engaged as a clerk and as a surveyor; returned to 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; resumed the practice ofKentucky and studied law in the Louisville University; was medicine; died in Charlotte, N.C., July 10, 1864; interment inadmitted to the bar in 1858 and commenced practice in the Old Cemetery. Russeliville, KY.; volunteered as a private in the Confederate Army -in 1861 and was immediately elected captain of the CALDWELL, James, a Representative from Ohio; born in"Logan Grays"; promoted to major, lieutenant colonel, and Baltimore, Md., November 30, 1770; moved with his father tocolonel of the Ninth Regiment, Kentucky Infantry; resumed Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1772 and settled on what isthe practice of law in Russeilville in 1865; elected judge of now the site of the city of Wheeling; received a liberalthe Logan County Court in 1866 and reelected in 1870; elect- schooling; moved to St. Clairsville, Ohio, in 1799; engaged ined as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty- mercantile pursuits and later in banking; delegate to the seventh Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1883); declined convention which framed the first constitution of Ohio; clerkto be a candidate for reelection; president of the Logan of the court of Belmont County, Ohio, 1806-18 10; captain inCounty Bank; died in Russellville, Ky., July 4, 1903; inter- an Ohio regiment in the War of 1812; member of the State ment in Maple Grove Cemetery. senate 1809-1812; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); CALDWELL, Joseph Pearson, a Representative from resumed banking and mercantile business in St. Clairsville,North Carolina; born near Olin, Iredell County, N.C., March Ohio; died in Wheeling, Va. (now West Virginia), in May5, 1808; attended Bethany Academy, near Statesville, N.C.; 1838; interment in Episcopal Cemetery, St. Clairsville, Bel-studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- mont County, Ohio. tice in Statesville, N.C.; served in the State senate in 1833 and 1834; member of the State house of commons 1838-1844; CALD WELL, John Alexander, a Representative fromelected as a Whig to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Con- Ohio; born in Fairhaven, Preble County, Ohio, April 21,gresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); was not a candidate 1852; educated in the common schools of his native countyfor renomination in 1852; died in Statesville, N.C., June 30, and also by private teachers; taught school for severalyears;1853; interment in Old Statesville Cemetery. was graduated from the Cincinnati Law College in 1876; was admitted to the bar the same year; again engaged in teach- CALD WELL, Millard Fillmore, a Representative from ing; commenced the practice of law in Cincinnati, Ohio, inFlorida; born in Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn., February 6, 1878; prosecuting attorney of the Cincinnati police court1897; attended the public schools, Carson-Newman College, 1881-1885; elected judge of the city police court in 1887;JeffersonCity, Tenn., the University of Mississippi at elected president of the Ohio League of Republican Clubs inOxford, and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; 1887; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second,during the First World War enlisted in the United States and Fifty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1889,Army on April 3, 1918, was commissioned a second lieuten- until May 4, 1894, when he resigned; mayor of Cincinnatiant in the Field Artillery, and was discharged January 11, 1894-1897; Lieutenant Governor of Ohio 1899-1901; elected1919; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1922 and judge of the court of common pleas in 1902, and served untilcommenced practice in Milton, Fla., in 1925; served as pros- his death in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 24, 1927; interment inecuting attorney and county attorney of Santa Rosa County, Spring Grove Cemetery. Fla., 1926-1932; member of the State house of representa- tives 1929-1932; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third CALDWELL, John Henry, a Representative from Ala-and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-Janu- bama; born in Huntsville, Ala., April 4, 1826; attended theary 3, 1941); was not a candidate for renomination in 1940; common schools of Huntsville and Bacon College, Harrods-resumed the practice of law; Governor of Florida from Janu- burg, KY.; taught school in Limestone County, Ala., fourary 2, 1945, to January 4, 1949; chairman of the National years; moved to Jacksonville, Ala., in 1848; was principal ofGovernors' Conference in 1946 and 1947; chairman of the the Jacksonville Female Academy 1848-1852 and of theRegional Board of Control for Southern Regional Education Jacksonville Male Academy 1853-1857; edited the Jackson-1948-1950; Administrator, Federal Civil Defense Administra- ville Republican in 1851 and 1852 and assumed the editor-tion 1950-1952; member and later chief justice of Supreme ship of the Sunny South in 1855; member of the State houseCourt of Florida; engaged in farming, banking, and practice of representatives in 1857 and 1858; studied law; was admit- ted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Jackson-of law; resided in Tallahassee, Fla., until his death October ville, Ala.; during the Civil War enlisted in the Confederate23, 1984. Army and organized Company A of the Tenth Alabama CALD WELL, Patrick Calhoun, a Representative from Regiment, from St. Clair and Calhoun Counties, and servedSouth Carolina; born near Newberry, S.C., March 10, 1801; Biographies 729 was graduated from South Carolina College (now the Uni-November 5-7, 1827, to fill the vacancy caused by the death versity of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1820; studied law;of William S. Young, but, in order to avoid a contest, re- was admitted to the bar in 1822 and commenced practice insigned and, together with his opponent, Thomas Chilton, South Carolina; member of the State house of representa-petitioned the Governor for a new election; was again unsuc- tives 1838-1839; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sev-cessful; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty- enth Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); unsuccessfulfifth Congresses (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1839); was not a candidate for reelection to the Twenty-eighth Congress;candidate for reelection to the Twenty-sixth Congress; moved served in the State senate in 1848; died in South Carolinato St. Louis, Mo., in 1839; resumed the practice of law; November 22, 1855. returned to Kentucky; appointed judge of the fourteenth judicial district in January 1842. CALDWELL,Robert Porter, a Representative from Ten- nessee; born in Adair County, Ky., December 16,1821; CALHOUN,John Caidwell (cousin of John Ewing Coihoun moved with his parents to Henry County, Tenn.; a few yearsand Joseph Calhoun), a Representative and a Senator from later moved to Obion County; attended the public schools atSouth Carolina and a Vice President Of the United States; Troy and Lebanon; studied law at Troy; was admitted to theborn near Calhoun Mills, Abbeville District (now Mount bar and commenced practice in Trenton in 1845; member ofCarmel, McCormick County), S.C., March 18, 1782; attended the State house of representatives in 1847 and 1848; servedthe common schools and private academies; was graduated in the State senate in 1855 and 1856; elected attorney gener-from Yale College in 1804; studied law, was admitted to the al for the sixteenth judicial circuit of Tennessee in 1858;bar in 1807, and commenced practice in Abbeville, S.C.; also during the Civil War was a major in the Twelfth Regiment,engaged in agricultural pursuits; member, State house of Tennessee Infantry, of the Confederate Army; elected as arepresentatives 1808-1809; elected as a Republican to the Democrat to the Forty-second Congress (March 4,1871-Twelfth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candidate for renomination infrom March 4, 1811, to November 3, 1817, when he resigned; 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; resumed the practice ofSecretary of War in the Cabinet of President James Monroe law in Trenton, Tenn.; died in Trenton March 12, 1885;18 17-1825; elected vice president of the United States in interment in Oakland Cemetery. 1824 with President John Quincy Adams; reelected in 1828 CALDWELL,William Parker, a Representative from Ten-with President Andrew Jackson and served from March 4, nessee; born in Christmasville, Carroll County, Tenn.,No- 1825, to December 28, 1832, when he resigned, having been vember 8, 1832; attended school at McLemoresville, Tenn.,elected to the United States Senate on December 12, 1832, to and at Princeton, KY.; studied law at Cumberland Universi-fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert Y. ty, Lebanon, Tenn.; was admitted to the bar in 1853 andHayne; reelected in 1834 and 1840 and served from Decem- practiced in Dresden and Union City, Tenn.; member of theber 29, 1832, until his resignation, effective March 3, 1843; State house of representatives 1857-1859; presidential elec-Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President John Tyler; tor on the Democratic ticket of Douglas and Johnson in1844-1845; again elected to the United States Senate to fill 1860; delegate to the Democratic National Convention inthe vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel E. Huger; 1868; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-reelected in 1846 and served from November 26, 1845, until fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); was not ahis death in Washington, D.C., March 31, 1850; chairman, candidate for reelection to the Forty-sixth Congress in 1878;Committee on Finance (Twenty ninth Congress), interment resumed the practice of law in Gardner, Tenn.; member ofin St. Philip's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C. the State senate 1891-1893; died in Gardner, Tenn., June 7, Bibliography: DAB; Calhoun, JohnC. The Papers of John C. Calhoun. 1903; interment in the Caidwell Cemetery. Edited by Robert Meriwether, W. Edwin Hemphill, Clyde N. Wilson. 16 vols. to date. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1959-; Wiltse, CALE,Thomas, a Delegate from the Territory of Alaska; Charles M.John C. Calhoun. 3vols. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1944- born in Underhill, Chittenden County, Vt., September 17, 1951. 1848; attended the district schools and Bell Academy, Under- CALHOUN,Joseph (cousin of John Caidwell Calhoun and hill Flats, Vt.; moved to Fort Edward, Washington County,John Ewing Colhoun), a Representative from South Caroli- N.Y., in 1866; taught school near Underhill Center, Vt., inna; born in Staunton, AugustaCounty, Va., October 22, 1867 and 1868; moved to Fond du Lac, Wis., in 1869; taught and school in several districts in Fond du Lac County and then1750; moved with his father to South Carolina in 1756 engaged in agricultural pursuits near Eden, Wis.; town clerksettled in Granville District, on Little River, near the of Eden 188 1-1884; member of the board of commissioners ofpresent town of Abbeville; received a limited education; en- Fond du Lac County 1884-1886; returned to Fond du Lacgaged in agricultural pursuits; served as a member of the and served as undersheriff of Fond du Lac County 1886-South Carolina house of representatives in 1804 and 1805; 1888; county sheriff 1888-1890; engaged as a salesman ofcolonel of State militia; elected as a Republican to the Tenth farm machinery; moved to Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1898 andCongress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Levi engaged in mining; elected as an Independent to the SixtiethCasey; reelected to the Eleventh Congress and served from Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1909); was not a candidateJune 2, 1807, to March 3, 1811; declined to be a candidate for forrenominationin1908;engagedinfarming nearreelection in 1810 to the Twelfth Congress; resumed agricul- McLaughlin, S.Dak., 1910-1915 and near Stevens Point,tural pursuits and engaged in milling; died in Calhoun Mills, Wis., 1915-1920; retired from active pursuits in 1920 andAbbeville District (now Mount Carmel, McCormick County), resided in Fond du Lac, Wis., until his. death in that city onApril 14, 1817; interment in the family burying ground near February 3, 1941; interment in Calvary Cemetery. his home CALHOON,John, a Representative from Kentucky; born CALHOUN,William Barron, a Representative from Mas- in Henry County, Ky., in 1797; studied law; was admitted tosachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., December 29, 1796; was the bar and practiced; member of the State house of repre-graduated from Yale College in 1814; studied law; was ad- sentatives in 1820, 1821, 1829, and 1830; unsuccessful candi-mitted to the bar and commenced practice in Springfield; date for election to the Twentieth Congress; received themember of the State house of representatives 1825-1834, credentials of an election to the Twentieth Congress, heldserving as speaker 1828-1834; elected as a Whig to the 730 Biographical Directory

Twenty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses CALL, Wilkinson (nephew of Richard Keith Call and (March 4, 1835-March 3,1843); chairman, Committee oncousin of James David Walker), a Senator from Florida; born Private Land Claims (Twenty-sixth Congress);was not a can-in Russellville, Logan County, Ky., January 9, 1834; attend- didate for renomination in 1842; member of the State senateed the common schools; moved to Jacksonville, Fla.; studied in 1846 and 1847, serving as its president; secretary of State of Massachusetts 1848-1851; State bank commissioner 1853-law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; served as adju- 1855; mayor of Springfield in 1859; again a member of thetant general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; State house of representatives in 1861 and 1862; died inelected to the United States Senate on December 29, 1865, Springfield, Mass., November 8, 1865; interment in Spring-but was not permitted to take the seat; member of the field Cemetery. Democratic National Executive Committee; practiced law in Bibliography: DAB. Jacksonville; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1879; reelected in 1885 and 1891 and served from CALKIN, Hervey Chittenden, a Representative from NewMarch 4, 1879, to March 3, 1897; chairman, Committee on York; born in Maiden, Ulster County, N.Y., March 23, 1828; attended the public schools; moved to New York City inCivil Service and Retrenchment (Fifty-third Congress), Corn- 1847; employed in the Morgan Iron Works for five years; inmittee on Patents (Fifty-third Congress); retired and resided 1852 commenced business as a dealer in metals and identi-in Washington, D.C., until his death on August 24, 1910; fied with the shipping interests of the country; school officerinterment in Oak Hill Cemetery. in his ward; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first Con- CALLAHAN, Herbert Leon, a Representative from Ala- gress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); was not a candidate for reelection in 1870; resumed his former business pursuits inbama; born in Mobile, Mobile County, Ala., September 11, New York City until 1904, when he retired; died in the1932; attended grade school in Mobile and was graduated Bronx, New York City, April 20, 1913; interment in Wood-from McGill Institute (high school), Mobile, in 1950; served lawn Cemetery. in the U.S. Navy 1952-1954; attended the University of Ala- bama (night school) in Mobile, 1959-1960; businessman with CALKINS, William Henry, a Representative from Indi-the Finch Companies 1964-1984; served as a Democrat in the ana; born in Pike County, Ohio, February 18, 1842; studiedState house of representatives 197 1-1979 and in the State law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; during the Civilsenate 1979-1983; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic War served in the Union Army from May 1861 to December 1865, except three months in 1863, attached to the Four-nomination for lieutenant governor in 1982; elected as a teenth Iowa Infantry and the Twelfth Indiana Cavalry; tookRepublican to the Ninety-ninth and One Hundredth Con- up his residence in La Porte, md.; State's attorney for thegresses (January 3, 1985-January 3, 1989); is a resident of ninth Indiana judicial circuit 1866-1870; member of theMobile, Ala. State house of representatives in 1871; elected as a Republi- CALLAHAN, James Yancy, a Delegate from the Territory can to the Forty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congressesof Oklahoma; born on a farm near Salem, Dent County, Mo., and served from March 4, 1877, to October 20, 1884, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Elections (Forty-seventhDecember 19, 1852; attended the common schools; entered the ministry in 1880; engaged in agricultural pursuits, saw- Congress); moved to Tacoma, Wash., and resumed theprac- tice of law; appointed United States associate justice of themilling, and mining; moved to Stanton County, Kans., in Territory of Washington in April 1889 and served until No-1885; elected register of deeds in 1886; reelected in 1888 and vember 11, 1889, when the Territory was admittedas a Stateserved until December 1889, when he resigned; returned to into the Union; died in Tacoma, Wash., on January 29, 1894;Dent County, Mo.; moved to Oklahoma in 1892 and settled interment in Tacoma Cemetery. near Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, and engaged in agricul- tural pursuits; elected on the Free Silver ticket to the Fifty- CALL, Jacob, a Representative from Indiana; born in Kentucky; was graduated from an academy in Kentucky;fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); was not a studied law; was dmitted to the bar and practiced in Vin-candidate for renomination in 1898; published the Jacksoni- cennes and Princeton, md.; judge of the Knox County Cir-an at Enid, Garfield County, Okla., until January 1, 1913; cuit Court in 1817, 1818, and 1822-1824; elected to the Eight- retired from active business pursuits and resided in Enid, eenth Congress to ff1 the vacancy caused by the death ofOkia., until his death there on May 3, 1935; interment in William Prince and served from December 23,1824, toEnid Cemetery. March 3, 1825; died in Frankfort, Ky., April 20, 1826. CALLAN, Clair Armstrong, a Representative from Ne-- CALL, Richard Keith (uncle of Wilkinson Call), a Dele-braska; born in Odell, Gage County, Nebr., March 29, 1920; gate from the Territory of Florida; born near Petersburg,attended the public schools; graduated from Peru State Col- Va., October 24, 1792; attended the common schools andlege; during the Second World War served as an officer in Mount Pleasant Academy; in 1814 entered the United States the United States Navy on a destroyer in the Pacific Thea- Army as first lieutenant in the Forty-fourth Infantry; spe-ter, served on Odell Village Board, Odell School Board, Gage cial aide to Major General Jackson in the Battle of NewCounty School Reorganization Board, Gage County Fair Orleans; promoted to captain in July 1818 and resigned MayBoard, Gage County Extension Board, chairman of Gover- 1, 1822; settled in the Territory of Florida; studied law; wasnor's. Committee on State Government Reorganization admitted to the bar and practiced in Pensacola; member ofBoard, and chairman of Nebraska Power Review Board; en- the Territorial council in 1822; brigadier general of the West Florida Militia in 1823; elected to the Eighteenth Congressgaged as a farmer, stockman, and in the hardware and farm (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); receiver of the land office ofsupply business; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth the Territory of Florida; Governor of the Territory 1835-Congress (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1967); unsuccessful 1840 and 184 1-1844; unsuccessful candidate of the Whigcandidate for reelection in 1966; to the Ninetieth Congress Party for Governor of the new State in 1845; died in Talla-and in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress; deputy adminis- hassee, Fla., September 14, 1862; interment in a privatetrator of the Rural Electrification Administration, 1967- cemetery on his estate. 1968; served as president, Allied Industries International, Bibliography: DAB; Doherty, Herbert J. Richard Keith Call, Southern Inc., and Agri-Tech in Nashville, Tenn.; is a resident of Unionict. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1961. Fairbury, Nebr. Biographies 731

CALLAWAY, Howard Hollis, a Representative from Geor-tired from active pursuits; died in Lancaster, Wis., on Sep-- gia; born in LaGrange, Troup County, Ga., April 2, 1927;tember 24, 1898; interment in Hillside Cemetery. attended the public schools of LaGrange and Hamilton in CALVERT, Charles Benedict, a Representative from Georgia; graduated from Episcopal High School, Alexandria,Maryland; born in Riverdale, Prince Georges County, Md., Va., in 1944; attended Georgia Institute of Technology, At- lanta, Ga., in 1944 and 1945; graduated from the UnitedAugust 24, 1808; completed preparatory studies at Bladens- States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. in June 1949;burg Academy, Md.; was graduated from the University of served in Korea as an Infantry platoon leader in 1949 andVirginia at Charlottesville in 1827; engaged in agricultural 1950 and as an instructor in tactics at Infantry School, Fortpursuits and stock breeding; member of the State house of Benning, Ga., in 1951 and 1952; president of Callaway Gar- delegates in 1839, 1843, and 1844; president of the Prince dens, 1953-1970, and the Ida Cason CaJ.laway Foundation,Georges County Agricultural Society and the Maryland 1956-1970; director of Georgia Power Co., Atlanta, Ga., 1960-State Agricultural Society; vice president of the United 1964, and the Trust Co. of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga., 1958-1964;States Agricultural Society; founded the first agricultural chairman, Freedom's Foundation at Valley Forge, Pa., 1966-research college in America (later the Maryland Agricultur- 1973; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-ninth Congressal College at College Park), chartered in 1856; one of the (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1967); was not a candidate forearly advocates for the establishment of the United States reelection to the Ninetieth Congress; unsuccessful candidateDepartment of Agriculture; elected as a Unionist to the for Governor of Georgia in 1966; member, executive commit-Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); was tee, Republican National Committee; National Committee-not a candidate for renomination in 1862; resumed agricul- man for Georgia 1968-1973; Secretaryof the Army, Maytural pursuits; died in Riverdale, Prince Georges County, 1973-July 1975; campaign manager, The President FordMd., May 12, 1864; interment in Calvert Cemetery. Committee, July 1975-April 1976; unsuccessful candidate for Bibliography: DAB. the Republican nomination to the United States Senate in CALVIN, Samuel, a Representative from Pennsylvania; 1980; chairman, Colorado Republican Party,198 1-1987; born in Washingtonville, Pa., July 30, 1811; attended the chairman, GOPAC, 1987 to present; is a resident of Crestedcommon schools and Milton Academy; taught inHuntingdon Butte, Cob. Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1836 and CALLAWAY, Oscar, a Representative from Texas; born incommenced practice in Hollidaysburg, Pa.; elected as a Whig Harmony Hill (Nip-and-Tuck), Rusk County, Tex., October 2,to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); 1872; moved with his parents to Comanche County in 1876;declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1850; re-- attended the public schools, and was graduated from thesumed the practice of law; director of the Hollidaysburg Comanche High School in 1894; taught school 1894-1897;School Board for thirty years; member of the State revenue attended the University of Texas at Austin 1897-1899, andboard; member of the State constitutional convention in was graduated from the law department of that university1873; died in Hollidaysburg, Blair County, Pa., on March 12, in 1900; was admitted to the bar the same year and com-1890; interment in Presbyterian Cemetery. menced practice in Comanche, Tex.; prosecuting attorney of Comanche County 1900-1902; delegate to Democratic State CAMBRELENG, Churchill Caldom, a Representative conventions in 1896, 1898, 1900-1916, and 1920-1926; elected from New York; born in Washington, Beaufort County, N.C., October 24, 1786; attended school in New Bern, N.C.; moved as a Democrat to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty- clerk and fourth Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1917); unsuccess-to New York City in 1802, where he became a ful candidate for renomination in 1916; returned to hissubsequently engaged in the mercantile business; elected to ranch near Comanche, Tex., where he engaged in agricultur-the Seventeenth through Twentieth Congresses, elected as a al pursuits and stock raising, and also in the practice of lawJacksonian to the Twenty-first through Twenty-fourth Con- in Comanche; died in Comanche, Tex., January 31, 1947;gresses, and elected as a Democrat tothe Twenty-fifth Con- interment in Oakwood Cemetery. gress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1839); chairman,Committee on Commerce (Twentieththrough Twenty-second Congress- CALLIS, John Benton, a Representative from Alabama;es), Committee on Foreign Affairs (Twenty-third Congress), born in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C., January 3,Committee on Ways and Means (Twenty-fourth and Twenty- 1828; moved to Tennessee in 1834 with his parents, whofifth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in settled in Carroll County, and thence, in 1840, to Lancaster, 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; appointed United States Grant County, Wis.; attended the common schools; studiedMinister to Russia by President Van Buren and servedfrom medicine for three years, but then abandoned its furtherMay 20, 1840, to July 13, 1841; member of the State constitu- study; went to Minnesota in 1849; moved to California intional convention in 1846; died at his residence near Hun- 1851 and engaged in mining and the mercantile business;tington, Suffolk County, N.Y., April 30, 1862; interment in went to Central America in 1853; returned to Lancaster,Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. Wis., in the fall of that year and again engaged in mercan- Bibliography: DAB. tile pursuits; entered the Union Army as a lieutenant, and was promoted to captain in the Seventh Regiment,Wiscon- CAMDEN, Johnson Newlon (father of Johnson Newlon sin Volunteer Infantry, August 30, 1861; major January 5,Camden, Jr.), a Senator from West Virginia; born in Collins 1863; appointed by President Lincoln military superintend-Settlement, Lewis County, Va. (now West Virginia), March ent of the War Department at Washington, D.C., in 1864;6, 1828; attended school in Sutton, Va. (now West Virginia); promoted to lieutenant colonel February 11, 1865; settled inappointed as a cadet to the United States Military Academy Huntsville, Ala., in 1865; resigned his commission in theat West Point from 1846 until 1848, when he resigned;stud- Army on February 4, 1868; upon the readmission of theied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in State of Alabama to representation was elected as a Republi-Sutton in 1851; appointed the same year prosecuting attor- can to the Fortieth Congress and servedfrom July 21, 1868,ney for Braxton County;elected prosecuting attorney for to March 3, 1869; was not a candidate for renominationinNicholas County in 1852; engaged in the development of 1868; returned to Lancaster, Wis., and engaged in the real-petroleum and in manufacturing in Parkersburg, Va. (now West Virginia) in 1858; president of the First National Bank estate business; member of the State assembly in 1874; re-- 732 Biographical Directory

of Parkersburg at its organization in 1862; unsuccesfulClaims (Fifty-third Congress); was not a candidate for reelec- Democratic candidate for Governor in 1868 and again intion; engaged in several business enterprises in Harrisburg, 1872; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate andPa.; died at his country home, "Donegal," in Lancaster served from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1887; resumed theCounty, Pa., August 30, 1918; interment in the Harrisburg practice of law at Parkersburg; again elected asa DemocratCemetery, Harrisburg, Pa. to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the Bibliography: DAB; Harrison, Robert. "Blame and the Camerons: A death of John E. Kenna, and served from January 25, 1893,Study in the Limits of Machine Power." Pennsylvania History 49 (July to March 3, 1895; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control 1982): 157-75. the Contingent Expense (Fifty-third Congress), Committee on Railroads (Fifty-third Congress); continued former business CAMERON, Ralph Henry, a Delegate and a Senator from pursuits; died in Baltimore, Md., April 25, 1908; interment inArizona; born in Southport, Lincoln County, Maine, October Odd Fellows Cemetery, Parkersburg, W.Va. 21, 1863; attended the common schools; emigrated to the Bibliography: DAB; Summers, Festus. Johnson Newlon Camden: A Study West and became interested in mining and stock raising; in Individualism. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. locator and builder of the Bright Angel trail into the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona; moved to the CAMDEN, Johnson Newlon, Jr. (son of the Johnson Newlon Camden), a Senator from Kentucky; born in Par-Territory of Arizona in 1883; sheriff of Coconino County in kersburg, Wood County, W.Va., January 5, 1865; attended 1891 and 1894-1898; member of the board of supervisors of Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Va., Phillips Academy, Coconino County 1905-1907 and served as chairman; elected Andover, Mass., Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va.,as a Republican Delegate to the Sixty-first and Sixty-second Columbia Law School, New York City, and the law school ofCongresses and served from March 4, 1909, to February 18, the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; was admitted1912, when Arizona was admitted as a State into the Union; to the bar in 1888 but never practiced; moved to Spring Hillresumed mining pursuits at Phoenix, Ariz.; elected as a Farm, near Versailles, Woodford County, Ky., in 1890; en-Republican to the United States Senate in 1920 and served gaged in farming and horsebreeding; also interested in thefrom March 4, 1921, to March 3, 1927; unsuccessful candi- opening and development of the coal fields of eastern Ken-date for reelection in 1926 and for election in 1928; engaged tucky; appointed and subsequently elected as a Democrat toin mica mining in North Carolina and Georgia and in gold the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by themining in California; resided in Los Angeles, Calif., and death of William 0. Bradley and served from June 16, 1914,Yuma, Ariz., until his death in Washington, D.C., while on a to March 3, 1915; was not a candidate for renomination inbusiness trip, February 12, 1953; interment in the American 1914; resumed agricultural pursuits on a farm near Paris,Legion Cemetery, Grand Canyon, Ariz. Ky., until his death on August 16, 1942; interment in Frank- Bibliography: Lamb, Blame. "A Many Checkered Toga: Arizona Senator fort Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky. Ralph H. Cameron, 1921-1927." Arizona and the West 19 (Spring 1977): 47-64. CAMERON, Angus, a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Caledonia, Livingston County, N.Y., July 4, 1826; attended CAMERON, Ronald Brooks, a Representative from Cali- the public schools and the Genasee Wesleyan Seminary,fornia; born in Kansas City, Jackson County, Mo., August Lima, N.Y.; taught school; studied law in Buffalo, N.Y.;was16, 1927; educated in the public schools of Kansas, Missouri, graduated from the National Law School, Ballston Spa,and Ohio; served in the United States Marine Corps 1945- N.Y., in 1853; was admitted to the bar the same year and1946; attended Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, commenced practice in Buffalo, N.Y.; engaged in banking forOhio, 1946-1947, and the University of California at Los a year; moved to La Crosse, Wis., in 1857 and resumed theAngeles, 1949-1953; J.D., Pepperdine University School of practice of law; member, State senate 1863-1864, 1871-1872;Law, 1973; admitted to practice as certified public account- member, State assembly in 1866-1867, and served as speakerant in 1954; elected to the State assembly in 1958 and re- in 1867; regent of the University of Wisconsin 1866-1875;elected in 1960; delegate to the Democratic National Conven- elected as a Republican to the United States Senate ontions in 1960 and 1964; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty- February 3, 1875, and served from March 4, 1875, untileighth and Eighty-ninth Congresses (January 3, 1963-Janu- March 3, 1881; was not a candidate for reelection in 1881;ary 3, 1967); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966 to elected March 10, 1881, to fill the vacancy caused by thethe Ninetieth Congress; resumed practice as a certified death of Matthew H. Carpenter and took his seat March 14,public accountant and attorney; Democratic nominee for 1881, and served until March 3, 1885; was not a candidateState Comptroller, 1970; is a resident of Whittier, Calif. for reelection; chairman, Committee on Claims (Forty-sev- CAMERON, Simon (father of James Donald Cameron), a enth and Forty-eighth Congresses); resumed the practice ofSenator from Pennsylvania; born in Maytown, Lancaster law in La Crosse, Wis., and died there March 30, 1897;County, Pa., March 8, 1799; apprenticed as a printer; news- interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. paper owner and editor; cashier of a bank, president of two CAMERON, James Donald (son of Simon Cameron), arailroad companies, and adjutant general of Pennsylvania; Senator from Pennsylvania; born in Middletown, Dauphinelected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy County, Pa., May 14, 1833; was graduated from Princetoncaused by the resignation of James Buchanan, and served College in 1852, and received a graduate degree in 1855;from March 13, 1845, to March 3, 1849; elected as a Republi- bank clerk and cashier; president of the Northern Centralcan to the United States Senate and served from March 4, Railway Co. of Pennsylvania 1866-1874; Secretary of War in 1857, to March 4, 1861, when he resigned, having been ap- the Cabinet of President Ulysses Grant 1876-1877; chairmanpointed Secretary of War; chairman, Committee on Patents of the Republican National Committee in 1880; elected as aand the Patent Office (Twenty-ninth Congress), Committee Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancyon Public Buildings (Twenty-ninth Congress), Committee on caused by the resignation of his father, Simon Cameron,District of Columbia (Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congress- March 5, 1877; reelected in 1879, 1885, and 1890, and servedes), Committee on Printing (Thirtieth Congress); unsuccess- from March 20, 1877, to March 3, 1897; chairman, Commit-ful candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in tee on Naval Affairs (Forty-seventh through Fifty-second1860; Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President Abraham and Fifty-fourth Congresses), Committee on RevolutionaryLincoln 1861-1862; United States Minister to Russia 1862; Biographies 733 was again elected as a Republican to the United States CAMP, John Newbold Happy, a Representative from Senate in 1867; reelected in 1873, and served from March 4,Oklahoma; born in Enid, Garfield County, Okia., May 11, 1867, until his resignation, effective March 12, 1877; chair-1908; attended elementary and high schools in Blackwell, man, Committee on Agriculture (Fortieth and Forty-firstDouglas, and Waukomis, Okia.; attended Phillips University, Congresses), Committee on Foreign Relations (Forty-secondEnid, Okla.; engaged in the business of banking; president, through Forty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Public Build-Waukomis State Bank; member, State of Oklahoma Legisla- ings and Grounds (Forty-second Congress); retired fromture, 1942-1962; chairman, Oklahoma State Board of Public active business pursuits and traveled extensively in EuropeAffairs, 1967-1968; served as Republican Party precinct and the West Indies; died near Maytown, Lancaster County,chairman, Garfield County Young Republican chairman, and Pa., June 26, 1889; interment in Harrisburg Cemetery, Har-Oklahoma committee member; elected as a Republican to risburg, Pa. the Ninety-first and to the two succeeding Congresses (Janu- Bibliography: DAB; Bradley, Erwin. Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Secretary ary 3, 1969-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful candidatefor re-- of War: A Political Biography. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966; Crippen, Lee. Simon Cameron, Ante-bellum Years. 1942. Re- election in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; was a resi- print. New York: Da Capo Press, 1972. dent of Waukomis, Okla., until his death in Enid, Okla., on September 27, 1987; interment in Waukomis Cemetery. CAMINET'FI, Anthony, a Representative from California; born in Jackson, Amador County, Calif, July 30, 1854; at- CAMPBELL, Albert James, a Representative from Mon- tended the public schools of his native county, the grammartana; born in Pontiac, Oakland County, Mich., December 12, schools in San Francisco, and the University of California at1857; attended the common schools and the Michigan Agri- Berkeley; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1877 andcultural College at Lansing; taught school for several years; commenced practice in Jackson, Calif.; district attorney ofstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced Amador County 1878-1882; served in the State assembly inpractice in Oxford, Mich.; moved to Clarke, Mich., in 1882, 1883-1885; member of the State senate 1885-1887; elected asand resumed the practice of law; prosecuting attorney of a Democrat to the Fifty-second andFifty-third CongressesLake County, Mich., from 1886 to 1888 when he resigned; (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful candidate inmoved to Butte, Mont., on November 16, 1889, and continued 1894 for reelection to the Fifty-fourth Congress; delegate tothe practice of his profession; member of the State house of the Democratic National Convention in1896; again arepresentatives in 1897; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- member of the State assembly 1896-1900; in April 1897 wassixth Congress (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901); declined to be appointed code commissioner and served until July 31, 1899;a candidate for renomination in 1900;resumed the practice member of the State senate 1907-1913; served as Unitedof law in Butte, Mont.; died in New York City, August 9, States commissioner of immigration from 1913 to 1921; in1907; interment in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Butte, Mont. 1917 was appointed a member of the War Industries Board and after the war was sent to Europe to investigate condi- CAMPBELL, Alexander, a Senator from Ohio; born in tions there; engaged in the practice of law in Jackson,Frederick County, Va., in 1779; moved with his parents to Amador County, Calif., until his death, November 17, 1923;east Tennessee and later to Kentucky, settling nearLexing- interment in the Protestant Cemetery. ton, and later in Woodford County, KY.; educated atPisgah Bibliography: Giovinco, Joseph P. "The California Career of Anthony Academy, Woodford County, KY.; studied medicine atTran- Caniinetti, Italian-American Politician." Ph.D. dissertation, University of sylvania University and commenced practice in Cynthiana, California at Berkeley, 1973. Ky., in 1801; member, State house of representatives1803; CAMP, Albert Sidney, a Representative from Georgia;moved to Adams County in 1804, and later to Brown County, born on a farm near Moreland, Coweta County, Ga., July 26,Ohio, where he continued the practice of medicine; also en- 1892; attended the public schools, and was graduated fromgaged in mercantile pursuits; member, State houseof repre-- the law department of the University of Georgia at Athenssentatives 1807; reelected in 1808 and 1809, and served as in 1915; was admitted to the bar the same year and com-speaker in 1808 and 1809; unsuccessful candidate for United menced practice at Newnan, Ga.; during the First WorldStates Senator in 1808; elected as a Republican tothe War served overseas as a member of Headquarters Detach-United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- ment of the Eighty-second Division 1917-1919; delegate tonation of Edward Tiffm and served from December 11,1809, the Democratic National Convention in 1924; member of theto March 3, 1813; resumed the practice ofmedicine; moved State house of representatives 1923-1928; assistant Unitedto Staunton (now Ripley), Ohio, in 1815;member, State States attorney for the northern district of Georgia 1934-house of representatives 1819, and served asspeaker pro 1939; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress totempore; member, State senate 1822-1824;unsuccessful can-

fill the vacancy caused by the death of Emmett M. Owen;didate for Governor in 1826; member, State houseof repre-- reelected to the Seventy-seventh and to the six succeedingsentatives 1832-1833; served as vice president of the first Congresses and served from August 1, 1939, until his deathgeneral antislavery society of Ohio in 1835; mayor of Ripley in Bethesda, Md., July 24, 1954; interment in Oak Hill Cem- 1838-1840; died in Ripley, Brown County, Ohio, November 5, etery, Newnan, Ga. 1857; interment in Maplewood Cemetery. CAMP, John Henry, a Representative from New York; CAMPBELL, Alexander, a Representative from Illinois; born in Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y., April 4, 1840; at-born on a farm near Concord, Franklin County, Pa., October tended the common schools, and was graduated from the4, 1814; attended the public schools; became a clerk in an Albany Law School in 1860; was admitted to the bar theiron works and was subsequently promoted tosuperintend- same year and commenced practicein Lyons, N.Y.; clerk of in the surrogate court in 1863; prosecuting attorney of Wayneent, continuing in the business of managing iron works County 1867-1870; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth,Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Missouri until 1850, when he Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1877-moved to La Salle, Ill., and became interested in the coal March 3, 1883); was not a candidate for reelection in 1882;fields; mayor of La Salle in 1852 and 1853; member of the resumed the practice of law in Lyons, Wayne County, N.Y.,State house of representatives in 1858 and 1859; delegate to where he died October 12, 1892; interment in Grove Ceme-the State constitutional convention in 1862; elected as an tery, Trumansburg, N.Y. Independent to the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875- 734 Biographical Directory

March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876in Company Six, First Officers Training School, Fort Snell- to the Forty-fifth Congress; retired from public life; died ining, Minn.; member of the State senate 1920-1928, serving as La Salle, Ill., August 8, 1898; interment in Oakwood Ceme-president pro tempore 1924-1926; elected as a Republican to tery. the Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses (March 4, CAMPBELL, Ben Nighthorse, a Representative from Col-1929-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in orado; born in Auburn, Calif., April 13, 1933; attended public 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; resumed the practice of schools; B.A., University of California at San Jose, 1957;law; died in Battle Creek, Iowa, April 26, 1969; interment in attended Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, 1960-1964; servedMount Hope Cemetery. in U.S. Air Force in Korea, 1952-1954; jewelry designer; CAMPBELL, Felix, a Representative from New York; rancher; served in the Colorado State Legislature, 1983-1986;born in Brooklyn, N.Y., February 28, 1829; attended the elected as a Democrat to the One Hundredth Congress (Jan-common schools; became a manufacturer of iron pipe and a uary 3, 1987-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Ignacio, Cob.consulting engineer; president of the board of supervisors in CAMPBELL, Brookins, a Representative from Tennessee;1858; appointed by Governor Tilden a member of the board born in Washington County, Term., in 1808; attended theof commissioners from New York to the Centennial Exhibi- rural schools and was graduated from Washington Collegetion at Philadelphia in 1876; elected as a Democrat to the (now Washington and Lee University) at Lexington; studiedForty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March

law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; member of the4, 1883-March 3, 1891); declined to be a candidate forre-- State house of representatives 1835-1839, 1841-1846, andnomination in 1890; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., November 8, 1851-1853, and served as speaker in 1845; during the Mexi-1902; interment in Holy Cross Cemetery. can War was appointed by President Polk in 1846 an assist- ant quartermaster to the Army with the rank of major; CAMPBELL, George Washington, a Representative and a elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress andSenator from Tennessee; born in the parish of Tongue, Suth- served from March 4, 1853, until his death in Washington,erlandshire, Scotland, February 9, 1769; immigrated with his D.C., December 25, 1853, without having qualified; intermentparents to North Carolina in 1772; taught school; was grad- in Providence Presbyterian Churchyard, Greene County,uated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton Uni- Tenn. versity) in 1794; studied law while teaching; was admitted to the bar in North Carolina and commenced practice in Knox- CAMPBELL, Carroll Ashmore, Jr., a Representative fromville, Tenn.; elected as a Republican to the Eighth, Ninth, South Carolina; born in Greenville, Greenville County, S.C., and Tenth Congresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1809); chair- July 24, 1940; attended the public schools of Greenville,man, Committee on Ways and Means (Tenth Congress); one McCallie School, Chattanooga, Tenn., and the University ofof the managers appointed by the House of Representatives South Carolina; real estate broker, farmer, and business-in January 1804 to conduct the impeachment proceedings man; served in the South Carolina house of representatives,against John Pickering, judge of the United States District 1970-1974; appointed executive assistant by the Governor,Court for New Hampshire, and in December of the same 1975; served in the South Carolina senate, 1976-1978; dele-year against Samuel Chase, Associate Justice of the Su- gate to Republican National Convention, 1976; electedas apreme Court of the United States; judge of the State su- Republican to the Ninety-sixth and to the three succeedingpreme court of errors and appeals 1809-1811; elected as a Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1987);was not aRepublican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy candidate for reelection in 1986, but was elected Governor ofcaused by the resignation of Jenkin Whiteside and served

South Carolina for the four-year term beginning January 14,from October 8, 1811, to February 11, 1814, when he re-- 1987; is a resident of Fountain Inn, S.C. signed; appointed Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President Madison and served from February to October CAMPBELL, Courtney Warren, a Representative from1814, when he resigned because of ill health; again elected Florida; born in Chillicothe, Livingston County, Mo., Aprilas a Republican to the United States Senate and served from 29, 1895; educated in Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., andOctober 10, 1815, until his resignation, effective April 20, the University of Missouri at Columbia, Mo.; during the1818; chairman, Committee on Finance (Fifteenth Congress); First World War served as a second lieutenant in the UnitedMinister:to Russia 1818-1821; member of the French Spolia- States Army; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Mis- tion Claims Commission in 1831; died in Nashville, Tenn., souri and Florida in 1924 and practiced in Tampa, Fla.,February 17, 1848; interment in the City Cemetery. 1924-1928; farmer, citrus grower, banker, and land develop- Bibliography: DAB; Jordan, Weymouth. George Washington Campbell of er; assistant attorney general State of Florida; member, Tennessee, Western Statesman. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, Florida State Road Board, 1942-1947; member, Florida War 1955. Labor Relations Board, 1941-1946; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third Congress (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1955); CAMPBELL, Guy Edgar, a Representative from Pennsyl- unsuccessful for reelection in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Con-vania; born in Fetterman, Taylor County, W.Va., October 9, gress; returned to his extensive business and civic interests1871; attended the grammar and high schools; moved to and resided in Clearwater, Fla.; died in Dunedin, Fla., De-Pennsylvania with his parents, who located in Pittsburgh in cember 22, 1971; interment in Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park,1889, and in Crafton Borough, Allegheny County, in 1893; Pinellas County, Fla. attended Iron City Business College at Pittsburgh; was em- ployed as a clerk in the offices of the Baltimore & Ohio

CAMPBELL, Ed Hoyt, a Representative from Iowa; bornRailroad at Pittsburgh, Pa., until June 1896, when he re-- in Battle Creek, Ida County, Iowa, March 6, 1882; attendedsigned; was engaged in the general insurance business in the public schools of his native city, and was graduated fromPittsburgh until 1903; was interested in the production of oil the law department of the State University of Iowa at Iowaand gas in Pennsylvania and West Virginia; elected as a City in 1906; was admitted to the bar the same year andDemocrat to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh commenced practice in Battle Creek; mayor of Battle CreekCongresses, and as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to 1908-19 11; member of the State house of representativesthe four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1911-1913; during the First World War served as a private1933); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Depart- Biographies 735 ment of Labor (Sixty-eighth Congress); unsuccessful candi-1924; served on the commission to codify the State laws date for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress;1908-1911; resumed the practice of law in Columbus, Ohio, engaged in an advisory capacity in Washington, D.C.; died atand died there on December 18, 1924; interment in Green Willoughby, Ohio, February 17, 1940; interment in MountLawn Cemetery. Union Cemetery, Robinson Township, Allegheny County, Pa. Bibliography: Doyle, James P. "James Bdwin Campbell: Conservative Democratic Congressman, Governor and Statesman." Ph.D. dissertation, CAMPBELL, Howard Edmond, a Representative from Ohio State University, 1967. Pennsylvania; born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa., January 4, 1890; attended the public schools and the Univer- CAMPBELL, James Hepburn, a Representative from sity of Pittsburgh; engaged in the real estate and insurancePennsylvania; born in Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pa., business in Pittsburgh in 1922; president of the PittsburghFebruary 8, 1820; attended the common schools, and was Real Estate Board in 1943 and 1944; elected as a Republicangraduated from the law department of Dickinson College, to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, 1945-January 3,Carlisle, Pa., in 184:1; was admitted to the bar the same year 1947); was not a candidate for renomination in 1946 to theand commenced practice in Pottsville, Pa.; delegate to the Eightieth Congress; resumed the real estate and insuranceWhig National Convention in 1844; elected as a Whig to the business, president of East Liberty Chamber of Commerce inThirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); un- 1954 and 1955; resided in Pittsburgh until his death theresuccessful candidate for reelection in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth January 6, 1971; interment in Homewood Cemetery. Congress; elected to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1863); was not acandi- CAMPBELL, Jacob Miller, a Representative from Penn-date for renomination in 1862; during the Civil War served sylvania; born at "White Horse," near Somerset, Alleghenyas major of the Twenty-fifth Regimentof Pennsylvania In- Township, Somerset County, Pa., November 20, 1821; movedfantry; appointed Minister to Sweden by President Lincoln with his parents to Allegheny City, Pa., in 1826; attendedin May 1864 and served until March 29, 1867; declined the the public schools; learned the art of printing in the officeofdiplomatic mission to Colombia in 1867; located in Philadel- the Somerset Whig; later was connected with a magazine-phia, Pa., in 1867 and continued the practice of law; died on publishing company in Pittsburgh and with leading newspa-his estate "Aeola," near Wayne, Delaware County, Pa.,April pers in New Orleans, La.; engaged in steamboating onthe12, 1895; interment in Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, lower Mississippi River 1814-1847 and in gold mining inPa. California in 1851; aided in the building of the Cambria Iron Bibliography: DAB. Works in Johnstown, Pa., in 1853, and was employed by that company until 1861, when he resigned; delegate to thefirst CAMPBELL, James Romulus, a Representative from illi- Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1856;nois; born near McLeansboro, Hamilton County, Ill., May4, served in the Union Army as first lieutenant and quarter-1853; attended the public schools and the University of master of Company G, Third Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun-Notre Dame, Notre Dame, md.; studied law; wasadmitted to teer Infantry; recruited the Fifty-fourth Regiment of Infan-the bar in 1877 and commenced practice inMcLeansboro, try and was commissioned its colonel February 27, 1862;Ill.; owned and edited the McLeansboro Times 1870-1898; brevetted brigadier general March 13, 1865; returned tomember of the State house of representatives1884-1888; Johnstown, Pa.; surveyor general (later secretary of internalserved in the State senate 1888-1896; elected as a Democrat affairs) of Pennsylvania 1865-1871; declined a renomination;to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4,1897-March 3, 1899); engaged in mechanical and other industrial pursuits; electedwas not a candidate for reelectionto the Fifty-sixth Congress as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress(March 4, 1877-in 1898; served in the war with Spain in theNinth Regi- March 3, 1879); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878ment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry;commissioned colonel to the Forty-sixth Congress; elected to the Forty-seventh,June 28, 1898; after the muster out of that regiment was Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1881-appointed lieutenant colonel of the Thirtieth Regiment, March 3,1887); chairman, Committee on ManufacturesUnited States Volunteers, on July 5, 1899, andassigned to (Forty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomi-service in the Philippine Islands; commissionedbrigadier nation in 1886; financially interested in banking and in thegeneral of Volunteers January 3, 1901, and was honorably manufacture of steel; chairman of the Republican State con-discharged March 25, 1901; engaged in milling and banking vention in 1887; died in Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.,in McLeansboro, Ill., and died there August 12,1924; inter- September 27, 1888; interment in Grand View Cemetery.ment in Odd Fellows Cemetery. CAMPBELL, James Edwin (nephew of Lewis Davis Camp- CAMPBELL, John, a Representative from Maryland;born bell), a Representative from Ohio; born in Middletown,near Port Tobacco, Charles County,Md., September 11, 1765; Butler County, Ohio, July 7, 1843; attended the publicstudied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced;held schools and Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; entered theseveral local offices; member of the State senate forthree Union Army as a member of the Mississippi Squadron, No-years; elected as a Federalist to theSeventh and to the four vember 29, 1863, and served until honorably discharged Sep-succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1811);judge tember 24, 1864; studied law; was admitted to the barinof the orphans' court of Charles County; died at"Charles- 1865; deputy collector of internal revenue, third district;ton" farm, Charles County, Md., June 23, 1828; intermentin commenced the practice of law in Hamilton, Ohio, in 1867;the private burying ground on the estate of DanielJenifer prosecuting attorney of Butler County 1876-1880; successful- ly contested as a Democrat the election of Henry L.Morey CAMPBELL, John (brother of Robert Blair Campbell), a to the Forty-eighth Congress; reelected tothe Forty-ninthRepresentative from South Carolina; born near Brownsville, 1884, toMarlboro County, S.C.; was graduated from South Carolina and Fiftieth Congresses and served from June 20, Columbia March 3, 1889; chairman, Committee on AlcoholicLiquorCollege (now the University of South Carolina) at Traffic (Forty-ninth Congress); was not a candidate for re-in 1819; studied law; was admitted to the barand com- nomination in 1888; Governor of Ohio in 1889; unsuccessfulmenced practice in Brownsville, S.C.; moved to Parnassus, Marlboro District, and continued the practice of law;elected candidate for Governor in 1891, and again in 1895; delegate Twenty-first Congress (March 4, to the Democratic National Conventions in1892, 1920, andas a Jacksonian to the 736 Biographical Directory

1829-March 3, 1831); elected as a Nuliffier to the Twenty-a Clay Whig newspaper in Hamilton, Ohio, 1831-1835; stud- fifth Congress and as a Democrat to the three succeedingied law; was admitted to the bar in 1835 and practiced in Congresses (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1845); chairman, Com-Hamilton until 1850, engaged m agricultural pursuits, un mittee on Elections (Twenty-sixth Congress), Committeeonsuccessful candidate for election in 1840, 1842, and 1844 to District of Columbia (Twenty-eighth Congress); died in Par-the Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth, and Twenty-ninth Con- nassus (now Blenheim), Marlboro County, S.C., on May 19,gresses; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first, Thirty-second, 1845; interment in a private cemetery near Blenheim, S.C.and Thirty-third Congresses and as an American Partycan- CAMPBELL, John Goulder, a Delegate from the Terri-didate on a Fusion ticket to the Thirty-fourth Congress tory of Arizona; born in Glasgow, Scotland, June 25, 1827;(March 4,1849-March 3, 1857); chairman, Committeeon immigrated to the United States in 1841 and settled in theWays and Means (Thirty-fourth Congress); presented creden- State of New York; attended the public and high schools;tials as a Republican Member-elect to the Thirty-fifth Con- moved to California in 1849 and engaged in numerousoccu-gress and served from March 4, 1857, to May 25, 1858, when pations; moved to Prescott, Ariz., in 1863 and engaged inhe was succeeded by Clement L. Vallandighain, whosuccess- mercantile pursuits and stock raising; member of the Terri-fully contested the election; was an unsuccessful candidate torial house of representatives 1868-1874; county supervisorfor election in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress; served in of Yavapai County; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixththe Union Army as colonel of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); resumed his formerOhio Volunteer Infantry, in 1861 and 1862; appointed by business pursuits; also engaged in the hotel business and inPresident Andrew Johnson as Envoy Extraordinary and stock raising; died in Prescott, Ariz., December 22, 1903;Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico on May 4, 1866 and interment in Mountain View Cemetery. served until June 16, 1867, when he resigned; elected to the CAMPBELL, John Hull, a Representative from Pennsyl-State senate in 1869 and resigned m 1870, electedas a vania; born in York, York County, Pa., October 10, 1800;Democrat to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871- studied law; was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia, Pa., inMarch 3, 1873), was not a candidate for reelection m 1872 to 1823 and commenced practice in that city; member of thethe Forty third Congress, delegate to the third State consti State house of representatives in 1831; electedas a candidatetutional convention m 1873, resumed agricultural pursuits, of the American Party to the Twenty-ninth Congress (Marchdied in Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, on November 26, 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); declined to be 1882; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. a candidate for re- Bibliography: DAB; Van Home, William E. "Lewis D. Campbell and the nomination in 1846; resumed the practice of law; died in Know-Nothing Party in Ohio." Ohio History 76 (Autumn 1967): 202-21. Philadelphia, Pa., on January 19, 1868; interment in Monu- ment Cemetery. CAMPBELL, Philip Pitt, a Representative from Kansas; born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, April 25, 1862; CAMPBELL, John Pierce, Jr., a Representative frommoved with his parents to Neosho County, Kans., in 1867; Kentucky; born near Hopkinsville, Christian County, Ky.,attended the common schools, and was graduated from December 8, 1820; pursued an academic course; studied law;Baker University, Baldwin, Kans., in 1888; studied law; was was admitted to the bar in 1841 and commenced practice inadmitted to the bar in 1889 and commenced practice in Lexington, Mo.; member of the Missouri house ofrepresenta-Pittsburg, Kans.; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth tives 1848-1852; returned to Hopkinsville, Ky., and engagedand to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March in agricultural pursuits; elected as a candidate of the Ameri-3, 1923); chairman, Committee on Levees and Improvements can Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-of the Mississippi River (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on March 3, 1857); declined to be a candidate for reelection;Rules (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses); unsuccess- president of the Henderson & Nashville Railroad in 1870;ful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Con- organized the Mastodon Coal & Iron Co., which was succeed-gress; parliamentarian of the Republican National Conven- ed by the St. Bernard Coal Co.; devoted the latteryears oftion in 1924; resumed the practice of law in Washington, his life to his large landed estates; died in Hopkinsville, Ky.,D.C., with residence in Arlington, Va.; died in Washington, October 29, 1888; interment in Riverside Cemetery. D.C., May 26, 1941; interment in Abbey Mausoleum (near CAMPBELL, John Wilson, a Representative from Ohio;Arlington National Cemetery), Arlington, Va. born near Miller's Iron Works, Augusta County, Va., Febru- ary 23, 1782; attended the common schools; taught school; CAMPBELL, Robert Blair (brother of John Campbell of studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1808 and commencedSouth Carolina), a Representative from South Carolina; born practice m West Union, Ohio, justice of the peace of Tiffinin Marlboro County, S.C.; educated by a private tutor; at- Township, Adams County, 1809-18 15; prosecuting attorneytended school in Fayetteville, N.C., and was graduated from of Adams County in 1809; member of the State house ofSouth Carolina College (now the University of South Caroli- representatives in 1810, 1813, and 1815; elected as a Republi-na) at Columbia in 1809; engaged in agricultural pursuits; can to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the fourcommissioned captain in South Carolina Militia in 1814; succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1827); chair-unsuccessful candidate in 1820 for election to the Seven- man, Committee on Private Land Claims (Sixteenth throughteenth Congress; served in the State senate 1821-1823; elect- ed to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, Nineteenth Congresses); declined to be a candidate for re-- nomination in 1826; judge of the United States Court for the1825); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1824 to the District of Ohio from 1829 until his death in Delaware,Nineteenth Congress and for election in 1826 to the Twenti- Delaware County, Ohio, September 24, 1833; interment ineth Congress and in 1830 to the Twenty-second Congress; the Old North Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio. elected to the State senate in 1830; elected as a Nullifier to Bibliography: DAB. the Twenty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas B. Singleton; reelected to the Twenty- CAMPBELL, Lewis Davis (uncle of James Edwin Camp-fourth Congress and served from February 27, 1834, to bell), a Representative from Ohio; born in Franklin, WarrenMarch 3, 1837; in 1833 during the nullification movement County, Ohio, August 9, 1811; attended the public schools;was commissioned general of South Carolina troops; moved apprenticed to learn the art of printing 1828-1831; publishedto Lowndes County, Ala., about 1840; member of the State Biographies 737 house of representatives in 1840; appointed on September 28,State senate in 1884 and 1885; elected as a Democrat tothe 1842, consul at Habana, Cuba, and served until July 22,Forty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- 1850; moved to San Antonio, Tex.; was appointed on Marchnation of Samuel S. Cox; reelected to the Fiftieth Congress 16, 1853, a commissioner for the United States to aid inand served from November 3, 1885, to March 3, 1889; chair- settlement of the disputed boundary line between Texas andman, Committee on Expenditures onPublic Buildings (Fifti- Mexico; appointed consul at London, England, and servedeth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in1888 from August 3, 1854, to March 1861, when he was recalled;to the Fifty-first Congress; elected to theFifty-second and moved to Ealing, London, England, where he died July 12,Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); unsuc- 1862; interment in the crypt of Kensington Church. cessful candidate in 1894 for reelection to the Fifty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of his profession in New CAMPBELL, Samuel, a Representative from New York;York City where he died on April 7, 1904; interment in born in Mansfield, Conn., July 11,1773; attended theCalvary Cemetery, Long Island City, N.Y. common schools; moved to Columbus, N.Y.,and engaged in agricultural pursuits; supervisor of the town of Columbus in CAMPBELL, William Bowen (cousin of Henry Bowen), a 1807, 1808, 1821, and 1840; member of the State assembly inRepresentative from Tennessee; born near Hendersonville, 1808, 1809, 1812, and 1820; served on the staff of Maj. Gen.Sumner County, Tenn., February 1, 1807; attended private Nathaniel King as division quartermaster in the War ofschools; studied law in Abingdon and Winchester, Va.; was 1812; associate judge of Chenango County Court in 1814;admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice in justice of the peace iii Columbus for twenty-five years; sher-Carthage, Smith County, Tenn.; also engaged in agricultural iff of Chenango County 1815-1819; elected to theSeven-pursuits and banking; elected district attorney in 1831; teenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823); affiliatedmember of the State house of representatives in 1835 and with the Whig Party after its formation; resumed agricultur-1836; captain of a company in Trousdale's regiment of Ten- al pursuits; died in Columbus, near Sherburne, Chenangonessee Mounted Volunteers in the FloridaWar; mustered County, N.Y., June 2, 1853; interment in Lambs Cornersout January 14, 1837; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Cemetery. Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, CAMPBELL, Thomas Jefferson, a Representative from1837-March 3, 1843); declined to be a candidate for reelec- tion to the Twenty-eighth Congress; electedcolonel of the Tennessee; born in Rhea County, Tenn., in 1786; attendedFirst Tennessee Volunteers in the Mexican War June 3, the public schools; assistant inspector general to Major Gen-1846, and was mustered out May 25, 1847; unanimously eral Cole's division of the East Tennessee Militia from Sep- and served tember 25, 1813, to March 12, 1814; clerk of the State houseelected judge of the fourth circuit of Tennessee from 1847 to 1850; served as Governor of Tennesseefrom of representatives 1817-1819, 1821, and 1825-1831, and a1851 to 1853; declined renomination; elected judge of the member of that body 1833-1837; elected as a Whig to the Lincoln briga- Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); un-circuit court in 1857; appointed by President dier general of Volunteers June 30, 1862; resignedJanuary successful candidate for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty- of eighth Congress; Clerk of the House of Representatives in26, 1863, on account of ill health; upon the readmission the State of Tennessee to representation waselected as a the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses and served from served from July December 7, 1847, until his death in Washington, D.C., AprilUnionist to the Thirty-ninth Congress and 24, 1866, to March 3, 1867; resumed banking andagricultur- 13, 1850; interment at Calhoun, McMinn County, Tenn. al pursuits; died near Lebanon,Wilson County, Tenn., CAMPBELL, Thompson, a Representative from Illinois;August 19, 1867; interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery. born in Ireland in 1811; immigrated to the United States Bibliography: DAB. with his parents, who settled in Chester County, Pa.; attend- ed the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar CAMPBELL, William W., a Representative from New in Pittsburgh, Pa.; moved to Galena, Ill., and engaged inYork; born in Cherry Valley, N.Y., June 10,1806; attended mining; secretary of state of illinois from 1843 until hethe common schools; was graduated from UnionCollege, resigned in 1846; delegate to the State constitutional conven-Schenectady, N.Y., in 1827; studied law; was admitted to the tion in 1847; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-secondbar in 1831 and commenced practice in NewYork City; was appointed master in chancery in 1841; commissionerin Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); unsuccessful candi- Party to date for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress;bankruptcy; elected as a candidate of the American delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1852;the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4,1845-March 3, 1847); was not a candidate forrenomination in 1846; justice of the appointed United States land commissioner for California bysuperior court of New York City 1849-1855; returned to President Pierce in 1853 and served until he resigned in court 1855; returned to Illinois; delegate to the Democratic Nation-Cherry Valley in December 1855; judge of the supreme al Convention at Charleston in 1860; elector at large onthefor the sixth district of New York 1857-1865;author and Breckinridge and Lane ticket in 1860; returned to Californiaengaged in historical work; died in Cherry Valley, Otsego and served in the California house of representatives as aCounty, N.Y., September 7,1881; interment in Cherry member of the Union Party in 1863 and 1864; delegate toValley Cemetery. the Republican National Convention in 1864; died inSan Bibliography: DAB. Francisco, Calif., December 6, 1868; interment in Laurel Hill CAMPBELL, William Wildman, a Representative from Cemetery. Ohio; born in Rochester, Windsor County, Vt., April2, 1853; attended the public schools, Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vt., CAMPBELL, Timothy John, a Representative from New admit- York; born in County Cavan, Ireland, January 8, 1840;immi-and Tufts College, Medford, Mass.; studied law; was ted to the bar in 1878 and commenced practice atNapoleon, grated with his parents to the United States in 1845; attend- for ed the public schools of New York City; learned theprinter'sHenry County, Ohio; served as prosecuting attorney trade; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1869andHenry County, 1893-1896; elected as a Republican tothe commenced practice in New York City; member of theStateFifty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1907); unsuc- assembly 1868-1873, 1875, and 1883; justice of the fifth dis-cessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Con- trict civil court in New York City 1875-1883;served in thegress and for election in 1908 tothe Sixty-first Congress; 738 Biographical Directory

resumed the practice of law in Napoleon, Ohio; member ofMass.; entered a countingroom in Boston in 1845; merchant, the State constitutional convention of 1911 and 1912; died inengaged in shipping and commerce with the East and West Napoleon, Ohio, August 13, 1927; interment in Forest HillIndies and South America; served as a member of the Mas- Cemetery. sachusetts house of representatives in 1866; chairman of the CANBY, Richard Sprigg, a Representative from Ohio;commissioners of prisons of Massachusetts; president of the born in Lebanon, Ohio, September 30, 1808; completedpre-Boston Board of Trade and of the Commercial Club of paratory studies; attended Miami University, Oxford, Ohio,Boston; elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Con- 1826-1828; engaged in mercantile pursuits and while thusgress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate employed studied law; was admitted to the bar about 1840for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; elected and commenced practice in Bellefontaine, Ohio; member ofto the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); the State house of representatives in 1845 and 1846; electedunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty- as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-Marchsecond Congress; engaged in mercantile pursuits until his 1849); engaged in agricultural pursuits; upon its formationretirement in 1893; died in Providence, R.I., March 16, 1903; in 1856 affiliated with the Republican Party; moved tointerment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. Olney, Richiand County, Ill., in 1863, where he resumed the practice of law; elected judge of the second judicial circuit CANDLER, Milton Anthony (uncle of Ezekiel Samuel

court of Illinois in 1867 and served for several years; againCandler Jr., and cousin of Allen Daniel Candler), a Repre-- resumed the practice of his profession in Olney; discontinuedsentative from Georgia; born near Campbellton, Campbell active business pursuits in 1882, and lived in retirementCounty, Ga., January 11, 1837; attended private schools;was until his death; died in Olney, Iii., July 27, 1895; intermentgraduated from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1854; in Haven Hill Cemetery. studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Cassville, Bartow County, Ga.; moved to Decatur CANDLER, Allen Daniel (cousin of Ezekiel Samuel Can-in 1857; member of the State house of representatives 1861- dler, Jr., and Milton Anthony Candler), a Representative1863; delegate to the State constitutional convention in. 1865; from Georgia; born in Homer, Banks County, Ga., Novemberserved in the State senate 1868-1872; delegate to the Demo- 1834; attended country schools, andwas graduated fromcratic National Convention in 1872 and 1876; elected as a Mercer University, Macon, Ga., in 1859; studied law; enteredDemocrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses the Confederate Army as a private in Company H, Thirty-(March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); was a candidate for renomi- fourth Regiment of Georgia Infantry on May 12, 1862;wasnation in 1878 to the Forty-sixth Congress, but withdrew elected first lieutenant May 17, 1862; promoted to captainbecause of the adoption of a free-silver plank by the district October 26, 1862; appointed lieutenant colonel May 16, 1864; promoted to colonel December 27, 1864; engaged in agricul-convention; resumed the practice of law; died in Decatur, De tural pursuits; member of the State house of representativesKalb County, Ga., August 8, 1909; interment in Decatur 1873-1877; served in the State senate in 1878 and 1879;Cemetery. engaged in manufacturing and was president ofa railroad; CANFIELD, Gordon, a Representative from New Jersey; elected as a Demociat to the Forty-eighth and to the threeborn in Salamanca, Cattaraugus County, N.Y., April 15, succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1891); chair-1898; attended the public schools of Binghamton, N.Y.; man, Committee on Education (Fiftieth Congress); was not aserved as a private in the Signal Corps, United States Army, candidate for reelection in 1890; secretary of state of Georgiain 1917 and 1918; reporter in Passaic, N.J., 1919-1923; stud- from May 28, 1894, until March 1, 1898, when he resigned;ied law at New Jersey Law School in Newark; George Wash- served as Governor of Georgia from 1898 to 1902; compiler ofington University Law School, Washington, D.C., LL.B., the records of the State of Georgia from 1903 until his death1926; was admitted to the District of Columbia bar in 1927; in Atlanta, Ga., October 26, 1910; interment in Alta Vistaserved as secretary to Representative George N. Seger 1923- Cemetery, Gainesville, Ga. 1940; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh and to Bibliography:DAB. the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1941-January 3, CANDLER, Ezekiel Samuel, Jr. (nephew of Milton A.1961); served during the Congressional recess in 1944 as an Candler and cousin of Allen Daniel Candler), a Representa-ordinary seaman, North Atlantic tanker duty, United States tive from Mississippi; born in Belleville, Hamilton County,Merchant Marine; was not a candidate for renomination in Fla., January 18, 1862; moved with his parents to Tisho-1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress; director, National mingo County, Miss., in 1870; attended the common schoolsHousing Conference, and First Federal Savings and Loan and luka (Miss.) Male Academy; was graduated from the lawAssociation of Paterson; remained active in civic affairs department of the University of Mississippi at Oxford inuntil his death in Hawthorne, N.J., June 20, 1972; interment 1881; was admitted to the bar the same year and commencedin Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa Borough, N.J. practice in luka, Miss.; chairman of the Democratic execu- tive committee of Tishomingo County in 1884; moved to CANFIELD, Harry Clifford, a Representative from Indi- Corinth in 1887 and continued the practice of law; memberana; born near Moores Hill, Dearborn County, hid., Novem- of the Democratic executive committee of Alcorn County forber 22, 1875; attended the public schools, Moores Hill Col- several years; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh andlege, Central Normal College, Danville, md., and Vorhies to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3,Business College, Indianapolis, hid.; taught school in Dear- 1921); chairman, Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Trafficborn County 1896-1898; moved to Batesville, Ripley County, (Sixty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomi-in 1899 and engaged in the manufacture of furniture; also nation in 1920; resumed the practice of his profession; mayorinterested in the jobbing of furniture, and in farming and of Corinth, Miss., 1933-1937; died in Corinth, Miss., Decem-banking; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and to ber 18, 1944; interment in Henry Cemetery. the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3,

1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; re-- CANDLER, John Wilson, a Representative from Massa-sumed the furniture manufacturing business in Batesville, chusetts; born in Boston, Mass., February 10, 1828; attendedhid., where he died February 9, 1945; interment in the First the Marblehead Academy and Dummer Academy, Byfield,Methodist Episcopal Cemetery. Biographies 739

CANNON, Arthur Patrick, a Representative from Florida;Ogden in 1903; moved to Denver, Cob., in 1909 and engaged born in Powder Springs, Cobb County, Ga., May 22, 1904;in newspaper work and mining; died in Denver, Cob.,July moved to Laurens County, S.C.; attended the public schools,25, 1933; interment in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden,Utah. Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C., and John B. Stetson CANNON, George Quayle(fatherof Frank Jenne University, De Land, Fla.; was graduated from the law col-Cannon), a Delegate from the Territory of Utah; bornin lege of the University of Miami, Miaiwi, Fla., in 1931; wasLiverpool, England, January 11, 1827; attended the common admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practiceschools; immigrated to the United States in 1842 with his in Miami; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and toparents, who settled in Nauvoo, ill.; moved to GreatSalt the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3,Lake (then Mexican territory), Utah, in 1847; went toCali- 1947); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946; re-fornia in 1849 and a year later to the Hawaiian Islands as a sumed the practice of law; elected circuit judge of Dademissionary; returned to Salt Lake City in 1854; learned the County, Fla., in 1952, reelected in 1954, and again in 1960art of printing; editor of the Western Standard in1856 and for a six-year term; was a resident of Miami, Fla., until his1857 and of the Deseret News 1867-1874 and1877-1879; death there on January 23, 1966; interment in Woodlawnmember of the Territorial council 1865, 1866, and 1869-1872; Park Cemetery, Miami, Fla. member of the board of regents of the Deseret University CANNON, Clarence Andrew, a Representative from Mis-(now the University of Utah) and later chancellor;elected by souri; born in Elsberry, Lincoln County, Mo., April 11, 1879;the constitutional convention in 1872 a delegate to present was graduated from La Grange Junior College,Hannibal,the constitution and memorial to Congress for admission of Mo., in 1901, from William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo., inthe Territory as a State into the Union; elected as aRepubli- 1903, and from the law department of the University ofcan to the Forty-third and to thethree succeeding Congress- Missouri at Columbia in 1908; professor of history, Stephenses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1881); contestedthe election of College, Columbia, Mo., 1904-1908; was admitted to thebarAllen G. Campbell to the Forty-seventh Congress, butthe in 1908 and commenced practice in Troy, Mo.; in 1911House, on April 20, 1882, decided that neither was entitled became a clerk in the office of the Speaker of the House;to the seat; returned to Salt Lake City; directorof the Union parliamentarian of the House of Representatives in thePacific Railroad and a member of the board of directors of Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses, 19 15-several financial and industrial enterprises at the timeof 1920; parliamentarian of the Democratic National Conven-his death; died in Monterey, Monterey County, Calif.,April tions 1920-1960; author of "A Synopsis of the Procedureof12, 1901; interment in Salt Lake City Cemetery, SaltLake the House (1918)," "Procedure in the House of Representa-City, Utah. tives (1920)," and "Cannon's Procedure (1928)," subsequent Bibliography: DAB; Cannon, Mark W. "The Mormon Issue in Congress editions of the latter being published periodically by resolu-1872-1882: Drawing on the Experience of Territorial DelegateGeorge Q. tions of the House until 1963; editor and compiler of "Prece- Cannon" Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1961. dents of the House of Representatives" by act of Congress; CANNON, Howard Walter, a Senator from Nevada; born regent of the Smithsonian Institution 1935-1964; elected as ain St. George, Washington County, Utah, January26, 1912; Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and to the twenty succeedinggraduated from Arizona State Teachers College in1933, and Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his deathUniversity of Arizona Law School in 1937; was admitted to in Washington, D.C., May 12, 1964; chairman, Committee onthe bar in Arizona in 1937, Utah in 1938,and Nevada in Appropriations (Seventy-seventh through Seventy-ninth Con-1946; reference attorney, Utah State senate in1939; elected gresses,Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses, andcounty attorney of Washington County,Utah, in1940; Eighty-fourth through Eighty-eighth Congresses); intermentduring the Second World War served in theUnited States in Elsberry City Cemetery, Elsberry, Mo. Army in 1941 and the United States Army AirCorps 1942- Bibliography: DAB; Fulkerson, William M. "A Rhetorical Study of the 1946, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel;served in the Appropriations Speaking of Clarence Andrew Cannon in the House of Rep- Air Force Reserve and retired as a majorgeneral; elected resentatives,1923-1964." Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State University, city attorney of Las Vegas, Nev., in 1949and served for four 1969; Lilley, Stephen R. "The Early Career of Clarence Cannon, 1879- United 1924." Master's thesis, Northeast Missouri State University, 1976. consecutive terms; elected as a Democrat to the States Senate in 1958; reelected in 1964, 1970, andagain in CANNON, Frank Jenne (son of George Quayle Cannon), a1976 and served from January 3, 1959, to January3, 1983; Delegate from the Territory of Utah and a Senator fromunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1982; chairman, Utah; born in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 25, 1859; at-Joint Committee on Inaugural Arrangements(Ninety-second tended the public schools, and was graduated from the Uni-Congress), Select Committee on Standards andConduct versity of Utah at Salt Lake City in 1878; newspaper writer;(Ninety-third and Ninety-fourth Congresses), Committee on moved to San Francisco, Calif., in 1880 and worked as aRules and Administration (Ninety-third throughNinety-fifth newspaper reporter; moved to Ogden,Utah, in 1882, andCongresses), Joint Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies served as deputy county clerk and recorder; elected county(Ninety-fourthCongress),JointCommittee onLibrary recorder in 1884; became editor of the Ogden Herald in1887 (Ninety-fifthCongress),JointCommitteeonPrinting and established the Ogden Standard in 1888;unsuccessful(Ninety-fifth Congress), Committee on Commerce, Science, candidate for election in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress;and Transportation (Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixthCongress- interested in the building of the Ogden Canyon electrices); is a resident of Las Vegas, Nev. power plant in 1893; elected as aRepublican to the Fifty- fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1895, to January CANNON, Joseph Gurney, a Representative fromIllinois; May 7, 1836; moved 4, 1896, when the Territory was admitted as aState into theborn in Guilford, Guilford County, N.C., Unitedwith his parents to Bloomingdale, md., in 1840;completed Union; was then elected as a Republican to the Law States Senate and served from January 22, 1896, toMarch 3,preparatory studies; studied law at the Cincinnati 1899; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898;afffliatedSchool; was admitted to the bar in 1858 andcommenced with the Democratic Party in 1900 and served asStatepractice in Terre Haute, Ind., in 1858; moved toTuscola, Ill., chairman 1902-1904; again became interested in newspaperin 1859; State's attorney for the twenty-seventhjudicial dis- publishing and established the Daily Utah StateJournal attrict of Illinois from March 1861 toDecember 1868; elected 740 Biographical Directory as a Republican to the Forty-third and to the eight succeed-1894; his parents having died when he was six months old, ing Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1891);chairman,he spent his early life in a home for dependent children; Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Departmentattended the public schools; taught school at Minocqua, Wis., (Forty-seventhCongress),Committee on Appropriationsin 110 and 1911; professional baseball player 1908-1922; (Fifty-first Congress); moved to Danville, Ill., in 1878;unsuc-attended the law department of Marquette University, Mil- cessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-secondwaukee, Wis., for two years; was admitted to the bar in 1914 Congress; elected to the Fifty-third and to the nine succeed-and commenced practice in Milwaukee; unsuccessful candi- ing Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1913); chairman,date for election as associate justice of the Wisconsin Su- Committee on Appropriations (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-preme Court in 1930; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- seventh Congresses), Committee on Rules (Fifty-eighththird, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses (March through Sixty-first Congresses); Speaker of the House of Rep-4, 1933-January 3, 1939); chairman, Committee on Revision resentatives (Fifty-eighth through Sixty-first Congresses);re- ceived fifty-eight votes for the presidential nomination atof the Laws (Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses); was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination as a Demo- the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1908;Un- successful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-thirdcrat and for reelection in 1938 as an Independent to the Congress; again elected to the Sixty-fourth and to the threeSeventy-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law; unsuc- succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1923); de-cessful candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomina- clined renomination for Congress at the end of the Sixty-tion in 1940 and 1942 and for the Democratic nomination for seventh Congress; retired from public life; died in Danville,Congress in 1944; died in Milwaukee, Wis., November 25, Vermilion County, Ill., November 12, 1926; interment in 1951; interment in Holy Cross Cemetery. Spring Hill Cemetery. CANTOR, Jacob Aaron, a Representative from New York; Bibliography: DAB; Bolles, Blair. Tyrant From Illinois; Uncle Joe Can- non s Experiment With Personal Power. New York: Norton, 1951; Cannon, born in New York City December 6, 1854; attended the Joseph G. Uncle Joe Cannon: The Story of a Pioneer American, as told topublic schools; reporter on the New York World for several L. White Busbey. St. Clair Shores, Mich.: Scholarly Press, 1970. years; was graduated from the law department of the Col- lege of the City of New York in 1875; was admitted to the CANNON, Marion, a Representative from California; bornbar and commenced practice in New York City; served in near Morgantown, Va. (now West Virginia), October 30,the State assembly 1885-1887; member of the State senate 1834; attended the district school; learned the blacksmith1887-1898 and served as president in 1893 and 1894; elected trade; moved to California in 1852 and engaged in mining inpresident of the Borough of Manhattan in. 1901; declined to Nevada County for twenty-one years; elected county record-be a candidate for renomination; elected as a Democrat to er of Nevada County in 1869 and served two years; moved tothe Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the Ventura County, Calif., and settled near Ventura in 1874; resignation of Francis Burton Harrison and served from No-- engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected first State presi-vember 4, 1913, to March 3, 1915; unsuccessfully contested dent of the Farmers' Alliance November 20, 1890, andre-the election of Isaac Siegel to the Sixty-fourth Congress; elected October 22, 1891; organized the People's Party of California October 20, 1891; chosen a representative to theresumed the practice of law in New York City; president of supreme council in Indianapolis November 1891; selected bythe Tax Commission Board of New York City at the time of that body to represent California in the industrial confer-his death there on July 2, 1921; interment in Mount Hope ence at St. Louis February 22, 1892; delegate to the People'sCemetery, Mount Hope, Westchester County, N.Y. Party National Convention in 1892; electedas Populist to CANTRILL, James Campbell, a Representative from Ken- the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895);wastucky; born in Georgetown, Scott County, Ky., July 9, 1870; not a candidate for renomination in 1894; resumed agricul-attended the common schools, Georgetown (Ky.) College, and tural pursuits until his death at "Ranch Home," near Ven-the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; engaged in tura, August 27, 1920; interment in Ivy Lawn Cemetery,agricultural pursuits until his death; chairman of the Scott Ventura, Calif. County Democratic committee in 1895; elected a member of CANNON, Newton, a Representative from Tennessee; bornthe State house of representatives in 1897, and again in in Guilford County, N.C., May 22,1781; attended the1899; served in the State senate 1901-1905; was nominated common schools; moved to Tennessee at an early period andfor Congress in 1904, but declined; delegate to the Democrat- settled near Nashville, Williamson County; engaged in agri-ic National Convention in 1904; elected president of the cultural pursuits; member of the State house of representa-American Society of Equity for Kentucky, an organization of tives in 1811 and 1812; enlisted in the War of 1812 andfarmers, in 1908; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and became colonel of a regiment of Tennessee Mounted Rifles;to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from March elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress to fill4, 1909, until his death during his campaign as the Demo-- cratic nominee for Governor of Kentucky, chairman, Com the vacancy caused by the resignation of Felix Grundy;re-- elected to the Fourteenth Congress and served from Septem-mittee on Industrial Arts and Expositions (Sixty fourth and ber 16, 1814, to March 3, 1817; chairman, Committee onSixty-fifth Congresses); died in Louisville, Ky., September 2, Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Fourteenth1923; interment in Georgetown Cemetery, Georgetown, Ky. Congress); appointed by President Monroe a commissioner to negotiate a treaty with the Chickasaw Indians in 1819; elect- CAPEHART, Homer Earl, a Senator from Indiana; born ed to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses (March 4,in Algiers, Pike County, Ind., June 6, 1897; attended the 1819-March 3, 1823); resumed agricultural pursuits; Gover-public schools; during the First World War enlisted as a nor of Tennessee 1835-1839; died in Nashville, September 16,private in the United States Army; promoted to sergeant 1841; interment in a cemetery on his estate near Allisona,and served in the Twelfth Infantry 1917-1919; engaged in Williamson County, Tenn. farming and the radio, phonograph, and television manufac- Bibliography: DAB. turing business, elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1944; reelected in 1950 and again in 1956 and CANNON, Raymond Joseph, a Representative from Wis-served from January 3, 1945, to January 3, 1963; unsuccess- consin; born in Ironwood, Gogebic County, Mich., August 26,ful candidate for reelection in 1962; chairman, Joint Corn- Biographies 741 mittee on Defense Production (Eighty-third Congress), Com-and served from 1947 to 1950; elected to the Court of Gener- mittee on Banking and Currency (Eighty-third Congress);al Sessions, County of New York, in 1950, and served until engaged in farming, manufacturing, and investment pur-January 1957; appointed and served as a judge of the New suits; retired; resided in Indianapolis, hid., until his deathYork Supreme Court from January 21, 1957, to December there September 3, 1979; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery.31, 1957; elected to the New York Supreme Court for a Bibliography: Pickett, William B. "Homer E. Capehart: The Making of a fourteen-year term; appointed as associate justice of the Ap- Modern Senator." Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University,1974;Taylor, pellate Division of New York State Supreme Court, First John. "Homer E. Capehart: United States Senator, 1944-1962." Ph.D. dis- Judicial Department, April 29, 1966; was a resident of New sertation, Ball State University, 1977. York City until his death there on October 8, 1982. CAPEIIART, James, a Representative from West Virginia; CAPPER, Arthur, a Senator from Kansas; born in Gar- born in Point Pleasant, Mason County, Va. (now West Vir-nett, Anderson County, Kans., July 14, 1865; attended the ginia), March 7, 1847; attended the public schools and Mari-common schools; learned the art of printing and subsequent- etta College, Ohio; studied at Duff's Commercial College,ly became a newspaper reporter; ownerand publisher of the Pittsburgh, Pa.; clerk and bookkeeper in his father's store;Topeka Daily Capital, Capper's Weekly, Capper's Farmer, engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock breeding 1867-the Household Magazine, and other publications; owner of 1903; president of Mason County Court in 1871, 1872, andtwo radio stations; president of the board of regents, Kansas again 1880-1885; delegate to the Democratic National Con-Agricultural College 1910-1913; unsuccessful candidate for vention in 1888; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-secondGovernor of Kansas in 1912; Governor of Kansas 1915-1919; and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895);elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1918; was not a candidate for reelection in 1894; president of thereelected in 1924, 1930, 1936, and again in 1942 and served Point Pleasant National Bank in 1901; after 1903 he becamefrom March 4, 1919, to January 3, 1949; was not a candidate interested in fruit growing in Brevard County, Fla.; residedfor renomination in 1948, chairman, Committee on Expendi in Cocoa, Fla., until his death on April 28, 1921; intermenttures in the Department of Agriculture (Sixty sixth Con in Lone Oak Cemetery, Point Pleasant, W.Va. gress), Committee on Claims (Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth CAPERTON, Allen Taylor (son of Hugh Caperton), a Sen-Congresses), Committee on District of Columbia (Sixty-ninth ator from West Virginia; born near Union, Monroe County,through Seventy-second Congresses), Committee on Agricul- Va. (now West Virginia), November 21, 1810; attended theture and Forestry (Eightieth Congress); returned to Topeka, public schools of Virginia and Huntsville, Ala., and the Uni-Kans., and continued publishing business; died in Topeka, versity of Virginia at Charlottesville; was graduated fromKans., December 19, 1951; interment in Topeka Cemetery. Yale College in 1832; studied law in Staunton, Va.; was Bibliography: Capper, Arthur. The Agricultural Bloc. New York: Har- admitted to the bar and practiced; member, Virginia house court, Brace, and Co., 1922; Socolofsky, Homer E. Arthur Capper, Publish- of delegates 1841-1842; member, State senate 1844-1848; del- er, Politician, and Philanthropist. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, egate to the State constitutional conventions in 1850 and 1962. 1861; member, State house of delegates 1857-1861; elected by CAPRON, Adin BaIlou, a Representative from Rhode the legislature of Virginia a member of the ConfederateIsland; born in Mendon, Worcester County, Mass., January States Senate and served until 1865; elected as a Democrat9, 1841; attended the Woonsocket High School and West- to the United States Senate from West Virginia and servedbrook Seminary, near Portland, Maine; settled in Stillwater, from March 4, 1875, until his death in Washington, D.C.,Providence County, R I, and engaged in milling and dealing July 26, 1876; interment in Green Hill Cemetery, Union,in grain, enlisted as a sergeant in the Second Regiment, W.Va. Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry,inMay 1861, promoted to Bibliography: U.S. Congress. Memorial &rvices for Allen T. Caperton. the rank of sergeant major July 11, 1861, commissioned 44th Cong., 2nd sess, 1876-1877. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing lieutenant in September 1861; served in the Signal Corps Office, 1877. until the close of the Civil War, having been commissioned CAPERTON Hugh (father of Allen Taylor Caperton), afirst lieutenant on March 3, 1863, and subsequently promot- Representative from Virginia; born in Greenbrier County,ed to the rank of captain and major by brevet, member of Va. (now West Virginia), April 17, 1781; was a planter andthe State house of representatives 1887-1892 and served as also engaged in mercantile pursuits; moved to Monroespeaker in 1891 and 1892; unsuccessful candidate for election County; sheriff of Monroe County in 1805; member of thein1892 to the Fifty third Congress, elected as a Republican State house of delegates 1810-1813 and 1826-1830; elected asto the Fifty fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813-(March 4, 1897-March 3, 1911), was not a candidate for March 3, 1815); resumed agricultural and mercantile pur-renomination in 1910, resumed his former business activities suits; died on his estate, "Elmwood," in Monroe County,m Stiilwater, Providence County, R I, where hedied March near Union, Va. (now West Virginia), February 9, 1847; in-17, 1911, interment in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, terment in Green Hill Cemetery, Union, W.Va. RI CAPOZZOLI, Louis Joseph, a Representative from New CAPSTICK, John Henry, a Representative from New York; born in Cosenza, Italy, March 6, 1901; immigrated toJersey; born in Lawrence, Mass., September 2, 1856; attend- the United States in .1906; attended the public schools ined the public schools of Lawrence; moved with his parents to New York City; was graduated from the law department ofProvidence,R.I.,in1868; attended a business college; Fordham University, New York City in 1922; was admittedmember of the Rhode Island Militia in 1870 and 1871; moved to the bar in 1923 and commenced practice in New Yorkto Montville, N.J., in 1883, and engaged in the manufacture City; assistant district attorney of New York County 1930-of textile fabrics the same year; member of the State sewer- 1937; member of the State assembly in 1939 and 1940; elect-age commission 1905-1908; president of the State board of ed as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighthhealth 1908-1914; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth Congresses (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1945); was not aand Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, candidate for renomination in 1944; resumed the practice ofuntil his death in Montville, Morris County, N.J., March 17, law; elected a justice of the New York City Court in 19461918; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Boonton, N.J. 742 Biographical Directory

CAPUTO, Bruce Faulkner, a Representative from Newserved from 1891 to 1894; served as master commissioner of York; born in New York City, August 7, 1943; graduatedthe circuit court of Hart County 1900-19 15; elected as a from Deerfield (Mass.) Academy, 1961; B.A., 1965, M.B.A.,Democrat to the Seventy-second, Seventy-third, and Seventy- 1967, Harvard University; J.D., Georgetown Law School,fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1931, until his Washington, D.C., 1971; employed in Office of the Secretary,death in Louisville, Ky., on June 13, 1935; interment in United States Department of Defense, 1967-1969; member,Munfordville Cemetery, Munfordviile, Ky. New York State assembly, 1973-1976; elected as a Republi- can to the Ninety-fifth Congress (January 3, 1977-January 3, CARDIN, Benjamin Louis, a Representative from Mary- 1979); was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to theland; born in Baltimore, October 5, 1943; attended public Ninety-sixth Congress but was an unsuccessful candidate forschools; graduated Baltimore City College, 1961; B.A., Uni- the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Newversity of Pittsburgh, Pa., 1964; J.D., University of Mary- York; resumed the practice of law in New York City; is aland, 1967; admitted to the Maryland State bar in 1967 and resident of Bronxville, N.Y. began practice in Baltimore; member, Maryland house of delegates, 1966-1986, and served as speaker, 1979-1986; CARAWAY, Hattie Wyatt (wife of Thaddeus Horatius Car-elected as a Democrat to the One Hundredth Congress (Jan- away), a Senator from Arkansas; born in Bakerville, Hum-uary 3, 1987-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Baltimore. phreys County, Tenn., February 1, 1878; attended the public schools and was graduated from Dickson (Tenn.) Normal CAREW, John Francis (nephew of Thomas Francis College in 1896; thereafter located in Jonesboro, Ark.; ap-Magner), a Representative from New York; born in Wil- pointed as a Democrat on November 13, 1931, and subse-liamsburg, Brooklyn, N.Y., April 16,1873; attended the quently elected on January 12, 1932, to the United Statespublic schools of Brooklyn and New York City and the Col- Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1933,lege of the City of New York; was graduated from Columbia caused by the death of her husband, Thaddeus H. Caraway;College in 1893 and from Columbia University Law School in reelected in 1932, and again in 1938 and served from Novem-New York City in 1896; was admitted to the bar in 1897 and ber 13, 1931, to January 2, 1945; unsuccessful candidate forcommenced practice in New York City; member of the State renomination in 1944; first woman elected to the Unitedassembly in 1904; delegate to all Democratic State conven- States Senate; chairwoman, Committee on Enrolled Billstions from 1912 to 1924; delegate to the Democratic National (Seventy-third through Seventy-eighth Congresses); memberConventions in 1912 and 1924; elected as a Democrat to the of the United States Employees' Compensation CommissionSixty-third and to the eight succeeding Congresses; served 1945-1946; member of the Employees' Compensation Appealsfrom March 4, 1913, until his resignation on December 28, Board from July 1946 until her death in Falls Church, Va.,1929, having been appointed a justice of the New York State December 21, 1950; interment in West Lawn Cemetery,Supreme Court; was subsequently elected to the same office Jonesboro, Ark. in November 1930 for a fourteen-year term, but retired De-- Bibliography: DAB; Kincaid, Diane, ed. Silent Hattie Speaks: The Per- cember 31, 1943, due to age limitation; served as official sonal Journal of Senator Hattie Caraway. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood referee of the New York Supreme Court; died in Rockville Press, 1979; Towns, Stuart. "A Louisiana Medicine Show: The King Fish Elects an Arkansas Senator." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 25 (SummerCentre, N.Y., April 10, 1951; interment in Calvary Cemetery, 1966): 117-27. Queens County, N.Y. CARAWAY, Thaddeus Horatius (husband of Hattie Wyatt CAREY, Hugh Leo, a Representative from New York; Caraway), a Representative and a Senator from Arkansas;born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., April 11, 1919; grad- born on a farm near Springhill, Stoddard County, Mo., Octo-uated from St. John's College and from the law school of the ber 17, 1871; attended the common schools; moved to Arkan- same college, LL.B., 1951; admitted to the bar in 1951 and sas in 1883 with his parents, who settled in Clay County;commenced the practice of law in Brooklyn, N.Y.; during the was graduated from Dickson (Tenn.) College in 1896; taughtSecond World War entered the United States Army as an in country schools 1896-1899; studied law; was admitted toenlisted man in the One Hundred First Cavalry, New York the bar in 1900 and commenced practice in Osceola, Ark.;National Guard, serving in Europe as a major of infantry in moved to Lake City, Craighead County, Ark., in 1900 and tothe One Hundred Fourth Division; decorated with Bronze Jonesboro, Ark., in 1901 and continued the practice of law;Star, Croix de Guerre, and Combat Infantry Award; State prosecuting attorney for the second judicial circuit of Arkanchairman, Young Democrats of New York, 1946; director sas 1908-19 12, elected as a Democrat to the Sixty third andand officer in several industrial companies; elected as a to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4 1913-March 3 Democrat to the Eighty-seventh and to the six succeeding 1921), did not seek renomination, having become a candidateCongresses and served from January 3, 1961, until his resig- for Senator, elected as a Democrat to the United Statesnation December 31, 1974; was not a candidate for reelection Senate in 1920, reelected in 1926 and served from March 4,to the Ninety-fourth Congress, but was a successful candi- 1921, until his death in Little Rock, Ark., November 6, 1931;date for Governor of New York; reelected in 1978 and served interment in West Lawn Cemetery, Jonesboro, Ark. from January 1, 1975, until January 1, 1983; resumed the Bibliography: DAB; Adams, Horace. "Thaddeus H. Caraway in thepractice of law in New York City; is a resident of New York United States Senate." Ph.D. dissertation, George Peabody College for City. Teachers, 1935; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services. 72nd Cong., 1st sess., 1931-1932. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1932. CAREY, John, a Representative from Ohio; born in Mon- ongalia County, Va. (now West Virginia), April 5,1792; CARDEN, Cap Robert, a Representative from Kentucky;moved with his parents to the Northwest Territory in 1798; born on a farm near Munfordville, Hart County, Ky., De-served under General Hull in the War of 1812; associate cember 17, 1866; attended the rural schools and Bowlingjudge 1825-1832; appointed Indian agent at the Wyandotte Green (Ky.) Business and Normal School; studied law; wasReservation in 1829; member of the Ohio house of represent- admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice inatives in 1828, 1836, and 1843; promoter and first president Munfordville, Hart County, KY.; also engaged in agriculturalof the Mad River Railroad, from Sandusky to Dayton, about pursuits and in banking; sheriff of Hart County 1887-1890;1845; established the town of Carey, Wyandot County, Ohio; was elected county attorney of Hart County in 1890 andelected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March Biographies 743

4, 1859-March 3, 1861); died in Carey, Ohio, March 17, 1875;the public schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; served interment in the family burial ground on the home farm;in a Massachusetts regiment during the Revolutionary War; reinterment in 1919 in Spring Grove Cemetery, Carey, Ohio.moved to Landaff, Grafton County, N.H., about 1789; Bibliography: Kinney, Muriel. "John Carey, An Ohio Pioneer." Ohio member of the State constitutional convention in 1790; State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 46 (April 1937): 166-98. member of the State house of representatives in 1803 and CAREY, Joseph Maull (father of Robert Davis Carey), a1804; served in the State senate in 1806 and 1807; elected as Delegate from the Territory of Wyoming and a Senator froma Republican to the Tenth Congress (March 4,1807-March 3, Wyoming; born in Milton, Sussex County, Del., January 19,1809); died in Landaff, N.H., on April 29, 1828; interment in 1845; attended the common schools, Fort Edward Collegiatethe City Cemetery. Institute, and Union College, New York; was graduated from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania at CARLEY, Patrick J., a Representative from New York; Philadelphia in 1864; was admitted to the bar in 1867 andborn in County Roscommon, Ireland, February 2, 1866; im- commenced practice in Philadelphia; United States attorneymigrated to the United States with his parents at an early for the Territory of Wyoming upon its organization 1869-age; attended the public schools; engaged in the buildingand 187 1; associate justice of the supreme court of the Territoryconstruction business; also interested in banking; director of of Wyoming 187 1-1876; retired from the bench and engagedthe Bay Ridge Memorial Hospital; elected as a Democrat to in the cattle and ranching business; member of the Unitedthe Seventieth and to the three succeeding Congresses States Centennial Commission 1872-1876; member of the Re-(March 4, 1927-January 3, 1935); chairman, Committee on publican National Committee 1876-1897; mayor of Chey-Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives enne, Wyo., 1881-1885; elected as a Republican to the Forty-(Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses); was not a ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses and served fromcandidate for renomination in 1934; resumed the building March 4, 1885, until July 10, 1890, when the Territoryand construction business until his retirement; died in became a State; elected as a Republican to the United StatesBrooklyn, N.Y., February 25, 1936; interment in Calvary Senate and served from November 15, 1890, until March 3,Cemetery, Queens County, N.Y. 1895; unsuccessful candidate in 1895 for reelection; chair- man, Committee on Education and Labor (Fifty-second Con- CARLILE, John Snyder, a Representative and a Senator gress); resumed the practice of law in Cheyenne, Wyo.; Gov-from Virginia; born in Winchester, Va., on December 16, ernor of Wyoming 1911-1915; one of the organizers of the1817; educated by his mother; clerked in a store and com- Progressive Party in 1912; vice president of the Federalmenced business for himself in 1834; studied law, was admit- Land Bank; member of the board of trustees of the Universi-ted to the bar in 1840 and commenced practice in Beverly, ty of Wyoming at Larainie; died in Cheyenne, Wyo., Febru-Va. (now West Virginia) in 1842; moved to Phffippi and later ary 5, 1924; interment in Lakeview Cemetery. to Clarksburg and continued the practice of law; member, Bibliography: DAB; Peters, Betsy R. "Joseph M. Carey and The Progres- State senate 1847-1851; delegate to the State constitutional sive Movement in Wyoming." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wyoming, convention in 1850; elected as the candidate of the American 1971. Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, CAREY, Robert Davis (son of Joseph Maull Carey), a1857); delegate to the State secession convention in February Senator from Wyoming; born in Cheyenne, Laramie County,1861; elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh Congress Wyo., August 12, 1878; attended the public schools, and Hilland served from March 4, 1861, until July 9, 1861, when he School in Pottstown, Pa.; was graduated from Yale Universi-resigned to become Senator; elected as a Unionist to the ty 1900; moved to Careyhurst, Converse County, Wyo., inUnited States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the retire- 1900; engaged in the raising of livestock and agriculturalment of Robert M.T. Hunter and served from July 9, 1861, to pursuits; also interested in banking; member of the Progres- March 3, 1865; member of the convention that submitted the sive National Committee for Wyoming 19 12-1916; chairmannew State ordinance in August 1861; died in Clarksburg, of the Wyoming State Highway Commission 1917-1918;Harrison County, W.Va., October 24, 1878; interment in Odd president of the Wyoming Stock Growers' Association 19 17- Fellows Cemetery. 1921; Governor of Wyoming 1919-1923; appointed by Presi- Bibliography: DAB. dent Calvin Coolidge in 1924 as chairman of the agricultural conference to investigate the agricultural situation in the CARLIN, Charles Creighton, a Representative from Vir- United States; elected as a Republican to the United Statesginia; born in Alexandria, Va., April 8, 1866; attended the Senate on November 4, 1930, to fill the vacancy caused bypublic schools and Alexandria Academy; was graduated from the death of Francis E. Warren and on the same day wasNational University Law School, Washington, D.C.; was ad- also elected for the term commencing March 4, 1931, andmitted to the bar in 1891 and commenced practice in Alex- served from December 1, 1930, to January 3, 1937; unsuc-andria, Va.; postmaster at Alexandria, Va.,1893-1897; cessful candidate for reelection in 1936; resumed agricultur-served as delegate to Democratic National Conventions for al pursuits and ranching; died in Cheyenne, Wyo., Januaryforty years; elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress 17, 1937; interment in Lakeview Cemetery. to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John F. Rixey; reelected to the Sixty-first and to the five succeeding Con- CARLETON, Ezra Child, a Representative from Michigan; March 3, 1919, born in St. Clair, St. Clair County, Mich., September 6, 1838;gresses and served from November 5, 1907, to attended the common schools, and was graduated from thewhen he resigned before the commencement of the Sixty- Port Huron High School in 1859; engaged in business as asixth Congress, to which he had been reelected; resumed the hardware merchant in Port Huron, St. Clair County; mayorpractice of law in Alexandria, Va., and Washington, D.C.; of Port Huron in 1881 and 1882; elected as a Democrat toalso engaged in the newspaper publishing business at Alex- the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-andria, Va.; moved to Washington, D.C., in 1936 and contin- March 3, 1887); engaged in his former mercantile pursuits inued the practice of law; died in Washington, D.C., October Port Huron, until his death there July 24, 1911, interment14, 1938; interment in Ivy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, Va. in Lakeside Cemetery. CARLISLE, John Griffin, a Representative and a Senator CARLETON, Peter, a Representative from New Hamp-from Kentucky; born in Campbell (now Kenton) County, Ky., shire; born in Haverhill, Mass., September 19, 1755; attendedSeptember 5, 1835; attended the common schools; taught 744 Biographical Directory school in Covington and elsewhere for five years; studiedticed until 1872; during the Civil War served four years in law; was admitted to the bar in 1858 and commenced prac-the Confederate Army under Gen. Robert E. Lee, holding tice in Covington, KY.; member, State house of representa-the ranks of lieutenant, captain, and major of artillery; tives 1859-1861; member, State senate 1866-187 1; lieutenantmember of the State house of representatives 1873-1877, governor of Kentucky 187 1-1875; editor of the Louisvilleserving as speaker pro tempore in 1877; editor and proprie- Daily Ledger in 1872; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-tor of the Athens Banner (Banner Watchman) until 1880; fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served fromstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced March 4, 1877, to May 26, 1890, when he resigned, havingpractice in Athens, Ga.; city attorney of Athens in 1881 and been elected Senator; Speaker of the House of Representa- tives (Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses);1882; member and president of the State senate in 1884 and chairman, Committee on Rules (Forty-eighth through Fifti-1885; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first eth Congresses); elected as a Democrat to the United StatesCongresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891) again a member Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James B.of the State house of representatives in 1899; declined reelec- Beck and served from May 26, 1890, until February 4, 1893,tion, volunteered for service m the Spanish American War when he resigned to accept a Cabinet portfolio; Secretary ofand was made inspector general with the rank of major, the Treasury in the Cabinet of President Grover Clevelandengaged in the insurance busmess, died in Athens, Ga, Octo- 1893-1897; moved to New York City and resumed the prac-ber 26, 1905, mterment m Oconee Cemetery tice of law; died in New York City July 31 1910; interment CARLYLE, Frank Ertel, a Representative from North in Linden Grove Cemetery, Covington, Ky. Carolina; born in Lumberton, Robeson County, N.C., April 7, Bibliography: DAB; Barnes, James. John G.Carlisle, Financial States- 1897; educated in the schools of Robeson County, N.C., and man. 1931. Reprint. Gloucester, Mass.: P. Smith Company, 1967. Wilson Memorial Academy, Nyack, N Y, graduated from CARLSON, Cliffard Dale, a Representative from illinois;the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, during the born in Aurora, Kane County, Ill., December 30, 1915; edu-First World War served m the United States Navy, licensed cated in the public schools of Aurora, Ill., and North Centralto practice law on January 31, 1921, and commenced prac College, Naperville, Ill.; B.A., University of New Mexico,tice in Lumberton, N.C.; elected solicitor of the ninth judi- 1939; served in the United States Naval Reserve as a lieu-cial district of North Carolina in 1938, 1942, and 1946, and tenant (jg.), Pacific Theater, during the Second World War;served until elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1960,the Eighty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (Jan- 1964, and 1968; Republican State Central Committeeman;uary 3, 1949-January 3, 1957); unsuccessful for renomination involved in manufacturing; elected as a Republican, by spe-in 1956; died in Lumberton, N.C., October 2, 1960; interment cial election, April 4, 1972, to the Ninety-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charlotte T. in Meadowbrook Cemetery. Reid, and served from April 4, 1972, to January 3, 1973; was CARMACK, Edward Ward, a Representative and a Sena- not a candidate in 1972 for reelection to the Ninety-thirdtor from Tennessee; born near Castalian Springs, Sumner Congress; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1974 to theCounty, Tenn., November 5, 1858; attended Webb's School, Ninety-fourth Congress; died at the family farm near Dixon,Culleoka, Tenn.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in

Ill., August 28, 1977; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery,1879 and practiced in Columbia, Tenn.; city attorney of Co-- Geneva, Ill. lumbia in 1881; elected to the State house of representatives CARLSON, Frank, a Representative and a Senator from in 1884; joined the staff of the Nashville Democrat in 1888; Kansas; born in Concordia, Cloud County, Kans., Januaryeditor in chief of the Nashville American when the papers 23, 1893; attended the public schools, Concordia (Kans.)were merged; editor of the Memphis Commercial in 1892; Normal and Business College, and Kansas State College atelected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Con- Manhattan; during the First World War served as a privategresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1901); elected as a Demo-- in the United States Army 1918-1919; engaged in agricultur-crat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, al pursuits and stock raising; member, State house of repre-1901, to March 3, 1907; unsuccessful candidate in 1906 for sentatives 1929-1933; chairman of the Republican State com-reelection; resumed the practice of law; unsuccessful candi- mittee 1932-1934; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-date for nomination as Governor in 1908; resumed editorship fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3,of the Nashville American; died in a gun fight in Nashville, 1935-January3, 1947); was not a candidate for renominationTenn., November 9, 1908; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, in 1946; Governor of Kansas from 1947 until his resignationColumbia, Tenn.; in November 1950, having been elected a Senator; chairman Bibliography: DAB; Faries, Clyde J. "Carmack Versus Patterson: The of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission in 1949; chairman Genesis of a Political Feud." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 38 (Fall 1979): of the National Governors' Conference in 1950; elected as a 332-47; Majors, William. Editorial Wild Oats: Edward Carrnack and Ten- Republican to the United States Senate in 1950 to fill the nessee Politics. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1984. vacancy caused by the death of Clyde M. Reed for the term CARMAN, Gregory Wright, a Representative from New ending January 3, 1951, and also for the full term commenc-York; born in Farmingdale, Nassau County, N.Y., January ing January 3, 1951; reelected in 1956, and again in 1962;31, 1937; attended the public schools; attended University of and served from November 29, 1950, to January 3, 1969; wasParis, France, L'institut d'Etudes Politique, 1956-1957; B.A., not a candidate for reelection in 1968; chairman, CommitteeSt. Lawrence University, Canton, N.Y., 1958; J.D., St. John's on Post Office and Civil Service (Eighty-third Congress); diedUniversity, Jamaica, N.Y., 1961; graduated, University of m Concordia, Kans May 30, 1987, mterment in PleasantVirginia Law School, J.A.G. School, 1962; served in the Hill Cemetery United States Army, captain, 1958-1964; admitted to the CARLTON, Henry Hull, a Representative from Georgia;New York bar in 1961 and commenced practice in Farming- born in Athens, Ga., May 14, 1835; attended the publicdale, 1964; member, Town Board of Oyster Bay, N.Y., 1972- schools and the University of Georgia at Athens for two1980; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh Congress years, was graduated m medicme and surgery from Jeffer (January 3, 1981-January 3, 1983); was not a candidate for son Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1857, and prac-reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress; confirmed, Biographies 745

United States Judge, United States Court of InternationalStates Navy as a yeoman third class with a naval aviation Trade, March 2, 1983; is a resident of Farmingdale, N.Y.unit in 1918 and 1919; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- ninth Congress (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1947); unsuc- CARMICHAEL, Archibald Hill, a Representative fromcessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Con- Alabama; born near Sylvan Grove in Dale County, Ala.,gress; superintendent of schools at Elisinore, Mo.; elected to June 17, 1864; attended the public schools; was graduatedthe Eighty-first and to the five succeeding Congresses (Janu- from the law department of the University of Alabama atary 3, 1949-January 3, 1961); unsuccessful candidate for re- Tuscaloosa in 1886; was admitted to the bar the same yearnomination in 1960; confirmed as Ambassador to Sierra and commenced practice in Tuscumbia, Ala.; served as solici-Leone May 11, 1961; resigned after serving in this post for tor of the eighth judicial district of Alabama 1890-1894;two and one-half years; retired to Crites Corner, west of delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1901;Elisinore; died in Rochester, Minn., on March 24, 1968, inter- member of the State house of representatives 1907-1911 and 1915-1919, serving as speaker in 1907 and 1911; delegate atment in Carson Hill Cemetery, northeast of Elismore, Mo large to the Democratic National Conventions in 1916, 1928, CARNES, Thomas Petters, a Representative from Georgia; and 1932; served in the State senate 1919-1923; member ofborn in Maryland in 1762; complsted preparatory studies; the State Board of Education 1919-1947 and of the Tuscum-studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Mi!- bia Board of Education 1920-1947; trustee of the Universityledgeville, Ga.; member of the State house of representatives of Alabama 1924-1947; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-1786, 1787, 1789, and 1797; solicitor general for the western third Congress to ifil the vacancy caused by the death ofcircuit of Georgia; attorney general of Georgia from Decem- Edward B. Almon; reelected to the Seventy-fourth Congressber 1789 until December 1792, when he resigned, elected to and served from November 14, 1933, to January 3, 1937; wasthe Third Congress (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1795), resumed not a candidate for renomination in 1936; resumed the prac-the practice of law, judge of the western circuit court of tice of law and was also interested in banking until hisGeorgia from January 1798 until May 1803, when he re-- death in Tuscumbia, Ala., on July 15, 1947; interment insigned, and from December 1809 to November 1810; member Oakwood Cemetery. of the State constitutional convention m 1798, appomted one CARMICHAEL, Richard Bennett (grandnephew of Wil-of the commissioners to settle the boundary disputes be- ham Carmichael), a Representative from Maryland; born intween the States of Georgia and North Carolina in 1806; Centerville, Queen Annes County, Md., December 25, 1807;again a member of the State house of representatives in attended the academy at Centerville, and Dickinson College,1807 and 1808; died on his farm in Franklin (now Hart) Carlisle, Pa.; was graduated from Princeton College in 1828;County, Ga., May 5, 1822; interment in the garden on his studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1830 and commencedestate. practice in Centerville, Queen Annes County, Md.; member CARNEY, Charles Joseph, a Representative from Ohio; of the State house of delegates in 1831 and 1841-1866; elect-born m Youngstown, Mahonmg County, Ohio, April 17, 1913, ed as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); resumed the practice of law; delegateattended schools in Youngstown and Campbell, Ohio; attend- to the Democratic National Conventions in 1856, 1864, 1868,ed Youngstown State University; member, Ohio State and 1876; judge of the circuit court 1858-1864; presidingsenate, 1950-1970, serving as minority leader from 1969 to judge of the county court of Queen Annes County in 1861;1970; staff member, vice-president, and president, United member and president of the State constitutional conventionRubber Workers Union Local 102, 1934-1950; staff represent- in 1867; died at "Wye," near Carmichael, Queen Annesative, United Steelworkers of America, 1950-1968; served as County, Md., October 21, 1884; interment in the family bury-vice-president of Mahoning County ClO Industrial Council; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-first Congress, Novem- ing ground at "Wye." ber 3, 1970, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by CARMICHAEL, William (granduncle of Richard Bennettthe death of Michael Kirwan and at the same time elected Carmichael), a Delegate from Maryland; born at "Roundto the Ninety-second Congress; reelected to the three suc- Top," in Queen Annes County, Md., near Chestertown, Md.;ceeding Congresses, and served from November 3, 1970, to studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Cen-January 3, 1979; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in terville, Md.; was in London, England, at the beginning of1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; was a resident of Youngs- the Revolution; assistant to , secret agent oftown, Ohio, until his death there on October 7, 1987; inter- Congress, at Paris in 1776; went to Berlin in American inter-ment in Calvary Cemetery. ests in 1776; named secretary to the American commission- ers in France in 1777, but did not serve, returning to the CARNEY, William, a Representative from New York; United States in May 1778; Member of the Continental Con-born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., July 1, 1942; received gress 1778-1779; went to Spain in September 1779 andpreliminary education at St. Catherine of Genoa, Brooklyn; served as secretary of the legation; appointed Chargé d'Af-graduated from Delahanty High School, Queens, 1960; at- faires at Madrid, Spain, April 20, 1782, and served until Maytended Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla., 1960- 1794; died in Madrid, Spain, February 9, 1795; interment in1961; served in the United States Army Medical Corps, a lot adjoining the Roman Catholic Cemetery. 1961-1964; sales representative for heavy equipment firm, Bibliography: DAB. 1972-1976; member, Suffolk County legislature, 1976-1979; elected as a Republican to the Ninety sixth and to the three CARNAHAN, Albert Sidney Johnson, a Representativesucceeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1987); from Missouri; born on a farm near Ellsinore, Carterwas not a candidate for reelection in 1986; is a resident of County, Mo., January 9, 1897; attended public schools inHauppauge, N.Y. Ellsinore and Cape Girardeau, Mo.; was graduated from State Teachers College at Cape Girardeau in 1926 and from CARPENTER, Cyrus Clay, a Representative from Iowa; the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1934; taughtborn near Harford, Susquehanna County, Pa., November 24, school, served as high school principal for one year, and held1829; attended the common schools, and was graduated from school administrative positions in Carter, Reynolds, andHarford Academy in 1853; moved to Iowa in 1854 and en- Shannon Counties 1920-1944; served overseas in the Unitedgaged in teaching and afterwards in land surveying; studied 746 Biographical Directory law but never practiced; county surveyor of Webster CountyCharleston, S.C., in 1867 and became editor of the Charles- in 1856; member of the State house of representatives 1858-ton Courier; assisted in establishing the Charleston Republi- 1860; during the Civil War was appointed captain of Volun-can in 1868; secretary to United States Senator William H. teers March 24, 1862, lieutenant colonel September 26, 1864,Buckmgham, of Connecticut, 1868-1873, elected as a Repub- and brevet colonel of Volunteers July 12, 1865; registrar oflican to the Forty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused the State land office 1866-1868; Governor of Iowa 1872-1876;by the resignation of Robert B. Elliott and served from Second Comptroller of the Treasury from January 1876 toNovember 3, 1874, to March 3, 1875; unsuccessful candidate September 1877; appointed railroad commissioner of Iowafor election to the Forty-fifth Congress; moved to Denver, March 26, 1878; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixthCob., in 1878, and thence, in 1879, to Leadville, where he and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4,1879-March 3,edited a newspaper; appointed supervisor of the census for 1883); was not a candidate for renomination in 1882 to theColorado in 1880; appointed United States post-office inspec- Forty-eighth Congress; again served in the State house oftor in 1881 and resigned in 1883; engaged in the insurance representatives 1884-1886; postmaster of Fort Dodge 1889-business 1883-1890; resumed the practice of law; died in 1893; engaged in the management of his farm and in theDenver, Cob., March 6, 1908; interment in Fairmount Ceme- real-estate business; died in Fort Dodge, Iowa, May 29, 1898; interment in Oakland Cemetery. tery. Bibliography: DAB; Throne, Mildred. Cyrus Clay Carpenter and Iowa CARPENTER, Matthew Hale, a Senator from Wisconsin; Politics, 1854-1898. Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1974. born Decatur Merritt Hammond Carpenter in Moretown, CARPENTER, Davis, a Representative from New York;Washington County Vt, December 22, 1824, attended the born in Walpole, Cheshire County, N.H., December 25, 1799;common schools; entered the United States Military Acade- studied medicine; was graduated from Middlebury (Vt.) Col-my at West Point in 1843 and remained two years; studied lege in 1824; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com-law; was admitted to the bar in 1847 and practiced in menced practice in Brockport, Monroe County, N.Y.; electedBoston, Mass.; moved to Beloit, Wis., in 1848 and became as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress to fill the vacancyknown as Matthew Hale Carpenter; district attorney of Rock caused by the resignation of Azariah Boody and served fromCounty 1850-1854; moved to Milwaukee in 1858; until the November 8, 1853, to March 3, 1855; unsuccessful candidatecommencement of the Civil War belonged to the Douglas for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress; engagedwing of the Democratic Party; elected as a Republican to the in the practice of medicine in Brockport, N.Y., and diedUnited States Senate and served from March 4, 1869, to there October 22, 1878; interment in High Street Cemetery.March 3, 1875; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1875; CARPENTER, Edmund Nelson, a Representative fromserved as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Pennsylvania; born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., June 27, 1865; at-Forty-third Congress; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills tended the public schools in Wilkes-Barre and the Wyoming(Forty-second Congress), Committee to Audit and Control the Seminary, Kingston, Pa.; interested in mining and the man-Contingent Expense (Forty-second and Forty-third Congress- ufacture of sheet-metal products; enlisted as a private ines), resumed the practice of law in Washmgton and in Mil 1893 and attained the rank of major in the Pennsylvaniawaukee; again elected as a Republican to the United States National Guard; during the Spanish-American War servedSenate and served from March 4, 1879, until his death in as first lieutenant and quartermaster in the Ninth Regi-Washington, D.C., February 24, 1881; interment in Forest ment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, from April 27, 1898,Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wis. Bibliography: DAB; Deutsch, Herman J. "Carpenter and the Senatorial to October 29, 1898; unsuccessful candidate for election in Election of 1875 in Wisconsin." Wisconsin Magazine of History 16 (Septem- 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; elected as a Republican to ber 1932): 26-46; Thompson, E. Bruce. Matthew Hale Carpenter. Madison: the Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3,1927); State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1954. unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926 to the Seventi- eth Congress; resumed his manufacturing interests; died in CARPENTER, Terry McGovern, a Representative from Philadelphia, Pa., November 4, 1952; interment in Hollen-Nebraska; born in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, March back Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 28, 1900; attended the public schools of Cedar Rapids; moved to Scottsbluff, Nebr., in 1916 and was employed in various CARPENTER, Levi D., a Representative from New York;positions with a railroad company; was engaged in the born in Waterville, Oneida County, N.Y., August 21, 1802;wholesale candy and tobacco business in 1922 and 1923; attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted to themoved to Long Beach, Calif., in 1923 and was employed as bar and commenced practice in Waterville, N.Y.; supervisor manager of the municipal gas and water department; re-- of the town of Sangerfield in 1835; elected as a Democrat toturned to Scottsbluff, Nebr., in 1927 and worked in the the Twenty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by thegarage business and the retail coal business; unsuccessful resignation of Samuel Beardsley and served from Novembercandidate for mayor in 1931; elected as a Democrat to the 5, 1844, to March 3, 1845; was not a candidate for reelectionSeventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); was in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress; resumed the practicenot a candidate for renomination in 1934 to the Seventy- of law in Waterville, N.Y., and died there October 27, 1856;fourth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for nomination for interment in the City Cemetery. Governor in 1934, for election to the United States Senate in CARPENTER, Lewis Cass, a Representative from South1936, for election for Lieutenant Governor in 1938, for elec- Carolina; born in Putnam, Conn., February 20, 1836; attend-tion for Governor in 1940, for nomination to the United ed the public schools; moved to New Jersey, where he taughtStates Senate in 1942, for election to the United States school; appointed State inspector of public schools in NewSenate in 1948, for nomination for Governor in 1950, for Jersey in 1863; at an early age began writing for the press,nomination to the United States Senate in 1954, for nomina- and was connected with the New York papers for severaltion for Governor in 1960, for nomination to the United years; went to Washington, D.C., in 1864 and was employedStates Senate in 1972, and for Lieutenant Governor in 1974; in the Treasury Department; studied law at Columbian (nowmajor, United States Air Corps, 1942-1945; changed political George Washington) University; was admitted to the bar andaffiliation five times; delegate to the Republican National practiced; Washington newspaper correspondent; moved toConvention in 1956; served in the State legislature in 1953, Biographies 747

1957-1959, 1963-1974; engaged in operating ,tenant in a company of United States Rangers, authorized Inc., in Terrytown, Nebr.; resided in Scottsbluff, Nebr.,by an act of Congress for defense of western frontiers, in where he died April 27, 1978; interment in Fairview Ceme-1812; brigadier general and major general of the Indiana tery. Militia until his death; county clerk 1824-1830; presidential elector for Jackson and Calhoun in 1824; elected as a Jackso- CARPENTER, William Randolph, a Representative fromnian to the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Kansas; born in Marion, Marion County, Kans., April 24,Congresses (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1837); chairman, Com- 1894; attended public and high schools; was graduated frommittee on Private Land Claims (Twenty-fourth Congress); the law department of the University of Michigan at Annunsuccessful candidate in 1836 for reelection to the Twenty- Arbor in 1917; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Marion, Kans.; also interested infifth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth agricultural pursuits; organized Company M, Third Regi-Congress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); died in Charles- ment Infantry, Kansas National Guard, serving as secondtown, Clark County, md., January 20, 1845; interment in the lieutenant; during the First World War was transferred toOld Cemetery. Company M, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth. Infantry, CARR, Milton Robert (Bob), a Representative from Michi- Thirty-fifth Division; was promoted to first lieutenant duringgan; born in Janesville, Rock County, Wis., March 27, 1943; the Argonne offensive, and served until his discharge oneducated in public schools of Janesville; B.S., University of May 8, 1919; member of the Marion Board of EducationWisconsin, Madison, 1965; J.D., University of Wisconsin Law 1925-1933; served in the State house of representativesSchool, Madison, 1968; graduate work at Michigan State 1929-1933; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third andUniversity, East Lansing, Mich.; admitted to the Wisconsin Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937);bar, 1968, and the Michigan bar, 1969, and commenced prac- was not a candidate for renomination in 1936; resumed thetice in Lansing, Mich.; Michigan assistant attorney general, practice of law; United States attorney for the district of1970-1972; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth and to Kansas 1945-1948; unsuccessful Democratic candidate forthe two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, Governor in 1948; member of the United States Motor Carri-1981); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1980 to the er Claims Commission 1950-1952; died in Topeka, Kans.,Ninety-seventh Congress; elected to the Nigety-eighth and to July 26, 1956; interment in Highland Cemetery, Marion,the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, Kans. 1989); is a resident of East Lansing, Mich. CARPER, Thomas Richard, a Representative from Dela- CARR, Nathan Tracy, a Representative from Indiana; ware; born in Beckley, Raleigh County, W.Va., January 23,born in Corning, Steuben County, N.Y., December 25, 1833; 1947; attended public schools; graduated, Whetstone Highattended the common schools, and was graduated from Star- School, Columbus, Ohio, 1964; B.A., Ohio State University,key Academy in 1851; moved to Midland County, Mich.; Columbus, 1968; M.B.A., University of Delaware, Newark,studied law; was admitted to the Midland County bar in 1975; served in the United States Navy, 1968-1973; Naval1858 and commenced practice at Vassar, Mich.; member of Reserve, commander, 1973 to present; Delaware State treas-the State house of representatives 1858-1860; recorder of urer, 1976-1982; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighthMidland County in 1861 and 1862; served as a lieutenant in and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-the Second Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, in 1862; January 3, 1989); is a resident of Wilmington, Del. moved to Columbus, md., in 1867; prosecuting attorney for CARR, Francis (father of James Carr), a RepresentativeBartholomew, Shelby, Jackson, and Brown Counties in 1870; from Massachusetts; born in Newbury, Mass., December 6,elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress to fill 1751; attended the common schools; engaged in the mercan-the vacancy caused by the death of Michael C. Kerr and tile business; member of the State house of representativesserved from December 5, 1876, to March 3, 1877; unsuccess- from Haverhill 1791-1795 and 1801-1803, and from Orring-ful candidate for renomination in 1876; resumed the practice ton, Maine (then Massachusetts), 1806-1808; served in theof law in Columbus, Bartholomew County, md.; appointed State senate 1809-1811; elected as a Republican to thejudge of the ninth judicial circuit court of Indiana in 1878; Twelfth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-died in Columbus, md., May 28, 1885; interment in the City tion of Barzillai Gannett and served from April 6, 1812, toCemetery. March 3, 1813; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1812 CARR, Wooda Nicholas, a Representative from Pennsyl- to the Thirteenth Congress; resumed mercantile pursuits;vania; born in Allegheny City (now a part of Pittsburgh), died in Bangor, Maine, October 6, 1821; interment in MountPa., February 6, 1871; attended the public schools and Madi- Hope Cemetery. son College; was graduated from Monongahela College, CARR, James (son of Francis Carr), a Representative fromPennsylvania, in 1891; editor of the Uniontown (Pa.) News Massachusetts; born in Bangor, Maine (then a part of Massa-and the Uniontown Democrat in 1892; studied law; was ad- chusetts), September 9, 1777; attended Exeter and Byfieldmitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1895 and commenced Academies; clerk on U.S.S. Crescent; appointed as secretarypractice in Uniontown; delegate to the Democratic State to the United States consul at Algiers and served two years;conventions in 1898, 1899, 1900, and 1904; elected as a Demo-- engaged in mercantile pursuits in Orrington, Maine (thencrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, Massachusetts); member of the State house of representa-1915); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 tives 1806-1811; elected as a Federalist to the Fourteenthto the Sixty-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law; Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); was drowned in thewas appointed postmaster of Uniontown, Pa., on August 2, Ohio River August 24, 1818; memorial headstone placed in1934, and served until his retirement in 1947; died in Union- Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine. town, Pa., on June 28, 1953; interment in Oak Grove Ceme- tery. CARR, John, a Representative from Indiana; born in Un- iontown, Perry County, md., April 9, 1793; moved with his CARRIER, Chester Otto, a Representative from Ken- parents to Clark County, md., in 1806; attended the publictucky; born on a farm near Brownsville, Edmonson, County, schools; fought in the Battle of Tippecanoe; appointed lieu-Ky., May 5, 1897; attended the public schools of Grayson 748 Biographical Directory

County, Ky., the University of West Virginia at Morgan-a Senator from Maryland; born in Annapolis, Md., Septem- town, and was graduated from the law department of theber 19, 1737; attended the Jesuits' College of Bohemia at University of Louisville at Louisville, Ky., in 1924; engagedHermans Manor, Md., and the College of St. Omer in ifl ranching in Wyoming for one year; took up railroading inFrance; studied civil law at the College of Louis le Grand in Pennsylvania iii 1920; was admitted to the bar in 1923 andRheims, and common law in London; returned to Annapolis, commenced practice in Leitchfield, Grayson County, KY.;Md., in 1765; delegate to the revolutionary convention of county attorney of Grayson County, 1925-1943; elected as aMaryland in 1775; Continental commissioner to Canada in Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress to fill the vacan-1776, member of the Board of War 1776-1777, Delegate to cy caused by the death of Edward W. Creal and served fromthe Continental Congress 1776-1778; again elected to the November 30, 1943, to January 3, 1945; unsuccessful candi- date for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress;Continental Congress in 1780, but declined to serve; was a resumed the practice of law in Leitchfield; retired to Northsigner of the Declaration of Independence; member, State Seminole, Fla., where he died September 24, 1980; intermentsenate 1777-1800; elected to the United States Senate in in Clarkson Baptist Cemetery, Clarkson, Ky. 1789; reelected in 1791 and served from March 4, 1789, to November 30, 1792, when, preferring to remain a State sena- CARRIGG, Joseph Leonard, a Representative from Penn-tor, he resigned because of a law passed by the Maryland sylvania; born in Susquehanna, Pa., February 23, 1901; at-legislature disqualifying the members of the State senate tended Laurel Hill Academy, Susquehanna, Pa., was grad-who held seats in Congress; retired to private life in 1801; uated from Niagara University, Niagara Falls, N.Y., in 1922,involved in establishing the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com- Albany Law School, Albany, N.Y., in 1924, and Dickinsonpany in 1828; died in Baltimore, Md., November 14, 1832; at Law School, Carlisle, Pa., in 1925; was admitted to the bar inthe time of his death was the last surviving signer of the 1926 and commenced the practice of law in Susquehanna,Declaration of Independence; interment in the chapel of Pa.; district attorney of Susquehanna County, Pa., 1936-Doughoregan Manor, near Ellicott City, Howard County, 1948; burgess of borough of Susquehanna 1948-1951; electedMd. as a Republican to the Eighty-second Congress to fill the Bibliography: DAB; Hanley, Thomas O'Brien. Charles Carroll of Carroll- vacancy caused by the death of Wilson D. Gillette; reelected ton: The Making of a Revolutionary Gentleman. Washington, D.C.: Catholic to the Eighty third Eighty fourth, and Eighty fifth Congress University of America Press, 1970; Smith, Ellen H. Charles Carroll of Car- es and served from November 6, 1951, to January 3, 1959; roliton. 1942. Reprint. New York: Russell and Russell, 1971. unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty- sixth Congress; director of practice, Internal Revenue Serv- CARROLL, Charles Holker, a Representative from New ice, Washington, D.C., 1959-1960; secretary to Representa-York; born at Belle Vue, Hagerstown, Md., May 4, 1794; was tive Scranton of Pennsylvania in 1961; manager, Stategraduated frOm St. Mary's College, Baltimore, Md., in 1813; Workmen's Insurance Fund of Pennsylvania, 1963; is a resi-moved to Livingston County, N.Y.; studied law but never dent of Scranton, Pa. practiced; engaged in agricultural pursuits; land agent; su- pervisor of Groveland, Livingston County, in 1817, 1818, CARRINGTON, Edward, a Delegate from Virginia; born1822, 1840, and 1848; county judge 1823-1829; served in the in Goochiand County, Va., February 11, 1748; member of theState senate in 1827 and 1828; member of the State assembly county committee in 1775 and 1776; served in the Revolu-in 1836; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty- tionary Army; commissioned lieutenant colonel of Artilleryninth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847); was not a November 30, 1776; served as quartermaster general on thecandidate for renomination in 1846; managed his large staff of General Greene; commanded the Artillery at thelanded estate near Groveland, N.Y.; presidential elector on Battle of Hobkirks Hill, April 24, 1781, and at Yorktown;the American Party ticket in 1856; died in Groveland, N.Y., Member of the Continental Congress 1786-1788; appointedJune 8, 1865; interment in Williamsburgh Cemetery. by President Washington marshal of Virginia in 1789; fore- Bibliography Robert F McNamaraIn Search of the Carrolls of Belle man of the jury during the trial of Aaron Burr for treason VueMaryland Historical Magazine 80 (Sprmg 1985) 99 113 in 1807; died in Richmond, Va., October 28, 1810; interment in St. John's Cemetery. CARROLL, Daniel (uncle of Richard Brent, cousin of Charles Carroll of Carroliton, and Charles Carroll "Barris- CARROLL, Charles ("Barrister") (cousin of Charles Car-ter"), a Delegate and a Representative from Maryland; born roll of Carrollton and Daniel Carroll), a Delegate from Mary-in Upper Marlboro, Prince Georges County, Md., July 22, land; born in Annapolis, Md., March 22, 1723; received his1730; educated at the Jesuit School at Bohemia Manor, Md., education at the English House, West Lisbon, Portugal, atand at St. Omer's College, France; returned to Maryland in Eton, and Cambridge University in England, and studied1748; Member of the Continental Congress 1781-1783, sign- law in the Middle Temple, Garden Court; returned to An-ing the Articles of Confederation on March 1, 1781; appoint- napolis, Md., in 1746 and commenced the practice of law;ed a delegate on May 26, 1787, to the convention that elected to the Maryland lower house of assembly in 1755 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Dr.framed the Federal Constitution; member of the first State Charles Carroll; framed the "Declaration of Rights" adoptedsenate of Maryland and up to the time of his death was a by the convention of Maryland on November 3, 1776; became member of the senate of Maryland, or the executive council a member of the Council of Safety in August 1775; elected aof Maryland; elected to the First Congress (March 4, 1789- Delegate to the Continental Congress on November 10, 1776,March 3, 1791); took an active part in fixing the seat of to succeed his cousin, Charles Carroll of Carroilton, servinggovernment for the United States; appointed by President until February 15, 1777; was elected in 1777 to the firstWashington on January 22, 1791, as one of the commission- State senate, having previously declined the position of chiefers to locate the District of Columbia and the Federal City judge of the general court of Maryland; was reelected inand served until July 25, 1795, when he resigned; engaged in 1781 and held that office until his death at his residence,agricultural pursuits, his farm being the site of the present Mount Clare, near Baltimore, Md., March 23, 1783. city of Washington; died at Rock Creek (Forest Glen), near Washington, D.C., May 7, 1796. CARROLL, Charles (of Carroilton) (cousin of Charles Bibliography: DAB; Geiger, Mary V. "Daniel Carroll, A Framer of the Carroll, the "Barrister," and Daniel Carroll), a Delegate and Constitution." Ph.D. dissertation, Catholic University of America, 1943. Biographies 749

CARROLL, James, a Representative from Maryland; bornpractice of law in Canton, Ohio, and Washington, D.C.; re-- in Baltimore, Md., December 2, 1791; was graduated fromsided in Canton, Ohio, where he died October 5, 1971; inter- old St. Mary's College at Baltimore in 1808; studied law butment in West Lawn Cemetery. did not practice; settled on a farm on West River; returned CARSON, Samuel Price, a Representative from North to Baltimore, Md., in 1831; judge of the orphans' court;Carolina; born in Pleasant Gardens, N.C., January 22, 1798; trustee of the poor; served as a director of the Baltimore &studied under private tutors in Pleasant Gardens; engaged Ohio Railroad Company and the Chesapeake & Ohio Canalin agricultural pursuits; member of the State senate1822- Company; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Con- candidate for1824; elected to the Nineteenth and to the three succeeding gress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); was not a Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1833); unsuccessful can- renomination in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress; un-didate in 1833 for reelection to the Twenty-third Congress; successful candidate for Governor of Maryland in 1844; re-again elected to the State senate in 1834; delegate tothe tired from political life; died in Baltimore, Md., January 16, State constitutional convention in 1835; moved to Texas in 1873; interment in St. Paul's Burying Ground. 1836; member of the Texas convention that adopted the CARROLL, John Albert, a Representative and a Senatorconstitution of that Republic in 1836; appointed Secretary of from Colorado; born in Denver, Cob., July 30, 1901;attendedState for the Republic of Texas in September 1836 and the public schools; during the First World War served in theserved until 1838; sent as a commissioner to Washington, United States Army 1918-1919; was graduated from West-D.C., to intercede for the recognition of the independence of minster Law School, Denver, Cob., in 1929; was admitted toTexas in 1836; died at Hot Springs, Ark., November 2, 1838; the bar the same year and commenced practice in Denver,interment in the Government Cemetery, Hot Springs,Ark. Cob.; assistant United States district attorney in 1933 and 1934; district attorney of Denver 1937-1941; regional attor- CARSS, William Leighton, a Representative from Minne- Administration 1942-1943; servedsota; born in Pella, Marion County, Iowa, February15, 1865; ney for the Office of Price attend- in the Second World War as a commissioned officer in themoved with his parents to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1867; ed the public schools; studied civil and mechanical engineer- United States Army 1943-1945; resumed the practice of law; of years; elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth and Eighty-first Con-ing and followed that profession for a number gresses (January 3, 1947-January 3,1951); was not a candi-moved to St. Louis County, Minn., in 1893 and settled in date for renomination in 1950 but was an unsuccessful can-Proctor; engaged as a locomotive engineer; elected as a didate for election as a Democrat to the United StatesUnion Labor candidate to the Sixty-sixth Congress(March 4, Senate in 1950 and again in 1954; special assistant to Presi-1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection as dent Harry Truman 1951-1952; elected as a Democrat to thea Democrat in 1920 to theSixty-seventh Congress and for United States Senate in 1956 and served from January 3,election m 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress, elected onthe 1957, to January 3, 1963; unsuccessful candidate for reelec-Farmer-Labor ticket to the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Con- tion in 1962; was a resident of Denver, Cob, until his deathgresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1929);unsuccessful candi- National Ceme-date for reelection in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congressand on August 31, 1983; interment at Ft. Logan moved tery, Denver, Cob. for election in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress; to Duluth, Minn., in 1929; resumed hisposition as locomo- CARROLL, John Michael, a Representative from Newtive engineer at Proctor, Minn.; died in Duluth,Minn., May York; born in Springfield, Otsego County, N.Y., April 27,31, 1931; interment in Oneota Cemetery. 1823; attended the public schools; was graduated from Fair- field Seminary, Fairfield, N.Y., and from Union College, CARTER, Albert Edward, a Representative from Califor- Schenectady, N.Y., in 1846; studied law; was admitted to thenia; born in Lemoncove, near Visalia, Tulare County,Calif., bar in 1848 and commenced practice in Broadalbin, FultonJuly 5, 1881; attended the public schools; wasgraduated County, N.Y.; prosecuting attorney of Fulton County 1859-from San Jose State Normal School in 1903; taughtschool 1862; moved to Johnstown, N.Y., in 1862 and continued thesix years; was graduated from the law departmentof the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-secondUniversity of California at Berkeley in 1913; wasadmitted to Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); declined to be athe bar the same year and commencedpractice in Oakland, candidate for renomination in 1872; engaged in the practiceCalif.; representative of the United States WarDepartment of law in Johnstown, Fulton County, N.Y., until his deathCommission on Training Camps 1917-1919; attorneyfor the there on May 8, 1901; interment in Johnstown Cemetery.California State Board of Pharmacy in 1920 and 1921; com- missioner of public works of Oakland 1921-1925 and in 1923 CARSON, Henderson Haverfield, a Representative frominitiated the plan for a comprehensive developmentof the Ohio; born on a farm near Cadiz, Harrison County,Ohio,harbor on the east side of ;president of October 25, 1893; attended the public and high schools;the Pacific Coast Association of Port Authorities;elected as Cleveland (Ohio) Law School and Baldwin-Wallace College ata Republican to the Sixty-ninthand to the nine succeeding Berea, Ohio, LL.B., 1919; became affiliated with thelegalCongresses (March 4, 1925-January 3, 1945);unsuccessful department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. in 1915; enlist-candidate for reelection in 1944 to theSeventy-ninth Con- ed in the Field Artillery in 1918; was transferred toBasegress; resumed the practiceof law in California and Wash- Hospital, One Hundred and Nineteenth Unit, Camp Zacharyington, D.C.; died in Oakland, Calif., August 8,1964; inter- Taylor, Ky., and served there until honorably discharged inment in Home of Peace Cemetery, Porterville,Calif. 1919 as a corporal; was. admitted to the bar in 1919 and commenced practice in Canton, Ohio, in 1922; member of the CARTER, Charles David, a Representative fromOklaho- faculty of McKinley Law School 1926-1942, where he re-ma; born near Boggy Depot, ChoctawNation, Indian Terri- tory (now Oklahoma), August 16, 1868;moved with his ceived his J.D. degree; elected as a Republican to the Seven- of ty-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1945); unsuc-father to Mill Creek, a stage stand on the western frontier cessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninththe Chickasaw Nation, in April 1876; attendedthe Indian (January 3,day schools and Chickasaw Manual TrainingAcademy at Congress; elected to the Eightieth Congress in a 1947-January 3, 1949); was an unsuccessful candidateforTishomingo; employed on a ranch from 1887 to 1889 and reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress;resumed themercantile establishment in Ardmore, Okla., from 1889 to 750 Biographical Directory

1892; auditor of public accounts of the Chickasaw Nation1891; chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining (Fifty-first 1892-1894; member of the Chickasaw Council in 1895;super-Congress); unsuccessful candidate in 1890 for reelection; intendent of schools of the Chickasaw Nation in 1897;ap-Commissioner of the General Land Office 1891-1892, when pointed mining trustee of Indian Territory by Presidenthe was elected chairman of the Republican National Com- McKinley in November 1900 and served fouryears; secre-mittee; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate tary of the first Democratic executive committee of thepro-and served from March 4, 1895, until March 3, 1901; chair- posed State of Oklahoma from June to December 1906;uponman, Committee on Relations with Canada (Fifty-fourth the admission of Oklahoma as a State into the UnionwasCongress), Committee on the Census (Fifty-fifth and Fifty- elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth and to the ninesuc- ceeding Congresses and served from November 16, 1907, tosixth Congresses); appointed by President William McKinley March 3,1927; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairsa member of the board of commissioners of the Louisiana (Sixty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomina-Purchase Exposition and served as its president; again elect- tion in 1926; member of the State highway commission 1927-ed as a Republican to the United States Senate and served 1929; died in Ardmore, Okia., April 9, 1929; interment infrom March 4, 1905, to March 3, 1911; chairman, Committee Rose Hill Cemetery. on Organization, Conduct, and Expenditures of Executive Departments (Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses), Commit- CARTER, John, a Representative from South Carolina;tee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Sixtieth born on the Black River, near Camden, Sumter District,Congress), Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid S.C., September 10, 1792; was graduated from South Caroli-Lands (Sixty-first Congress); chairman of the United States na College (now the University of South Carolina) at Colum-section of the International Joint Commission created to bia in 1811; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1814 andprevent disputes regarding the use of boundary waters be- commenced practice in Camden, S.C.; served as commission- tween the United States and Canada from March 1911 until er in equity 1814-1820; elected to the Seventeenth Congresshis death in Washington, D.C., September 17, 1911; inter- to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Blair;ment in Mount Olivet Cemetery. reelected to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth Congresses and CARTER, Tim Lee, a Representative from Kentucky; born served from December 11, 1822, to March 3, 1829; resumedin Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Ky., September 2, 1910; the practice of law in Camden, S.C.; moved to Georgetown,attended the public schools, graduated from Western Ken- D.C., in 1836, and died there June 20, 1850. tucky State College in 1934 and from the University of Ten- CARTER, Luther Cullen, a Representative from Newnessee in 1937; studied medicine; volunteered for military York; born in Bethel, Maine, February 25, 1805; moved toservice during the Second World War and served forty-two New York City and engaged in mercantile pursuits; membermonths as a combat medic as captain in the Thirty-eighth of the Board of Education of New York City in 1853; retiredInfantry Division; practicing physician in Tompkinsville, from business and moved to Long Island City, where heKy., 1940-1964; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-ninth engaged in agricultural pursuits; electedas a Republican toand to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965- the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861);January 3, 1981); was not a candidate for reelection in 1980 chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Thirty-sixthto the Ninety-seventh Congress; was a resident of Tompkins- ville, Ky. until his death in Glasgow, Ky. on March 27, 1987; Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1860to the Thirty-seventh Congress; died in New York City Januaryinterment in Evans-Oak Hill Cemetery, Tompkinsville. 3, 1875; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. CARTER, Timothy Jarvis, a Representative from Maine; CARTER, Steven V., a Representative from Iowa; born inborn in Bethel, in the Maine district of Massachusetts, Carterville, Utah, October 8, 1915; at the age of 14yearsAugust 18, 1800; attended the town schools of Bethel; studied moved with his parents to Lamoni, Decatur County, Iowa,law at Northampton, Mass., was admitted to the bar in 1826 and attended the public schools; graduated from Gracelandand commenced practice in Rumford, Oxford County, Maine; College, Lamoni, Iowa, in 1934, University of Iowa in 1937,moved to Paris, Oxford County, Maine, in 1827 and contin- and State University of Iowa College of Law in 1939;wasued the practice of law; secretary of the State senate of admitted to the bar in 1939 and commenced the practice ofMaine in 1833; county attorney 1833-1837; elected as a Dem- law in Leon, Iowa; county attorney, Decatur County, 1940-ocrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from Septem- 1944; served as a supply officer in the United States Navyber 4, 1837, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 14, 1943-1946, with service in the South Pacific Theater; city1838; interment in the Congressional Cemetery. attorney, Leon, Iowa, 1946-1948; unsuccessful Democratic

CARTER, Vincent Michael, a Representative from Wyo-- candidate for election to the Eighty-fifth Congress in 1956,ming; born in St. Clair, Schuylkill County, Pa., November 6, and later unsuccessfully contested the election; electedas a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth Congress and served from Jan-1891; moved with his parents to Pottsville, Pa., in 1893; uary 3, 1959, until his death in Bethesda, Md., November 4,attended public schools, the United States Naval Academy 1959; interment in Leon Cemetery, Leon, Iowa. Preparatory School, Annapolis, Md., and Fordham Universi- ty, New York City; was graduated from the law department CARTER, Thomas Henry, a Delegate, a Representative,of Catholic University, Washington, D.C., in 1915; was ad- and a Senator from Montana; born near Portsmouth, Sciotomitted to the bar in 1919 and commenced practice in Casper, County, Ohio, October 30, 1854; moved with his parents toWyo., the same year; moved to Kemmerer, Wyo., in 1929 and Pana, Ill.; attended the common schools in Illinois; engagedcontinued the practice of law; during the First World War in farming, school teaching, and railroading; at thesameserved in the Marine Corps as a lieutenant in the Eighth time studied law and was admitted to the bar; in 1882 movedRegiment, Third Brigade; captain in the State militia 1919- from Burlington, Iowa, to Helena, Mont.; elected as a Repub- 1921; deputy attorney general of Wyoming 1919-1923; State lican Delegate to the Fifty-first Congress and served fromauditor 1923-1929; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- March 4, 1889, to November 7, 1889, when the Territory wasfirst and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1929- admitted as a State into the Union; elected as its first Repre-January 3, 1935); was not a candidate for renomination in sentative and served from November 8, 1889, to March 3,1934, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Biographies 751

United States Senate; resumed the practice of law in Chey-succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1927-January 3,1943); enne, Wyo., retiring in 1965; delegate to the Republicanchairman, Committee on Roads (Seventy-third through Sev- National Conventions in 1936 and 1940; died in Albuquer-enty-seventh Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomi- que, N.Mex., December 30, 1972; interment in Mt. Calvarynation in 1942; served as a major in the United States Army, Cemetery. Allied Military Government, with service in Africa and Europe from 1943 until injured; returned to the United CARTER, William Blount, a Representative from Tennes- see; born in Elizabethton, Carter County, Tenn., October 22,States as an instructor at Fort Custer, Mich., in 1945; em- 1792; attended the public schools; during the War of 1812ployed with the Veterans' Administration at Muskogee, served as a colonel; member of the State house of represent-Okla., in 1945 and 1946; elected secretary of state of Oklaho-- atives; served in the State senate; delegate to the Statema for four-year term in 1946; elected State auditorfor four- constitutional convention in 1834 and served as its presidingyear term in 1950; elected State corporation commissioner officer; elected as a White supporter to the Twenty-fourthfor six-year term in 1954 and reelected in 1960 and 1966; was Congress and as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-a resident of Oklahoma City, OkIa. until his death there on sixth Congresses (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1841); died inMarch 14 1979, mterment in I 00 F Cemetery, Norman, Elizabethton, Tenn., April 17, 1848; interment in CarterOkla. Cemetery. CARUTH, Asher Graham, a Representative from Ken- CARTER, William Henry, a Representative from Massa-tucky; born in Scottsville, Allen County, Ky., on February 7, chusetts; born at Needham Heights, Norfolk County, Mass.,1844; attended the public schools; was graduated from the June 15, 1864; attended public schools; was graduated fromhigh school of Louisville in June 1864 and from the law Comers Commercial College, Boston, Mass.; worked in sever-department of the University of Louisville, Kentucky, in al capacities at the knit-underwear manufacturing plant ofMarch 1866; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- the William Carter Co.; member of the State house of repre-tice in Hopkinsvffle, Christian County, KY.; established the sentatives in 1906; member of the Republican State commit-Kentucky Weekly New Era; moved to Louisville in 1871 and tee in 1907 and 1908; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-continued the practice of law; attorney of the board of trust- fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3,ees of the public schools of Louisville from1873 to 1880; 1919); was not a candidate for reelection in 1918; interestedelected Commonwealth attorney for the ninth judicial dis- in real-estate development; was elected president of the Wil-trict of Kentucky in 1880 for six years and reelected in liam Carter Co. in 1918 and continued manufacturing activi-August 1886; resigned the office in March 1887; elected as a ties until his death; died in Needham, Mass., April 23, 1955;Democrat to the Fiftieth and to the three succeeding Con- interment in Needham Cemetery. gresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1895);unsuccessful candi- CARVI'ER, David Kellogg, a Representative from Ohio;date for renomination in 1894; resumed the practice of law born in Jefferson County, N.Y., in June 22, 1812; pursuedin Louisville, KY.; judge of the criminal division of the Jef- preparatory studies; studied law in Rochester, N.Y.; was ad-ferson County Circuit Court in 1902; commissioner of the St. mitted to the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Roches-Louis Exposition in 1904; died in Louisville, Ky., November ter, N.Y.; four years later moved to Akron, Ohio, and then to25, 1907; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery. Massillon, Ohio, and continued the practice of law; elected CARUTHERS, Robert Looney, a Representative from as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Con-Tennessee; born in Smith County, Tenn., July 31, 1800; en- gresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); chairman, Committeegaged in mercantile pursuits 1817-1819; attended Wood- on Patents (Thirty-second Congress); moved to Cleveland,ward's Academy, near Columbia, Tenn., and Greenville Col- Ohio, in 1856 and continued law practice; delegate to thelege in 1820 and 1821; studied law; was admitted to the bar Republican National Convention in 1860; appointed Unitedin 1823; clerk of the State house of representatives in 1824; States Minister to Bolivia by President Lincoln, and servedclerk of the chancery court of Smith County and editor of from March 27, 1861, to March 10, 1862; appointed chiefthe Tennessee Republican; moved to Lebanon, Wilson justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia inCounty, Tenn., in 1826; State's attorney 1827-1832; member 1863, and served until his death in Washington, D.C., onof the State house of representatives in 1835; was the found- April 16, 1887; interment in Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland,er of Cumberland University, Lebanon,Tenn., in 1842 and of Ohio. its law department in 1847; elected as a Whig to the Twenty- CARTWRIGHT, Wilburn, a Representative from Oklaho-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); appointed ma; born on a farm near Georgetown, Meigs County, Tenn.,judge of the supreme court of Tennessee in 1852 to fill a January 12, 1892; moved with his parents to the Chickasawvacancy and elected to the position in 1854, whichhe held Nation, Indian Territory, in1903; attended the publicuntil the beginning of the Civil War; member of the peace schools at Wapanucka and Ada, Okla., and State Teachersconvention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to College at Durant, Okla.; taught in the schools of Coal,devise means to prevent the impending war; elected Gover- Atoka, Bryan, and Pittsburg Counties, Okla., 1914-1926;nor in 1862, but because of the occupationof the State by member of the State house of representatives, 1914-19 18;Federal forces never assumed the duties of the office; at the studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1917 and commencedclose of the Civil War became professor of law in Cumber- practice in McAlester, Okia.; served as a private in theland University and served in that capacity until his death Student Army Training Corps in 1917 and 1918; member ofin Lebanon, Tenn., October 2, 1882; interment in Cedar the State senate 1918-1922; was graduated from the lawGrove Cemetery. department of the University of Oklahoma at Norman in 1920; took postgraduate work at the University of Chicago, CARUTHERS, Samuel, a Representative from Missouri; Chicago, Ill.; vocational adviser for disabled veterans atborn in Madison County, Mo., October 13, 1820; was graduat- McAlester, Okla., in 1921 and 1922; unsuccessful candidateed from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.; studied for the Democratic nomination for Congress in 1922 andlaw; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in 1924; superintendent of schools at Krebs, Okla., 1922-1926;Fredericktown, Madison County, Mo; moved to Cape Girar- elected as a Democrat to the Seventieth and to the sevendeau, Mo., in 1844; held several local offices; elected as a 752 Biographical Directory

Whig to the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses 1888 while on a visit at Rockville Center, Long Island, N.Y.; (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1857); reelected as a Democrat tointerment in Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery, Plainfield, the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3,1859); NJ died in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Mo., July 20, 1860. CARY, Samuel Fenton, a Representative from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 18, 1814; attended public CARVILLE, Edward Peter, a Senator from Nevada, bornschools; was graduated from Miami University, Oxford, in Mound Valley, Nev., May 14, 1885; attended the publicOhio, in 1835 and from the Cincinnati Law School in 1837; schools in Elko County, Nev.; was graduated frOm the Uni-was admitted to the bar in the latter year and commenced versity of Notre Dame, South Bend, md., in 1909; was admit-practice in Cincinnati; elected judge of the State supreme ted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in Elko, Nev.;court but declined; continued the practice of his profession district attorney of Elko County, Nev., 1912-1918; districtuntil 1845, when he devoted himself to temperance and judge of Elko County 1928-1934, United States attorney forother reforms; delegate to the Republican National Conven- Nevada 1934-1938, Governor of Nevada from 1939 until histion in 1864; served as paymaster general for the State of resignation in 1945; appointed July 24, 1945, as a DemocratOhio under Governors Bartley and Bebb, collector of inter to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by thenal revenue for the first district of Ohio in 1865; elected as death of James G. Scrugham and served from July 25, 1945, an Independent Republican to the Fortieth Congress to fill until January 3, 1947; unsuccessful candidate for renomina-the vacancy caused by the resignation of Rutherford B. tion in 1946; resumed the practice of law in Reno, Nev., until his death on June 27, 1956; interment in Nevada MemorialHayes; served from November 21, 1867, to March 3, 1869; Park Mausoleum, Reno, Nev. chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Fortieth Con- gress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1868 to the CARY, George, a Representative from Georgia; born nearForty-first Congress; unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant Allens Fresh, Charles County, Md., August 7, 1789; receivedGovernor of Ohio in 1875; was nominated in 1876 by the a classical education; studied law; was admitted to the barGreenback National Convention as a candidate for Vice and commenced practice in Frederick, Md.; also engaged inPresident of the United States; writer and lecturer for agricultural pursuits; moved to Appling, Ga.; member of thetwenty years; died at the Cary homestead in College Hill, State house of representatives 1819-1821; elected to theCincinnati, Ohio, September 29, 1900; interment in Spring Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses (March 4, 1823-Grove Cemetery March 3,1827); engaged in the newspaper business and edited the Hickory Nut; again a member of the State house CARY, Shepard, a Representative from Maine; born in of representatives in1834;died in Thomaston, UpsonNew Salem, Mass., July 3,1805; attended the common County, Ga., September 10, 1843; interment in the Methodistschools; moved with his parents to Houlton, Maine, in 1822; Churchyard. engaged in extensive lumber operations and also in agricul- tural and mercantile pursuits; member of the State house of CARY, George Booth, a Representative from Virginia;representatives in 1832, 1833, 1839-1842, 1848, 1849, and bornat "Bonny DoOn," near Courtland, Southampton1862; served in the State senate in 1843 and 1850-1853; County, Va., in 1811; received a liberal education; engaged inelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress; took planting; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Con-his seat May 10, 1844, and served until March 3, 1845; gress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); resumed agriculturalcandidate of the Liberty Party for Governor in 1854; died in pursuits; died in Bethlehem, Va., March 5, 1850; intermentHoulton, Aroostook County, Maine, August 9, 1866; inter- in the family cemetery on his estate, "Bonny Doon," nearment m Evergreen Cemetery Courtland, Southampton County, Va. CARY, William Joseph, a Representative from Wisconsin; CARY, Glover H., a Representative from Kentucky; bornborn in Milwaukee, Wis., March 22, 1865; educated in the in Calhoun, McLean County, Ky., May 1, 1885; attendedpublic schools and St. John's Academy; was left an orphan public and private schools, and Centre College, Danville,at the age of eleven, when he became a messenger boy; Ky.; employed as deputy clerk, bank cashier, and newspaperstudied telegraphy and was employed as a telegraph opera- editor; studied law; was admitted to the bar in June 1909tor 1883-1895; engaged in the brokerage business 1895-1905; and commenced practice in Calhoun, Ky.; member of theelected a member of the board of aldermen of Milwaukee in State house of representatives 1914-19 17; prosecuting attor-1900 and was reelected in 1902 for the term ending in 1904; ney of McLean County 1918-1922; served as Common-served as sheriff of Milwaukee County 1904-1906; elected as wealth's attorney for the sixth judicial district from 1922a Republican to the Sixtieth and to the five succeeding until his resignation on February 28, 1931, havmg beenCongresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful can- elected to Congress; moved to Owensboro, Ky., in 1926; elect-didate for renomination in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; ed as a Democrat to the Seventy-second, Seventy-third, andserved as county clerk of Milwaukee County 1921-1933; died Seventy-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1931,in Milwaukee, Wis., January 2, 1934; interment in Calvary until his death; had been reelected to the Seventy-fifth Con-Cemetery. gress; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1932; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 5, 1936; inter- CASE, Charles a Representative from Indiana; born in ment m Calhoun Cemetery, Calhoun, Ky Austinburg, Ohio, December 21, 1817; studied law; was ad- mitted to the bar and commenced practice in Fort Wayne, CARY, Jeremiah Eaton, a Representative from New York;hid.; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress to born in Coventry, R.I., April 30, 1803; attended the publicfill the vacancy caused by the death of ; schools; moved to Cherry Valley, N.Y., in 1820; studied law;reelected to the Thirty-sixth Congress and served from De- was admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice incember 7, 1857, to March 3, 1861; unsuccessful candidate for New York City; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighthreelection in 1860 to the Thirty-seventh Congress; during the Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); resumed the prac-Civil War served as first lieutenant and adjutant of the tice of law in New York City; moved to Plainfield, N.J., inForty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry; subse- 1860, where he continued the practice of law; died in Junequently became a major in the Third Regiment, Indiana Biographies 753

Volunteer Cavalry, and served from November 26, 1861, to CASEY, John Joseph, a Representative from Pennsylva- August 15, 1862; resumed the practice of his profession innia; born in Wilkes-Barre Township, Luzerne County, Pa., Washington, D.C.; died in Brighton, Washington County,May 26, 1875; attended the public schools and St. Mary's Iowa, June 30, 1883; interment in the Congressional Ceme-parochial school; member of the State house of representa- tery, Washington, D.C. tives 1907-1909; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1917); un- CASE, Clifford Philip, a Representative and a Senatorsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth from New Jersey; born in Franklin Park, Somerset County,Congress; appointed a member of the advisory council to the N.J., April 16, 1904; attended the public schools of Pough- keepsie, N.Y.; was graduated from Rutgers University, NewSecretary of Labor in 1918; appointed labor advisor and Brunswick, N.J., in 1925 and from Columbia University Lawexecutive of the labor adjustment division, Emergency Fleet School, New York City, in 1928; was admitted to the bar inCorporation, United States Shipping Board, during the First 1928 and commenced practice in New York City; member ofWorld War; elected to the Sixty-sixth Congress (March 4, the Rahway (N.J.) Common Council 1938-1942; member,1919-March 3, 1921); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in New Jersey house of assembly 1943-1944; trustee of Rutgers1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress elected to the Sixty- University; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-ninth andeighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful to the four succeeding Congresses, and served from Januarycandidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; 3, 1945, until his resignation August 16, 1953; president ofbusiness agent for the Plumbers and Steam Fitters' Union; The Fund for the Republic 1953-1954; elected as a Republi-elected to the Seventieth and Seventy-first Congresses and can to the United States Senate in 1954; reelected in 1960,served from March 4, 1927, until his death at Balboa, Canal 1966, and again in 1972 and served from January 3, 1955, toZone, May 5, 1929; interment in St. Mary's Cemetery, Hano- January 3, 1979; unsuccessful candidate for renomination inver Township, Luzerne County, Pa 1978; resumed the practice of law; lecturer at Rutgers Uni- CASEY, Joseph, a Representative from Pennsylvania; versity's Eagleton Institute of Politics; resided in Rahway,born at Ringgold Manor, Washington County, Md., Decem- N.J., until his death in Washington, D.C., on March 5, 1982;ber 17, 1814; studied law in Carlisle, Pa.; was admitted to the interment at New Cemetery, Somerville, N.J. Bibliography: Case, Clifford. "Changing Role of Congress: The Growing bar in 1838 and commenced practice in Bloomfield, Perry Concern with the Legislative Process." George Washington Law Review 32 County, Pa.; moved to New Berlin, Pa., and resumed the (June 1964) 929-31 Case CliffordCongress and the Double Standard practice of law; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Con- Federal Bar Journal 24 (Summer 1964): 257-63. gress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); declined to be acandi- date for renomination in 1850; again engaged in the practice CASE, Francis Higbee, a Representative and a Senatorof his profession; in 1856 was appointed reporter of the from South Dakota; born in Everly, Clay County, Iowa, De-decisions of the supreme court of Pennsylvania, which posi- cember 9, 1896; moved with his parents to Sturgis, S.Dak., intion he held until 1861; was appointed in 1861 by President 1909; attended the public schools; graduated from DakotaLincoln one of the judges of the court of claims; upon the Wesleyan University, Mitchell, S.Dak., in 1918, and fromreorganization of that court in 1863 was appointed chief Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., in 1920; during thejustice and was the first person to serve in that capacity, First World War served as a private in the United Statesholding the position until December 1870, when he resigned; Marine Corps in 1918; served in both the United Statesengaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C., until his Army and the United States Marine Corps Reserves; assist-death, February 10, 1879; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. ant editor, Epworth Herald, Chicago, Ill., 1920-1922; tele- graph editor and editorial writer on the Rapid City (S.Dak.) Bibliography: DAB. Daily Journal 1922-1925; editor and publisher of the Hot CASEY, Joseph Edward, a Representative from Massa- Springs (S.Dak.) Star 1925-1931; editor and publisher of thechusetts; born in Clinton, Worcester County, Mass., Decem- Custer (S.Dak.) Chronicle 1931-1946; member of the Stateber 27, 1898; attended the public schools; served as a private regents of education 193 1-1933; unsuccessful candidate forin the United States Army at Camp Lee, Va., in 1918; was election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; elected as agraduated from the law department of Boston University, Republican to the Seventy-fifth and to the six succeedingBoston, Mass., in 1920; was admitted to the bar in 1920 and

Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1951); elected to thecommenced practice in Clinton, Mass.; delegate to the Demo-- United States Senate in 1950; reelected in 1956 and servedcratic National Conventions in 1924, 1932, 1936, 1940, and from January 3, 1951, until his death in the naval hospital1944; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and to the at Bethesda, Md., June 22, 1962; chairman, Committee onthree succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, District of Columbia (Eighty-third Congress); interment in1943); was not a candidate for renomination in 1942 to the Mountain View Cemetery, Rapid City, S.Dak. Seventy-eighth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate Bibliography: Chenoweth, Richard. "Francis Case: A Political Biogra-for election to the United States Senate; resumed the prac- phy." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nebraska, 1977; U.S. Congress. Me. tice of law in Boston, Mass., and in Washington, D.C., where morial Addresses. 87th Cong., 2nd sess., 1962. Washington, D.C.: Govern- he resided until his death September 1, 1980; interment in ment Printing Office, 1962. Arlington National Cemetery. CASE, Walter, a Representative from New York; born in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess County, N.Y., in 1776; educated CASEY, Levi, a Representative from South Carolina; born by private tutors; attended Newburgh Academy, and wasin that State about 1752; served in the Continental Army graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1799;during the Revolutionary War; elected brigadier general of studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1802 and commencedmilitia; justice of Newberry County Court in 1785; member practice in Newburgh; elected to the Sixteenth Congressof the State senate in 1781 and 1782 and 1800-1802; member (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); affiliated with the Whigof the State house of representatives 1786-1788, 1792-1795 Party after its formation; resumed the practice of law;and 1798-1799; elected as a Republican to the Eighth and moved to New York City in 1844 and continued the practiceNinth Congresses and served from March 4, 1803, until his of law until 1848, when he retired; died in Fishkill, Dutchessdeath, before the close of the Ninth Congress; had been County, N.Y., October 7, 1859; interment in Fishkffl Ruralreelected to the Tenth Congress; died in Washington, D.C., Cemetery. February 3, 1807; interment in the Congressional Cemetery. 754 Biographical Directory

CASEY,Lyman Rufus, a Senator from North Dakota;died in Caseyville, St. Clair County, Ill., which was named born in York, Livingston County, N.Y., May 6, 1837; movedafter him, September 4 1862 mterment m old Union Ceme- with his parents to Ypsilanti, Mich., in 1853; receivedatery, near Mount Vernon, Ill classical education; engaged in the hardware business for many years; moved to Carrington, Foster County, Territory CASKIE,John Samuels, a Representative from Virginia; of Dakota, in 1882 and became a rancher; chairman of theborn in Richmond, Va., November 8, 1821; was graduated North Dakota Committee on Irrigation; commissioner offrom the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1842; Foster County in 1887; upon the admission of North Dakotastudied law; was admitted to the bar about 1842 and prac- as a State into the Union was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from November 25, 1889, toticed in Richmond; prosecuting attorney of the city of Rich- March 3, 1893; unsuccessful candidate for renomination inmond 1842-1846; judge of the Richmond and Henrico circuits 1892; chairman, Committee on Railroads (Fifty-second Con- 1846-1849; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second and to gress); moved to New York City; returned to Washington,the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1851-March 3, D.C., and died there January 26, 1914; interment in Green-1859) unsuccessful candidate for renoimnation in 1858, re- mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. sumed the practice of law; died in Richmond, Va., December 16, 1869; interment in Hollywood Cemetery. CASEY,Robert Randolph, a Representative from Texas; born in Joplin, Jasper County, Mo., July 27, 1915; moved CASON, Thomas Jefferson, a Representative from Indi- with his parents to Houston, Tex., in 1930 and graduatedana; born near Brownsville, Union County, md., September from San Jacinto High School; student at the University of13, 1828; moved to Boone County with his parents, who Houston, also the South Texas School of Law 1934-1940; wassettled on a farm near Thorntown in 1832; attended the admitted to the Texas bar in 1940 and commenced the prac-common schools; taught school in Boone County for several tice of law in Alvin, Tex.; served as city attorney of Alvin,years; studied law in Crawfordsville; was admitted to the bar Tex., in 1942 and 1943; member of the school board; in 1943 returned to Houston as an assistant district attorney inin 1850 and commenced practice in Lebanon, md.; member Harris County in charge of the civil department; in 1948 wasof the State house of representatives 1861-1864; member of elected to the State house of representatives and served inthe State senate 1864-1867; appointed by Governor Baker the regular and special sessions of the fifty-first legislature;common pleas judge of Boone County in April 1867 and was elected county judge of Harris County in 1950, 1952, andsubsequently elected to the same office in October 1867 for a again in 1954 for a four-year term; member of board ofterm of four years; declined reelection and resumed the regents of the South Texas College of Law, board of directorspractice of law; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third of the Speech and Hearing Center, and director of the South and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); Texas Law Journal, Inc.; elected as a Democrat to theunsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1876 resumed Eighty-sixth and to the eight succeeding Congresses andthe practice of law in Lebanon, md.; retired in 1897 and served from January 3, 1959, until his resignation Januarymoved to Washington, D.C., where he died July 10, 1901; 22, 1976, to become a Commissioner on the Federal Maritime interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Lebanon, Boone County, Commission; was a resident of Houston, Tex.; died in Hous- ton April 17, 1986. md. CASEY,Samuel Lewis, a Representative from Kentucky; CASS, Lewis (great-great-grandfather of Cass Ballenger), a born near Caseyville, Union County, Ky., February 12, 1821;Senator from Michigan; born in Exeter, N.H., October 9, attended the country schools; engaged in mercantile pur-1782; attended Exeter Academy; moved with his parents to suits; member of the State house of representatives 1860-Wilmington, Del., in 1799 and taught school there; movedto 1862; elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh Congress tothe Northwest Territory in 1801 and settled on a farm near ff1 the vacancy caused by the expulsion of Henry C. BurnettZanesville, Ohio; studied law and was admitted to the bar in and served from March 10, 1862, to March 3, 1863; retired1802; member, State house of representatives 1806; United from active business pursuits; died in St. Joseph, Mo.,States marshal for the district of Ohio 1807-18 12, when he August 25, 1902; the remains were cremated and the ashesresigned to enlist in the Army; served in the United States interred in Caseyville Cemetery, Caseyville, Ky. Army 18 13-1814, attained the rank of brigadier general; CASEY,Zadoc, a Representative from Illinois; born inmthtary and civil Governor of Michigan Territory 1813- Greene County, Ga., March 7, 1796; attended the common 1831; settled in Detroit; appointed Secretary of War by Presi- schools; moved to Illinois in 1819 and settled near thedent Andrew Jackson and served from 1831 to 1836, when present site of Mount Vernon, Jefferson County; member ofhe resigned, having been appointed to a diplomatic post; the State house of representatives 1822-1826; served in theEnvoy Extraordinary and MinisterPlenipotentiaryto State senate 1826-1830; elected Lieutenant Governor of Illi-France 1836-1842; elected as a Democrat to the United nois in 1830; volunteer in the Black Hawk War in 1832;States Senate and served from March 4, 1845, until May 29, elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-1848, when he resigned, having been nominated for Presi- fourth Congresses, as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth anddent of the United States; chairman, Committee on Military Twenty-sixth Congresses, and as an Independent DemocratAffairs (Thirtieth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1843); chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Twenty-fifthPresident on the Democratic ticket in 1848; again elected to Congress), Committee on Private Land Claims (Twenty-sixththe United States Senate on January 20, 1849, to ff1 the Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1842 tovacancy caused by his own resignation; was reelected, and the Twenty-eighth Congress; delegate to the State constitu-served from March 4, 1849, to March 3, 1857; served as tional conventions in 1848 and 1860; again a member of thePresident pro tempore of the Senate during the Thirty-third State house of representatives 1848-1852, and served asCongress; appointed Secretary of State by President James speaker in 1852; again served in the State senate 1860-1862;Buchanan and served from 1857 until his resignation in retired to his farm, "Elm Hill," near Mount Vernon, ill.;1860; returned to Detroit, Mich., and engaged in literary Biographies 755 pursuits; died in Detroit, Mich., June 17, 1866; interment ingress and in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; delegate to Elmwood Cemetery. the Democratic National Convention in 1892; nominated as a Bibliography: DAB; Kiunder, Willard C. "Lewis Cass, 1782-1861: A Po- candidate for election to the Fifty-third Congress but died litical Biography." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois, 1981; Wood- before the election; died in Reno, Nev., June 24, 1892; inter- ford, Frank B. Lewis Cass: The Last Jeffersonian. New Brunswick: Rutgers ment in Hillside Cemetery. University Press, 1950. CASSIDY, James Henry, a Representative from Ohio; CASSEDY, George, a Representative from New Jersey;born in Cleveland, Ohio, October 28, 1869; attended the born in Hackensack, Bergen County, N.J., September 16,public schools; studied law at the Cleveland Law School; was 1783; attended the common schools; studied law; was admit- ted to the bar in 1809 and commenced practice in Hacken-admitted to the bar in 1899 and commenced practice in sack; postmaster of Hackensack from June 10, 1805, to Janu-Cleveland, Ohio; served as clerk of the Committee on Rivers ary 1, 1806; elected to the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, andand Harbors, House of Representatives, from December 1901 Nineteenth Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1827); died until January 11, 1909, when he resigned; elected as a Re- in Hackensack, December 31, 1842; interment in the ceme-publican to the Sixty-first Congress tofill the vacancy tery of the First Reformed Church. caused by the resignation of Theodore E. Burton, and served from April 20, 1909, to March 3, 1911; was an unsuccessful CASSEL, Henry Burd, a Representative from Pennsylva-candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Con- nia; born in Marietta, Lancaster County, Pa., October 19,gress; resumed the practice of his profession in Cleveland, 1855; attended the public schools of Marietta and ColumbiaOhio; appointed as receiver of the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Classical Institute; engaged in the wholesale and retailCoal Co.; moved to New York in 1915 and engaged in the lumber business; member of the Republican county commit-brokerage business; president of an express company; died in tee in 1881; chairman of the county committee in 1893;Forest Hills Gardens, N.Y., August 23, 1926; interment in delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1896;Maple Grove Cemetery, Kew Gardens, Long Island, N.Y. member of the State house of representatives in 1898 and 1900; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Congress CASSINGHAM, John Wilson, a Representative from Ohio; to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Marriott Brosius;born in Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio, June 22, 1840; reelected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Con-attended the public schools; deputy county treasurer 1857- gresses and served from November 5, 1901, to March 3, 1909;1868; engaged in the mercantile business from 1868 to 1875 chairman, Committee on Accounts (Fifty-ninth Congress);and in the mining of coal in 1875; later also engaged in the engaged in business as a manufacturer and contractor; diedmanufacture of paper and in banking; county auditor 1880- in Marietta, Pa., April 28, 1926; interment in Marietta Cem- 1887; trustee of the public library of Coshocton; member of etery. the board of education; president of the Coshocton Board of Trade; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in CASSERLY, Eugene, a Senator from California; born in1896; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty- Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland, November 13, 1820;eighth Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1905); declined to immigrated to the United States in 1822 with his parents,be a candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Con- who settled in New York; prepared for college by his father;gress; reengaged in his former business interests in Coscho- was graduated from Georgetown College, Washington, D.C.;ton, Ohio, until 1915, when he retired from active pursuits; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1844 and commenceddied in Coshocton, Ohio, March 14, 1930; interment in South practice in New York City; editor of the Freeman's JournalLawn Cemetery. and contributor to newspapers in other cities; corporation counsel of New York City 1846-1847; moved to San Francis- CASTELLOW, Bryant Thomas, a Representative from co, Calif., in 1850 and published the Public Balance, theGeorgia; born on a farm near Georgetown, Quitman County, True Balance, and the Standard; elected State printer inGa., July 29, 1876; attended the local school, high schools at 1851; retired from journalism and resumed the practice ofEufaula, Ala., and Coleman, Ga., and Mercer University, law; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate andMacon, Ga.; was graduated from the law department of the served from March 4, 1869, until November 29, 1873, whenUniversity of Georgia, at Athens in 1897; was admitted to he resigned; chairman, Committee on Engrossed Bills (Forty-the bar in 1897 and commenced practice in Fort Gaines, Ga., second and Forty-third Congresses), Committee on Pacificin 1898; superintendent of the public schools in Coleman, Railroads (Forty-second Congress); again engaged in theGa., in 1897 and 1898; captain of Company D, Fourth Infan- practice of law in San Francisco, Calif.; member of the con-try, Georgia State Troops, 1899-1902; solicitorof Clay stitutional convention of California in 1878 and 1879; died inCounty court in 1900 and 1901; judge of Clay County court San Francisco June 14, 1883; interment in Calvary Ceme-1901-1905; moved to Cuthbert, Randolph County, Ga., in tery. 1906 and served as referee in bankruptcy for the western division of the northern district of Georgia 1906-19 12; solici- CASSIDY, George Williams,a Representativefromtor general of the Pataula judicial circuit from 1913 until his Nevada; born near Paris, Bourbon County, Ky., April 25,resignation in 1932, having been nominated for Congress; 1836; attended the public schools and was educated by pri-elected on November 8, 1932, as a Democrat to the Seventy- vate tutors; studied law but never practiced; moved tosecond Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation Eureka, Nev., in 1870; engaged in newspaper work; memberof Charles R. Crisp and on the same day was elected to the of the State senate 1872-1879 and served as president duringSeventy-third Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fourth Con- the session of 1879; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-gress and served from November 8, 1932, to January 3, 1937; seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1881-Marchwas not a candidate for renomination in 1936; retired from 3, 1885); chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads (Forty-public life and the practice of law; died in Cuthbert, Ga., eighth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inJuly 23 1962 interment in Rosedale Cemetery 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress; appointed national bank examiner for Nevada, Utah, California, and Colorado by CASTLE, Curtis Harvey, a Representative from Califor- President Cleveland and served from 1886 to 1890; unsuc-nia; born near Galesburg, Knox County, Ill., October 4, 1848; cessful candidate for election in 1888 to the Fifty-first Con-attended the public schools and Knox College, Galesburg, 756 Biographical Directory

Ill.; was graduated from Northwestern University, Evanston,the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses (March Ill., in 1872; served as principal of the Washington, Tex.,4, 1885-March 3, 1891); chairman, Committee on Private public schools 1872-1876; was graduated from the College ofLand Claims (Fifty-first Congress); unsuccessful candidate Physicians and Surgeons, Keokuk, Iowa, in 1878; practicedfor renomination in 1890; resumed the practice of law in in Fulton County, Ill., and in Wayland, Henry County, Iowa,Fort Atkinson, Jefferson County, Wis.; died in Fort Atkin- until 1882; moved to Point Arena, Calif., in 1882 and toson, Wis., April 26, 1919; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Merced, Merced County, Calif., in 1888, and continued the practice of medicine; served from 1894 to 1896 as a member CAS WELL, Richard, a Delegate from North Carolina; of the American Academy of Medicine, as chairman of theborn in Harford (now Baltimore) County Md, August 3 Populist executive committee of Merced County, and as a1729; moved to North Carolina in 1746; appointed deputy member of the State executive committee; elected as a Popu-surveyor of the colony in 1750; clerk of the court of Orange list to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3,County 1752-1754; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1899); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the1754 and commenced practice in Hiisboro, N.C.; member of Fifty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of medicine inthe colonial house of delegates 1754-177 1, and served as Merced, Calif.; lived in retirement in Santa Barbara, Calif.,speaker the last two years; commanded the right wing of until his death on July 12, 1928; remains were cremated andGovernor Tryon's army at the Battle of Alamance in 1771; the ashes deposited in the mausoleum of the Santa Barbaraserved in the Revolutionary Army; Member of the Continen- Cemetery and Crematory. tal Congress 1774-1775; commanded the patriots at the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, North Carolina, February 23, CASTLE, James Nathan, a Representative from Minneso- 1776; appointed brigadier general of the New Bern District ta; born in Shefford, Province of Quebec, Canada, May 23,by the Provincial Congress in 1776; delegate to the State 1836; attended the public schools; studied law; moved toconstitutional convention and its president in 1776; Gover- Afton, Washington County, Minn., in1862 and taughtnor of North Carolina 1776-1780; commanded the North school; completed his law studies; was admitted to the barCarolina troops at the Battle of Camden in 1780; comptroller and practiced; moved to Stiiwater, Washington County,general in 1782; member of the State senate 1782-1784 and Minn., in 1865 and continued the practice of law; electedserved as speaker; again elected Governor in. 1785 and county attorney in 1866 to fill the unexpired term of hisserved until 1787; appointed delegate from North Carolina to deceased brother; city attorney in 1868; elected to the Statethe convention that framed the Federal Constitution in 1787, senate in 1868 and 1878, and again in 1882; elected as abut did not attend; member of the State convention at Fay- Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-etteville, N.C., that adopted the Federal Constitution in March 3,1893); chairman, Committee on Mileage (Fifty- 1789; member and speaker of the State house of commons in second Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in1789 and served until his death in Fayetteville, N.C., Novem- 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress; engaged in the practice ofber 10, 1789; interment in the family cemetery on his estate law until his death in Stillwater, Minn., January 2, 1903;near Kinston, Lenoir County, N.C. interment in Fairview Cemetery. 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CASTOR, George Albert, a Representative from Pennsyl- CATCHINGS, Thomas Clendinen, a Representative from vania; born in Holmesburg (a part of the city of Philadel-Mississippi; born near Brownsville, Hinds County, Miss., phia), Pa., August 6, 1855; attended the public schools; en-January 11, 1847; was tutored at home; attended the Univer- tered a cloth house early in life and subsequently became asity of Mississippi at Oxford in 1859 and Oakland College in merchant tailor with large establishments in New York1861; entered the Confederate Army in 1861 and served as a City, Boston, and Philadelphia; retired from active businessprivate in Company A, Eighteenth Mississippi Infantry, and pursuits in 1875; unsuccessful candidate for the Republicansubsequently in Company C, Eleventh (Perrin's) Mississippi nomination of Congressman at Large in 1892; member of theCavalry; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1866 and Republican city committee for fifteen years; elected as acommenced practice in Vicksburg; elected to the State Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancysenate in 1875 but resigned in 1877; elected attorney general caused by the death of Henry Burk; reelected to the Fifty-of Mississippi in 1877; reelected in 1881 and served until ninth Congress and served from February 16, 1904, until hisFebruary 16, 1885; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth death in Philadelphia, Pa., February 19, 1906; interment inand to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885- Emanuel Prostestant Episcopal Cemetery, Holmesburg, Pa.March 3, 1901); chairman, Committee on Levees and Im- provements of the Mississippi River (Fiftieth Congress), Com- CAS WELL, Lucien Bonaparte, a Representative frommittee on Railways and Canals (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Wisconsin; born in Swanton, Franklin County, Vt., Novem-Congresses), Committee on Rivers and Harbors (Fifty-third ber 27, 1827; moved to Wisconsin in 1837 with his parents,Congress); resumed the practice of law; also served as divi- who settled near Lake Koshkonong, in Rock County; attend-sion counsel for the Southern Railway Co.; member of the ed the common schools, Milton Academy, and Beloit College;Mississippi Code Commission by appointment of Governor studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1851 and commencedVardaman, died in Vicksburg Miss, December 24, 1927, practice in Fort Atkinson, Wis.; district attorney of Jeffersoninterment in the City Cemetery. County in 1855 and 1856; served on the local school board for nearly sixty-five years; organized the First National CATE, George Washington, a Representative from Wis- Bank of Fort Atkinson in 1863, the Northwestern Manufac-consin; born in Montpelier, Washington County, Vt., Sep- turing Co. in 1866, and the Citizens' State Bank in 1885;tember 17, 1825; attended the common schools; studied law member of the State assembly in 1863, 1872, and 1874;and was admitted to the bar at Montpelier in 1845; moved to during the Civil War served as commissioner of the secondWisconsin the same year and commenced the practice of law district board of enrollment from September 1863 to May 5,in Plover, Portage County; member of the State assembly in 1865; delegate to the Republican National Convention in1852 and 1853; moved to Stevens Point; elected judge of the 1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth and to thecircuit court in April 1854 and served in that capacity until three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1883);March 4, 1875, when he resigned, having been elected to unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882; elected toCongress; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Con- Biographies 757 gress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidateelect to the Sixty-second Congress and served from March 4, for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; resumed 1911, to August 12, 1912, when he was succeeded by Patrick the practice of law in Stevens Point, Portage County, Wis.,F. Gill, who contested the election; unsuccessful for election and died there March 7, 1905; interment in Forest Cemetery.in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; resumed the practice of law; member of the board of directors of St. Louis Union CAPE, William Henderson, a Representative from Arkan-Trust Co.; died in St. Louis, Mo., March 19, 1960; interment sas; born near Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tenn.,No- vember 11, 1839; attended the common schools, and an acad-in Bellefontaine Cemetery. emy at Abingdon, Va.; was graduated from the University of CATRON, Thomas Benton, a Delegate and a Senator from Tennessee at Knoxville in 1857; taught school in the southNew Mexico; born near Lexington, Lafayette County, Mo., and west; served in the Confederate Army during the CivilOctober 6, 1840; attended the common schools, and was grad- War and was promoted to captain; moved to Jonesboro,uated from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1860; Craighead County, Ark., in 1865; studied law; was admittedserved four years in the Confederate Army during the Civil to the Arkansas bar in 1866 and commenced practice inWar; moved to New Mexico in 1866; studied law; was admit- Jonesboro; member of the Arkansas house of representativested to the bar in 1867 and commenced practice in Las 187 1-1873 and during the extra session of 1874; elected pros- Cruces, N.Mex.; district attorney of the third district 1866- ecuting attorney in 1878; was appointed and subsequently1868; in 1869 was appointed attorney general of the Terri- elected judge of the second judicial circuit of Arkansas intory; resigned to take the position of United States attorney, 1884; organized the Bank of Jonesboro in 1887; presentedto which he had been appointed by President Ulysses Grant; credentials as a Democratic Member-elect to the Fifty-firstmember, Territorial council 1884, 1888, 1890, 1899, 1905, and Congress and served from March 4, 1889, to March 5, 1890,1909; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1892 to Congress; when he was succeeded by Lewis P. Featherstone, who con-elected as a Republican Delegate to the Fifty-fourth Con- tested the election; elected to the Fifty-second Congressgress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful candidate (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); declined to be a candidate forfor reelection in 1896; resumed the practice of law in Santa renomination in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress; resumedFe, N.Mex.; upon the admission of New Mexico as a State the practice of law in Jonesboro, Ark.; died while on a visitinto the Union was elected as a Republican to the United in Toledo, Ohio, August 23, 1899; interment in the CityStates Senate and served from March 27, 1912, to March 3, Cemetery, Jonesboro, Ark. 1917; was not a candidate for renomination in 1916; chair- CATHCART, Charles William, a Representative and aman, Committee on Expenditures in the InteriorDepart- Senator from Indiana; born July 24, 1809, in Funchal, Islandment (Sixty-second Congress); retired to Santa Fe, N.Mex., of Madeira, where his father was the United States consul;where he died on May 15, 1921; interment in Fairview Ceme- travelled to Spain with his parents; attended private schools;tery. returned to the United States in 1819 and went to sea; Bibliography: Duran, Tobias. "Francisco Chavez, Thomas B. Catron, and moved to Washington, D.C., in 1830, and was a clerk in the Organized Political Violence in Santa Fe in the 1890s." New Mexico His- General Land Office; moved to Indiana; justice of the peace torical Review 59 (July 1984): 291-310; Westphall, Victor. Thomas Benton at New Durham Township, md., in 1833; engaged in agricul- Catron and His Era. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1973. tural pursuits near La Porte, md., in 1837; United States CATTELL, Alexander Gilmore, a Senator from New land surveyor; member, State senate 1837-1840; elected as aJersey; born in Salem, N.J., February 12, 1816; received an Democrat to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congressesacademic education; engaged in mercantile pursuits in (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1849); appointed as a Democrat toSalem, N.J. until 1846; elected to the New Jersey general the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by theassembly in 1840, and served as clerk 1842-1844; member of death of James Whitcomb and served from December 6,the State constitutional convention in 1844; moved to Phila- 1852, to March 3, 1853; unsuccessful candidate for election indelphia in 1846 and engaged in business and banking; 1860 to the Thirty-seventh Congress; engaged in agriculturalmember of the Philadelphia Common Council 1848-1854; or- pursuits; died on his farm near La Porte, La Porte County,ganized the Corn Exchange Bank and was president 1858- md., August 22, 1888; interment in Pine Lake Cemetery.1871; moved to Merchantville, N.J., in 1863; elected as a CATLIN, George Smith, a Representative from Connecti-Republican to the United States Senate to succeed John P. cut; born in Harwinton, Conn., August 24, 1808; attended theStockton, whose seat was declared vacant, and served from common schools, Amherst (Mass.) College, and the LitchfieldSeptember 19, 1866, to March 3, 1871; was not a candidate (Conn.) Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1828 andfor reelection; chairman, Committee on the Library (Forty- practiced in Windham, Conn., 1829-1851; member of thefirst Congress); appointed by President Ulysses Grant a State house of representatives in 1831 and again in 1846;member of the first United States Civil Service Commission secretary to the Governor 183 1-1833; prosecuting attorneyand served two years, resigning to accept the position of United States financial agent in London, serving in 1873 and for Windham County in 1842 and 1843; elected as a Demo-- crat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3,1874; member of New Jersey Board of Tax Assessors 1884- 1845); unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of1891, and was president 1889-1891; appointed member of the Connecticut in 1848; served in the State senate in 1850;State board of education in 1891 for a term of three years; judge of the Windham County Court in 1850 and 1851; dieddied in Jamestown, Chautauqua County, N.Y., April 8, 1894; in Windham, Conn., December 26, 1851; interment in Wind-interment inColestown Cemetery, near Merchantville, ham Cemetery. Camden County, N.J. Bibliography: DAB. CATLIN, Theron Ephron, a Representative from Missou- ri; born in St. Louis, Mo., May 16, 1878; attended private CAULFIELD, Bernard Gregory, a Representative from schools; was graduated from Harvard University in 1899 andIllinois; born in Alexandria, Va., October 18, 1828; received a from the law department of the same institution in 1902;classical education; was graduated from Georgetown College, was admitted to the bar in 1903 andcommenced practice inWashington, D.C., in 1848 and from the law department of St. Louis, Mo.; member of the State house of representativesthe University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1850; was 1907-1909; presented credentials as a Republican Member-admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced the practice of 758 Biographical Directory

law in Lexington, KY.; moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1853 and1921; graduated from the law school of Dickinson College, continued the practice of his profession; elected asa Demo-Carlisle, Pa., in 1924; was admitted to the bar the same year crat to the Forty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused byand commenced the practice of law in Uniontown, Pa.; the death of John B. Rice; reelected to the Forty-fourthmember of the State senate 1935-1943; chief counsel for Congress and served from February 1, 1875, to March 3,United Mine Workers of America, District Four of German 1877; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Depart- ment of Justice (Forty-fourth Congress); was not a candidateTownship School District, German Township Road Supervi- for renomination in 1876; resumed the practice of law;sors, and South Union Township Road Supervisors; elected moved to Dakota Territory in 1878 and settled in Deadwood;as a Democrat to the Eighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949- continued the practice of law and became a large landowner;January 3, 1951); unsuccessful for reelection in 1950; en- died in Deadwood, Territory of Dakota (now South Dakota),gaged in the practice of law; died in Uniontown, Pa., October December 19,1887; interment in Calvary Cemetery, St.29, 1966; interment in Sylvan Heights Cemetery. Louis, Mo. CAVANAUGH, James Michael, a Representative from CAULFIELD, Henry Stewart, a Representative from Mis-Minnesota and a Delegate from the Territory of Montana; souri; born in St. Louis, Mo., December 9, 1873; attended theborn in Springfield, Mass., July 4, 1823; received an academ- St. Louis public schools and St. Charles (Mo.) College;wasic education; engaged in newspaper work; studied law; was graduated from the law department of Washington Universi-admitted to the bar in 1854 and began practice in Daven- ty, St. Louis, Mo., in 1895; was admitted to the bar the sameport, Iowa; moved to Chatfield, Fillmore County, Minn., in year and commenced practice in St. Louis; unsuccessful can- 1854 and continued the practice of law; upon the admission didate for election in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress; elect-of Minnesota as a State into the Union was elected as a ed as a Republican to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress and served from May March 3, 1909); was not a candidate for renomination in11, 1858, to March 3, 1859; unsuccessful candidate for reelec- 1908; excise commissioner of St. Louis in 1909 and 1910;tion in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress; moved to Colorado judge of the St. Louis Court of Appeals 1910-1912; city coun-in 1861 and resumed the practice of law; also engaged in selor in 1921 and 1922; chairman of the board of freeholdersmining; member of the State constitutional convention in to merge the city of St. Louis and St. Louis County, 1925-1865; moved to Montana in 1866; elected as a Democrat a 1926; Governor of Missouri, January 14, 1929, to January 9,Delegate to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses (March 1933; unsuccessful Republican nominee for United States4, 1867-March 3, 1871); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- Senator in 1938; director of public welfare of St. Louis fromtion in 1870; engaged in the practice of law in New York June 2, 1941, to April 21, 1949; resumed the practice of law;City; returned to Colorado in 1879 and settled in Leadville, member of the State Reorganization Commission of Missou- where he died October 30, 1879; interment in Greenwood ri; died in St. Louis, Mo., May 11, 1966; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. Cemetery, New York City.

CAUSEY, John Williams, a Representative from Dela- CAVANAUGH, John Joseph, a Representative from Ne-- ware; born in Milford, Kent County, Del., September 19,braska; born in Omaha, Douglas County, Nebr., August 1, 1841; attended a private school and Albany Academy, New1945; graduated from Creighton Preparatory School, Omaha, York, and was graduated from the Pennsylvania Agricultur-1963, Regis College, Denver, Cob., 1967, and Creighton Uni- al College; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of theversity School of Law, Omaha, 1972; admitted to the Nebras- State senate 1875-1877; delegate to the Democratic Nationalka bar in 1972 and commenced practice in Omaha; served in Convention in 1884; appointed internal-revenue collector forUnited States Army 1968-1970; served in Nebraska legisla- Delaware by President Cleveland in 1885 and served untilture 1973-1977; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth 1887; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and Fifty-and to the Ninety-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1977-Janu- third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); was notaary 3, 1981); was not a candidate for reelection in 1980 to the candidate for renomination in 1894; resumed agriculturalNinety-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law in pursuits; president of an insurance company; died in Mi!-Omaha; is a resident of Omaha, Nebr. ford, Del., October 1, 1908; interment in Odd Fellows Ceme- tery. CAVICCHIA, Peter Angelo, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Roccamandolfi, Province of Campobasso, CAUSIN, John M.S., a Representative from Maryland;Italy, May 22, 1879; immigrated to the United States in 1888 born in St. Marys County, Md., in 1811; studied law; waswith his parents, who settled in Newark, N.J.; attended the admitted to the bar in Prince Georges County about 1836;public schools; was graduated from the American Interna- returned to St. Marys County and commenced the practicetional(formerlyFrench-American)College,Springfield, of law in Leonardtown, Md.; member of the State house ofMass., in 1906 and from the law department of the New representatives in 1837 and again 1843; elected as a Whig toYork University, New York City, in 1908; was admitted to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845);the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in Newark, N.J.; moved to Annapolis, Md., delegate to the State constitution-also served as director and counsel for several building and al convention; moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1858 and resumedloan associations; appointed supervisor of inheritance tax of the practice of law; died in Cairo, Alexander County, Ill.,Essex County in 1917; member of the Newark Board of January 30, 1861; interment in the City Cemetery (now Lin-Education 1917-1931, serving as president 1924-1926; profes- coin Park), Chicago. sor of law and trustee of Mercer Beasley School of Law (now CAVALCANTE, Anthony, a Representative from Pennsyl-part of Rutgers University), Newark, N.J., 1925-1931; elected vania; born in Vanderbilt, Fayette County, Pa., February 6,as a Republican to the Seventy-second, Seventy-third, and 1897; attended public schools; served overseas with CompanySeventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1937); D, One Hundred and Tenth Infantry, Twenty-eighth Divi-unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy- sion, from May 3, 1918, to May 6, 1919; awarded the Purplefifth Congress; resumed the practice of law and again served Heart Medal; student at Bucknell University, Lewisburg,as supervisor of inheritance tax for Essex County, N.J., Pa., in 1920 and 1921 and Pennsylvania State College in1937-1956; chairman of Central Planning Board of Newark, Biographies 759

1946-1957; died in Belleville, N.J., September 11, 1967; inter-publican to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses ment in Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, N.J. and served from March 4, 1881, to January 26, 1885, when he resigned; elected as a Republican to the United States CEDERBERG, ElfordAihin, a Representative fromSenate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry B. Michigan; born in Bay City, Bay County, Mich., March 6,Anthony; reelected in 1888 and served from January 20, 1918; attended the public schools and Bay City Junior Col- 1885, to April 9, 1889, when he resigned; chairman, Commit- lege 1935-1937; entered the United States Army in Apriltee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Fiftieth and Fifty- 1941, commissioned a second lieutenant in July 1942, a cap-first Congresses); president of the Phoenix National Bank of tain in 1943, and assigned to the Eighty-third Infantry; par-Providence, R.I., and interested in several manufacturing ticipated in the Normandy invasion and fought in Franceenterprises; died in Providence, R.I., June 30, 1917; inter- and Germany; manager of Nelson Manufacturing Co. of Bayment in the North Burial Ground. City, Mich., 1946-1952; mayor of Bay City 1949-1953; elected as a Republican to theEighty-third and to the twelve suc- CHADWICK, E. Wallace, a Representative from Pennsyl- ceeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1953,untilvania; born in Vincennes, Knox County, md., January 17, his resignation December 31, 1978; unsuccessful candidate1884; moved with his parents to Chester, Delaware County, for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; is aPa., in 1890; was graduated from Chester High School, from resident of Alexandria, Va. the University of Pennsylvania in 1906, and from the law CELLER, Emanuel, a Representative from New York;school of the same university in 1910; was admitted to the born in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 6, 1888; attended the publicbar in 1910 and commenced practice in Chester, Pa.; also schools; was graduated from Columbia College, New Yorkinterested in the banking business; president judge of the Delaware County Orphans' Court in 1945; elected as a Re-- City, in 1910, and from Columbia University Law School, New York City, in 1912; was admitted to the bar in 1912 andpublican to the Eightieth Congress (January 3, 1947-Janu- ary 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate forrenomination in commenced practice in New York City; Government appeal1948; resumed the practice of law in Chester, Pa.; in 1954 agent on the draft board during the First World War; dele- Senate committee to gate to the Democratic State conventions from 1922untilwas named chief counsel of special 1932; delegate and member of Platform Committee of Demo-study censure charges against Senator Joseph R. McCarthy; cratic National Conventions from 1942 through 1964; electeddied in Chester, Pa., August 18, 1969; interment in Union as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and tothe twenty-fourUnited Methodist Church Cemetery, Rose Valley, Walling- succeeding Congresses (March 4,1923-January 3,1973); ford, Pa. chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Eighty-first, Eighty- CIIAFEE, John Hubbard, a Senator from Rhode Island; second, and Eighty-fourth through Ninety-second Congress-born in Providence, Providence County, R.I., October22, es), Special Committee on Seating of Adam Clayton Powell1922; graduated, Deerfield (Mass.) Academy 1940;graduated, (Ninetieth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomina-Yale University 1947 and Harvard Law School 1950;admit- tion in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; member of theted to the Rhode Island bar in 1950 and commencedpractice Commission on Revision of the Federal Appellate Courtin Providence; served in United States MarineCorps 1942- System, 1973-1975; resumed the practice of law; resided in1945, 1951-1953; served in Rhode Island house of representa-

Brooklyn, N.Y. where he died January 15, 1981; interment tives 1957-1963; Governor of Rhode Island 1963-1969;Secre-- in Mount Neboh Cemetery, Cypress Hills, N.Y. tary of the Navy in the Cabinet of PresidentRichard Nixon Bibliography: Celler, Emmanuel. You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Auto- 1969-1972; unsuccessful candidate for election to theUnited biography of Emmanuel Celler. New York: John Day Co., 1953. States Senate in 1972; elected as a Republican to theUnited CESSNA, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; bornStates Senate in November 1976 for the termcommencing near Bedford County, Pa., June 29,1821; attended theJanuary 3, 1977; subsequently appointed by theGovernor, common schools and Hall's Military Academy,Bedford, Pa.;December 29, 1976, to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- was graduated from Marshall College,Mercersburg, Pa., intion of John Pastore for the term ending January3, 1977; 1842; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar inreelected in 1982 for the term ending January 3, 1989; chair- 1845 and commenced practice in Bedford; member of theman, Republican Conference(Ninety-ninth and One-hun- State house of representatives in 1850, 1851, 1862, and 1863,dreth Congresses). and served as speaker of the house in 1850 and 1863; dele- gate to the Democratic National Convention atCincinnati in CHAFFEE, Calvin Clifford, a Representative from Massa- 1856 and at Charleston and Baltimore in 1860; affiliatedchusetts; born at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., on August28, 1811; with the Republican Party in 1863; chairman of the Republi-attended the common schools; studied medicine,and was

can State convention in 1865; electedchairman of the Re-- graduated from the medical school of Middlebury College, publican State central committee in 1865; delegate to theMiddlebury, Vt., in 1835; settled in Springfield, Mass., where Republican National Conventions in 1868, 1876, and1880; he began the practice of his profession; elected on theAmer- elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March4, ican Party ticket to the Thirty-fourth Congressand as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1855- 1869-March 3, 1871); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress; elected to theForty-thirdMarch 3, 1859); was not a candidate for renomination Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate1858; librarian of the House of Representatives1860-1862; for renomination in 1874; again a member of the Statehousesettled in Washington, D.C., and engaged in the practice of of representatives in 1892; resumed the practiceof law inmedicine until 1876, when he moved to Springfield, Mass.; Bedford, Pa., where he died December 13, 1893; interment inpresident of the Union Relief Association 1880-1893; died in Springfield, Hampden County, Mass., on August 8, 1896; Bedford Cemetery. interment in Springfield Cemetery. CHACE, Jonathan, a Representative and a Senatorfrom Rhode Island; born at Fall River, Mass., July 22,1829; at- CHAFFEE, Jerome Bunty, a Delegate from the Territory tended the public schools and Friends' School at Providence,of Colorado and a Senator from Colorado; born inNiagara R.I.; moved to Central Falls, R.I.; engaged in cotton manu-County, N.Y., April 17, 1825; attended thepublic schools of facturing; member, State senate 1876-1877; elected as aRe- Lockport, N.Y.; moved to Adrian, Mich., in 1844, wherehe 760 Biographical Directory

taught school and clerked in a store; moved in 1852to St. CHALMERS, William Wallace, a Representative from Joseph, Mo., and later to Elmwood, Kans., where heengagedOhio; born in Strathroy, Ontario, Canada, November 1, 1861; in banking and the real-estate business; moved tothe Terri-moved with his parents to Kent County, near Grand Rapids, tory of Colorado in 1860 and engaged in mining andstamp-Mich., in 1865; attended the public schools, and Michigan mill operations. at Lake Gulch, Gilpin County;member, Ter-State Normal School; was graduated from the University of ritorial house of representatives 1861-1863, and servedinMichigan at Ann Harbor in 1887, from Eureka (Ill.) College 1863 as speaker of the house; one of the founders of thecityin 1889, and from Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio, in of Denver; president of the First National Bank ofDenver1904; teacher and principal of schools until 1890; superin- 1865-1880; elected as a Republican Delegateto the Forty-tendent of schools in Grand Rapids, Mich., 1890-1898 and in second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3,Toledo, Ohio, 1898-1905; president of Toledo University in 1875); upon the admission of Coloradoas a State into the1904; engaged at different periods in farming, lumbering Union was elected as a Republican to the UnitedStatesand, in the real-estate and insurance business at Toledo, Senate and served from November 15, 1876, to March3, Ohio; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress 1879; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman of the(March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for Republican State executive committee in 1884; died in Salem Center, Westchester County, N.Y., March 9, 1886; intermentreelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; elected to in Adrian Cemetery, Adrian, Lenawee County, Mich. the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first Congresses Bibliography: DAB; West, Elliott. "Jerome B. Chaffee and the McCook- (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for Elbert Fight." Colorado Magazine 46 (Spring 1969): 145-65. renomination in 1930; died in Indianapolis, md., on October 1,1944; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery. CHALMERS, James Ronald (son of Joseph Williams Chalmers), a Representative from Mississippi; bornnear CHAMBERLAIN, Charles Ernest, a Representative from Lynchburg, Halifax County, Va., January 12, 1831; movedMichigan; born on a farm in Locke Township, Ingham with his parents in 1835 to Jackson, Tenn., and in 1839 to County, Mich., July 22, 1917, attended Lansing, Mich., public Holly Springs, Miss.; attended St. Thomas Hall, Hollyschools and graduated from the University of Virginia at Springs, Miss., and was graduated from South Carolina Col-Charlottesville in 1941 and from the law school of thesame lege (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia inuniversity in 1949; admitted to Virginia and Michigan bars 1851; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1853andin 1949 and commenced practice in Lansing, Mich., in 1950; commenced practice at Holly Springs; delegate to the Demo- served in the United States Coast Guard from February 1942 cratic National Convention in 1852; district attorney for theto February 1946 and attained the rank of lieutenant com- seventh judicial district of Mississippi in 1858; member ofmander; captain, United States Coast Guard Reserves, 1946- the secession convention of Mississippi in 1861; entered the1977; Internal Revenue agent, Treasury Department, in 1946 Confederate Army as a captain in March 1861; elected colo-and 1947; assistant prosecutor of Ingham County in 1950; nel of the Ninth Mississippi Regiment in April 1861;promot-city attorney of East Lansing and legal counsel to Michigan ed to the rank of brigadier general in February 1862;trans-senate judiciary committee in 1953 and 1954; prosecuting ferred to the Cavalry service in 1863; in command of theattorney of Ingham County in 1955 and 1956; elected as a first division of Forrest's cavalry corps; surrendered in MayRepublican to the Eighty-fifth and to the eight succeeding 1865; member of the State senate in 1876 and 1877;electedCongresses and served from January 3, 1957, until his resig- as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congressesnation December 31, 1974; was not a candidate for reelection (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881); presented credentialsas ain 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; resumed the practice Member-elect to the Forty-seventh Congress and served fromof law in Washington, D.C.; is a resident of Watërford, Va. March 4, 1881, to April 29, 1882, when he was succeeded by John R. Lynch, who contested the election; electedas an CHAMBERLAIN, , a Representative Independent to the Forty-eighth Congress and, aftera con-from Indiana; born in Orrington, Maine, August 20, 1805; test with Van H. Manning as to the legality of his election,attended the public schools; employed in his father's ship- took his seat June 25, 1884, and served until March 3, 1885;yard; studied law; moved to Connersville, md., where he unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884 to the Forty-completed his studies; was admitted to the bar in 1832 and ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Memphis,commenced practice in Elkhart County in 1833; member of Tenn., where he died April 9, 1898; interment in Elmwoodthe State house of representatives 1835-1837; served in the Cemetery. State senate 1839-1842; elected prosecuting attorney of the Bibliography: DAB; Halsell, Willie D. "James R. Chalmers and 'Mahon- ninth judicial circuit in 1842; elected president judge of the eism' in Mississippi." Journal of Southern History 10 (February 1944): 37- ninth judicial district in 1843, reelected in 1851 and served 58. until he resigned, having been elected to Congress; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1844; elected as a CHALMERS, Joseph Williams (father of James RonaldDemocrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853- Chalmers), a Senator from Mississippi; born in HalifaxMarch 3, 1855); engaged in the practice of law in Goshen, County, Va., 1807; studied law in the University of VirginiaElkhart County, md., until his death there March 14, 1861; at Charlottesville, and in Richmond; was admitted to the barinterment in Oak Ridge Cemetery. and practiced; moved to Jackson, Tenn., in 1835 and to Holly Springs, Miss., in 1839, practicing law in both places; vice CHAMBERLAIN, George Earle, a Senator from Oregon; chancellor of the northern Mississippi district in 1842 andborn on a plantation near Natchez, Adams County, Miss., 1843; appointed and subsequently elected as a Democrat toJanuary 1,1854; attended private and public schools in the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by theNatchez; clerk in a general merchandise store in Natchez resignation of Robert J. Walker and served from November1870-1872; was graduated from Washington and Lee Univer- 3, 1845, to March 3, 1847; chairman, Committee on En-sity, Lexington, Va., in 1876; moved to Oregon in 1876 and grossed Bills (Twenty-ninth Congress); engaged in the prac-taught school in Linn County; deputy clerk of Linn County tice of law in Holly Springs, Marshall County, Miss., untilfrom 1877 to 1879, when he resigned; was admitted to the his death on June 16, 1853; interment in Hill Crest Ceme-bar in 1879 and commenced the practice of law in Albany, tery. Linn County, Oreg.; member, State house of representatives Biographies 761

1880-1882; district attorney for the third judicial districtwas a confidential express rider forPresident Washington 1884-1886; appointed and subsequently elected attorney gen-during the Whisky Insurrection in 1794; learned the artof eral of Oregon 1891-1894; continued the practice of law inprinting; moved to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1810, where he estab- Portland; district attorney for the fourth judicial districtlished a newspaper and was elected State printer; volunteer 1900-1902; elected Governor of Oregon in 1902 and reelectedaide-de-camp to General Case in the War of 1812; served as in 1906, but resigned in 1908 having been elected Senator;recorder and mayor of Zanesville; member of the State elected in 1908 as a Democrat to the United States Senate;house of representatives in 1814, 1828, 1836-1838, 1841, and reelected in 1914 and served from March 4, 1909, to March1842; clerk of the Ohio State senate in 1817; clerk of the 3, 1921; unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Senatecourt of common pleas of Muskingum County 1817-1821; in 1920; chairman, Committee on Geological Survey (Sixty-unsuccessful candidate for election in 1820 to the Seven- second Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Sixty-thirdteenth Congress; subsequently elected to the Seventeenth through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Public Lands (Sixty-third Congress), Committee on Expenditures in theCongress to ifil the vacancy caused by the resignation of War Department (Sixty-sixth Congress); member of theRepresentative-elect John C. Wright and served fromOcto- United States Shipping Board 1921-1923; engaged in theber 9, 1821, to March 3, 1823; was not a candidate for re-- practice of law in Washington, D.C., and died there on Julynomination; affiliated with the Whig Party after its forma- 9, 1928; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Forttion; member of the State senate in 1843 and 1844; president Myer, Va. of the senate in 1844; delegate to the State constitutional Bibliography: DAB; Robert, Frank. "The Public Speaking of Georgeconvention of 1850; engaged in agricultural pursuits until Earle Chamberlain, A Study of the Utilization of Speech by a Prominent1856; died in Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, August 8, Politician." Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1955. 1864; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. CHAMBERLAIN, Jacob Payson, a Representative from CHAMBERS, Ezekiel Forman, a Senator from Maryland; New York; born in Dudley, Mass., August 1, 1802; movedborn in Chestertown, Kent County, Md., February 28, 1788; with his parents to Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1807; attended thewas graduated from Washington College atChestertown in public schools; operated flour mills, malt houses, and woolen1805; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1808 and mills; organized the first savings bank of the village; supervi-commenced practice in Chestertown, Md.; served in the War sor of Seneca Falls; member of the boardof education;of 1812, attaining the rank of brigadier general; member, member of the State assembly 1859-1861; elected as a Re-State senate 1822; elected to the United States Senate to fill publican to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edward Lloyd; March 3, 1863); was not a candidate for renomination; re-- sumed the flour-milling business; died at Seneca Falls,reelected in 1831 and served from January 24, 1826, until his Seneca County, N.Y., October 5, 1878; interment in Restvaleresignation on December 20, 1834; chairman, Committee on Cemetery. District of Columbia (Twenty-first through Twenty-third Congresses); presiding judge of the second judicial circuit of CHAMBERLAIN, John Curtis, a Representative fromMaryland and judge of the court of appeals 1834-1851; un- New Hampshire; born in Worcester, Mass., June 5, 1772; wassuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor in 1864;died graduated from Harvard College in 1793; studied law; was 30, 1867, interment in Chester admitted to the bar in 1796 and commenced practice inin Chestertown, Md January Alstead, Cheshire County, N.H.; member of the State houseCemetery. of representatives 1802-1804; moved to Charlestown, N.H., Bibliography: DAB. in 1804; elected as a Federalist to the Eleventh Congress CHAMBERS, George, a Representative from Pennsylva- (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1811); resumed the practice of law;nia; born in Chainbersburg, Pa., February 24,1786; received again a member of the State house of representatives ina classical education andattended the Chambersburg Acade- 1818; moved to Honeoye Falls, Monroe County, N.Y., in 1826,my; was graduated from PrincetonCollege in 1804; studied and thence to Utica, N.Y., where he died December 8, 1834.law; was admitted to the bar in 1807 and commenced prac- CHAMBERLAIN, William, a Representative from Ver-tice in Chambersburg; elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate mont; born in Hopkinton, Mass., April 27, 1755; attended theto the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses(March 4, common schools; moved with his father toLoudon, N.H., in1833-March 3, 1837); resumed the practice of law; member of 1774; served as a sergeant during the Revolutionary War;the State constitutional convention in 1837;appointed a jus- engaged in land surveying and farming; moved to Peachani,tice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court April 12,1851, Vt., in 1780; clerk of the proprietors of the town the samewhich position he held until it was vacated by constitutional year; town clerk 1785-1797; townrepresentative twelveprovision; died in Chambersburg, Franklin County,Pa., years; member of the State house ofrepresentatives 1785,March 25, 1866; interment in Falling Spring Presbyterian 1787-1796, 1805, and 1808; justice of the peace 1786-1796;Churchyard. delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1791; brig- Bibliography: DAB. adier general of State militia in 1794; major general in 1799; assistant judge of Orange County in 1795 and chief judge of CHAMBERS, Henry H., a Senator from Alabama; born Caledonia County 1796-1803; secretary of the board of trust-near Kenbridge, Lunenburg County,Va., October 1, 1790; ees of the Caledonia County GrammarSchool 1795-18 12, andwas graduated from William and MaryCollege, Williams- president 1813-1828; State councilor 1796-1803; Federalistburg, Va., in 1808 and from the medical departmentof the presidential elector in 1800; elected as a Federalist to theUniversity of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1811; moved Eighth Congress (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1805); reelected toto Madison, Ala., in 1812 and engaged in thepractice of the Eleventh Congress (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1811);Lieu-medicine; served in the Indian wars as a surgeon; returned tenant Governor of Vermont 1813-1815; delegate to theto Alabama and settled in Huntsville; memberof the State State constitutional convention in 1814; died in Peacham,constitutional convention in 1819; member, State house of Caledonia County, Vt., September 27, 1828, interment inrepresentatives 1820; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in Peacham Cemetery. 1821 and 1823; elected to the United States Senate and CHAMBERS, David, a Representative from Ohio; born inserved from March 4, 1825, until his death near Kenbridge, Allentown, Pa., November 25, 1780; tutored by his father;Lunenburg County, Va., January 24, 1826, while en route to 762 Biographical Directory

Washington, D.C.; interment in the family burial groundIsland Bank until a short time before his death in Newport, near Kenbridge, Va. Newport County, R.I., March 18, 1840; interment in Common CHAMBERS, John, a Representative from Kentucky;Burial Ground. born at Bromley Bridge, Somerset County, N.J., October 6, CHANDLER, Albert Benjamin ("Happy"), a Senator from 1780; attended the public schools and the Transylvania Sem-Kentucky; born in Corydon, Henderson County, Ky., July 14, inary, Lexington, KY.; moved with his father to Washington,1898; attended the public schools; attended Harvard Univer- Mason County, Ky., in 1794; studied law;was admitted tosity; served as a private in the United States Army 1918- the bar in 1800 and commenced practice in Washington, KY.;1919; graduated from Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky., served as aide-de-camp to General Harrison in the War of1921 and from the law department of the University of 1812 and was at the Battle of the Thames; member of theKentucky at Lexington 1924; was admitted to the bar in State house of representatives in 1812, 1815, 1830, and 1831;1925 and commenced practice in Versailles, KY.; master appointed judge of the court of appeals in 1825; resigned incommissioner of the Woodford circuit in 1928; member, State 1827; elected to the Twentieth Congress to fill thevacancysenate 1930-193 1; receiver of the Inter-Southern Life Insur- caused by the resignation of Thomas Metcalfe and servedance Co., in 1932; lieutenant governor 1931-1935; Governor from December 1, 1828, to March 3, 1829; electedas a Whigof Kentucky 1935 until his resignation October 9, 1939; ap- to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses (March 4,pointed in 1939 as a Democrat and subsequently elected to 1835-March3,1839);chairman, Committee on Claims (Twenty-fifth Congress); Governor of the Territory of Iowathe United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the 1841-1845; commissioner to negotiate a treaty with thedeath of Marvel Mills Logan; reelected in 1942 and served Sioux Indians in 1849; died near Paris, Bourbon County, Ky.,from October 10, 1939, until his resignation on November 1, September 21, 1852; interment in the family burial ground1945; resigned to become commissioner of organized baseball at Washington, Mason County, Ky. 1945-1950; engaged in the practice of law, raising of tobacco, Bibliography: DAB. and the publication of a weekly newspaper; again Governor of Kentucky 1955-1959; unsuccessful gubernatorial candi- CHAMPION, Edwin Van Meter, a Representative fromdate in 1963; named to the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame in Illinois; born in Mansfield, Piatt County, Ill., September 18, 1957;commissioner,ContinentalProfessionalFootball 1890; attended the public schools; was graduated from theLeague 1965; trustee of the Ty Cobb Foundation, the Univer- law department of the University of Illinois at Urbana, 1912;sity of Kentucky, and Transylvania college; served as Demo- was admitted to the bar the same year and commencedcratic National Committeeman from Kentucky; is a resident practice in Peoria, Ill.; during the First World War enteredof Versailles, Ky. the Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, Ill.,on May Bbliography: Hixson, Walter L. "The 1938 Kentucky Senate Election: 15, 1917; commissioned second lieutenant and assigned to Alben W. Barkley, 'Happy' Chandler, and the New Deal." Register of the service overseas with the Three Hundred and Forty-firstKentucky Historical Society 80 (Summer 1982):309-29; Shannon, J.B. Infantry, Company C, Eighty-sixth Division; discharged with "Happy' Chandler: A Kentucky Epic." pp. 175-91. In The American Poli- rank of captain on February 6, 1919; servedas assistant tician. Edited by John Thomas Salter. Chapel Hill: University of North State's attorney of Peoria County, Ill., in 1919 and 1920 and Carolina Press, 1938. as State's attorney 1932-1936; president of the Illinois CHANDLER, John (brother of Thomas Chandler and State's Atorneys' Association in 1935; electedas a Democratuncle of Zachariah Chandler), a Representative from Massa- to the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937-January 3,chusetts and a Senator from Maine; born in Epping, N.H., 1939); was not a candidate for renomination in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law inFebruary 1, 1762; self-educated; served in the Revolutionary Peoria, Ill., where he died February 11, 1976; entombment inWar; moved to the Maine district of Massachusetts and set- Springdale Mausoleum. tled on a farm near Monmouth; member, 1803-1805; elected as a Republican to the Ninth and CHAMPION, Epaphroditus, a Representative from Con-Tenth Congresses (March 4, 1805-March 3, 1809); was not a necticut; born in Westchester parish, Colchester, Conn.,candidate for renomination in 1808; appointed sheriff of April 6, 1756; educated by private tutors and in the commonKennebec County the same year; during the War of 1812 schools; served during the Revolutionary War; moved to Eastserved in the Maine Militia 1812-18 15, attained the rank of Haddam, Conn., in 1782; served as captain in the Twenty-brigadier general; member of the Massachusetts General fourth Regiment of State militia 1784-1792, as major 1793Court in 1819; first president of the Maine senate; member and 1794, as lieutenant colonel 1795-1798, and as brigadierof the Maine constitutional convention 18 19-1820; upon the general of the Seventh Brigade 1800-1803; merchant, ship-admission of Maine as a State into the Union was elected to owner, exporter, and importer; member of the State assem- the United States Senate in 1820; reelected in 1823 and bly 1791-1806; elected as a Federalist to the Tenth and toserved from June 14, 1820, to March 3, 1829; was not a the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1807-March 3,candidate for renomination; chairman, Committee on Militia 1817); resumed his former business activities, but soonre-(Eighteenth through Twentieth Congresses); collector of cus- tired to private life; died in East Haddam, Conn., Decembertoms at Portland 1829-1837; died in Augusta, Kennebec 22, 1834; interment in Riverview Cemetery. County, Maine, September 25, 1841; interment in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. CHAMPLIN, Christopher Grant, a Representative anda Senator from Rhode Island; born in Newport, R.I., April 12, Bibliography: DAB. 1768; completed preparatory studies; was graduated from CHANDLER, Joseph Ripley, a Representative from Penn- Harvard College in 1786 and continued his studies at thesylvania; born in Kingston, Mass., August 22, 1792; attended College of St. Omer in France; elected as a Federalist to thethe common schools; engaged in commercial work in Boston; Fifth and Sixth Congresses (March 4, 1797-March 3, 1801);moved to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1815; founded a young ladies' engaged in mercantile pursuits; elected as a Federalist toseminary; editor of the United States Gazette 1822-1847; the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by themember of the Philadelphia city council 1832-1848; member death of Francis Malbone and served from June 26, 1809, toof the State constitutional convention in 1837; elected as a October 2, 1811, when he resigned; president of the RhodeWhig to the Thirty-first, Thirty-second, and Thirty-third Biographies 763

Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful can-sion, American Expeditionary Forces, from July 25, 1917, to didate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress; April 19, 1919; delegate to the Democratic National Conven- appointed by President Buchanan as Minister to the Twotions in 1940 and 1944; elected as a Democrat to the Seven- Sicilies and served from June 15, 1858, to November 15,ty-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Congresses and 1860; president of the board of directors of Girard College;served from January 3, 1935, until his resignation on Janu- interested in prison reform and was a delegate to the Inter-ary 2, 1940, having been elected mayor ofMemphis; reelect- national Prison Congress held at London in 1872; died ined mayor in 1943 and served until September 1, 1946; re- Philadelphia, Pa., July 10, 1880; interment in New Cathedralsumed the practice of law; temporary president, Tennessee Cemetery. constitutional convention, in 1953; mayor of Memphis in Bibliography: DAB; Gerrity, Frank. "The Disruption of the Philadelphia 1955 for unexpired term; resided in Memphis, Tenn., until Whigocracy: Joseph R. Chandler, Anti-Catholicism, and the Congressional his death there on October 1, 1967; interment in Forest Hill Election of 1854." Pennsylvania Magazine 111 (April 1987): 161-94. Cemetery. CHANDLER, Rod Dennis (great-great-grandnephew of Zachariah Chandler), a Representative from Washington; CHANDLER, Walter Marion, a Representative from New born in La Grande, Union County, Oreg., July 13, 1942;York; born near Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Miss., December attended public schools; attended Eastern Oregon College,8, 1867; attended the public schools, the University of Vir- La Grande, 1961; B.S., Oregon State University, Corvallis,ginia at Charlottesville, and the University of Mississippi at 1968; public relations consultant and TV news correspond-Oxford; taught school; was graduated from the University of ent; served in Oregon National Guard, 1959-1964; elected toMichigan at Ann Arbor in 1897; studied history and juris- the Washington house of representatives, 1974-1982; servedprudence at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg, Ger- on the King County Metro Council,1974-1975; delegate,many; was admitted to the bar in 1897and commenced the Washington State Republican conventions, 1976, 1978, andpractice of law in Dallas, Tex.; moved to New York City in 1980; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-eighth and to1900 and continued the practice of law; also engaged in the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3,writing and lecturing; elected as a Progressive to the Sixty- 1989); is a resident of Redmond, Wash third and Sixty-fourth Congresses and as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1919); un- CHANDLER, Thomas (brother of andsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth uncle of Zachariah Chandler), a Representative from NewCongress; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Con- Hampshire; born in Bedford, N.H., August 10, 1772; attended unsuccessful candidate the public schools; justice of the peace in 1808; captain ofgress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); militia in 1815; member of the State house of representa-for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress and also tives in 1818 and again in 1827; elected as a Jacksonian tounsuccessfully contested the election of Sol Bloom to fill a the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4,vacancy in the Sixty-eighth Congress;unsuccessful candidate 1829-March 3, 1833); innkeeper and also engaged in agricul-for election in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; member of tural pursuits; died in Bedford, N.H., January 28, 1866; in-the faculty and lecturer at the American Expeditionary terment in Bedford Cemetery. Forces University at Beaune, France, during the First World War; resumed the practice of law in New York City;died in CHANDLER, Thomas Alberter, a Representative fromNew York City on March 16, 1935; interment in theWest Oklahoma; born near Eucha, Delaware County, Indian Terri-Evergreen Cemetery, Jacksonville, Fla. tory (now Oklahoma), July 26, 1871; attended the public schools, Worcester Academy, Vinita, Indian Territory, in CHANDLER, William Eaton, a Senator from New Hamp- 1888, and, later, Drury College, Springfield, Mo.; appointed ashire; born in Concord, N.H., December 28, 1835;attended Cherokee revenue collector in 1891; Cherokee town-site com-the common schools and the academies in Thetford, Vt.,and missioner 1895-1898; United States deputy clerk of the courtPembroke, N.H.; was graduated from Harvard Law Schoolin for the northern district of Indian Territory 1900-1907; stud- 1854; was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced prac- ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1907 and commencedtice in Concord, N.H.; appointed reporter of the decisionsof practice in Vinita, Indian Territory; delegate to the Republi-the supreme court of New Hampshire in 1859;member, can National Convention in 1908; member of the firstBoardState house of representatives 1862-1864 andserved as of Public Affairs for the State of Oklahoma in 1909 andspeaker during the last two years; appointed by President 1910; resumed the practice of law; also engaged in the pro-Abraham Lincoln solicitor and judge advocate general of the duction of oil, in agricultural pursuits, and in the real-estateNavy Department in 1865; appointed First Assistant Secre- business; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congresstary of the Treasury 1865-1867, when he resigned; newpaper (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate forpublisher and editor in New Hampshire during the 1870's reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; elected to theand 1880's; member of the State constitutional conventionin Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); un-1876; member, State house of representatives 1881; appoint- successful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-ed by President Chester Arthur as Secretary of theNavy eighth Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Vinita,1882-1885; elected as a Republican to the United States Okia., June 22, 1953; interment in Fairview Cemetery. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of AustinF. CHANDLER, Walter (Clift), a Representative from Ten-Pike and served from June 14, 1887, to March 3, 1889; subse-- nessee; born in Jackson, Madison County, Tenn.,October 5,quently elected for the term beginning March 4, 1889; re- 1887; attended the public schools and was graduated fromelected in 1895 and served from June 18, 1889, to March 3, the law department of the University of Tennessee at Knox-1901; unsuccessful candidate for renomination; chairman, ville in 1909; admitted to the bar the same year and com-Committee on Immigration (Fifty-first and Fifty-second Con- menced practice in Memphis, Tenn.; assistant district attor-gresses), Committee on Census (Fifty-fourth Congress), Com- ney general in 1916; member of theState house of represent-mittee on Privileges and Elections (Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth atives in 1917; served in the State senate 1921-1923; cityCongresses); appointed by President William McKinley as attorney of Memphis 1928-1934; served as a captain inthepresident of the Spanish Claims Treaty Commission 1901- One Hundred and Fourteenth Field Artillery, ThirtiethDivi-1908; resumed the practice of law in Concord, N.H., and 764 Biographical Directory

Washington, D.C.; died in Concord, N.H., November 30, 1917; ued the practice of law in Sullivan, md.; died in Sullivan, interment in Blossom Hill Cemetery. md., April 26, 1940; interment in Center Ridge Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB; Richardson, Leon B. William E. Chandler, Republi- can. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1940. CHANLER, John Winthrop (father of William Astor Chanler), a Representative from New York; born in New CHANDLER, Zachariah (nephew of John Chandler andYork City September 14, 1826; received his early education Thomas Chandler, grandfather of Frederick Hale and great-from private tutors, and was graduated from Columbia Col- great-granduncle of Rod Dennis Chandler), a Senator fromlege, New York City, in 1847; attended the University of Michigan; born in Bedford, N.H., December 10, 1813; attend-Heidelberg, Germany; studied law; was admitted to the bar ed the common schools; taught school; moved to Detroit,and practiced; member of the State assembly in 1858 and Mich., in 1833 and engaged in mercantile pursuits;mayor of Detroit in 1851; unsuccessful Whig candidate for Governor1859; was nominated as a candidate for State senator in 1860 in 1852; was prominent in the organization of the Republi- but declined; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1860 to can Party in 1854; elected as a Republican to the Unitedthe Thirty-seventh Congress; elected as a Democrat to the States Senate in 1857; reelected in 1863 and again in 1869Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses (March and served from March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1875; unsuccess-4, 1863-March 3, 1869); censured by the Thirty-ninth Con- ful candidate for reelection in 1874; chairman, Committee ongress on May 14, 1866, for an insult to the House of Repre- Commerce (Thirty-seventh through Forty-third Congresses);sentatives; died at "Rokeby," Barrytown, N.Y., October 19, appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Ulysses1877; interment in Trinity Cemetery, New York. Grant 1875-1877; chairman of the Republican National Ex- CHANLER, WilliamAstor(sonof John Winthrop ecutive Committee 1868-1876; again elected in 1879 to theChanler), a Representative from New York; born in New- United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resig-port, R.I., June 11, 1867; attended St. John's School, Ossin- nation of Isaac P. Christiancy and served from February 22, ing, N.Y., Phillips Academy, Exeter, N.H., and Harvard Uni- 1879, until his death on November 1, 1879, in Chicago, Ill;versity for two years; Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Mich. of London; explored the territory in the vicinity of Mount Bibliography: DAB; George, Mary K. Zachariah Chandler: A Political Biography. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1969; Harris, Kilimanjaro in 1889; delegate to the State Republican con- W.C. Public Life of Zachariah Chandler, 1851-1875. East Lansing: Michi- vention at Saratoga in 1896; member of the State assembly gan Historical Commission, 1917. in 1897; during the Spanish-American War was appointed captain and assistant adjutant general of Volunteers on May CHANEY, John, a Representative from Ohio; born in 10, 1898; served as acting ordnance officer, Cavalry Division, Washington County, Md., January 12, 1790; moved with hisFifth Army Corps, from May 23 to August 23, 1898; partici- parents to Pennsylvania; received a limited schooling; movedpated in the Battle of Santiago; elected as a Democrat to the to Ohio in 1810 and settled in Bloom Township, FairfieldFifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901); was not County; engaged in agricultural pursuits; justice of thepeacea candidate for renomination in 1900; traveler, author, and in 1821, 1824, and 1827; trustee of Bloom Township forexplorer; moved to Europe in 1920; died in Menton, A. M., twenty-three years; major, colonel, and paymaster in the France, March 4, 1934; interment in Trinity Church Ceme-- Ohio State Militia; member of the State house of representa-tery, New York City. tives 1828-1830; elected associate judge of Fairfield County Bibliography: Lately, Thomas. A Pride of Lions: The Chanler Chronicle. in 1831; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and New York: Wm. Morrow & Co., 1971. Twenty-fourth Congresses and as a Democrat to the Twenty- fifth Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1839); returned to CHAPIN, Alfred Clark (grandfather of Hamilton Fish, Jr., Ohio and settled in Canal Winchester, Franklin County;[1926- ], a Representative from New York; born in South again a member of the State house of representatives inHadley, Hampshire County, Mass., March 8, 1848; resided in 1842 and served as speaker; member of the village council;Springfield, Mass., in Keene, N.H., and in Rutland, Vt.; at- served in the State senate in 1844 and 1845; again a membertended the public and private schools; was graduated from of the State house of representatives in 1855; served as aWilliams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1869 and from delegate to the Maryland constitutional convention in 1851;Harvard Law School in 1871; was admitted to the bar in died at Canal Winchester, Ohio, April 10, 1881; interment in1872 and commenced practice in New York City with resi- Union Grove Cemetery. dence in Brooklyn, N.Y.; member of the State assembly in 1882 and 1883, serving as speaker in the latter year; State CHANEY, John Crawford, a Representative from Indiana;comptroller 1884-1887; mayor of Brooklyn 1888-1891; elected born near New Lisbon, Columbiana County, Ohio, Februaryas a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress to fill the vacan- 1, 1853; in 1854 moved to Lafayette Township, Allen County,cy caused by the resignation of David A. Boody and served md., with his parents, who settled on a farm near Fortfrom November 3, 1891, to November 16, 1892, when he Wayne; attended the common schools; was graduated fromresigned; served as railroad commissioner of New York State Ascension Seminary, Farmersburg, Sullivan County, md., in 1874 and later from the Terre Haute Commercial College;1892-1897; continued the practice of law and was also finan- taught school and served as superintendent of schools forcially interested in various enterprises; died while on a visit five years; was graduated from the law school of Cincinnatiin Montreal, Canada, October 2, 1936; interment in Wood- University in June 1882; was admitted to the bar in 1883lawn Cemetery, the Bronx, New York City. and commenced practice in Sullivan, Sullivan County, md.; CHAPIN, Chester Williams, a Representative from Massa- member of the State central committee from the secondchusetts; born in Ludlow, Mass., December 16, 1798; attend- district in 1884 and 1885; appointed by President Harrisoned the common schools and Westfield Academy, Westfield, as assistant to the Attorney General in the Department ofMass.; engaged in mercantile pursuits; mail contractor, run- Justice in July 1889, which position he filled until Augustning post coaches and steamboats; member of the constitu- 1893, when he resigned and resumed the practice of law;tional convention of Massachusetts in 1853; president and elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Con-director of the Western Railroad Corporation 1854-1867; gresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1909); unsuccessful candi-president of the Boston & Albany Railroad Co. 1868-1878, date for reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress; contin-and one of the directors 1868-1880; elected as a Democrat to Biographies 765 the Forty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1877);studies; studied law at the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-was admitted to the bar in 1820 and commencedpractice in fifth Congress; died in Springfield, Hampden County, Mass., New Haven, Conn., in 1827; moved to Hartford in 1832 and on June 10, 1883; interment in Springfield Cemetery. became editor of the Review; member of the Bibliography: DAB. State house of representatives in 1840, 1847, and 1848; CHAPIN, Graham Hurd, a Representative from NewUnited States attorney for the district of Connecticut 1841- York; born in Salisbury, Conn., February 10, 1799; moved to1848; unsuccessful candidate in 1848 for election to the Lyons, Wayne County, N.Y., in 1817; was graduated fromThirty-first Congress; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Yale College in 1819; studied law; was admitted to the bar inCongress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); unsuccessful candi- 1823 and practiced in Lyons; surrogate of Wayne Countydate for Governor of Connecticut as a Temperance candidate 1826-1833; district attorney of Wayne County in 1829 andin 1854; elected as a Democrat to the State house of repre- 1830; moved to Rochester, N.Y., in 1833 and continued thesentatives in 1862 and 1864; resumed the practice of law; practice of law; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourthdied in Hartford, Conn., on August 7, 1869; interment in Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1837); died in MountCedar Hill Cemetery. Morris, Livingston County, N.Y., September 8, 1843. CHAPMAN, Henry, a Representative from Pennsylvania; CHAPMAN, Andrew Grant (son of John Grant Chapman),born in Newtown, Pa., February 4, 1804; attended Doyles- a Representative from Maryland; born in La Plata, Charlestown Academy and Doctor Gummere's private boys' school County, Md., January 17, 1839; after being tutored at homenear Burlington, N.J.; studied law; was admitted to the bar attended the Charlotte Hall Academy, St. Marys County,in 1825 and commenced practice in Doylestown; member of Md.; was graduated from St. John's College, Annapolis, Md.,the State senate in 1843; judge of the fifteenth judicial dis- in 1858 and from the law department of the University oftrict 1845-1849; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Virginia at Charlottesville in 1860; moved to Baltimore, Md.,Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); declined to be a in 1860; was admitted to the bar the same year and com-candidate for renomination in 1858; judge of the Bucks menced practice in that city; moved to Port Tobacco, Md., in 1864 and continued the practice of law; also engaged inCounty Court in 1861; retired in 1871; died at "Frosterley," agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of dele-near Doylestown, Bucks County, Pa., April 11,1891; inter- gates in 1867, 1868, 1870, 1872, 1879, and 1885; appointedment in the graveyard of Doylestown Presbyterian Church. aide and inspector with rank of brigadier general in 1874 on CHAPMAN, Jim, a Representative from Texas; born in the staff of Governor Groome and reappointed by GovernorWashington, D.C., March 8, 1945; attended public schools in Carroll; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh CongressSulphur Springs, Tex.; B.A., University of Texas, Austin, (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for1968; J.D., Southern Methodist University School of Law, reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; resumed theDallas, 1970; admitted to the Texas State bar in 1970 and practice of law; appointed deputy collector of internal reve-commenced practice in Sulphur Springs, Tex.; district attor- nue in 1885 and collector in 1888; delegate to the Democraticney, Eighth Judicial District,1977-1984; elected as a Demo- National Convention in 1888; died at his home, "Norman-crat to the Ninety-ninth Congress by special election on dy," near La Plata, Md., September 25, 1892; interment inAugust 3, 1985, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation Mount Rest Cemetery, La Plata, Md. of Sam B. Hall, Jr.; reelected to the One Hundredth Con- CHAPMAN, Augustus Alexandria, a Representative fromgress (September 4, 1985-January 3, 1989); is aresident of Virginia; born in Union, Monroe County, Va. (now WestSulphur Springs, Tex. Virginia), March 9, 1803; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in Union; member, CHAPMAN, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; State house of delegates, 1835-1841; elected as a Democrat toborn in Wrightstown Township, Bucks County, Pa., October the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4,18, 1740; commissioned justice of the peace February 25, 1843-March 3, 1847); member, State constitutional conven-1779, and was one of the justices commissioned judge of the tion, 1850-1851; again a member of State house of delegates,court of common pleas of Bucks County the same year; 1857-1861; at the outbreak of the Civil War was a brigadiermoved to Upper Makefield, Pa., prior to 1776; member of the general of the State militia and as such took the field withState assembly 1787-1796; elected as a Federalist to the his command in 1861, serving with the Confederate Army inFifth Congress (March 4, 1797-March 3, 1799); died in Upper the Kanawha Valley; resumed the practice of law in Union,Makefield, January 27, 1800; interment in the Friends' Bur- W.Va., and also engaged in agricultural pursuits; died inying Ground, Wrightstown, Pa. Hinton, Summers County, W.Va., June 7, 1876, while en CHAPMAN, John Grant (father of Andrew Grant Chap- route to attend the Democratic State convention at Charles-man), a Representative from Maryland; born in La Plata, ton; interment in Green Hill Cemetery, Union, MonroeCharles County, Md., July 5, 1798; was tutored at home; County, W.Va. attended a college in Pennsylvania in 1812 and 1813 and was CHAPMAN, Bird Beers, a Delegate from the Territory ofgraduated from Yale College in 1817; studied law; was ad- Nebraska; born inSalisbury,Litchfield County, Conn.,mitted to the bar in 1819 and commenced practice at Port August 24, 1821; attended the public schools; studied law;Tobacco, Charles County, Md.; also interested in agricultural was admitted to the bar and commenced practicein Elyria,pursuits; member of the State house of delegates from 1824 Lorain County, Ohio; moved to the Territory of Nebraskato 1832 and from 1843 to 1844, serving as speaker 1826-1829 and settled in Omaha; was editor of the Omaha Nebraskanand again in 1844; member, State senate, 1832-1836, serving 1855-1859; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fourth Con-as president of that body from1833 to 1836; served in the gress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); unsuccessfullycontest-State militia; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Mary- ed the election of to the Thirty-fifth Con-land in 1844; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth and gress; died at Put in Bay, Ottawa County,Ohio, SeptemberThirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1849); chair- 21, 1871; interment in Ridgelawn Cemetery, Elyria, Ohio.man, Committee on District of Columbia(Thirtieth Con- CHAPMAN, Charles, a Representative from Connecticut;gress); resumed the practice of law at Port Tobacco, Md.; born in Newtown, Conn., June 21, 1799; pursued academicpresident of the State constitutional convention in 1851; died 766 Biographical Directory on his sister's estate, "Waverly," on the Wicomico River,Territory in 1836; first district attorney when Wisconsin Charles County, Md., on December 10, 1856; interment at St.Territory was organized in July 1836; after the Territory of Johns, a family estate; reinterment in Mount Rest Ceme-Iowa was granted representation he was elected as a Demo- tery, La Plata, Md. crat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses and CHAPMAN, Pleasant Thomas, a Representative from Illi-served from September 10, 1838, to October 27, 1840, when nois; born on a farm near Vienna, Johnson County, Ill.,his term expired by law; moved to Agency City, an Indian October 8, 1854; attended the public schools, andwas grad-village, in Wapello County, Iowa, in 1843; elected from that uated from McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill., in June 1876;county as a delegate to the first constitutional convention in taught school; served as superintendent of public schools ofIowa City in 1844; started across the plains to become a

Johnson County 1877-1882; studied law; was admitted to thepioneer of Oregon in 1847; went to Califoriiia in 1848; re-- bar at Mount Vernon, Ill., in 1878 and commenced practiceturned to Oregon; member of the Oregon house of represent- in Vienna, Ill.; also engaged in banking and in agriculturalatives; was one of the founders of the Oregonian, the first pursuits; judge of Johnson County 1882-1890; member of thenewspaper established in the Territory; surveyor general in State senate 1890-1902; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-1858; died in Portland, Oreg., on October 18, 1892; interment ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses (March 4, 1905-in the Lone Fir Cemetery. March 3, 1911); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 Bibliography: Colton, Kenneth E. "w.W. Chapman, Delegate to Congress to the Sixty-second Congress; resumed the practice of law in from ." Annals of Iowa 3rd Series, 21 (April 1938): 283-95. Vienna, Ill., and also engaged in banking and agricultural pursuits; delegate to the Republican National Convention in CHAPPELL, Absalom Harris (cousin of Lucius Quintus 1924; died in Vienna, Ill., January 31, 1931; interment inCincinnatus Lamar), a Representative from Georgia; born at Fraternal Cemetery. Mount Zion, Hancock County, Ga., December 18, 1801; at- tended the local academy at Mount Zion, and was graduated CHAPMAN, Reuben, a Representative from Alabama;from the law department of the University of Georgia at born in Bowling Green, Caroline County, Va., July 15, 1799;Athens in 1821; was admitted to the bar the same year and attended an academy in Virginia; studied law; was admittedcommenced practice in Sandersville, Washington County, to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in Somerville,Ga.; moved to Forsyth, Ga., in 1824 and practiced; member Morgan County, Ala.; member of the State senate 1832-1835;of the State senate in 1832 and 1833; served in the State elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress andhouse of representatives 1834-1839; moved to Macon, Ga., in as a Democrat to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4,1836 and continued the practice of law; delegate to the 1835-March 3, 1847); was not a candidate for renominationKnoxville convention in 1836; promoter of the Monroe Rail- in 1846, having become a gubernatorial candidate; Governorroad; appointed on the board of commissioners to arrange a of Alabama 1847-1849; member of the State house of repre- sentatives in 1855; delegate to the Democratic Convention atState finance system in 1839; elected as a Whig to the Baltimore in 1860; was a representative of the ConfederacyTwenty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the to France 1862-1865; resumed the practice of law; died inresignation of Representative-elect John B. Lamar and Huntsville, Madison County, Ala., May 16, 1882; intermentserved from October 2, 1843, to March 3, 1845; was not a in Maple Hill Cemetery. candidate for renomination in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Con- Bibliography: DAB. gress; member of the State senate in 1845, serving as presi- dent; resumed the practice of law; moved to Columbus, Ga., CHAPMAN, Virgil Munday, a Representative anda Sena-in 1857 and continued the practice of law; also engaged in tor from Kentucky; born in Middleton, Simpson County, Ky.,literary pursuits; affiliated with the Democratic Party; dele- on March 15, 1895; attended the public schools of Franklin,gate to the State constitutional convention in 1865 and again KY.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1917;wasin 1877; also a delegate to the Conservative convention at graduated from the law department of the University ofMacon in 1867; died in Columbus, Muscogee County, Ga., Kentucky at Lexington in 1918 and commenced practice atDecember 11, 1878; interment in Linwood Cemetery. Irvine, Estill County, Ky., in 1918; city attorney of Irvine Bibliography: DAB. 1918-1920; moved to Paris, Ky., in 1920 and continued the practice of law; assisted in organizing the tobacco growers of CHAPPELL, John Joel, a Representative from South Kentucky and nearby States into cooperative marketingas-Carolina, born on Little River, near Columbia, Fairfield Dis- sociations 1921-1923; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-trict, S.C., where the family was on a visit, January 19, 1782; ninth and Seventieth Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3,as an infant was taken by his parents to their home on the 1929); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928; electedCongareeRiver,RichlandDistrict,S.C.;attendedthe as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the eight suc-common schools and was graduated from the law depart- ceeding Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1949); electedment of South Carolina College (now the University of South as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1948 andCarolina) at Columbia; was admitted to the bar in 1805 and served from January 3, 1949, until his death in the navalcommenced practice in Columbia, Richiand County, S.C.; ap- hospital at Bethesda, Md., March 8, 1951; interment in Parispointed adjutant of the Thirty-third South Carolina Regi- Cemetery, Paris, Ky. ment in 1805 and elected captain and then colonel of the Bibliography:U.S.Congress. Memorial Services ForVirgil Munday same regiment in 1808; member of the State house of repre- Chapman. 82nd Cong.,1stsess.,1951. Washington,D.C.: Government sentatives 1808-18 12; appointed trustee of South Carolina Printing Office, 1951. College in 1809; served in the War of 1812; elected as a CHAPMAN, William Williams, a Delegate from the Terri-Republican to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses tory of Iowa; born in Clarksburg, Marion County, Va. (now(March 4, 1813-March 3,1817); chairman, Committee on West Virginia), August 11,1808; attended the commonPensions and Revolutionary Claims (Thirteenth and Four- schools; studied law while serving as clerk of the court; wasteenth Congresses); resumed the practice of law until 1837; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Middleton;director of the Columbia branch of the State Bank of South was one of the first settlers in Burlington, Iowa (then Michi-Carolina 1830-1858; moved to Lowndes County, Ala., and gan Territory), in 1835; prosecuting attorney of Michiganbecame a cotton planter; died in Lowndes County, Ala., May Biographies 767

23, 1871; interment in First Baptist Church Cemetery, Co-tives 1823-1824; elected as a Republican to theUnited States 3, 1831; lumbia, S.C. Senate and served from March 4, 1825, to March engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Randolph Center, CHAPPELL, William Venroe, Jr., a Representative fromVt., February 23, 1846; interment in RandolphCemetery. Florida; born in Kendrick, Marion County, Fla., February 3, 1922; University of Florida, B.A., 1947, LL.B., 1949, and J.D., CHASE, George William, a Representative from New 1967; served in the United States Navy, aviator, 1942-1946;York; born in the town of Maryland, Otsego County,N.Y.; retired as a captain from United States Naval Reserve inattended the common schools; engaged in agricultural pur- 1983; Marion County prosecuting attorney, 1950-1954; elect-suits; also engaged in mercantile and milling pursuits at ed to Florida house of representatives, 1954-1964, speaker,Schenevus, Otsego County, N.Y.; elected as a Whig to the

1961-1963; did not seek reelection in 1964 but was electedThirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); re-- again in 1966; member, law firm of Chappell & Rowland,sumed his former agricultural and business pursuits; died in Ocala, Fla.; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-first and toChaseville, Maryland Township, N.Y., April 17, 1867; inter- the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3,ment in the Chase vault in Schenevus Cemetery, Schenevus, 1989); is a resident of Ocala, Fla. N.Y. CHAPPIE, Eugene A., a Representative from California; CHASE, Jackson Burton, a Representative from Nebras- born in Sacramento, Sacramento County, Calif., March 28,ka; born in Seward, Nebr., August 19, 1890; in early life 1920; attended the public schools; graduated from Sacramen-lived in California and Illinois; worked for the Burlington to High School, 1938; served in the United StatesArmy,Railroad; graduated from high school in Omaha, Nebr., in Armored Force South Pacific Service, captain, 1942-1947;1907; employed by John Deere Plow Co., 1907-1910;attended Korea, 1950; rancher; El Dorado County Supervisor, 1950-the University of Nebraska 1910-1912; LL.B., University of 1964; served in the California State legislature, 1964-1980;Michigan Law School, 1913; was admitted to the bar the delegate, California State Republican conventions, 1968-same year and commenced practicein Chicago, Ill.; during 1972; delegate, Republican National Conventions, 1968-1972;the First World War served with the Field Artillery, United elected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh and to the twoStates Army; assistant attorney general of Nebraska in 1921 succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1981-January 3, 1987);and 1922; engaged in the practice of law in Omaha, Nebr., was not a candidate for reelection in1986; is a resident of1923-1942; legal adviser to Omaha Welfare Board in 1930 Georgetown, Calif. and 1931; member of the State house of representatives in CHARLES, William Barclay, a Representative from New1933 and 1934; owner and manager of farmland inNebraska York; born in Glasgow, Scotland, April 3, 1861; attendedand Iowa; served as a major, Judge Advocate General's De- private schools and high schools in Stirling and Glasgow,partment, 1942-1945; chairman of Nebraska LiquorControl Scotland; immigrated to the United States in 1884; spent twoCommission in 1945 and 1946; judge of the fourth judicial years ranching in Texas and Mexico; settledin Amsterdam,district court of Nebraska, 1946-1954; elected as aRepubli- N.Y., in 1886 and engaged in textile manufacturing; membercan to the Eighty-fourth Congress(January 3, 1955-January of the State assembly 1904-1906; director of the Amsterdam3, 1957); was not a candidate for renominationin 1956 to the First National Bank; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-Eighty-fifth Congress; again elected judge of the fourth judi- fourth Congress (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1917); was not acial district court of Nebraska 1956-1960; diedin Atlanta, candidate for renomination in 1916; reengaged in the textileGa., May 4, 1974; interment in Hillcrest Cemetery,Omaha, business until his retirement; died in Amsterdam, N.Y., No-Nebr. vember 25, 1950; interment in Green Hill Cemetery. CHASE, James Mitchell, a Representative fromPennsyl- CHARLTON, Robert Milledge, a Senator from Georgia;vania; born in Glen Richey, Clearfield County, Pa.,Decem- born in Savannah, Ga., January 19, 1807; studied law; wasber 19, 1891; attended the public schools, the highschool at admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Savannah;Clearfield, Pa., and was graduated from the law department member, State house of representatives; United States dis-of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1916; was admitted to trict attorney; elected a judge of the superior court in 1832;the bar in 1919 and commenced practice inClearfield, Pa.; appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fillenlisted in the Air Service and served with theAmerican the vacancy caused by. the resignation of John MacphersonExpeditionary Forces 1917-1919; commander of the Ameri- Berrien and served from May 31, 1852, to March 3, 1853;can Legion, Department ofPennsylvania, in 1924 and 1925; mayor of Savannah; died in Savannah,Chatham County,elected as a Republican to the Seventieth, Seventy-first, and Ga., January 18, 1854; interment in Laurel Grove Cemetery.Seventy-second Congresses (March 4, 1927-March 3, 1933); Bibliography: Mellichamp, Josephine. "Robert Charlton." pp.131-33. In unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; resumed Senators From Georgia. Huntsville, Ala.: The Strode Publishers, Inc., 1976. the practice of law; died in Clearfield, Pa., January1, 1945; CHASE, Dudley (uncle of Salmon Portland Chase andinterment in Hillcrest Cemetery. Dudley Chase Denison), a Senator from Vermont; born in CHASE, Jeremiah Townley, a Delegate fromMaryland; Cornish, N.H., December 30, 1771; attended the commonborn in Baltimore, Md., May 23, 1748; was a member of the schools, and was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hano-- admitted to the bar incommittees of observation and correspondence in 1774; dele-- ver, N.H., in 1791; studied law; was gate to the Maryland constitutionalconvention of 1776; 1793 and practiced in Randolph, Vt.; prosecuting attorneymoved to Annapolis in 1779; member of the Governor's coun- for Orange County 1803-18 12; member, State house of repro-- sentatives 1805-1812, and served as speaker 1808-1812; dele-cil 1780-1784 and 1786-1788; mayor of Annapolis in 1783; gate to the State constitutional conventions in 1814andMember of the Continental Congress in 1783 and 1784; an UnitedAnti-Federalist member of the convention of ratification of 1822; elected as a Jeffersonian Democrat to the the United States Constitution in 1788; judge of the general States Senate and served from March 4, 1813, to November appeals until 3, 1817, when he resigned; chairman, Committee onJudici-court in 1789, and chief justice of the court of ary (Fourteenth Congress); chief justiceof the supreme courthis resignation in 1824; died in Annapolis, Md., May 11, of Vermont 1817-182 1; member, State house of representa-1828; interment in the City Cemetery. 768 Biographical Directory

CHASE, Lucien Bonaparte, a Representative from Ten-induce the Canadians to join in the revolution against Great nessee; born in Derby Line, Vt., December 5, 1817; moved toBritain; a signer of the Declaration of Independence; went to Dover, Tenn., about 1838 and taught school; studied law;wasEngland in 1783 as agent for the State of Maryland to admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Charlotte,recover the stock in the Bank of England which had been Dickson County, Tenn.; moved to Clarksville, Tenn.,and resumed the practice of law; elected as purchased when the State was a colony of Great Britain; a Democrat to themoved to Baltimore, Md., in 1786; judge of the Baltimore Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4,1845- March 3, 1849); declined to be a candidate for reelection incriminal court in 1788; appointed judge of the general court 1848; moved to New York City in 1849; resumed the practiceof Maryland in 1791; appointed by President Washington an of law; died in Derby Line, Orleans County, Vt., December 4,Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1864; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1796; articles of impeachment were filed against him in 1804 on charges of malfeasance in office five years previous in his CHASE, Ray P., a Representative from Minnesota; bornconduct of the trials of Fries and Callendar for sedition, and in Anoka County, Minn., March 12, 1880; attended thefor a more recent address to a Maryland grand jury; tried by public schools; was graduated from the University of Minne-the Senate in 1805, he was acquitted of all charges on March sota at Minneapolis in 1903; attended the law department of5, 1805; resumed his seat on the bench, and retained it until the University of Minnesota in 1904, 1905, 1915, and 1916;his death in Washington, D.C., on June 19, 1811; interment engaged in the publishing and printing business at Anoka,in Old St. Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. Minn., 1904-1914; municipal judge of Anoka, Minn., 1911- Bibliography: DAB. 19 16; deputy State auditor and land commissioner of Minne- sota 1916-1920; was graduated from the St. Paul (Minn.) CHASE, Samuel, a Representative from New York; born College of Law in 1919; was admitted to the bar thesamein Cooperstown, N.Y.; district attorney of Otsego County year but did not practice; State auditor and land commis-1821-1829; elected to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, sioner of Minnesota 1921-1931; unsuccessful Republicancan- 1827-March 3, 1829); died in Richfield, Otsego County, N.Y.,

didate for Governor of Minnesota in 1930; electedas a Re-- August 3, 1838. publican to the Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933-Janu- ary 3,1935); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in CHASTAIN, Elijah Webb, a Representative from Georgia; 1934; practiced law, specializing in legal research, 1935-1943;born near Pickens, Pickens County, S.C., September 25, 1813; member of the Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse Commis-moved with his parents to Habersham, Ga., in 1821; attend- sion 1944-1948; died in Anoka, Minn., on September 18,ed the common schools; served as captain and colonel in the 1948; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery. Seminole Indian War; located on a farm in Union County, CHASE, Salmon Portland (nephew of Dudley Chase andGa.; served in the State senate 1840-1850; studied law; was cousin of Dudley Chase Denison), a Senator from Ohio; bornadmitted to the bar m 1849 and practiced m Blairsville, in Cornish, N.H., January 13, 1808; attended schoolsatUnion County, Ga.; elected as a Unionist to the Thirty- Windsor, N.H., Worthington, Ohio, and the Cincinnati (Ohio)second Congress and as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Con- College; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover,gress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1855); chairman, Committee N.H., in 1826; taught school; studied law in Washington,on Militia (Thirty-third Congress); delegate to the secession D.C.; was admitted to the bar in 1829; commenced practiceconvention at Milledgeville, Ga., in 1860; during the Civil in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1830; elected as a Whig to the Cincin-War served in the Confederate Army as lieutenant colonel of nati City Council in 1840; identified himself in 1841 with thethe First Georgia Regiment; State's attorney for the Western Liberty Party, and later with the Free-Soil Party; elected to& Atlantic Railroad in 1860 and 1861; died near Dalton, the United States Senate as a Free-Soil candidate and servedMurray County, Ga., April 9, 1874; interment in the family from March 4, 1849, to March 3, 1855; elected Governor ofcemetery near Morganton, Fannin County, Ga. Ohio in 1855 as a Free-Soil Democrat and reelected in 1857 as a Republican; elected as a Republican to the United CHATHAM, Richard Thurmond, a Representative from States Senate in 1860; took his seat March 4, 1861, butNorth Carolina; born in Elkin, Surry County, N.C., August resigned two days later to become Secretary of the Treasury16, 1896; educated in the public schools; attended the Uni- under President Abraham Lincoln; servedas Secretary ofversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1915 and 1916 the Treasury until July 1864, when he resigned; member ofand Yale University in 1916 and 1917; served in the United the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, DC., inanStates Navy from May 1917 until discharged as an ensign in effort to devise means to prevent the impendingwar; ChiefJune 1919; in July 1919 started working in the textile mills Justice of the United States Supreme Court from Decemberof Chatham Manufacturing Co. at Winston-Salem, N.C., and 1864 until his death on May 7, 1873; presided at the im-retired in 1955 as chairman of the board of directors; also peachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in 1868; diedowned and operated a farm near Elkin, N.C.; member of the in New York City; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Wash-Woolen Wage and Hour Board, Washington, D.C., in 1939; ington, D.C.; reinterment in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincin- served as a member of the State Board of Conservation and nati, Ohio. Development and as county commissionerof Forsyth Bibliography: DAB; Blue, Frederick J. Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Poli- County; served in the Navy from February 14, 1942, to No- tics. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press,1987; Chase, Salmon P. Diary and Correspondence of Salmon P. Chase. 1903. Reprint. New York: vember 25, 1945, with combat duty in the Southwest Pacific; Da Capo Press, 1971. unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the CHASE, Samuel, a Delegate from Maryland; born in Prin-Eighty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (January cess Anne, Somerset County, Md., April 17, 1741; was tu-3, 1949-January 3, 1957); unsuccessful candidate for renomi- tored privately and pursued an academic course; studiednation in 1956; died in Durham, N.C., February 5, 1957; law; was admitted to the bar in 1761 and commenced prac-interment in Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, N.C. tice in Annapolis, Md.; member of the General Assembly of Bibliography: Christian, Ralph J. "The Folger-Chatham Congressional Maryland 1764-1784; Member of the Continental Congress Primary of 1946." The North Carolina Historical Review 53 (Winter 1976): 1774-1778; sent on a special mission to Canada in 1776 to 25-53. Biographies 769

CHAVES, Jose Francisco, a Delegate from the TerritoryParty in 1896; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1896 of New Mexico; born in Padillas, Mexico (now New Mexico),and 1898 on the Democratic and Populist tickets; editor of June 27, 1833; attended schools in St. Louis, Mo.; studiedthe American Standard in 1896; died in Frankfort, Clinton medicine at the New York College of Physicians and Sur-County, md., May 28, 1904; interment in Greenlawn Ceme-- geons; engaged in the stock-raising business in the Territorytery. of New Mexico; president of the Territorial council for eight sessions; major of the First New Mexico Infantry in the CHEATHAM, Henry Plummer, a Representative from Union Army during the Civil War; promoted to the rank ofNorth Carolina; born near Henderson, Granville (now lieutenant colonel; took part in the Battle of Valverde inVance) County, N.C., December 27, 1857; attended the public 1862; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth Congressschools, and was graduated from Shaw University, Raleigh, (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); successfully contested theN.C., in 1883; principal in 1883 and 1884 of the State normal election of Charles P. Clever to the Fortieth Congress; re-school for black students at Plymouth, N.C.; moved to Hen- elected to the Forty-first Congress and served from Februaryderson, N.C., and served as register of deeds of Vance 20, 1869, to March 3, 1871; unsuccessful candidate for reelec-County 1884-1888; studied law but did not practice; delegate tion in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress; engaged in farm-to the State convention at Raleigh in 1892; delegate to the ing and stock raising; district attorney of the second judicialRepublican National Conventions in 1892 and 1900; elected district 1875-1877; member and president of the State consti-as a Republican to the Fifty-first and Fifty-secondCongress- tutional convention in 1889; State superintendent of publices (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893);unsuccessful candidate for instruction from 1903 until his death; appointed State histo-reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress; recorder of rian of New Mexico in 1903, but died before his term ofdeeds of the District of Columbia 1897-1901; moved to service began; assassinated in Pinoswells (near Cedar Vale,Oxford, N.C., in 1907; superintendent of the North Carolina Torrance County), N.Mex., November 26, 1904; interment inColored Orphanage at Oxford from 1907 until his death; one the United States National Cemetery at Santa Fe, N.Mex.of the founders, incorporators, and directors of the same institution, founded in 1887; president of the Negro Associa- CHAVEZ, Dennis, a Representative and a Senator fromtion of North Carolina; also engaged in agricultural pursuits New Mexico; born in Los Chavez, Valencia County, N.Mex., and lecturing; died in Oxford, N.C., November 29, 1935; in- April 8, 1888; attended the public schools; worked as a gro-terment in Harrisburg Cemetery. cer's clerk as a boy and later in the engineering department of the city of Albuquerque; travelled to Washington in 1917 CHEATHAM, Richard, a Representative from Tennessee; with Senator Andrieus A. Jones and served as clerk in theborn in Springfield, Robertson County, Tenn., February 20, office of the Secretary of the United States Senate 1917-1799; pursued preparatory studies; engaged in mercantile 1920; was graduated from the law department of George-pursuits, stock raising, and operation of a cotton gin; town University, Washington, D.C., in 1920; was admitted tomember of the State house of representatives in 1833; the bar in 1920 and commenced practice in Albuquerque,member of the State constitutional convention which met at N.Mex.; member, State house of representatives 1923-1924;Nashville from May 19 To August 30, 1834; served as gener- elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and Seventy-al in the State militia; unsuccessful candidate for election to third Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1935); chairman,the Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fourth Con- Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation (Seventy-thirdgresses; elected as a Whig to theTwenty-fifth Congress Congress); did not seek renomination in 1934, but was an(March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839); unsuccessful candidate for unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator; appointedreelection to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congress- as a Democrat on May 11, 1935, and elected on November 3,es; resumed his former pursuits;died while visiting at 1936, to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy causedWhite's Creek Springs, near Springfield, Tenn., September 9, by the death of Bronson M. Cutting; reelected in 1940, 1946,1845; interment in Old City Cemetery. 1952, and again in 1958, and served from May 11, 1935, until CHELF, Frank Leslie, a Representative from Kentucky; his death in Washington, D.C., November 18, 1962; chair-born on a farm near Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Ky., man, Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Seventy-September 22, 1907; attended the public schools, Centre Col- ninth Congress), Committee on Public Works (Eighty-firstlege at Danville, Ky., and St. Mary's (Ky.) College; was grad- through Eighty-seventh Congresses); interment in Mountuated from the law school of Cumberland University, Leba- Calvary Cemetery, Albuquerque, N.Mex. non, Tenn., in 1931; was admitted tothe bar in 1931 and Bibliography: DAB; Crouch, Barry."Dennis Chavez and Roosevelt's 'Court-Packing Plan.' " New Mexico Historical Review 42 (October 1967): commenced practice in Lebanon, Ky.; attorney of Marion 261-80; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services. 87th Cong., 2nd sess.,1962. County, Ky., 1933-1944; took leave of absence from his offi- Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1963. cial duties on August 1, 1942, to volunteer in the United States Army; commissioned a first lieutenant in the Air CHEADLE, Joseph Bonaparte, a Representative from In-Corps and saw active service; served as chief code designa- diana; born in Perrysville, Vermillion County, md., Augusttor, Intelligence Division, Air Transport Command, and later 14, 1842; attended the common schools; entered Asbury (nowas executive officer, Plans and Liaison Division,and as as- De Pauw) University, Greencastle, md., but upon the organi-sistant chief of Air Staff Training; discharged on August 10, zation of the Seventy-first Regiment, Indiana Volunteer In- 1944, due to physical disability, with rank of major in the fantry, enlisted as a private in Company K and served untilAir Corps; delegate to the Democratic National Convention the close of the Civil War; returned home and entered uponin 1936; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and to the study of law; was graduated from the Indianapolis Lawthe ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, College in 1867; was admitted to the bar and commenced1967); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966 to the practice in Newport, md.; continued in practice until 1873, Ninetieth Congress; resumed the practice of law; legislative when he entered upon newspaper work; elected as a Republi-consultant; resident of Lebanon, Ky., until his death there can to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses(March 4, 1887-on September 1, 1982; interment at RyderCemetery. March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1890, and for nomination to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth CHENEY, Person Colby, a Senator from New Hampshire; Congresses in 1892 and 1894; affiliated with the Democraticborn in Holderness (now Ashland), N.H., February 25, 1828; 770 Biographical Directory attended academies in Peterborough and Hancock, N.H., andgomery Ward & Co., in 1948 and 1949; elected as a Democrat in Parsonfield, Maine; engaged in the manufacture ofpaperto the Eighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949-January 3, in Peterborough until 1866; member, State house ofrepre-1951); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950 to the sentatives 1854; during the Civil War was first lieutenantEighty-second Congress; delegate to the 1968 Democratic Na- and regimental quartermaster in the Thirteenth Regiment,tional Convention; vice-president and director of Avondale New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry 1862-1863; State rail-Savings & Loan Association; was a resident of Marco Island, road commissioner 1864-1867; moved to Manchester, N.H.,Fla., until his death there September 20, 1986; interment in in 1867 and engaged in business as a dealer in paper stockSt. Adalbert Cemetery, Niles, Ill. and continued the manufacture of paper at Goffstown, N.H.; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected mayor of Man- CHESNIJT, James, Jr., a Senator from South Carolina; chester in 1871; Governor of New Hampshire 1875-1877;born near Camden, S.C., January 18, 1815; was graduated appointed as a Republican to the United States Senate to fillfrom the law department of the College of New Jersey (now the vacancy caused by the death of Austin F. Pike andPrinceton University) in 1837; was admitted to the bar the served from November 24, 1886, to June 14, 1887, when asame year and commenced practicein Camden, S.C.; successor was elected and qualified; was not a candidate formember, State house of representatives 1842-1854; delegate election to fill the vacancy; resumed his former manufactur-to the southern convention at Nashville in 1850; served in ing pursuits; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-the State senate 1854-1858; elected as a Democrat to the tiary to Switzerland 1892-1893; died in Dover, StraffordUnited States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death County, N.H., on June 19, 1901; interment in Pine Groveof Josiah J. Evans and served from December 3, 1858, until Cemetery, Manchester, N.H. November 10, 1860, when he withdrew; expelled from the Bibliography: DAB. Senate in 1861 for support of the rebellion; delegate to the Confederate Provisional Congress in 1861; during the Civil CHENEY, Richard Bruce, a Representative from Wyo-War served as colonel in the Confederate Army; appointed ming; born in Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebr., January 30,brigadier general in 1864; resumed the practice of law in 1941; attended public schools in Lincoln and Casper, Wyo.;Camden, Kershaw County, S.C., and died there on February attended Yale University, 1959-1960; Casper College, Casper,1, 1885; interment in Knights Hill Cemetery, near Camden, Wyo., 1963; B.A., University of Wyoming, Laramie, 1965; S.C. M.A., University of Wyoming, 1966; Ph.D. candidate, Univer- Bibliography: DAB; Chesnut, Mary B. Mary Chesnut's Civil War. Edited sity of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., 1968; congressional fellow, by C. Vann Woodward. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. 1968-1969; special assistant to the Director of OEO, 1969- 1970; White House staff assistant, 1971; assistant director, CHETWOOD, William,aRepresentative from New Cost of Living Council, 197 1-1973; vice president, Bradley,Jersey; born in Elizabeth, N.J., June 17, 1771; was graduated Woods & Co., 1973-1974; Deputy Assistant to the President, from Princeton College in 1792; studied law; was admitted to 1974-1975; White House Chief of Staff, 1975-1977; elected asthe bar in 1796 and commenced practice in Elizabeth, N.J.; a Republican to the Ninety-sixth and to the four succeedingserved as prosecutor of the pleas for Essex County; member Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1989); is a residentof the State Council of New Jersey; was a major of militia of Casper, Wyo. and served in the Whisky Rebellion of 1794 as aide-de-camp to Maj. Gen. Henry Lee; elected as a Whig to the Twenty- CHENOWETH, John Edgar, a Representative from Colo-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation rado; born in Trinidad, Las Animas County, Cob., Augustof Philemon Dickerson and served from December 5, 1836, to 17, 1897; attended the public and high schools, and the Uni-March 3, 1837; resumed the practice of law; died in Eliza- versity of Colorado at Boulder; engaged in railroading and inbeth, N.J., December 17, 1857; interment in Evergreen Cem- the mercantile business 1916-1925; studied law; was admit-etery. ted to the bar in 1925 and commenced practice in Trinidad in 1926; assistant district attorney for the third judicial dis- CHEVES, Langdon, a Representative from South Caroli- trict 1929-1933; county judge of Las Animas County, Cob.,na; born September 17, 1776, in Bulltown Fort, near Rocky 1933-1941; member, Advisory Board of Colorado Women'sRiver, Ninety-sixth District (now Abbeville County), S.C., College, now Temple Buell; elected as a Republican to thewhere the settlers had taken refuge from the onslaught of Seventy-seventh and to the three succeeding Congressesthe Cherokee Indians; received his early education at his (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidatehome and Andrew Weed's School near Abbeville, S.C.; joined for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; elected tohis father in Charleston, S.C., in 1786 and continued his the Eighty-second and to the six succeeding Congresses (Jan-schooling in that city; studied law; was admitted to the bar uary 3, 1951-January 3, 1965); unsuccessful candidate forOctober 14, 1797, and commenced practice in Charleston; reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress; resumed thecity alderman in 1802; member of the State house of repre- practice of law; was a resident of Trinidad, Cob., until hissentatives 1802-1804 and 1806-1808; elected attorney general death there January 2, 1986; interment in Odd Fellows Cem-of the State in 1808; elected as a Republican to the Eleventh etery. Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert Marion, having previously been elected to the CHESNEY, Chester Anton, a Representative from Illinois;Twelfth Congress; reelected to the Thirteenth Congress, and born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., March 9, 1916; attendedserved from December 31, 1810, to March 3, 1815; succeeded St. Hyacinth and Lane Technical High School; was graduat-Henry Clay as Speaker of the House of Representatives ed from the De Paul University, Chicago, Ill., in 1938; playedduring the second session of the Thirteenth Congress; chair- professional football with the Chicago Bears in 1939 andman, Committee on Ways and Means (Twelfth Congress), 1940; entered the United States Air Force in June 1941 as aCommittee on the Naval Establishment (Twelfth Congress); private and was discharged as a major in 1946 with servicedeclined to be a candidate for reelection in 1814 to the in the Pacific and European Theaters; assistant chief ofFourteenth Congress and also the position of Secretary of special service, Veterans Administration, Hines, Ill., in 1946the Treasury tendered by President Madison; resumed the and 1947; took graduate work at Northwestern Universitypractice of law; elected associate justice of law and appeal in Graduate Commerce School in 1947; executive with Mont-December 1816; resigned in 1819; declined to accept an ap- Biographies 771 pointment as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the "though he had been in regular attendance at the sittingsof United States; elected president of the Bank of the Unitedthe House"; moved to Port Richmond, Staten Island, N.Y.,in States March 6, 1819, and held this office until 1822, when 1857 and retired from active business; supervisor of the town he resigned; chief commissioner of claims under the treatyof Northfield, N.Y., in 1865 and 1866; member of theState of Ghent; resided in Philadelphia and Washington 1819-1826assembly in 1866; died in Port Richmond, Staten Island, and in Lancaster, Pa., 1826-1829; returned to South CarolinaN.Y., March 9, 1869; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, in 1829; engaged extensively in the cultivation of rice inBrooklyn, N.Y. South Carolina and Georgia; tendered an appointment by CHILDS, Robert Andrew, a Representative from Illinois; the Governor of South Carolina to the United States Senateborn in Malone, Franklin County, N.Y., March 22,1845; to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John C. Calhoun,moved to Illinois with his parents, who settled near Belvi- but declined; delegate to the Southern convention at Nash-dere, Boone County, in 1852; attended the common schools; ville, Tenn., in 1850 and to the State convention at Colum- during the Civil War enlisted in Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut's bia, S.C., in 1852; died in Columbia, S.C., June 26, 1857; of the Fifteenth interment in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C. company, which subsequently became a part Bibliography: DAB; Huff, Archie Vernon. Langdon Cheves of South Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served through- Carolina. Tricentennial Studies, No. 11. Columbia: University of South out the war; graduated from the Illinois State Normal Uni- Carolina Press, 1977; Wright, David McCord. "Langdon Cheves and Nicho- versity in 1870; principal and superintendent of the public las Biddle: New Data for a New Interpretation." Journal of Economic His- schools in Amboy 1871-1873; studied law; was admitted to tory 13 (Summer 1953): 305-19. the bar in 1872 and commenced practice in Belvidere, Ill.; CHICKERING, Charles Addison, a Representative fromsettled in Hinsdale, a suburb of Chicago, in July 1873; New York; born in Harrisburg, Lewis County, N.Y., Novem-member of the village board of trustees and president of the ber 26, 1843; attended the common schools and Lowvilleschool board; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third Con- Academy and was for some time a teacher in that institu-gress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); was not acandidate for tion; engaged in business as a hardware merchant; served asrenomination in 1894; resumed the practice of law in Chica- school commissioner of Lewis County 1865-1875; member ofgo; died in Hinsdale, Ill., December19, 1915; interment in the New York assembly 1879-1881 and as clerk of the assem-Bronswood Cemetery. bly 1884-1890; served as chairman of the Lewis County Re- CHILDS, Timothy, a Representative from New York; born publican committee; member of the Republican State com-in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1785; moved to Rochester, N.Y.; was mittee, serving as secretary, and as a member of its execu-graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in tive committee; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third1811; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practicedin and to the three succeeding Congresses and served fromRochester, N.Y.; prosecuting attorney of Monroe County March 4, 1893, until his accidental death from injuries re-- 1821-1831; member of the State assembly in 1828 and again ceived in a fall from a window of the Grand Union Hotel inin 1833; elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty- New York City while on a business trip February 13, 1900;first Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831);resumed the chairman, Committee on Railways and Canals (Fifty-fourthpractice of law; elected as a Whig to theTwenty-fourth and through Fifty-sixth Congresses); interment in Riverside Cem- Twenty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1835-March 3,1839); etery, Copenhagen, Lewis County, N.Y. chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office CHILCOTT, George Miles, a Delegate from the TerritoryDepartment (Twenty-fifth Congress); elected to theTwenty- of Colorado and a Senator from Colorado; born near Cass-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843);died in ville, Huntingdon County, Pa., January 2, 1828; moved withSanta Cruz, N.Mex., November 8, 1847. his parents to Jefferson County, Iowa, in 1844; studied medi- CHILES, Lawton Mainor, Jr., a Senator from Florida; cine until 1850; sheriff of Jefferson County in 1853; moved toborn in Lakeland, Polk County, Fla., April 3,1930; attended the Territory of Nebraska in 1856; member, Territorialthe Lakeland public schools; graduated, Universityof Flori- house of representatives 1856; moved to the Territory ofda, Gainesville, Fla., 1952, and from the lawschool of the Colorado in 1859; member, Territorial council 1861-1862; United States Army studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1863; register of thesame university in 1955; served in the as artillery officer duringKorean Conflict 1953-1954; admit- United States land office 1863-1867; elected as a Republican practice in Delegate to the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-March 3,ted to the Florida bar in 1955 and commenced 1869); member, Territorial council 1872-1874; member, StateLakeland; member, Florida house of representatives 1958- house of representatives 1878; appointed to the United1966; member, Florida State senate 1966-1970; businessman, banker, and industrial developer; chairman, FloridaLaw Re- States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofvision Commission 1968-1970; elected as a Democrat tothe Henry M. Teller and served from April 17, 1882, to January Jan- 27, 1883; died in St. Louis, Mo., March 6, 1891; interment inUnited States Senate in 1970 for the term commencing uary 3, 1971; reelected in 1976and again in 1982 for the Masonic Cemetery, Pueblo, Cob. term ending January 3, 1989; chairman,Special Committee CHILD, Thomas, Jr., a Representative from New York;on Aging (Ninety-SixthCongress), Committee on the Budget born in Bakersfield, near St. Albans, Vt., March 22, 1818;(One-hundreth Congress). attended the common schools and entered the University of Vermont at Burlington at the age of fourteen; memberof CHILTON, Horace (grandson of Thomas Chilton), a Sena- tor from Texas; born near Tyler, Smith County,Tex., Decem- the State constitutional convention in 1838; studied law; was local admitted to the bar in September 1839 and commenced prac-ber 29, 1853; received private instruction; attended the tice in East Berkshire, Vt.; justice of the peacein 1840;schools in Texas and Lynniand Institute, Glendale, KY.; moved to New York City about 1848 and engaged in thelearned the printing business and published a tn-weekly distilling business; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-fourthnewspaper in Tyler; studied law; wasadmitted to the bar in Congress on March 4, 1855, but never qualified or attended a1872 and commenced practice in Tyler, Tex.; appointed as- session owing to illness; by resolution adopted on March 3,sistant attorney general of Texas 1881-1883;appointed as a 1857, the House resolved that his salary be computedandDemocrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy paid to him from August 18, 1856, to March 3, 1857, ascaused by the resignation of John H. Reagan and served 772 Biographical Directory

from June 10, 1891, to March 22, 1892, whena successor waspractice of law and the newspaper publishing business in elected; unsuccessful candidate for election to thisvacancy;Charleston, W.Va.; was an unsuccessful candidate for elec- elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in1894 tion to the United States Senate in 1924 and again in 1934; and served from March 4, 1895, to March 3, 1901;withdrewdied in Charleston, W.Va., November 7, 1939; interment in as a candidate for reelection; resumed the practice of law inTeay's Hill Cemetery, St. Albans, W.Va. Tyler and Beaumont, Tex.; moved to Dallas, Tex., in 1906 and continued the practice of law; died in Dallas, Tex., June CHINDBLOM, Carl Richard, a Representative from illi- 12, 1932; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Tyler, Tex. nois; born in Chicago, Iii., December 21, 1870; attended the CHILTON, Samuel, a Representative from Virginia; bornpublic schools; was graduated from Augustana College, Rock near Warrenton, Fauquier County, Va., September 7, 1804;Island, Ill., in 1890 and from the Kent College of Law (Lake moved to Missouri with his parents; attended private school;Forest University) at Chicago in 1898; teacher in Martin studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1826 and practicedLuther College in Chicago 1893-1896; was admitted to the in Warrenton; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth Con-bar in 1900 and commenced the practice of law in Chicago, gress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); resumed the practice ofIll.; delegate to the Republican State conventions in 1904, law in Warrenton, Va., and in Washington, D.C.; delegateto1908, 1912, and 1916; attorney for the Illinois State Board of the State constitutional convention of 1850-1851; appointedHealth in 1905 and 1906; member of the Cook County Board to defend John Brown at Harpers Ferry, but was dismissedof Commissioners1906-1910;county attorney of Cook by his client because he advocated that the defendant ad-County 1912-1914; master in chancery of the circuit court of vance a plea of insanity as his defense; died in Warrenton,Cook County 1916-1918; elected as a Republican to the Sixty- Va., January 14, 1867; interment in Warrenton Cemetery.sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1919- March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in CHILTON, Thomas (grandfather of ),a1932; resumed the practice of law in Chicago, Ill., until his Representative from Kentucky; born near Lancaster, Gar-death; referee in bankruptcy in the United States District rard County, Ky., July 30,1798; attended the commonCourt for the Northern District of Illinois 1934-1942; died in schools in Paris, Ky.; studied law; was admitted to the barChicago, Ill., September 12, 1956; interment in Ridgewood and commenced practice in Owingsville, Bath County, KY.;Cemetery, Des Plaines, Ill. member of the State house of representatives in 1819; moved to Elizabethtown, KY.; was a candidate for election to the CHINN, Joseph William, a Representative from Virginia; Twentieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the deathborn at "Epping Forest," near Nuttsville, Lancaster County, of William S. Young, but owing to an irregularity the votesVa., on November 16, 1798; was graduated from Union Col- of one county were eliminated and the credentialswerelege, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1819; studied law at Needham, issued to his opponent, John Calhoon; subsequently bothVa.; was admitted to the bar in 1821 and practiced in Lan- candidates renounced all claim to the seat and petitionedcaster County, Va., member of the State house of delegates the Governor for a new election; was duly elected to fill the1826-1828; served in the State senate 1829-1831; elected as a resulting vacancy; reelected to the Twenty-first CongressJacksonian to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Con- and served from December 22, 1827, to March 3, 1831;unsuc-gresses (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1835); chairman, Committee cessful candidate for reelection in 1830 to the Twenty-secondon District of Columbia (Twenty-third Congress); moved to Congress; resumed the practice of law in Elizabethtown;Richmond, Va., where he resumed the practice of his profes- presidential elector for Clay and Sergeant in 1832; electedassion; died on his estate, "Wilna," near Richmond, Va., on an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4,December 5, 1840; interment in the family burying ground 1833-March 3, 1835); declined to be a candidate for renomi-at "Wilma." nation in 1834; moved to Talladega, Ala., and resumed the practice of law; was pastor of a church in Hopkinsville, Ky.; CHINN, Thomas Withers (cousin of Robert Enoch With- president of the Alabama Baptist State Convention in 1841;ers), a Representative from Louisiana; born near Cynthiana, abandoned the practice of law and became general agent ofHarrison County, Ky., November 22, 1791; attended the the Alabama convention; continued his ministerial duties inrural schools of his community and was also tutored by his Montgomery, Greensboro, and Newborn, Ala.; moved tofather; served as a private in the First Rifles of the Ken- Houston, Tex., in 1851 and served as pastor ofa Baptisttucky Militia Volunteers from August 15, 1812, to October church; died in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Tex.,14, 1812; clerked in a general store in Cynthiana until 1813; August 15, 1854; interment in the Old Cemetery. moved to Woodville, Miss., and engaged in mercantile pur- Bibliography: Hannum, Sharon Elaine. "Thomas Chilton-Lawyer, Politi-suits; studied medicine and commenced the practice of his cian, Preacher." Filson Club Hietorical Quarterly 38 (April 1964): 97-114. profession in St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, La., about 1817; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and CHILTON, William Edwin, a Senator from West Virginia;commenced practice in St. Francisviile; appointed judge of born in Colesmouth (now St. Albans), Kanawha County,West Feliciana Parish in 1826; moved to Cypress Hall plan- W.Va. (then Virginia), March 17, 1858; attended public andtation, near Baton Rouge, in West Baton Rouge Parish, La., private schools and was graduated from Shelton College, St.in 1831; continued the practice of law and also engaged in Albans, W.Va.; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1880 and commenced practice in Charleston,sugarcane planting; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth W.Va., in 1882; also engaged in the newspaper publishingCongress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); was not a candidate business; prosecuting attorney of Kanawha County in 1883;for renomination in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress; chairman of the Democratic State executive committee inappointed by President Taylor as Minister to the Two Sici- 1892; secretary of state of West Virginia 1893-1897; electedlies on June 5, 1849, but did not assume his duties because of as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served fromillhealth; died at his plantation in West Baton Rouge March 4, 1911, to March 3, 1917; chairman, Committee onParish, La., on May 22, 1852; interment at Grosse Tete, La., Census (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses), Committeenear Rosedale, La. on Printing (Sixty-fourth Congress); unsuccessfully contested CHIPERFIELD, Burnett Mitchell (father of Robert Bruce the election of to the United StatesChiperfield), a Representative from illinois; born in Dover, Senate for the term commencing March 4, 1917; resumed theBureau County, III., June 14,1870; attended the public Biographies 773 schools of Illinois and Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn.;the Montreal Mining Co. in 1846; assistant clerk of the State studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1891 and commencedhouse of representatives in 1853; studied law; was admitted practice at Canton,Ill.;prosecuting attorney of Fultonto the bar in 1854 and practiced in the Lake Superior region; County, Ill., 1896-1900; member of the State house of repre-returned to Detroit; city attorney of Detroit 1857-1860; sentatives 1903-1913; secretary and trustee of the Westernmember of the State house of representatives in 1865 and Illinois State Normal School at Macomb, Ill., 1904-1909; was1866; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1866 connected with the Illinois National Guard for twenty years;to the Fortieth Congress; attorney of the police board of organized a regiment for service in the Spanish-AmericanDetroit 1867-1879; elected judge of the superior court of War; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1912 to theDetroit May 1, 1879; reelected in 1885 and served until 1887, Sixty-third Congress; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-when he resigned, having been elected to Congress; elected fourth Congress (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1917); did not seekas a Democrat to the Fiftieth and to the three succeeding renomination, having become a candidate for the RepublicanCongresses and served from March 4, 1887, until his death nomination as United States Senator but was unsuccessful;in Detroit, Mich., on August 17, 1893; interment in Elmwood during the First World War served as judge advocate withCemetery, Detroit, Mich. several divisions in France and occupied Germany, 1917- 19 19; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in bank- CHIPMAN, John Smith, a Representative from Michigan; ing; delegate to the Republican National Conventions inborn in Shoreham, Addison County, Vt., on August 10, 1800; 1920 and 1936; appointed lieutenant colonel in the Judgeattended the rural schools and was graduated from Middle-- Advocate General's Department, Officers' Reserve Corps,bury College in Vermont in 1823; studied law; was admitted February 5, 1921, and served until his retirement in 1934to the bar and practiced in Addison County, Vt., and Essex with the rank of brigadier general; elected to the Seventy-County, N.Y.; moved to Centerville, Mich., in 1838, where he first and Seventy-second Congresses (March 4, 1929-March 3, held several local offices; member of the State house of 1933); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to therepresentatives in1842; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress and for election in 1934 to the Seven-Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4,1845-March 3,1847); ty-fourth Congress; reengaged in the practice of law inmoved to Niles, Berrien County, Mich., and later, in 1850, to Canton, Ill., until his death there on June 24, 1940; inter-San Francisco, Calif., where he resumed the practice of law; ment in Greenwood Cemetery. moved to San Jose, Santa Clara County, Calif., in 1869 and lived in retirement until his death there on July 27, 1869; CHIPERFIELD, Robert Bruce (son of Burnett Mitchellinterment in Oak Hill Cemetery. Chiperfield), a Representative from Illinois; born in Canton, Fulton County, Ill., November 20, 1899; educated in the CHIPMAN, Nathaniel (brother of Daniel Chipman and public schools of Canton, Ill., Washington, D.C., and at Phil-grandfather of John Logan Chipman), a Senator from Ver- lips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; served as a privatemont; born in Salisbury, Conn., November 15, 1752; privately during the First World War; attended Knox College, Gales-tutored; received his degree from Yale College in 1777 while burg, Ill.; was graduated from Harvard College in 1922 andin the Army; served as a lieutenant in the Revolutionary from the law department of Boston University in 1925; wasWar; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1779 and admitted to the bar in 1925 and commenced practice incommenced practice in Tinmouth, Vt.; member, State house Canton, Ill.; city attorney of Canton, Ill.; elected as a Repub-of representatives 1784-1785; elected as judge of the State lican to the Seventy-sixth and to the eleven succeeding Con-supreme court in 1786 and chosen chief justice in 1789; judge gresses (January 3, 1989-January 3, 1968); chairman, Com-of the United States District Court 1791-1794; again elected mittee on Foreign Affairs (Eighty-third Congress); was not achief justice of the State supreme court in 1796; elected as a candidate for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Con-Federalist to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy gress; resided in Canton, ill., until his death there, April 9,caused by the resignation of Isaac Tichenor and served from 1971; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. October 17, 1797, until March 3, 1803; unsuccessful candi- date for reelection; member, State house of representatives CHIPMAN, Daniel (brother of' Nathaniel Chipman), a Rep- 1806-1811; chief justice of Vermont 1813-1815; died in Tin- resentative from Vermont; born in Salisbury, Conn., on Oc- mouth, Vt., February 13, 1843; interment in the Tinmouth tober 22, 1765; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Han-Cemetery; over, N.H., in 1788; studied law; was admitted to the bar and Bibliography: DAB; Chipman, Daniel. Life of Honorable Nathanel Chip- practiced in Rutland, Vt., 1790-1794; was a member of the man with Selections from His Miscellaneous Papers. Boston: CC. Little State constitutional conventions in 1793, 1814, 1836, 1843, and J. Brown, 1846; Chipman, Nathaniel. Principles of Government, A and 1850; moved to Middlebury, Vt., in 1794; member of the Treatise on Free Institutions Including the Constitution of theUnited State house of representatives 1798-1808, 1812-1814, 1818,States. 1833. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970. and 1821, and served as speaker during the sessions of 1813 CHIPMAN, Norton Parker, a Delegate from the District and 1814; professor of law at Middlebury College 1806-1818;of Columbia; born in Milford Center, Union County, Ohio, member of the Governor's council in 1808; elected as a Fed-March 7, 1836; attended the public schools; moved to Iowa in eralist to the Fourteenth Congress and served from March 4,1845 and entered Washington College; afterwards attended 1815, to May 5, 1816, when he resigned; appointed reporterthe law school in Cincinnati; returned to Washington, Iowa; of the superior court in 1824; moved to Ripton, Vt., in 1828was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in that and continued the practice of law; engaged in literary pur-city; entered the Union Army; commissioned major of the suits; died in Ripton, Addison County, Vt., April 23, 1850;Second Iowa Infantry September 23, 1861; colonel April 17, interment in West Cemetery, Middlebury, Vt. 1862; brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers March 13, Bibliography: DAB. 1865; settled in Washington, D.C.; upon the establishment of Colum- CHIPMAN, John Logan (grandson of Nathaniel Chip-- a Territorial form of government for the District of man), a Representative from Michigan; born in Detroit,bia was appointed secretary, and subsequently was elected Mich., on June 5, 1830; attended the public schools of thatas a Republican a Delegate to the Forty-secondand Forty- city and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 1843-third Congresses and served from April 21,1871, until 1845; engaged in the Lake Superior region as explorer forMarch 3, 1875; moved to California in 1876 and engaged in 774 Biographical Directory the lumber business; member of the California State Boardstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1813 and commenced of Trade and its president 1895-1906; appointed a commis-practice in Adams, N.Y.; elected as a Whig to the Twenty- sioner of the supreme court of California in April 1897;sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March appointed presiding justice of the district court of appeals3, 1843); appointed judge of Jefferson County in 1840, serving for the third district in 1905 and was elected in Novemberfor five years; after entering upon his judicial duties, moved 1906 and served until his resignation on December 18, 1922;to Watertown, N.Y., the county seat; resumed the practice of died in San Francisco, Calif., on February 1, 1924; intermentlaw in Watertown; also engaged in banking; died in Water- in Cypress Lawn Cemetery. town, N.Y., August 22, 1866; interment in Brookside Ceme-- CHISHOLM, Shirley Anita, a Representative from Newtery. York; born Shirley Anita St. Hill, November 30, 1924, in CHOATE, Rufus, a Representative and a Senator from Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y.; first black woman elected toMassachusetts; born in Essex, Mass., on October 1, 1799; was Congress; attended public schools of Brooklyn, N.Y.; B.A.,graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1819; Brooklyn College, 1946; M.A., Columbia University, 1952;studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- nursery school teacher, 1946-1953; director, Hamilton-Madi-tice in Danvers, Mass., in 1823; member, State house of son Child Care Center, New York City, 1953-1959; education- representatives 1825; member, State senate 1826; moved to al consultant, Division of Day Care, New York City, 1959-Salem in 1828; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-second and 1964; assemblywoman, New York State Legislature, 1964-Twenty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1831, to 1968; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-first and to the sixJune 30, 1834, when he resigned; moved to Boston in 1834; succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1983);elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy was not a candidate for reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-caused by the resignation of and served from eighth Congress; is a resident of Williamsville, N.Y. Bibliography: Brownmiler, Susan. Shirley Chishoim. Garden City, N.Y.: February 23, 1841, to March 3, 1845; retired from political Doubleday,1970;Chisholrn,Shirley.Unbought and Unbossed.Boston: life to devote his time to law; member of the State constitu- Houghton Mifflin, 1970. tional convention in 1853; attorney general of Massachusetts in 1853; died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 13, 1859; inter- CHITTENDEN, Martin, a Representative from Vermont;ment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. born in Salisbury, Conn., March 12, 1763; moved with his Bibliography: DAB; Choate, Rufus. The Works of : With A parents to Williston, Vt., in 1776; attended Mares School, Memoir of His Life. Edited by S.G. Brown. 2 vols. 1862. Reprint. New and was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., York: AMS Press,1972; Matthews, Jean. Rufus Choate. Philadelphia: in 1789; engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits in Temple University Press, 1980. Jericho, Vt.; appointed justice of the peace in October 1789; CHRISMAN, James Stone, a Representative from Ken- delegate to the State convention that ratified the Federaltucky; born in Monticello, Wayne County, Ky., September Constitution; aide-de-camp to Lieutenant Governor Olcott in14, 1818; attended the common schools; engaged in agricul- 1790; clerk of the county court of Chittenden County 1790-tural pursuits; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 1793; member of the State house of representatives 1790-and commenced practice in Monticello, Wayne County, KY.; 1796; judge of the Chittenden County Court 1793-1795, andunsuccessful candidate for election to the State house of chief justice 1796-1813; captain of the First Militia in Jeri-representatives in 1845 and 1847; delegate to the State con- cho in 1793; lieutenant colonel commanding the First Regi-stitutional convention in 1849; elected as a Democrat to the ment, Seventh Division, Vermont Militia, in 1794; brigadierThirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); unsuc- general in 1799; major general 1799-1803; first collector ofcessfully contested the election of William C. Anderson to the census for Chittenden County; elected as a Federalist tothe Thirty-sixth Congress; Representative from Kentucky to the Eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,the First and Second Confederate Congresses 1862-1865; 1803-March 3, 1813); Governor of Vermont in 1814 and 1815;member of the State house of representatives 1869-187 1; judge of probate 1821-1823; died in Williston, Chittendenresumed the practice of law in Monticello, Ky., where he County, Vt., September 5, 1840; interment in the Old Ceme-died July 29, 1881; interment in a private cemetery on his tery. Bibliography: DAB. farm. CHRISTGAU, Victor Laurence August, a Representative CHITTENDEN, Simeon Baldwin, a Representative fromfrom Minnesota; born in Dexter Township, Mower County, New York; born in Guilford, New Haven County, Conn.,near Austin, Minn., September 20, 1894; attended the rural March 29, 1814; attended Guilford Academy; engaged inschools and the high school at Austin; was graduated from mercantile pursuits in New Haven 1829-1842; moved to Newthe school of agriculture of the University of Minnesota at York City and engaged in mercantile pursuits in 1842; Un-St. Paul in 1917 and from its college of agriculture in 1923; successful candidate for election in 1866 to the Fortieth Con-engaged in agricultural pursuits; during the First World gress; vice president of the New York City Chamber of Com-War served overseas in the United States Army as a ser- merce 1867-1869; elected as an Independent Republican togeant in the Thirty-third Regiment of Engineers; member of the Forty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by thethe State senate from 1927 until his resignation in 1929; resignation of Stewart L. Woodford; reelected as an Inde-elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first and Seventy- pendent Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress and as asecond Congresses (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1933); unsuccess- Republican to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses andful candidate for renomination in 1932; resumed agricultural served from November 3, 1874, to March 3, 1881; unsuccess-pursuits; appointed executive assistant to the director of ful candidate for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventhproduction, Division of Agricultural Adjustment Administra- Congress; retired from public life; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., ontion, in June 1933, and director of the Production Division April 14, 1889; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. and assistant administrator in January 1934, serving until Bibliography: DAB. February 1935; was appointed State administrator of the CIIITTENDEN, Thomas Cotton, a Representative fromMinnesota Works Progress Administration in June 1935 and New York; born in Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Mass., onserved until June 1938; State director of the Minnesota divi- August 30, 1788; moved to Adams, Jefferson County, N.Y.;sion of employment and security at St. Paul, Minn., 1939- Biographies 775

1954; president of the Interstate Conference Employment CHRISTOPHER, George Henry, a Representative from Security Agencies in 1947 and 1948; Director, Bureau of OldMissouri; born on a farm in Bates County, near Butler, Mo., Age and Survivors Insurance, Social Security Adminstration,December 9, 1888; attended the public schools of Bates 1954-1963, and executive director of Social Security Admin-County, Mo.; was graduated from Hill's Business College, istration from January 1963 to March 1967; is a resident ofSedalia, Mo., in 1907; lived on a farm in Calhoun County, Washington, D.C. ill., and in Craig County, near Vinita, Okla; owned and CHRISTIANCY, Isaac Peckham, a Senator from Michi-operated a farm in Bates County, Mo.; elected as a Democrat gan; born near Johnstown, Fulton County, N.Y., March 12,to the Eighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1812; attended the common schools and Johnstown and Ovid1951); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950 to the Academies; taught school; studied law; moved to Monroe,Eighty-second Congress; assistant to the director, Agricultur- Mich., in 1836; was admitted to the bar and practiced inal Conservation Program, Department of Agriculture, from Monroe 1838-1858; prosecuting attorney for Monroe CountyJanuary 1951 to September 1952; elected to the Eighty- 1841-1846; unsuccessful Free Soil candidate for Governor infourth, Eighty-fifth, and Eighty-sixth Congresses and served 1852; member, State senate 1850-1852; aided in the organiz-from January 3, 1955, until his death in Washington, D.C., ing of the Republican Party in 1854; editor and proprietor ofJanuary 23, 1959; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Butler, the Monroe Commercial in 1857; associate judge of the Mo. Michigan supreme court 1857-1875; served as chief justice 1872-1874; was elected as a Republican to the United States CHRISTOPHERSON, Charles Andrew, a Representative Senate and served from March 4, 1875, to February 10, 1879,from South Dakota; born in Amherst Township, Fillmore when he resigned owing to ill health; chairman, CommitteeCounty, Minn., July 23, 1871; attended the public schools of on Revision of the Laws (Forty-fifth Congress); United StatesAmherst Township, Minn., and Sioux Falls (S.Dak.) Business Minister to Peru 1879-1881; returned to Lansing and re-College and Normal School; moved to Sioux Falls, S.Dak., in sumed the practice of law; died in Lansing, Mich., Septem-1890; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and ber 8, 1890; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Monroe,commenced practice in Sioux Falls, S.Dak.; member of the Monroe County, Mich. board of education of Sioux Falls 1908-19 18, serving as presi- Bibliography: DAB. dent 1911-1915; member of the board of directors of the Union Savings Association in 1912 and was subsequently CHRISTIANSON, Theodore, a Representative from Min-elected president; member of the State house of representa- nesota; born on a farm near Lac qui Parle, Lac qui Parle County, Minn., September 12, 1883; attended the ruraltives 1912-1916, serving as speaker during his last term; schools and Dawson (Minn.) High School; was graduatedelected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six from the arts college of the University of Minnesota atsucceeding Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1933); unsuc- Minneapolis in 1906 and from its law school in 1909; princi-cessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third pal of the public school at Robbindale, Minn., 1906-1909; wasCongress and for election in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Con- admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice ingress; reengaged in the practice of law in Sioux Falls, Dawson, Lac qui Parle County, Minn.; also owner and pub-S.Dak., until September 1936, and was also interested in the lisher of the Dawson Sentinel 1909-1925; president of thebanking business; delegate to the Republican National Con- village council at Dawson, Minn., in 1910 and 1911; membervention in 1944; served as State administrator of the War of the State house of representatives 1915-1925; Governor ofSavings staff in 1941-1943; executive manager of the State Minnesota 1925-1931; manufacturing executive in Minne-war fmance committee; in 1944 became chairman of the apolis, Minn., in 1931 and 1932; elected as a Republican toAdvisory Committee of the United States Savings Bond Divi- the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4,sion; died in Sioux Falls, S.Dak., November 2, 1951; inter- 1933-January 3, 1937); was not a candidate for renomina-ment in Woodlawn Cemetery. tion, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the CHIJDOFF, Earl, a Representative from Pennsylvania; United States Senate in 1936; served as secretary-managerborn in Philadelphia, Pa., November 15, 1907; attended the of the National Association of Retail Grocers, Chicago, Ill.,public schools; graduated from the Wharton School, Univer- 1937-1939 and as public-relations counsel for the Nationalsity of Pennsylvania, in economics in 1929 and from the law Association of Retail Druggists, Chicago,Ill.,1939-1945;school of the University of Pittsburgh in 1932; was admitted editor of the National Association of Retail Druggists Jour-to the bar in 1933 and commenced the practice of law in nal, Chicago, Ill., from 1945 until his death; died in Dawson, Philadelphia, Pa.; building and loan examiner, Pennsylvania Minn., on December 9, 1948; interment in Sunset MemorialState Department of Banking, 1936-1939; served as chief Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn. boatswain's mate in the United States Coast Guard Reserve CHRISTIE, Gabriel, a Representative from Maryland;from December 1942 to September 1945; member of the born in Perryinan, Harford County, Md., in 1755; during theState house of representatives 1941-1948; elected as a Demo- Revolutionary War was a member of a company of militiacrat to the Eighty-first and to the four succeeding Congress- organized September 12, 1775, by the provincial conventiones and served from January 3, 1949, until his resignation held at Annapolis on July 26, 1775; member of the StateJanuary 5, 1958, having been elected judge of the Philadel- house of delegates; appointed by Gov. William Smallwoodphia Court of Common Pleas No. 1 for the term ending in one of the commissioners to "straighten and amend the post1968; reelected for the term ending in 1978; is a resident of road from Havre de Grace to Baltimore town" by authorityPhiladelphia, Pa. of the act of 1787; elected to the Third and Fourth Congress- es (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1797); elected as a Republican to CHURCH, Denver Samuel, a Representative from Califor- the Sixth Congress (March 4, 1799-March 3, 1801); one of thenia; born in Folsom City, Sacramento County, Calif, Decem- commissioners of Havre de Grace in 1800 and 1801, andber 11, 1862; attended the common schools; was graduated again in 1806; appointed collector of the port of Baltimorefrom Healdsburg (Calif.) College in 1885; studied law; was and served until his death in Baltimore, Md., April 1, 1808;admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in interment in Spesutia Churchyard, Perryman, HarfordFresno, Fresno County, Calif.; district attorney of Fresno County, Md. County 1907-1913; delegate to the Democratic National Con- 776 Biographical Directory vention in 1916; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third,succeeding Congresses and served from Jan. 3, 1943, until Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1913-his death Mar. 21, 1950, while appearing before the Commit- March 3, 1919); was not a candidate for renomination intee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, in the 1918; resumed the practice of law in Fresno, Calif.; superiorHouse Office Building, Washington, D.C.; interment in Me- judge of Fresno County 1924-1930; elected to the Seventy-morial Park, Skokie, Ill. third Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); was not a candidate for renomination in 1934; resumed the practice of CHURCHILL, George Bosworth, a Representative from law; died in Fresno, Calif., February 21, 1952; interment inMassachusetts; born in Worcester, Mass., October 24, 1866; Belmont Memorial Cemetery. attended the grammar and high schools, and was graduated CHURCH, Frank Forrester, a Senator from Idaho; born infrom Amherst (Mass.) College in 1889; taught in the Worces- Boise, Ada County, Idaho, July 25, 1924; attended the publicter High School until 1892; moved to Philadelphia and schools; was graduated from Stanford (Calif.) University intaught in the William Penn Charter School, and at the same 1947 and from Stanford Law School in 1950; during thetime took a postgraduate course at the University of Penn- Second World War served in the United States Army andsylvania 1892-1894; went to Europe and studied in the Uni- was assigned to Military Intelligence in India, Burma, andversity of Strassburg, Germany, in 1894 and 1895, and then China 1942-1946; was admitted to the bar in 1950 and com- attended the University of Berlin, Germany, 1895-1897; re- menced the practice of law in Boise, Idaho; elected as aturned to the United States and became assistant editor of Democrat to the United States Senate in 1956; reelected inthe Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1897 and 1898; member of the 1962, 1968, and again in 1974 and served from January 3, faculty of Amherst College 1898-1925; moderator of Amherst 1957, to January 3, 1981; unsuccessful candidate for reelec-1905-1925; member of the State senate 1917-1919; delegate tion in 1980; chairman, Special Committee on Aging -(Ninety-to the State constitutional conventions in 1917 and 1919; second through Ninety-fifth Congresses), Special Committeeelected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress and on Termination of the National Emergency (Ninety-secondserved from March 4, 1925, until his death in Amherst, through Ninety-fourth Congresses), Select Committee onMass., July 1, 1925; interment in Wildwood Cemetery. Government Intelligence Activities (Ninety-fourth Congress), Committee on Foreign Relations (Ninety-sixth Congress); CHURCHILL, John Charles, a Representative from New United States delegate to the twenty-first General AssemblyYork; born in Mooers, Clinton County, N.Y., January 17, of the United Nations; resumed the practice of law; was a1821; attended the Burr Seminary, Manchester, Vt., and was resident of Bethesda, Md., until his death there on April 7,graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont, in1843; 1984; interment in Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Idaho. teacher of languages in the Castleton Seminary, Vermont, Bibliography: Church, F. Forrester. Father and Son: A Personal Biogra- and a tutor in Middlebury College; attended the Dane Law phy of Senator Frank Church by his Son. New York: Harper and Row,School of Harvard University; was admitted to the bar in 1985. 1847 and commenced practice in Oswego, Oswego County, CHURCH, Marguerite Stitt (wife of Ralph Edwin Church),N.Y., in 1848; member of the Oswego Board of Education a Representative from Illinois; born in New York City Sep- 1853-1856; member of the board of supervisors of Oswego tember 13, 1892; attended St. Agatha School in New YorkCounty in 1854 and 1855; prosecuting attorney 1857-1860; City; Wellesley (Mass.) College, A.B., 1914 and Columbiajudge of Oswego County 1860-1864; appointed by Governor University, New York City, A.M., 1917; teacher at WellesleyMorgan commisioner to superintend the draft for Oswego College in 1915; consulting psychologist of State CharitiesCounty in 1862 and 1863; elected as a Republican to the Aid Association in New York City during the First WorldFortieth and Forty-first Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, War; lecturer and writer; participant, through Presidential1871); chairman, Committee on Expenditures on Public invitation, in the 1960 White House Conference on childrenBuildings (Forty-first Congress); delegate to the Republican and youth; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second andNational Convention in 1876; unsuccessful candidate for sec- to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-Januaryretary of state of New York in 1877; again a member of the 3, 1963); was not a candidate for renomination in 1962 to theOswego Board of Education, and president of the board m Eighty-eighth Congress; member of the United States delega- tion to the United Nations fifteenth Assembly in 1961;1879 and 1880; appointed associate justice of the supreme member, National Board of Directors, Girl Scouts of Amer-court of New York to fill a vacancy January 17, 1881; was ica; is a resident of Evanston, Ill. subsequently elected, and served until the expiration of his term by age limit December 31, 1891; died in Oswego, N.Y., CHURCH, Ralph Edwin (husband of Marguerite StittJune 4, 1905; interment in Riverside Cemetery. Church), a Representative from Illinois; born on a farm near Catlin, Vermilion County, Ill., on May 5, 1883; attended the CHURCHWELL, William Montgomery, a Representative public schools; was graduated from the University of Michi-from Tennessee; born near Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn., gan at Ann Arbor in 1907 and from the law department ofFebruary 20, 1826; attended private schools and Emory and Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., in 1909; was admit-Henry College, Emory, Va., 1840-1843; studied law; was ad- ted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in Chicago,mitted to the bar and commenced practice in Knoxville; one Ill.; elected to the State house of representatives in 1916,of the judges for Knox County; elected as a Democrat to the resigning during the First World War to attend the ReserveThirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses (March 4, 1851- Officers' Training Camp; again a member of the State houseMarch 3, 1855); chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Pen- of representatives 19 17-1932; lieutenant commander in thesions (Thirty-third Congress); provost marshal for the district United States Naval Reserve 1938-194 1; elected as a Repub- of east Tennessee; during the administration of President lican to the Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Buchanan was sent on a secret mission to Mexico; during Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1941); was not athe Civil War served in the Confederate Army as colonel of candidate for renomination in 1940, but was an unsuccessfulthe Fourth Tennessee Regiment; died in Knoxville, Tenn., candidate for the nomination for United States Senator; del-August 18, 1862; interment in the Old Gray Cemetery. egate to the Interparliamentary Conference at Oslo, Norway, Bibliography: Turner, Ruth 0. "The Public Career of William Montgom- in 1939; again elected to the Seventy-eighth and to the three ery Churchwell." Master's thesis, University of Tennessee, 1954. Biographies 777

CILLEY, Bradbury (uncle of Jonathan Cilley and Josephcaptain, Corps of Military Police, on July 16, 1942, and was Cilley), a Representative from New Hampshire; born in Not-subsequently promoted to major on April 16, 1943; served in tingham, Rockingham County, N.H., on February 1, 1760;Africa from October 1942 until retired for physical incapac- attended the common schools; engaged in agricultural pur-ity on March 3, 1944; resumed the practice of law; member suits; appointed by President John Adams as United Statesof the Connecticut Veterans Reemployment and Advisory marshal for the district of New Hampshire on March 19,Commission in 1948 and 1949; commander, Connecticut Dis- 1798, and served until May 3, 1802; elected as a Federalist toabled American Veterans, 1947-1948; unsuccessful candidate the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-in 1952 for election to the Eighty-third Congress; died in March 3, 1817); colonel and aide on the staff of GovernorTitusville, Fla., June 7, 1976; interment in Congregation Gillman 1814-1816; retired from public life; died in Notting-Adath Israel Cemetery, Middletown, Conn. ham, N.H., December 17, 1831; interment in the General Joseph Cilley Burying Ground in Nottingham Square. CLAFLIN, William, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Milford, Mass., March 6, 1818; attended the public CILLEY, Jonathan (nephew of Bradbury Cilley and broth-schools, and Brown University, Providence, R.I.; engaged in er of Joseph Cilley), a Representative from Maine; born inthe shoe and leather business in St. Louis, Mo., and after- Nottingham, Rockingham County, N.H., July 2, 1802; attend-ward in Boston, Mass.; member of the State house of repre- ed Atkinson Academy, New Hampshire; was graduated fromsentatives 1849-1852; moved to Newton, Mass., in 1855 and New Hampton Academy and later, in 1825, from Bowdoincontinued his business activity in Boston; served in the State College, Brunswick, Maine; studied law; was admitted to thesenate in 1860 and 1861, being president of that body in the bar in 1828 and commenced practice in Thomaston, Knoxlatter year; member of the Republican National Executive County, Maine; editor of the Thomaston Register 1829-1831;Committee 1864-1875, serving as chairman 1868-1872; Lieu- member of the State house of representatives 183 1-1836 andtenant Governor of Massachusetts 1866-1868; Governor of served as speaker in 1835 and 1836; elected as a Democrat toMassachusetts 1869-1871; elected as a Republican to the the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1837, until February 24, 1838, when he was killed in a duel on theForty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1877-March Marlboro Pike, near Washington, D.C., by William J.3, 1881); was not a candidate for renomination in 1880; re- sumed his former business pursuits; died in Newton, Middle- - Graves, a Representative from Kentucky; interment insex County, Mass., January 5, 1905; interment in Newton Cilley Cemetery, Thomaston, Maine. Cemetery, Newtonville, Mass. CILLEY, Joseph (nephew of Bradbury Cilley and brother Bibliography DAB of Jonathan Cilley), a Senator from New Hampshire; born in CLAGETT, Clifton, a Representative from New Hamp- Nottingham, Rockingham County, N.H., January 4, 1791;shire; born in Portsmouth, N.H., December 3, 1762; studied attended the common schools and was graduated from At-law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in kinson Academy, New Hampshire; engaged in agriculturalLitchfield in 1787; elected as a Federalist to the Eighth pursuits; served in the New Hampshire Regiment, UnitedCongress (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1805), appointed a justice States Infantry 1812-1816, attained the brevetted rank ofof the peace and quorum in 1808, appointed judge of probate captain; quartermaster of New Hampshire in 1817; divisionfor Hillsborough County in 1810 and served until his resig- inspector in 1821; aide-de-camp to the Governor in 1827;nation in 1812, having been appointed to a judicial position, elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill themoved to Amherst in 1812, appointed a judge of the supreme vacancy caused by the resignation of Levi Woodbury andcourt in 1812, member of the State house of representatives served from June 13, 1846, until March 3, 1847; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1846; retired to his farm in Not-in 1816; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress tingham, N.H., and died there September 16, 1887; inter-and reelected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1817- ment in the General Joseph Cilley Burying Ground in Not-March 3, 1821); appointed judge of probate August 5, 1823, tingham Square. and held the office until his death in Amherst, Hillsborough Bibliography: Scales, John. Life of General Joseph Cilley. New Hamp-County, New Hampshire, January 25, 1829. shire: Standard Book Company, 1921. CLAGETT, William Horace (uncle of Samuel Barrtt Pet- CITRON, William Michael, a Representative from Con-tengill), a Delegate from the Territory of Montana; born in necticut; born in New Haven, Conn., August 29, 1896; movedUpper Marlboro, Prince Georges County, Md., September 21, with his parents to Middletown, Middlesex County, Conn., in1838; moved with his father to Keokuk, Iowa, in 1850; at- 1899; attended the grammar and high schools; was graduat-tended the public schools; studied law in Keokuk and at the ed from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1918law school in Albany, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar in 1858 and from the law department of Harvard University in 1921;and commenced practice in Keokuk; moved to Carson City, was commissioned a second lieutenant of Field Artillery onNev., in 1861 and Humboldt, Nev., in 1862 and continued the September 16, 1918, and was in training until discharged onpractice of law; member of the Territorial house of repre- December 14, 1918; was admitted to the bar in 1922 andsentatives in 1862 and 1863 and of the State house of repre- commenced practice in Middletown, Conn.; member of thesentatives in 1864 and 1865; practiced law in Virginia City, State house of representatives 1927-1929 and 1931-1933,Nev., Helena, Mont., and Deer Lodge, Mont.; elected as a serving as minority leader during two sessions; unsuccessfulRepublican a Delegate from Montana to the Forty-second candidate for election in 1928 to the Seventy-first CongressCongress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candi-

and in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; city corporationdate for reelection in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; re-- counsel 1928-1934; served as a member of the Connecticutsumed the practice of law in Deer Lodge, Mont., Denver, Old Age Pension Commission in 1932 and 1933; clerk of theCob., Deadwood, Dakota Territory, Portland, Oreg., and State senate 1933-1935; elected as a Democrat to the Seven-Coeur d'alene, Idaho; president of the constitutional conven- ty-fourth Congress; reelected to the Seventy-fifth Congresstion of Idaho in 1889; unsuccessful candidate for election to (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1939); unsuccessful candidatethe United States Senate from Idaho in 1891 and again in for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; chair-1895; moved to Spokane, Wash., resumed the practice of law, man of the Housing Authority of Middletown, Conn., 1940-and died there August 3, 1901; interment in Greenwood 1942; entered the military service of the United States asCemetery. 778 Biographical Directory

CLAGUE, Frank, a Representative from Minnesota; born CLAIBORNE, Nathaniel Herbert (brother of William in Warrensville, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, July 13, 1865; at-Charles Cole Claiborne, nephew of Thomas Claiborne [1749- tended the common schools; moved to Minnesota in 1881;1812], uncle of John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne, and attended the State normal school at Mankato 1882-1885;great-great-great granduncle of Corinne Claiborne Boggs), a taught school at Springfield, Minn., 1886-1890; studied law;Representative from Virginia; born in Chesterfield, Sussex was admitted to the bar in 1891 and commenced practice inCounty, Va., November 14, 1777; attended a local academy; Lamberton, Redwood County, Minn., the same year; pros-engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house ecuting attorney of Redwood County, Minn., 1895-1903;of delegates 1810-1812; served in the State senate 1821-1825; member of the State house of representatives from Januaryan executive councilor; elected to the Nineteenth and Twen- 1, 1903, to January 1, 1907, serving as speaker in the 1905tieth Congresses, elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first session; served in the State senate from January 1, 1907, tothrough Twenty-third Congresses, and elected as an Anti- December 31, 1915; judge of the ninth judicial district ofJacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1825- Minnesota from January 1, 1919, to March 1, 1920, when heMarch 3, 1837); chairman, Committee on Elections (Twenty- resigned; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and tosecond through Twenty-fourth Congresses); unsuccessful can- the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3,didate in 1836 for reelection to the Twenty-fifth Congress; 1933); was not a candidate for renomination in 1932; re-resumed agricultural pursuits; died near Rocky Mount, sumed the practice of law and also engaged in agriculturalFranklin County, Va., August 15, 1859; interment in the pursuits until his retirement; died in Redwood Falls, Minn.,family cemetery of his Claibrook estate near Rocky Mount, March 25, 1952; interment in Redwood Falls Cemetery. Va. CLAIBORNE, James Robert, a Representative from Mis- Bibliography: DAB. souri; born in St. Louis, Mo., June 22, 1882; attended the CLAIBORNE, Thomas (father of John Claiborne and public schools; was graduated from the law department ofThomas Claiborne [1780-1856], uncle of Nathaniel Herbert the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1907; was admit-Claiborne and William Charles Cole Claiborne, granduncle ted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in St.of John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne, and great-great- Louis, Mo.; lecturer in the law school at St. Louis University great-great granduncle of Corinne Claiborne Boggs), a Repre-- for several years; unsuccessful candidate for judge of thesentative from Virginia; born in Brunswick County, Va., circuit court of the eighth judicial district in 1924; elected asFebruary 1, 1749; member of the State house of delegates a Democrat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Con-1783-1788; served as colonel in command of the Brunswick gresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937); unsuccessful candi-County Militia in 1789; sheriff of Brunswick County 1789- date for renomination in 1936; engaged in the practice of1792; member of the State senate 1790-1792; elected to the law in St. Louis, Mo., until his death there, February 16,Third Congress; reelected as a Republican to the Fourth and 1944; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. Fifth Congresses (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1799); unsuccess- CLAIBORNE, John (son of Thomas Claiborne [1749-1812]ful candidate for reelection to the Sixth Congress; again and brother of Thomas Claiborne [1780-1856]), a Representa-elected as a Republican to the Seventh and Eighth Congress- tive from Virginia; born in Brunswick County, Va., in 1777;es (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1805); died on his estate in pursued academic studies; was graduated from the medicalBrunswick County, Va., in 1812. department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadel- CLAIBORNE, Thomas (son of Thomas Claiborne [1749- phia in 1798 and practiced; elected as a Republican to the18 12] and brother of John Claiborne), a Representative from Ninth and Tenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1805,Tennessee; born near Petersburg, Brunswick County, Va., until his death in Brunswick County, Va., on October 9,May 17, 1780; attended the common schools in Virginia; 1808; interment in the family burying ground of Parsonserved as major on the staff of Gen. Andrew Jackson in the Jarratt, Dinwiddie, Va. Creek War; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- CLAIBORNE, John Francis Hamtramck (nephew of Wil-menced practice in Nashville, Tenn., in 1807; served for liam Charles Cole Claiborne and Nathaniel Herbert Clai-some years in the general assembly of Tennessee; elected as borne, grandnephew of Thomas Claiborne [1749-1812], great-a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817- grandfather of Herbert Claiborne Pell,Jr.,great-great-March 3, 1819); resumed the practice of law in Nashville, grandfather of Claiborne de Borda Pell, and great-greatwhere he died January 7, 1856; interment in Nashville City granduncle of Corinne Claiborne Boggs), a RepresentativeCemetery. from Mississippi; born in Natchez, Adams County, Miss., CLAIBORNE, William Charles Cole (brother of Nathaniel April 24, 1807; attended school in Virginia; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice atHerbert Claiborne, nephew of Thomas Claiborne [1749-1812], Natchez, Miss.; member of the State house of representativesuncle of John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne, and great- 1830-1834; moved to Madison County, Miss.; elected as agreat-great granduncle of Corinne Claiborne Boggs), a Repre- Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835-sentative from Tennessee and a Senator from Louisiana; March 3, 1837); presented credentials as a Member-elect toborn in Sussex County, Va., in 1775; moved in early youth to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from July 18, 1837,New York City; studied law in Richmond, Va.; was admitted until February 5, 1838, when the seat was declared vacant;to the bar and commenced practice in Sullivan County, engaged in newspaper work in Natchez, Miss.; moved toTenn.; delegate to the State constitutional convention from New Orleans, La., in 1844 and resumed newspaper interests;Sullivan County in 1796; appointed judge of the superior appointed United States timber agent for Louisiana and Mis-court in 1796; elected as a Republican from Tennessee to the sissippi in 1853; author of several historical works; returnedFifth and Sixth Congresses, and served from November 23, to his estate, "Dumbarton," near Natchez, Miss., and died1797, to March 3, 1801, in spite of the fact that he was still there on May 17, 1884; interment in Trinity Churchyard,initially under the constitutional age requirement of twenty- Natchez, Miss. five years; appointed Governor of the Territory of Mississip- Bibliography: DAB; Williams, Frederich D. "The Career of J.F.H. Clai- pi in 1801; appointed in October 1803 one of the commission- borne, States' Rights Unionist." Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University,ers to take possession of Louisiana when purchased from 1953. France and served as Governor of the Territory of Orleans Biographies 779

1804-1812; Governor of Louisiana 1812-1816; elected as a1923-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in Democrat from Louisiana to the United States Senate and1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; afffliated with the Republi- served from March 4, 1817, until his death, before the assem-can Party in 1926; engaged in the real-estate business; elect- bling of Congress, in New Orleans, La., November 28, 1817;ed as a Republican to the Seventieth, Seventy-first, and interment in Basin St. Louis Cemetery; reinterment in Me-Seventy-second Congresses (March 4, 1927-March 3, 1933); tairie Cemetery. unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy- Bibliography: DAB; Hatfield, Joseph T. William Claiborne: Jeffersonian third Congress; engaged in executive capacity with a manu- Centurion in the American Southwest. Lafayette: University of Southwest facturing company until his retirement in 1948; died in De- Louisiana Press, 1976; Winters, John D. "William CC Claiborne: Profiletroit, Mich., April 23, 1962; interment in Mount Olivet Cem- of a Democrat." Louisiana History 10 (Summer 1969): 189-210. etery. CLANCY, Donald Daniel, a Representative from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, July 24, 1921; CLAPP, Asa William Henry, a Representative from graduated from Elder High School; attended Xavier Univer-Maine; born in Portland, Maine, March 6, 1805; was grad- sity and graduated from Cincinnati Law School in 1948; wasuated from the Norwich (Vt.) Military Academy in 1823; admitted to the bar in 1948 and commenced the practice ofengaged as a merchant in foreign and domestic commerce at law in Cincinnati; member of city council of Cincinnati,Portland; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress 1952-1960; mayor of Cincinnati, 1958-1960; chairman of Cin- (March 4, 1847-March 3,1849); was not a candidate for cinnati Planning Commission, 1958-1960; elected as a Repub-renomination in 1848; delegate to the Democratic National lican to the Eighty-seventh and to the seven succeedingConvention in 1848 and 1852; resumed his former business Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1977); unsuccessfulpursuits; served as a director of the Maine General Hospital candidate for reelection in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress;and of the Portland Public Library until his death in Port- resumed the practice of law; is a resident of Cincinnati,land, Maine, on March 22, 1891; interment in Evergreen Ohio. Cemetery. CLANCY, John Michael, a Representative from New CLAPP, Moses Edwin, a Senator from Minnesota; born in York; born in County Queens, Ireland, May 7, 1837; immi-Delphi, Carroll County, md., May 21, 1851; moved with his grated with his parents to the United States and settled inparents to Hudson, Wis., in 1857; attended the common New York City; attended the public schools of Brooklyn;schools; was graduated from the law department of the Uni- engaged in the real-estate business; served as an aldermanversity of Wisconsin at Madison in 1873; was admitted to the of the city of Brooklyn 1868-1875; member of the Statebar in 1874 and commenced practice in Hudson, St. Croix assembly 1878-1881; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first,County, Wis.; prosecuting attorney of St. Croix County, Wis., Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1889-1878-1880; moved to Fergus Falls, Minn., in 1881 and contin- March 3, 1895); was not a candidate for renomination inued the practice of law; attorney general of Minnesota 1887- 1894; resumed the real-estate business in New York City;1893; moved to St. Paul, Minn., in 1891 and continued the unsuccessful candidate for election in 1896 to the Fifty-fifthpractice of law; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican Congress; died in Butte, Mont., while returning from a visitnomination for Governor of Minnesota in 1896; elected as a to Yellowstone Park, July 25, 1903; interment in Holy CrossRepublican to the United States Senate in 1901 to fill the Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. vacancy caused by the death of Cushman K. Davis; reelected CLANCY, John Richard, a Representative from Newin 1905 and 1911 and served from January 23, 1901, to York; born in Syracuse, N.Y., March 8, 1859; attended theMarch 3, 1917; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in public schools; engaged in the manufacture of theatrical1916; chairman, Committee to Examine Branches of the rigging in 1885 and later in the manufacture of hardwareCivil Service (Fifty-seventh through Fifty-ninth Congresses), specialties; vice president of the board of trustees of the NewCommittee on Indian Affairs (Fifty-ninth through Sixty-first York State College of Forestry; member of the Central NewCongresses), Committee on Interstate Commerce (Sixty- York State Park Commission; executive with several banks;second Congress), Committee on Standards, Weights, and elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4,Measures (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses); prac- 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inticed law in Washington, D.C., 1918-1923; became vice presi- 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress; resumed manufacturingdent and general counsel of the North American Develop- interests in Syracuse, N.Y.; during the First World Warment Corporation in Washington, D.C., in 1923; died at his served on the Governor's committee of public safety, on thecountry home "Union Farm," near Accotink, Va., on March committee on armories of the State, and had charge of6, 1929; interment in Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Washington, stampings and forgings for five central New York countiesD.C. under the War Production Board; died in Syracuse, N.Y., CLARDY, John Daniel, a Representative from Kentucky; April 21, 1932; interment in St. Agnes Cemetery. born in Smith County, Tenn., August 30, 1828; moved with CLANCY, Robert Henry, a Representative from Michigan;his parents to Christian County, Ky., in 1831; attended the born in Detroit, Mich., March 14, 1882; attended the publiccounty schools, and was graduated from Georgetown (Ky.) schools; was graduated from the literary department of theCollege in 1848; taught school one year; studied medicine at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1907; later studiedthe University of Louisville, Kentucky, for one year, and law there one year; reporter on Detroit newspapers for fourwas graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at years; secretary to Congressman Frank E. Doremus 1911-Philadelphia in 1851; practiced his profession for a number 1913; secretary to Assistant Secretary of Commerce E.F.of years, and then abandoned it to devote his time to scien- Sweet 1913-1917; United States customs appraiser for Michi-tific agriculture and stock raising; delegate to the State con- gan 19 17-1922; during the First World War was manager ofstitutional convention in 1890; appointed as one of the State the War Trade Board at Detroit, chief inspector of purchasescommissioners to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in in Michigan for the Medical Corps of the War Department,1893; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty- and recruiting officer of the aviation division in Detroit;fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899); was not a elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress (March 4,candidate for renomination in 1898; retired from public life; 780 Biographical Directory died at his home, "Oakland," near Hopkinsville, Christianelected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth County, Ky., on August 20, 1918; interment in Clardy'sCongresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1881); was not a candi- County Cemetery, Bells, Christian County, Ky. date for renomination in 1880; resumed the practice of law; CLARDY, Kit Francis, a Representative from Michigan;appointed postmaster at Somerville on May 26, 1896, and born in Butler, Bates County, Mo., June 17, 1892; movedserved until his successor was appointed on June 15, 1899; with his family to Kansas City and then to a farm nearagain resumed the practice of law until his death in Somer- Liberty, Mo., in 1907; attended schools in Butler, Kansasville, N.J., on December 27, 1912; interment in Somerville City, and Liberty, Mo., and the William Jewel College, Liber-Cemetery. ty, Mo.; was graduated from the University of Michigan Law CLARK, Ambrose Williams, a Representative from New School at Ann Arbor in 1925; admitted to the bar in 1925York; born near Cooperstown, N.Y., on February 19, 1810; and practiced in lonia, Mich., 1925-1927; assistant attorneyattended the public schools; publisher of the Otsego Journal general, State of Michigan, 1927-193 1; member and chair-1831-1836, of the Northern Journal in Lewis County 1836- man of the Michigan Public Utilities commission 193 1-1934;1844, and of the Northern New York Journal at Watertown reentered private practice of law in 1934; elected as a Repub-1844-1860; surrogate for five years; elected as a Republican lican to the Eighty-third Congress (January 3, 1953-Januaryto the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 3, 1955); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 to the4, 1861-March 3, 1865); appointed consul at Valparaiso by Eighty-fourth Congress; in 1956 moved to PalOs Verdes Es-President Lincoln and served from 1865 to 1869; acted as tates, Calif., where he died September 5, 1961; interment inChargé d'Affaires in Chile in the absence of the Minister in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif. 1869; died in Watertown, N.Y., October 13, 1887; interment CLARDY, Martin Linn, a Representative from Missouri;in Brookside Cemetery. born in Ste. Genevieve County, near Farmington, Mo., April 26, 1844; attended the St. Louis University and the Universi- CLARK, Amos, Jr., a Representative from New Jersey; ty of Mississippi at Oxford; was graduated from the Univer-born in Brooklyn, N.Y., November 8, 1828; engaged in busi- sity of Virginia at Charlottesville; served in the Confederateness in New York City, with residence in Elizabeth, where Army until the close of the Civil War and retired with thehe was largely interested in real estate; member of the city rank of major; studied law; was admitted to the bar andcouncil of Elizabeth in 1865 and 1866; served in the State commenced the practice of law in Farmington, St. Francoissenate 1866-1869; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third County, Mo.; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth and toCongress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candi- the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3,date for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; 1889); chairman, Committee on Mines and Mining (Forty-retired to his residence in Norfolk County, Mass., but re- ninth Congress), Committee on Commerce (Fiftieth Con-tained business interests in Elizabeth, N.J.; died in Boston, gress); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888Mass., October 31, 1912; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, to the Fifty-first Congress; served as a delegate to the Demo-Elizabeth, N.J. cratic National Convention in 1884; resumed the practice of CLARK, Champ, a Representative from Missouri. (See his profession in Farmington, Mo.; moved to St. Louis, Mo.,CLARK, James Beauchamp.) in 1894, having been appointed general attorney for the Missouri Pacific and St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railway CLARK, Charles Benjamin, a Representative from Wis- companies, and was elected vice president and general solici-consin; born in Theresa, Jefferson County, N.Y., August 24, tor in 1909 and served until his death in St. Louis, Mo., on1844; attended the common schools; moved to Wisconsin in July 5, 1914; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery. 1855 with his widowed mother, who settled in Neenah, Win- nebago County; enlisted in Company I, Twenty-first Regi- CLARK, Abraham, a Delegate and a Representative fromment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, at its organization, and New Jersey; born near Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth), N.J.,served with the same during the Civil War; engaged in February 15, 1726; attended private schools; studied law butmercantile pursuits, banking, and the manufacture of paper; never practiced; sheriff of Essex County; member of the Newmayor of Neenah 1880-1883; member of the city council of Jersey provincial congress from May 23, 1775, to June 22,Neenah 1883-1885; member of the State assembly in 1885; 1776, and was appointed assistant secretary October 9, 1775;elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Con- Member of the Continental Congress 1776-1778, 1780-1783gresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candi- and 1786-1788; a signer of the Declaration of Independence;date for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; died delegate to the State conventions of 1786 and 1787; memberin Watertown, Jefferson County, N.Y., while on a visit to his of the State general assembly in 1776 and 1783-1785; old home, September 10, 1891; interment in Oak Hill Ceme-- member of the legislative council in 1778; elected to thetery, Neenah, Wis. Second and Third Congresses and served from March 4, 1791, until his death in Rahway, N.J., on September 15, CLARK, Charles Nelson, a Representative from Missouri; 1794; interment in Rahway Cemetery. born in Cortland County, N.Y., on August 21, 1827; attended Bibliography: DAB; Bogin, Ruth. Abraham Clark and the Quest for Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.; moved to Illinois in 1859; Equality in the Revolutionary Era, 1774-1794. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleighwhen the Civil War broke out he assisted in raising a com- Dickinson University Press, 1982; Bogin, Ruth. "New Jersey's True Policy: pany of cavalry, which was made Company G, Third Illinois The Radical Republican Vision of Abraham Clark." William and MaryCavalry, August 6,1861, and went directly into service; Quarterly 3rd ser., 35 (January 1978): 100-09. became disabled and left the Army in 1863; settled in Hanni- CLARK, Alvah Augustus (cousin of James Nelson Pid-bal, Marion County, Mo., in April 1865; became interested in cock), a Representative from New Jersey; born in Lebanon,the Mississippi River bottom lands in Illinois and undertook Hunterdon County,N.J., September 13,1840; attendedtheir reclamation; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- public and private schools; studied law; was admitted to thefourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); engaged in bar in 1863 and commenced practice in New Germantown,agricultural pursuits; died in Hannibal, Mo., October 4, 1902; N.J.; licensed as counselor in 1867; moved to Somerville,interment in Wauseon Cemetery, Wauseon, Fulton County, Somerset County, in 1867 and continued the practice of law; Ohio. Biographies 781

CLARK,Christopher Henderson (brother of James Clarkthrough Thirty-ninth Congresses); United States district and uncle of John Bullock Clark), a Representative fromjudge from 1866 until his death; president of the New Hamp- Virginia; born in Albemarle County, Va., in 1767; attendedshire constitutional convention in 1876; died in Manchester, Washington College (now Washington and Lee University),N.H., on January 2, 1891; interment in Valley Cemetery. Lexington, Va.; studied law in the office of Patrick Henry; Bibliography: DAB. was admitted to the bar in 1788 and commenced practice in New London (now Bedford Springs), Va.; member of the CLARK,David Worth, a Representative and a Senator State house of delegates in 1790; elected as a Republican tofrom Idaho; born in Idaho Falls, Bonneville County, Idaho, the Eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the deathApril 2, 1902; attended the public schools; was graduated of John Trigg; reelected to the Ninth Congress and servedfrom the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, md., in from November 5, 1804, to July 1, 1806, when he resigned;1922 and from the law department of Harvard University in resumed the practice of law; died near New London, Va., 1925; was admitted to the bar in 1925 and commenced prac- November 21, 1828; interment in a private cemetery at Oldtice in Pocatello, Idaho; assistant attorney general of Idaho Lawyers Station, near Lynchburg, Va. 1933-1935; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1939); CLARK,Clarence Don, a Representative and a Senator from Wyoming; born in Sandy Creek, Oswego County, N.Y.,did not seek renomination in 1938, having become a candi- April 16, 1851; attended the common schools and the Univer-date for United States Senator; elected as a Democrat to the sity of Iowa at Iowa City; studied law; was admitted to theUnited States Senate in 1938 and served from January 3, bar in 1874; taught school and practiced law in Manchester,1939, to January 3, 1945; unsuccessful candidate for renomi- Delaware County, Iowa, until 1881, when he moved to Ev-nation in 1944; resumed the practice of law in Boise, Idaho, anston, Wyo., and continued the practice of law; prosecutingand Washington, D.C.; moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in No- attorney of Uinta County 1882-1884; delegate to the Statevember 1954; also interested in broadcasting and banking; constitutional convention in 1889; upon the admission ofdied in Los Angeles, Calif., June 19, 1955; interment in Holy Wyoming as a State into the Union was elected as a Repub-Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Calif. lican to the Fifty-first Congress; reelected to the Fifty-second Congress (December 1, 1890, to March 3, 1893); unsuccessful CLARK,Ezra, Jr., a Representative from Connecticut; candidate for reelection in 1892; elected as a Republican toborn in Brattleboro, Vt., September 12, 1813; moved with his the United States Senate in 1895 to fill the vacancy in theparents to Hartford, Conn., in 1819; attended the public term beginning March 4, 1893, caused by the failure of theschools; engaged in business as an iron merchant; member of legislature to elect; reelected in 1899, 1905, and again inthe common council and the board of aldermen; president of 1911 and served from January 23, 1895, to March 3, 1917;the National Screw Co. of Hartford, later consolidated with unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916; chairman,the American Screw Co. of Providence, R.I.; judge of the Committee on Railroads (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-ninthmunicipal court; elected as the candidate of the American Congresses), Committee on Judiciary (Fifty-ninth throughParty to the Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to Sixty-second Congresses), Committee on Geological Surveythe Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses); resumed the prac- chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Thirty-fourth Con- tice of law in Washington, D.C.; appointed a member of thegress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Thirty- International Joint Commission created to adjust disputessixth Congress; president of the Hartford Board of Water between the United States and Canada in 1919, chairmanCommissioners 1882-1895; president of the Young Men's In- 1923-1929; retired from active pursuits and resided in Evans-stitute of Hartford for many years; died in Hartford, Conn., ton, Wyo., until his death on November 18, 1930; intermentSeptember 26, 1896; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery. in the Masonic Cemetery. CLARK,Frank, a Representative from Florida; born in CLARK,Daniel, a Delegate from the Territory of Orleans;Eufaula, Barbour County Ala, March 28 1860, attended the born in Sligo, Ireland, about 1766; educated at Eton andcommon schools of Alabama and Georgia;studied law; was other colleges in England; immigrated to the United Statesadmitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in in 1786 and settled in New Orleans, La.; engaged in landNewnan, Coweta County, Ga.; moved to Florida in 1884 and speculation and banking; appointed a member of the firstsettled in Polk County; city attorney of Bartow, Fla., in 1885 legislative council for the Territory of Orleans, but declined; elected to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses and served fromand 1886; member of the State house of representatives December 1, 1806, to March 3, 1809; was an unsuccessful1889-189 1 and in 1899; assistant United States attorney in candidate for renomination in 1808; died in New Orleans,1893; United States attorney for the southern district of La., August 16, 1813; interred in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1.Florida 1894-1897; moved to Jacksonville in 1895 and contin- Bibliography: DAB; Wohi, Michael S. "A Man in the Shadow: The Lifeued the practice of law; chairman of the Democratic State of Daniel Clark." Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University, 1984. committee in 1900; delegate to the Democratic National Con- vention in 1920; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-ninth and CLARK,Daniel, a Senator from New Hampshire; born into the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1905-March 3, Stratham, N.H., October 24, 1809; attended the common 1925);chairman, Committee on PublicBuildingsand schools, Hampton Academy, and Union College, Schenecta-Grounds (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses); unsuc- dy, N.Y.; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover,cessful candidate for renomination in 1924; resumed the N.H., in 1834; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1837 and commenced practice in Epping, N.H.; moved to Man-practice of law in Miami, Fla.; appointed by President Coo- chester in 1839; member, State house of representativeslidge as a Democratic member of the United States Tariff 1842-1843, 1846, 1854-1855; elected as a Republican to theCommission, serving from April 12, 1928, to September 16, United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death1930; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; of James Bell; reelected in 1861, and served from June 27,served as attorney for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, 1857, to July 27, 1866, when he resigned; served as PresidentTreasury Department, from November 16, 1933, until his pro tempore of the Senate during theThirty-eighth Con-death in Washington, D.C., April 14, 1936; interment in gress;chairman, Committee on Claims (Thirty-seventhWildwood Cemetery, Bartow, Fla. 782 Biographical Directory

CLARK, Frank Monroe, a Representative from Pennsyl-graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in vania; born in Bessemer, Lawrence County, Pa., December1833; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced 24, 1915; attended the public schools; also attended Pitts-practice in New York City in 1837, where he was prominent burgh Institute of Aeronautics; enlisted in the United Statesin financial, political, and railroad circles; elected as a Dem- Army Air Corps in 1942 and served in Europe asa flightocrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress and reelected as an Anti- officer until discharged in 1945; major in Air Force Reserve; while still in the service was appointed chief of police ofLecompton Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, Bessemer, serving in that capacity until November 1954;1857-March 3, 1861); became director of the New York & unsuccessful candidate for election to the Eighty-third Con-Harlem Railroad, and subsequently was president of the gress in 1952; delegate to the North Atlantic Treaty Organi-Union Pacific, the Michigan Southern, and many other rail- zation Conference 1956-1974, to the Interparliamentary Con- roads; active manager of the Western Union Telegraph Co. ference in Germany in 1957, to the Christian Leadership forand president of the Union Trust Co.; died in New York City Peace Conference at The Hague in 1958, and to Internation- on June 19, 1873; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. al Roads Conference in 1959, 1962-1968; elected as a Demo- Bibliography: DAB. crat to the Eighty-fourth and to the nine succeeding Con- CLARK, James (brother of Christopher Henderson Clark gresses and served from January 3, 1955, until his resigna- and uncle of John Bullock Clark), a Representative from tion December 31, 1974; unsuccessful candidate for reelec-Kentucky; born near the Peaks of Otter in Bedford County, tion in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; unsuccessful can- didate for nomination in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth CongressVa., January 16, 1770; moved with his parents to Clark and in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; is a resident ofCounty, Ky., in 1794; was educated by private tutors; attend- Bessemer, Pa. ed Pisgah Academy, Woodford County, KY.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Winchester, CLARK, Franklin, a Representative from Maine; born inKy., in 1797; member of the State house of representatives Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine, August 2, 1801; attendedin 1807 and 1808; appointed judge of the court of appeals in the common schools; engaged in the lumber and shipping1810; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth and Four- business in Wiscasset; member of the State senate in 1847;teenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1813, until his elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4,resignation in 1816; judge of the circuit court 1817-1824; 1847-March 3, 1849); engaged in the manufacture of lumber;elected to the Nineteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused an executive councilor in 1855; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., onby the resignation of Henry Clay; reelected to the Twentieth August 24, 1874; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. and Twenty-first Congresses and served from August 1, 1825, CLARK, Henry Alden, a Representative from Pennsylva-to March 3,1831; chairman, Committee on Territories nia; born in Harborcreek Township, Erie County, Pa., Janu-(Twenty-first Congress); member of the State senate 183 1- ary 7, 1850; attended the common schools and the Erie Acad-1835; elected, as a Whig, Governor of Kentucky in 1836, and emy in 1864, the State normal school, Edinboro, Pa., in 1865served until his death in Frankfort, Ky., September 27, 1839; and 1866, and Willoughby Collegiate Institute, Willoughby,interment in the private burial ground of the old Clark Ohio, in 1866 and 1867; taught school; was graduated fromhome at Winchester, Clark County, Ky. the Erie Central High School in 1870, from Harvard Univer- Bibliography: DAB. sity in 1874, and from Harvard Law School in 1877; was admitted to the bar in Fall River, Mass., in March 1878; CLARK, James Beauchamp (Champ) (father of Joel Ben- subsequently associated with the Edison electric light inter-nett Clark), a Representative from Missouri; born near Law- ests in New York; moved to Erie, Pa., in 1882, continuingrenceburg, Anderson County, Ky., March 7, 1850; attended with the Edison corporation until 1887; was admitted to thethe common schools and Kentucky University at Lexington; Pennsylvania bar May 9, 1884; member of the common coun-was graduated from Bethany (W.Va.) College in 1873 and cil of Erie in 1888; bought and edited the Erie Gazette 1890-from Cincinnati Law School in 1875; president of Marshall 1892; chairman of the Republican city and county commit-College, Huntington, W.Va., in 1873 and 1874; admitted to tees in 1890; city solicitor of Erie from July 11, 1896, untilthe bar in 1875; edited a country newspaper and practiced April 30, 1899; served in the State senate in 1911, 1913, andlaw; moved to Bowling Green, Pike County, Mo., in 1876; 1915; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congresscity attorney of Louisiana, Mo., and Bowling Green, Mo., (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1919); was not a candidate for 1878-1881; deputy prosecuting attorney and prosecuting at- renomination in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; resumedtorney of Pike County 1885-1889; member of the State house the practice of his profession; judge of the orphans' court forof representatives in 1889 and 1891; delegate to the Trans- Erie County 1921-1931; died in Erie, Pa., on February 15,Mississippi Congress at Denver in May 1891; elected as a 1944; interment in Erie Cemetery. Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March CLARK, Henry Selby, a Representative from North Caro- 3, 1895); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the lina; born near Leechville, Beaufort County, N.C., SeptemberFifty-fourth Congress; elected to the Fifty-fifth and to the 9, 1809; attended the common schools, and was graduatedeleven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in1897, until his death; minority leader (Sixtieth and Sixty- 1828; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commencedfirst Congresses), Speaker of the House of Representatives practice in Washington, Beaufort County, N.C.; member of(Sixty-secondthroughSixty-fifthCongresses),minority the State house of commons 1834-1836; solicitor for the dis-leader (Sixty-sixth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for re- trict in 1842; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninthelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; chairman of Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); moved to Green-the Democratic National Convention in 1904; died in Wash- ville, Pitt County, N.C., and resumed the practice of law;ington, D.C., on March 2, 1921; funeral services were held in died in Greenville, N.C., January 8, 1869; interment at histhe Hall of the House of Representatives; interment in City country home near Leechville, N.C. Cemetery, Bowling Green, Mo. Bibliography: DAB; Clark, Champ. My Quarter Century of American Pol- CLARK, Horace Francis, a Representative from New itics. 2 vols. New York: Harper, 1920; Morrison, Geoffrey F. "A Political York; born in Southbury, Conn., November 29, 1815; wasBiography of Champ Clark." Ph.D. dissertation, St. Louis University, 1972. Biographies 783

CLARK,James West, a Representative from North Caroli-the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses and served na; born in Bertie County, N.C., October 15, 1779; was grad-from December 7, 1857, until July 13, 1861, when he was uated from Princeton College in 1797; member of the Stateexpelled for having taken up arms against the union; a house of commons in 1802, 1803, and 1811; presidential elec-Senator from Missouri in the First Confederate Congress tor on the Madison ticket in 1812; member of the Stateand a Representative in the Second Confederate Congress; senate 1812-18 14; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenthbrigadier general of Missouri Confederate State troops; prac- Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3,1817); appointed chiefticed law until his death in Fayette, Howard County, Mo., clerk of the Navy Department by Secretary Branch andOctober 29, 1885; interment in Fayette Cemetery. served from 1829 to 1831; died in Tarboro, Edgecomb County, N.C., December 20, 1843. CLARK,John Bullock, Jr. (son of John Bullock Clark), a Representative from Missouri; born in Fayette, Howard CLARK,Jerome Bayard, a Representative from North Carolina; born on Phoebus Plantation near Elizabethtown,County, Mo., January 14, 1831; attended Fayette Academy, Bladen County, N.C., April 5, 1882; attended the publicand the University of Missouri at Columbia; spent two years schools, Davidson (N.C.) College, and the University of Northin California for travel and adventure; returned to the East, Carolina at Chapel Hill; studied law; was admitted to theand was graduated from the law department of Harvard bar in 1906 and commenced practice in Elizabethtown, N.C.;University in 1854; was admitted to the bar and practiced in president of the Bank of Elizabethtown 1910-1922; served inFayette, Mo., from 1855 until the commencement of the Civil the State house of representatives in 1915; moved to Fayette-War, when he entered the Confederate Army as a lieuten- ville,N.C., in 1920 and continued the practice of law;ant; promoted successively to the rank of captain, major, member of the State Democratic committee 1909-1919;colonel, and brigadier general; resumed the practice of law member of the North Carolina State Judicial Conferencein Fayette, Mo.; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and 1924-1928; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-first and toto the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1929-January 3,1883); chairman, Committee on the Post Office and Post 1949); chairman, Committee on Elections No. 1 (Seventy-Roads (Forty-fourth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for re- second and Seventy-third Congresses); was not a candidatenomination in 1882; clerk of the House of Representatives for renomination in 1948; resumed the practice of law; died1883-1889; engaged in the practice of law in Washington, in Fayetteville, N.C., August 26, 1959; interment in CrossD.C., until his death there, September 7, 1903; interment in Creek Cemetery No. 3. Rock Creek Cemetery. CLARK,Joel Bennett (son of James Beauchamp Clark), a CLARK,John Chamberlain, a Representative from New Senator from Missouri; born in Bowling Green, Mo., JanuaryYork; born in Pittsfield, Mass., January 14, 1793; pursued 8, 1890; attended the public schools at Bowling Green, Mo., and at Washington, D.C.; graduated from the University ofpreparatory studies; was graduated from Williams College, Missouri at Columbia in 1912, and from the law departmentWilliamstown, Mass., in 1811; was admitted to the bar and of George Washington University, Washington, D.C., in 1914;commenced practice in Hamilton, N.Y.; moved to Bain- parliamentarian of the United States House of Representa-bridge, Chenango County, about 1818; district attorney 1823- tives 1913-1917; was admitted to the Missouri bar in 1914;1827; elected to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827- during the First World War served in the United StatesMarch 3, 1829); elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Army 1917-1919, attained the rank of colonel; commencedCongress (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1839), but changed his the practice of law in St. Louis, Mo., in 1919; author andpolitics on the appearance of President Van Buren's message compiler of several manuals on parliamentary law; electedin 1837 favoring an independent Treasury; reelected as a as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1932 for theWhig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses term commencing March 4, 1933, and was subsequently ap-(March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); served as First Auditor of pointed to the Senate to fill the vacancy caused by thethe Treasury from August 2 to October 31, 1849; moved to resignation of Harry B. Hawes for the term ending March 3,Chemung County, N.Y., and engaged in the lumber business; 1933; reelected in 1938 and served from February 3, 1933, todied in Elmira, Chemung County, N.Y., October 25, 1852; January 3, 1945; unsuccessful candidate for renomination ininterment in St. Peter's Churchyard, Bainbridge, N.Y. 1944; chairman, Committee on Interoceanic Canals (Seventy- fifth through Seventy-eighth Congresses); member of the CLARK,Joseph Sill, a Senator from Pennsylvania; born Board of Regents, Smithsonian Institution 1940-1944; associ-in Philadelphia, Pa., October 21, 1901; attended Chestnut ate justice of the United States Court of Appeals for theHill Academy; was graduated from Middlesex School in District of Columbia from 1945 until his death in Gloucester,1919, Harvard University in 1923, and the University of Mass., July 13, 1954; interment in Arlington National Ceme-Pennsylvania Law School in 1926; was admitted to the bar tery, Fort Myer, Va. in 1926 and commenced the practice of law in Philadelphia, Bibliography: DAB; Spencer, Thomas T. " and the Pa.; during the Second World War served with the United 1936Presidential Campaign." Missouri Historical Review 75 (January States Army Air Corps 1941-1945, attaining the rank of 1981): 197-213. colonel; city controller of Philadelphia 1950-1952; mayor of CLARK,John Bullock (father of John Bullock Clark, Jr.,Philadelphia 1952-1956; member of board of overseers, Har- and nephew of Christopher Henderson Clark and Jamesvard University 1953-1958; elected as a Democrat to the Clark), a Representative from Missouri; born in MadisonUnited States Senate in 1956; reelected in 1962 and served County, Ky., April 17, 1802; attended the country schools; from January 3, 1957, to January 3, 1969; unsuccessful can- studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1824 and practiceddidate for reelection in 1968; professor, Temple University in Fayette, Mo.; clerk of the Howard County courts 1824-1969; president, World Federalists, U.S.A.; chairman, Coali- 1834; colonel of Missouri Mounted Volunteers in the Blacktion on National Priorities and Military Policy; author; is a Hawk War in 1832; major general of militia in 1848; memberresident of Philadelphia, Pa. of the State house of representatives 1850 and 1851; elected Bibliography: Clark, Joseph S. The Senate Establishment. New York: as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress to fill the vacan- Hill and Wang, 1963; Clark, Joseph S. Congress: The Sapless Branch. New cy caused by the resignation of James S. Green; reelected to York: Harper and Row, 1964. 784 Biographical Directory

CLARK, Lincoln, a Representative from Iowa; born inunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1978; appointed by Conway, Franklin County, Mass., August 9, 1800; attendedPresident Jimmy Carter to be Ambassador at Large and the district and private schools; was graduated from Am-United States Coordinator for Refugee Affairs 1979; senior herst (Mass.) College in 1825; studied law; was admitted tofellow at the for Humanistic Studies 1980 to the bar in 1831 and commenced practice in Pickensville,present; is a resident of Washington, D.C. Pickens County, Ala.; member of the State house of repre- sentatives in 1834, 1835, and 1845; moved to Tuscaloosa in CLARK, Robert, a Representative from New York; born 1836; elected attorney general by the legislature in 1839;in Washington County, N.Y., on June 12, 1777; was tutored appointed by Governor Fitzpatrick circuit judge in 1846;privately; studied medicine in the office of his brother; com- moved to Dubuque, Iowa, in 1848; elected as a Democrat tomenced practice in Galway, Washington County, N.Y., in the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853);1799; moved to Stamford, Delaware County, and later settled unsuccessful candidate in 1852 and 1854 for reelection to thenear Delhi, Delaware County, where he continued the prac- Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses; resumed thetice of his profession; member of the State assembly 18 12- practice of law in Chicago, Ill.; appointed United States reg-1815; elected to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819- ister in bankruptcy in 1866; retired from active business andMarch 3, 1821); delegate to the State constitutional conven- returned to Conway, Mass., in 1869; died in Conway, Mass.,tion in 1821; moved to Monroe County, Mich., and settled on September 16, 1886; interment in Howland Cemetery. a farm near the village of Monroe, where he again engaged in the practice of his profession and was also interested in CLARK, Linwood Leon, a Representative from Maryland; the scientific cultivation of fruits and grasses and the subject born in Aberdeen, Harford County, Md., on March 21, 1876;of drainage; appointed register of the land office for the attended the public schools; was graduated from Miltonsecond land district of Michigan Territory on May 26, 1823, Academy, Baltimore, Md., in 1899, from the American Uni-and served until March 25, 1831; died October 1, 1837. versity of Harriman, Tenn., in 1902, and from the law de-- partment of the University of Maryland in 1904; was admit- CLARK, Rush, a Representative from Iowa; born in ted to the bar in 1904 and commenced practice in Baltimore,Schellsburg, Bedford County, Pa., October 1, 1834; attended Md.; completed a LaSalle Extension University course inthe common schools, the local academy at Ligonier Pa, and railway transportation in 1919; unsuccessful candidate forwas graduated from Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., in election in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress; elected as a1853; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and Republican to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4, 1929-commenced practice in Iowa City, Iowa; member of the Iowa March 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930house of representatives 1860-1864, serving as speaker in to the Seventy-second Congress; resumed the practice of law1863 and 1864; served on the staff of the Governor of Iowa in in Baltimore, Md.; judge of the circuit court of Maryland,1861 and 1862, and aided in the organization of volunteer fifth judicial district, 1935-1938; practiced law in Annapolis,regiments from Iowa during the Civil War; trustee of Iowa Md., and was a resident of Horn Point, near Annapolis, Md.;University at Iowa City 1862-1866; again served in the State died in Annapolis, Md., November 18, 1965; interment inhouse of representatives in 1876; elected as a Republican to Woodlawn Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses and served from March 4, 1877, until his death in Washington, D.C., April 29, CLARK, Lot, a Representative from New York; born in1879; interment in Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City, Iowa. Hillsdale, Columbia County, N.Y., May 23, 1788; moved with his parents to Otsego County in 1796; pursued academic CLARK, Samuel, a Representative from New York and a studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar on June 11,Representative from Michigan; born in Clarksville, Cayuga 1816, and practiced in Norwich, N.Y.; district attorney ofCounty, N Y, in January 1800, attended Hamilton College Chenango County in 1822 and 1823; elected to the Eight-Clinton, N Y, studied lw in Auburn, N Y, was admitted to eenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); appointedthe bar and commenced the practice of law in Waterloo, postmaster of Norwich on April 29, 1825, and served untilN Y, in 1826, elected as a Jacksonian from New York to the April 12, 1828; again served as district attorney of ChenangoTwenty-third Congress (March4,1833-March 3,1835); County in 1828 and 1829; moved to Lockport, N.Y., in 1829moved to Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1842 and resumed the prac- and continued the practice of law; became president of thetice of law, member of the State constitutional convention in Lockport Bank in 1829; member and agent of the so-called1850; elected as a Democrat from Michigan to the Thirty- Albany Co., owners of all the unsold lands in Niagara andthird Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful Orleans Counties and in the northern parts of Genesee andcandidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Con- Erie Counties; moved to Buffalo, N.Y., in 1835; projector ofgress; assisted in locating and inaugurating a land office at the first wire-cable bridge over the Niagara chasm; presidentBuchanan, situated at the head of Lake Superior; discontin- of the Suspension Bridge Company until his death; memberued the practice of his profession and retired from political of the State assembly in 1846; died in Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 18,activities; became greatly interested in agricultural pursuits; 1862; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. died in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Mich., on October 2, 1870; interment in Mountain Home Cemetery. CLARK, Richard Clarence (Dick), a Senator from Iowa; born in Paris, Linn County, Iowa, September 14, 1928; at- CLARK, Samuel Mercer, a Representative from Iowa; tended the public schools; attended the University of Mary-born near Keosauqua, Van Buren County, Iowa, October 11, land, Wiesbaden, Germany, and the University of Frankfort,1842; attended the public schools and the Des Moines Valley Germany, 1951-1952; served in the United States ArmyCollege, West Point, Iowa; studied law; was admitted to the 1950-1952; graduated from Upper Iowa University, Fayette,bar in 1864, but did not engage in extensive practice; editor 1953; completed graduate work at the University of Iowa,of the Keokuk Daily Gate City for thirty-one years; delegate Iowa City, Iowa, 1959; teaching assistant and professor ofto the Republican National Conventions in 1872, 1876, and history and political science 1959-1964; administrative assist-1880; appointed commissioner of education to the Paris Ex- ant to United States Representative John C. Culver 1965-position in 1889; postmaster of Keokuk from 1879-1885; 1972; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate inmember of the Keokuk Board of Education 1879-1894, serv- 1972 and served from January 3, 1973, to January 3, 1979;ing as president 1882-1894; elected as a Republican to the Biographies 785

Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-Marchwas succeeded by De Witt C. Giddings, who contested his 3, 1899); was not a candidate for renomination in 1898 to theelection; postmaster of Galveston from June 19, 1872, to May Fifty-sixthCongress; resumed editorialduties;died in7, 1874; employed in various offices of the Government at Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, on August 11, 1900; interment inWashington from 1876 to April 12, 1880, when he became Oakland Cemetery. chief clerk of the Internal Revenue Department, serving CLARK, William, a Representative from Pennsylvania;until June 30, 1883; moved to Fargo (now in North Dakota) born in Dauphin, Pa., February 18, 1774; captain of militiain 1883 and continued the practice of law; also served as in Dauphin County in 1793 and 1795; went to Crawfordassistant editor of the Fargo Daily Argus; moved to Denver, County, Pa., early in life; was associate judge of CrawfordCob., in 1890 and practiced law; went to Washington, D.C., County 1803-18 18; brigade inspector of the western districtin 1898 and was employed in the Internal Revenue Service of Pennsylvania 1800-18 17; participated in the War of 1812;as a special inspector and served until his death in a hospi- was on board the flagship Lawrence in her first engagementtal in New York City, October 12, 1905; interment in Arling- with the British fleet on Lake Erie; secretary of the Pennsyl-ton National Cemetery. vania land office1818-1821; State treasurer 1821-1827; Bibliography: DAB. Treasurer of the United States from June 4, 1828, to Novem- CLARKE, Archibald Smith (brother of Staley Nichols ber 1829; elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to theClarke), a Representative from New York; born on a planta- Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-tion in Prince Georges County, Md., in 1788; attended gram- March 3, 1837); member of the State constitutional revisionmar and high schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar commission in 1837; engaged in agricultural pursuits; diedand practiced in Niagara County, N.Y.; surrogate of Niagara near Dauphin, Pa., March 28, 1851; interment in EnglishCounty in 1808 and 1809; member of the State assembly Presbyterian Cemetery. 1809-1811; served in the State senate 1813-1816; county CLARK, William Andrews, a Senator from Montana; bornclerk in 1815 and 1816; elected as a Republican to the Four- near Connellsville, Fayette County, Pa., January 8, 1839;teenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation attended the common schools and the Laurel Hill Academy;of Peter B. Porter and served from December 2, 1816, to in 1856 moved with his parents to Iowa, where he taughtMarch 3, 1817; died in Clarence, Erie County, N.Y., Decem- school; while teaching, studied law at the Iowa Wesleyan ber 4, 1821. University at Mount Pleasant; worked in the quartz mines CLARKE, Bayard, a Representative from New York; born near Central City, Gilpin County, Cob., in 1862; went to Montana in 1863 and settled in Bannack, Beaverheadin New York City March 17, 1815; was graduated from County, and engaged in placer mining for two years; en-Geneva College in 1835; studied law; was admitted to the gaged in various mercantile pursuits in Blackfoot andbar; attaché to General Cass, United States Minister to Helena and in banking at Deer Lodge; major of a battalionFrance, 1836-1840; student in the Royal Cavalry School; ap- that pursued Chief Joseph and his band in the Nez Percespointed second lieutenant in the Eighth Infantry March 3, invasion of 1877; president of the State constitutional con-1841; transferred to the Second Dragoons in September 1841, vention in 1884 and of the second constitutional conventionand resigned December 15, 1843; settled in Westchester in 1889; elected as a Democrat to the United States SenateCounty, N.Y.; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1852 to for the term commencing March 4, 1899; took his seat De-the Thirty-third Congress; elected as a Whig to the Thirty- cember 4, 1899, and vacated his seat on May 15, 1900 beforefourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3,1857); died in a resolution declaring his election void because of electionSchroon Lake, Essex County, N.Y., June 20, 1884; interment fraud could be adopted; appointed to ifil the vacancy causedin a vault at Newtown, Long Island, N.Y. by his own resignation, but did not qualify; again elected as CLARKE, Beverly Leonidas, a Representative from Ken- a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1901 and servedtucky; born in Winterfield, Chesterfield County, Va., Febru- from March 4, 1901, to March 3, 1907; was not a candidateary 11, 1809; attended the common schools; moved to Ken- for reelection; resumed his copper mining, banking, and rail-tucky in 1823; studied law in Franklin, Ky., and was grad- road interests; resident of New York City until his deathuated from the Lexington Law School in 1831; was admitted there on March 2, 1925; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice in Franklin, KY.; Bibliography: DAB; Foot, Forrest L. "The Senatorial Aspirations of Wi!- ham A. Clark, 1898-1901: A Study In Montana Politics." Ph.D. disserta-member of the State house of representatives in 1841 and tion, University of California,1941; Mangam, William. The Clarke, An 1842; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1849; American Phenomenon. New York: Silver Bow Press, 1941. elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); delegate to the State constitutional CLARK, William Thomas, a Representative from Texas;convention in 1849; unsuccessful Democratic nominee for born in Norwalk, Conn., June 29, 1831; self-educated; taughtGovernor in 1855; appointed by President Buchanan Minis- school in Norwalk, Conn., in 1846; studied law in New Yorkter to Guatemala, and was also accredited to Honduras, and City; was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced prac-served from January 7, 1858, until his death in Guatemala, tice in Davenport, Iowa, the same year; during the Civil WarMarch 17, 1860; interment in the State Cemetery, Frankfort, served in the Union Army; commissioned first lieutenantKy. and adjutant of the Thirteenth Iowa Infantry November 2, 1861; successively commissioned captain and assistant adju- CLARKE, Charles Ezra, a Representative from New tant general, major and adjutant general, and lieutenantYork; born in Saybrook, Conn., April 8, 1790; completed colonel and assistant adjutant general; brevetted brigadierpreparatory studies and was graduated from Yale College in general of volunteers July 22, 1864, and major general No-1809; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1815 and vember 24, 1865; engaged in banking in Galveston, Tex.;commenced practice in Watertown, N.Y.; moved to Great upon the readmission of the State of Texas to representationBend, Jefferson County, N.Y., in 1840; member of the State was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress andassembly in 1839 and 1840; elected as a Whig to the Thirty- served from March 31, 1870, to March 3, 1871; presentedfirst Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); resumed the credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-second Congresspractice of law; also built and operated a gristmill and en- and served from March 4, 1871, to May 13, 1872, when hegaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Great Bend, N.Y., 786 Biographical Directory

December 29, 1863; interment in Brookside Cemetery, Wa-mittee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers (Sixty-first tertown, N.Y. and Sixty-second Congresses), Committee on Commerce CLARKE,Frank Gay, a Representative from New Hamp- (Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses); died in Little shire; born in Wilton, Hiisborough County; N.H., SeptemberRock, Ark.; interment in Oakland Cemetery. 10, 1850; attended Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N.H., Bibliography: DAB; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 64th Cong., 2nd and Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.; studied law; was sess., 1916-1917. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1917. admitted to the bar in 1876 and commenced practice in CLARKE,John Blades, a Representative from Kentucky; Peterboro; member of the State house of representatives inborn near Augusta, Bracken County, Ky., on April 14, 1833; 1885; appointed colonel on the military staff of Governorattended the common schools and Augusta (Ky.) College; Hale and served in that capacity from 1885 to 1887; servedtaught school in the winters of 1851 and 1852; studied law in in the State senate in 1889; elected to the State house ofAugusta, KY.; was admitted to the bar on April 20, 1854, and representatives in 1891 and chosen speaker of that body;commenced practice in Rockport, md., in January 1885; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixthmoved to Brooksville, Ky., in December 1855 and continued Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, until his deaththe practice of law; prosecuting attorney of Bracken County in Peterboro, Hilisborough County, N.H., January 9, 1901;1858-1862; member of the State senate 1867-1870; elected as interment in Pine Hill Cemetery. a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses CLARKE,Freeman, a Representative from New York;(March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); declined to be a candidate for born in Troy, N.Y., March 22, 1809; attended the commonrenomination in 1878; resumed the practice of his profession; schools; went into business for himself at the age of fifteen;died in Brooksville, Bracken County, Ky., May 23, 1911; began his financial career as cashier of the Bank of Orleans,interment in Mount Zion Cemetery, near Brooksville, Ky. Albion, N.Y.; moved to Rochester, N.Y., in 1845; became CLARKE,John Davenport (husband of Marian Williams director and president of numerous banks, railroads, andClarke), a Representative from New York; born in Hobart, telegraph and trust companies of Rochester and New YorkDelaware County, N.Y., January 15, 1873; attended the City; delegate to the Whig National Convention at Baltimorecommon schools and was graduated from Lafayette College, in 1852; vice president of the first Republican State conven-Easton, Pa., in 1898; took postgraduate courses in economics tion of New York in 1854; appointed Comptroller of theand history in Colorado College at Colorado Springs; studied Currency in 1865; delegate to the State constitutional con-law in the New York Law School, and was graduated from vention in 1867; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighththe Brooklyn Law School in 1911; was admitted to the bar in Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); was not a candidate1912 and commenced practice in New York City; engaged in for renomination in 1864; Comptroller of the Currency fromwork with the mining department of the Carnegie Steel Co.; March 9, 1865, to February 6, 1867; again elected to theassistant to the secretary of mines of the United States Steel Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871-Corporation 1901-1907; secretary and treasurer of other March 3, 1875); resumed his former business pursuits; diedmining interests; moved to Delaware County in 1915 and in Rochester, N.Y., on June 24, 1887; interment in Mountengaged in agricultural pursuits; elected as a Republican to Hope Cemetery. the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses (March 4, CLARKE,James McClure, a Representative from North 1921-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in Carolina; born in Manchester, Vt., June 12, 1917; attended1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; resumed agricultural pur- public schools of Manchester, Vt., and Buncombe County,suits; elected to the Seventieth and to the three succeeding N.C.; graduated from Asheville School, Asheville, N.C., 1935;Congresses and served from March 4, 1927, until his death, A.B., Princeton University, 1939; served in the United Statesthe result of an automobile collision near Delhi, N.Y., No- Navy, lieutenant, 1942-1945; dairy farmer and orchardist;vember 5, 1933; interment in Locust Hill Cemetery, Hobart, chairman, Buncombe County Board of Education, 1969-1976; N.Y. elected to the North Carolina house of representatives, 1977- 1980; elected to the North Carolina senate, 1981-1982; elect- CLARKE,John Hopkins, a Senator from Rhode Island; ed as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth Congress (January 3,born in Elizabeth, N.J., April 1, 1789; moved to Providence, 1983-January 3, 1985); unsuccessful candidate for reelectionR.I., where he studied under a private teacher; was graduat- to the Ninety-ninth Congress; elected to the One Hundredthed from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1809; studied Congress (January 3, 1987-January 3, 1989); is a resident oflaw; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Fairview, N.C. Providence in 1812; clerk of the supreme court of Providence County in 1813; proprietor of a distillery in Cranston, R.I., CLARKE,James Paul, a Senator from Arkansas; born inuntil 1824, when he became a cotton manufacturer in Provi- Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Miss., August 18, 1854; attendeddence, Pontiac, and Woonsocket; member, State house of the public schools and Professor Tutwilder's Academy,representatives 1836-1842, 1845-1847; elected as a Whig to Greenbrier, Ala.; was graduated from the law department ofthe United States Senate and served from March 4, 1847, to the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1878; wasMarch 3, 1853; resumed his former manufacturing pursuits; admitted to the bar in 1879 and commenced practice indied in Providence, R.I., November 23, 1870; interment in Helena, Phillips County, Ark.; member, State house of repre-the North Burial Ground. sentatives 1886-1888; member, State senate 1888-1892, serv- ing as president in 1891 and ex officio lieutenant governor; CLARKE,Marian Williams (wife of John Davenport attorney general of Arkansas 1892-1894; declined to be aClarke), a Representative from New York; born at Standing candidate for renomination; Governor of Arkansas 1895-Stone, Bradford County, Pa., July 29, 1880; moved with her 1896; moved to Little Rock, Ark., in 1897 and resumed theparents to Cheyenne, Wyo., in 1881; attended the public practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the United Statesschools and spent one year in the art school of the Universi- Senate in 1903; reelected in 1909 and again in 1915 andty of Nebraska at Lincoln; was graduated from Colorado served from March 4, 1903, until his death on October 1,College at Colorado Springs in 1902; resided in seven differ- 1916; served as President pro tempore of the Senate duringent States from 1881 to 1918; moved to Delaware County, the Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congresses; chairman, Coin-N.Y., in 1918 and settled on a farm near Fraser; elected as a Biographies 787

Republican to the Seventy-third Congress to fill the vacancythe county of Cattaraugus to Ellicottville, N.Y.; treasurer of caused by the death of her husband, John Davenport Clarke,Cattaraugus County for seventeen years; elected as a Whig and served from December 28, 1933, to January 3, 1935; wasto the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, a candidate for renomination in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth1843); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1842; Congress, but withdrew her name before the primary elec-died in Ellicottville, Cattaraugus County, N.Y., October 14, tion; returned to her farm, "Arbor Hill," near Delhi, N.Y.,1860; interment in Jefferson Street Cemetery. where she resided until 1950; died in Cooperstown, N.Y., April 8, 1953; interment in Locust Hill Cemetery, Hobart, CLARKSON, Matthew, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; N.Y. born in New York City in April 1733; moved to Philadelphia, Pa.; was justice of the court of common pleas, quarter ses- CLARKE, Reader Wright, a Representative from Ohio;sions of the peace, and of the Philadelphia orphans' court in born in Bethel, Ohio, May 18, 1812; learned the art of print-1771 and 1772; elected to the Continental Congress in 1785, ing; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1836 and com-but did not serve; member of the board of aldermen in 1789; menced practice in Batavia, Ohio; published a Whig paper inmayor of Philadelphia 1792-1796; died in Philadelphia, Pa., Shawneetown, Ill., for a few years; returned to Batavia,October5,1800; interment in Christ Church Burying Ohio; member of the State house of representatives 1840-Ground. 1842; presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1844; clerk of Bibliography: DAB. the court of Clermont County 1846-1852; elected as a Repub- lican to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses (March 4, CLASON, Charles Russell, a Representative from Massa- 1865-March 3, 1869); third auditor of the Treasury fromchusetts; born in Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine, Sep- March 26, 1869, to March 26, 1870; appointed collector oftember 3, 1890; attended the public schools; Bates College, internal revenue in Ohio; died in Batavia, Clermont County,Lewiston, Maine, A.B., 1911 and LL.D., 1914; Georgetown Ohio, May 23, 1872; interment in Union Cemetery. University, Washington, D.C., LL.B. and J.D., 1914; Oxford University, England, M.A. and B.A., 1917; connected with CLARKE, Richard Henry, a Representative from Ala-the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Department bama; born in Dayton, Marengo County, Ala., February 9,of Education, Washington, D.C., in 1913 and 1914; member of 1843; attended Green Springs Academy and was graduatedthe commission for relief in Belgium in 1914 and 1915 and from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in July 1861;was decorated with the Medaille du Roi Albert; was admit- during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as ated to the bar in 1917 and commenced practice in Boston, lieutenant in the First Battalion of Alabama Artillery; stud-Mass.; during the First World War served as a sergeant ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commencedmajor in the Coast Artillery, United States Army; instructor practice in Dayton, Ala.; moved to Demopolis, Marengoin law at Northeastern University, Springfield, Mass., 1920- County, Ala., and continued the practice of law; State solici-1937; assistant district attorney of the western district of tor for Marengo County 1872-1876; prosecuting attorney ofMassachusetts 1922-1926 and district attorney 1927-1930; the seventh judicial circuit in 1876 and 1877; resumed theelected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth and to the five practice of law in Mobile, Ala.; elected as a Democrat to thesucceeding Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1949); Fifty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty- 1889-March 3, 1897); was not a candidate for renomination, but was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1896;first Congress; resumed the practice of law; delegate to the resumed the practice of law; member of the State house ofRepublican National Conventions in 1952, 1956, and 1960; representatives in 1900 and 1901; died in St. Louis, Mo.,dean, Weetern New England College School of Law, 1952- September 26,1906; interment in Magnolia Cemetery,1970; was a resident of Springfield, Mass., until his death Mobile, Ala. there July 7, 1985; interment in Longmeadow Cemetery. CLARKE, Sidney, a Representative from Kansas; born in CLASSON, David Guy, a Representative from Wisconsin Southbridge, Worcester County, Mass., October 16, 1831; at-born in Oconto, Oconto County, Wis., September 27, 1870; tended the public schools; publisher of the Southbridge Pressattended the public schools, and was graduated from the law in 1854; settled in Lawrence, Kans., in 1859; enlisted as adepartment of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in volunteer during the Civil War; appointed assistant adjutant1891; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced general of Volunteers by President Lincoln February 9, practice in Oconto, Wis.; judge of Oconto County 1894-1898; 1863; captain and assistant provost marshal general formayor of Oconto 1898-1900; city attorney 1900-1906; presi- Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Dakota; elected as a Re-dent of the board of education in 1912 and 1913; president of publican to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Con-the board of fire and police commissioners in 1915 and 1916; gresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1871); chairman, Committeeelected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and on Indian Affairs (Forty-first Congress); unsuccessful candi-Sixty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1923); de- date in 1870 for reelection to the Forty-second Congress;clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1922; resumed member of the State house of representatives in 1879 andthe practice of law in Oconto, Wis.; served as circuit judge of served as speaker; moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahomathe twentieth judicial circuit 1928-1930; died in Oconto, County, Okla., in 1889 and engaged in railroad building;Wis., September 6, 1930; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. chairman of the statehood executive committee in 1891; CLAIJSEN, Donald HoIst, a Representative from Califor- member of the Territorial council 1898-1902; died in Oklaho-nia; born in Ferndale, Humboldt County, Calif., April 27, ma City, Okla., on June 18, 1909; interment in Fairlawn1923; graduated from elementary and high schools of Fern- Cemetery. dale; attended San Jose (Calif.) State College; California CLARKE, Staley Nichols (brother of Archibald SmithPolytechnic, San Luis Obispo, Calif.; Weber College, Ogden, Clarke), a Representative from New York; born in PrinceUtah; and St. Mary's (Calif.) College; took V-S Program, Georges County, Md., May 24, 1794; moved to Buffalo, N.Y.,United States Navy; engaged in the insurance business, in 1815; employed as a clerk in the Bank of Niagara; clerk inClausen Associates, and in the air ambulance service, Clau- the office of the Holland Land Co., Batavia, N.Y., from 1819sen Flying Service, both in Crescent City, Calif.; served as a to January 1822, when he was transferred as their agent forcarrierpilotin the Asiatic-PacificTheater,1944-1945; 788 Biographical Directory member, board of supervisors, Del North County, 1955-1962;tural Association in 1840 and served thirty years; president elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth Congress to fillof the Kentucky Agricultural Association 1853-1861; again a the vacancy caused by the death of Clement W. Miller (whomember of the State house of representatives in 1860; elect- had been elected posthumously), and to the nine succeedinged as a Unionist to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, Congresses, serving from January 22, 1963, to January 3, 1863-March 3, 1865); chairman, Committee on Agriculture 1983; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1982 to the(Thirty-eighth Congress); was not a candidate for reelection; Ninety-eighth Congress; director, special programs, Federal Aviation Administration, 1983 to present; is a resident ofresumed former pursuits; died near Paris, Ky., October 11, Santa Rosa, Calif. 1878; interment in the family burial ground at "Auvergne," near Paris, Ky. CLAWSON, Delwin Morgan, a Representative from Cali- Bibliography: Hood, James Larry. "The Union and Slavery: Congress- fornia; born in Thatcher, Graham County, Ariz., January 11, man Brutus J. Clay of the Bluegrass." Register of the Kentucky Historical 1914; attended the public schools of Pima and Safford, Ariz.; Society 75 (July 1977): 214-21. attended Gila College, Thatcher, Ariz., in 1933 and 1934; CLAY, Clement Claiborne, Jr. (son of Clement Comer various employment, 1934-1940; interviewer with the UnitedClay), a Senator from Alabama; born in Huntsville, Ala., States Employment Service, 1941; with the Federal Public Housing Authority in Arizona and California, 1942-1947;December 13, 1816; was graduated from the University of manager of the Mutual Housing Association of Compton,Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1834 and from the law depart- Calif., 1947-1963; member of the city council of Compton,ment of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1839; 1953-1957; mayor of Compton, 1957-1961 and reelected inwas admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Hunts- 1961 for another four-year term; director of three Los Ange-ville, Ala., in 1840; member, State house of representatives les County Sanitation Districts 1957-1963; elected as a Re-1842, 1844, 1845; judge of the county court of Madison publican to the Eighty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancyCounty 1846-1848; unsuccessful candidate for election in caused by the death of ; reelected to the seven1850 to the Thirty-second Congress; elected as a Democrat to succeeding Congresses and served from June 11, 1963, untilthe United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term his resignation December 31, 1978; was not a candidate forcommencing March 4, 1853, caused by the failure of the reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; is a residentlegislature to elect; reelected in 1858 and served from No- of Downey, Calif. vember 29, 1853, to January 21, 1861, when he withdrew; chairman, Committee on Commerce (Thirty-fifth and Thirty- CLAWSON, Isaiah Dunn, a Representative from Newsixth Congresses): member of the Confederate Senate 186 1- Jersey; born in Woodstown, Salem County, N.J., March 30, 1822; attended Delaware College, Newark, Del., and Lafay-1863; was a diplomatic agent of the Confederate States; ar- ette College, Easton, Pa.; was graduated from Princeton Col-rested and imprisoned in Fortress Monroe in 1865; after the lege in 1840 and from the medical department of the Univer-war settled on his plantation in Jackson County, Ala., and sity of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1843; commenced thedevoted himself to agricultural pursuits and to the practice practice of medicine in Woodstown, N.J.; member of theof law; died at "Wildwood," near Gurley, Madison County, State house of assembly in 1854; elected as a Whig to theAla., January 3, 1882; interment in Maple Hill Cemetery, Thirty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to theHuntsville, Ala. Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); was not Bibliography: DAB; Clay-Clopton, Virginia. A Belle of the Fifties. 1904. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1969; Nueremberger, Ruth Anna The a candidate for renomination in 1858; resumed the practice Clays of Alabama. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1958. of medicine in Woodstown, N.J., where he died on October 9, 1879; interment in the Baptist Cemetery. CLAY, Clement Corner (father of Clement Claiborne Clay, CLAY, Alexander Stephens, a Senator from Georgia; bornJr.), a Representative and a Senator from Alabama; born in near Powder Springs, Cobb County, Ga., September 25, 1853;Halifax County, Va., December 17, 1789; moved with his attended the common schools; was graduated from Hiawas-parents to a farm near Knoxville, Tenn.; attended the public see (Tenn.) College in 1875; studied law; was admitted to theschools and was graduated from the East Tennessee Univer- bar in 1877 and commenced practice in Marietta, Ga.;sity in 1807; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1809; member of the city council in 1880 and 1881; member, Statemoved to Huntsville, Ala., in 1811, and commenced practice; house of representatives 1884-1887, 1889-1890; served asserved in the war against the Creek Indians in1813; speaker pro tempore in 1886-1887, 1889-1890; member, State member, Territorial council of Alabama 1817-1818; elected a senate 1892-1894, serving as president for two years; electedjudge of the circuit court in 1819 and chief justice in 1820; in 1896 as a Democrat to the United States Senate; reelectedresigned in 1823 and resumed the practice of law; member, in 1902 and again in 1908 and served from March 4, 1897,State house of representatives 1827-1828, and served as until his death in Atlanta, Ga., on November 13, 1910; chair-speaker; elected to the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and man, Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Fifty-ninth Con-Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3,1835); gress), Committee on Woman Suffrage (Sixty-first Congress);chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Twenty-third Con- interment in the City Cemetery, Marietta, Ga. gress); Governor of Alabama 1836-1837; elected as a Demo-- Bibliography: Mellichamp, Josephine."Alexander Clay." In Senators crat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused From Georgia.pp.193-95. Huntsville, Ala.: The Strode Publishers,Inc., by the resignation of John McKinley and served from June 1976; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 61st Cong., 3rd sess., 1910-1911. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1911. 19, 1837, until his resignation on November 15, 1841; chair- man, Committee on Engrossed Bills (Twenty-fifth Congress), CLAY, Brutus Junius, a Representative from Kentucky;Committee on Militia (Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Con- born in Richmond, Madison County, Ky., July 1, 1808; at-gresses); associate judge of the State supreme court in 1843; tended the common schools and was graduated from Centrecodified the laws of Alabama in 1842 and 1843; died in College, Danville, KY.; engaged in agricultural pursuits andHuntsville, Ala., September 7, 1866; interment in Maple Hill stock raising; moved to Bourbon County in 1837 and contin- Cemetery. ued former pursuits; member of State house of representa- Bibliography: DAB; Nueremberger, Ruth Anna. The Clays of Alabama. tives in 1840; elected president of Bourbon County Agricul- Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1958. Biographies 789

CLAY, Henry (father of James Brown Clay), a Senatorattended public and private schools at Henderson; was grad- and a Representative from Kentucky; born in the districtuated from Georgetown College, Kentucky, in June 1860; known as "the Slashes," Hanover County, Va., April 12,studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1862 and commenced 1777; attended the public schools; studied law in Richmond,practice in Henderson, KY.; member of the State senate in Va.; was admitted to the bar in 1797 and commenced prac- 1870; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress tice in Lexington, Ky.; member, State house of representa-(March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); unsuccessful candidate for tives 1803; elected to the United States Senate to fill therenomination in 1884; resumed the practice of his profession vacancy caused by the resignation of John Adair and servedin Henderson, KY.; served as city attorney and as attorney from November 19, 1806, to March 3, 1807, despite beingfor the St. Louis & Southern Railroad and the Ohio Valley younger than the constitutional age limit of thirty years;Railway Co.; died in Henderson, Ky., on August 17, 1921; member, State house of representatives 1808-1809, andinterment in Fernwood Cemetery. served as speaker in 1809; again elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of CLAY, Joseph (grandfather of William Henry Stiles), a Buckner Thruston and served from January 4, 1810, toDelegate from Georgia; born in Beverly, Yorkshire, England, March 3, 1811; elected as a Republican to the Twelfth andOctober 16, 1741; immigrated to the United States and in Thirteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, to1760 settled in Savannah, Ga., where he engaged in the January 19, 1814, when he resigned; Speaker of the House ofgeneral commission business; elected a member of the coun- Representatives (Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses); ap-cil of safety June 22, 1775; delegate to the Provisional Con- pointed one of the commissioners to negotiate the treaty ofgress which met in Savannah July 4, 1775; majorin the peace with Great Britain in 1814; elected as a Republican toGeorgia Line of the Continental Army during the Revolu- the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses (Marchtionary War; appointed by the Continental Congress deputy 4, 1815-March 3, 1821); Speaker of the House of Representa-paymaster general in Georgia with the rank of colonel tives (Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses); elect- August 6, 1777; elected to the Continental Congress in 1778, ed to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses and servedbut did not attend; original trustee of Franklin College, from March 3, 1823, to March 6, 1825, when he resigned;Athens, Ga.; elected treasurer of Georgia in July 1782; judge again served as Speaker of the House of Representativesof the United States Court for the District of Georgia 1786- (Eighteenth Congress); appointed Secretary of State by Presi-1801; died in Savannah, Ga., November 15, 1804; interment dent John Quincy Adams 1825-1829; elected as a Whig toin Colonial Park Cemetery. the United States Senate on November 10, 1831, to fill the Bibliography: DAB. vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1831; reelected in CLAY, Joseph, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born 1836 and served from November 10, 1831 until March 31,in Philadelphia, Pa., July 24, 1769; elected as a Republican 1842, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Foreignto the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Congresses, and served Relations (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses),from March 4, 1803, to 1808, when he resigned to engage in Committee on Finance (Twenty-seventh Congress); unsuc-banking; chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Ninth cessful presidential candidate of the Democratic-RepublicanCongress); one of the managers appointed by the House of Party in 1824, of the National Republican Party in 1832, andRepresentatives in 1804 to conduct the impeachment pro- of the Whig Party in 1844; again elected to the Unitedceedings against John Pickering, judge of the United States States Senate and served from March 4, 1849, until hisDistrict Court for New Hampshire; became cashier of the death in Washington, D.C., June 29, 1852; funeral servicesthe Farmers & Mechanics' Bank of Philadelphia; died in held in the Chamber of the Senate; interment in LexingtonPhiladelphia, Pa., on August 27, 1811; interment in Christ Cemetery, Lexington, Ky. Church Burying Ground. Bibliography: DAB; Clay, Henry. The Papers of Henry Clay, 1797-1824. Edited by James Hopkins, Mary Hargreaves, Robert Seager, and Melba CLAY, Matthew, a Representative from Virginia; born in Porter. 8 vols. to date. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1959-; Halifax County, near Danville, Va., March 25, 1754; during Van Deusen, Glyndon. The Life of Henry Clay. Boston: Little, Brown, and the Revolutionary War entered the Ninth Virginia Regi- Company, 1987. ment October 1, 1776, transferred to the First Virginia Regi- CLAY, James Brown (son of Henry Clay), a Representa- ment in 1778 and to the Fifth Virginia Regiment in 1781, tive from Kentucky; born in Washington, D.C., November 9, being successively promoted to first lieutenant, captain, and 1817; pursued preparatory studies; attended Transylvaniaquartermaster; mustered out 1783; member of the State University, Lexington, Ky., and Kenyon College, Gambier,house of delegates 1790-1794; elected as a Republican to the Ohio; clerk in a countinghouse in Boston 1832-1834; studiedFifth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, law at Lexington Law School; was admitted to the bar and1797-March 3, 1813); chairman, Committee on Militia (Tenth practiced with his father in Lexington; Chargé d'Affaires toCongress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1813 to Portugal from August 1, 1849, to July 19, 1850; was a resi-the Thirteenth Congress; elected to the Fourteenth Congress dent of Missouri in 1851 and 1852, when he returned toand served from March 4, 1815, until his death at Halifax Lexington, Ky.; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifthCourt House, Va., May 27, 1815; interment in the old family Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); was not a candidateburying ground in Pittsylvania County, Va. for renomination in 1858; declined the appointment by Presi- CLAY, William Lacy, Sr., a Representative from Missouri; dent Buchanan to a mission to Germany; member of theborn in St. Louis, Mo., April 30, 1931; St. Louis University, peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C.,in anB.S. in history and political science, 1953; real estate broker; effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; duringmanager, lifeinsurance company, 1959-1961; alderman, the Civil War identified himself with the Confederacy; diedTwenth-sixth Ward, St. Louis, Mo., 1959-1964; business rep- in Montreal, Canada, January 26, 1864, where he had goneresentative, city employees union, 1961-1964; education coor- for his health; interment in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington,dinator, Steamfitters Local No. 562, 1966-1967; elected as a Kentucky. Democrat to the Ninety-first and to the nine succeeding CLAY, James Franklin, a Representative from Kentucky;Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1989); is a resident born in Henderson, Henderson County, Ky. October 29, 1840;of St. Louis, Mo. 790 Biographical Directory

CLAYPOOL, Harold Kile (son of Horatio Clifford Clay-lar Army April 17, 1901; quartermaster in the United States pool and cousin of John Barney Peterson), a RepresentativeArmy in the Philippine Islands 1901-1904; quartermaster from Ohio; born in Bainbridge, Ross County, Ohio, June 2,and disbursing officer of the United States Military Acade- 1886; attended the public schools and Ohio State Universitymy, West Point, N.Y., 1911-1914; during the First World at Columbus; engaged in the publishing business at Colum-War was appointed colonel in the Quartermaster Corps of bus, Ohio, and published Hunter and Trader Magazine;the American Army March 15, 1918; quartermaster of the deputy probate judge of Ross County, Ohio; electedas aFirst Division in France; killed in action at Noyer, Depart- Democrat to the Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-ment of the Oise, France, May 30, 1918; interment in Arling- seventh Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1943); un-ton National Cemetery. successful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy- eighth Congress; resumed the publishing and office supply CLAYTON, Charles, a Representative from California; business; United States marshal for the southern district ofborn in Devonshire, England, October 5, 1825; attended the Ohio 1944-1953; died in Chillicothe, Ohio, August 2, 1958;public schools; immigrated to the United States and settled interment in Grandview Cemetery. in Wisconsin in 1842; went to Oregon in 1847 and in the following year to San Francisco, Calif.; alcalde of Santa CLAYPOOL, Horatio Clifford (father of Harold Kile Clay-Clara in 1849 and 1850; built the Santa Clara flour mills in pool and cousin of John Barney Peterson), a Representative1852; returned to San Francisco in 1853 and engaged in the from Ohio; born in McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio, Febru-grain and flour business; member of the State assembly ary 9, 1859; attended the common schools, and was graduat-1863-1866; member of the board of supervisors of San Fran- ed from the normal school at Lebanon, Ohio, in 1880; studiedcisco, Calif., 1864-1869; appointed surveyor of customs of the law; was admitted to the bar in 1882 and commenced prac-port and district of San Francisco by President Grant on ticein Chillicothe, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of RossMarch 16, 1870; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third County 1899-1903; probate judge of the county 1905-1910;Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-thirdfor renomination in 1874; State prison director in 1881 and Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful can-1882; died in Oakland, Calif.,October 4, 1885; interment in didate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress;Mountain View Cemetery. elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the CLAYTON, Henry De Lamar (brother of Bertram Tracy Sixty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Chilli-Clayton), a Representative from Alabama; born near Clay- cothe, Ohio; died in Columbus, Ohio, January 19, 1921; inter-ton, Barbour County, Ala., February 10, 1857; attended the ment in Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ross County,common schools; was graduated from the literary depart- Ohio. ment of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1877 and from its law department in 1878; was admitted to the CLAYTON, Augustin Smith, a Representative from Geor-bar in the latter year and commenced practice in Clayton, gia; born in Fredericksburg, Va., November 27, 1783; movedAla.; moved to Eufaula, Ala., in 1880 and continued the with his parents to Richmond County, Ga., in 1784; attendedpractice of law; member of the State house of representa- Richmond Academy, and was graduated from Franklin Col-tives in 1890 and 1891; United States district attorney for lege, Athens, Ga., in 1804; studied law; was admitted to thethe middle district of Alabama 1893-1896; permanent chair- bar in 1806 and commenced practice in Carnesville, Frank-man of the Democratic National Convention in 1908; elected lin County; moved to Athens; selected by the legislature inas a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the eight succeeding 1810 to compile the statutes of Georgia from 1800; memberCongresses and served from March 4, 1897, until May 25, of the State house of representatives 1810-1812; clerk of the1914, when he resigned and moved to Montgomery, Ala., to State house of representatives 18 13-1815; served in the State senate in 1826 and 1827; judge of the superior court 1819-accept a commission as United States judge for the middle 1825 and 1828-1831; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-and northern district of Alabama, in which capacity he second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignationserved until his death; chairman, Committee on the Judici- of Wilson Lumpkin; reelected to the Twenty-third Congressary (Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses); sponsor of the and served from January 21, 1832, to March 3, 1835; re-Clayton anti-trust act of 1914; one of the managers appoint- sumed the practice of law in Athens, Ga., and died thereed by the House of Representatives in 1905 to conduct the June 21, 1839; interment in Oconee Cemetery. impeachment proceedings against Charles Swayne, judge of Bibliography: DAB. the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, and in 1912 against Robert W. Archbald, judge of CLAYTON, Bertram Tracy (brother of Henry De Lamarthe United States Commerce Court; appointed to the U.S. Clayton), a Representative from New York; born on theSenate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph F. Clayton estate near Clayton, Barbour County, Ala., OctoberJohnston, but his appointment was challenged and with- 19, 1862; attended the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa;drawn; died in Montgomery, Ala., December 21, 1929; inter- was graduated from the United States Military Academy atment in Fairview Cemetery, Eufaula, Ala. West Point in 1886 and appointed a second lieutenant in the Bibliography: DAB; Rodabaugh, Karl. "Congressman Henry D. Clayton Eleventh Regiment, United States Infantry; served until and the Dothan Post Office Fight: Patronage and Politics in the Progres- April 30, 1888, when he resigned to go into business as asive Era." Alabama Review 33 (April1980):125-49; Rodabaugh, Karl. civil engineer in Brooklyn; during the Spanish-American "Congressman Henry D. Clayton, Patriarch in Politics: A Southern Con- War was mustered into the United States volunteer service gressman During the Progressive Era." Alabama Review 31 (April 1978): as captain of Troop C, New York Volunteers, May 20, 1898; 110-20. was later placed in command of Troops A, B, and C of the CLAYTON, John Middleton (nephew of Joshua Clayton, New York Cavalry, and served throughout the Puerto Rican cousin of Thomas Clayton, and great-granduncle of C. Doug- campaign; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congresslass Buck), a Senator from Delaware; born in Dagsboro, (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901); unsuccessful candidate inSussex County, Del., July 24, 1796; pursued preparatory 1900 for reelection to the Fifty-seventh Congress; appointed studies at academies in Berlin, Md., and Milford, Del., and by President Roosevelt a captain in the United States Regu-was graduated from Yale College in 1815; studied law at the Biographies 791

Litchfield Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1819 and1815; elected as a Federalist to the Fourteenth Congress commenced practice in Dover; member, State house of repre-(March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); member, State senate 1821; sentatives 1824; secretary of State of Delaware 1826-1828;elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy elected to the United States Senate in 1829; reelected incaused by the resignation of Caesar A. Rodney and served 1835 and served from March 4, 1829, until December 29,from January 8, 1824, to March 3, 1827; chief justice of the 1836, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on the Judici-court of common pleas of Delaware in 1828; chief justice of ary (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses); chief jus-the superior court of the State in 1832; elected as a Whig to tice of Delaware 1837-1839; elected as a Whig to the Unitedthe United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the States Senate and served from March 4, 1845, until Febru-resignation of John M. Clayton; reelected in 1841 and served ary 23, 1849, when he resigned to accept a Cabinet position;from January 9, 1837, to March 3, 1847; chairman, Commit- Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Zacharytee on Printing (Twenty-seventh Congress); moved to New Taylor 1849-1850; while Secretary of State negotiated theCastle and retired from public life; died in New Castle, New Clayton-Buiwer treaty with Great Britain; elected as a WhigCastle County, Del., August 21, 1854; interment in Presbyte- to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1853,rian Church Cemetery, Dover, Kent County, Del. until his death in Dover, Del., November 9, 1856; interment Bibliography: DAB. in Presbyterian Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB; Comegys, Joseph. Memoir of John M. Clayton. Wi!- CLEARY, William Edward, a Representative from New mington: The Historical Society of Delaware, 1882; Wire, Richard. "John York; born in Ellenville, Ulster County, N.Y., July 20, 1849; M. Clayton and the Search for Order: A Study in Whig Politics and Di- attended the public schools and the Ellenville Academy; plomacy." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, 1971. moved to Brooklyn in 1879 and engaged in water transporta- tion; vice president of the New York Board of Trade and CLAYTON, Joshua (father of Thomas Clayton and uncleTransportation; was a founder, and served as president, of of John Middleton Clayton), a Senator from Delaware; bornthe Victory Memorial Hospital; elected as a Democrat to the at Bohemia Manor, Cecil County, Md., July 20, 1744; studied medicine in Philadelphia and practiced in Middletown, Del.;Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- during the Revolutionary War served as major in the Bohe-nation of Daniel J. Griffin; reelected to the Sixty-sixth Con- mia battalion of the Maryland Line and was an aide on thegress and served from March 5, 1918, to March 3,1921; staff of General George Washington at the Battle of theunsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty- Brandywine; delegate to the Provincial Congress 1782-1784;seventh Congress; elected to the Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth member, State house of representatives 1785, and 1787;Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1927); was not a candi- judge of the court of appeals; elected State treasurer in 1786;date for reelection in 1926; resumed his former business President of Delaware 1789-1793; first Governor of Delawareinterests; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., December 20, 1932; inter- 1793-1798; elected to the United States Senate to fill thement in Holy Cross Cemetery. vacancy caused by the resignation of John Vining, and CLEMENS, Jeremiah, a Senator from Alabama; born in served from January 19, 1798, until his death in Philadel-Huntsville, Ala., December 28, 1814; attended La Grange phia, August 11, 1798; interment in Bethel Cemetery, CecilCollege and was graduated from the University of Alabama County, Md. at Tuscaloosa in 1833; studied law at TransylvaniaUniversi- Bibliography: DAB. ty, Lexington, KY.; was admitted to the bar in1834 and CLAYTON, Powell, a Senator from Arkansas; born inpracticed in Huntsville; appointed United States district at- Bethel, Delaware County, Pa., August 7, 1833; attended thetorney for the northern districtof Alabama in1838; common schools and Partridge Military Academy, Bristol,member, State house of representatives 1839-1841; raised a Pa.; studied civil engineering in Wilmington, Del.; moved tocompany of riflemen in 1842 and served in theTexas War of Leavenworth, Kans., where he practiced his profession; ap-Independence; member, State house of representatives 1843- pointed city engineer in 1857; at the outbreak of the Civil1844; served in the United States Army during the Mexican War entered the Union Army and served until 1865, attain-War, attained the rank of lieutenant colonel; unsuccessful ing the rank of brigadier general; moved to Arkansas andcandidate for election in 1848 to the Thirty-first Congress; became a planter; elected Governor of Arkansas in 1868;elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the elected as a Republican to the United States Senate andvacancy caused by the death of Dixon H. Lewisand served served from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1877; chairman,from November 30, 1849, to March 3, 1853; novelist; moved Committee on Enrolled Bills (Forty-third Congress), Commit-to Memphis, Tenn., in 1858 and became editor of theMem- tee on Civil Service Retrenchment (Forty-fourth Congress);phis Eagle and Enquirer in 1859; returned to Alabama; dele- moved to Little Rock, Ark.; member of the Republican Na-gate to the convention in 1861 in which Alabama voted to tional Committee; Ambassador to Mexico 1897-1905; lived insecede from the Union; held office under the Confederacy, retirement until his death in Washington, D.C., on Augustbut became a strong Union supporter in 1864; died in Hunts- 25, 1914; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Fortville, Madison County, Ala., May 21, 1865; interment in Myer, Va. Maple Hill Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB; Burnside, William H "Powell Clayton: Politician Bibliography: DAB; Martin, John. 'The Senatorial Career of Jeremiah Clemens, 1849-1853." Alabama Historical Quarterly 43 (Fall 1981): 188-235. and Diplomat,1897-1905." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arkansas, 1978. CLEMENS, Sherrard, a Representative from Virginia, CLAYTON, Thomas (son of Joshua Clayton and cousin ofborn in Wheeling, Va. (now West Virginia), on April 28, John Middleton Clayton), a Representative and a Senator1820; appointed a cadet to the United States Military Acade-- from Delaware; born in Masseys Cross Roads, Md., Julymy at West Point, but resignedafter six months; was grad- 1777; received a classical education at Newark Academy;uated in law from Washington (now Washington and Jeffer- studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1799 and commencedson) College, Washington, Pa.; was admitted to the bar in practice in New Castle; clerk of the State house of represent- 1843 and commenced practice in Wheeling; elected as a atives in 1800, and a member of that body 1802-1806, 1810,Democrat to the Thirty-second Congress to fill the vacancy 1812,1813;secretary of State of Delaware 1808-1810;caused by the resignation of George W. Thompson and member, State senate 1808; State attorney general 1810-served from December 6, 1852, to March 3, 1853; elected to 792 Biographical Directory

the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-ary 6, 1948, having been elected Governor; elected Governor March 3, 1861); was not a candidate for renomination inof Kentucky in 1947 for the term ending December 1951 but 1860; member, State convention, 1861; resumed the practiceresigned in November 1950 having been elected as a Demo- of law in Wheeling, W.Va.; moved to St. Louis, Mo., andcrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused continued the practice of law; died in St. Louis, Mo., Juneby the resignation of Alben W. Barkley; at the same time 30, 1881; interment in Calvary Cemetery. was elected for a six-year term and served from November CLEMENT, Robert Nelson, a Representative from Tennes-27, 1950, to January 3, 1957; unsuccessful candidate for re- see; born in Nashville, Tenn., September 23, 1943; attendedelection in 1956; Democratic whip 1953-1957; director of the public schools in Nashville; B.S, University of Tennessee,United States Senate Democratic Campaign Committee 1967; M.B.A., Memphis State University, 1968; served in the 1957-1959; highway commissioner of Kentucky 1960; consult- Tennessee Army National Guard, 1969-1971, and in theant for the American Merchant Marine Institute 1961-1963; Army National Guard Reserve, 1971 to present; member ofconsultant to tobacco industry and president of the Tobacco the Tennessee Public Service Commission, 1973-1979; unsuc-Institute, Inc. 1964-1976; died on March 12, 1985 in Morgan- cessful candidate for nomination for Governor of Tennesseefield, KY.; interment in Morganfield Independent Order of in 1978; member, board of directors, Tennessee Valley Au- Odd Fellows Cemetery. thority, 1979-198 1; unsuccessful candidate for election in Bibliography: Syvertsen, Thomas H. "Earle Chester Clements and the 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress; president, CumberlandDemocratic Party, 1920-1950." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, University, 1983-1987; elected as a Democrat to the One 1982. Hundredth Congress, January 19, 1988, by special election to CLEMENTS, Isaac, a Representative from Illinois; born fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Hillnear Brookville, Franldin County, md., March 31, 1837; at- Boner and served from January 25, 1988, to January 3, 1989;tended the common schools; was graduated from the Indiana is a resident of Nashville, Tenn. Asbury College (now De Pauw University), Greencastle, Ind., CLEMENTE, Louis Gary, a Representative from Newin 1859; studied law in Greencastle; moved to Illinois and York; born in New York City June 10, 1908; attended St.taught school; entered the Union Army in July 1861 and Ann's Academy in New York City and LaSalle Militaryserved as second lieutenant of Company G, Ninth Regiment, Academy, Oakdale, L.I., N.Y.; received a Reserve officer'sIllinois Volunteer Infantry; remained in the service over certificate at Plattsburg, N.Y., in 1925 and a Reserve com-three years; was twice promoted; appointed register in bank- mission in1929; was graduated from Georgetown Lawruptcy in June 1867; elected as a Republican to the Forty- School, Washington, D.C., in 1931; admitted to the District ofthird Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful Columbia bar in 1931 and commenced the practice of law incandidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Con- Washington, D.C.; admitted to the New York State bar andgress, appointed a United States penitentiary commissioner also Supreme Court; entered the United States Army as ain 1877; United States pension agent at Chicago, Ill., from second lieutenant in 1941 and served until released fromMarch 18, 1890, until November 4, 1893; moved to Normal, active duty as a lieutenant colonel in 1946; member of theIll., in 1899; superintendent of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home New York City Council 1946-1949; elected as a Democrat toat Normal, Ill.; died in Danville, Vermilion County, Ill., May the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3,31, 1909; interment in Home Cemetery. 1949-January 3, 1953); unsuccessful candidate for reelection CLEMENTS, Judson Claudius, a Representative from in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress; executive vice presi-Georgia; born near Villanow, Walker County, Ga., February dent of Unexcelled Chemical Corp., Ohio Bronze Corp., Pre- 12, 1846; attended the common schools; served in the Confed- mier Chemical Corp., and Modene Paint Corp.; died in Ja-erate Army during the Civil War as a first lieutenant in the maica, N.Y., May 13, 1968; interment in St. John's Ceme-First Regiment, Georgia State Troops, Stovall's brigade; was tery, Flushing, N.Y. wounded at Atlanta July 22, 1864; studied law at Cumber- CLEMENTS, Andrew Jackson, a Representative fromland University, Lebanon, Tenn.; was admitted to the bar in Tennessee; born in Clementsville, Clay County, Tenn., De-1869 and commenced practice in La Fayette, Walker County, cember 23, 1832; attended a private school and Burritt Col-Ga.; served as school commissioner of Walker County in lege, Sparta, Tenn.; studied medicine and commenced prac-1871 and 1872; member of the State house of representatives tice in Lafayette, Tenn.; during the Civil War servedas 1872-1876; served in the State senate 1877-1880; elected as a surgeon with the First Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Volun-Democrat to the Forty-seventh and to the four succeeding teer Infantry; elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventhCongresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1891); was not a candi- Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3,1863); member of thedate for renomination in 1890; appointed on March 17, 1892, State house of representatives, 1866-1867; resumed the prac- a member, and in 1911 became chairman, of the Interstate tice of his profession; established a school on his estate forCommerce Commission and served until his death in Wash- the people of that section of the Cumberland highlands; diedington, D.C., June 18, 1917; interment in Cave Hill Ceme-- in Glasgow, Barren County, Ky.; November 7, 1913; inter-tery, Louisville, Ky. ment in Glasgow Cemetery. CLEMENTS, Newton Nash, a Representative from Ala- CLEMENTS, Earle C., a Representative and a Senatorbama; born in Tuscaloosa County, Ala., December 23, 1837; from Kentucky; born in Morganfield, Union County, Ky.,was graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloo- October 22, 1896; attended the public schools and the Uni-sa in 1858; entered Harvard University in 1859; studied law versity of Kentucky at Lexington; during the First Worldbut never practiced; during the Civil War entered the Con- War served in the United States Army, attained the rank offederate Army as a captain in the Twenty-sixth Alabama captain; engaged in agricultural pursuits; sheriff of UnionRegiment, afterward the Fiftieth Alabama Regiment; succes- County 1922-1925; clerk of Union County 1926-1933; judge ofsively promoted to major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel; Union County 1934-1941; member, State senate 1942-1944,member of the State house of representatives 1870-1872 and serving as majority floor leader in 1944; elected as a Demo-1874-1878, serving as speaker in 1876, 1877, and 1878; elect- crat to the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congresses anded as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress to fill the served from January 3, 1945, until his resignation on Janu-vacancy caused by the resignation of Burwell B. Lewis and Biographies 793 served from December 8, 1880, to March 3, 1881; unsuccess-1839; moved to Charleston, S.C., in 1839 and engaged in the ful candidate for renomination in 1880; largely interested inmercantile business; served as a director of the Bank of planting and cotton manufactures; died in Tuscaloosa, Ala.,South Carolina until his death; died in Charleston, S.C., on February 20, 1900; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. June 22, 1841; interment in St. Michael's Church Burial Ground. CLENDENIN, David, a Representative from Ohio; moved from Harford County, Md., to near Struthers in the Mahon- CLEVELAND, Orestes,a Representative from New ing Valley, Ohio, about 1806; was a pioneer in the iron andJersey; born in Duanesburg, Schenectady County, N.Y., steel industry; lived in Trumbull County, Ohio; served asMarch 2, 1829; attended the common schools; moved to first lieutenant of Capt. James Haziep's company of artilleryJersey City, N.J., in 1845 and became involved in the manu- attached to a regiment of the Ohio Militia in the War offacture of black lead, stove polish, and pencils; member of 1812; also as lieutenant paymaster in the Second Regiment,the board of aldermen of Jersey City in 1861 and 1862, Ohio Militia, from August 26, 1812, until January 19, 1813;serving as its president in the latter year; mayor of Jersey assistant district paymaster in the United States Army fromCity 1864-1866; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first Con- April 19, 1814, to December 19, 1814; elected as a Republicangress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); unsuccessfulcandidate to the Thirteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by thefor reelection in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress; engaged resignation of Reasin Beall; reelected to the Fourteenth Con-in business with the Forbes Fibre Co. of Jersey City; unsuc- gress and served from October 11, 1814, to March 3, 1817.cessful candidate for the nomination for Governor on the CLEVELAND, Chauncey Fitch, a Representative fromDemocratic ticket in 1880; again mayor of Jersey City 1886- Connecticut; born in Canterbury, Conn., February 16, 1799; 1891; was one of the organizers of the board of trade of attended the common schools; taught school from the age ofJersey City in 1888 and its first president; moved to Tenafly fifteen to twenty; studied law; was admitted to the bar inin 1892 and thence to Engelwood, N.J.; died March 30, 1896, 1819 and commenced practice in Hampton; member of thein Norwich, Windsor County, Vt., where he had gone in State house of representatives 1826-1829, 1832, 1835, 1836,search of health; interment in Fairview Cemetery. 1838, 1847, and 1848; served as speaker in 1836 and 1838; CLEVENGER, Cliff, a Representative from Ohio; born on State's attorney in 1832 and State bank commissioner ina ranch near Long Pine, Brown County, Nebr.,August 20, 1838; moved to Norwich, Conn., in 1841; Governor of Con-1885; moved in 1895 with his parents to Lacona, Warren necticut in 1842 and 1843; resumed the practice of law inCounty, Iowa, where he attended the public and high Hampton; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first andschools; engaged in the mercantile business at Marengo, Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853);Iowa, 1901-1903 and at Appleton, Wis., 1904-1914; president became affiliated with the Republican Party upon its organi-of the Clevenger Stores, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1915-1926; zation; delegate to the Republican National Convention inmanager of the F. W. Uhlman Stores,Bryan, Ohio, 1927- 1856 and 1860; member of the peace convention of 1861 held1938; also interested in agricultural pursuits, stock raising, in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to preventand stock feeding; elected as a Republican to the Seventy- the impending war; again a member of the State house ofsixth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, representatives in 1863 and 1866 and served as speaker in1939-January 3, 1959); was not a candidate for renomination the former year; engaged in agricultural pursuits and thein 1958; died in Tiffin, Ohio, December 13, 1960; interment practice of law; died in Hampton, Windham County, Conn., June 6, 1887; interment in South Cemetery. in Oak Hill Cemetery, Neenah, Wis. Bibliography: DAB. CLEVENGER, Raymond Francis, a Representative from CLEVELAND, James Colgate, a Representative from NewMichigan; born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., June 6, 1926; Hampshire; born in Montclair, Essex County, N.J., June 13,attended the Oak Park, Ill., schools; graduated from high 1920; attended public schools and Deerfield Academy; grad- school in 1944; served in the United States Army Medical uated from Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y., in 1941, andCorps, July 1944 to July 1946; resumed education and at- from Yale Law School in 1948; enlisted in United Statestended Roosevelt University in Chicago and the London Army in December 1941 and served forty months overseas inSchool of Economics and Political Science; graduated from the Pacific in the Fortieth Infantry Division and was dis-Roosevelt University in 1949 and from the University of charged as a captain of Field Artillery, February 1946; wasMichigan Law School in 1952; began the practice of law in recalled to oversea duty in the Korean conflict from JuneSault Ste. Marie in 1953; delegate to Democratic State con- 1951 to November 1952; awarded the Bronze Star for valor;ventions, 1954-1964; delegate to the Democratic National after graduation from Yale in 1948 served briefly in theConvention in 1956; admitted to practice law in Michigan, office of Senator Styles Bridges; was admitted to the bar inIllinois, and before the Federal courts; Chippewa County 1948 and began the practice of law in Concord and NewCircuit Court Commissioner, 1958-1960; member of the London, N.H., in January 1949; organizer, incorporator, offi-Democratic State central committee, 1958-1960; Michigan cer, and director of New London Trust Co.;member of theCorporation and Securities Commissioner, 1961-1963; elected State senate, 1950-1962, and twice served as majority flooras a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress(January 3, leader; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth and to1965-January 3, 1967); unsuccessful candidate for reelection the eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3,in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress; appointed by President 1981); was not a candidate for reelection in 1980 to theJohnson as chairman, Great Lakes Basin Commission, 1967- Ninety-seventh Congress; is a resident of New London, N.H. 1968; resumed the practice of law; is a resident of Ann Arbor, Mich. CLEVELAND, , a Representative from Georgia; born in Greenville, S.C., October 25, 1804; attended CLEVER, Charles P., a Delegate from the Territory of the local schools; moved to Georgia; member of the StateNew Mexico; born in Cologne, Prussia, February 23, 1830; senate 1831-1834; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-attended the gymnasium of Cologne and the University of fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignationBonn; immigrated to the United States in 1848 and settled of William Schley; reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-in Santa Fe, N.Mex., in 1850; engaged in trade from 1855 to fifth Congress and served from October 5, 1835, to March 3,1862; appointed United States marshal for New Mexico in 794 Biographical Directory

1857; became one of the owners of the Santa Fe WeeklyStates Infantry, April 20, 1819; attained the rank of briga- Gazette, a paper published in English and Spanish, in 1858;dier general April 20, 1829; commanded at the Battle of studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1861 and commencedOuithlacoochee against the Seminole Indians December 31, practice in Santa Fe, N.Mex.; appointed United Statesmar-1835; resigned September 21, 1836, and settled on a planta- shal and census enumerator in 1861; served as adjutantontion near St. Marys, Ga.; elected as a Whig to the Twenty- the staff of General Canby at the Battle of Valverde; adju-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of tant general of New Mexico 1861-1865 and in 1867 and 1868; John Millen and served from February 15, 1844, to March 3, attorney general 1862-1867; presented credentials as a1845; died in Macon, Ga., November 27, 1849; interment in Democratic Delegate-elect to the Fortieth Congress andBonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Ga. served from September 2, 1867 (date of election), to February Bibliography: Patrick, Rembert Wallace. Anstocrat in Uniform, General 20, 1869, when he was succeeded by J. Francisco Chaves, Duncan L. Clinch. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1963. who contested the election; appointed one of the incorpora- tors of the Centennial Exposition in 1869; served as a com- CLINE, Cyrus, a Representative from Indiana; born near missioner to revise and codify the laws of New Mexico;Mansfield, Richiand County, Ohio, July 12, 1856; moved to engaged in the practice of law until his death in Tome,Steuben County, md., in 1858 with his parents, who settled Valencia County, N.Mex., on July 8, 1874; interment in thenear Angola; attended the Angola High School, and was National Cemetery, Santa Fe, N.Mex. graduated from Hilisdale College, Michigan, in 1876; super- intendent of the schools of Steuben County 1877-1883; stud- CLIFFORD, Nathan, a Representative from Maine; born in Rumney, N.H., August 18, 1803; attended the publicied law; was admitted to the bar and began practice in schools of Rumney, the Haverhill (N.H.) Academy, and NewAngola, md., in 1884; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first Hampton Literary Institute; taught school and gave vocaland to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909- lessons; studied law in New York; was admitted to the barMarch 3, 1917); chairman, Committee on Expenditures on and commenced practice in Newfield, York County, Maine,Public Buildings (Sixty-second Congress); unsuccessful candi- in 1824; member of the State house of representatives 1830-date for reelection in 1916; resumed the practice of law in 1834 and served as speaker the last two years; attorneyAngola, Ind., and died there on October 5, 1923; interment in general 1834-1838; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-Circle Hill Cemetery. sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March CLINGAN, William, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born 3, 1843); was not a candidate for renomination in 1842; At-probably near Wagontown, West Colen Township, Chester torney General of the United States in the Cabinet of Presi-County, Pa.; justice of the peace 1757-1786; Member of the dent Polk and served from October 17, 1846, to March 17,Continental Congress 1777-1779; one of the first signers of 1848; commissioner to Mexico, with the rank of Envoy Ex-the Articles of Confederation in1778; president of the traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, from March 18,county courts 1780-1786; died on May 9, 1790; interment in 1848, to September 6,1849; through him the treaty wasUpper Octorara Burial Grounds, Chester County, Pa. arranged with the Mexican Government by which California became a part of the United States; resumed the practice of CLINGER, William Floyd, Jr., a Representative from law in Portland, Maine; appointed Associate Justice of thePennsylvania; born in Warren, Warren County, Pa., April 4, Supreme Court of the United States, January 28, 1858, and1929; attended the public schools of Warren; graduated from served until his death; president of the electoral commissionThe Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., 1947; B.A., The Johns Hop- convened in 1877; died in Cornish, York County, Maine, onkins University, Baltimore, Md., 1951; served in the United July 25, 1881; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland,States Navy, lieutenant, 1951-1955; associated with the New Maine. Process Co., Warren, Pa., 1955-1962; LL.B., University of Bibliography: DAB; Clifford, Philip G. Nathan Clifford, Democrat, 1803-Virginia, Charlottesville, 1965; admitted to the Pennsylvania 1881. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. bar in 1965 and commenced practice in Warren; delegate, CLIFT, Joseph Wales, a Representative from Georgia;State constitutional convention, 1967-1968; delegate, Repub- born in North Marshfield, Plymouth County, Mass., Septem-lican National Convention, 1972; elected as a Republican to ber 30, 1837; attended the common schools and Phillipsthe Ninety-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (Jan- Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; was graduated from the med- uary 3, 1979-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Warren, Pa. ical school of Harvard University in 1862; entered the Union CLINGMAN, Thomas Lanier, a Representative and a Sen- Army and was acting surgeon from July 13, 1862, to August 7, 1865; served in the Army of the Potomac until Novemberator from North Carolina; born in Huntsville, N.C., July 27, 18, 1866; practiced medicine in Savannah, Ga.; appointed1812; educated by private tutors and in the public schools in registrar of the city of Savannah by Major General PopeIredell County, N.C.; was graduated from the University of under the reconstruction acts; upon the readmission of Geor-North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1832; studied law; was gia to representation was elected as a Republican to theadmitted to the bar in 1834 and began practice in Hunts- Fortieth Congress and served from July 25, 1868, to March 3,ville, N.C.; elected to the State house of commons in 1835; 1869; presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-moved toAsheville, Buncombe County, N.C.,in1836; first Congress, but was not permitted to qualify; died in Rockmember, State senate 1840; elected as a Whig to the Twenty- City Falls, Saratoga County, N.Y., May 2, 1908; interment ineighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); unsuccessful the cemetery adjoining the Clift estate, North Marshfield,candidate for reelection to the Twenty-ninth Congress; elect- Mass. ed as a Whig to the Thirtieth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1847, to May 7, 1858, CLINCH, Duncan Lamont, a Representative from Geor-when he resigned to become Senator; chairman, Committee gia; born at "Ard-Lamont," Edgecombe County, N.C., Aprilon Public Expenditures (Thirtieth Congress), Committee on 6, 1787; entered the United States Army as first lieutenantForeign Affairs (Thirty-fifth Congress); appointed as a Demo- of the Third Infantry July 1, 1808; promoted to captaincrat to the United States Senate on May 6, 1858, to fill the December 31,1810; appointed lieutenant colonel of thevacancy caused by the resignation of Asa Biggs; reelected in Forty-Third Regiment, United States Infantry, August 4, 1861 and served from May 7, 1858, to March 28, 1861, when 1813; appointed colonel of the Eighth Regiment, Unitedhe withdrew; expelled from the Senate in 1861 for support of Biographies 795 the rebellion; chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Claimsthe First Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery, Kingston, N.Y., (Thirty-fifth Congress); during the Civil War was a brigadierin May 1908. Bibliography: DAB; Pagano, Frances B. "An Historical Account of the general in the Confederate Army; explored and measured Military and Political Career of George Clinton, 1739-1812." Ph.D. disser- mountain peaks; died in Morganton, Burke County, N.C., on tation, St. John's University, 1956; Spaulding E. wilder. His Excellency, November 3, 1897; interment in Riverside Cemetery, Ashe- George Clinton: Critic of the Constitution. 1938. Reprint. Port Washington, ville, N.C. N.Y.: I.J. Friedman, 1964. Bibliography: DAB; Jeffrey, Thomas. "Thunder From the Mountains: Thomas Lanier Clingman and the End of Whig Supremacy in North Caro- CLINTON, George (son of George Clinton [1739-1812] and lina."NorthCarolinaHistoricalReview56(October1979):366-95; cousin of De Witt Clinton and James Graham Clinton), a Kruman, Marc. "Thomas L. Clingman and the Whig Party: A Reconsider- Representative from New York; born in New York City June ation." North Carolina Historical Review 64 (January 1987): 1-18. 6, 1771; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1801; member of the State assembly 1804 and 1805; elected CLINTON, De Witt (half brother of James Graham Clin-as a Republican to the Eighth and NinthCongresses to fill ton, nephew of George Clinton [1739-1812] and cousin ofthe vacancies caused by the resignation of Samuel L. Mit- George Clinton [1771-1809]), a Senator from New York; bornchill (who had been reelected to the Ninth Congress); reelect- in Napanock, Ulster County, N.Y., March 2, 1769; was grad-ed to the Tenth Congress and served from February 14, 1805, uated from Columbia College in 1786; studied law; was ad-to March 3, 1809; died in New York City September 16, 1809. mitted to the bar in 1790 and commenced practice in New York City; private secretary to the Governor 1790-1795; CLINTON, James Graham (half brother of De Witt Clin- member, State assembly 1798; member, State senate 1798-ton, nephew of George Clinton [1739-1812] and cousin of 1802, 1806-18 11; delegate to the State constitutional conven-George Clinton1771-1809]), a Representative from New tion in 1801; member of the council of appointments in 1801,York; born in Little Britain, Orange County, N.Y., January 2, 1804; attended the common schools and Newburgh (N.Y.) 1802, 1806, and 1807; elected as a Republican to the UnitedAcademy; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1823 and States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofpracticed in Newburgh; master in chancery of Orange John Armstrong and served from February 9, 1802, to No-County; judge of the court of common pleas of Orange vember 4, 1803, when he resigned; mayor of the city of NewCounty; director of the old Newburgh Whaling Co. and of York 1803-1807, 1810, 1811, 1813, and 1814; while mayor hethe Delaware & Hudson Railroad project; colonel in the organized the Historical Society of New York in 1804 andState militia; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh was its president; also organized the Academy of FineArtsand Twenty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1841-March 3, in 1808; lieutenant governor of New York 1811-1813; unsuc-1845); chairman,CommitteeonPublicExpenditures cessful candidate of the Peace Party for President of the(Twenty-eighth Congress); was not a candidate for reelection United States in 1812; regent of the University of New Yorkin 1844; died in New York City May 28, 1849; intermentin 1808-1825; in 1809 was a member of the commission to ex-the family cemetery at Little Britain, New Windsor Town- plore a route for a canal between Lake Erie and the Hudsonship, N.Y., reinterment in Woodlawn Cemetery, NewWind- River, broke ground for that canal while Governor, and sor, N.Y. served several years as canal commissioner; Governor of the State 1817-1821, 1825-1828; died in Albany, N.Y., on Febru- CLIPPINGER, Roy, a Representative from Illinois; born in Fairfield, Wayne County, Ill., January 13, 1886;attended ary 11, 1828; interment in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn,the public schools; learned the printer's trade and engaged N.Y. in the newspaper business; publisher and editor 1909-1961; Bibliography: DAB; Bobbe,Dorothie. DeWittClinton. New York: Minton, Baich and Company, 1933; MeBain, Howard. De Witt Clinton and founder and president of the Board of Greater Weeklies, the Origin of the Spoils System in New York. New York: AMS Press,New York City; president of the Carmi, Ill., Hospital Asso- 1967. ciation 1945-1948; manager of the White County, Ill.,Bridge Commission 1941-1961; engaged in the furniture business CLINTON, George (father of George Clinton [1771-1809]1947-1950; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-ninth Con- and uncle of De Witt Clinton and James Graham Clinton), agress to fill the vacancy causedby the death of James V. Delegate from New York and a Vice President of the UnitedHeidinger; reelected in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress and States; born in Little Britain, Ulster (now Orange) County,served from November 6, 1945, to January 3, 1949; was not a N.Y., July 26, 1739; completed preparatory studies; served ascandidate for renomination in 1948; resumed his former lieutenant of rangers in the expedition against Fort Fron-business pursuits; was a resident of Carmi, Ill., wherehe tenac; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenceddied on December 24, 1962; interment in I.O.O.F. Cemetery, practice in Little Britain; clerk of the court of common pleasMcLeansboro, Ill. in 1759 and district attorney in 1765; surveyor of New Wind- CLOPTON, David, a Representative from Alabama; born sor; member of the State assembly in 1768;served on thein Putnam County, near Milledgeville, Ga., September 29, New York Committee of Correspondence in 1774; Member of1820; attended the county schools and Edenton (Ga.) Acade- the Continental Congress from May 15, 1775, to July 8, 1776,my; was graduated fromRandolph-Macon College, Boydton, when he was ordered to take the field as brigadier general ofVa., in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the bar in1841 militia; appointed brigadier general by Congress in Marchand commenced practice in Milledgeville, Ga.; moved to Tus- 1777; Governor of New York 1777-1795; president of thekegee, Ala., in 1844, and continued the practice of his profes- State convention which ratified the Federal Constitution;sion; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress and again Governor of New York 1801-1804; elected Vice Presi- served from March 4, 1859, to January 21, 1861, when he dent of the United States in 1804 as a Republican and servedwithdrew; during the Civil War enlisted as a private in the four years under President Thomas Jefferson; reelected inConfederate Army in the Twelfth Alabama Infantry for one 1808 and served under President James Madison until hisyear; elected as a Representative to the Firstand Second death in office; died in Washington, D.C., April 20, 1812;Confederate Congresses and served from 1862 to 1864; ap- interment in the Congressional Cemetery; reinterment inpointed judge of the supreme court of Alabama October 30, 796 Biographical Directory

1884, and served until his death; died in Montgomery, Ala., schools; was graduated from Albany (N.Y.) Academy in 1892 February 5, 1892; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. and from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1896; Bibliography: DAB. also studied at Oxford University in England; treasurer of CLOPTON, John, a Representative from Virginia; born inCluett, Peabody & Co. 1900-1916, vice president 1916-1929, St. Peter's parish, near Tunstall, New Kent County, Va.,and chairman of the board of directors 1929-1937; head of February 7, 1756; was graduated from the College of Phila-the employment division of the Watervliet (N.Y.) Govern- delphia (now the University of Pennsylvania) in 1776; stud-ment Arsenal in 1918; served on a special mission to France ied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; servedasfor-the Y.M.C.A. in 1918; member of the National War Work first lieutenant and as captain in the Revolutionary War;Council; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United wounded at the Battle of Brandywine; member of the Vir-States Senate in 1934; elected as a Republican to the Seven- ginia house of delegates 1789-1791; elected asa Republicanty-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-seventh Congresses (Jan- to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses (March 4, 1795-March 3,uary 3, 1937-January 3, 1943); was not a candidate for re- 1799); member of the Virginia privy council 1799-1801; elect-nomination in 1942; retired from public life and resided in ed to the Seventh and to the seven succeeding CongressesPalm Beach, Fla., and Troy, N.Y.; died in Troy, N.Y., Febru- and served from March 4, 1801, until his deathnear Tun-ary 4, 1954; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. stall, Va., September 11, 1816; chairman, Committeeon Re- visal and Unfinished Business (Tenth Congress); interment CLUNIE, Thomas Jefferson, a Representative from Cali- in the family burying ground on his plantation. fornia; born in St. John's, Newfoundland, March 25, 1852, Bibliography: DAB. while his parents were on a visit there from Massachusetts; CLOUSE, Wynne F., a Representative from Tennessee;moved with his parents to California in 1854; returned to the born in Goffton, near Cookeville, Putnam County, Tenn.,East and settled in Maine, and then went back to California August 29, 1883; attended the public schools;was graduatedin 1861; attended the public schools; studied law; was admit- from Cleveland Hill Academy, Pleasant Hill, Tenn., in 1898ted to the bar in 1868 and commenced- practice in Sacramen- and from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1911;to in 1870; member of the State assembly in 1875; delegate studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1911 and commencedto the Democratic National Convention in 1884; served in practice in Cookeville, Tenn., in 1912; delegate to the Repub- the State senate 1887-1889; took an active part in the State lican National Conventions in 1916 and 1924; electedas amilitia, and was retired as brigadier general; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-Democrat to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 19223, 1891); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; resumed the practice of law into the Fifty-second Congress; resumed the practice of his the city of Nashville; was appointed receiver of the Tennes-profession; died in San Francisco, Calif., on June 30, 1903; see Central Railroad Co.; served as special assistant to theinterment in the City Cemetery, Sacramento, Calif Attorney General of the United States in 1924; appointed referee in bankruptcy for the Nashville division of the CLYMER, George, a Delegate and a Representative from middle district of Tennessee and served until his resignationPennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 16, 1739; in January 1940; died in Franklin, Tenn., February 19, 1944;engaged in mercantile pursuits in Philadelphia; captain of a interment in Mount Hope Cemetery. volunteer company at the outbreak of hostilities with Great Britain and a member of the committee of safety; Member of CLOVER, Benjamin Hutchinson, a Representative fromthe Continental Congress 1776-1777 and 1780-1782; a signer Kansas; born near Jefferson, Franklin County, Ohio, Decem-of the Declaration of Independence; member of the State ber 22, 1837; attended the common schools; moved to Kansashouse of representatives 1785-1788; delegate to the conven- in 1871 and located in Cambridge; engaged in agriculturaltion which framed the Federal Constitution in 1787; elected pursuits; member of the board of school commissioners 1873-to the First Congress (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791); chair- 1888; twice president of the Kansas State Farmers' Allianceman, Committee on Elections (First Congress); was not a and Industrial Union and twice vice president of the nation-candidate for renomination in 1790; appointed collector of al organization of that order, elected as a Populist to theexcise duties in 1791, but resigned after the Whisky Insur- Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893);was not a candidate for renomination in 1892; resumed agricul-rection; one of the commissioners to negotiate a treaty with tural pursuits; died in Douglas, Butler County, Kans., onthe and the Creeks June 29, 1796; died at his December 30, 1899; interment in Douglas Cemetery. home, "Sommerseat," Morrisville, Pa., January 23, 1813; in- terment in Friends Meeting House Burial Ground, Trenton, CLOWNEY, William Kennedy, a Representative fromN.J. South Carolina; born in Union County, S.C., March 21, 1797; Bibliography: DAB; Grundfest, Jerry. "George Clymer, Philadelphia Rev- attended private schools and an academy; was graduated olutionary,1739-1813."Ph.D.dissertation,Columbia University,1973; from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1818; taught in Mohr, Walter H. "George Ciymer." Pennsyluania History 5 (October 1932): the public schools of Unionville and in the University of 282-85. South Carolina; member of the State house of representa- tives 1830-183 1; studied law; was admitted to the bar and CLYMER, Hiester (nephew of William Hiester and cousin began practice in Union; commissioner in equity of Southof Isaac Elimaker Hiester), a Representative from Pennsyl- Carolina 1830-1833; elected as a Nullifier to the Twenty-vania; born near Morgantown, Caernarvon Township, Berks third Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); elected as aCounty, Pa., November 3, 1827; attended primary schools at Nullifier to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837-MarchReading and was graduated from Princeton College in 1847; 3, 1839); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the De-studied law; was admitted to the bar of Berks County April partment of War (Twenty-fifth Congress); member of the6, 1849, and practiced in Reading and Berks County until State senate in 1840; Lieutenant Governor of South Caroli-1851, when he moved to Pottsville, Schuylkill County; re- na; died in Union, Union County, S.C., March 12, 1851;turned to Reading in 1856; represented Berks County on the interment in Fairforest Cemetery, Union County, S.C. board of revenue commissioners of the State in January 1860; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions at CLUETT, Ernest Harold, a Representative from NewCharleston and at Baltimore in 1860; member of the State York; born in Troy,- N.Y., July 13, 1874; attended the public senate from October 1860 until March 1866, when he re-- Biographies 797 signed; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election asted to the bar and commenced practice in Mineral Point, Governor in 1866; delegate to the Democratic National Con-Iowa County, Wis.; district attorney 1850-1854; member of vention in 1868; member of the State board of charities inthe State senate in 1855 and 1856; adjutant general of Wis- 1870; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third and to theconsin 1855-1858; member of the State assembly in 1860 and three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1881); 1861 and served as speaker during the last year; entered the chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department ofUnion Army as colonel of the Fifth Wisconsin Infantry July War (Forty-fourth Congress), Committee on Appropriations 12, 1861; became colonel of the Forty-third Wisconsin Infan- (Forty-fourth Congress), Committee on Expenditures in thetry on September 29,1864; brevetted brigadier general Department of State (Forty-sixth Congress); was not a candi-March 13, 1865; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth date for renomination in 1880; after his retirement fromand to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1863- Congress was vice president of the Union Trust Co. of Phila-March 3, 1871); moved to Lincoln, Nebr., and continued the delphia and president of the Clymer Iron Co.; died in Read-practice of law; appointed mayor of Lincoln, Nebr., in 1873; ing, Pa., on June 12, 1884; interment in the Charles Evansassociate justice of the State supreme court 1878-1892 and Cemetery. served as chief justice for four years; died in Los Angeles, Bibliography: Joachim, Walter. 'Heister Clymer and the Belknap Case." Calif., July 5, 1905; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Lin- Historical Review of Berks County 36 (Winter 1970-1971): 24-31. coln. Nebr. COAD, Merwin, a Representative from Iowa; born in Bibliography: Nelson, Meredith K. "Amasa Cobb." Nebraska Law Belle. Cawker City, Mitchell County, Kans., September 28, 1924; in tin 14 (November 1935): 197-213. 1932 moved with his parents to a farm near Auburn, Nebr.; COBB, Clinton Levering, a Representative from North graduated from high school in Auburn, Nebr., in 1941; stu- Carolina; born in Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, N.C., dent at Peru (Nebr.) State Teachers College in 1941 andAugust 25, 1842; attended the common schools and was grad- 1942, and Phillips University, Enid, Okia., 1942-1944; grad-uated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; uated from Texas Christian University at Fort Worth instudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced 1945; also studied at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa;practice in Elizabeth City, N.C.; engaged in the mercantile ordained to the ministry of Disciples of Christ Church,business; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first, Forty- Boone, Iowa, in 1945; associate minister St. Joseph, Mo., insecond, and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1948 and 1949; minister at Lenox, Iowa, 1949-1951, and1875); chairman, Committee on the Freedman's Bureau Boone, Iowa, 1951-1956; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-(Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses); unsuccessful can- fifth and reelected to the two succeeding Congresses (Janu-didate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; ary 3, 1957-January 3, 1963); was not a candidate for re-resumed the practice of law in Elizabeth City, N.C., and died nomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress; engagedthere on April 30, 1879; interment in Episcopal Cemetery. in residential and commercial construction; is a resident of Washington, D.C., and Harpers Ferry, W.Va. COBB, David, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Attleboro, Mass., September 14, 1748; was graduated from COADY, Charles Pearce, a Representative from Mary-Harvard College in 1766; studied medicine in Boston and land; born in Baltimore, Md., February 22, 1868; attendedafterward practiced in Taunton, Mass.; member of the Pro- the public schools, and was graduated from Baltimore Cityvincial Congress in 1775; lieutenant colonel of Jackson's College in 1886; engaged in mercantile pursuits; studied law;regiment in 1777 and 1778, serving in Rhode Island and New was admitted to the bar in 1894 and commenced practice inJersey; was aide-de-camp on the staff of General Washing- Baltimore, Md., in the same year; member of the Stateton; appointed major general of militia in 1786 and rendered senate for the term 1908-1912; reelected for the four-yearconspicuous service during Shays' Rebellion; judge of the term ending in 1916, but resigned in 1913, having beenBristol County court of common pleas 1784-1796; member of nominated as a candidate for Congress; elected as a Demo-the State house of representatives 1789-1793 and served as crat to the Sixty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused byspeaker; elected to the Third Congress (March 4, 1793- the death of George Konig; reelected to the Sixty-fourth,March 3, 1795); moved to the district of Maine in 1796 and Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses and served from No-engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected to the State senate vember 4, 1913, to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful candidate forof Massachusetts from the eastern district of Maine in 1802 reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress; resumedand served as president; elected to the State council in 1808; the practice of law; Baltimore City collector and manager ofLieutenant Governor in 1809; member of the board of mili- the bureau of receipts 1922-1925; died in Baltimore, Md.,tary defense in 1812; chief justice of the Hancock County February 16, 1934; interment in New Cathedral Cemetery.court of common pleas; returned in 1817 to Taunton, Mass., COATS, Daniel Ray, a Representative from Indiana; bornwhere he died April 17, 1830; interment in Plain Cemetery. in Jackson, Jackson County, Mich., May 16, 1943; attended Bibliography: DAB. the public schools; graduated from Jackson High School, COBB, George Thomas, a Representative from New 1961; B.A., Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill., 1965; J.D., Indi-Jersey; born in Morristown, N.J., October 13, 1813; became ana University School of Law, Indianapolis,1971; admittedan orphan when six years of ageand received very little to the Indiana bar in 1972 and commenced practice in Fortschooling; employed at an early age as a clerk in a store at Wayne; served in the United States Army, 1966-1968; dis-Denville, N.J., and later employed at the iron works at trictrepresentative,UnitedStatesCongressman DanPowerville and Boonton, N.J.; transferred to a store in New Quayle, 1976-1980; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-York City; engaged in foreign trade; retired from active seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3,business pursuits after having amassed a fortune; returned 1981-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Fort Wayne, md.to New Jersey; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh COBB, Amasa, a Representative from Wisconsin; born inCongress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); declined to be a Crawford County, Ill., September 27,1823; attended thecandidate for renomination in 1862; affiliated with the Re-- public schools; moved to the Territory of Wisconsin in 1842publican Party in 1863 and as such was elected a member of and engaged in lead mining; served in the Mexican War as athe State senate in 1865 and again in 1868; mayor of Morris- private in the United States Army; studied law; was admit-town 1865-1869; became a trustee of Drew Theological Semi- 798 Biographical Directory

nary in 1868 and served until his death; unsuccessful candi-Vegas, San Miguel County, N.Mex., June 2, 1903; interment date for election to the United States Senate in 1869; presi- in Evergreen Cemetery, Tuskegee, Ala. dent of the Sabbath School Association of Morris County; was killed in an accident on the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail- COBB, Seth Wallace, a Representative from Missouri; road at Jerrys Run, near White Sulphur Springs, Va.,born near Petersburg, Va., December 5, 1838; attended the August 12, 1870; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Morris-common schools; joined a volunteer company from his native town, N.J. county in 1861 and served throughout the Civil War in the Army of Northern Virginia; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1867 COBB, Howell (uncle of Howell Cobb [1815-1868]), a Rep-and was employed as a clerk in a grain commission house resentative from Georgia; born in Granville County, N.C.,for three years; in 1870 became engaged in the same busi- August 3, 1772; moved to Georgia and settled near Louis-ness on his own account; president of the Merchants' Ex- ville, Jefferson County, where he engaged in agriculturalchange in 1886; president of the corporation which built the pursuits; served in the United States Army as ensign andMerchants' Bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis; lieutenant in the Second Sub Legion and as captain in theelected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Artillerists and Engineers from February 23, 1793, until Jan- uary 31, 1806, when he resigned; elected as a Republican toFifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1897); was the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Congresses and servednot a candidate for renomination in 1896; resumed the grain from March 4, 1807, to 1812, when he resigned; returned tocommission business in St. Louis; vice president of the Lou- his plantation in Jefferson County, Ga., and resumed agri-isiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904; died in St. cultural pursuits; died on his plantation, "Cherry Hill," nineLouis, Mo., May 22, 1909; interment in Calvary Cemetery. miles northwest of Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga., May 26, COBB, Stephen Alonzo, a Representative from Kansas; 1818; interment in the family cemetery on his estate. born in Madison, Somerset County, Maine, June 17, 1833; COBB, Howell (nephew of Howell Cobb [1772-1818]), aattended the common schools; moved with his father to Min- Representative from Georgia; born at "Cherry Hill," Jeffer-nesota in 1850; studied languages and prepared for college; son County, Ga., September 7, 1815; moved with his father toentered Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., in 1854, where he was a Athens, Ga., in childhood; was graduated from Franklin Col-student for two years; was graduated from Brown Universi- lege (then a part of the University of Georgia), at Athens inty, Providence, R.I., in 1858; settled in Wyandotte, Wyan- 1834; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenceddotte County, Kans., in 1859 and commenced the practice of practice in Athens, Ga., in 1836; solicitor general of thelaw; entered the Union Army in 1862; became captain and western judicial circuit of Georgia 1837-1841; elected as acommissary sergeant of Volunteers on May 18, 1864; brevet- Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and to the three succeedingted major August 16, 1865, and honorably discharged on Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1851); chairman, Com-September 23, 1865; mayor of Wyandotte in 1862 and again mittee on Mileage (Twenty-eighth Congress); Speaker of thein 1868; served in the State senate in 1862, 1869, and 1870; House of Representatives (Thirty-first Congress); Governor ofmember of the State house of representatives in 1872 and Georgia 1851-1853; elected to the Thirty-fourth Congressserved as speaker; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); Secretary of the Treasury inCongress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful candi- the Cabinet of President Buchanan and served from Marchdate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; died 6, 1857, to December 10, 1860, when he resigned; chairmanin Wyandotte (now a part of Kansas City), Kans., August 24, of the convention of delegates from the seceded States which1878; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery, Kansas City, Kans. assembled in Montgomery, Ala., on February 24, 1861, to COBB, Thomas Reed, a Representative from Indiana; form a Confederate Government; appointed a brigadier gen-born in Springville, Lawrence County, md., July 2, 1828; eral in the Confederate Army February 13, 1862, and pro-attended Indiana University, Bloomington, md.; studied law; moted to major general September 9, 1863; surrendered atwas admitted to the bar in 1851 and commenced practice in Macon, Ga., April 20, 1864; died in New York City October 9, 1868;intermentinOconee Cemetery, Athens,ClarkeBedford md, commissioned major of Indiana Militia in County, Ga. 1852; moved to Vincennes, md., in 1867; member of the State Bibliography: DAB; Simpson, John E. Howell Cobb: The Politics of Am- senate 1858-1866; president of the Democratic State conven- bition. Chicago: Adams Press, 1973; Toombs, Robert. The Correspondence oftion in 1876; delegate to the Democratic National Conven- Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, and Howell Cobb. Edited by Ulrich tion in 1876; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to Bonnel Phillips. 1913. Reprint. New York: DaCapo Press, 1970. the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on Mileage (Forty-fifth and COBB, James Edward, a Representative from Alabama;Forty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Public Lands (Forty- born in Thomaston, Upson County, Ga., October 5, 1835;eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses); was not a candidate for attended the public schools, and was graduated from Emoryrenomination in 1886; resumed the practice of law and also College, Oxford, Ga., in June 1856; studied law; was admittedengaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Vincennes, Knox to the bar and practiced; moved to Texas in 1857; enteredCounty, md., June 23, 1892; interment in Old Vincennes the Confederate Army in 1861 as lieutenant in Company F,Cemetery. Fifth Texas Regiment, and served in the Army of Northern Virginia until he was made prisoner at the Battle of Gettys- COBB, Thomas Willis, a Representative and a Senator burg; after his release settled in Tuskegee, Ala., and prac-from Georgia; born in Columbia County, Ga., in 1784; pur- ticed law until 1874; circuit judge from 1874 to 1886; reelect-sued preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the ed in 1886, but before qualifying was elected to Congress;bar and practiced in Lexington, Ga.; moved to Greensboro, elected to the Fiftieth and to the three succeeding Congress-Greene County; elected to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Con- es (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1895); presented credentials as agresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); unsuccessful candi- Member-elect to the Fifty-fourth Congress and served fromdate for reelection to the Seventeenth Congress; elected to March 4, 1895, to April 21, 1896, when he was succeeded bythe Eighteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1823, to Albert T. Goodwyn, who contested his election; resumed theDecember 6, 1824, when he resigned, having been elected practice of law in Tuskegee, Macon County, Ala.; delegate toSenator;chairman, Committee on Public Expenditures the State constitutional convention in 1901; died in East Las(Eighteenth Congress); elected to the United States Senate to Biographies 799 fill the vacancy caused by the death of Nicholas Ware andment of Revenue 1973-1977; served again in theState house served from December 6, 1824, until his resignation in 1828;of representatives 1979-1983; practiced law in Greensboro judge of the superior court of Georgia; died in Greensboro,1979-1984; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-ninth and Ga., February 1, 1830. One Hundredth Congresses (January 3, 1985-January3, Bibliography: Mellichamp, Josephine. "Thomas Cobb." In Senators From 1989); is a resident of Greensboro, N.C. Georgia. pp. 96-98. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, Inc. 1976. COBURN, Frank Potter, a Representative from Wiscon- COBB, Williamson Robert Winfield, a Representativesin; born on a farm near West Salem, La Crosse County, from Alabama; born in Rhea County, Tenn., June 8, 1807;Wis., December 6, 1858; attended the public schools; engaged moved in 1809 to Bellefontaine, Madison County, Ala., within agricultural pursuits near West Salem; also engaged in his father, who settled on a plantation and engaged in thethe banking business in West Salem; was an unsuccessful raising of cotton; received a limited education; was a clockDemocratic candidate for election in 1888 to the Fifty-first peddler for a short time and subsequently entered the mer- Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress cantile business in Bellefontaine; member of the State house(March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); was an unsuccessful candi- of representatives in 1845 and 1846; located on a plantationdate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress; re- in Madison County and engaged in cotton raising; elected assumed banking interests and agricultural pursuits near a Democrat to the Thirtieth and to the sixsucceeding Con- 1861, West Salem, Wis.; member of the county board of supervi- gresses and served from March 4, 1847, to January 30, sors 1894-1903, serving as chairman in1902 and 1903; jury when he withdrew; chairman, Committee on Revisal andcommissioner 1897-1932; trustee of the county asylum 1907- Unfinished Business (Thirty-first through Thirty-third Con-1932; member of the board of review of income taxes for the gresses), Committee on Public Lands (Thirty-fifth Congress); 2, unsuccessful candidate for election to the Confederate Housecounty 1912-1926; died in La Crosse, Wis., on November of Representatives in 1861; resumed agricultural pursuits in1932; interment in Hamilton Cemetery, West Salem, Wis. Madison County; elected in 1863 to the Confederate House of COBURN, John, a Representative from Indiana; born in Representatives, but did not take his seat when the newIndianapolis, md., October 27, 1825; attended the public Congress met, whereupon his fidelity was suspected and sub-schools and was graduated from Wabash College, Crawfords- sequently he was expelled by a unanimous vote; was killedville, md., in 1846; studied law; was admittedto the bar in by the accidental discharge of his own pistol while putting1849 and commenced practice in Indianapolis; member of up a fence on his plantation near Bellefontaine,Ala., No-the State house of representatives in 1850; judge of the court vember 1, 1864; interment in the plot of the Cobb familyof common pleas from 1859 to 1861, when heresigned to estate near Cobb's Bridge in Madison County, Ala. enter the Union Army; became colonel of theThirty-third Bibliography: Atkins, Leah. "Williamson R.W. Cobb and the Graduation Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, September 16,1861, Act of 1854." The Alabama Review 28 (January 1975): 16-31. and was mustered out September 20, 1864; brevetted briga- COBEY, William Wilfred, Jr., a Representative fromdier general of Volunteers March 13, 1865; appointed asthe North Carolina; born in Washington, D.C., May 13, 1939;first secretary of the Territory of Montana inMarch 1865 attended high school in Hyattsville, Md.; was graduatedbut resigned at once; elected judge of the fifth judicialcircuit from Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., in 1962, received an of Indiana in October 1865 and resigned in July1866; elected M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphiaas a Republican to the Fortiethand to the three succeeding in 1964; worked as a bank administrative assistant 1964-Congresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1875); chairman,Com- 1965 and as a chemical salesman 1965-1966; received amittee on Public Expenditures (Forty-first Congress),Com- M.Ed. in health and physical education from the Universitymittee on Military Affairs (Forty-second andForty-Third of Pittsburgh in 1968; physical education instructor 1967-Congresses); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1968, academic counselor and assistant athletic business1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; was appointed a justiceof manager 1968-1971, assistant athletic director1971-1976, the supreme court of the Territory of Montana onFebruary and director of athletics at the University of North Carolina19, 1884, and served until December 1885; returned toIndi- at Chapel Hill 1976-1980; unsuccessful candidate for lieuten-anapolis, and resumed the practice of law; died in Indianapo- ant governor in 1980; chairman of the Taxpayers Education-lis, md., on January 28, 1908; interment in CrownHill Cem- al Coalition 1980-1982; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982; president of Cobey &etery. Associates 1982-1984; elected as a Republican to the Ninety- COBURN, Stephen, a Representative from Maine; born in ninth Congress (January 3, 1985-January 3, 1987); was anBloomfield (now Skowhegan), Maine, on November 11, 1817; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1986; deputy secre-attended Waterville and China Academies; was graduated tary, North Carolina department of transportation, Januaryfrom Waterville (now Colby) College, Waterville, Maine, in 1987 to present; is a resident of Chapel Hill, N.C. 1839; taught a plantation school in Tarboro, N.C., in1839 and 1840; principal of Bloomfield (Maine) Academy 1840- COBLE, Howard, a Representative from North Carolina;1844; studied law at the Harvard Law School; wasadmitted born in Greensboro, Guilford County, N.C., March 18, 1931;to the bar in 1845 and commenced practice inSkowhegan; attended the public schools of Guilford County and Appa-member of the State board of education in 1849 and1850; lachian State University, Boone, N.C., 1949-1950; receiveddelegate to several Republican State conventions; elected as an A.B. from Guilford College, Greensboro,N.C., in 1958 and Congress on November 6, a J.D. from the University of NorthCarolina School of Law,a Republican to the Thirty-sixth Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1962; enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard1860, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Israel andWashburn, Jr., and served from January 2 to March 3, 1861; in 1952, served on active duty 1952-1956 and 1977-1978, Thirty-seventh Congress, that on reserve duty 1960-1982, currentlyholding the rank ofwas not a candidate for the captain; admitted to the bar in 1966; worked as a field claimelection having been held in September 1860, previous to his representative and superintendent for automobile insuranceelection to the Thirty-sixth Congress; member of the peace 1961-1967; served in the State house of representatives 1969;convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Northdevise means to prevent the impending war; resumed the Carolina 1969-1973; secretary of the North Carolina Depart-practice of law; postmaster of Skowhegan from July 25, 1868, 800 Biographical Directory

to January 23, 1877; was drowned in the Kennebec River, at1917, 1918-1921; private secretary to United States Senator Skowhegan, Maine, July 4, 1882; interment in South Ceme- William J. Stone and clerk to the Committee on Foreign tery, Skowhegan, Maine. Relations of the United States Senate in 1917 and 1918; COCHRAN, Alexander Gilmore, a Representative fromstudied law; was admitted to the bar in 1921 at St. Louis, Pennsylvania; born in Allegheny City (now a part of Pitts-Mo., but did not engage in extensive practice; secretary to burgh), Pa., March 20, 1846; attended private and publicRepresentative Harry B. Hawes 1921-1926; elected as a schools of that city, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., andDemocrat to the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy Columbia Law School, New York City; was admitted to thecaused by the resignation of Harry B. Hawes and at the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Pittsburgh, Pa.;same time was elected to the Seventieth Congress; reelected elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress (Marchto the Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Con- 4, 1875-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidate for reelectiongresses; did not seek renomination in 1934, but was an un- in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice ofsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for law at Pittsburgh; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1879, where heUnited States Senator; subsequently was nominated by con- continued the practice of law, and for more than twentyvention and elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress; reelect- years was general solicitor for the Missouri Pacific Railwayed to the Seventy-fifth and to the four succeeding Congress- Co. and head of its legal department in the West; also servedes; served from November 2, 1926, to January 3, 1947; chair- as vice president of the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountainman, Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments Railway; served as judge advocate with rank of lieutenant(Seventy-second through Seventy-sixth Congresses), Commit- colonel in the Missouri National Guard; died in St. Louis,tee on Accounts (Seventy-sixth through Seventy-ninth Con- Mo., May 1, 1928; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery. gresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1946 to the COCHRAN, Charles Fremont, a Representative from Mis-Eightieth Congress; died in St. Louis, Mo., March 6, 1947; souri; born in Kirksville, Adair County, Mo., September 27,interment in Calvary Cemetery. 1846; moved to Atchison, Kans., in 1860; attended public and COCHRAN, Thomas Cunningham, a Representative from private schools; apprenticed to the printer's trade; editor andPennsylvania; born in Sandy Creek Township, near Sheak- publisher of the Atchison Patriot in 1868 and 1869; studiedleyville, Mercer County, Pa., November 30, 1877; moved with law; was admitted to the bar in 1873 and practiced untilhis parents to Mercer, Pa., in 1879; attended the public 1885; prosecuting attorney of Atchison County, Kans., 1880-schools; was graduated from the Mercer High School in 1896 1884; returned to Missouri in 1885 and settled in St. Joseph; and from Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa., in engaged in the newspaper business and edited the St. Joseph1901; member of the faculty of Mercer Academy in 1902 and (Mo.) Gazette; served in the State senate 1890-1894; elected1903; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1903 and as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the three succeedingcommenced practice in Mercer, Pa.; district attorney of Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1905); wasa contestantMercer County 1906-1909; trustee of Westminster College; for renomination in 1904 but finally withdrewas a candi- elected as a Republican to the Seventieth and to the three date; founded the Observer, a weekly newspaper, of whichsucceeding Congresses (March 4, 1927-January 3, 1935); was he served as editor until his death in St. Joseph, Mo.,on December 19, 1906; interment in Mount Vernon Cemetery,not a candidate for renomination in 1934; delegate to the Atchison, Kans. Interparliamentary Union conferences in Paris in 1927, Berlin in 1928, Geneva in 1929, London in 1930, and Istanbul COCHRAN, James (grandfatherof James Cochranein 1934, and as an observer in Oslo in 1939, Istanbul in 1951, Dobbin), a Representative from North Carolina; born nearand Washington in 1953; resumed the practice of law; died Mount Tirzah Township, Person County, N.C., about 1767;in Mercer, Pa., December 10, 1957; interment in Mercer attended the public schools; engaged in agricultural pursuitsCitizens Cemetery. near Helena, N.C.; member of the State house of commons 1802-1806; served in the State senate in 1807; electedas a COCHRAN, William Thad, a Representative and a Sena Republican to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses (Marchtor from Mississippi; born in Pontotoc, Pontotoc County, 4, 1809-March 3, 1813); died in Roxboro, Person County,Miss., December 7, 1937; educated in the public schools of N.C., April 7, 1813; interment in the burial ground at LeasMississippi, graduated, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Chapel, five miles west of Roxboro, N.C. 1959 and the University of Mississippi Law School 1965; studied international law and jurisprudence at Trinity Col- COCHRAN, James, a Representative from New York;lege, University of Dublin, Ireland, 1963-1964; served in the born in Albany, N.Y., on February 11, 1769; was graduatedUnited States Navy 1959-1961; admitted to the Mississippi from Columbia College, New York City, in 1788; studied law;bar in 1965 and commenced practice in Jackson; elected as a was admitted to the bar; commissioned major in the ArmyRepublican to the Ninety-third Congress in 1972; reelected to by President John Adams; regent of the University of thethe Ninety-fourth and Ninety-fifth Congresses and served State of New York 1796-1820; elected as a Federalist to thefrom January 3, 1973, until his resignation, December 26, Fifth Congress (March 4, 1797-March 3, 1799); member of1978; was not a candidate for reelection to the House of the State senate 1814-1818; moved to Oswego, N.Y., in 1826;Representatives, but was elected in 1978 to the United postmaster of Oswego from September 27, 1841, to July 21,States Senate for the term commencing January 3, 1979; 1845; editor of the Oswego Democratic Gazette for severalsubsequently appointed by the Governor, December 27, 1978, years; died in Oswego, N.Y., November 7, 1848; interment into fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James 0. Riverside Cemetery. Eastland for the term ending January 3, 1979; reelected in 1984 for the term ending January 3, 1991. COCHRAN, John Joseph, a Representative from Missouri; born in Webster Groves, St. Louis County, Mo., August 11, COCHRANE, Aaron Van Schaick (nephew of Isaac Whit- 1880; attended the public schools; employed in the editorialbeck Van Schaick), a Representative from New York; born department of various St. Louis newspapers for severalin Coxsackie, Greene County, N.Y., March 14, 1858; attended years; assistant to the election commissioners of St. Louisthe common schools and the Hudson River Institute at Cla- 1911-1913; secretary to Representative William L. Igoe 1913-verack, N.Y.; was graduated from Yale College in 1879; Biographies 801 moved to Hudson, N.Y., in 1879; studied law; was admittedresentatives in 1796, 1797, 1807, 1809, 1812, and again in to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Hudson, N.Y.;1837, and served as speaker in 1812 and 1837; served in the city judge of Hudson in 1887 and 1888; district attorney ofTennessee senate 1799-1801; served as major general of Ten- Columbia County 1889-1892; elected as a Republican to thenessee Volunteers in the Creek War in 1813 and as colonel Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1897-Marchof a regiment of Tennessee riflemen, under Gen. Andrew 3, 1901); was not a candidate for renomination in 1900 butJackson, at New Orleans; elected to the Sixteenth and to the was elected associate justice of the supreme court of Newthree succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1827); York in 1901; reelected in 1915 for the term ending in 1928,chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Eighteenth and designated by Governor Miller presiding justice of the appel-Nineteenth Congresses); engaged in agricultural pursuits; late division of the State supreme court in 1922; retired fromfounded a school for deaf mutes in Knoxville, Tenn.; again a the bench in 1928 but served as official referee until 1941;member of the Tennessee senate in 1843; died in Rutledge, died in Hudson, N.Y., September 7, 1943; interment in River-Grainger County, Tenn., February 16, 1854; interment in the side Cemetery, Coxsackie, N.Y. Methodist Church Cemetery. COCHRANE, Clark Betton, a Representative from New COCKE, William (father of John Cocke and grandfather York; born in New Boston, N.H., May 31, 1815; moved toof William Michael Cocke), a Senator from Tennessee; born Montgomery County, N.Y.; was graduated from Union Col-in Amelia County, Va., in 1748; pursued preparatory studies; lege, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1841; studied law; was admittedstudied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; in com- to the bar in 1841 and practiced in Amsterdam 1841-1851,pany with Daniel Boone explored the territory of eastern Schenectady 1851-1855, and Albany, N.Y., from 1855 untilTennessee and western Kentucky; successfully led four com- his death; elected as a Democrat a member of the Statepanies of Virginians against hostile Indians in 1776 in Ten- assembly in 1844; trustee of Union College 1853-1867; elect-nessee; member, Virginia house of burgesses and acolonel of ed as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Con-militia; moved to Tennessee in 1776; member of the State gresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); was not a candidateconstitutional convention in 1796; upon the admission of for renomination in 1860; resumed the practice of law inTennessee as a State into the Union was elected to the Albany; delegate to the Republican National Convention inUnited States Senate and served from August 2, 1796, to 1864; again a member of the State assembly in 1866; died inMarch 3, 1797; was appointed his own successor, as there Albany, N.Y., on March 5, 1867; interment in Green Hillhad been no election by the legislature, and served under Cemetery, Amsterdam, Montgomery County, N.Y. this appointment from April 22, 1797, to September 26, 1797, COCHRANE, John, a Representative from New York;when a successor was elected; again elected to the United born in Palatine, N.Y., August 27, 1813; pursued preparatoryStates Senate as a Republican and served from March 4, studies, attended Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., and was1799, to March 3, 1805; appointed judge of the first circuit in graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1831;1809; moved to Mississippi, and was elected to the Mississip- studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1834 and practicedpi legislature in 1813; served under Gen. Andrew Jackson in in Palatine, Oswego, and Schenectady, N.Y.; moved to Newthe War of 1812; was appointed by President James Madison York City in 1846; surveyor of the port of New York 1853-as Indian agent for the ChickasawNation in 1814; died in 1857; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-Columbus, Miss., on August 22, 1828 and interred in that sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); chairman, city. Committee on Commerce (Thirty-fifth Congress); unsuccess- Bibliography: DAB. ful candidate in 1860 for reelection to the Thirty-seventh COCKE, William Michael (grandson of William Cocke and Congress; delegate to the Democratic National Conventionsnephew of John Cocke), a Representative from Tennessee; at Charleston and Baltimore in 1860; entered the Unionborn in Rutledge, Grainger County, Tenn., July 16, 1815; Army as colonel of the Sixty-fifth New York Infantry Junepursued classical studies and was graduated from the East 11, 1861; became brigadier general July 17, 1862, and servedTennessee College at Knoxville; studied law; was admitted to until his resignation on February 25, 1863, on account ofthe bar and practiced in Rutledge and Nashville; member of physical disability; chairman of the Independent Republicanthe State house of representatives; elected as a Whig to the National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1864, which 1845- nominated him for Vice President on the ticket with Fré-Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, mont for President but withdrew, with General Frémont,March 3, 1849); chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Pen- before the election; attorney general of New York 1863-1865;sions (Thirtieth Congress); was not a candidate for reelection collector of internal revenue for the sixth district of Newin 1848; held many local and State offices; died in Nashville, York in 1869; declined the position of United States MinisterTenn., February 6, 1896; interment in Mount Olivet Ceme- to Uruguay and Paraguay tendered by President Grant intery. 1869; delegate to the Liberal Republican National Conven- COCKERILL, Joseph Randolph, a Representative from tion at Cincinnati in 1872; member of the board of aldermenOhio; born in Loudoun County, Va., January 2, 1818; moved and served as president in 1872 and again a member in 1883;to Scott Township, Adams County, Ohio, in 1837 and settled appointed police justice of New York May 22, 1889, butin Youngstown; attended the public schools; taught school; resigned after serving a few weeks; died in New York Citycounty surveyor in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the February 7, 1898; interment in Rural Cemetery, Albany,bar in 1851 and commenced practice in West Union, Adams N.Y. County, Ohio; clerk of the court of common pleas; member of Bibliography: DAB. the State house of representatives in 1853 and 1854; elected COCKE, John (son of William Cocke and uncle of Williamas a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress(March 4, 1857- Michael Cocke), a Representative from Tennessee; born inMarch 3, 1859); entered the Union Army during the Civil Brunswick, Nottoway County, Va., in 1772; moved with hisWar and served as colonel of the Seventieth Ohio Volunteer parents to Tennessee, where he attended the public schools;Infantry; brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers March studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1793 and practiced13, 1865; again a member of the State house of representa- in Hawkins County; member of the Tennessee house of rep-tives 1868-187 1; resumed the practice of law; died in West 802 Biographical Directory

Union, Ohio, October 23, 1875; interment in West UnionWarrensburg, Johnson County, Mo., May 7, 1832; attended Cemetery. the common schools and Chapel Hill College, Lafayette COCKRAN, William Bourke, a Representative from NewCounty, Mo.; went to California in 1849; returned to Missou- York; born in County Sligo, Ireland, February 28, 1854; wasri in 1853; engaged in agricultural pursuits and studied law; educated in France and in his native country; immigrated toentered the Confederate Army as a lieutenant and served the United States when seventeen years of age; teacher in athroughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of colonel; at private academy and principal of a public school in West-the close of the war he settled in Sherman, Grayson County, chester County, N.Y.; studied law; was admitted to the barTex., and engaged in the practice of law; chief justice of in 1876 and commenced practice in Mount Vernon, N.Y.;Grayson County in 1872; delegate to the Democratic State two years later moved to New York City and continued theconventions in 1878 and 1880; moved to Jones County; ap- practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth Con- pointed judge of the thirty-ninth judicial district court in gress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); was not a candidate for1885, to which position he was elected in 1886 and reelected renomination in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; delegate toin 1890; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and Fifty- the Democratic National Conventions in 1884, 1892, 1904,fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897); was not a and 1920; member of the commission to revise the judiciarycandidate for renomination in 1896; engaged in farming and article of the constitution of the State of New York in 1890; elected to the Fifty-second Congress to fill the vacancystock raising in Jones County, Tex.; died in Abilene, Tex., on caused by the death of Francis B. Spinola; reelected to theMarch 18, 1915; interment in the Masonic Cemetery. Fifty-third Congress and served from November 3, 1891, to COCKS, William Willets (brother of Frederick Cocks March 3, 1895; was not a candidate for renomination inHicks), a Representative from New York; born in Old West- 1896, because of his opposition to the free-silver platform ofbury, Long Island, N.Y., July 24, 1861; attended private Bryan and Sewall and campaigned for McKinley; in 1900 returned to the Democratic Party and supported Bryan; schools and Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.; engaged elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth Congress to fill thein agricultural pursuits; elected commissioner of highways of vacancy caused by the resignation of George B. McClellan;the town of North Hempstead in 1894; reelected in 1896 and reelected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses andagain in 1898; served in the State senate in 1901 and 1902; served from February 23, 1904, to March 3, 1909; declined to member of the State assembly in 1904; delegate to the Re- be a candidate for renomination in 1908 to the Sixty-firstpublican National Convention in 1908; elected as a Republi- Congress; resumed the practice of law in New York City;can to the Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses unsuccessful candidate for election in 1912 to the Sixty-third(March 4, 1905-March 3, 1911); unsuccessful candidate for Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh Con-reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; again en- gress and served from March 4, 1921, until his death ingaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the board of man- Washington, D.C., March 1, 1923; had been reelected to theagers of Swarthmore College; president of the Friends Acad- Sixty-eighth Congress; interment in Gate of Heaven Ceme-emy, Locust Valley, Nassau County; vice president of the tery, Mount Hope, Westchester, N.Y. Roslyn Savings Bank; a director of the Bank of Westbury Bibliography: DAB; Bloom, Florence T. "The Political Career of William and the Bank of Hicksville; elected mayor of the village of Bourke Cockran." Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, 1970; Old Westbury, Long Island, N.Y., in 1924 and served until McGurrin, James. Bourke Cockran; A Free Lance in American Politics.his death there on May 24, 1932; interment in Friends Ceme- New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. tery, Westbury, Long Island, N.Y. COCKRELL, Francis Marion (brother of Jeremiah Varda- man Cockrell), a Senator from Missouri; born in Warrens- CODD, George Pierre, a Representative from Michigan; burg, Johnson County, Mo., October 1, 1834; attended theborn in Detroit, Mich., December 7,1869; attended the common schools; was graduated from Chapel Hill College,public schools and was graduated from the University of Lafayette County, Mo., in July 1853; studied law; was admit-Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1891; studied law; was admitted ted to the bar in 1855 and practiced in Warrensburg, Mo.;to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in Detroit in served in the Confederate Army as captain, brigade com-1893; assistant city attorney 1894-1897; member of the board mander, and brigadier general; captured at Fort Blakeley,of aldermen 1902-1904; mayor of Detroit in 1905 and 1906; Ala., in April 1865 and paroled in May 1865; at the close ofunsuccessful candidate for reelection; delegate to the Repub- the Civil War resumed the practice of law; elected as alican National Convention in 1908; circuit judge of Wayne Democrat to the United States Senate in 1874; reelected fourCounty 1911-1921; regent of the University of Michigan in times and served from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1905;1910 and 1911; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh chairman, Committee on Claims (Forty-sixth Congress), Com-Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); declined to be a mittee on Engrossed Bills (Fifty-first through Fifty-eighthcandidate for renomination in 1922; resumed the practice of Congresses, except for Fifty-third), Committee on Appropria-law; again elected circuit judge of Wayne County in 1924 tions (Fifty-third Congress); appointed by President Theodoreand served until his death in Detroit, Mich., on February 16, Roosevelt a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission 1927; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. 1905-1910; appointed in 1911 a United States commissioner to reestablish the boundary line between Texas and New CODDING, James lodge, a Representative from Pennsyl- Mexico; civilian member of the board of ordnance in thevania; born in Pike Township, Bradford County, Pa., July 8, War Department, which position he held until his death in1849; moved to Towanda, Pa., in 1854; attended the Susque- Washington, D.C., December 13, 1915; interment in Warrens-hanna Collegiate Institute, Towanda, Pa., and Dartmouth burg Cemetery, Warrensburg, Mo. College, Hanover, N.H.; engaged in the hardware business at Bibliography: DAB; Cockrell, Francis. The Senator From Missouri, TheTowanda in 1868; studied law; was admitted to the bar and Life and Times of Francis Marion Cockrell. New York: Exposition Press,commenced practice in Towanda, Pa., in 1879; elected as a 1962; Williamson, Hugh P. "Correspondence of Senator Francis Marion Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy Cockrell: December 23, 1885-March 24, 1888." Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society 28 (July 1989): 296-305. caused by the death of Myron B. Wright; reelected to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served from November 5, 1895, to COCKRELL, Jeremiah Vardaman (brother of FrancisMarch 3, 1899; was not a candidate for reelection in 1898; Marion Cockrell), a Representative from Texas; born nearresumed the practice Of law in Towanda; moved to New Biographies 803

York City in 1903; grand secretary general of the northernsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Masonic jurisdiction for the Scottish Rite bodies from 1902 Congress, for election in 1950 to the Eighty-secondCongress, until his death in Brooklyn, N.Y., September 12, 1919; inter-and in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress; practicing attorney ment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Towanda, Bradford County, Pa.in Tacoma and Seattle, Wash.; is a resident of Tacoma, Wash. COELHO, Anthony Lee, a Representative from California; born in Los Banos, Merced County, Calif., June 15, 1942; COFFEEN, Henry Asa, a Representative from Wyoming; attended the public schools in Dos Palos; B.A., Loyola Uni-born near Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio, February14, 1841; versity, Los Angeles, 1964; staff member of United Statesmoved with his parents to Indiana, and thence to Homer, Representative B. F. Sisk, 1965-1978; became administrativeChampaign County,Ill.,in 1853; attended the country assistant in 1970; staff director, Subcommittee on Cotton,schools and was graduated from the scientific department of House Agriculture Committee, 1971-1972; consultant, HouseAbingdon College (afterwards consolidated with Eureka Col- Parking Committee, 197 1-1974; staff coordinator, House Sub-lege), Illinois; engaged in teaching; member of the faculty of committee on Broadcasting, House Rules Committee, andHiram College, Ohio; moved to Sheridan, Sheridan County, House Select Committee on Professional Sports, 1965-1976;Wyo., in 1884; delegate from Wyoming to the World's Fair delegate, California State Democratic convention, 1977 toCongress of Bankers and Financiers at Chicago in June present; delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1976,1893; member of the constitutional convention that framed 1980, 1984 and 1988; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-the constitution of the new State of Wyoming in 1889; elect- sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3,ed as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4,1893- 1979-January 3, 1989); majority whip (One Hundredth Con-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 gress); is a resident of Merced, Calif. to the Fifty fourth Congress, engaged in literary pursuits COFFEE, Harry Buffington, a Representative from Ne-until his death in Sheridan, Wyo., December 9, 1912; inter- braska; born near Harrison, Sioux County, Nebr., March 16,ment in Sheridan Cemetery. 1890; attended the public schools at Chadron, Nebr.; Univer- COFFEY, Robert Lewis, Jr., a Representative from Penn- sity of Nebraska at Lincoln, A.B., 1913; engaged in the realsylvania; born in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tenn., Oc- estate and insurance business in Chadron, Nebr., 1914-1939;tober 21, 1918; moved with his parents in early boyhood to served as a second lieutenant in the Air Service in 1917 andPennsylvania and graduated from the Ferndale High School 1918; organized the Coffee Cattle Co., Inc., in 1915 within 1935; also attended the University of Pittsburgh and Penn extensive ranch holdings in Sioux County, Nebr.; also en-State College; employed in coal mines in all positionsfrom gaged in agricultural pursuits; elected as a Democrat to thecoal loader to engineer; appointed a flying cadetSeptember Seventy-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (Jan-23, 1939; commissioned a second lieutenant in June1940; uary 3, 1935-January 3, 1943); was not acandidate for re-promoted to first lieutenant November 1, 1941, andserved in nomination in 1942, but was an unsuccessful candidate forthe United States Army Air Force during theSecond World the Democratic nomination to the United States Senate;War; military air attaché, United States Embassy,Santiago, president of a stockyard company and also of a terminalChile, from October 1945 to April 1948; resignedhis commis- railway company from 1943 until 1961 when he was namedsion as a lieutenant colonel September 1, 1948, to pursue chairman of the board; died in Omaha, Nebr., October 3, political candidacy; commissioned a colonel, AirForce Re-- 1972; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery. serve, September 2,1948; awarded Distinguished Flying COFFEE, John, a Representative from Georgia; born inCross, Air Medal, Purple Heart, Bronze Star,Presidential Prince Edward County, Va., December 3, 1782; moved withCitation, and Belgian and French Croix de Guerre;elected his father to a plantation near Powelton, Hancock County,as a Democrat to theEighty-first Congress and served from Ga., in 1800; settled in Telfair County in 1807 and engagedJanuary 3, 1949, until his death in an airplaneaccident in in agricultural pursuits; general of the State militia duringAlbuquerque, N.Mex., April 20, 1949; interment inArlington the Creek War; cut a road through the State of GeorgiaNational Cemetery. (called Coffee Road) to carry munitions of war to Florida COFFIN, Charles Dustin, a Representative from Ohio; Territory to fight the Indians; member of the State senateborn in Newburyport, Mass., September 9,1805; attended 1819-1827; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third andthe public schools; moved with his parents toNew Lisbon, Twenty-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1833, the until his death; was reelected to the Twenty-fifth CongressColumbiana County, Ohio; studied law; was admitted to his death not havingbar in September 1823 and commenced practice inNew on October 3, 1836, announcement of Lisbon; clerk of the courts of Columbiana Countyin 1828; been received; died on his plantation near Jacksonville, Tel- Twenty-fifth Congress to fill fair County, Ga., on September 25, 1836; interment on hiswas elected as a Whig to the the vacancy caused by the resignation of AndrewW. Loomis plantation near Jacksonville, Ga.; reinterment in McRaeand served from December 20, 1837, to March3, 1839; de- Cemetery, McRae, Ga., in 1921. clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1838;resumed COFFEE, John Main, a Representative from Washington; the practice of law and engaged in banking;president of the born in Tacoma, Wash., January 23, 1897; attended theColumbiana Bank of New Lisbon; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, public schools; University of Washington at Seattle, A.B. andin 1842 and continued the practice of law; electedjudge of LL.B., 1920 and from the law department of YaleUniversity,the superior court in 1845 and served seven years; was ap- J.D., 1921; was admitted to the bar in 1922 and commencedpointed to the same position by Governor Denison in1861; practice in Tacoma, Wash.; secretary to United States Sena-died in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 28, 1880; interment in tor C.C. Dill in 1923 and 1924; secretary of theadvisorySpring Grove Cemetery. board of the National Recovery Administration1933-1935; appraiser and examiner of Pierce County for the Washing- COFFIN, Charles Edward, a Representative from Mary- ton State Inheritance Tax and Escheat Division1933-1936; land; born in Boston, Mass., July 18, 1841; attended the civil service commissioner for Tacoma, Wash., in 1936;elect-Boston grammar and high schools; moved toMaryland in ed as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth and to the four suc-1863 and settled in Muirkirk, Prince Georges County,where ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1947); un-he took charge of the ironworks; member of theState house 804 Biographical Directory

of delegates in 1884; served in the State senate 1890-1894;moved to Boise, Ada County, Idaho, with his parents in 1898; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892;attended the public schools of Caldwell and Boise, Idaho, and elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third Congress to fill thewas graduated from the Phillips-Exeter Academy at Exeter, vacancy caused by the resignation of Barnes Compton; re-N.H., in 1906; attended Yale Sheffield Scientific School and elected on the same day to the Fifty-fourth Congress andwas graduated from the law department Yale University in served from November 6, 1894, to March 3, 1897; engaged in1910; was admitted to the bar in 1911 and commenced the the manufacture of charcoal pig iron, and subsequentlypractice of law in Boise, Idaho; served as assistant attorney became the owner of the Muirkirk blast furnaces; died ingeneral of Idaho 1913-1915; moved to Pocatello, Idaho, in Muirkirk, Md., May 24, 1912; interment in St. John's Protes-1917 and continued the practice of law; during the First tant Episcopal Church Cemetery, Beltsville, Md. World War served in the aviation branch of the United COFFIN, , a Representative from Maine;States Navy; mayor of Pocatello 1931-1933; elected as a born in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, July 11,Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress and served from 1919; educated in Lewiston public schools; graduated fromMarch 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C.,on June Bates College in 1940, from Harvard Business School in8, 1934; interment in Mountainview Cemetery, Pocatello, 1943, and Harvard Law School in 1947; served in the PacificIdaho. Theater with the United States Navy as an ensign and later as a lieutenant 1943-1946; was admitted to the bar and COFFROTII, Alexander Hamilton, a Representative from commenced the practice of law in Lewiston, Maine; lawPennsylvania; born in Somerset, Somerset County, Pa., May clerk for Federal judge, district of Maine, 1947-1949; chair-18, 1828; attended the public schools and Somerset Academy; man Maine Democratic State committee 1954-1956; electedpublished a Democratic paper in Somerset for five years; as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Congress-studied law in the law office of Hon. Jeremiah S. Black; was es (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1961); was not a candidateadmitted to the bar in February 1851 at Somerset, Pa., for renomination in 1960, but was unsuccessful for electionwhere he practiced his profession; delegate to several Demo- as Governor of Maine; managing director of Developmentcratic State conventions; delegate to the Democratic Nation- Loan Fund until October 1961 when he became deputy ad-al Conventions which assembled in Charleston and Balti- ministrator of the Agency for International Developmentmore in 1860; an assessor of internal revenue in 1867; dele- and served until 1964; appointed to serve as United Statesgate to the Democratic National Convention in 1872; elected Representative to Development Assistance Committee of theas a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,March 3, 1865); claimed reelection to the Thirty-ninth Con- Paris, France, 1964-1965; appointed to the United Statesgress; was seated on February 19, 1866, and served until Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, October 2, 1965, andJuly 18, 1866, when he was succeeded by William H. Koontz, served as chief judge of that court from 1972 to 1983; chair-who contested the election; elected to the Forty-sixth Con- man, U.S. Judicial Conference Committee on the Judicialgress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); chairman, Committee Branch, 1984 to present; is a resident of South Portland,on Invalid Pensions (Forty-sixth Congress); was not a candi- Maine. date for renomination in 1880; resumed the practice of law COFFIN, Howard Aldridge, a Representative from Michi-in Somerset, Pa.; he was the last surviving pallbearer who gan; born in Middleboro, Plymouth County, Mass., June 11,had served at the funeral of President Lincoln; died in 1877; attended the Vermont Academy at Saxtons River;wasMarkieton, Somerset County, Pa., September 2, 1906; inter- graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1901;ment in Union Cemetery, Somerset, Pa.

teacher in Friends School, Providence, R.I., in 1901;repre-- COGHLAN, John Maxwell, a Representative from Califor- sentative for Ginn & Co., book publishers, 1901-1911;con-nia, born in Louisville, Ky, December 8, 1835, moved with troller, Warren Motor Car Co., Detroit, Mich., 1911-1913;his parents to Illinois in 1847, and in 1850 they moved to manager, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., of Michigan, 1913-California and settledinSuisun City studied law, was ad 1918; secretary, Detroit Pressed Steel Co., 1918-1921; assist-mitted to the bar and practiced in Suisun City; member of ant to president, Cadillac Motor Co., of Detroit, 1921-1925;the State assembly in 1865 and 1866; elected as a Republican vice president and later president, White Star Refining Co.,to the Forty-second Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); 1925-1933; general manager, Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., 1933-unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872 to the Forty- 1946; elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress (Jan-third Congress; engaged in the practice of law until his uary 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate fordeath in Oakland, Calif., March 26, 1879; interment in reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; organized theMountain View Cemetery. Industrial Service Bureau in Washington, D.C., and wasa business consultant until his retirement in 1954; died in COGSWELL, William, a Representative from Massachu- Washington, D.C., February 28, 1956; interment in Wood-setts; born in Bradford, Mass., August 23, 1838; attended lawn Cemetery, Detroit, Mich. Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.; was graduated from the Dane Law School, COFFIN, Peleg, Jr., a Representative from Massachusetts;Harvard University, in 1860; was admitted to the bar and born in Nantucket, Mass., November 3, 1756; completedaca- demic studies; president of the New England Marine Insur-commenced practice in Salem; was commissioned a captain ance Co.; member of the State house of representatives inin the Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1783, 1784, and 1789; served in the State senate in 1785,May 11, 1861; lieutenant colonel October 23, 1862; colonel 1786, 1790-1792, 1795, 1796, and 1802; elected to the ThirdJune 25, 1863; brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers Congress (March 4, 1793-March 3,1795); State treasurerDecember 15, 1864; mustered out July 24, 1865; resumed the 1797-1802; died in Boston, Mass., March 6, 1805; intermentpractice of his profession; mayor of Salem 1867-1869, 1873, probably in Friends Burial Grounds; reinterment in Mountand 1874; member of the State house of representatives Auburn Cemetery in 1833. 1870, 1871, and 1881-1883; served in the State senate in 1885 and 1886; delegate to the Republican National Convention in COFFIN, Thomas Chalkley, a Representative from Idaho;1892; elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and to the four born in Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho, October 25, 1887;succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1887, until Biographies 805 his death in Washington, D.C., May 22, 1895; interment inshoe manufacturing business until 1903, when he engaged in Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Mass. the banking and brokerage business; vice chairman of the Public Schools Athletic League; honorary deputy chief of the COHELAN, Jeffery, a Representative from California; born in San Francisco, Calif., June 24, 1914; attended theNew York fire department; member of the New York Stock public schools and San Mateo Junior College; University ofExchange and director of the New York Cotton Exchange; California School of Economics, A.B.; Fulbright researchelected as a Democrat to the Seventieth Congress (March 4, scholar at Leeds and Oxford Universities in England in 19531927-March 3, 1929); was not a candidate for renomination and 1954; secretary-treasurer Milk Drivers and Dairy Em-in 1928; resumed his former business pursuits in New York ployees, Local 302, Alameda and Contra Costa Counties fromCity until his death there on October 12, 1940; interment in 1942 until elected to Congress; consultant, University ofMount Neboh Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. California Institute of Industrial Relations; member of COlT, Joshua, a Representative from Connecticut; born in Berkeley Welfare Commission 1949-1953, and the BerkeleyNew London, Conn., October 7, 1758; attended the common City Council 1955-1958; former member of San Franciscoschools, and was graduated from Harvard College in 1776; Council on Foreign Relations; elected as a Democrat to thestudied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- Eighty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses (Januarytice in New London in 1779; member of the State house of 3, 1959-Janaury 3, 1971); unsuccessful candidate for renomi-representatives in 1784, 1785, 1789, 1790, 1792, and 1793; nation in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress; executive di-served as clerk during several terms and as speaker in 1793; rector, Group Health Association of America to 1979; is aelected to the Third Congress; reelected as a Federalist to resident of Washington, D.C. the Fourth and Fifth Congresses and served from March 4, COHEN, John Sanford, a Senator from Georgia; born in1793, until his death in New London, Conn., September 5, Augusta, Ga., February 26, 1870; educated at private schools1798; chairman, Committee on Elections (Fifth Congress); in Augusta, Richmond (Va.) Academy, and Shenandoahinterment in Cedar Grove Cemetery. Valley Academy at Winchester, Va.; also attended the Bibliography: Destler, Chester McArthur. Joshua Coit, American Feder. United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1885 and alist, 1758-1798. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1962. 1886; became a newspaper reporter for the New York World COKE, Richard (nephew of , Jr.), a Senator in 1886; secretary to Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smithfrom Texas; born in Williamsburg, James City County, Va., 1893-1896; member of the press galleries of Congress 1893-March 13, 1829; attended the common schools and was grad- 1897; during the Spanish-American War served as a waruated from William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., in correspondent for the Atlanta Journal;, subsequently enlist-1849; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1850 and ed and served in the Third Georgia Volunteer Infantry,commenced practice in Waco, McLennan County, Tex.; en- attaining the rank of major; member of the army of occupa-tered the Confederate Army as a private; was promoted to tion in Cuba; president and editor of the Atlanta Journalthe rank of captain and served throughout the Civil War; 19 17-1935; originator of the plan for the national highwayappointed district judge in June 1865; elected judge of the from New York City to Jacksonville, Fla.; vice chairman ofState supreme court in 1866 and served one year before the Democratic National Committee 1932-1935; appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancybeing removed as "an impediment to reconstruction"; re- caused by the death of William J Harris and served fromsumed the practice of law in Waco, Tex.; Governor of Texas April 25, 1932, to January 11, 1933, when a successor was1874-1877, when he resigned; elected as a Democrat to the duly elected and qualified; was not a candidate in 1932 to ifilUnited States Senate in 1877; reelected in 1883 and again in the vacancy; continued in his former business activities until1889 and served from March 4, 1877, to March. 3, 1895; was his death in Atlanta, Ga., May 13, 1935; interment in Westnot a candidate for renomination; chairman, Committee on View Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga. Indian Affairs (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Revolu- Bibliography: DAB; Mejlichamp, Josephine. "John Cohen." In Senatorstionary Claims (Fiftieth through Fifty-second Congresses), From Georgia. pp. 240-44. Huntsville, Ala.: The Strode Publishers, Inc.,Committee on Fisheries (Fifty-third Congress); died in Waco, 1976. Tex., May 14, 1897; interment in Oakwood Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB; Fett, B.J. "Early Life of Richard Coke." Texana 4 COHEN, William Sebastian, a Representative and a Sena- (1972): 310-20. tor from Maine; born in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, August 28, 1940; attended the public schools; graduated, COKE, Richard, Jr. (uncle of Richard Coke [1829-18971), a Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1962; graduated, BostonRepresentative from Virginia; born in Williamsburg, Va., University Law School 1965; admitted to the Maine bar inNovember 16, 1790; completed preparatory studies, and was 1965 and commenced practice in Bangor; instructor, Univer-graduated from the College of William and Mary, Williams- sity of Maine 1968-1972; assistant county attorney, Penob-burg, Va.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- scot County 1968-1970; member, Bangor City Council 1969-menced practice in Gloucester County, Va.; elected as a 1972; member, Bangor School Board 1970-1971; mayor, cityJacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congress- of Bangor 197 1-1972; author; elected as a Republican to thees (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1833); died on his plantation, Ninety-third Congress in 1972; reelected to the Ninety-fourth"Abingdon Place," in Gloucester County, Va., March 31, and Ninety-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3,1851; interment in the family burying ground on the estate. 1979); was not a candidate for reelection to the House of COLCOCK, William Ferguson, a Representative from Representatives, but was elected in 1978 to the UnitedSouth Carolina; born in Beaufort, S.C., November 5, 1804; States Senate for the term commencing January 3, 1979;attended Hulburt's School, Charleston, S.C., and was grad- reelected in 1984 for the term ending January 3, 1991; chair-uated from South Carolina College (now the University of man, Select Committee on Indian Affairs (Ninety-seventhSouth Carolina) at Columbia in 1823; studied law; was ad- Congress). mitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in Coosa- COHEN, William Wolfe, a Representative from Newwhatchie, Jasper County, S.C.; also engaged in planting; York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., September 6, 1874; attendedmember of the State house of representatives 1830-1847; the public schools; became associated with his father in theelected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second 806 Biographical Directory

Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); a Regent of the COLE, Cornelius, a Representative and a Senator from Smithsonian Institution 1850-1853; collector of the port ofCalifornia; born in Lodi, Seneca County, N.Y., September 17, Charleston 1853-1865, serving first under the United States1822; attended the common schools, Ovid Academy at Ovid, Government and subsequently under the Confederate StatesLima Seminary at Lima, and Hobart College at Geneva, Government; delegate to the Democratic National Conven-N.Y.; was graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, tion at Charleston in 1860; resumed the practice of law; diedConn., in 1847; studied law; was admitted to the bar in in McPhersonville, Hampton County, S.C., on June 13, 1889;Auburn, N Y in 1848, went to California in 1849, and after -interment in Stoney Creek Cemetery, Beaufort County, S.C.working a year in the gold mines commenced the practice of COLDEN, Cadwallader David, a Representative from Newlaw in San Francisco in 1850; moved to Sacramento in 1851; York; born in Springhill, near Flushing, N.Y., April 4, 1769;district attorney of Sacramento City and County 1859-1862; prepared for college by a private tutor and pursued classicalmember of the Republican National Committee 1856-1860; studies at Jamaica, N.Y., and in London, England; returnedmoved to Santa Cruz in 1862; during the Civil War was to the United States in 1785; studied law; was admitted tocommissioned as a captain in the Union Army in 1863; the bar in 1791 and commenced practice in New York City;elected as a Union Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress moved to Poughkeepsie in 1793, and in 1796 relocated in(March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865); elected as a Republican to New York City; appointed district attorney in 1798 andthe United States Senate and served from March 4, 1867, to again in 1810; colonel of Volunteers in the War of 1812;March 3,1873; chairman, Committee on Appropriations member of the State assembly in 1818; mayor of the city of(Forty-second Congress); resumed the practice of law; moved New York in 1819; successfully contested the election ofto Colegrove, Los Angeles County, Calif., in 1880, and retired Peter Sharpe to the Seventeenth Congress and served fromfrom active practice; died in Hollywood, Calif., November 3, 1924; interment in Hollywood Cemetery. December 12, 1821, to March 3, 1823; member of the State Bibliography: Cole, Cornelius. Memoirs of . New York: senate 1824-1827; moved to Jersey City, N.J.; devoted much McLaughlin Brothers, 1908; Phillips, Catherine. Cornelius Cole, California time to the completion of the Morris Canal; died in Jersey Pioneer and U.S. Senator. San Francisco: Nash, 1927. City, N.J., on February 7, 1834. Bibliography: DAB. COLE, Cyrenus, a Representative from Iowa; born on a farm near Pella, Marion County, Iowa, January 13, 1863; COLDEN, Charles J., a Representative from California;attended the public schools, and was graduated from Central born on a farm in Peoria County, Ill., August 24, 1870; University, Pella, Iowa, in 1887; engaged in newspaper work, moved to Nodaway County, Mo., with his parents in 1880;and was connected with the Des Moines Register from 1887 attended the rural schools, Stanberry (Mo.) Normal School,to 1898, serving seven years as editorial writer; acquired an and Shenandoah College, Shenandoah, Iowa; taught schoolinterest in the Cedar Rapids Republican in 1898, and was in Missouri and Iowa 1889-1896; editor and publisher of theconnected with that paper until 1921, during which period Parnell Sentinel 1896-1900 and of the Nodaway Forum, athe founded the Times as an evening edition of the Republi- Maryville, 1900-1908; member of the Missouri house of rep-can; author of many publications; elected as a Republican to resentatives 1901-1905; president of the board of regents ofthe Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the Northwest Missouri Teachers College 1905-1908; moved toresignation of James W. Good; reelected to the Sixty-eighth Kansas City, Mo., in 1908 and engaged in the real-estateand to the four succeeding Congresses and served from July business and in the building of residences; moved to San19, 1921, to March 3, 1933; was not a candidate for renomi- Pedro, Calif., in 1912 and continued in the real estate andnation in 1932; engaged as an author and resided in Wash- building business; president of the San Pedro Chamber ofington, D.C., until his death there on November 14, 1939; Commerce 1922-1924; member and president of the Los An-interment in First Dutch Reform Church Cemetery near geles Harbor commission 1923-1925; member of the Los An-Pella, Marion County, Iowa. geles city council 1925-1929; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-fifth Congresses COLE, George Edward, a Delegate from the Territory of and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Washing-Washington; born in Trenton (now Trenton Falls), Oneida ton, D.C., April 15, 1938; interment in Roosevelt MemorialCounty, N.Y., December 23, 1826; attended the public schools Park Cemetery, Gardena, Calif. and Hobart Hall Institute; employed as clerk in a country store; moved to Illinois, thence to California in 1849, and COLE, Albert McDonald, a Representative from Kansas;later to Oregon in 1850; member of the Oregon house of born in Moberly, Randolph County, Mo., October 13, 1901;representatives in 1852 and 1853; engaged in mercantile pur- moved to Topeka, Kans., in 1909; attended the grade schoolssuits and steamboat transportation on the Willamette River; of Topeka, Kans., Sabetha (Kans.) High School, and Wash-clerk of the United States District Court of Oregon in 1859 burn College, Topeka, Kans.; LL.B., University of Chicago,and 1860; moved to Walla Walla, Wash, in 1860; elected as a 1925; was admitted to the bar in 1926 and commenced prac-Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1863- tice in Holton, Kans.; county attorney of Jackson CountyMarch 3, 1865); was not a candidate for renomination in 1927-1931; member and president of the Holton School1864; appointed Governor of the Territory by President Board 1931-1943; member of the State senate 1941-1945;Johnson in November 1866 and served until March 4, 1867; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-ninth and to thereturned to Portland, Oreg., in 1867; engaged in railroad three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3,construction 1869-1872; postmaster of Portland, Oreg., 1873- 1953); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to the1881; moved to Spokane, Wash., in 1889; treasurer of Spo- Eighty-third Congress; administrator, Housing and Home Fi-kane County 1890-1892; had extensive interests in mining, nance Agency, Washington, D.C., from March 1953 to Janu-manufacturing, and farming; died in Portland, Oreg., Decem- ary 1959; vice president of Reynolds Aluminum Serviceber 3, 1906; interment in Lone Fir Cemetery. Corp. 1959-1961, president, Reynolds Metals Development Corp., 1961-1967, and director 1967-1970; resident counsel, COLE, Nathan, a Representative from Missouri; born in McKenna and Fitting law office,1968-1981; consultant,St. Louis, Mo., July 26, 1825; attended the common schools Reynolds Metals Development Corporation, 1970 to present;and took a partial course at Shurtleff College, Alton, Ill.; is a resident of Washington, D.C. engaged in mercantile pursuits in St. Louis; a director of the Biographies 807

Bank of Commerce for forty-three years, most of which time COLE, William Clay, a Representative from Missouri; he was vice president; director in a number of insurance andborn on a farm near Fillmore, Andrew County, Mo., August other corporations; mayor of St. Louis 1869-187 1; president29, 1897; attended the public schools; served ten months as a of the Merchants' Exchange in 1876; elected as a Republicanmounted scout on the Mexican border with the Missouri to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879);forces in 1916; during the First World War served fourteen unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty-months in the war zone; was graduated from St. Joseph sixth Congress; resumed his former business activities in St.(Mo.) Law School in 1928; was admitted to the bar the same Louis, Mo., where his death occurred March 4, 1904; inter-year and commenced practice in St. Joseph,Mo.; member of ment in Bellefontaine Cemetery. the State house of representatives at a special session in COLE, Orsamus, a Representative from Wisconsin; born1942; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy- in Cazenovia, Madison County, N.Y., August 23, 1819; at-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, tended the common schools and was graduated from Union1949); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1843; studied law; was admit-Eighty-first Congress and for election in 1950 to the Eighty- ted to the bar in 1845 and commenced practice in Chicago,second Congress; elected to the Eighty-third Congress (Janu- Ill.; moved to Potosi, Grant County, Wis., the same year andary 3, 1953-January 3, 1955); unsuccessful candidate for re- continued the practice of law; member of the State constitu-election in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress; member, tional convention in 1847; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-Board of Veterans Appeals, Washington, D.C., from January first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); unsuccessful21, 1955, to July 31, 1960; resumed the practice of law in St. candidate for reelection in 1850 to the Thirty-second Con-Joseph, Mo., where he resided until his death September 23, gress; resumed the practice of law in Potosi until 1855; asso- 1965; interment in Fillmore Cemetery, Fillmore, Mo. ciate justice of the State supreme court 1855-1880, and chief COLE, William Hinson, a Representative from Maryland; justice from April 1881 to January 4, 1892; resumed theborn in Baltimore, Md., January 11, 1837; attended a private practice of law; retired in Milwaukee, Wis., where he died onschool; studied medicine, and then studied law; was admitted May 5, 1903; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison,to the bar and commenced practice in Baltimore in 1857; Wis. moved to Kansas City, Kans., and continued the practice of COLE, Ralph Dayton (brother of Raymond Clinton Cole),law; member of the Territorial house of representatives; a Representative from Ohio; born inVanlue, Hancockgraduated from the University of Louisiana in 1860; enlisted County, Ohio, November 30, 1873; attended the commonin the Confederate Army and was appointed surgeon of Bar- schools; was graduated from Findlay College, Findlay, Ohio,tow's Eighth Georgia Regiment; served in the Battle of Get- in 1896 and from Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio, intysburg, then took charge of the wounded in Longstreet's 1900; deputy clerk of Hancock County 1897-1899; studiedcorps; prisoner in Fort McHenry, Baltimore,for six months; law; was admitted to the bar in 1900 and commenced prac-returned South and acted as surgeon on the staff of Gen. tice in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio; member of the StateBradley Johnson, of Maryland, until the close of the war; house of representatives 1900-1904; elected as a Republicanwas appointed deputy register of Baltimorein 1870; resigned tothe Fifty-ninth,Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresseswhen elected chief clerk of the first branch of the Baltimore (March 4, 1905-March 3, 1911); unsuccessful candidate forCity council; served as a reading clerk of theMaryland State renomination in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; resumedhouse of delegates 1874-1878; became a reporter on theBal- the practice of law in Findlay, Toledo, and Columbus, Ohio;timore Evening Commercial, and later its proprietor; later legal adviser to the Comptroller of the Currency in 1912 andconnected with the Baltimore Gazette, and afterward with 1913; chairman of the speakers' bureau, Republican Nation-its successor, The Day, continuing with the pressuntil his al Committee, in 1916; delegate to the Republican Nationalelection to Congress in 1885; elected as a Democrat to the Conventions in 1916, 1924, and 1928; enlisted in the UnitedForty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1885, until States Army June 6, 1917, serving overseas as major andhis death in Washington, D.C., on July 8, 1886; interment in lieutenant colonel in the Thirty-seventh Infantry Division, taking part in many major engagements; was honorably dis-Bonnie Brae Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. charged from the service April 6, 1919; one of the founders COLE, William Purington, Jr, a Representative from of the American Legion at Paris February 16, 1919; resumedMaryland; born in Towson, Baltimore County, Md., May 11, the practice of his profession; sustained serious injuries in1889; attended the public schools; was graduated as acivil an automobile accident near Parkman, GeaugaCounty,engineer from Maryland Agricultural College (now Universi- Ohio, from which he died in Warren, Trumbull County,ty of Maryland) in 1910; studied law at the Universityof Ohio, on October 15, 1932; interment in Maple Grove Ceme-Maryland at Baltimore; was admitted to the bar in 1912 and tery, Findlay, Ohio. commenced practice the same year; commissioned as first COLE, Raymond Clinton (brother of Ralph Dayton Cole),lieutenant November 1917 and was assigned to the Three a Representative from Ohio; born in BiglickTownship, nearHundred and Sixteenth Regiment of Infantry, Seventy-ninth Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, August 21, 1870; attendedDivision, Camp Meade, Md.; served overseas; resumed the the common schools and Findlay College, Findlay, Ohio; practice of law in 1919 at Towson, Md.; elected as a Demo- taught school nine years; was graduated from the law de-crat to the Seventieth Congress (March 4, 1927-March3, partment of Ohio Northern University at Ada in 1900; was1929); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the admitted to the Ohio bar the same year and commencedSeventy-first Congress; resumed the practice of law in practice in Findlay, Ohio, in 1901; member of the NationalTowson Md.; again elected to the Seventy-second and to the Guard 1903-1913; served as city solicitor 1912-1916; electedfive succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1931, as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth,Sixty-seventh, and Sixty-until his resignation on October 26, 1942, to become a judge eighth Congresses (March 4, 1919-March 3, 1925); chairman,of the United States customs court, in which capacity he Committee on Elections No. 1 (Sixty-eighth Congress); wasserved until 1952; member of the Board of Regents of the an unsuccessful candidate forreelection in 1924 to the Sixty-Smithsonian Institution 1940-1943; named a member of the ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Findlay,Board of Regents of the University of Maryland in 1931 and Ohio, on February 8, 1957; interment in Bright Cemetery.became chairman of the board in 1944; appointed judge of 808 Biographical Directory the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals by COLEMAN, Nicholas Daniel, a Representative from Ken- President Truman July 10, 1952, and served until his deathtucky; born in Cynthiana, Ky., April 22, 1800; attended the in Baltimore, Md., September 22, 1957; interment in Arling-grammar and high schools; was graduated from Transylva- ton National Cemetery. nia College, Lexington, Ky.; studied law; was admitted to the COLE, William Sterling, a Representative from Newbar and practiced; member of the State house of representa- York; born in Painted Post, Steuben County, N.Y., April 18,tives in 1824 and 1825; elected as a Jacksonian to the 1904; attended the public schools; A.B., Colgate University,Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831); moved Hamilton, N.Y., 1925; Albany Law School of Union Universi-to Vicksburg, Miss., where he resumed the practice of law; ty, Schenectady, N Y, LL B, 1929, teacher in the publicpostmaster of Vicksburg 184 1-1844; again resumed the prac- schools, Cornmg Free Academy, Corning, N Y, m 1925 andtice of law; died in Vicksburg, Miss., on May 11, 1874; inter- 1928; was admitted to the New York Bar in 1929 and com-ment in Cedar Hill Cemetery. menced practice in Bath, N Y, in 1930, employed with m COLEMAN, Ronald D'Emory, a Representative from vestment firm, Albany, N Y, 1929-1930, unsuccessful candi Texas, born in El Paso, El Paso County, Tex, November 29, date for the Republican nommation m 1932 to the Seventy 1941, attended public schools of El Paso, B A, University of third Congress, elected as a Republican to the SeventyTexas at El Paso, 1963; J.D., University of Texas School of fourth Congress, reelected to the eleven succeeding ConLaw, 1967, attended the University of Kent, Canterbury, gresses and served from January 3, 1935, until his resigna-England, 1981; served in the United States Army, captain, tion December 1, 1957, to become Director General of the1967-1969; teacher, El Paso public schools, 1967; legislative International Atomic Energy Agency with headquarters inassistant, Texas house and senate, admitted to the Texas Vienna, Austria, 1957-1961; chairman, Joint Committee onbar, 1969 and commenced practice in El Paso, assistant Atomic Energy (Eighty-third Congress); resumed the practicecounty attorney, El Paso County, Texas, 1969-1973; elected of law in Washington, D.C.; was a resident of Arlington, Va.,to the Texas house of representatives, 1973-1982; delegate, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 15, 1987; inter--Texas constitutional convention, 1974; elected as a Democrat ment in Bath, N.Y. to the Ninety-eighth and to the two succeeding Congresses COLEMAN, Earl Thomas, a Representative from Missou-(January 3, 1983-January 3, 1989); is a resident of El Paso, ri; born in Kansas City, Jackson County, Mo., May 29, 1943;Tex. attended public schools; B.A., William Jewell College, Liber- COLEMAN, William Henry, a Representative from Penn- ty, Mo., 1965; M.P.A., New York University, New York,sylvania; born in North Versailles Township, Allegheny N.Y., 1969; J.D., Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., 1969;County, Pa., December 28, 1871; attended the public schools; admitted to the Missouri bar in 1969 and commenced prac-was graduated from Columbian University (now George tice in Kansas City; served as State assistant attorney gener-Washington University) Law School; mayor of McKeesport, al, 1969-1972; elected to the State house of representatives, 1906-1909; clerk of courts, Allegheny County, 1909-1915; del- 1972; reelected, 1974; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-egate to the Republican National Convention in 1912; was fourth Congress November 2, 1976, by special election, to filladmitted to the bar on November 10, 1913, and commenced the vacancy caused by the death of Jerry L. Litton, and atpractice in Pittsburgh, Pa.; elected as a Republican to the the same time elected to the Ninety-fifth Congress and re-Sixty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1917); unsuc- elected to the five succeeding Congresses (November 2, 1976,cessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth to January 3, 1989); is a resident of Gladstone, Mo. Congress; resumed the practice of his profession; died in COLEMAN, Hamilton Dudley, a Representative fromMcKeesport, Pa., June 3, 1943; interment in Richland Ceme- Louisiana; born in New Orleans, La., May 12, 1845; attendedtery, Dravosburg, Pa. public and private schools; enlisted in 1861 as a private in the Washington Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia, and COLERICK, Walpole Gillespie, a Representative from In served throughout the Civil War, surrendering at Appomat-diana; born in Fort Wayne, md., August 1, 1845; attended tox with Gen. Robert E. Lee; manufacturer and dealer inthe public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in plantation machinery at New Orleans; one of the organizers1872 and commenced practice at Fort Wayne, md.; elected as of the first electric lighting company established in Newa Democrat to the Forty-sixth and -Forty-seventh Congresses Orleans in 1880, serving as vice president and in 1881 as(March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); supreme court commissioner president of the company; active in the organization of thefrom 1883 to 1885; again engaged in the practice of law at World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in 1884Fort Wayne, md., until his death there on January 11, 1911; and 1885; member of the Republican State central commit-interment in Lindenwood Cemetery. tee in 1884; election commissioner in 1886; president of the COLES, Isaac (father of Walter Coles), a Representative New Orleans chamber of commerce in 1887 and 1888; one offrom Virginia; born in Richmond, Va., March 2, 1747; edu- the vice presidents of the National Board of Trade in 1888cated at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, and 1889; vice president of the New Orleans Board of TradeVa.; served as a colonel of militia during the Revolutionary in 1889; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first CongressWar; member of the State house of delegates 1780-1781 -and (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for1783-1788; member of the convention which met in Rich- reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress and for elec-mond, Va., in June 1788 to ratify the new Federal Constitu- tion in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; unsuccessful candi-tion, which he opposed; during his political career lived on a date for Governor in 1890 and 1894 and for Lieutenantplantation on Staunton River at Coles Ferry, Halifax Governor in 1892; delegate to the Republican League Con-County; moved to Pittsylvania County in 1798; elected to the vention at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1895; appointed melter andFirst Congress (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791); elected to the refiner of the United States mint at New Orleans in 1899Third. Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Fourth and served until March 1, 1905; served as a member of theCongress (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1797); died on his planta- United States Assay Commission in 1912; died in Bioxi,tion, "Coles Hill," near Chatham, Pitteylvania County, Va., Harrison County, Miss., March 16, 1926; interment in Me-June 3, 1813; interment in the family cemetery on his plan- tairie Cemetery, New Orleans, La. tation. - Biographies 809

COLES, Walter (son of Isaac Coles), a Representative fromadmitted to the bar in 1813 and practiced in Woodstock, Vt., Virginia; born at Coles Ferry, Halifax County, Va., Decem-from 1813 to 1833; member, State house of representatives ber 8, 1790; moved with his parents to Pittsylvania County,1821, 1822, 1827, 1828; State's attorney for Windsor County Va., in 1798; attended Hampden-Sidney College, Prince1822-1824; judge of the superior court 1833-1842; elected as Edward County, Va., and Washington College (now Washing-a Whig to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth ton and Lee University), Lexington, Va.; served as a secondCongresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1849); chairman, Com- lieutenant in the Second. Regiment of Light Dragoons in themittee on Manufactures (Twenty-eighth Congress), Commit- War of 1812; promoted to the rank of captain of riflemen ontee on Public Lands (Thirtieth Congress); appointed Postmas- the northern frontier; was honorably discharged in 1815 andter General by President 1849-1850; again returned to Virginia, where he engaged in agricultural pur-judge of the superior court of Vermont 1850-1854; elected in suits; justice of the peace; member of the State house of1855 as a Republican to the United States Senate; reelected delegates 1817, 1818, 1833, and 1834; elected as a Jacksonian in 1861 and served from March 4, 1855, until his death in to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a DemocratWoodstock, Windsor County, Vt., November 9, 1865; chair- to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1835-March 3, man, Committee on Engrossed Bills (Thirty-fourth Congress), 1845); was not a candidate for renomination in 1844; re-Committee on Post Office and Post Roads (Thirty-seventh sumed agricultural pursuits; died at his home, "Coles Hill,"through Thirty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Library near Chatham, Va., on November 9, 1857; interment in the(Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses); interment in family burying ground at "Coles Hill." River Street Cemetery. COLFAX, Schuyler, a Representative from Indiana and a Bibliography: DAB; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses for Jacob Col- Vice President of the United States; born in New York City lamer. 39th Cong., 1stsess., 1865-1866. Washington, D.C.: Government March 23, 1823; attended the common schools; in 1836 Printing Office, 1866. moved with his parents to New Carlisle, md.; appointed COLLIER, Harold Reginald, a Representative from Illi- deputy auditor of Joseph County 1841; became a legislativenois; born in Lansing, Ingham County, Mich., December 12, correspondent for the Indiana State Journal; purchased an1915; graduated from J. Sterling Morton High School in interest in the South Bend Free Press and changed its name1932; attended Morton Junior College, Cicero, Ill., in 1932 in 1845 to the St. Joseph Valley Register, the Whig organ ofand 1933; entered Lake Forest (Ill.) College in 1934 and left northern Indiana; member of the State constitutional con- in 1937 to become editor of Berwyn Beacon; editorial depart- vention in 1850; unsuccessful Whig candidate for election toment of Life Publications 1938-194 1; sales department and the Thirty-second Congress; elected as a Republican to thepersonnel manager Match Corp. of America, Chicago, Ill., Thirty-fourth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4,1941-1951; alderman Berwyn city council in 1951; advertis- 1855-March 3, 1869); was not a candidate for renominationing and public relations director McAlear Manufacturing in 1868, having become the Republican nominee for ViceCo., Chicago, Ill., 1952-1956; unsuccessful candidate for nom- President; Speaker of the House of Representatives (Thirty-ination for Illinois secretary of state in 1952; township super- eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses); elected Vicevisor of Berwyn 1953-1956; secretary-treasurer, Cook County President of the United States on the Republican ticketSupervisors Association, 1953-1956; president of Berwyn headed by Gen. Ulysses Grant in 1868, was inauguratedPublic Health Board 1953-1956; chairman first senatorial March 4, 1869, and served until March 3, 1873; unsuccessfuldistrict Republican committee 1954-1974; secretary, third candidate for renomination in 1872, owing to charges oflegislative district, Republican committee, 1954-1974; elected corruption in connection with the Credit Mobilier of Amer-as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth and to the eight succeed- ica scandal; lecturer; died in Mankato, Blue Earth County,ing Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1975); was not a Minn., January 13, 1885; interment in City Cemetery, Southcandidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety fourth Con Bend, md. gress; is a resident of Boynton Beach, Fla. Bibliography: DAB; Hollister, Ovando. Life of &huyler Colfax. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1886; Smith, Willard. : The COLLIER, James William, a Representative from Missis- Changing Fortunes of a Political Idol.Indianapolis: Indiana Historical sippi; born in Warren County, Miss., on the Glenwood plan- Bureau, 1952. tation near Vicksburg September 28, 1872; attended the COLHOUN, John Ewing (cousin of John Caldwell Cal-graded and high schools; was graduated from the law depart- houn and Joseph Calhoun), a Senator from South Carolina;ment of the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1894; was born in Staunton, Augusta County, Va., around 1749; attend-admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice ed the common schools and was graduated from the Collegein Vicksburg; member of the State house of representatives of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1774; member, 1896-1899; circuit clerk of Warren County from 1900 until State house of representatives 1778-1800; studied law; was1909; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the admitted to the bar in 1783 and commenced practice ineleven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1933); Charleston, S.C.; farmer; elected a member of the privychairman, Commitee on Ways and Means (Seventy-second council and also a commissioner of confiscated estates inCongress), declined to become a candidate for reelection in 1785; member, State senate 1801; member of the committee1932 to the Seventy-third Congress, after a controversy over which was instructed to report a modification of the judici-whether candidates should run at large or by districts; ap- ary system of the United States; elected as a Republican topointed a member of the United States Tariff Commission by the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1801,President Franklin D. Roosevelt and served from March 28, until his death in Pendleton, S.C., October 26, 1802; inter-1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., September 28, ment in the family cemetery, Old Pendleton District, now1933; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss. Pickens County, South Carolina. COLLIER, John Allen(great-grandfatherof Edwin COLLAMER, Jacob, a Representative and a Senator fromArthur Hall), a Representative from New York; born in Vermont; born in Troy, N.Y., January 8, 1791; moved withLitchfield, Conn., November 13, 1787; attended Yale College his father to Burlington, Vt.; attended the common schools,in 1803; studied law in the Litchfield Law School; was admit- and was graduated from the University of Vermont at Bur-ted to the bar at Troy, N.Y., in 1809 and commenced prac- lington in 1810; served in the War of 1812; studied law; wastice in Binghamton, Broome County, N.Y.; district attorney 810 Biographical Directory of Broome County June 11, 1818, to February 25, 1822; elect-March 5, 1925; graduated from Waller High School and stud- ed as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second Con-ied business law at Northwestern University; served with gress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); unsuccessful candidate Army Engineers in South Pacific during the Second World for reelection in 1832 to the Twenty-third Congress; comp-War; after being discharged, held positions with Cook troller of the State of New York January 27, 1841, to Febru-County sheriff's department, the municipal court system, ary 7, 1842; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1844 toand the Board of Health; administrative assistant to health the Twenty-ninth Congress; appointed a commissioner tocommissioner, 1963; alderman, Chicago city council, 1964- revise the statutes in 1847; presidential elector on the Whig1970; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-first Congress, ticket in 1848; resumed his law practice; died in Bingham-November 3, 1970, by special election, to fill the vacancy ton, N.Y., March 24, 1873; interment in Spring Forest Ceme-caused by the death of Daniel J. Ronan and at the same tery. time elected to the Ninety-second Congress; reelected to the Bibliography: Philp, Kenneth R. "John Collier and the Indians of the Ninety-third Congress, and served from November 3, 1970, Americas: The Dream and the Reality." Prologue 11 (Spring 1979): 5-21. until his death December 8, 1972, in an air crash during COLLIN, John Francis, a Representative from New York;landing approach to Midway Airport, Chicago, Ill.; inter- born in Hillsdale, N.Y., April 30, 1802; attended the commonment in Burr Oak Cemetery. schools and Lenox Academy, Massachusetts; engaged in agri- cultural pursuits; member of the State assembly in 1834; COLLINS, James Mitchell, a Representative from Texas; supervisor of Hillsdale; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-born in Hallsville, Dallas County, Tex., April 29, 1916; at- ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); chairman,tended high school in Dallas, Tex.; Southern Methodist Uni- Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navyversity, B.S.C., 1937; Northwestern University, M.B.A., 1938; (Twenty-ninth Congress); resumed agricultural pursuits; died American College, C.L.U. degree in life insurance, 1940; Har- in Hilisdale, Columbia County, N.Y., September 16, 1889;vard Business School, M.B.A., 1943; three and one-half years interment in Hillsdale Rural Cemetery. in the United States Army; completed service as captain, United States Army Engineers; one and one-half years in COLLINS, Cardiss (wife of George Washington Collins), athe European Theater from Omaha Beach through France, Representative from Illinois; born Cardiss Hortense Robert-Belgium, and Germany; president: Consolidated Industries, son in St. Louis, Mo., September 24, 1931; at the age of tenInc., 1954-1968, International Industries, Inc., 1961-1968, All moved to Detroit, Mich., and attended the public schools;Products Co., 1965-1968, Fidelity Union Life Insurance Co., attended Northwestern University; began her career as a1954-1965, Pacific Industries, 1983 to present; White House stenographer with Illinois department of labor, promoted toConference on Youth, regional chairman, 1955; delegate, Re- secretary with Illinois department of revenue, then account-publican National Convention, 1968; elected as a Republican ant, and eventually moved into the position of revenue audi-to the Ninetieth Congress, by special election, August 24, tor and served in this capacity until announcing her candi- 1968, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph R. dacy for the United States House of Representatives; com- Pool; reelected to seven succeeding Congresses and served mitteewoman of Chicago's twenty-fourth ward; elected as afrom August 24, 1968, to January 3, 1983; was not a candi- Democrat to the Ninety-third Congress, by special election,date for reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress, June 5, 1973, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of herbut was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United husband, George W. Collins; reelected to the seven succeed- States Senate; is a resident of Dallas, Tex. ing Congresses (June 5, 1973-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Chicago, Ill. COLLINS, John, a Delegate from Rhode Island; born in Newport, R.I., June 8, 1717; member of the committee sent COLLINS, Ela (father of William Collins), a Representa-by the general assembly in September 1776 to inform Gener- tive from New York; born in Meriden, Conn., February 14,al Washington of the condition of the colony and obtain his 1786; attended Clinton Academy; studied law; was admittedviews upon the best method to adopt for its defense; Member to the bar and commenced practice in Lowville, N.Y., inof the Continental Congress 1778-1780 and 1782-1783; Gov- 1807; member of the State assembly in 1815; district attor- ernor of Rhode Island 1786-1790; as Governor he cast the ney for Lewis, Jefferson, and St. Lawrence Counties 1815-deciding vote in the senate, thereby assuring the calling of a 1818, and for Lewis County from June 11, 1818, to March 24,convention to decide upon the acceptance of the Constitution 1840; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1821; elected to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3,of the United States; elected to the First Congress but did 1825); resumed the practice of law; died in Lowville, Lewisnot take his seat; died in Newport, R.I., March 4, 1795; County, N.Y., November 23, 1848; interment in Jacksoninterment on his farm, "Brenton Neck," near Newport, R.I. Street Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. COLLINS, Patrick Andrew, a Representative from Massa- COLLINS, Francis Dolan, a Representative from Pennsyl- chusetts; born near Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland, March vania; born in Saugerties, Ulster County, N.Y., March 5,12, 1844; immigrated to the United States with his parents, 1841; attended St. Joseph's College, near Montrose, Susque-who settled in Chelsea, Mass., in 1848; attended the common hanna County; moved with his parents to Dinsmore, Lacka- schools; learned the upholstery trade; member of the State wanna County, Pa.; attended Wyoming Seminary at Kings-house of representatives in 1868 and 1869; served in the ton, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1866 andState senate in 1870 and 1871; studied law at the Harvard commenced practice in Scranton, Pa.; elected district attor-Law School and in Boston; was admitted to the bar in 1871 ney of the mayor's court district in 1869; served in the Stateand practiced in Boston; judge advocate general of Massa- senate 1872-1874; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourthchusetts in 1875; delegate to the Democratic National Con- and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879);ventions in 1876, 1880, 1888, and 1892; elected as a Democrat resumed the practice of his profession; died in Scranton,to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses Lackawanna County, Pa., November 21, 1891; interment in(March 4, 1883-March 3, 1889); was not a candidate for Cathedral Cemetery, Hyde Park (Scranton). renomination in 1888; resumed the practice of law; consul COLLINS, George Washington (husband of Cardiss Col-general at London from May 6, 1893, to May 17, 1897, under lins), a Representative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Ill.,President Cleveland's administration; again engaged in the Biographies 811. practice of his profession, served as mayor of Boston 1902-the First World War served as a private in the Quartermas- 1905; died while on a visit to Hot Springs, Va., on Septemberter Corps, advancing through the ranks to regimental ser- 13, 1905; interment in Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline, Nor-geant major, and served from July 24, 1918, to March 17, folk County, Mass. 1919; commenced the practice of law in Pascagoula, Miss., in Bibliography: DAB; Curran, Michael P. Life of Patrick A. Collins. Nor- 1919; county attorney of Jackson County, Miss., 1921-1927; wood, Mass.: Norwood Press, 1906. district attorney of the second district of Mississippi from COLLINS, Ross Alexander, a Representative from Missis-1928 until his resignation in 1933, having been elected to sippi; born in Collinsville, Lauderdale County, Miss., AprilCongress; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to 25, 1880; attended the public schools of Meridian, Miss., andthe nineteen succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933-January Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College; was grad-3, 1973); chairman, Committee on Rules (Ninetieth through uated from the University of Kentucky at Lexington in 1900Ninety-second Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for the and from the law department of the University of Mississip- pi at Oxford in 1901; was admitted to the bar in 1901 andDemocratic nomination for the United States Senate in 1947; commenced practice in Meridian, Miss.; attorney general ofwas not a candidate for reelection in 1972 to the Ninety- Mississippi 19 12-1920; unsuccessful candidate for Governorthird Congress; was a resident of Pascagoula, Miss., where of Mississippi in 1919; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-he died September 9, 1980; interment in Machpelah Ceme- seventh and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4,tery, Pascagoula, Miss. 1921-January 3, 1935); was not a candidate for renomination Bibliography: Schlauch, Wolfgang. "Representative William M Colmer in 1934, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Demo-and Senator James 0. Eastland and the Reconstruction of Germany, cratic nomination for United States Senator; elected to the 1945." Journal of Mississippi History 34 (August 1972): 193-214. Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-seventh Congresses COLQUITT, Alfred bit (son of Walter Terry Colquitt), a (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1943); unsuccessful candidateRepresentative and a Senator from Georgia; born in Monroe, for election to the United States Senate in 1941; was not aWalton County, Ga., April 20, 1824; attended school in candidate for renomination in 1942, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for United StatesMonroe and was graduated from Princeton College in 1844; Senator; resumed the practice of law; died in Meridian,studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commenced Miss., July 14, 1968; interment in Magnolia Cemetery. practice in Monroe, Ga.; served as a staff officer with the rank of major during the Mexican War; elected to the COLLINS, Samuel LaFort, a Representative from Califor-Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); was nia; born in Fortville, Hancock County, md., on August 6,not a candidate for renomination in 1854; member, State 1895; attended the public schools of Indiana and Californiahouse of representatives 1859; member of the State secession and was graduated from Chaffey Union High School of On- tario, Calif., in 1915; enlisted as a private in the Hospitalconvention in 1861; entered the Confederate Army and Corps, Seventh Infantry, California National Guard, on Juneserved throughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of 21, 1916, served on the Mexican border, and was dischargedmajor general; Governor of Georgia 1876-1880; reelected on November 11, 1916; served in the United States Armyunder a new constitution for two years; elected as a Demo- from September 18, 1917, until discharged on April 29, 1919,crat to the United States Senate in 1883; reelected in 1888 being overseas as a sergeant in Company C, Three Hundredand served from March 4, 1883, until his death in Washing- and Sixty-fourth Infantry, Ninety-first Division; studied law;ton, D.C., March 26, 1894; chairman, Committee on Post was admitted to the bar in 1921 and commenced practice inOffice and Post Roads (Fifty-third Congress); interment in Fullerton,Calif.;assistantdistrictattorney of OrangeRose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Ga. County, Calif., 1926-1930 and district attorney 1930-1932; Bibliography: DAB; Mellichamp, Josephine. "Alfred Colquitt." In Sena- elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third and Seventy- tors From Georgia. pp. 181-84. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, Inc., fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937); unsuc- 1976; Wynne, Lewis. "The Bourbon Triumverate [Alfred H. Colquitt, John cessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifthB. Gordon, Joseph E. Brown]: A Reconsideration." Atlanta Historical Jour- Congress; member of the State assembly 1940-1952, serving nal 24 (Summer 1980): 39-56. as speaker 1947-1952; resumed the practice of law; died in COLQUITT, Walter Terry (father of Alfred Holt Colquitt), Fullerton, Calif., June 26, 1965; interment in Loma Vista Georgia, born in Hali Memorial Park. a Representative and a Senator from fax County, Va., December 27, 1799; moved with his parents COLLINS, William (son of Ela Collins), a Representativeto Mount Zion, Carroll County, Ga.; attended the common from New York; born in Lowville, Lewis County, N.Y., Feb-schools and Princeton College; studied law; was admitted to ruary 22, 1818; studied law; was admitted to the bar andthe bar in 1820 and commenced practice in Sparta, Hancock commenced practice in Lowville; district attorney for LewisCounty, Ga.; moved to Cowpens, Ga.; elected judge of the County 1845-1847; elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); declined to be aChattahoochee circuit in 1826 and reelected in 1829; was candidate for renomination in 1848; moved to Cleveland, licensed a Methodist preacher in 1827; member, State senate Ohio, in 1853 and continued the practice of law; also en-1834, 1837; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress gaged in banking; served as a director of the Lake Shoreand served from March 4, 1839, to July 21, 1840, when he Railroad and East Cleveland Railroad; affiliated with theresigned; elected as a Van Buren Democrat to the Twenty- Republican Party upon its organization in 1856; died inseventh Congress to fill in part vacancies caused by the Cleveland, Ohio, June 18, 1878; interment in Lake Viewresignations of Julius C. Alford, William C. Dawson, and Cemetery. Eugenius A. Nisbet, and served from January 3, 1842, to COLMER, William Meyers, a Representative from Missis-March 3, 1843; elected as a Democrat to the United States sippi; born in Moss Point, Jackson County, Miss., FebruarySenate and served from March 4, 1843, until his resignation 11, 1890; attended the public schools and Milisaps College atin February 1848; chairman, Committee on District of Co- Jackson, Miss.; taught school at Lumberton, Miss., 1914-lumbia (Twenty-ninth Congress), Committee on Patents and 1917; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1917; duringPatent Office (Twenty-ninth Congress); member of the Nash- 812 Biographical Directory vile convention in 1850; died in Macon, Ga., May 7, 1855;of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1905; was interment in Linnwood Cemetery, Columbus, Ga. admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice Bibliography: DAB; Mellichamp, Josephine. "Walter Colquitt." In Sena. in Vernal, Utah; also engaged in ranching, sheep raising, tors From Georgia. pp. 119-21. Huntsville, Ala.: The Strode Publishers, and other business enterprises; receiver of the United States Inc., 1976. land office at Vernal 1905-1914; delegate to the Republican COLSON, David Grant, a Representative from Kentucky;State conventions 1914-1924; member of the State senate born in Yellow Creek (now Middlesboro), Knox (now Bell)1915-1917; delegate to the Republican National Conventions County, Ky., April 1, 1861; attended the common schools andin 1904, 1924, and 1928; elected as a Republican to the Sixty- the academies at Tazewell and Mossy Creek, Tenn.; studiedseventh and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, law at the University of Kentucky at Lexington in 1879 and1921-March 3, 1933); chairman, Committee on Elections No. 1880; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in1 (Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses), Committee on Pineville, examiner and special examiner in the PensionPublic Lands (Seventieth and Seventy-first Congresses); un- Bureau of the Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.,successful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy- from September 1882 to June 1886; returned to Kentucky inthird Congress; resumed the practice of law in Vernal, Utah; 1887; member of the State house of representatives in 1887unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator in 1934; and 1888; mayor of Middlesboro 1893-1895; elected as a Re-moved to Salt Lake City in 1937 and continued the practice publicanto the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congressesof law; also engaged in farming and stock raising; unsuccess- (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899); chairman, Committee onful candidate for Governor in 1940; died in Salt Lake City, Expenditures on Public Buildings (Fifty-fifth Congress); colo-Utah, August 1, 1952; interment in Wasatch Lawn Ceme- nel of a Kentucky regiment during the Spanish-Americantery. War; died in Middlesboro, Ky., September 27, 1904; inter- ment in Colson Cemetery. COMBEST, Larry Ed, a Representative from Texas; born COLSTON, Edward, a Representative from Virginia; bornin Memphis, Hall County, Tex., March 20, 1945; was grad- near Winchester, Va., December 25, 1786; studied under pri-uated from Panhandle High School in 1963 and from West vate teachers, and was graduated from Princeton College inTexas State University, Canyon, Tex., in 1969; engaged in 1806; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced;farming; Director of Agriculture Stabilization and Conserva- served in the War of 1812; member of the State house oftion Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1971; delegates 1812-1814, 1816-1817, 1823-1828, and 1833-1835;legislativeassistantto Senator 1971-1978; high sheriff of Berkeley County 1844 and 1845; elected as aowner of Combest Distributing Company, an electronic Federalist to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-Marchequipment business, 1978-1984, elected as a Republican to 3, 1819); died at "Honeywood," Berkeley County, Va. (nowthe Ninety-ninth and One Hundredth Congresses (January West Virginia), April 23, 1852; interment in the family bury-31985-January 3,1989), is a resident of Lubbock, Tex ing ground on his estate, "Honeywood," near Hedgesville, COMBS, George Hamilton, Jr., a Representative from Berkeley County, W.Va. Missouri; born in Kansas City, Mo., May 2, 1899; attended COLT, LeBaron Bradford, a Senator from Rhode Island;the Kansas City public schools, the University of Missouri at born in Dedham, Dedham County, Mass., June 25, 1846;Columbia, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; attended the public schools and Williston Seminary; wasserved in the United States Navy in 1918; was graduated graduated from Yale University in 1888 and from the lawfrom the Kansas City School of Law in 1921; was admitted to department of Columbia College, New York City, in 1870;the bar the same year and commenced practice in Kansas devoted a year to European travel; upon his return to theCity, Mo.; assistant prosecuting attorney of Jackson County, United States in 1871 was admitted to the bar and com-Mo., 1922-1924; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1924 menced practice in Chicago, Ill.; moved to Bristol, R.I., into the Sixty-ninth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the 1875 and practiced law in Providence, R.I.; member, StateSeventieth Congress (March 4, 1927-March 3, 1929); was not house of representatives 1879-1881; appOinted by Presidenta candidate for renomination in 1928; delegate to the Demo-- James Garfield United States district judge for the firstcratic National Convention in 1928; moved to New York City judicial district 188 1-1884, when he was appointed by Presi-in 1929 and continued the practice of law; special assistant dent Chester Arthur presiding judge of the United Statesto the attorney general of the State of New York in 1931; Circuit Court of Appeals for the first circuit; elected in 1913attorney for the Triborough Bridge Authority in 1933 and as a Republican to the United States Senate; reelected in 1934; associate counsel to the New York State Joint Legisla- 1919 and served from March 4, 1913, until his death intive Committee to Investigate Public Utilities 1934-1936; ap- Bristol, R.I., August 18, 1924; chairman, Committee on Con-pointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as New York servation of Natural Resources (Sixty-fifth Congress), Com-State director of the National Emergency Council in 1936; mittee on Immigration (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighthradio news analyst, war correspondent, and writer 1937- Congresses); interment in Juniper Hill Cemetery. 1951; special United States attorney, Office of Price Stabili- Bibliography: DAB; Schiup, Leonard. "A Senator of Principle: Some Cor- zation for southern district of New York, in 1951 and 1952; respondence Between LeBaron Bradford Colt and William Howard Taft." Rhode Island History 42 (February 1983): 3-16; U.S. Congress. Memorial television and radio news commentator 1952-1961; chief Addresses. 68th Cong., 2nd sess., 1924-1925. Washington, D.C.: Government United Nations correspondent and news commentator for Printing Office, 1925. Mutual Broadcasting System, 1961-1971; died in West Palm Beach, Fla., November 29, 1977. COLTON, Don Byron, a Representative from Utah, born near Mona, Juab County, Utah, September 15, 1876; moved COMBS, Jesse Martin, a Representative from Texas; born with his parents to Uintah County, Utah, in 1879; attendedin Center, Shelby County, Tex., July 7, 1889; attended the the public schools and the Uintah Academy, Vernal, Utah;public schools; was graduated from Southwest Texas State was gzaduated from the commercial department of BrighamTeachers' College in 1912; was admitted to the bar in 1918 Young University, Provo, Utah, in 1896; engaged in teachingand commenced practice in Kountze, Tex.; county judge of in 1898, 1901, and 1902; member of the State house of repro-Hardin County, Tex., in 1919 and 1920; district judge of the sentatives in 1903; was graduated from the law departmentseventy-fifth district 1923-1925; associate justice of the ninth Biographies 813 court of civil appeals 1933-1943; member and president ofcandidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Con- the board of trustees of South Park Schools 1926-1940; presi-gress and as a Republican to the Thirty-fifthCongress dent of the board of trustees of Lamar College 1940-1944;(March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); resumed manufacturing pur- elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and to the threesuits; delegate to the Republican National Convention in succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1953);1860; died in Jamaica Plain, Mass., October 14, 1892; inter- was not a candidate for renomination in 1952; returned toment in Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, Mass Beaumont, Tex., where he died August 21, 1953; interment COMPTON, Barnes (great-grandson of Philip Key), a Rep- in Magnolia Cemetery. resentative from Maryland; born in Port Tobacco, Charles COMEGYS, Joseph Parsons, a Senator from Delaware;County, Md., November 16, 1830; attended Charlotte Hall born in "Cherbourg," Kent County, near Dover, Del., Decem-Academy, St. Marys County, Md., and was graduated from ber 29, 1813; attended the old academy at Dover; studiedPrinceton College in June 1851; engaged in agricultural pur- law; was admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced prac-suits and as a planter; member of the State house of dele- tice in Dover; member, State house of representatives 1842,gates in 1860 and 1861; member of the State senate in 1867, 1848; member of the commission to revise the State statutes1868, 1870, and 1872, and served as president in 1868 and in 1852; appointed as a Whig to the United States Senate to1870; State tobacco inspector in 1873 and 1874; State treasur- fill the vacancy caused by the death of John M. Clayton ander 1874-1885; moved to Laurel, Prince Georges County, Md., served from November 19, 1856, to January 14, 1857, when ain 1880; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and Fifti- successor was elected; declined renomination; resumed theeth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); presented practice of law in Dover; appointed chief justice of the Statecredentials as Member-elect to the Fifty-first Congress and supreme court in 1876 and served until 1893, when he re-served from March 4, 1889, to March 20, 1890, when he was signed owing to ill health; died in Dover, Del., February 1,succeeded by Sydney Mudd, who contested the election; 1893; interment in the Presbyterian Cemetery. elected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses and COMER, Braxton Bragg, a Senator from Alabama; bornserved from March 4, 1891, until his resignation, effective in Spring Hill, Barbour (now Mobile) County, Ala., Novem-May 15, 1894; appointed by President Cleveland naval officer ber 7, 1848; attended the common schools, the University ofat Baltimore, Md., and served from 1894 to 1898; died in Alabama at Tuscaloosa, and the University of Georgia atLaurel, Md., December 4, 1898; interment in Loudon Park Athens; was graduated from Emory and Henry College,Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. Emory, Va., in 1869; engaged as a planter, merchant, COMPTON, Cii. Ranulf a Representative from Connecti- banker, and cotton manufacturer; member of the commis-cut; born in Poe, Allen County, md., September 16, 1878; sioners' court of Barbour County, Ala., 1874-1880; moved toattended the public schools at Indianapolis, md.; was grad- Anniston, Ala., and to Birmingham, Ala., in 1890; continueduated from the Howe Mifitary School, Howe, md., in 1899, in his agricultural and business pursuits; president of theand attended Harvard University; engaged in banking and Railroad Commission of Alabama 1905-1906; Governor of Alabama 1907-1911; appointed as a Democrat to the Unitedfinance in New York and Connecticut; served as captain of States Senate to ff1 the vacancy caused by the death of JohnInfantry, New York National Guard, 1912-1916; captain of Infantry, United States Army, July 1916-March 1918; cap-- H. Bankhead and served from March 5, 1920, to Novembertain and major in the Tank Corps April 1918-August 1919; 2, 1920, when a successor was elected; resumed his formerwent overseas with the A.E.F. on December 12, 1917; deco- business pursuits in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Ala.,rated with the Purple Heart and the French Legion of and died there August 15, 1927; interment in Elmwood Cem-Honor; retired from the United States Army on August 8, etery. 1919, with rank of major; military secretary to Gov. Nathan Bibliography:DAB. L. Miller of New York in 1920; deputy secretary of state of COMINGO, Abram, a Representative from Missouri; bornNew York in 1921 and 1922; executive secretary and treasur- near Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Ky., January 9, 1820;er of the Hudson River Regulating District,Albany, N Y, attended the common and high schools and was graduated 1923-1929; served asaide-de-camp to Gov. Raymond E. Bald- from Centre College, Danville, KY.; studied law; was admit-win of Connecticut in 1940 and 1941; elected as a Republican ted to the bar in Harrodsburg, Ky., in 1847; moved to Inde-to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943-January 3, pendence, Mo., in 1848 and commenced the practice of law; 1945); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the delegate to the Missouri State convention in February 1861;Seventy-ninth Congress; president and owner of South

appointed provost marshal of the sixth district of Missouri inJersey Broadcasting Company from 1945 until his retire-- May 1863; elected recorder of deeds of Jackson County inment in 1968, resided in Madison, Conn, until his death 1868; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second and Forty-there January 26, 1974, interment in West Cemetery third Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; resumed the practice of COMSTOCK, Charles Carter, a Representative from law in Independence, Mo.; appointed by President Grant inMichigan; born in Sullivan, Cheshire County, N.H., March 5, 1876 a member of the commission to arbitrate with the1818; attended the common schools; moved to Grand Rapids, Sioux Indians for the possession of Sioux lands in DakotaMich., in 1853; engaged in agricultural pursuits, lumbering, bordering on the Black Hills; moved to Kansas City, Mo., inand the manufacture of furniture and woodenware; mayor of 1881; retired from public life; died in Kansas City, Mo.,Grand Rapids in 1863 and 1864; unsuccessful Democratic November 10, 1889; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. candidate for Governor in 1870; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1873 to the Forty-third Congress; elected as a COMINS, Linus Bacon, a Representative from Massachu-Democrat to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885-March setts; born in Charlton, Mass., November 29, 1817; attended3, 188.7); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1886; the common schools at Brookfleld, Mass., and was graduateddied in Grand Rapids, Mich., February 20, 1900; interment from Worcester County Manual Training High School; en-in Fulton Street Cemetery. gaged in manufacturing in Roxbury, Mass.; member of the Eoxbury city council 1846-1848 and served as its president COMSTOCK, Daniel Webster, a Representative from Indi- in 1847 and 1848; mayor of Roxbury in 1854; elected as aana; born in Germantown, Montgomery County,Ohio, De- 814 Biographical Directory cember 16, 1840; attended the common schools, and wasber 2, 1922; attended the Warsaw public schools; graduated graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware,from Cornell University in 1942; enlisted in the Marine Ohio, in 1860; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1861Corps, served on Iwo Jima and in the occupation forces in and commenced practice in New Castle, md.; district attor-Japan; graduated from in 1948; began ney in 1862; during the Civil War enlisted in the Ninththe practice of law in Buffalo, N.Y.; recalled to duty during Indiana Cavalry and was successively promoted to regimen-the Korean conflict; colonel, Marine Corps Reserve; estab- tal sergeant major, first lieutenant, captain, and acting as-lished law firm in Batavia, N.Y., in 1952; member of the sistant adjutant general in the military division of Mississip-New York State senate in 1963 and 1964; elected as a Repub- pi; settled in Richmond, md., in 1866; city attorney in 1866;lican to the Eighty-ninth and to the nine succeeding Con- prosecuting attorney of the Wayne circuit court 1872-1874; member of the State senate in 1878; judge of the seventeenthgresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1985); did not seek re- judicial circuit 1886-1895; judge of the appellate court 1896-election to the Ninety-ninth Congress; appointed president of 19 11; resumed the practice of law; elected as a Republican tothe World Bank on July 1, 1986; is a resident of Alexander, the Sixty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1917, N.Y. until his death in Washington, D.C., May 19, 1917; interment CONARD, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; in Eariham Cemetery, Richmond, Wayne County, md. born in Chester Valley, Chester County, Pa., in November COMSTOCK, Oliver Cromwell, a Representative from1773; educated at the Friends School; moved to Germantown New York; born in Warwick, R.I., March 1, 1780; movedabout 1795; studied law; was admitted to the bar and prac- with his parents to Schenectady, N.Y., when a child; re-ticed; professor of mathematics at the local academy in Ger- ceived a liberal schooling; studied medicine and practiced inmantown; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth Con- Trumansburg, N.Y.; member of the State assembly 18 10-gress (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); declined to be a candi- 1812; first judge of common pleas for Seneca County, N.Y., date for renomination in 1814; associate judge of the district 1812-1815; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth, Four-court; appointed United States marshal for the eastern dis- teenth, and Fifteenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3,trict of Pennsylvania by President James Monroe; reappoint- 1819); was not a candidate for renomination in 1818; firsted by President John Quincy Adams and served two years judge of court of common pleas for Tompkins County in 1817under President Andrew Jackson; retired from public life in and 1818; abandoned the practice of medicine and studied1832; moved to Maryland about 1834 and settled in Cecil theology; was licensed to preach and ordained to the BaptistCounty near Port Deposit, where he lived until 1851, when ministry; installed as pastor of the First Baptist Church,he moved to Philadelphia; died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 9, Rochester, N.Y., and served in that capacity from 1825 to1857; interment in St. Ann's Protestant Episcopal Church- 1834; elected Chaplain of the House of Representatives onyard, North East, Cecil County, Md. December 20, 1836, and served until March 3, 1837; moved to Michigan and resumed ministerial duties at Detroit in 1839; CONflICT, Lewis (nephew of Silas Condict), a Representa- was a regent of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbortive from New Jersey; born in Morristown, Morris County, 184 1-1843; State superintendent of public instruction 1843- N.J., March 3, 1772; attended the common schools; was grad- 1845; died in Marshall, Calhoun County, Mich., January 11, uated from the medical department of the University of 1860; interment in Oakridge Cemetery. Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1794 and commenced prac- tice in Morristown; sheriff of Morris County, N.J., 1801- COMSTOCK, Solomon Gilman, a Representative from1803; member of the commission for adjusting the boundary Minnesota; born in Argyle, Penobscot County, Maine, May 9,line between the States of New York and New Jersey in 1842; moved to Passadumkeag, Maine, with his parents in1804; member of the State house of assembly 1805-1809 and 1845; attended the rural schools, East Corinth (Maine) Acad-served as speaker the last two years; elected as a Republican emy, Maine Wesleyan Academy at Kents Hill, and Hampdento the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses (Maine) Academy; studied law in Bangor, Maine, and later,(March 4, 1811-March 3, 1817); president of the State medi- in 1868 and 1869, continued his studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; moved to Nebraska in 1869 andcal society in 1816 and 1819; elected to the Seventeenth and settled in Omaha, where he was admitted to the bar theto the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, same year and commenced practice; moved to Minneapolis, 1833); chairman, Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Busi- Minn., in 1870, and to Moorhead, Clay County, Minn., inness (Fourteenth Congress), Committee on Expenditures on 1871, where he continued the practice of his profession; pros-Public Buildings (Fourteenth Congress); declined to be a can- ecuting attorney for Clay County 1872-1878; member of thedidate for renominatiOn in 1832; elected trustee of Princeton State house of representatives in 1875, 1876, 1878, and 1881;College in 1827, and served in this capacity until 1861, when served in the State senate 1882-1888; unsuccessful candidatehe resigned; one of the incorporators of the Morris & Essex for election as State attorney general in 1882 and as Lieu-Railroad Co. and became its first president in 1835; again a tenant Governor in 1884; retired from law practice in 1884member of the State house of assembly in 1837 and 1838 and and engaged in the real-estate business; elected as a Republi-served as speaker; presidential elector on the Whig ticket in can to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3,1840; died in Morristown, N.J., May 26, 1862; interment in 1891); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to thethe cemetery of the Presbyterian Church. Fifty-second Congress; delegate to the Republican National CONDICT, Silas (uncle of Lewis Condict and great-grand- Convention in 1892; resumed the real-estate business infather of Augustus William Cutler), a Delegate from New Moorhead, Minn.; also engaged in the manufacture of farm implements in 1893; member of the State normal schoolJersey; born in Morristown, Morris County, N.J., March 7, board 1897-1905; retired from business pursuits and resided1738; completed preparatory studies; was a large landholder in Moorhead, Minn., until his death there June 3,, 1933;in Morristown and vicinity; member of the State council interment in Prairie Home Cemetery. from its organization in 1776 until 1780; member of the committee of safety; Member of the Continental Congress CONABLE, Barber Benjamin, Jr., a Representative from1781-1783; served in the State general assembly 1791-1794, New York; born in Warsaw, Wyoming County, N.Y., Novem-1796-1798, and 1800, and served as speaker 1792-1794 and Biographies 815 again in 1797; died in Morristown, N.J., September 6, 1801;law college of the same university in 1938; editor in chief of interment in the cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church.the California Law Review in 1938; admitted to the Califor- nia bar in 1938; attorney for National Labor Relations Board CONDIT, John (father of Silas Condit), a Representative1938-1942; with the Office of Price Administration in 1942 and a Senator from New Jersey; born in Orange, N.J., Julyas chief enforcement attorney for northern California and 8, 1755; attended the public schools; studied medicine; servedlater as regional investigator for five Western States; en- as a surgeon in the Revolutionary War; one of the founderstered the United States Army as a private in December and a trustee of the Orange Academy in 1785; member,1942; served overseas in the European Theater with Compa- State general assembly 1788-1789; elected as a Republican tony G, Three Hundred and Tenth Infantry Regiment, Seven- the Sixth and Seventh Congresses (March 4, 1799-March 3,ty-eighth Division, in France, Belgium, and Germany; dis- 1803); appointed as a Republican to the United States Senatecharged in February 1946 as a staff sergeant; decorated with to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1803,two battle stars and the Silver Star; engaged in private caused by the failure of the legislature to elect; subsequentlypractice of law in 1946 in Martinez, Calif.; member of Cali- elected and served from September 1, 1803, to March 3, 1809;fornia State assembly 1948-1952; elected as a Democrat to again appointed to the United States Senate to if! the va-the Eighty-third Congress (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1955); cancy caused by the resignation of Aaron Kitchell; subse-unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954 to the Eighty- quently elected and served from March 21, 1809, to March 3,fourth Congress; resumed law practice in Martinez, Calif.; 1817; elected to the Sixteenth Congress and served fromdied in Walnut Creek, Calif., June 3, 1976; cremated; ashes March 4 to November 4, 1819, when he resigned to accept ascattered at sea, three miles beyond the Golden Gate Bridge, Treasury position; appointed assistant collector of the port of New York 1819-1830; died in Orange Township, N.J., May 4,San Francisco, Calif. 1834; interment in the Old Graveyard, Orange, Essex CONGER, Edwin Hurd, a Representative from Iowa; born County, N.J. in Knox County, Ill., March 7, 1843; was graduated from Bibliography: DAB. Lombard University, Galesburg, Ill., in 1862; during the CONDIT, Silas (son of John Condit), a RepresentativeCivil War enlisted as a private in Company I, One Hundred from New Jersey; born in Orange, N.J., August 18, 1778; wasand Second Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and graduated from Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1795; en-served until the close of the war; attained the rank of cap- gaged in mercantile pursuits in Orange; moved to Newark,tain and received the brevet of major; studied law and was N.J.; clerk of Essex County 1804-1811; sheriff of Essexgraduated from the Albany Law School in 1866; was admit- County 1813-1816; member of the State general assembly inted to the bar and practiced in Galesburg, Ill., until 1868; 1812, 1813, and 1816; served in the State council 1819-1822;moved to Dexter, Dallas County, Iowa, in 1868 and engaged president of the Newark Banking Co. 1820-1842; elected asin stock growing, banking, and agricultural pursuits; elected an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress (March 4,treasurer of Dallas County in 1877 and reelected in 1879; 1831-March 3, 1833); engaged in banking; delegate to theelected State treasurer in 1880 and reelected in 1882; elected State constitutional convention in 1844; died in Newark,as a Republican to the Forty-ninth,Fiftieth, and Fifty-first N.J., November 29, 1861; interment in the cemetery of theCongresses and served from March 4, 1885, to October 3, First Presbyterian Church. 1890, when he resigned to accept a diplomatic mission; chair- man, Committee on Coinage, Weights,and Measures (Fifty- CONDON, Francis Bernard, a Representative from Rhodefirst Congress); Minister to Brazil from September 27, 1890, Island born in Central Falls, Providence County, R.I., No-to September 13, 1893; appointed Minister to China January vember 11, 1891; attended the public schools; was graduated19, 1898, and served until his resignation on March 8, 1905, from Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C.,on which day he was appointed asAmbassador to Mexico in 1916; was admitted to the bar in 1916 and commencedand served until his resignation on October 18, 1905; died in practice in Pawtucket, R.I.; served as a sergeant in the OnePasadena, Calif., May 18, 1907; interment in Mountain View Hundred and Fifty-second Regiment, Depot Brigade, Twenty-Cemetery. third Company, from May 1918 to June 1919; member of the Bibliography: DAB.

State house of representatives 1921-1926, serving as Demo-- cratic floor leader 1923-1926; member of the Democratic CONGER, Harmon Sweatland, a Representative from State committee 1924-1926 and 1928-1930, serving as aNew York; born in Freeport, Cortland County, N.Y., April 9, member of the executive committee 1928-1930; unsuccessful 1816; attended the local academy at Cortland in 1833; stud- candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island in 1928;ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1844 and commenced Rhode Island department commander of the Americanpractice in Cortland, N.Y.; editor and owner of the Cortland Legion in 1927 and 1928; elected as a Democrat to the Seven-County Whig 1840-1845; elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth ty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1851); tion of Jeremiah E. O'Connell and at the same time wasresumed the practice of law in Cortland, N.Y.; moved to elected to the Seventy-second Congress; reelected to the Sev-Janesville, Wis., in 1855 and continued the practice of law; enty-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses and served fromelected judge of the circuit court in 1870 reelected in 1877 November 4, 1930, until his resignation on January 10, 1935,and served until his death in Janesville, Rock County, Wis, having been appointed an associate justice of the RhodeOctober 22, 1882; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery. Island supreme court in which capacity he served until Jan- CONGER, James Lockwood, a Representative from Michi- uary 7, 1958, when he was appointed chief justice, in whichgan; born in Trenton, N.J., February 18, 1805; moved to New office he served until his death; died in Boston, Mass., No-- York in 1809 with his parents, who settled in Canandaigua, vember 23, 1965; interment in Mount St. Mary's Cemetery,Ontario County; attended the district schools and Canandai- East Providence, R.I. gua Academy; studied medicine; moved to Lancaster, Ohio, CONDON, Robert Likens, a Representative from Califor-in 1822; taught school for several years; studied law; was nia; born in Berkeley, Alameda County, Calif., November 10,admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in 1912; attended the public schools; was graduated from theLancaster, Ohio; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and continued University of California at Berkeley in 1934 and from thethe practice of law from 1826 to 1837, when he moved to 816 Biographical Directory

Macomb County, Mich., and laid out the town of Belvidere;unteers, in June 1861 and became itscolonel; served engaged in banking and mercantile pursuits until 1850;throughout the Shenandoah campaign; one of the organizers moved to Mount Clemens, Mich.; elected as a Whig to theof the West Side Savings Bank of New York City and served Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); de-as its president for many years; subsequently he became clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1852; resumedpresident of the Aetna Fire Insurance Co., of Hartford, his former business pursuits; owing to ill health retired fromConn., and served until its dissolution in 1880; elected as a active business pursuits; died in St. Clair, St. Clair County,Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861- Mich., April 10, 1876; interment in Green Lawn Cemetery,March 3, 1863); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 Columbus, Ohio. to the Thirty-eighth Congress; was an unsuccessful Republi- CONGER, Omar Dwight, a Representative and a Senatorcan candidate for mayor of New York City in 1868; author of from Michigan; born in Cooperstown, Otsego County, N.Y.,numerous pamphlets on political, commercial, and scientific April 1, 1818; moved with his father to Huron County, Ohio,subjects; died in New York City, on September 18, 1891; in 1824; pursued academic studies at Huron Institute, Milan,interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. Ohio, and was graduated from Western Reserve College, CONKLING, Roscoe (son of Alfred Conkling and brother Hudson, Ohio, in 1841; engaged in mineral explorations ofof Frederick Augustus Conkling), a Representative and a the Lake Superior copper and -iron regions in connectionSenator from New York; born in Albany, N.Y., October 30, with the Michigan State Geological Survey 1845-1847; en- 1829; moved with his parents to Auburn, N.Y., in 1839; gaged in the practice of law in Port Huron, Mich., in 1848;completed an academic course; studied law; was admitted to elected judge of the St. Clair county court in 1850; member, State senate 1855-1859, and served as President pro temporethe - bar in 1850 and commenced practice in Utica, N.Y.; in 1859; member of the State military board during the Civildistrict attorney for Oneida County in 1850; mayor of Utica War, holding the rank of colonel; member of the State con-1858; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty- stitutional convention in 1866; elected as a Republican to theseventh Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1863); chair- Forty-first and to the five succeeding Congresses and servedman, Committee on District of Columbia (Thirty-seventh from March 4, 1869, until March 3, 1881, when he resignedCongress); unsuccessful candidate in 1862 for reelection; to become Senator; chairman, Committee on Expenditures inelected to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses and the Department of State (Forty-second Congress), Committeeserved from March 4, 1865, until he resigned to become Senator, effective March 4, 1867; elected in 1867 as a Repub- on Patents (Forty-third Congress); elected in 1881 as a Re-- publican to the United States Senate and served from Marchlican to the United States Senate; reelected in 1873 and 4, 1881,- to March 3, 1887; unsuccessful candidate for renomi-again in 1879 and served from March 4, 1867, until May 16, nation; chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Forty-sev-1881, when he resigned as a protest against the federal enth Congress), Committee on Revision of the Laws (Forty-appointments made in New York State; was an unsuccessful eighth Congress), Committee on Post Office and Post Roadscandidate for reelection to the United States Senate to fill (Forty-ninth Congress); engaged in the practice of law inthe vacancy caused by his own resignation; chairman, Com- Washington, D.C.; died in Ocean City, Worcester County,mittee on Revision of the Laws of the United States (Forti- Md., July 11, 1898; interment in Lakeside Cemetery, Porteth through Forty-third Congresses), Committee on Com- merce (Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty.seventh Congress- Huron, Mich. - Bibliography: Rubenstein, Bruce A. "Omar D. Conger: Michigan's For- es), Committee on Engrossed Bills (Forty-sixth and Forty- gotten Favorite Son." Michigan History 66 (September/October 1982): 32- seventh Congresses), Committee on Judiciary (Forty-seventh 39. Congress); resumed the practice of law in New York City; declined to accept a nomination to the United States Su- CONKLING, Alfred (father of Frederick Augustus Con-preme Court in 1882; died in New York City, on April 18, kling and Roscoe Conkling), a Representative from New1888; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, N.Y. York; born in Amagansett, N.Y., October 12, 1789; was grad- Bibliography; DAB; Chidsey, Donald B. The Gentleman from New York: uated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1810; stud-A Lift of Roscoe Conkling. New Haven: Yale - University Press,1935; ied law; was admitted to the bar in 1812 and commenced Jordan, David M. Roscoe Conkling: Voice in the Senate. Ithaca: Cornell practice in Canajoharie; prosecuting attorney for Montgom- University Press, 1971. - ery County 1818-1821; elected to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3,1823); moved to Albany, N.Y., CONLAN, John Bertrand, a Representative from Arizona; about 1824 and to Auburn, N.Y., in 1839; appointed Unitedborn in Oak Park, Cook County, Ill., September 17, 1930; States district judge for the northern district of New Yorkattended Illinois public schools; B.S., Northwestern Universi- and served from 1825 to 1852; appointed United States Min- ty, Evanston,Ill.,1951; LL.B., Harvard University Law ister to Mexico and served from August 6, 1852, to AugustSchool, 1954; Fulbright Scholarship, University of Cologne, 17, 1853; settled in Omaha, Nebr., and practiced law untilGermany, 1954-1955; studied at The Hague Academy of 1861, when he resided successively in Rochester, Geneseo,International Law; admitted to the Illinois bar in 1954 and and Utica, N Y, moving to the latter city in 1872 devotedcommenced practice in Chicago; served in the United States much time to literary pursuits; died in Utica, OneidaArmy, captain, 1956-1961; former member of political sci- County, N.Y., on February 5, 1874; interment in Forest Hillence faculties at the University of Maryland and Arizona Cemetery. State University; practiced law in Phoenix, Ariz.; State sena- Bibliography: DAB; Jonas, Harold J. "Alfred Conkling, Jurist and Gen- tor, 1965-1972; delegate, Arizona State Republican conven- tleman." New York History 20 (July 1939): 295-305. tions, 1962-1972; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-third and to the Ninety-fourth Congresses (January 3, 1973-Janu- CONKLING, Frederick Augustus (son of Alfred Conklingary 3, 1977); was not a candidate in 1976 for reelection to the and brother of Roscoe Conkling), a Representative from NewNinety-fifth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for York; born in Canajoharie, Montgomery County, N.Y.,nomination to the United States Senate; is a resident of August 22, 1816; pursued classical studies and attended the Albany Academy; engaged in mercantile pursuits in NewPhoenix, Ariz. York City; member of the State assembly in 1854, 1859, and CONN, Charles Gerard, a Representative from Indiana; 1860; organized the Eighty-fourth Regiment, New York Vol-born in Phelps, Ontario County, N.Y., January 29, 1844; Biographies 817 moved with his parents to Elkhart, md., in 1851; attendeduntil his death; also interested in other manufacturing en- the common schools; enlisted in the Union Army May 18,terprises and banking; elected as a Republican to the Sixty- 1861, and served as a private in the band of Company B,seventh Congress and served from March 4, 1921, until his Fifteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry; dischargeddeath in Scranton, Pa., September 26, 1922; interment in September 10, 1862; reenlisted in Company G, First Michi-Forest Hill Cemetery. gan Sharpshooters, November 18, 1862; was wounded and taken prisoner, being released from Columbia (S.C.) prison CONNELL, Richard Edward, a Representative from New camp at the close of hostilities; awarded the CongressionalYork; born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., Novem- Medal of Honor; engaged in the grocery and bakery businessber 6, 1857; attended St. Peter's Parochial School and the and, in 1877, in the manufacture of band instruments atpublic schools of Poughkeepsie; reporter and editor on the Elkhart, md.; mayor of Elkhart 1880-1883; member of thePoughkeepsie News Press 1887-1910; police commissioner of State house of representatives in 1889; established the Elk-Poughkeepsie in 1892; unsuccessful candidate for election to hart Daily Truth in 1890; was owner of the Washingtonthe Fifty-fifth Congress in 1896; unsuccessful candidate for (D.C.) Times during part of his congressional term; elected asmember of the State assembly in 1898 and 1900; inheritance a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-tax appraiser 1907-1909; delegate to the Democratic Nation- March 3, 1895); was not a candidate for renomination inal Convention in 1900 and 1904; elected as a Democrat to the 1894; resumed the manufacture of band instruments at Elk-Sixty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1911, until hart, md.; in 1916 retired and moved to Los Angeles, Calif.,his death; had been nominated in 1912 as the Democratic where he died on January 5, 1931; interment in Grace Lawncandidate for reelection to the Sixty-third Congress; died in Cemetery, Elkhart, md. Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on October 30, 1912; interment in St. Peter's Cemetery. CONNALLY, Thomas Terry (Tom), a Representative and a Senator from Texas; born near Hewitt, McLennan County, CONNELL, William (father of Charles Robert Connell), a Tex., August 19, 1877; attended the public schools; was grad-Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Sidney, Cape uated from Baylor University, Waco, Tex., in 1896 and fromBreton, Nova Scotia, September 10, 1827; received a limited the law department of the University of Texas at Austin inschooling; moved with his parents to Hazieton, Luzerne 1898; was admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced prac-County, Pa., in 1844; worked in the coal mines; in 1856 was tice in Waco, Tex.; moved to Marlin, Falls County, Tex., inappointed superintendent of the mines of the Susquehanna 1899 and continued the practice of law; served as sergeant& Wyoming Valley Railroad & Coal Company, with offices major in the Second Regiment, Texas Volunteer Infantry,in Scranton; upon the expiration of that company's charter during the Spanish-American War; member, State house ofin 1870 he purchased its property and became one of the representatives 1901-1904; prosecuting attorney of Fallslargest independent coal operators in the Wyoming region; County, Tex., 1906-19 10; during the First World War becameone of the founders of the Third National Bank of Scranton captain and adjutant of the Twenty-second Infantry Brigade,in 1872, and in 1879 was chosen its president; was also Eleventh Division, United States Army, in 1918; permanentidentified with many other industries and commercial enter- chairman of Texas Democratic State convention in 1938;prises of Scranton; was a delegate to the Republican Nation- elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and to the fiveal Convention in 1896; member of the Pennsylvania Republi- succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1929); didcan committee; elected as a Republican to theFifty-fifth, not seek renomination in 1928, having become a candidateFifty-sixth, and Fifty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1897- for Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States March 3, 1903); successfully contested the election of George Senate in 1928; reelected in 1934, 1940, and again in 1946Howell to the Fifty-eighth Congress and served from Febru- and served from March 4, 1929, to January 3, 1953, was notary 10, 1904, to March 3, 1905; died in Scranton,Lacka- a candidate for renomination in 1952; chairman, Committeewanna County, Pa., on March 21, 1909; interment in Forest on Public Buildings and Grounds (Seventy-third throughHill Cemetery Seventy-sixth Congresses), Committee on Privileges and CONNELL, William James, a Representative from Ne- Elections (Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses),braska; born in Cowansville, Province of Quebec, Canada, Committee on Foreign Relations (Seventy-seventh throughJuly 6, 1846; moved to Schroon Lake, N.Y., in 1857 and to Seventy-ninth and Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congress-Vermont in 1862; completed a preparatory course; moved to es); member and vice chairman of the United States delega-Omaha, Nebr., in 1867; studied law; was admitted to the bar tion to the United Nations Conference on International Or-in 1869 and engaged in practice; district attorney of the ganization at San Francisco in 1945; representative of thethird judicial district of Nebraska 1872-1876, city attorney of United States to the first session of the General Assembly ofOmaha 1883-1887; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first the United Nations at London and to the second session atCongress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891); unsuccessful candi- New York in 1946; engaged in the practice of law in Wash-date for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty second Congress, ington, D.C., where he died on October 28, 1963; intermentreappointed city attorney of Omaha, Nebr., in 1892; resumed in Calvary Cemetery, Marlin, Tex. the practice of his profession, died in Atlantic City, N J, Bibliography: DAB; Connally, Thomas T. My Name is . New York: Thomas T. Crowell Company, 1954; Smyrl, Frank. "Tom Con- August 16,1924; interment in Prospect Hill Cemetery, nally and the New Deal." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oklahoma, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebr. 1968. CONNELLY, John Robert, a Representative from Kansas; CONNELL, Charles Robert (son of William Connell), aborn near Mount Sterling, Brown County, Ill., February 27, Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Scranton, Lacka-1870; moved to Thayer County, Nebr., with his parents in wanna County, Pa., September 22, 1864; attended the public1883; attended the common schools and Salina (Kans.) schools, and was graduated from Williston Academy, East-Normal University; moved to Thomas County, Kans., in hampton, Mass., in 1884; engaged in mercantile pursuits1888; homesteaded there in 1892; began teaching school with his father; also engaged in banking; became interestedwhen nineteen years of age; superintendent of schools for in the Lackawanna Mills and subsequently served as presi-Thomas County 1894-1898; owner and editor of the Colby dent and treasurer of the Scranton Button Co. from 1888Free Press 1897-1919; served as mayor of Colby and as a 818 Biographical Directory member of the city council; unsuccessful Democratic candi-served on the Mexican border in 1916 with Company A, date for election in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress; electedNinth Massachusetts Infantry; served with Company A, One as a Democrat to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-Hundred and First Regiment, Twenty-sixth Division, from fifth Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1919); unsuccessfulMarch 25, 1917, until honorably discharged on March 24, candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress;1919, with nineteen months service in France; employed as resumed his former business pursuits; delegate to the Demo-chief purser aboard a United Fruit Co. liner 19 19-1923; sec- cratic National Conventions in 1908, 1920, and 1928; unsuc-retary to his brother, Congressman William P. Connery, Jr., cessful candidate for election in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Con-1923-1937; was graduated from the law department of gress; engaged in the real-estate business at Colby, ThomasGeorgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1926; engaged County, Kans.; died in Concordia, Kans., September 9, 1940;in the office-supplies and printing business in 1934 in Lynn, interment in Beulah Cemetery, Colby, Kans. Mass.; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress to CONNER, James Perry, a Representative from Iowa; bornfill the vacancy caused by the death of his brother, William in Delaware County, md., January 27, 1851; attended theP. Connery, Jr.; reelected to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy- Upper Iowa University, Fayette, Iowa, and was graduatedseventh Congresses and served from September 28, 1937, from the law department of the University of Iowa at Iowauntil his death in Arlington, Va., October 19, 1941; inter- City in 1873; was admitted to the bar and practiced; districtment in St. Mary's Cemetery, Lynn, Mass. attorney of the thirteenth judicial district of Iowa 1880-1884; CONNERY, William Patrick, Jr. (brother of Lawrence circuit judge of the thirteenth judicial district in 1884; dis- trict judge of the sixteenth judicial district in 1886; delegateJoseph Connery), a Representative from Massachusetts; born to the Republican National Convention in 1892; elected as ain Lynn, Mass., August 24, 1888; attended St. Mary's School Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancyat Lynn, Montreal College in Canada 1902-1904, and Holy caused by the resignation of Jonathan P. Dolliver; reelectedCross College, Worcester, Mass., 1904-1908; entered the the- to the Fifty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congressesatrical profession as an actor 1908-19 16; engaged as a thea- and served from December 4, 1900, to March 3, 1909; unsuc-ter manager in 1916 and 1917; during the First World War cessful candidate in 1908 for reelection to the Sixty-firstenlisted as a private in the One Hundred and First Regi- Congress; resumed the practice of law in Denison, Crawfordment, United States Infantry, and served nineteen months County, Iowa, where he died March 19, 1924; interment inin France; electric company employee 1919-192 1; engaged in Oakland Cemetery. the manufacture of candy in 1921; secretary to the mayor of Lynn from January 1, 1922, to February 25, 1923; elected as CONNER, John Coggswell, a Representative from Texas;a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and to the seven succeeding born in Noblesville, Hamilton County, Ind., October 14, 1842;Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his death; attended the Noblesville public schools and Wabash College,chairman, Committee on Labor (Seventy-second through Sev- Crawfordsville, Ind.; admitted to the United States Navalenty-fifth Congresses); studied law; was admitted to the bar Academy, Annapolis, Md., September 20, 1861, and remainedOctober 10, 1934, but did not practice extensively; died in during the academic year, 1861-1862; commissioned a secondWashington, D.C., June 15, 1937; interment in St. Mary's lieutenant in the Sixty-third Regiment, Indiana VolunteerCemetery, Lynn, Mass. Infantry, on August 30, 1862, and a first lieutenant on Sep- tember 3, 1862; honorably discharged June 20, 1864; unsuc- CONNESS, John, a Senator from California; born in cessful candidate for election to the Indiana house of repre-Abbey, County Gaiway, Ireland, September 22, 1821; immi- sentatives in 1866; commissioned a captain in the Forty-firstgrated to the United States in 1833; learned the art of piano- Regiment, United States Infantry, on July 28, 1866, andforte making in New York; moved to California in 1849 and served in Texas until November 29, 1869, when he resigned,engaged in mining and mercantile pursuits; member, State having received the nomination for Congress; upon the read-assembly 1853-1854, 1860-1861; unsuccessful candidate for mission of Texas to representation was elected as a Demo-Governor of California in 1861; elected as a Douglas Demo-- crat to the Forty-first Congress; reelected to the Forty-secondcrat to the United States Senate, afterwards changed to a Congress and served from March 31, 1870, to March 3, 1873;Union Republican, and served from March 4, 1863, to March owing to failing health was not a candidate for renomination3, 1869; chairman, Committee on Mining (Thirty-ninth and in 1872; died in Washington, D.C., December 10, 1873; inter-Fortieth Congresses); moved to Boston, Mass., in 1869; re- ment in the Old Cemetery, Noblesville, Ind. tired from active business pursuits; died in Jamaica Plain,

Mass., January 10, 1909; interment in Cedar Grove Ceme-- CONNER, Samuel Shepard, a Representative from Massa-tery, Dorchester, Mass. chusetts; born in Exeter, N.H., about 1783; attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., in 1794; was graduated from CONNOLLY, Daniel Ward, a Representative from Penn- Yale College in 1806; studied law; was admitted to the barsylvania; born in Cochecton, Sullivan County, N.Y., April 24, and commenced practice in Waterville, Maine (at that time1847; moved with his parents to Scranton, Pa., in 1849; a district of Massachusetts), in 1810; served in the War ofattended the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the 1812 as major of the Twenty-first Infantry; promoted to lieu-bar in June 1870 and commenced practice in Scranton; elect- tenant colonel of the Thirteenth Infantry March 12, 1813;ed president judge of Lackawanna County in 1878 but did resigned July 14, 1814; resumed the practice of law in Wa-not serve because the State supreme court held that there terville, Maine; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenthwas no vacancy; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1880 Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); appointed surveyor to the Forty-seventh Congress; elected as a Democrat to the general of the Ohio land district in 1819; died in Covington,Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885); unsuc- Ky., December 17, 1820. cessful candidate for reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress; appointed postmaster of Scranton, Pa., on May 2, CONNERY, Lawrence Joseph (brother of William Patrick1885, and served until March 29, 1889; died in Scranton, Pa., Connery, Jr.), a Representative from Massachusetts; born inDecember 4, 1894; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery. Lynn, Essex County, Mass., October 17, 1895; attended the local parochial and public schools, and St. Mary's College, CONNOLLY, James Austin, a Representative from Illi- St. Marys, Kans.; employed as a reporter for the Lynn Item;nois; born in Newark, N.J., March 8, 1843; moved to Chester- Biographies 819 yule, Ohio, with his parents in 1850; attended the commonuary 6, 1866; interment in Rehoboth MethodistChurch Cem- schools and Selby Academy, Chesterville, Ohio; assistantetery, near Sherrills Ford, Catawba County, N.C. clerk of the State senate in 1858 and 1859; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859 and practiced in Mount Gilead, CONOVER, Simon Barclay, a Senator from Florida; born Ohio; moved to Charleston, Ill., in 1861; enlisted in thein Middlesex County, N.J., September 23, 1840; attended an Union Army as a private in the One Hundred and Twenty-academy in Trenton, N.J.; studied medicine at the Universi- third Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in 1862 and wasty of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; was graduated from the afterwards captain, major, and brevet lieutenant colonel;medical department of the University of Nashville, Tenn., in member of the State house of representatives 1872-1876;1864; during the Civil War served in the medical department United States attorney for the southern district of Illinoisof the Union Army; appointed acting assistant surgeon in from 1876 to 1885 and again from 1889 to 1893; unsuccessful1866, assigned to Lake City, Fla; resigned from the medical candidate for election in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; againdepartment of the Army upon readmission of the State of nominated in 1888 but declined to run; elected as a Republi-Florida into the Union; delegate to the State constitutional can to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4,convention in 1868; was appointed State treasurer in 1868, 1895-March 3, 1899); was not a candidate for renominationserving one term; a member of the Republican National in 1898; resumed the practice of law in Springfield, Ill.,Committee 1868-1872; member, State house of representa- where he died December 15, 1914; interment in Oak Ridgetives 1873, and served as speaker; elected as a Republican to Cemetery. the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1873, to Bibliography: Connolly, James Austin. Three Years in the Army of theMarch 3, 1879; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Cumberland; The Letters and Diary of Major James A. Connolly. Edited byCommittee on Enrolled Bills (Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Paul M. Angle. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1959. Congresses); resumed the practice of his profession; unsuc- CONNOLLY, James Joseph, a Representative from Penn-cessful Republican candidate for Governor in 1880; delegate sylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 24, 1881; at-to the State constitutional convention in 1885; appointed tended the high schools of that city; member of the Republi-United States surgeon at Port Townsend, Wash., in 1889; can State committee; served as financial secretary of thebecame president of the board of regents of the Agricultural Republican city committee of Philadelphia; elected as a Re- College and School of Sciences of the State of Washington in publican to the Sixty-seventh and to the six succeeding Con- 1891; practiced medicine in Port Townsend, Wash., until his gresses (March 4, 1921-January 3, 1935); unsuccessful candi-death, April 19, 1908; interment in the Masonic Cemetery. date for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress CONOVER, William Sheldrick, II, a Representative from and for election in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; en-Pennsylvania; born in Richmond, Va., August 27, 1928; grad- gaged in the real-estate business; also vice president ofuated from Lake Forest High School, Lake Forest, Ill., 1946; Philadelphia Transportation Co. and Transit InvestmentB.S., Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., 1950; served in Corp.; died in Philadelphia, Pa., December 10, 1952; inter-the United States Navy, lieutenant (jg.), 1952-1954; presi- ment in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Township of Cheltenham,dent, Mt. Lebanon Young Republicans, 1959-1960; president, Montgomery County, Pa. Upper St. Clair Republican Club, 1965-1966; president and CONNOLLY, Maurice, a Representative from Iowa; bornowner, Conover & Associates, Inc., insurancebrokers, Pitts- in Dubuque, Iowa, March 13, 1877; attended the commonburgh, Pa.; elected as a Republican, by special election, April schools; was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca,25, 1972, to the Ninety-second Congress to fill the vacancy N.Y., in 1897 and from the law department of New Yorkcaused by the death of James G. Fulton and served from University, New York City, in 1898; was admitted to the barApril 25, 1972, to January 3, 1973; unsuccessful candidate for in 1899; did postgraduate work at Balliol College, Oxford,nomination in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; resumed England, and the University of Heidelberg, Germany; en-business interests; is a resident of Pittsburgh, Pa. gaged in the insurance business and banking; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March CONRAD, Charles Magill, a Senator and a Representative 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for election to the Unitedfrom Louisiana; born in Winchester, Frederick County, Va., States Senate in 1914; chairman of the Iowa State Democrat-December 24, 1804; moved with his father to Mississippi, and ic convention in 1914; was a delegate to the Democraticthen to the Teche country in Louisiana; educated in a pri- National Convention in 1916; major in the Aviation Corpsvate school in New Orleans; studied law; was admitted to during the First World War; died in an airplane accidentthe bar in 1828 and commenced practice in New Orleans, near Indian Head, Md., May 28, 1921; interment in MountLa.; member, State house of representatives; elected as a Olivet Cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa. Whig to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alexander Mouton and served from CONNOR, Henry William, a Representative from NorthApril 14, 1842, to March 3, 1843; chairman, Committee on Carolina; born near Amelia Court House, Prince GeorgeEngrossed Bills (Twenty-seventh Congress); delegate to the County, Va., August 5, 1793; was graduated from SouthState constitutional convention in 1844; elected as a Whig to Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at the Thirty-first Congress and served from March 4, 1849, to Columbia in 1812; served as aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen.August 17, 1850, when he resigned; appointed Secretary of Joseph Graham with rank of major in the expedition against War by President Millard Fillmore 1850-1853; delegate from the Creek Indians in 1814; settled in Falls Town, IredellLouisiana to the Provisional Confederate Congress at Mont- County, N.C.; engaged in planting; elected to the Seven-gomery, Ala., in 1861; delegate to the Firstand Second Con- teenth through Twenty-second Congresses, elected as a Jack-federate Congresses 1862-1864; after the war resumed the sonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses,practice of law; died in New Orleans, La., February 11, 1878; and elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-interment in Girod Street Cemetery. sixth Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1841); chairman, Bibliography: DAB. Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Twenty- second through Twenty-fifth Congresses); was not a candi- CONRAD, Frederick, a Representative from Pennsylva- date for renomination in 1840; member of the State senatenia; born near Worcester Township, Montgomery County, 1848-1850; died at Beatties Ford, Lincoln County, N.C., Jan-Pa., in 1759; attended the common schools; was elected to 820 Biographical Directory the State assembly in 1798, 1800, and 1802; paymaster of theeral Electric Co., in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1940 and 1941 and at Fifty-first Regiment of Pennsylvania Militia in 1804 andBerkshire Evening Eagle, Pittsfield, Mass., 1941 and 1942; 1805; elected as a Republican to the Eighth and Ninth Con-served with the Seabees from 1942 to 1944 in the Southwest gresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1807); chairman, CommitteePacific; attended Boston College and Boston College Law on Accounts (Ninth Congress); appointed justice of the peaceSchool, graduating in 1949; was admitted to the bar in 1949 1807; appointed prothonotary and clerk of the courts in 1821,and commenced the practice of law in Pittsfield, Mass.; and reappointed in 1824; resided near Center Point andwasmember of the Massachusetts State senate from the Berk- interested in agricultural pursuits; moved to Norristown,shire District 1951-1958; in 1954 was selected by Massachu- and died there August 3, 1827; interment in Wentz's Re-setts Junior Chamber of Commerce as outstanding young formed ChurchCemetery,CenterPoint,Montgomeryman of the year; parliamentarian, Republican State conven- County, Pa. tions in 1956 and 1958; delegate to Republican National CONRAD, Kent, a Senator from North Dakota; born inConventions, 1960, 1964, and 1968, also serving on the plat- Bismarck, N.D., March 12, 1948; attended the public schoolsform committee in those years; elected as a Republican to of Bismarck and high school in Tripoli, ; attended thethe Eighty-sixth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses University of Missouri, Columbia, 1967; graduated, Stanford(January 3, 1959-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Pittsfield, University 1971; received a graduate degree from GeorgeMass. Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1975; assistant to the tax commissioner, Bismarck, 1974-1980; tax commission- CONTEE, Benjamin (uncle of Alexander Contee Hanson er, State of North Dakota 1981-1986; elected as a Democratand granduncle of Thomas Contee Worthington), a Delegate to the United States Senate in 1986 for the term endingand a Representative from Maryland; born at "Brookefield," January 3, 1993. near Nottingham, Prince Georges County, Md., in 1755; at- tended a private school; served in the Revolutionary War as CONRY, Joseph Aloysius, a Representative from Massa-lieutenant and captain in the Third Maryland Battalion; chusetts; born in Brookline, Mass., September 12, 1868; at-member of the State house of delegates 1785-1787; Member tended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to theof the Continental Congress in 1788; elected to the First bar and commenced practice in Boston; president of theCongress (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791); was not a candidate Boston Common Council in 1896 and 1897; chairman of thefor renomination in 1790; traveled in various European board of aldermen in 1898; elected as a Democrat to thecountries, and studied theology; continued theological study Fifty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); un-on his return to the United States, and was ordained a successful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighthminister of the Episcopal Church in 1803; was pastor of the Congress; resumed the practice of his profession in Boston,Episcopal Church at Port Tobacco, Charles County; was serv- Mass.; recognized as consul of Russia in September 1912 anding as presiding judge of the Charles County Orphans' Court served until 1919; decorated by Nicholas II, the Czar of at the time of his death; died in Charles County, Md., No-- Russia, and made a member of the Knights of St. Anne;vember 30, 1815; interment at "Bromont," his former home, director of the port of Boston, Mass., 1911-1916; resumed thenear Port Tobacco, Md. practice of law in Boston; special attorney for the Maritime Commission in Washington, D.C., in 1938 and 1939; practiced CONVERSE, George Leroy, a Representative from Ohio; law in Washington, D.C., until his death June 22, 1943;born in Georgesville, Franklin County, Ohio, June 4, 1827; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery. attended the common schools and Central College, Ohio, and was graduated from Denison University, Granville, Ohio, in CONRY, Michael Francis, a Representative from New1849; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1851 and York; born in Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pa., April 2,commenced practice in Columbus, Ohio, in 1852; prosecuting 1870; employed in the coal mines until crippled for life;attorney of Franklin County in 1857; member of the State attended the public schools; engaged in teaching for sevenhouse of representatives 1860-1863 and 1874-1876 and years; was graduated from the law department of the Uni- versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1896; was admitted tospeaker of the house in 1874; member of the State senate in the bar and commenced practice in Scranton, Pa.; unsuccess-1864 and 1865; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth, ful candidate for election in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Con-Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1879- gress; moved to New York City and resumed the practice ofMarch 3,1885); chairman, Committee on Public Lands law; served two years as assistant corporation counsel of the(Forty sixth Congress), was not a candidate for renommation city of New York; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-firstin 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress; resumed the practice of and to the three succeeding Congresses and served fromhis profession; delegate to the Nicaraguan Canal Convention March 4, 1909, until his death; had been reelected to thein 1892, and made chairman of this and the subsequent Sixty-fifth Congress; died in Washington, D.C., March 2,convention held in New Orleans; died in Columbus, Ohio, 1917; interment in Calvary Cemetery, New York City. March 30, 1897; interment in Green Lawn Cemetery. CONSTABLE, Albert, a Representative from Maryland; CONWAY, Henry Wharton (cousin of Ambrose Hendley born near Charlestown, Md., June 3, 1805; studied law; wasSevier), a Delegate from the Territory of Arkansas; born admitted to the bar in 1829 and settled in Bel Air, Harfordnear Greeneville, Greene County, Tenn., March 18, 1793; County, Md.; moved to Baltimore and practiced law; latereducated by private tutors; enlisted as an ensign in the War moved to Perryville, Cecil County, Md.; elected as a Demo-of 1812 and was promoted to lieutenant in 1813; clerk in the crat to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3,Treasury Department, Washington, D.C., in 1817; moved to 1847); judge of the circuit court of Maryland in 1851; died inMissouri Territory in 1818 and to Arkansas Territory in Camden, N.J., September 18, 1855. 1820; receiver of public moneys in 1820 and 1821; elected a Delegate to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Con- CONTE, Silvio Otto, a Representative from Massachu-gresses and served from March 4, 1823, until his death near setts; born in Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Mass., NovemberArkansas Post, Ark., then the Territorial seat of govern-

9, 1921; attended the public schools and graduated fromment, November 9, 1827; interment in Arkansas Post Ceme-- Pittsfield Vocational High School in 1940; machinist at Gen-tery. Biographies 821

CONWAY, Martin Franklin,a RepresentativefromIntelligencer; auditor of public accounts in 1816; judge of the Kansas; born at "Bretons Hill," near Faliston, Harfordwestern circuit; appointed the first attorney general of Illi- County, Md., November 19, 1827; received a liberal school- nois and served from March 15 to October 15, 1819; unsuc- ing; moved to Baltimore, Md., in 1843; learned the art ofcessful for election in 1818 to the Fifteenth Congress; elected printing and became an organizer of the National Typo-to the Sixteenth and to the three succeeding Congresses graphical Union; studied law; was admitted to the bar in(March 4, 1819-March 3, 1827); unsuccessful for reelection in 1852 and commenced practice in Baltimore; moved to1826 to the Twentieth Congress; directed in 1827 by Presi- Kansas in 1853 and continued the practice of law; also andent Adams to proceed to Cuba and report on political condi- agent in Kansas for the Massachusetts Abolition Society;tions; a county in Illinois was named in his honor; died in member of the first legislative council July 2, 1854; memberScott County, Ky., October 16, 1827. of the Kansas Free State convention in 1855; chief justice of the supreme court under the Topeka constitution of provi- COOK, George Washington, a Representative from Colo-- sional government in 1856 and 1857; president of the Leav-rado; born in Bedford, Lawrence County, md., November 10, enworth constitutional convention of 1858; upon the admis-1851; at the age of eleven ran away from home and enlisted sion of Kansas as a State into the Union was elected as ain the Fifteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congress- the Union Army and served as a drummer boy; was trans- es and served from January 29, 1861, to March 3, 1863;ferred to the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment, Indi- member of the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington,ana Volunteer Infantry, and served as chief regimental D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the impendingclerk; at the close of the Civil War attended the public war; appointed by President Johnson United Statesconsulschools, Bedford Academy, and the Indiana University at at Marseilles, France, on June 10, 1866, and served untilBloomington; moved to Chicago in 1880 and entered the April 16, 1869, when he retired from public life because of illemploy of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway; health; returned to Washington, D.C., where he died Febru-moved to Leadville, Cob., in 1880 and became division super- ary 15, 1882; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery. intendent of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad; mayor of Bibliography: DAB. Leadville 1885-1887; moved to Denver in 1888 and became CONYERS, John, Jr., a Representative from Michigan;general sales agent for the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.; depart- born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., May 16, 1929; attend-ment commander of the Grand Army of the Republic for ed Detroit public schools; served as an officer in the Corps ofColorado and Wyoming in 1891 and 1892; became an inde- Engineers, United States Army, for three and one-half years,pendent mining operator in 1893; senior vice commander in one year of which was spent in Korea; awarded combat andchief of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1905 and 1906; merit citations; resumed education and graduated fromorganized and commanded the Cook Drum Corps, of Denver; Wayne State University in 1957 and from Wayne State Lawelected as a Republican to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, School in 1958; was admitted to the bar in 1959 and began1907-March 3, 1909); was not a candidate for renomination practice in Detroit, Mich., legislative assistant to Congress- in 1908; resumed mining operations in Colorado; died in man John D. Dingell, 1958-1961; general counsel for threePueblo, Cob., December 18, 1916; interment in Fairmount labor locals in Detroit, 1959-1964; executive board memberCemetery, Denver, Cob. of Detroit Chapter, American Civil Liberties Union, 1964 to COOK, Joel, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in present;executiveboard member ofDetroitBranch, 1842; attended the public NAACP, 1963 to present; referee for Michigan Workmen'sPhiladelphia, Pa., March 20, Compensation Department, 1961-1963; elected as a Demo-schools and was graduated from the Central High School of crat to the Eighty-ninth and to the eleven succeeding Con-Philadelphia in 1859; studied law at the University of Penn- gresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1989); is a resident ofsylvania at Philadelphia; was admitted to the bar in 1863 Detroit, Mich. and practiced; correspondent with the Army of the Potomac and a Washington correspondent during the Civil War; on COOK, Burton Chauncey, a Representative from Illinois;the editorial staff of the Philadelphia Public Ledger from born in Pittsford, Monroe County, N.Y., May 11, 1819; at-1865 to 1882; financial editor 1883-1907; president of the tended the Collegiate Institute, Rochester, N.Y.; studied law;board of wardens for the port of Philadelphia 1891-1907; in 1835 moved to Ottawa, Ill., where he commenced thepresident of the board of trade and of the Vessel Owners and practice of law in 1840; elected by the legislature in 1846Captains' Association; member of the Union League of Phila- State's attorney for the ninth judicial district for two years;delphia; elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth Congress to reelected by the people in 1848 for four years; member of thefill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John E. Rey- State senate 1852-1860; delegate to the Republican Nationalburn; reelected to the Sixty-first Congress and served from Convention in 1860 and 1864; member of the peace conven- November 5, 1907, until his death in Philadelphia, Pa., De-- tion of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devisecember 15, 1910; interment in North Laurel Hill Cemetery. means to prevent the impending war; elected as aRepubli- can to the Thirty-ninth and to the threesucceeding Con- COOK, John Calhoun, a Representative from Iowa; born gresses and served from March 4, 1865, to August 26,1871, in Seneca, Seneca County, Ohio, December 26, 1846;attend- when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Roads anded the common schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar Canals (Fortieth Congress), Committee on District of Colum-in 1867 and commenced practice in Newton, Jasper County, bia (Forty-first Congress); resumed the practice of his profes-Iowa; judge of the sixth judicial district of Iowa in1878; sion in Evanston, Cook County, Ill., and died there Augustsuccessfully contested as a Democrat the election of Marsena 18, 1894; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Ill. E. Cutts to the Forty-seventh Congress and took his seat COOK, Daniel Pope, a Representative from Illinois; bornMarch 3, 1883, the closing day of the Congress; elected to the in Scott County, Ky., in 1794; attended the common schools;Forty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac-death of Marsena E. Cutts and served from October 9, 1883, tice in Kaskaskia, ill., in 1815; moved to Edwardsville, Ill., into March 3, 1885; resumed the practice of law inNewton, 1816 and engaged in newspaper work; editor of the illinoisIowa; moved to Webster City, Iowa, where he became attor- 822 Biographical Directory

ney for a railroad company; died in Algona, Kossuth County, COOK, Robert Eugene, a Representative from Ohio; born Iowa, June 7, 1920; interment in Riverview Cemetery. in Kent, Portage County, Ohio, May 19, 1920; attended Brim- COOK, John Parsons, a Representative from Iowa; bornfield Elementary School and graduated from Kent State in Whitestown, Oneida County, N.Y., August 31,1817; High School in 1938; served in the United States Air Force moved with his father to Davenport, Iowa, in 1836; studiedas a warrant officer 1942-1946; graduated from Kent State law; was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commencedprac-University in 1947 and from William and Mary Law School, tice in Tipton, Cedar County, Iowa; member of the IowaWilliamsburg, Va., in 1950; was admitted to the Ohio bar in Territorial council 1842-1845; served in the State senate 1950 and commenced the practice of law in Ravenna, Ohio; 1848-1851; returned to Davenport, Iowa, in 1851 and contin-elected prosecuting attorney of Portage County, Ohio, in ued the practice of law; unsuccessful candidate in 1850 for1952, reelected in 1956, and served until January 1, 1959; election to the Thirty-second Congress; electedas a Whig toelected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and Eighty-sev- the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855);enth Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1963); unsuc- was not a candidate for renomination in 1854; continued thecessful candidate for reelection in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth practice of law and also engaged in banking in DavenportCongress; judge, Court of Common Pleas, Portage County, until his death there April 17, 1872; interment in OakdaleOhio, 1963-1969; member of eleventh district Court of Ap- Cemetery. peals of Ohio from February 9, 1969, to present; is a resident of Ravenna, Ohio. COOK, Marlow Webster, a Senator from Kentucky; born in Akron, Erie County, N.Y., on July 27, 1926; entered the COOK, Samuel Andrew, a Representative from Wisconsin; United States Navy at seventeen and served in the subma-born in Ontario, Canada, January 28, 1849; moved with his rine service in the Atlantic and Pacific during the Secondparents to Calumet County, Wis., in 1856; attended the World War; graduated University of Louisville Law Schoolcommon schools in Fond du Lac and Calumet Counties; en- 1950; practiced law in Louisville, Kentucky; elected to thelisted as a private in Company A, Second Wisconsin Cavalry, Kentucky house of representatives in 1957 and reelected inunder General Custer, and served until the end of the Civil 1959; elected as a Jefferson County judge in 1961; reelectedWar; lived on a farm in Calumet County until 1872, when he in 1965; elected in 1968 as a Republican to the United Stateslocated in Marathon County and engaged in business; moved Senate; subsequently was appointed on December 17, 1968,to Neenah, Winnebago County, in 1881; elected mayor of tofill the unexpired term caused by the resignation ofNeenah in 1889; member of the State assembly in 1891 and Thruston B. Morton, and served from December 17, 1968,1892; delegate to the Republican National Convention at until his resignation December 27, 1974; unsuccessful candi-Minneapolis in 1892; elected as a Republican to the Fifty- date for reelection in 1974; resumed the practice of law infourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3,1897); declined Washington, D.C.; is a resident of Washington, D.C. renomination in 1896; was an unsuccessful candidate for COOK, Orchard, a Representative from Massachusetts;United States Senator in 1897 and again in 1907; command- born in Salem, Mass., March 24, 1763; attended the publicer of the Grand Army of the Republic for Department of schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits; assessor of PownalWisconsin in 1915 and 1916; became a manufacturer of print Borough in 1786; town clerk of New Milford, district ofpaper at Menasha, Wis., with residence in Neenah, Wis.; Maine, 1795-1797; justice of the peace; judge of the court ofpresident of the Alexandria Paper Company at Alexandria, common pleas for Lincoln County 1799-1810; appointed as-md.; died in Neenah, Wis., on April 4, 1918; interment in sistant assessor of the twenty-fifth district in NovemberOak Hill Cemetery. 1798; overseer of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1800- 1805; elected as a Republican to the Ninth, Tenth, and Elev- COOK, Samuel Ellis, a Representative from Indiana; born enth Congresses (March 4, 1805-March 3, 1811);was not aon a farm in Huntington County, md., September 30, 1860; candidate for renomination in1810;sheriff of Lincolnattended the common schools in Whitley County and the County in 1811; postmaster of Wiscasset, Lincoln County,normal schools at Columbia City, md., and Ada, Ohio; Maine, from 1811 until his death there August 12, 1819;taught school and engaged in agricultural pursuits; studied interment in Evergreen Cemetery. law; was graduated from the law department of Valparaiso University, Indiana, in 1888; was admitted to the bar the COOK, Philip, a Representative from Georgia; born insame year and commenced practice in Huntington, md.; Twiggs County, Ga., July 30, 1817; was graduated from Og-prosecuting attorney for Huntington County 1892-1894; dele- lethorpe University, Georgia, and from the law departmentgate to the Democratic National Convention in 1896; editori- of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1840;prac-al writer for the Huntington News-Democrat 1896-1900; ticed in Forsyth, Ga., in 1841 and 1842; moved successivelyjudge of the Huntington circuit court for the fifty-sixth judi- to Sumter, Lanier, and Oglethorpe Counties, and continuedcial district 1906-1918; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- the practice of law until 1869; served in the State senate ineighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful 1859, 1860, 1863, and 1864; entered the Confederate Army incandidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; 1861 as a private; was successively commissioned as firstresumed the practice of law in Huntington, md., where he lieutenant, lieutenant colonel, colonel, and, in August 1863,died February 22, 1946; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery. brigadier general, and served throughout the Civil War; member of the State convention in 1865; moved to Americus, COOK, Zadock, a Representative from Georgia; born in Sumter County, Ga., in 1885; elected as a Democrat to theVirginia February 18, 1769; moved to Hancock County, Ga., Forty-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,in early life, and was one of the first settlers in Clark 1873-March 3, 1883); chairman, Committee on Public Build-County; self-educated; ensign in the Washington County Mi- ings and Grounds (Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses);litia in 1793; captain of the Eleventh Company, Hancock resumed the practice of law in Americus, Ga.; State capitolCounty Militia, in 1796; member of the State house of repre- commissioner 1883-1889; elected secretary of state of Geor-sentatives in 1806, 1807, and again in 1822; served in the gia in 1890 and served until his death in Atlanta, Ga., MayState senate 1810-1814, 1823, and 1824; elected as a Republi- 24, 1894; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga. can to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by Bibliography: DAB. the resignation of Alfred Cuthbert; reelected to the Fifteenth Biographies 823

Congress and served from December 2, 1816, to March 3,forces to New York in 1776; was in command of Continental 1819; retired from public life and settled on his plantationforces when the British burned Danbury on April 26 and 27, pear Watkinsville, Ga., and engaged in agricultural pursuits1777; resigned his colonelcy early in 1778; member of the until his death on August 3, 1863; interment in Jacksoncouncil of safety in 1778; member of the State house of Cemetery, Clark (now Oconee) County, Ga. representatives in 1776, 1778, 1780-1782, and 1784; Member of the Continental Congress 1784-1785 and 1787-1788; judge COOKE, Bates, a Representative from New York; born inof the probate court for Danbury district 1776-1813; served Wallingford, Conn., December 23, 1787; attended the publicas one of the Governor's council in 1803;died in Danbury, schools; moved to Lewiston, N.Y.; studied law; was admittedConn., on February 3, 1816; interment in North Main Street to the bar about 1815 and commenced practice in Lewiston; participated in the War of 1812; supervisor of the town ofCemetery. Cambria in 1814; elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to COOKE, Thomas Burrage, a Representative from New the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833);York; born in Wallingford, Conn., November 21, 1778; moved was not a candidate for renomination in1832; elected comp-to New York about 1802 and settled in Catskill; engaged in troller of the State of New York in February 1839; served asmercantile pursuits; elected as a Republican to the Twelfth bank commissioner from May 14, 1840, until his death inCongress (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); elected president of Lewiston, Niagara County, N.Y., May 31, 1841; interment inwhat is now the Catskill National Bank in 1813; took the Oak Wood Cemetery. oath of office as justice of the peace September 2, 1818; COOKE, Edmund Francis, a Representative from Newengaged in the water freighting business in 1823 and also York; born in Prescott, Yavapai County, Ariz., April 13,interested in agricultural pursuits; became one of the incor- 1885; moved with his parents to Alden, Erie County, N.Y., inporators of the Catskill & Canajoharie Railway on April 19, 1887; attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted1830; member of the State assembly in 1838 and 1839; died to the bar in 1910 and commenced practice in Alden, N.Y.;in Catskill, N.Y., on November 20, 1853; interment in the served as a member of the New York assembly 1923-1928;Village Cemetery. elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first and Seventy- COOLEY, Harold Dunbar, a Representative from North second Congresses (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1933); unsuccess-Carolina; born in Nashville, Nash County, N.C., July 26, ful candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; resumed the practice of law in Buffalo, N.Y.; was1897; attended the public schools, the University of North there on May 13,Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the law school of Yale Universi- a resident of Alden, N.Y., until his death ty; was admitted to the bar in 1918 and commencedpractice 1967; interment in Evergreen Cemetery. in Nashville, N.C.; served in the Naval Aviation Flying COOKE, Edward Dean, a Representative from Illinois;Corps in 1918; delegate to the InterparliamentaryConfer- born in Cascade, Dubuque County, Iowa, October 17, 1849;ences held at Cairo, Egypt, in1947 and at Rome, Italy, in attended the common schools, the local academy, and the1948 and served as president of the American group for two high school at Dubuque; studied law at Dubuque and in thefour-year terms; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third law department of Columbian (now George Washington)Congress, by special election, July 7, 1934, to fill the vacancy University, Washington, D.C., and was graduated from thatcaused by the death of Edward W. Pou; reelected tothe institution in 1873; was admitted to the bar in the same yearsixteen succeeding Congresses and served fromJuly 7, 1934, and commenced practice in Chicago, Ill.; member of theto January 3, 1967; chairman, Committee onAgriculture State house of representatives in 1883; elected as a Republi-(Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses and Eighty-fourth can to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congressesand servedthrough Eighty-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for from March 4, 1895, until his death in Washington, D.C.,reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress;resumed the June 24, 1897; interment in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.practice of law; died in Wilson, N.C., January 15, 1974;inter- ment in Forest Hill Cemetery, Nashville, N.C. COOKE, Eleutheros, a Representative from Ohio; born in Granville, Washington County, N.Y., December 25, 1787; at- COOLIDGE, Calvin, a Vice President and 30th President tended the country schools; studied law; was admitted to theof the United States; born John Calvin Coolidge inPlym- bar and commenced practice in Granville; moved to Indianaouth, Windsor County, Vt., July 4, 1872, but droppedJohn in 1817, and thence to Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio, in 1819;from his name upon graduating from college;attended the member of the State house of representatives in 1822, 1823,public schools, Black River Academy, Ludlow, Vt.,and St. and 1825; obtained from the Ohio Legislature in 1826 theJohnsbury Academy; was graduated from AmherstCollege, first charter granted to a railroad in the United States-theMassachusetts, in 1895; studied law; was admitted to the bar Mad River & Lake Erie Railroad-and ground was brokenin 1897 and commenced practice in Northampton,Mass.; for it in 1832; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-member of the city council in 1899; city solicitor 1900-1902; second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); was an un-clerk of courts in 1904; member, State house of representa- successful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-third Con-tives 1907-1908; resumed the practice of hisprofession in gress; resumed the practice ofhis profession; again aNorthampton; elected mayor of Northampton in 1910and member of the State house of representatives in 1840; died1911; member, State senate 1912-1915, and served as presi- in Sandusky, Ohio, on December 27, 1864; interment inSt.dent of that body in 1914 and 1915; lieutenant governorof Paul's Episcopal churchyard, Elkins Park, Pa. Massachusetts 19 16-1918; Governor of Massachusetts 1919- Bibliography: DAB. 1920; elected Vice President of the United States on the COOKE, Joseph Platt, a Delegate from Connecticut; bornRepublican ticket headed by Warren G. Harding in1920; 4, 1730;was inaugurated on March 4, 1921,and served until August in Stratford (now Bridgeport), Conn., on January Harding was graduated from Yale Collegein 1750; from 1763 to 17833, 1923; upon the death of President Warren G. he represented the town in about thirty sessions of thebecame President of the United States on August 3, 1923; general assembly; justice of the peace in 1764;appointedelected President of the United States in 1924 for the term colonel of the Sixteenth Regiment of Militia in 1771; duringexpiring March 3, 1929; was not a candidate for renomina- the Revolutionary War accompanied GeneralWolcott'stion in 1928; served as chairman of the NonpartisanRail- 824 Biographical Directory road Commission and as honorary president of the Founda-seven years; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1888 to tion of the Blind; died at "The Beeches," Northampton,the Fifty-first Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- Mass., January 5, 1933; interment in Notch Cemetery, Plym-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, outh, Vt. 1895); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Bibliography: DAB; Coolidge, Calvin. The Autobiography of Calvin Coo- Fifty-fourth Congress; appointed a director of the Union Pa- lidge. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1929; McCoy, Donald. Calvin Coolidge: The Quiet President. New York: Macmillan, 1967. cific Railroad by President Cleveland in 1894, with special commission to collect the debts due the United States Gov- COOLIDGE, Frederick Spaulding (father of Marcus Allenernment from the various Pacific railroads; president of the Coolidge), a Representative from Massachusetts; born inManufacturers' Terminal Co., later consolidated with the Westminster, Worcester County, Mass., December 7, 1841;Title Guarantee & Trust Co. of Brooklyn; in 1904 became attended the common schools; became manager of thepresident of the South Brooklyn Savings Bank, in which Boston Chair Manufacturing Co. and of the Leominstercapacity he served until his death in Brooklyn, N.Y., Janu- Rattan Works; selectman of his native town for threeyears;ary 12, 1922; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. member of the Democratic State central committee; member of the State house of representatives in 1875; elected asa COON, Samuel Harrison, a Representative from Oregon; Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-born in Boise, Ada County, Idaho, April 15, 1903; attended March 3, 1893); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892public schools in Cambridge and Boise, Idaho; graduated to the Fifty-third Congress; retired from active business pur-from the University of Idaho at Moscow in 1925; worked as a suits; died in Fitchburg, Mass., on June 8, 1906; interment inwool grader, bank clerk, foreman of a sheep ranch, and as Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Westminster, Mass. office manager for a mining concern; owned and operated a cattle ranch near Keating, Baker County, Oreg., 1929-1950; COOLIDGE, Marcus Allen (son of Frederick Spauldingsupervisor Keating Soil Conservation District, 1941-1945; en- Coolidge), a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Westmin-gaged in the real estate business in 1951 and 1952; served in ster, Worcester County, Mass., October 6, 1865; attended thethe senate of the Oregon legislature in 1951 and 1952; elect- public schools and Bryant & Stratton Commercial College ated as a Republican to the Eighty-third and Eighty-fourth Boston, Mass.; employed by his father in the manufacture ofCongresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1957); was an unsuc- chairs and rattan; moved to Fitchburg, Mass., in 1895;en-cessful candidate for reelection in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth gaged in the contracting business, building street railways,Congress; served as Deputy Director for the International water works, and bridges 1883-1905, and in the manufactureCooperation Administration in Lima, Peru, from February of machine tools in 1905; mayor of Fitchburg 1916; appointed26, 1957, to March 20, 1959; resided in Laguna Hills, CaliL, in 1919 by President Woodrow Wilson as special envoy tountil his death there on May 8, 1980; cremated and ashes Poland representing the Peace Commission; chairman of thescattered at sea. Democratic State convention in 1920; trustee and president of Cushing Academy at Ashburnham, Mass.; elected asa COONEY, James, a Representative from Missouri; born in Democrat to the United States Senate and served fromCounty Limerick, Ireland, July 28, 1848; immigrated to the March 4, 1931, to January 3, 1937; was not a candidate forUnited States in 1852 with his parents, who settled near renomination in 1936; chairman, Committee on ImmigrationTroy, N.Y.; moved to Missouri where he attended the public (Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses); resumed hisschools and the University of Missouri at Columbia; taught former business pursuits and resided in Fitchburg, Mass.;school in illinois for several years; in 1875 settled in Mar- died at Miami Beach, Fla., January 23, 1947; interment inshall, Mo.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and engaged Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Westminster, Mass. in the practice of law; elected probate judge in 1880 and COOMBS, Frank Leslie, a Representative from California;prosecuting attorney of Saline County in 1882 and 1884; born in Napa, Napa County, Calif., December 27, 1853; at-elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, and tended the public schools in California; attended the Dor-Fifty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1903); un- chester High School, Boston, Mass., and was graduated fromsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1902; resumed the the law department of Columbian (now George Washington)practice of law; died in Marshall, Saline County, Mo., No- University, Washington, D.C., in 1875; was admitted to thevember 16, 1904; interment in Ridge Park Cemetery. bar in 1875 and commenced practice in Napa, Calif; district COOPER, Allen Foster, a Representative from Pennsylva- attorney of Napa County, Calif., 1880-1885; member of thenia; born in Franklin Township, Fayette County, Pa., June State assembly 1887-1889 and 1891-1897 and servedas16, 1862; attended the public schools of his native township, speaker in 1891 and again in 1897; on the death of John F. and was graduated from the State normal school, California, Swift was appointed United States Minister to Japan andPa., in 1882; attended Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, served from June 1892 to August 1893; State librarian ofin 1883; taught school for six years; was graduated from the California from April 1, 1898, to April 1, 1899; United Stateslaw department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor attorney for the northern district of California from April 1,in 1888; was admitted to the bar December 4, 1888, and 1899, to March 1, 1901; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-commenced practice in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pa.; seventh Congress (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); unsuccess-elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the three ful candidate for reelection in 1902; resumed the practice ofsucceeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1911); re- law in Napa, Calif; again a member of the State assemblysumed business and the practice of law in Uniontown, Pa.; 1921-1923 and 1925-1927; died in Napa, Calif., October 5,died in Uniontown April 20, 1917; interment in Oak Grove 1934; interment in Tulocay Cemetery. Cemetery. COOMBS, William Jerome, a Representative from New COOPER, Charles Merian, a Representative from Florida; York; born in Jordan, Onondaga County, N.Y., December 24,born in Athens, Clarke County, Ga., January 16, 1856; 1833; attended the Jordan Academy, Jordan, N.Y.; moved tomoved with his parents to Florida in 1864; pursued academic New York City in 1850, and in 1855 took up his residence instudies at Gainesville Academy; studied law; was admitted Brooklyn; in 1856 entered upon the business of exportingto the bar in 1877 and commenced practice in St. Augustine, American goods and continued in this business for thirty-Fla.; member of the State house of representatives in 1880; Biographies 825 served in the State senate in 1884; attorney general of Flori-menced practice in Columbus, md.; prosecuting attorney of da 1885-1889; appointed in 1889 one of the three commis-Columbus in 1872; mayor of Columbus in 1877; city attorney sioners to revise the statutes of the State; elected as a Demo-of Columbus 1879-1883; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty- crat to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4,first,Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1897); was not a candidate for renomination;1889-March 3, 1895); chairman, Committee on Irrigation of resumed the practice of law in Jacksonville, Fla., until hisArid Lands (Fifty-third Congress); unsuccessful candidate for death there November 14, 1923; interment in St. Mary'sreelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress; resumed the

Cemetery. practice of law in Columbus, md.; died in Chicago, Ill., No-- COOPER, Edmund (brother of Henry Cooper), a Repre-vember 27, 1899; interment in Garland Brook Cemetery, sentative from Tennessee; born in Franklin, WilliamsonColumbus, md. County, Tenn., September 11, 1821; was graduated from COOPER, Henry (brother of Edmund Cooper), a Senator Jackson (Tenn.) College in 1839; studied law at Harvardfrom Tennessee; born in Columbia, Maury County, Tenn., on University; was admitted to the bar and commenced practiceAugust 22, 1827; attended Dixon Academy, Shelbyville, in Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tenn., in 1841; member ofTenn., and was graduated from Jackson ('I'enn.) College in the State house of representatives in 1849; presidential elec-1847; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1850 and tor on the Constitutional Union ticket in 1860; Union dele-commenced practice in Shelbyville; member, State house of gate to the State constitutional convention of 1861; againrepresentatives 1853-1855, 1857-1859; appointed judge of the

elected to the State house of representatives but in 1865seventh judicial circuit of Tennessee in April 1862 and re-- resigned; upon the readmission of the State of Tennessee tosigned in January 1866; professor in the law school at Leba- representation was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-ninthnon, Tenn. 1866-1867; moved to Nashville where heresumed Congress and served from July 24, 1866, to March 3, 1867;the practice of law; member, State senate 1869-1870; elected unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Fortieth Con-as a Democrat to the United States Senate andserved from gress; appointed by President Johnson Assistant SecretaryofMarch 4, 1871, to March 3, 1877; was not a candidate for the Treasury November 20, 1867, andserved until March 20,renomination in 1876; was killed by bandits in Tierra 1869; resumed the practice of law at Shelbyville and diedBlanca, Guadelupe y Calvo, Mexico, on February 4, 1884, there July 21, 1911; interment in Willow Mount Cemetery.where he was engaged in mining operations; interment in COOPER, Edward, a Representative from West Virginia;Tierra Blanca. born in Treverton, Northumberland County, Pa., February 26, 1873; moved with his parents to Fayette County, W.Va., COOPER, Henry Allen, a Representative from Wisconsin; in 1875; attended public and private schools; was graduatedborn in Spring Prairie, Walworth County, Wis., September 8, from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., in1850; moved with his parents to Burlington, Wis., in 1851; 1892, and subsequently from the law department of the sameattended the common schools; was graduated from Burling- university; was admitted to the bar in 1894 and practicedton High School in June 1869, from NorthwesternUniversi- law for three years in Bramwell, Mercer County, W.Va.;ty, Evanston, Ill., in 1873, and from Union Collegeof Law member of the town council for eight years; on the death of(then the legal department of Northwestern University and his father abandoned the practice of law and engaged in theof the old University of Chicago) in 1875; was admitted to development of coal properties in West Virginia; delegate tothe bar and commenced practice at Burlington, Wis.; elected the Republican National Convention in 1912; elected as adistrict attorney of Racine County in November 1880;moved Republican to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congressesto the city of Racine in January 1881; reelecteddistrict (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1919); unsuccessful candidate forattorney without opposition in 1882 and 1884; delegate tothe reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; again engagedRepublican National Conventions in 1884, 1908, and 1924; in the production of coal in Mercer and McDowell Counties,member of the State senate 1887-1889 and author of the bill W.Va., and served as a director in several coal companies;which became the law first establishing the Australian died in Bluefield, W.Va., March 1, 1928; interment in Holly-secret ballot system in the State of Wisconsin; unsuccessful wood Cemetery, Richmond, Va. candidate for election in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and to the twelve COOPER, George Byran, a Representative from Michi-succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1919); chair- gan; born at Long Hill, Morris County, N.J.,June 6, 1808;man, Committee on Rivers andHarbors (Fifty-fifth Con- attended the public schools; moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., ingress), Committee on Insular Affairs (Fifty-sixth through 1830, and later, in 1835, to Jackson, Mich., where he engagedSixtieth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in in mercantile pursuits; postmaster of Jackson from 1836 to 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; again elected to the Sixty- 1846; member of the State senate in 1837 and 1838; estab-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses and served lished an iron foundry at Jackson in 1840; served in thefrom March 4, 1921, until his death; had been reelected to State house of representatives in 1842; State treasurer ofthe Seventy-second Congress; died in Washington,D.C., Michigan from March 17, 1846, to March 13, 1850; engaged in banking at Jackson in 1851; presented credentials as a March 1, 1931; interment in Mound Cemetery, Racine, Wis. Democratic Member-elect to the Thirty-sixth Congress and COOPER, James, a Representative and a Senator from served from March 4, 1859, to May 15, 1860, when he was Pennsylvania; born in Frederick County, Md., May 8, 1810; succeeded by William A. Howard, who successfully contestedpursued academic studies, and was graduated from Washing- his election; resided in New Bedford, Wall Township, Mon-ton (now Washington and Jefferson) College, Washington, mouth County, until his death on August 29, 1866; inter-Pa., in 1832; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1834 ment probably at Shark River, N.J. and commenced practice in Gettysburg, Pa.; elected as a COOPER, George William, a Representative from Indi- Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses ana; born near Columbus, Bartholomew County,md., May(March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); chairman, Committee on 21, 1851; attended the country schools, and was graduated inIndian Affairs (Twenty-seventh Congress); member, State the academic and law courses from the Indiana Universityhouse of representatives 1843-1844, 1846, 1848, and served as at Bloomington in 1872; was admitted to the bar and com-speaker one term; moved to Pottsville, Pa.; attorney general 826 Biographical Directory

of Pennsylvania in 1848; elected to the United States Senatemember of the State house of representatives 1910-1912; and served from March 4, 1849, to March 3, 1855; moved toelected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the ten Philadelphia; authorized by President Abraham Lincoln tosucceeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-January 3, 1937); was raise a brigade of loyal Marylanders, and commissioned brig-an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Sev- adier general in 1861; served in West Virginia under Gener-enty-fifth Congress; served as chairman of the Board of al Fremont; appointed commandant at Camp Chase,nearClaims, Ohio Industrial Commission, 1937-1945; retired from Columbus, Ohio, and died there March 28, 1863; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Md. public and political activities in 1947 and resided in Youngs- Bibliography: DAB. town, Ohio; died in Hagerstown, Md., January 7, 1955; inter- ment in Lake Park Cemetery, Youngstown, Ohio. COOPER, James Hayes Shofner, a Representative from Tennessee; born in Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tenn., June COOPER, John Sherman, a Senator from Kentucky; born 19, 1954; graduated from Groton School, Groton, Mass., 1972;in Somerset, Pulaski County, Ky., August 23, 1901; attended B.A., University of North Carolina (Morehead Scholar),the public schools at Somerset and Centre College, Danville, Chapel Hill, 1975; M.A., Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar), KY.; was graduated from Yale College 1923; attended Har- Oxford, England, 1977; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1980; ad-vard Law School 1923-1925; was admitted to the bar in 1928 mitted to the Tennessee bar, 1980, and commenced practiceand commenced practice in Somerset, Ky.; member, Ken- in Nashville; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth andtucky house of representatives 1928-1930; judge of Pulaski to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-JanuaryCounty, Ky., 1930-1938; member of the board of trustees of 3, 1989); is a resident of Shelbyville, Tenn. the University of Kentucky 1935-1946; served during the Second World War in the United States Army 1942-1946, COOPER, Jere, a Representative from Tennessee; born onattaining the rank of captain; elected circuit judge of the a farm near Dyersburg, Dyer County, Tenn., July 20, 1893;twenty-eighth judicial district of Kentucky in 1945 and attended the public schools; was graduated from the lawserved until his resignation in November 1946; elected as a department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., inRepublican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy 1914; was admitted to the bar in 1915 and commencedprac- tice in Dyersburg, Tenn.; in 1917 enlisted in the Secondcaused by the resignation of Albert B. Chandler and served Tennessee Infantry, National Guard and was commissionedfrom November 6, 1946, to January 3, 1949; unsuccessful a first lieutenant; transferred with his company to Companycandidate for reelection in 1948; resumed the practice of law; K, One Hundred and Nineteenth Infantry, Thirtieth Divi-delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations in sion, and served in France and Belgium; on July 9, 1918, was1949 and alternate delegate in 1950 and 1951; served as promoted to captain and served as regimental adjutant untiladviser to the Secretary of State at the London and Brussels discharged from the Army on April 2, 1919; after thewarmeetings of the Council of Ministers of the North Atlantic resumed the practice of law in Dyersburg, Tenn.; member ofTreaty Organization in 1950; elected as a Republican to the city council and city attorney 1920-1928; elected Statecom-United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death mander of the American Legion of Tennessee in 1921; elect-of Virgil M. Chapman and served from November 5, 1952, to ed as a Democrat to the Seventy-first and to the fourteenJanuary 3, 1955; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1929, until1954; Ambassador to India and Nepal 1955-1956; delegate, his death in Bethesda, Md., December 18, 1957; chairman,United Nations General Assembly 1968; elected as a Repub- Committee on Ways and Means (Eighty-fourth and Eighty-lican to the United States Senate in 1956 to fill the vacancy fifth Congresses), Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Tax-caused by. the death of Alben W. Barkley; reelected in 1960, ation (Eighty-fifth Congress); interment in Fairview Ceme-and again in 1966 and served from November 7, 1956, to tery, Dyersburg, Tenn. January 3, 1973; was not a candidate for reelection in 1972; Bibliography: DAB. Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic 1974-1976; COOPER, John, a Delegate from New Jersey; born nearlawyer, practicing in Washington, D.C.; is a resident of both Woodbury, Gloucester County, N.J., February 5, 1729;re-Somerset, Ky., and Washington, D.C. ceived a liberal education; member of the committee of cor- Bibliography: Mitchiner, Clarice J. Senator John Sherman Cooper. New respondence for Gloucester County in 1774; member of the York: Arno Press, 1982; Schulman, Robert. John Sherman Cooper-The Provincial Congress in 1775 and 1776 and servedon the Global Kentuckian. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1976. committee that drafted the first constitution of New Jersey; COOPER, Mark Anthony (cousin of Eugenius Aristides appointed by the Provincial Congress treasurer of the west-Nisbet), a Representative from Geoigia; born near Powell- ern division of New Jersey and served from October 28,ton, Hancock County, Ga., on April 20, 1800; was graduated 1775, to August 31, 1776; served on the legislative councilfrom South Carolina College (now the University of South from Gloucester County 1776-1780 and 1784; elected to theCarolina) at Columbia in 1819; studied law; was admitted to Continental Congress in 1776, but did not attend; member ofthe bar in 1821 and commenced practice in Eatonton, the State council of safety in 1778; elected judge of the pleasPutnam County, Ga.; moved to Columbus, Ga.; served in the for Gloucester County courts on December 25, 1779; reelect- campaign against the Seminole Indians in Florida in 1825, ed in 1784, and served until his death in Woodbury, N.J.,and again in 1836; member of the State house of representa- April 1, 1785; interment in Quaker Cemetery. tives in 1833; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress COOPER, John Gordon, a Representative from Ohio;(March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841); unsuccessful candidate for born in Wigan, England, April 27, 1872; immigrated to thereelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress but was United States in 1880 with his parents, who settled inlater elected as a Democrat to fill the vacancy caused by the Youngstown, Ohio; attended the public schools; began workresignation of William C. Dawson; reelected as a Democrat in the steel mills in 1885; entered the service of the Pennsyl-to the Twenty-eighth Congress and served from January 3, vania Railroad Company in 1896 and was employed as a1842, to June 26, 1843, when he resigned to become a candi- locomotive fireman 1896-1900 and as an engineer 1900-1915;date for Governor, but was unsuccessful; president of the member of the Republican county committee in 1906; was aEtowah Manufacturing & Mining Co. of Etowah, Ga., in delegateto the Republican State convention in1910; 1859; died at his home, "Glen Holly," near Cartersville, Biographies 827

Bartow County, Ga., March 17, 1885; interment on his1832; attended the public schools and Mount Vernon Acade- estate. my; studied law; was admitted to thebar in 1852 and com- Bibliography: DAB. menced practice in Mount Vernon, Ohio; prosecuting attor- of Mount Vernon COOPER, Richard Matlack, a Representative from Newney of Knox County 1859-1863; mayor Jersey; born in Gloucester County, N.J., February 29, 1768; 1862-1864; member of the State house of representatives completed a preparatory course of studies; engaged in bank-1872-1874; judge advocate generalof Ohio1879-1884; ing; coroner 1795-1799; judge and justice of Gloucestermember and president of the board of education of Mount County courts 1803-1823; member of the State general as-Vernon; elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, sembly 1807-1810; president of the State Bank of Newand Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1891); Jersey at Camden 1813-1842; elected to the Twenty-first andwas not a candidate for renomination in1890; resumed the Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1833);practice of law in Mount Vernon, Ohio, where he died on declined to be a candidate for reelection; died in Camden,August 29, 1902; interment in Mound View Cemetery. N.J., March 10, 1843; interment in the Newton Burying COOPER, William Raworth, a Representative from New Ground. Jersey; born near Bridgeport, Gloucester County, N.J., Feb- COOPER, Samuel Bronson, a Representative from Texas;ruary 20, 1793; attended the local schools; engagedin agri- born near Eddyville, Caldwell County, Ky., May 30, 1850;cultural pursuits; member of the State general assembly moved with his parents to Texas the same year and located1839-1841; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Con- in Woodville, Tyler County; attended the common schools;gress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841);resumed agricultural studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1871 and commencedpursuits until his death near Bridgeport, N.J., on September practice in Woodville in January 1872; prosecuting attorney22, 1856; interment in the Cooper family burying ground, of Tyler County 1876-1880; member of the State senatenear Bridgeport, N.J. 1880-1884; appointed collector of internal revenue for the first district of Texas by President Cleveland in 1885 and COPELAND, Oren Sturman, a Representative from Ne- - served until 1888; unsuccessful candidate for district judgebraska; born on a farm near Huron, Beadle County, S.Dak., in 1888; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and to theMarch 16, 1887; moved with his parents to Pender, Nebr., in five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1905);1891; attended the public schools at Pender; attended the unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Fifty-ninth Con-University of Nebraska at Lincoln 1904-1907; engaged in gress; again elected to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4,1907-newspaper work at Lincoln, Nebr., in1910 and in the fuel March 3, 1909); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to thebusiness in 1913; served as city commissioner, department of Sixty-first Congress; appointed a member of the Unitedpublic safety, 1935-1937; mayor of Lincoln from 1937 until States Board of General Appraisers at the port of New Yorkhis resignation in 1940; elected as a Republican to the Seven- City by President Taft in 1910; died in New York Cityty-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1943); un- August 21, 1918; interment in Magnolia Cemetery, Beau- successful candidate for renomination in 1942; resumed the mont, Jefferson County, Tex. retail fuel business; died in Lincoln, Nebr., April 10, 1958; COOPER, Thomas, a Representative from Delaware; borninterment in Wyuka Cemetery. in Little Creek Hundred, Sussex County, Del., in 1764; com- COPELAND, Royal Samuel, a Senator from New York; pleted preparatory studies; member of the State house ofborn in Dexter, Washtenaw County, Mich., on November 7, representatives 1803-1808; studied law; was admitted to the1868; attended the public schools and Michigan State bar in 1805 and practiced; served in the State senate in 1808;Normal School, Ypsilanti, Mich.; was graduated from the elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth and Fourteenthmedical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); resumed the prac-Arbor in 1889; took postgraduate courses in Europe; house tice of law in Georgetown, Del., where he died in 1829;surgeon in the University of MichiganHospital 1889-1890; interment in the Cooper family cemetery, near Laurel, Del.practiced medicine in Bay City, Mich., 1890-1895; professor COOPER, Thomas Buchecker, a Representative fromin the medical school of the University of Michigan 1895- Pennsylvania; born in Coopersburg, Pa., December 29, 1823;1908; mayor of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1901-1903; presidentof attended the public schools and Pennsylvania College atthe park board in 1905 and 1906, and president of the Ann Gettysburg; was graduated from the medical department ofArbor board of education in 1907 and 1908; member of the the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1843 andMichigan State tuberculosis board of trustees 1900-1908; commenced practice in Coopersburg; elected as a Democratmoved to New York City in 1908; dean of the New York to the Thirty-seventh Congress and served from March 4,Flower Hospital and Medical College 1908-1918; member of 1861, until his death in Coopersburg, Pa., on April 4, 1862;the United States pension examining board in 1917;commis- interment in Woodland Cemetery. sioner of public health and president of the New York Board of Health 1918-1923; elected as a Democrat to the United COOPER, William, a Representative from New York;States Senate in 1922; reelected in 1928 and 1934 and served born in Philadelphia, Pa., December 2, 1754; lived in Bur-from March 4, 1923, until his death on June 17,1938 in lington, N.J., until moving in 1789 to Otsego County, N.Y.,Washington, D.C.; chairman, Committee on Rules (Seventy- where he established the town of Cooperstown; appointedthird Congress), Committee on Commerce (Seventy-fourth first judge of the court of common pleas for Otsego Countyand Seventy-fifth Congresses); author of several scientific on February 17, 1791; elected as aFederalist to the Fourth Congress (March 4, 1795-March 3, 1797); again elected to theworks, nationally known for his writings and radio broad- Sixth Congress (March 4, 1799-March 3,1801); father ofcasts on health problems; unsuccessful candidate for nomi- James Fenimore Cooper; died in Albany, N.Y., December 22,nation as mayor of New York City in 1937; died in Washing- ton, D.C.; interment in Mahwah Cemetery, Mahwah,N.J. 1809; interment in Christ Churchyard, Cooperstown, N.Y. Bibliography: DAB; Potter, Raymond. "Royal Samuel Copeland, 1868- Bibliography: DAB. 1938: A Physician in Politics." Ph.D. dissertation, Case western Reserve, COOPER, William Craig, a Representative from Ohio; 1967; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services. 76th Cong., 1st sess., 1939. Wash- born in Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, on December18, ington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1939. 828 Biographical Directory

COPLEY, Ira Clifton (nephew of Richard Henry Whiting),ant to State senate president, 1973-1974; vice president, Chi- a Representative from Illinois; born near Galesburg, Knoxcago-North Western Transportation Co., 1974-1976; elected County, Ill., October 25, 1864; moved with his parentstoas a Republican to the Ninety-fifth and to the three succeed- Aurora, Ill., in 1867; attended the public schools and Jen-ing Congresses (January 3, 1977-January 3, 1985); was not a nings Seminary at Aurora; was graduated from Yale Univer-candidate for reelection in 1984 to the Ninety-ninth Con- sity in 1887 and from the Union College of Law at Chicagogress but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to in 1889; became connected with the gas and electric businessthe United States Senate; owner of a consulting and finan- in Aurora, Ill., in 1889; owner and publisher of the Beacon-cial services corporation in Washington, D.C., and Chicago, News at Aurora in 1905, the Courier-News at Elgin in 1908,1985 to present; is a resident of Chicago, Ill., and McLean, and the Herald-News at Joliet in 1913; electedas a Republi- can to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses; reelected Va. as a Progressive to the Sixty-fourth Congress and as a Re- CORDON, Guy, a Senator from Oregon; born in Cuero, De publican to the Sixty-fifth through Sixty-seventh CongressesWitt County, Tex., April 24, 1890; moved to Roseburg, Oreg., (March 4, 1911-March 3,1923); was not a candidate forand attended the public schools; deputy assessor 1909-19 16; renomination in 1922; continued the development and pub-county assessor of Douglas County, Oreg., 1917-1920; during lishing of daily newspapers, acquiring the Illinois State Jour-the First World War served as a private in the Field Artil- nal at Springfield, the Union and the Tribune at San Diego,lery of the United States Army; was admitted to the bar in Calif., and eleven other dailies in southern California; died1920 and commenced practice in Roseburg, Oreg.; district in Aurora, Ill., November 1, 1947; interment in Spring Lakeattorney of Douglas County 1923-1935; appointed and subse- Cemetery. quently elected as a Republican to the United States Senate Bibliography: DAB. to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles L. CORBE'FT, Henry Winslow, a Senator from Oregon; bornMcNary; reelected in 1948 and served from March 4, 1944, to in Westboro, Mass., February 18, 1827; moved with hispar-January 3, 1955; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in ents to White Creek, Washington County, N.Y., in 1831;1954; chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs attended the common schools; engaged in mercantilepur-(Eighty-third Congress); engaged in the practice of law in suits in Cambridge, N.Y., in 1840 and attended CambridgeWashington, D.C., until his retirement in 1962; died in

Academy; moved to New York City in 1843 andwas em-Washington, D.C., June 8, 1969; interment in Roseburg Me-- ployed in the mercantile business until 1851; went with amorial Gardens, Roseburg, Oreg. stock of goods around Cape Horn to Portland, Oreg., in 1851, and engaged in a general merchandising business, later CORDOVA, Jorge Luis, a Resident Commissioner from changing to wholesale hardware; became largely interestedPuerto Rico, born in Manati, P.R., April 20, 1907; A.B., in banking, railroads, building, and investments; city treas-Catholic University of America, 1928; LL.B., Harvard Uni- urer of Portland, member of the city council, and chairmanversity, 1931; judge, Superior Court of San Juan, 1940-1945; of the Republican State central committee; electedas a Re-justice, Supreme court of Puerto Rico, 1945-1946; lawyer; publican to the United States Senate and served from Marchelected as a New Progressive to be Resident Commissioner of 4, 1867, to March 3, 1873; was not a candidate for reelectionPuerto Rico to the United States House of Representatives, in 1873; resumed business interests; appointed to the UnitedNovember 5, 1968, for a four-year term ending January 3, States Senate March 6, 1897, to fill the vacancy in the term 1973; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1972; resumed beginning March 4, 1897, the legislature having failed tothe practice of law in San Juan until 1984; president of the elect, but was not permitted to qualify; unsuccessful candi-Puerto Rico American Insurance Company until 1984 and date for election to the United States Senate in 1901; died inchairman of the board 1984 to present; is a resident of San Portland, Oreg., March 31, 1903; interment in RiverviewJuan, P.R. Cemetery. Bibliography: DAB. CORKER, Stephen Atfestus, a Representative from Geor- gia; born near Waynesboro, Burke County, Ga., May 7, 1830; CORBETT, Robert James, a Representative from Pennsyl-attended the common schools; studied law; was admitted to vania; born in Avalon (Pittsburgh), Pa., August 25, 1905;the bar and commenced practice in Waynesboro, Ga.; also attended the public schools; was graduated from Alleghenyengaged in agricultural pursuits; entered the Confederate College, Meadville, Pa., in 1927 and from the University ofArmy in 1861, and served as captain of Company A, Third Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1929; senior high-school in-Georgia Regiment; resumed the practice of law in Waynes- structor at Coraopolis, Pa., 1929-1938; instructor in the Pitts-boro, Ga.; member of the State house of representatives; burgh (Pa.) Academy Evening School in 1938; electedas aelected as a Democrat to the Forty-first Congress to fill the Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939-vacancy caused by the House declaring Charles H. Prince January 3, 1941); unsuccessful candidate for reelection innot entitled to the seat and served from December 22, 1870, 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; served on the staff ofto March 3, 1871; resumed the practice of law in Waynes- Senator James J. Davis in Pittsburgh; sheriff of Alleghenyboro, Ga., and died there on October 18, 1879; interment in County, Pa., 1942-1944; elected to the Seventy-ninth and tothe Old Cemetery, Waynesboro, Ga. the thirteen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1945, until his death in Pittsburgh, Pa., April 25, 1971; CORLETT, William Wellington, a Delegate from the Ter- interment in Union Dale Cemetery. ritory of Wyoming; born in Concord, Ohio, April 10, 1842; attended the district schools, and was graduated from the CORCORAN, Thomas Joseph, a Representative from Illi-Willoughby (Ohio) Collegiate Institute in 1861; enlisted in nois; born in Ottawa, LaSalle County, Ill., May 23, 1939;the Union Army in 1862 and served in the Twenty-eighth attended the parochial schools of Ottawa and Peru, Ill.; B.A.,Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and the Eighty-seventh University of Notre Dame, South Bend, md., 1961; graduateRegiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; captured with the com- work at University of Illinois, 1962; University of Chicago,mand at Harpers Ferry September 15, 1862; was paroled and 1963; Northwestern University, 1967; served in the Unitedreturned to Ohio, where he taught school in Kirkland and States Army, 1963-1965; director, State of illinois Office,Painesville; reentered the Army with the Twenty-fifth Ohio Washington, D.C., 1969-1972; served as administrative assist-Battery; was later placed on detached service with the Third Biographies 829

Iowa Battery; returned to Ohio in 1865; attended the lawsion on Civil Disorders, 1967-1968; elected as a Democrat to school of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and wasthe Eighty-seventh and to the nine succeeding Congresses graduated from Union Law College, Cleveland, Ohio, in July(January 3, 1961-January 3, 1981); unsuccessful candidate 1866; was admitted to the bar the same year; professor infor reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress; is a elementary law at the State University and Law College andresident of Arlington, Va. lecturer at several commercial colleges in Cleveland; settled in Cheyenne, Wyo., August 20, 1867, and engaged in the CORNELL, Ezekiel, a Delegate from Rhode Island; born practice of law; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Dele-in Scituate, R.I., in 1732; attended the public schools; em- gate to the Forty-first Congress in 1869; postmaster of Chey-ployed as a mechanic; appointed lieutenant colonel in Hitch- enne in 1870; member of the Territorial senate in 1871;cock's Rhode Island Regiment in 1775; was present at the prosecuting attorney of Laramie County 1872-1876; electedsiege of Boston; became deputy adjutant general on October as a Republican a Delegate to the Forty-fifth Congress1, 1776; appointed brigadier general of State troops in 1776 (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate forand served until March 16, 1780; Member of the Continental renomination in 1878; resumed the practice of law; declinedCongress 1780-1782; retired to his farm at Scituate; died in the appointment as chief justice of Wyoming Territory in Milford, Mass., April 25, 1800. 1879; member of the legislative council 1880-1882; died in Bibliography: DAB. Cheyenne, Wyo., July 22, 1890; interment in Lakeview Cem- CORNELL, Robert John, a Representative from Wiscon- etery. sin; born in Gladstone, Delta County, Mich., December 16, 1919; attended parochial schools in Green Bay, Wis.; B.A., CORLEY, Manuel Simeon, a Representative from South Carolina; born in Lexington County, S.C., February 10, 1823;St. Norbert College, DePere, Wis., 1941; M.A., Ph.D., Catho- was a student in Lexington Academy four years; engaged inlic University of America, Washington, D.C., 1957; ordained business in 1838; opposed the first attempt at secession ofa Roman Catholic priest, Norbertine Order, 1944; teacher of South Carolina in 1852, when an effort was made to expelsocial sciences in parochial schools of Philadelphia, Pa., him from the State; editor of the South Carolina Temper-1941-1947; professor of history and political science, St. Nor- ance Standard in 1855 and 1856; entered the Confederatebert College, 1947-1974, and 1979 to present; chairman, Army in 1863; captured by Union troops at Petersburg, Va.,Eighth Congressional District Democratic Party of Wiscon- April 2, 1865; took the oath of allegiance June 5, 1865;sin, 1969-1974; member, State Administrative Committee of delegate to the constitutional convention of South CarolinaDemocratic Party of Wisconsin, 1969-1974; elected as a Dem- in 1867; upon the readmission of South Carolina to represen- ocrat to the Ninety-fourth and Ninety-fifth Congresses (Jan- tation was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congressuary 3, 1975-January 3, 1979); unsuccessful candidate for and served from July 25, 1868, to March 3, 1869; specialreelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; is a resident agent of the United States Treasury in 1869; commissioner of DePere, Wis. of agricultural statistics of South Carolina in 1870; treasurer CORNELL, Thomas, a Representative from New York; of Lexington County in 1874; died in Lexington, S.C., Novem- born in White Plains, N.Y., January 27, 1814; attended the ber 20, 1902; interment in St. Stephen's Lutheran Cemetery.public schools; engaged in the steamboat transportation busi- ness between Rondout and New York City in 1843,and also CORLISS, John Blaisdell, a Representative from Michi-in the railroad business and banking; commissioned major in gan; born in Richford, Vt., June 7, 1851; attended thethe New York Militia during the Civil War; elected as a common schools and Fairfax (Vt.) Preparatory School; wasRepublican to the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-March graduated from the Vermont Methodist University at Mont-3, 1869); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1868 to the pelier in 1871 and from the law department of ColumbianForty-first Congress; again elected to the Forty-seventh Con- College (now George Washington University), Washington,gress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); was not acandidate for D.C., in 1875; settled in Detroit, Mich., in 1875; was admittedrenomination in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; resumed to the bar the same year and commenced practice in thatthe transportation business and banking in Kingston, N.Y.; city; city attorney of Detroit 1882-1886; prepared the first complete charter for Detroit which was passed by the legis-delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884; lature in 1884; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourthdied in Kingston, N.Y., March 30, 1890; interment in Mon- and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895-trepose Cemetery. March 3, 1903); chairman, Committee on Election of Presi- CORNING, Erastus (grandfather of Parker Corning), a dent,VicePresident,andRepresentatives(Fifty-fifthRepresentative from New York; born in Norwich, Conn., through Fifty-seventh Congresses); unsuccessful candidateDecember 14, 1794; moved to Troy, N.Y., and thence, in for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress; reengaged1814, to Albany, where he established himself in iron manu- in the practice of law in Detroit, Mich., until his death therefacturing; served in the State senate 1842-1845; alderman of on December 24, 1929; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.Albany; mayor 1834-1837; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); unsuc- CORMAN, James Charles, a Representative from Califor-cessful candidate for reelection to the Thirty-sixth Congress; nia; born in Galena, Cherokee County, Kans., October 20,member of the peace conference of 1861; elected to the 1920; moved with his family to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1933;Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses and served attended the public schools of Los Angeles and graduatedfrom March 4, 1861, to October 5, 1863, when he resigned; from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1942,delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1867; died and from the University of Southern California Law Schoolin Albany, N.Y., April 9, 1872; interment in Rural Cemetery. in 1948; served as a lieutenant in the United States Marine Bibliography: DAB; Neu, Irene Dorothy. Erastus Corning, Merchant and Corps with the Third Marine Division, 1942-1946, and was Financier, 1794-1872. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1960. in the Bougainville, Guam, and Iwo Jima actions; also served in the United States Marine Corps, 1950-1952; was CORNING, Parker (grandson of Erastus Corning), a Rep- admitted to the bar in 1949 and engaged in the practice ofresentative from New York; born in Albany, N.Y., January. law in Van Nuys, Calif.; member of Los Angeles city council,22, 1874; attended the public schools, the Boys' Academy in 1957-1960; member, President's National Advisory Commis-Albany, and St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H.; was graduated 830 Biographical Directory

from Yale University in 1895; engaged in the manufacture CORWIN, Moses Bledso (brother of and of steel and woolens; also interested in banking; elected as auncle of Franklin Corwin), a Representative from Ohio; born Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and to the six succeeding Con-in Bourbon County, Ky., January 5, 1790; spent the early gresses (March 4, 1923-January 3, 1937); was not a candidatepart of his life on a farm; attended the rural schools; studied for renomination in 1936; resumed his former pursuits; diedlaw; was admitted to the bar in 1812 and commenced prac- in Albany, N.Y., May 24, 1943; interment in the Rural Ceme- tice in Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio; member of the tery, Menands, Albany County, N.Y. State house of representatives in 1838 and 1839; elected as a CORNISH, Johnston, a Representative from New Jersey;Whig to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, born in Bethlehem Township, Hunterdon County, N.J., June1851); again elected to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 13, 1858; attended the common schools; moved with his par-1853-March 3, 1855); engaged in the practice of law until his ents to Washington, N.J., in 1870; was graduated from thedeath in Urbana, Ohio, April 7, 1872; interment in Oak Dale Easton (Pa.) Business College; engaged in the manufactureCemetery. of pianos and organs; elected mayor of Washington, N.J., in 1884, and reelected in 1885 and 1886; declined renomination CORWIN, Thomas (brother of Moses Bledso Corwin and in 1887 and in 1888; member of the State senate 1891-1893;uncle of Franklin Corwin), a Representative and a Senator elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4,from Ohio; born in Bourbon County, Ky., July 29, 1794; 1893-March 3, 1895); unsuccessful candidate for reelection inmoved with his parents to Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, 1894; again a member of the State senate 1900-1902 andin 1798; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1817 and 1906-1911; president of the Cornish Piano Co. in 1910;commenced practice in Lebanon, Ohio; prosecuting attorney

member of the Democratic State Committee; president of theof Warren County 18 18-1828; member, State house of repre-- First National Bank, the Washington Water Co., and thesentatives 1822-1823, 1829; elected as a Whig to the Twenty- Warren County Bankers' Association at the time of hissecond and to the four succeeding Congresses and served death in Washington, N.J., June 26, 1920; interment in thefrom March 4, 1831, until his resignation, effective May 30, Cornish family plot in Washington Cemetery. 1840, having become a candidate for Governor; chairman, CORNWELL, David Lance, a Representative from Indi-Committee on Public Lands (Twenty-sixth Congress); Gover- ana; born in Paoli, Orange County, md., June 14, 1945;nor of Ohio 1840-1842; unsuccessful candidate for reelection attended Paoli public schools, Culver (md.) Military Acade-in 1842 and declined to be a candidate for the nomination in my, Phillips Andover (Mass.) Academy; graduated from Park1844; president of the Ohio Whig convention in 1844; elected High School, Indianapolis, md., 1964; attended Hilisdale Col-as a Whig to the United States Senate and served from lege, 1964; American College of Monaco, 1969; Indiana Uni-March 4, 1845, to July 20, 1850, when he resigned to enter versity, 1974; secretary, Board of Directors, Cornwell Co.,the Cabinet; appointed Secretary of the Treasury by Presi- Inc., Paoli; served in the United States Army in Vietnamdent Millard Fillmore 1850-1853; elected as a Republican to 1966-1968; unsuccessful candidate for nomination in 1974 tothe Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses and served the Ninety-fourth Congress; elected as a Democrat to thefrom March 4, 1859, to March 12, 1861, when he resigned to Ninety-fifth Congress (January 3, 1977-January 3, 1979); un-enter the diplomatic service; chairman, Committee on For- successful candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-eign Affairs (Thirty-sixth Congress); appointed by President sixth Congress; works in governmental and internationalAbraham Lincoln as Minister to Mexico 1861-1864, when he relations; is a resident of Falls Church, Va. resigned; settled in Washington, D.C., and practiced law CORRADA-del RIO, Baltasar, a Resident Commissioneruntil his death on December 18, 1865; interment in Lebanon from Puerto Rico; born in Morovis, P.R., April 10, 1935;Cemetery, Lebanon, Ohio. attended Morovis Public Elementary School; graduated from Bibliography: DAB; Morrow, Josiah.Life and Speeches of Thomas Colegio Ponceno de Varones High School, 1952; B.A., Univer- Corwin: Orator, Lawyer, Statesman. Cincinnati: W.H. Anderson and Compa- sity of Puerto Rico, 1956; J.D., University of Puerto Rico ny,1896; Pendergraft, Daryl. "The Public Career of Thomas Corwin." Law School, 1959; admitted to the Puerto Rico bar in 1959 Ph.D. dissertation, State University of Iowa, 1943. and commenced practice in San Juan; appointed to the Civil COSDEN, Jeremiah, a Representative from Maryland; Rights Commission of Puerto Rico,1969; columnist, Elborn in 1768; presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Mundo newspaper; member, Puerto Rico Human RightsSeventeenth Congress and served from March 4, 1821, to Review, 1971-1972; elected as a New Progressive to theMarch 19, 1822, when he was succeeded by Philip Reed, who United States House of Representatives, November 2, 1976,contested his election; died in Baltimore, Md., December 5, for a four-year term commencing January 3, 1977; reelected 1824. in 1980; did not seek reelection in 1984; elected mayor of San Juan in 1985; elected president, New Progressive Party, COSGROVE, John, a Representative from Missouri; born 1986; is a resident of Rio Piedras, P.R. near Alexandria Bay, Jefferson County, N.Y., September 12, CORWIN, Franklin (nephew of Moses Bledso Corwin and1839; attended the district schools and the Redwood (N.Y.) Thomas Corwin), a Representative from Illinois; born in Leb-School; studied law in Watertown; was admitted to the bar anon, Warren County, Ohio, January 12, 1818; attended pri-in October 1863 and commenced practice in New York; vate schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1839moved to Boonville, Mo., in 1865 and continued the practice and practiced in Wilmington, Ohio; member of the Ohioof law; city attorney of Boonville in 1870 and 1871; elected house of representatives in 1846 and 1847; served in theprosecuting attorney of Cooper County in 1872; delegate to State senate 1847-1849; moved to Peru, La Salle County, Ill.,the Democratic National Conventions in 1872 and 1920; in 1857; member of the Illinois house of representatives andagain city attorney of Boonville from April 1877 to April served as speaker; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third1878 and from April 1879 to April 1881; elected as a Demo- Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was an unsuccess-crat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, ful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Con-1885); was renominated in 1884, but withdrew before election gress; resumed the practice of his profession in Peru, Ill.,day; resumed the practice of law in Boonville, Mo., where he until his death there on June 15, 1879. died August 15, 1925; interment in Walnut Grove Cemetery. 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COSTELLO, Jerry Francis, a Representative from Illi- COTHRAN, James Sproull, a Representative from South nois; born in East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Ill., SeptemberCarolina; born near Abbeville, Abbeville County,S.C., 25, 1949; attended parochial schools; A.A., Belleville (Ill.)August 8, 1830; attended the country schools; was graduated Area College; B.A., Maryville College of the Sacred Heart,from the University of Georgia at Athens in 1852; studied St. Louis, Mo.; county bailiff, Illinois 20th judicial circuit;law; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced prac- deputy sheriff, St. Clair County, Ill.; director of court serv-tice in Abbeville, S.C.; entered the Confederate service as a ices and probation, Illinois 20th judicial district; chief inves-private at the beginning of the Civil War and was with his tigator, Illinois State Attorney's office of St. Clair County;company at the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia elected County board chairman, St. Clair County, and servedat Appomattox, having attained the rank of captain; re- from November 18, 1980, to August 11, 1988; elected as asumed the practice of law in Abbeville; elected solicitor of Democrat to the One Hundredth Congress, August 9, 1988,the eighth judicial circuit in 1876 and 1880; appointed to the by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofjudgeship of that circuit to fill a vacancy caused by the Charles Melvin Price and served from August 11, 1988, todeath of Judge Thomson in 1881; elected by the legislature January 3, 1989; is a resident of Belleville, Ill. to the same office the following winter, and reelected in COSTELLO, John Martin, a Representative from Califor-1885; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first nia; born in Los Angeles, Calif., January 15, 1903; attendedCongresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1891); was not a candi- the public schools; was graduated from the law departmentdate for renomination in 1890; again resumed the practice of of Loyola University, Los Angeles, Calif., in 1924; was admit-law in Abbeville and Greenville, S.C.; died in a sanitarium ted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Losin New York City, December 5, 1897; interment in Upper Angeles; teacher in Los Angeles secondary schools in 1924Long Cane Cemetery, Abbeville, S.C. and 1925; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Seventy- third Congress in 1932; elected as a Democrat to the Seven- COTTER, William Ross, a Representative from Connecti- ty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3,cut; born in Hartford, Conn., July 18, 1926; attended the 1935-January 3, 1945); unsuccessful candidate for renomina-Hartford public schools; B.A., Trinity College, Hartford, tion in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress; general counselConn., 1949; member, court of common council, city of Hart- and manager of the Washington office of the Los Angelesford, 1953; aide to Gov. Abraham Ribicoff, 1955-1957; deputy Chamber of Commerce, 1945-1947; engaged in the practice ofinsurance commissioner, State of Connecticut, 1957-1964, law in Washington, D.C., 1947-1976; died in Las Vegas, Nev., and insurance commissioner, 1964-1970; delegate to Con- August 28, 1976; interment in Calvary Cemetery, Los Ange-necticut State Democratic conventions, 1954-1970; delegate les, Calif. to Democratic National Conventions, 1964, 1968; elected as a COSTELLO, Peter Edward, a Representative from Penn-Democrat to the Ninety-second and to the five succeeding sylvania; born in Boston, Mass., June 27, 1854; attended theCongresses and served from January 3, 1971, until his death public schools of Boston; moved to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1877;in East Lyme, Conn., September 8, 1981; was a resident of engaged in various manufacturing industries, also generalHartford, Conn.; interment in Mount Saint Benedict Ceme- construction work and real estate development; member oftery, Bboomfield, Conn. the common council of Philadelphia 1895-1903; director of the department of public works of Philadelphia 1903-1905; COTTMAN, Joseph Stewart, a Representative from Mary- again a member of the common council 1908-1915; elected asland; born near Allen, Somerset (now Wicomico) County, a Republican to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixthMd., August 16, 1803; completed preparatory studies; attend- Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1921); was not a candi-ed Princeton College in 1821 and Yale College in 1822 and date for renomination in 1920; continued in the real-estate1823; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1826 and and investment brokerage business in Philadelphia, Pa.,commenced practice in Princess Anne, Md.; member of the until his death there October 23, 1935; interment in WestState house of delegates in 1831, 1832, and again in 1839; Laurel Hill Cemetery. served in the State senate in 1837; elected as an Independent Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, COSTIGAN, Edward Prentiss, a Senator from Colorado;1853); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852 to the born near Beaulahville, King William County, Va., July 1,Thirty-third Congress; resumed the practice of law; also en- 1874; moved to Colorado in 1877 with his parents, who set-gaged in agricultural and literary pursuits; died on his farm tled in Ouray, Ouray County; attended the public schools; "Mortherton," near Allen, Wicomico County, Md., January studied law; was admitted to the bar in Salt Lake City,28, 1863; interment in St. Andrew's Episcopal Churchyard, Utah, in 1897; was graduated from Harvard University in 1899; commenced the practice of law in Denver, Cob., inPrincess Anne, Md. 1900; began his political life as a Republican; one of the COTTON, Aylett Rains, a Representative from Iowa; born founders of the Progressive Party in Colorado in 1912; un-in Austintown, Ohio, November 29, 1826; attended the local successful Progressive candidate for Governor of Colorado inpublic schools and Cottage Hill Academy, Ellsworth, Ohio, in 1912 and 1914; appointed a member of the United States1842 and 1843; taught school; moved to Iowa with his father, Tariff Commission by President Woodrow Wilson in 1917;who settled near Dewitt, Clinton County, in 1844; attended and served until his resignation in March 1928; resumed theAllegheny College, Meadville, Pa., in 1845; taught school at practice of law in Denver, Cob.; affiliated with the Demo-Union Academy, Fayette County, Tenn., 1845-1847; returned cratic Party in 1930; elected as a Democrat to the Unitedto Iowa in 1847; studied law; was admitted to theClinton States Senate in 1930 and served from March 4, 1931, toCounty bar in 1848 and practiced; went to California in 1849 January 3, 1937; was not a candidate for renomination inand engaged in mining on the Feather River; returned to 1936; retired from professional and political activities andIowa in 1851 and settled in Lyons; county judge of Clinton resided in Denver, Cob., until his death there on JanuaryCounty 1851-1853; prosecuting attorney of Clinton County in 17, 1939; interment in Fairmount Cemetery. 1854; mayor of Lyons 1855-1857; member of the State consti- Bibliography: DAB; Costigan, Edward. Public Ownership of Government: tutional convention in 1857; member of the State house of Collected Papers of Edward P. Costigan. 1940. Reprint. New York: Kenni- kat Press, 1968; Greenbaum, Fred. Fighting Progressive: A Biography ofrepresentatives 1868-1870, and served as speaker during the Edward P. Costigan. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1971. last term; elected as a Republican to the Forty-second and 832 Biographical Directory

Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875); wasill health and resided in New York City, where he died May not a candidate for renomination in 1874; returned to Cali-21, 1972; interment in Memorial Cemetery, Cold Spring fornia in 1883 and engaged in the practice of law in SanHarbor, N.Y. Francisco, Calif., where he died October 30, 1912; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, San Mateo County, Calif. COUDREY, Harry Marcy, a Representative from Missou- ri; born in Brunswick, Chariton County, Mo., February 28, COVON, Norris H., a Representative and a Senator from1867; moved with his parents to St. Louis, Mo., in 1878; New Hampshire; born on a farm in Warren, Graftonattended the public schools of Brunswick and St. Louis and County, N.H., May 11, 1900; attended Phillips Exeter Acade-was graduated from the Manual Training School at St. Louis my at Exeter, N.H.; was graduated from Wesleyan Universi- in 1886; elected a member of the municipal house of dele-- ty, Middletown, Conn., in 1923; editor of the Granite Month-gates of St. Louis and served from 1897 to 1899, inclusive; ly; clerk of the State senate; aide to United States Senatorbecame interested in various business enterprises in St. George Moses; attended the law school of George Washing-Louis; successfully contested as a Republican the election of ton University, Washington, D.C.; was admitted to the bar in 1928 and commenced practice in Lebanon, N.H.; member,Ernest E. Wood to the Fifty-ninth Congress; reelected to the State house of representatives 1923, 1943, 1945, serving asSixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses and served from June 23, majority leader in 1943 and speaker in 1945; elected as a1906, to March 3, 1911; was not a candidate for renomina- Republican to the Eightieth Congress and to the three suc-tion in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress; moved to New ceeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1947, untilYork City in 1911; engaged in the real estate, insurance, and his resignation November 7, 1954, having been elected to thepublishing businesses; died in Norfolk, Va., July 5, 1930; United States Senate; elected in 1954 as a Republican to theinterment in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo. United States Senate to complete the unexpired term caused COUGHLIN, Clarence Dennis (uncle of Robert Lawrence by the death of Charles W. Tobey for the term ending Janu-Coughlin), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in ary 3, 1957; reelected in 1956, 1962, and again in 1968 andKingston, Luzerne County, Pa., July 27, 1883; attended the served from November 8, 1954, until his resignation Decem-public schools of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Wesleyan College, Mid- ber 31, 1974; was not a candidate for reelection in 1974;dletown, Conn., and Harvard College; taught in the Wilkes- chairman, Republican Conference (Ninety-third Congress);Barre High School 1906-19 10; studied law; was admitted to subsequently appointed to the seat August 8, 1975, to fill the vacancy caused by the contested election of November 5,the bar in 1910 and practiced law in Luzerne County 1910- 1974, and served from August 8, 1975, until September 18, 1920; engaged in manufacturing, banking, and the develop- 1975; is a resident of Lebanon, N.H. ment of real estate in Wilkes-Barre and Scranton; member Bibliography: Cotton, Norris. In the Senate: Amidst the Conflict and of the committee of public safety of the State and county in Turmoil. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1978. 1918; served six years as a member of the commission to revise the penal code of Pennsylvania; chairman of the Re- COTTRELL, James La Fayette, a Representative frompublican county committee of Luzerne County 1915-1917; Alabama; born near King William, King William County,elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress Va., August 25, 1808; completed preparatory studies; studied(March 4, 1921-March 3,1923); chairman, Committee on law; was admitted to the bar in 1830 and commenced prac-Expenditures in the Department of Commerce (Sixty-seventh tice in Hayneville, Ala.; member of the Alabama house ofCongress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to representatives in 1834, 1836, and 1837; served in the Statethe Sixty-eighth Congress; appointed judge of the court of senate 1838-1841, and was president of that body in 1840;common pleas of Luzerne County October 6, 1925, to fill an elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress to fillunexpired term caused by the death of Judge Woodward; the vacancy caused by the resignation of William L. Yanceyelected in November 1927 for a ten-year term and served and served from December 7, 1846, to March 3, 1847; moveduntil 1937; died in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., December 15, 1946; to Florida in 1854; served in the Florida senate 1865-1885;interment in Mount Greenwood Cemetery, Trucksville, Pa. appointed collector of customs at Cedar Keys, Levy County, Fla., and served until his death in that city September 7, COUGHLIN, Robert Lawrence (nephewof Clarence 1885; interment in Old Town Cemetery, Old Town, DixieDennis Coughlin), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born County, Fla. in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pa., April 11, 1929; A.B., Yale University, 1950; M.B.A., Harvard Graduate School of COUDERT, Frederic René, Jr., a Representative fromBusiness Administration, 1954; LL.B., Temple University New York; born in New York City May 7, 1898; attendedEvening Law School, 1958; attorney; manufacturer; captain, Browning and Morristown Schools in New York City; wasUnited States Marine Corps, 1950-1952, aide-de-camp to graduated from Columbia University in 1918 and from its Gen. L.B. Puller; elected to Pennsylvania house of represent- law school in 1922; served as a first lieutenant in the Oneatives, 1964; elected to Pennsylvania senate, 1966; elected as Hundred and Fifth United States Infantry, Twenty-seventha Republican to the Ninety-first and to the nine succeeding Division, with overseas service, in 1917 and 1918; was admit-Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1989); is a resident ted to the bar in 1923 and commenced practice in New Yorkof Plymouth Meeting, Pa. City; assistant United States attorney for the southern dis- trict of New York in 1924 and 1925; unsuccessful Republican COULTER, Richard, a Representative from Pennsylvania; candidate for district attorney of New York County in 1929;born in Westmoreland County, Pa., in March 1788; attended delegate to the Republican State conventions from 1930 toJefferson College; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1948; delegate to the Republican National Conventions 1936-1811 and commenced the practice of his profession in 1948; member of the State senate 1939-1946; elected as aGreensburg, Westmoreland County, Pa.; member of the Republican to the Eightieth and to the five succeeding Con-State house of representatives 1816-1820; elected to the gresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1959); was not a candi-Twentieth Congress and reelected as a Jacksonian to the date for renomination in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress;Twenty-first through Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, engaged in the practice of law in New York City; member of1827-March 3, 1835); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in State Commission on Governmental Operations of the city of1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; elected judge of the New York 1959-1961; retired from the practice of law due tosupreme court of Pennsylvania and served from 1846 until Biographies 833 his death on April 21, 1852, in Greensburg, Pa.; interment inMich., in 1890; railroad car checker 1890-1897; clerk in the St. Clair Cemetery. coal business 1897-1903; was associated with the Ford Motor Co. in the manufacture of automobiles 1903-1919; president COURTER, James Andrew, a Representative from Newof the Bank of Detroit and director of the Detroit Trust Co.; Jersey; born in Montclair, Essex County, N.J., October 14,commissioner of street railways 1913-1915; commissioner of 1941; educated in public and private schools; graduated fromthe metropolitan police department 1916-1918; mayor of De- Montclair Academy, Montclair, 1959; B.A., Colgate Universi-troit 1919-1922; appointed November 29, 1922, as a Republi- ty, Hamilton, N.Y., 1963; J.D., Duke University Law School,can, to the United States Senate and elected on November 4, Durham, N.C., 1966; Peace Corps volunteer in Venezuela,1924, tofill the vacancy caused by the resignation of 1966-1968; admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1971 andTruman H. Newberry and on the same day was elected for Washington, D.C., bar in 1966 and commenced practice inthe term commencing March 4, 1925; reelected in 1930 and Washington, D.C., 1969; founder and partner of law firm in Hackettstown, N.J., in 1972; assistant corporation counselserved from November 29, 1922, until his death on October for Washington, D.C., 1969-1970; Union County Legal Serv-22, 1936; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1936; ices, 1970-1971; first assistant, Warren County Prosecutor,chairman, Committee on Civil Service (Sixty-ninth Con- 1973-1977; co-founder, Warren County Legal Services, 1975;gress), Committee on Education and Labor (Sixty-ninth and attorney for municipalities in Warren and Sussex Counties;Seventieth Congresses), Committee on Interstate Commerce elected as a Republican to the Ninety-sixth and to the four(Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses); philanthro- succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1989); ispist; died in Detroit, Mich.; interment in Woodlawn Ceme-- tery. a resident of Hackettstown, N.J. Bibliography: DAB; Barnard, Harry. Independent Man: The Life of COURTNEY, William Wirt, a Representative from Ten- James Couzens. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958; U.S. Congress. nessee; born in Franklin, Williamson County, Tenn., Septem- Memorial Services. 75th Cong., 1st sess., 1937. Washington, D.C.: Govern- ber 7, 1889; was graduated from Battle Ground Academy, ment Printing Office, 1938. Franklin, Tenn., in 1907; attended Vanderbilt University, COVERT, James Way, a Representative from New York; Nashville, Tenn., and the Faculté de Droit of the Sorbonne,born at Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y., September 2, 1842; Paris, France; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1911attended the public schools and received an academic educa- and commenced practice in Franklin, Tenn.; city judge 19 15-tion in Locust Valley, N.Y.; studied law; was admitted to the 1917; enlisted in the United States Army as a private in thebar in 1863 and commenced practice in Flushing, Long One Hundred and Seventeenth Infantry, Thirtieth Division,Island, N.Y.; district school commissioner 1867-1870; assist- in September 1917, and was honorably discharged as a firstant prosecuting attorney of Queens County; surrogate of lieutenant in June 1919; resumed the practice of law in Franklin, Tenn.; adjutant general of Tennessee in 1932;Queens County 1870-1874; unsuccessful candidate for elec- tion in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; elected as a Demo-- member of the Tennessee National Guard in 1933 with rankcrat to the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, of brigadier general; served as circuit judge and chancellor of the seventeenth judicial circuit of Tennessee 1933-1939;1877-March 3, 1881); chairman, Committee on Agriculture elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill(Forty-sixth Congress); member of the State senate in 1882 the vacancy caused by the death of Clarence W. Turner;and 1883; elected to the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty- reelected to the Seventy-seventh and to the three succeedingthird Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1895); chairman, Congresses and served from May 11, 1939, to January 3,Committee on Patents (Fifty-third Congress); moved to 1949; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1948; re-Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1896 and resumed the practice of law; sumed the practice of law; died in Franklin, Tenn., April 6,died in Brooklyn, N.Y.; May 16, 1910; interment in Mount 1961; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery. Olivet Cemetery, Maspeth, N.Y. COUSINS, Robert Gordon, a Representative from Iowa; COVINGTON, George Washington, a Representative from born on a farm, "Indian Lodge," near Tipton, Cedar County,Maryland; born in Berlin, Worcester County, Md., Septem- Iowa, January 31, 1859; attended the common schools, andber 12, 1838; attended the common schools, Buckingham was graduated from Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, inAcademy, and the law school of Harvard University; was 1881; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1882 andadmitted to the bar in 1861 and practiced in Berlin and engaged in practice in Tipton, Iowa; member of the StateSnow Hill, Md.; member of the State constitutional conven- house of representatives in 1886; elected by the State housetion in 1867; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh and of representatives as one of the managers to conduct theForty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3,1885); impeachment proceedings of John L. Brown before the Statechairman, Committee on Accounts (Forty-eighth Congress); senate in 1886; prosecuting attorney of Cedar County 1888-was not a candidate for renomination in 1884;resumed the 1890; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and to thepractice of law in Snow Hill, Worcester County, Md.; died in seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1909);New York City April 6, 1911; interment in All Hallows chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department ofCemetery, Snow Hill, Md. the Treasury (Fifty-fifth through Fifty-ninth Congresses), COVINGTON, James Harry, a Representative from Mary-

Committee on Foreign Affairs (Sixtieth Congress); declinedland; born in Easton, Talbot County, Md., May 3, 1870; re-- to be a candidate for renomination in 1908; resumed theceived an academic training in the public schools of Talbot practice of law at Tipton, Iowa; also engaged as a writer andCounty and the Maryland Military Academy at Oxford; en- as a Chautauqua lecturer; died June 20, 1933, in Iowa City,tered the law department of the University of Pennsylvania Iowa; interment in Red Oak Cemetery, five miles northwestat Philadelphia in 1891, attending at the same time special of Tipton, Iowa. lectures in history, literature, and economics, and was grad- Bibliography: Swisher, Jacob A. Robert Gordon Cousins. Iowa City: State uated from that institution in 1894; commenced the practice Historical Society of Iowa, 1938. of law in Easton, Md.; unsuccessful Democratic nominee for COUZENS, James, a Senator from Michigan; born inthe State senate in 1901; State's attorney for Talbot County Chatham, Province of Ontario, Canada, August 26, 1872;1903-1908; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first, Sixty- attended the public schools of Chatham; moved to Detroit,second, and Sixty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 834 Biographical Directory

1909, until his resignation on September 30, 1914, to accepta COWAN, Jacob Pitzer, a Representative from Ohio; born judicial position; chief justice of the Supreme Court of thein Florence, Washington County, Pa., March 20, 1823; at- District of Columbia from October 1, 1914, to June 1, 1918,tended the common schools; moved with his parents to Steu- when he resigned to practice law in Washington, D.C.;pro-benville, Ohio, in 1835; engaged in the manufacture of wool- fessor of law in Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.,ens until 1843; studied medicine; in 1846 moved to Ashland 1914-1919; appointed by President Wilson as a member of County, Ohio, where he commenced the practice of his pro-- the United States Railroad Commission in January 1918; fession; was graduated from Starling Medical College, Co-- practiced law in Washington, D.C., where he died on Febru- lumbus, Ohio, March 6, 1855; member of the State house of ary 4, 1942; interment in Spring Hill Cemetery, Easton, Md. representatives 1855-1857; resumed the practice of medicine COVINGTON, Leonard, a Representative from Maryland; in 1859; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth Congress born in Aquasco, Md., October 30, 1768; received a liberal(March 4, 1875-March 3,1877); chairman, Committee on schooling; entered the United States Army as a cornet ofMilitia (Forty-fourth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for Cavalry March 14, 1792; commissioned lieutenant of Dra-renomination in 1876; again engaged in the practice of medi- goons in 1793, and joined the Army under General Wayne;cine in Ashland, Ohio, where he died July 9, 1895; interment distinguished himself at Fort Recovery and the Battle ofin Ashland Cemetery. Miami; promoted to a captaincy, and resigned September 12, 1795; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State COWEN, Benjamin Sprague, a Representative from Ohio; house of delegates for many years; elected as a Republicanborn in Washington County, N.Y., September 27, 1793; at- to the Ninth Congress (March 4, 1805-March 3, 1807); ap-tended the common schools; studied medicine; served in the pointed lieutenant colonel of Light Dragoons on January 9,War of 1812 as a private; in 1820 moved to Moorefield, Ohio, 1809, and colonel February 15, 1809; was in command atwhere he practiced medicine and studied law; was admitted Fort Adams on the Mississippi in 1810 and took possession ofto the bar in 1829 and commenced practice in St. Clairsville, Baton Rouge and a portion of West Florida; was ordered toOhio; edited the Belmont Chronicle 1836-1840; delegate to the northern frontier in 1813, and appointed brigadier gen-the Whig National Convention at Harrisburg, Pa., in 1839; eral August 1,1813; mortally wounded at the Battle ofelected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4,

Chryslers Field November 11, 1813, and died at Frenchs1841-March 3, 1843); member of the State house of repre-- Mills, N.Y., on November 14, 1813; remains were removed tosentatives in 1845 and 1846; presiding judge of the court of Sackets Harbor, Jefferson County, N.Y., August 13, 1820;common pleas in 1847; died in St.Clairsville, Belmont place of burial now known as Mount Covington. County, Ohio, September 27, 1860. COVODE, John, a Representative from Pennsylvania; COWEN, John Kissig, a Representative from Maryland; born near West Fairfield, Westmoreland County, Pa., Marchborn near Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio, October 28, 17, 1808; attended the public schools; engaged in agricultural1844; attended the public schools and the local academies at pursuits, manufacturing, and transportation; largely inter-Fredericksburg and Hayesville, Ohio; was graduated from ested in the coal trade; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-Princeton College in 1866 and from the law department of fourth Congress and as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth,the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; was admitted to Thirty-sixth, and Thirty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1855-the bar of Ohio in 1868 and commenced practice in Mans- March 3, 1863); chairman, Committee on Public Expendi-field, Richland County, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Holmes tures (Thirty-seventh Congress); delegate to the Union Na-County; moved to Baltimore, Md., in February 1872 and was tional Convention at Philadelphia in 1866; elected to theappointed counsel of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.; Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1869); chairman,from 1876 to 1896 was general counsel of the Baltimore & Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Fortieth Con-Ohio Railroad Co.; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fourth gress); contested with Henry D. Foster the election to theCongress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); was not a candidate Forty-first Congress, neither being sworn pending the con- for renomination in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; presi- test, as no credentials were issued by the Governor; on Feb-dent of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. from January ruary 9, 1870, the House declared him duly elected, where- upon he qualified and served until his death; was not a1896 to June 1901; died in Chicago, Ill., April 26, 1904; candidate for reelection in 1870; died in Harrisburg, Pa.,interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg, Holmes January 11, 1871; interment in Methodist Episcopal Ceme-County, Ohio. tery, West Fairfield, Pa. Bibliography: DAB. Bibliography: DAB; Chester, Edward W. "The Impact of the Covode COWGER, William Owen, a Representative from Ken- Congressional Investigation." Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 42tucky; born in Hastings, Adams County, Nebr., January 1, (December 1959): 343-50. 1922; attended Hastings High School; one year at Texas COWAN, Edgar, a Senator from Pennsylvania; born inA.&M.; graduated from Carleton College, Northfield, Minn.; Westmoreland County, Pa., September 19, 1815; was grad-three years of postgraduate study in political science at the uated from Franklin College, Ohio, in 1839; became a rafts-University of Louisville and American University; graduated man, boat builder, schoolmaster, and a student of medicine;from Navy Midshipmen's School at Columbia University, studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac-New York City; served twenty months in the Atlantic and tice in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pa., in 1842;Pacific theaters during the Second World War; president elected as a Repu'blican to the United States Senate andThompson & Cowger Co., a mortgage loan company; in 1953 served from March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1867; unsuccessfulelected president of the Louisville Junior Chamber of Com- candidate for reelection to the Senate; chairman, Committeemerce; president, Kentucky Municipal League, 1963; presi- on Patents and the Patent Office (Thirty-seventh throughdent, Inter-American Municipal Organization, 1964-1965; in Thirty-ninth Congresses); appointed by President Andrew1961, elected mayor of Louisville, Ky., on the Republican Johnson as Minister to Austria in January 1867 but was notticket; served for many years as the third district Republi- confirmed by the Senate; resumed the practice of law; diedcan congressional chairman and also as a member of the in Greensburg, Pa., August 31, 1885; interment in St. ClairState central committee; elected as a Republican to the Cemetery. Ninetieth and to the Ninety-first Congresses (January 3, Bibliography: DAB. 1967-January 3, 1971); unsuccessful candidate for reelection Biographies 835 in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress; returned to his busi-school until 1853; studied law; was admitted to the bar in ness career in Louisville, Ky., where he died, October 2,1854 and commenced practice in Clyde, Wayne County, N.Y.; 1971; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery. judge of the Wayne County court from January 1, 1864, to October 30, 1869; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first COWGILL, Calvin, a Representative from Indiana; bornCongress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); was not a candidate in Clinton County, Ohio, January 7, 1819; attended thefor renomination in 1870; resumed the practice of law; again common schools; moved with his parents to Indiana in 1836;judge of Wayne County court from January 1, 1874, to Janu- studied law in Winchester, Randolph County; moved to his death in Wabash County, md., in 1846; was admitted to the bar andary 1, 1880, and from January 1, 1886, until commenced practice in Wabash; member of the State houseClyde, N.Y., January 20, 1901; interment in Maple Grove of representatives in 1851 and again during the special ses-Cemetery. sion of 1865; treasurer of Wabash County 1855-1859; provost COWLES, Henry Booth, a Representative from New marshal of the eleventh district of Indiana 1862-1865; elect-York; born in Hartford, Conn., March 18, 1798; moved with ed as a Republican to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4,his father to Dutchess County, N.Y., in 1809; was graduated 1879-March 3, 1881); was not a candidate for renominationfrom Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1816; studied law; in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; resumed the practicewas admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Putnam of his profession in Wabash, Wabash County, md., where heCounty; member of the State assembly 1826-1828; elected to died February 10, 1903; interment in Falls Cemetery. the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831); COWHERD, William Strother, a Representative from Mis-moved to New York City in 1834 and practiced law until his souri; born near Lees Summit, Jackson County, Mo., Septem-death there on May 17, 1873; interment in Rhinebeck Ceme- ber 1, 1860; attended the public schools in the town of Leestery, Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, N.Y. Summit and was graduated from the literary department of the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1881 and from the COWLES, William Henry Harrison (uncle of Charles law department of the same institution in 1882; was admit-Holden Cowles), a Representative from North Carolina; born ted to the bar and commenced practice in Kansas City, Mo.;in Hamptonville, Yadkin County, N.C., April 22, 1840; at- appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Jackson Countytended the common schools and academies of his native in 1885, and served four years; appointed first assistant citycounty; entered the Confederate service as a private in Com- counselor of Kansas City in 1890; mayor of Kansas City inpany A, First North Carolina Cavalry, and served from the 1892; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to thespring of 1861 to the close of the war with the Army of three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1905);Northern Virginia, holding successively the ranks of cap- unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-tain, major, and lieutenant colonel of his regiment; entered ninth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Kansas City,upon the study of law in Richmond Hill, Yadkin County, in Mo.; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor in1866; obtained a county court license in January 1867 and a 1908; moved to Pasadena, Calif., and continued the practicesuperior court license in January 1868; moved to Wilkesboro, of his profession; died in Pasadena June 20, 1915; intermentWilkes County, where he commenced the practice of law; in Lees Summit Cemetery, near Lees Summit, Mo. reading clerk of the State senate of North Carolina 1872- 1874; elected solicitor of the tenth judicial district in 1874 COWLES, Charles Holden (nephew of William Henryand served for four years; member of the Democratic State Harrison Cowles), a Representative from North Carolina;executive committee for eight years; elected as a Democrat born in Charlotte, N.C., July 16, 1875; moved with his par-to the Forty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses ents to Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, December 26, 1885; at-(March 4, 1885-March 3,1893); chairman, Committee on tended Charlotte graded school, private schools, WilkesboroExpenditures in the Department of Justice (Fiftieth Con- Academy, and completed a commercial collegecourse;gress), Committee on Mines and Mining (Fifty-second Con- member of the board of aldermen of Wilkesboro in 1897 and again in 1914; deputy clerk of the United States Court atgress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1892; en- Statesville and Charlotte 1899-1901; private secretary togaged in agricultural pursuits and also interested in other Representative Edmond S. Blackburn 1901-1903; member ofbusiness activities; died in Wilkesboro, N.C., December 30, the State house of representatives 1904-1908, 1920-1924,1901; interment in Presbyterian Cemetery. 1928-1930, and 1932-1934; delegate to the Republican Na- COX, Edward Eugene, a Representative from Georgia; tional Conventions in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1916; elected as aborn near Camilla, Mitchell County, Ga., April 3, 1880; at- Republican to the Sixty-first Congress (March 4, 1909-Marchtended the grade schools, Camilla High School, the academic 3, 1911); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to thedepartment of Mercer University, Macon, Ga., for nearly Sixty-second Congress; nominated in 1916 by the Progressivefour years, and was graduated from the law department of Republicans for the United States Senate but declined thethat university in 1902; was admitted to the bar the same nomination; established and published the Wilkes Patriot,year and commenced practice atCamilla, Ga.; mayor of Wilkesboro, N.C., 1906-1919; during the First World WarCamilla 1904-1906; delegate to the Democratic National Con- served as a member of the Wilkes County council of defense;vention in 1908; appointed and subsequently elected judge of was a member of the State senate 1938-1940; served asthe superior court of the Albany circuit and served from chairman of War Price and Rationing Board No. 1 for1912 until he resigned in 1916, having become a candidate Wilkes County from January 7, 1942, to September 15, 1945;for Congress; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1916 to appointed deputy clerk of the United States Court in Wilkes-the Sixty-fifth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty- boro on April 1, 1941, and served until his retirement inninth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses and served October 1956; died in Mocksville, N.C., October 2, 1957; inter-from March 4, 1925, until his death; chairman, Select Com- ment in Episcopal Church Cemetery, Wilkesboro, N.C. mittee on Tax Exempt Foundations (Eighty-second Con- COWLES, George Washington, a Representative fromgress); had been reelected to the Eighty-third Congress; died New York; born in Otisco, Onondaga County, N.Y., Decem-in Bethesda, Md., December 24, 1952; interment in Oakview ber 6, 1823; attended the common schools, and was graduat-Cemetery, Camilla, Ga. ed from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1845; taught Bibliography: DAB. 836 Biographical Directory

COX, Isaac Newton, a Representative from New York;served from March 4, 1909, until January 12, 1913, when he born in Fallsburg, Sullivan County, N.Y., August 1, 1846;resigned, having been elected Governor; Governor of Ohio moved to Ellenville in 1864 and engaged in the lumber1913-1915; unsuccessful candidate for reelection as Governor business; supervisor of the town of Wawarsing in 1875 andin 1914; again Governor of Ohio 1917-1921; unsuccessful 1883-1886 and served as chairman of the board during theDemocratic candidate for election as President of the United last year; served four years on the Democratic State commit-States in 1920; vice chairman of the United States delega- tee; appointed by President Cleveland chairman of the com-tion to the World Economic Conference at London in 1933 mission to examine and report upon the condition of theand president of its monetary commission; declined appoint- Northern Pacific Railroad in 1886; elected as a Democrat toment to the United States Senate by Gov. Frank Lausche in the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893);1946; retired from political life but continued his activities unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-as newspaper publisher and owner of several radio and tele- third Congress; appointed a member of the State commissionvision stations; died in Dayton, Ohio, July 15, 1957; inter- on fisheries, and served from 1894 to 1899; engaged in mer-ment in Woodland Cemetery. cantile pursuits, lumbering, and banking in Ellenville, Bibliography: DAB; Cebula, James E. James M Cox: Journalist and Pol- Ulster County, N.Y., where he died September 28, 1916; itician. New York: Garland, 1985; Cox, James M. Journey Through My interment in Fantinekill Cemetery. Years. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. COX, Jacob Dolson, a Representative from Ohio; born in COX, Leander Martin, a Representative from Kentucky; Montreal, Canada, October 27, 1828; moved with his parentsborn in Cumberland County, Va., May 7, 1812; completed to New York City in 1829; attended private schools; movedacademic studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar and to Lorain, Ohio, in 1846; was graduated from Oberlin (Ohio)practiced; moved to Flemingsburg, Fleming County, KY.; College in 1851; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1853member of the State house of representatives 1843-1845; and commenced practice in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio;captain in the Third Kentucky Volunteers in the Mexican member of the State senate in 1860 and 1861; entered theWar in 1847; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress Union Army as brigadier general of Ohio Volunteers Apriland as a candidate of the American Party to the Thirty- 23, 1861; commissioned major general of volunteers Octoberfourth Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1857); unsuccessful 6, 1862; resigned January 1, 1866, having been elected Gov-candidate for reelection in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; ernor of Ohio in October 1865; served as Governor 1866-resumed the practice of law; died in Flemingsburg, Ky., 1868; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and resumed the practice ofMarch 19, 1865; interment in Fleming County Cemetery. law; Secretary of the Interior from March 5, 1869, to Novem- ber 1, 1870, when he resigned; resumed the practice of law COX, Nicholas Nichols, a Representative from Tennessee; in Cincinnati; president of the Wabash Railroad 1873-1878;born in Bedford County, Tenn., January 6, 1837; went to moved to Toledo, Ohio, in 1874; elected as a Republican toSeguin, Tex., in early childhood; attended the common the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); de- schools; served on the Mexican frontier; was graduated from clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1878; returnedLebanon (Tenn.) Law School in 1858; was admitted to the to Cincinnati in 1878; dean of the Cincinnati Law Schoolbar the same year and commenced practice at Linden, 1881-1897; president of the University of Cincinnati 1885-Tenn.; was a colonel in the Tenth Tennessee Cavalry of the 1889; was an author and writer on Civil War subjects; diedConfederate Army during the Civil War, serving principally in Magnolia, near Gloucester, Mass., August 4, 1900; inter-with General Forrest;settled in Franklin, Williamson ment in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. County, Tenn., in 1866; engaged in agricultural pursuits; Bibliography: DAB; Cox, Jacob Dolson. Military Reminiscences of thepresidential elector on the Democratic ticket of Breckinridge Civil War. 2 vols. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1900; Schmiel, Eugene D.and Lane in 1860; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second "The Career of Jacob Dolson Cox, 1828-1900." Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1891-March State University, 1969. 1901); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1900; COX, James, a Representative from New Jersey; born inresumed the practice of law and engaged in banking in Monmouth, N.J., June 14, 1753; attended the public schools;Franklin, Tenn., where he died May 2, 1912; interment in commanded a company of militia at the Battles of German-Mount Hope Cemetery. town and of Monmouth and attained the rank of brigadier general; member of the State general assembly 180 1-1807, COX, Samuel Sullivan, a Representative from Ohio and and served as speaker 1804-1807; elected as a Republican tofrom New York; born in Zanesville, Muskingum County, the Eleventh Congress and served from March 4, 1809, untilOhio, September 30, 1824; attended the Ohio University at his death in Monmouth, N.J., September 12, 1810; intermentAthens, and was graduated from Brown University, Provi- in the Yellow Meeting House Cemetery, Upper Freeholddence, R.I., in 1846; studied law; was admitted to the bar and Township, N.J. commenced practice in Zanesville in 1849; owner and editor of the Columbus (Ohio) Statesman in 1853 and 1854; secre-- COX, James Middleton, a Representative from Ohio; borntary of the legation at Lima, Peru, in 1855; delegate to the on a farm near Jacksonburg, Butler County, Ohio, March 31,Democratic National Conventions in 1864 and 1868; elected 1870; attended Butler County schools and Amanda (Ohio)as a Democrat from Ohio to the Thirty-fifth and to the three High School; after two years of high school passed teacher'ssucceeding Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1865); chair- examination and at the age of 16 years began teachingman, Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Thirty-fifth Con- school; commenced newspaper career as reporter on Middle-gress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the town (Ohio) Signal and in 1892 went to work on the Cincin-Thirty-ninth Congress; moved to New York City on March 4, nati Enquirer; secretary to Congressman Paul Sorg 1894-1865, and resumed the practice of law; elected from New 1897; became owner and publisher of the Dayton Daily NewsYork to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses (March in 1898, of the Springfield Daily News in 1903, of the Miami 1869-March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candidate of the Demo-- (Florida) News in 1923, of the Atlanta (Georgia) Journal incrats and Liberal Republicans for reelection in 1872 as Rep- 1939, of the Dayton Journal and Herald in 1949, and of theresentative at large to the Forty-third Congress; subsequent- Atlanta (Georgia) Constitution in 1950; elected as a Demo-ly elected to the Forty-third Congress to fill the vacancy crat to the Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses andcaused by the death of James Brooks; reelected to the Forty- Biographies 837 fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses and servedvania Militia in 1776, turned Loyalist, and joined the British from November 4, 1873, to May 20, 1885, when he resigned,Army under Howe in 1777; was arrested, paroled, and joined having accepted a diplomatic position; chairman, Committeethe patriot cause; commissioner to the Federal Convention on Banking and Currency (Forty-fourth Congress), Commit-at Annapolis in 1786; Member of the Continental Congress tee on the Census (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on For-in 1789; was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury eign Affairs (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Naval Af-on September 11, 1789, and served until the office was abol- fairs (Forty-eighth Congress); elected Speaker pro tempore ofished on May 8, 1792; was appointed revenue commissioner the House on February 17, May 12, and June 19, 1876, andJune 30, 1792, and served until removed by President appointed to that office on May 1 and June 7, 1876; appoint-Adams; was appointed by President Jefferson purveyor of ed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary topublic supplies and served from 1803 to 1812; was a writer Turkey by President Cleveland and served from May 21,on political and economic subjects; died in Philadelphia, Pa., 1885, to October 22, 1886, when he resigned; was again elect-July 17, 1824; interment in Christ Church Burying Ground. ed to the Forty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by Bibliography: DAB; Cooke, Jacob E. Tench Coxe and the Early Republic. the resignation of Joseph Pulitzer; reelected to the Fiftieth Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978. and Fifty-first Congresses and served from November 2, 1886, until his death in New York City September 10, 1889; COXE, William, Jr., a Representative from New Jersey; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. born in Burlington, N.J., May 3, 1762; served as a member of Bibliography: DAB; Lindsey, David. "Sunset" Cox: Irrepressible Democrat. the State general assembly 1796-1804, 1806-1809, and again Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1959. in 1816 and 1817; served as speaker 1798-1800 and again in 1802; elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress COX, William Elijah, a Representative from Indiana; born(March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); author; died in Burlington, on a farm near Birdseye, Dubois County, md., September 6,Burlington County, N.J., on February 25, 1831; interment in 1861; attended the common and high schools of HuntingburgSt. Mary's Churchyard. and Jasper, md.; was graduated from Lebanon University, Bibliography: DAB. Tenn., in 1888 and from the law department of the Universi- ty of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1889; was admitted to the COYLE, William Radford, a Representative from Penn- bar July 10, 1889, and commenced practice at Rockport,sylvania; born in Washington, D.C., July 10, 1878; attended Spencer County, md., moving to Jasper, md., later in thethe public schools, and Columbian College (now George same year; prosecuting attorney for the eleventh judicialWashington University), Washington, D.C., in 1898 and 1899; district of Indiana 1892-1898; elected as a Democrat to thefield assistant in the United States Geological Survey 1896- Sixtieth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4,1899; attended the Naval War College, Newport, R.I., in 1907-March 3, 1919); chairman, Committee on Expenditures1900; served in the United States Marine Corps as second in the Department of the Treasury (Sixty-second Congress);lieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain 1900-1906; attended unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-the law department of the University of Pennsylvania at sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law and also wasPhiladelphia in 1906 and 1907; moved to Germantown, Pa., engaged with a desk-manufacturing company, serving asin 1906 and to Bethlehem, Pa., in 1908; school director of president at the time of his death; died in Jasper, md.,Bethlehem, Pa., 1912-1918; captain of the Fourth Regiment, March 11, 1942; interment in Fairmount Cemetery, Hunting-National Guard of Pennsylvania, in 1913; was commissioned burg, md. a captain in the United States Marine Corps in1918, and COX, William Ruffin, a Representative from North Caro-later the same year, a major; promoted to lieutenant colonel lina; born in Scotland Neck, Halifax County, N.C., March 11,in 1932; president of the American Wholesale Coal Associa- 1831; attended Vine Hill Academy in his native town; movedtion in 1921 and 1922; trustee to settle the affairs of the with his mother to Nashville, Tenn.; was graduated fromTidewater Coal Exchange 1922-1925; elected as a Republican Franklin College in 1851 and from the Lebanon College Lawto the Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1927); School in 1853; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and prac-unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926 to the Seventi- ticed in Nashville, Tenn., 1853-1857; returned to North Caro-eth Congress; elected to the Seventy-first and Seventy-second lina in 1857 and engaged in agricultural pursuits in Edge-Congresses (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful can- combo County; moved to Raleigh, N.C., in 1859; early in thedidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress, Civil War entered the Confederate Army as major of thefor election in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress, and for Second North Carolina State Troops; became brigadier gen- election in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; delegate to eral; resumed the practice of law at Raleigh, N.C., in 1865;the Republican National Conventions in 1936 and 1944; solicitor of the sixth district 1866-1870; delegate to thechairman of civilian defense in Bethlehem, Pa., 194 1-1945; Democratic National Convention in 1868; judge of the supe-vice president of Weston Dodson & Co., Inc., 1932-1954; rior court for the sixth district in 1877 and 1878, when hechairman of Bethlehem Redevelopment Authority 1953- resigned; chairman of the Democratic State committee 1875-1959; died in Bethlehem, Pa., January 30, 1962; interment in 1877; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh, Forty-Nisky Hill Cemetery. eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, COYNE, James Kitchenman, III, a Representative from 1887); unsuccessful candidate for renomination; elected Sec-Pennsylvania; born in Farmville, Prince Edward County, retary of the United States Senate April 6, 1893, qualifiedVa., November 17, 1946; attended the public schools of Ab- August 7, 1893, and served until January 31, 1900; resumedington, Pa.; graduated from Abington High School, 1964; agricultural pursuits, with residence at Penelo, Edgecombe B.S.,Yale University,1968;M.B.A., Harvard Business County, N.C.; president of the State agricultural society inSchool, 1970; businessman; consultant; lecturer, Wharton 1900 and 1901; died in Richmond, Va., on December 26, 1919;School, University of Pennsylvania, 1974-1979; president, interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, N.C. Coyne Chemical Corp., 1971-1981; supervisor, Upper Make- Bibliography: DAB. field Township, 1980; elected as a Republican to the Ninety- COXE, Tench, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born inseventh Congress (January 3, 1981-January 3, 1983); unsuc- Philadelphia, Pa., May 22, 1755; received a liberal schooling;cessful candidate for reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth engaged in mercantile pursuits; resigned from the Pennsyl-Congress; director, White House Office of Private Sector mi- 838 Biographical Directory tiatives, 1983-1985; chief executive officer, American Con-death; died in Louisville, Ky., May 20, 1942; interment in sulting Engineers Council, 1985-1986; president, AmericanNew Munfordville Cemetery, Munfordvffle, Ky. Tort Reform Association, 1986-1988; is a resident of New- town, Pa. CRADLEBAUGH, John, a Delegate from the Territory of Nevada; born in Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio, Febru- COYNE, William Joseph, a Representative from Pennsyl-ary 22, 1819; attended the common schools, Kenyon College, vania; born in Pittsburgh, Pa., August 24, 1936; attendedGambier, Ohio, and Oxford (Ohio) University; studied law; private schools; graduated from Central Catholic Highwas admitted to the bar in 1840; appointed United States School, Pittsburgh, 1954; B.S., Robert Morris College, Pitts- burgh, 1965; served in the United States Army, corporal,associate justice for the district of Utah on June 4, 1858; 1955-1957; accountant; corporation manager; served in themoved to Carson City, Nev.; upon the formation of the Tern- Pennsylvania Legislature, 1970-1972; Pittsburgh city coun-tory of Nevada was elected a Delegate to the Thirty-seventh cilman, 1974-1980; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-Congress and served from December 2, 1861, to March 3, seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3,1863; colonel of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, 1981-January 3, 1989); is a resident of Pittsburgh, Pa. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served from April 27, 1862, until honorably discharged October 20, 1863, on tender of CRABB, George Whitfield, a Representative from Ala-resignation; wounded at Vicksburg; returned to Nevada and bama; born in Botetourt County, Va., February 22, 1804;settled in Eureka; engaged in the mining business until his attended the public schools; moved to Tuscaloosa, Ala.; elect-death in Eureka, Nev., February 22, 1872; interment in ed assistant secretary of the State senate and comptroller ofForest Cemetery, Circleville, Ohio. public accounts in 1829; served in the Florida Indian War of 1836 and was lieutenant colonel of the Alabama Volunteers; CRAFTS, Samuel Chandler, a Representative and a Sena- member of the State house of representatives in 1836 andtor from Vermont; born in Woodstock, Conn., October 6, 1837; served in the State senate in 1837 and 1838; major1768; was graduated from Harvard College in 1790; moved in general of militia; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth1791 to Vermont with his father, who founded the town of Congress to ifil the vacancy caused by the death of JoabCraftsbury; town clerk 1799-1829; delegate to the Vermont

Lawler; reelected to the Twenty-sixth Congress and servedconstitutional convention 1793; member, State house of rep-- from September 4, 1838, to March 3, 1841; unsuccessful can-resentatives 1796, 1800-1803, 1805, and clerk of the house didate for reelection to the Twenty-seventh Congress; ap-1798-1799; register of probate 1796-1815; assistant judge of pointed judge of the county court of Mobile in 1846; died inthe Orleans County Court 1800-1810, 1825-1828; made an Philadelphia, Pa., August 15, 1846; interment in Greenwoodextensive botanical reconnaissance of the Mississippi Valley Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Ala. in 1802; member, State council 1809-1813; chief judge of the CRABB, Jeremiah, a Representative from Maryland; bornOrleans County Court 1810-1816; elected to the Fifteenth in Montgomery County, Md., in 1760; served in the Revolu-and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1817- tionary War as second lieutenant in the First MarylandMarch 3, 1825); again served as State councior in 1825 and Regiment; promoted to the rank of first lieutenant on De-1826; Governor of Vermont 1828-1831; member of the Ver- cember 15, 1777, and served as such until April 1, 1778,mont constitutional convention of 1829 and served as presi- when he resigned because of ill health occasioned by thedent; clerk of Orleans County 1836-1839; appointed and sub- winter hardships endured at Valley Forge; was an extensivesequently elected to the United States Senate to fill the landowner in Montgomery County; served as general withvacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Prentiss and Gen. in Pennsylvania during the Whisky Rebel-served from April 23, 1842, until March 3, 1843; retired to lion; elected as a Federalist to the Fourth Congress andhis farm in Craftsbury, Orleans County, Vt., where he died served from March 4, 1795, until his resignation in 1796;November 19, 1853; interment in North Craftsbury Ceme-- returned to his home near Rockville, Montgomery County,tery, North Craftsbury, Vt. Md., and died there in 1800; interment in the family burying ground near Derwood, Montgomery County, Md. CRAGIN, Aaron Harrison a Representative and a Senator from New Hampshire; born in Weston, Windsor County, Vt., CRADDOCK, John Durrett, a Representative from Ken- February 3, 1821; completed preparatory studies; studied tucky; born in Munfordville, Hart County, Ky., October 26,law; was admitted to the bar in Albany, N.Y., in 1847 and 1881; attended the public schools of Hart County; during thecommenced practice in Lebanon, N.H.; member, New Hamp- Philippine Insurrection and also during the Boxer Uprisingshire house of representatives 1852-1855; elected by the in China served as a corporal and sergeant in Troop F, ThirdAmerican Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Re- United States Cavalry; employed as a railroad engineer withpublican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1855-March the Isthmian Canal Commission, Panama Canal Zone, 1904- 1910; returned to Munfordville, Ky., in 1910 and engaged in3, 1859); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the De- banking and agricultural pursuits; member of the board ofpartment of War (Thirty-fourth Congress); resumed the prac- trustees of Munfordville 1910-1925; assisted in organizingtice of law; member, State house of representatives 1859; the Burley Tobacco Growers Association in 1922 and servedelected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1864; as director from 1922 to 1941; member of the Kentuckyreelected in 1870 and served from March 4, 1865, to March Mammoth Cave National Park Commission 1922-1928; elect-3, 1877; chairman, Committee on Engrossed Bills (Thirty- ed as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress (March 4,ninth Congress), Committee to Audit and Control the Con- 1929-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful candidate for reelection intingent Expense (Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses), Com- 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress; field man, Federalmittee on Naval Affairs (Forty-first and Forty-third Con- Farm Board. Washington, D.C., in 1931 and 1932; agent ofgresses), Committee on Railroads (Forty-third and Forty- the Kentucky Blue Grass Cooperative Association, Winches-fourthCongresses); appointed by President Rutherford ter, Ky., in 1933 and 1934; treasurer of Hart County atHayes one of the commissioners for the purchase of the Hot Munfordville, Ky., in 1934 and 1935; resumed his formerSprings Reservation in Arkansas and served as chairman pursuits; served as a member of the State Agricultural Ad-1877-1879; died in Washington, D.C., May 10, 1898; inter- justment Administration Committee from 1939 until hisment in School Street Cemetery, Lebanon, N.H. Biographies 839

CRAGO, Thomas Spencer, a Representative from Pennsyl- the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1894; vania; born in Carmichaels, Greene County, Pa., August 8,resumed the practice of law in Selma, Ala., and died there 1866; attended Greene Academy and Waynesburg College;January 26, 1923; interment in Live Oak Cemetery. was graduated from Princeton College in 1893; studied law; was admitted to the bar of Greene County in 1894and CRAIG, Hector, a Representative from New York; born in commenced practice in Waynesburg, Pa.; served as captainPaisley, Scotland, in 1775; immigrated to the United States of Company K in the Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infan-and settled in Orange County, N.Y., in 1790; founded the try during the Spanish-American War and the Philippinetown of Craigsville, where he built a paper mill, grist mill, Insurrection; after the war helped to reorganize the Pennsyl-and saw mill; elected to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, vania National Guard and was elected major and later lieu-1823-March 3, 1825); elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty- tenant colonel of the Tenth Infantry; resigned his commis-first Congress and served from March 4, 1829, to July 12, sion while in Congress but was later retired with the rank of1830, when he resigned; appointed surveyor of the port of colonel; delegate to the Republican National Convention inNew York by President Jackson in 1830; United States Com- 1904; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congressmissioner of Insolvency in 1832; surveyor of customs in New (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful candidate forYork 1833-1839; died in Craigsville, N.Y., January 31, 1842; reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress; commander ininterment in a private cemetery on the Caldwell estate in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in 1914 and 1915;Blooming Grove, N.Y. elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Con- gresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1921); was not acandidate CRAIG, James, a Representative from Missouri; born in for renomination in 1920, but was subsequently elected toWashington County, Pa., February 28, 1818; attended the the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by thepublic schools; moved to Mansfield, Ohio, in 1821; studied death of Mahion M. Garland and served from September 20,law; and was admitted to the bar in New Philadelphia, Ohio, 1921, to March 3, 1923; was not a candidate for renomina-in 1839; moved to St. Joseph, Mo., in 1844, where he com- tion in 1922; appointed special assistant to the Attorneymenced the practice of law; captain of a volunteer company General of the United States on March 7, 1923, and assignedin the Mexican War and served until 1848; State's attorney to the War Frauds Division, resigned August 15, 1924; vicefor the twelfth judicial circuit 1852-1856; member of the president of the Union Deposit & Trust Co. of Waynesburg;State house of representatives in 1856 and 1857; elected as a died in Waynesburg, Pa., September 12, 1925; interment inDemocrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses Green Mount Cemetery. (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1860; resumed the practice of law; was com- CRAIG, Alexander Kerr, a Representative from Pennsyl-missioned brigadier general of Volunteers by President Lin- vania; born near Claysville, Buffalo Township, Washingtoncoln March 21, 1862; was the first president of the Hannibal County, Pa., February 21,1828; attended the common& St. Joseph Railroad and the first comptroller of the city of schools and was educated by a private tutor; became a teach-St. Joseph; died in St. Joseph, Mo., October 22, 1888; inter- er at the age of sixteen; began the study of law, but devoted himself to agricultural pursuits; taught school in winterment in Mount Mora Cemetery. months and subsequently became principal of the Claysville CRAIG, Larry Edwin, a Representative from Idaho; born public schools; enlisted in February 1865 in the Eighty-sev-in Council, Adams County, Idaho, July 20, 1945; attended enth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; resumedthe public schools; B.A., University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, agricultural pursuits near Claysville, school director and jus-1969; graduate work, George Washington University, Wash- tice of the peace; successfully contested as a Democrat theington, D.C., 1970; farmer-rancher; member, Idaho senate, election of Andrew Stewart to the Fifty-second Congress and1974-1980; delegate, Idaho State Republican conventions, served from February 26, 1892, until his death in Claysville,1976-1978; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-seventh Pa., July 29, 1892; interment in Claysville Cemetery. and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1981- CRAIG, George Henry, a Representative from Alabama;January 3, 1989); is a resident of Boise, Idaho. born in Cahaba, Dallas County, Ala., December 25, 1845; CRAIG, Robert, a Representative from Virginia; born attended the Cahaba Academy; entered the Confederatenear Christiansburg, Montgomery County, Va.,in 1792; at- Army as a private in Colonel Byrd's regiment, Alabamatended the rural schools, Washington College (now Washing- Volunteers, at Mobile, in 1862; attended the University ofton and Lee University), Lexington, Va., and wasgraduated Alabama at Tuscaloosa as a cadet in 1863; promoted to firstfrom Lewisburg Academy in Greenbrier County; engaged in lieutenant of Infantry, and in 1863 again entered the Con- federate service and remained until the end of the war;planting; served in the State house of delegates in 1817, resumed his studies at the University of Alabama in 1865;1818, and again in 1825-1829; member of the Virginia Board studied law; was admitted to the bar in December 1867 andof Public Works 1820-1823; elected as a Jacksonian to the commenced practice in Selma, Ala.; elected solicitor ofTwenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1829- Dallas County in 1868; appointed sheriff of Dallas County inMarch 3, 1833); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1832 March 1869; elected as judge of the criminal court of Dallasto the Twenty-third Congress; resumed agricultural pursuits; County in March 1870; appointed by the Governor in Julyelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and 1874 judge of the first judicial circuit to fill an unexpiredreelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty- term and was elected to this position on November 4, 1874,sixth Congresses (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1841); chairman, and served until 1880; resumed the practice of law in Selma,Committee on Revolutionary Claims(Twenty-fifth and Ala.; successfully contested as a Republican the election ofTwenty-sixth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomina- Charles M. Shelley to the Forty-eighth Congress and servedtion in 1840; moved to Roanoke County, Va., in 1842 and from January 9, 1885, to March 3, 1885; unsuccessful candi-engaged in agricultural pursuits; again a member of the date for reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress; ap-State house of delegates 1850-1852; died on his estate, pointed United States attorney for the middle and northern"Green Hill," near Salem, Roanoke County, Va., November districts of Alabama by President Arthur; was appointed by25, 1852; interment in the family burying ground at "Green President Cleveland a member of the Board of Visitors toHill." 840 Biographical Directory

CRAIG, Samuel Alfred, a Representative from Pennsylva-ed the public schools and was graduated from Drake Univer- nia; born in Brookville, Jefferson County, Pa., November 19,sity, Des Moines, Iowa, in 1898; during the Spanish-Ameri- 1839; attended the common schools of his native town andcan War enlisted as a private in the Twelfth Company, Washington and Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa.; learnedUnited States Volunteer Signal Corps; promoted to corporal the printer's trade and taught school; enlisted in the Unionand served in the American Army of Occupation in Cuba Army as a private April 19, 1861; promoted successively tountil its withdrawal; studied law at Iowa College of Law, Des second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain of CompanyMoines, Iowa; was admitted to the bar in 1903 and com- B, One Hundred and Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun-menced practice in Fairfield, Iowa; moved to California in teer Infantry; commissioned captain in the Veteran Reserve Corps, United States Army, and served continuously four1913, settled in Los Angeles, and practiced law until elected years and three months; studied law; was admitted to theto Congress; served as chairman of the Republican State bar in 1876 and commenced practice in Brookville, Pa.; elect-central committee for southern California 19 18-1920; elected ed district attorney of Jefferson County in 1878; elected as aas a Republican to the Seventieth, Seventy-first, and Seven- Republican to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-Marchty-second Congresses (March 4, 1927-March 3, 1933); was not 3, 1891); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1890;a candidate for renomination in 1932, but was an unsuccess- resumed the practice of law in Brookville, Pa., where he diedful candidate for nomination as United States Senator; re-- March 17, 1920; interment in Brookville Cemetery. sumed the practice of law; also engaged in banking; died in Los Angeles, Calif., March 2, 1938; interment in Inglewood CRAIG, William Benjamin, a Representative from Ala-Park Mausoleum, Inglewood, Calif. bama; born in Selma, Dallas County, Ala., November 2, 1877; attended the public and high schools of Selma and was CRAIN, William Henry, a Representative from Texas; graduated from the law department of Cumberland Univer-born in Galveston, Tex., November 25, 1848; attended the sity, Lebanon, Tenn.; was admitted to the bar in 1898 andChristian Brothers' School, New York City, until the age of commenced practice in Selma, Ala.; served an apprentice-fourteen, and was graduated from St. Francis Xavier's Col- ship as a machinist in the shops of the Southern Railway atlege, New York City, in 1867; returned to Texas and lived on Selma from 1893 to 1897; served in the Alabama Nationala ranch for two years; studied law in Indianola, Tex., while Guard as a private, noncommissioned officer, and captain;teaching school; was admitted to the bar in 1871 and com- member of the State senate 1903-1907; elected as a Demo-menced practice in Indianola, Tex.; member of the State crat to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses (March 4,senate 1876-1878; district attorney of the twenty-third judi- 1907-March 3, 1911); declined to be a candidate for renomi-cial district of Texas 1872-1876; elected as a Democrat to the nation in 1910; resumed the practice of law in Selma, Ala.;Forty-ninth and to the five succeeding Congresses and died in Selma, Ala., November 27, 1925; interment in Liveserved from March 4, 1885, until his death in Washington, Oak Cemetery. D.C., February 10, 1896; chairman, Committee on Expendi- tures on Public Buildings (Fifty-third Congress); interment CRAIGE, Francis Burton, a Representative from Northin Hillside Cemetery, Cuero, Tex. Carolina; born near Salisbury, Rowan County, N.C., March 13, 1811; attended a private school in Salisbury, andwas CRALEY, Nathaniel Neiman, Jr., a Representative from graduated from the University of North Carolina at ChapelPennsylvania; born in Red Lion, York County, Pa., Novem- Hill in 1829; editor and proprietor of the Western Carolinianber 17, 1927; attended public schools and York Collegiate 1829-1831; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1832 andInstitute; graduated from the Taft School, Watertown, commenced practice in Salisbury; one of the last boroughConn., in 1946 and from Gettysburg College in 1950; engaged representatives in the State house of representatives 1832-in furniture manufacturing 1950-1965; treasurer of York 1834; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third and to theCounty Planning Commission, 1959-1965; director and first three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1861);vice president of York County Council of Community Serv- chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Groundsices, 1960-1964; director of York County Council for Human (Thirty-third Congress); delegate to the State secession con-Relations, 1960-1963; chairman of York County Democratic vention in 1861 and introduced the ordinance of secession incommittee, 1962-1964; instructor in economics and history at the form in which it was adopted; delegate to the ProvisionalYork Junior College, 1958-1959; elected as a Democrat to the Congress of the Confederate States which met in Richmond,Eighty-ninth Congress (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1967); Va., in July 1861; died in Concord, Cabarrus County, N.C.,unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Nineti- while attending the courts of that county, December 30,eth Congress; Commissioner for Public Affairs, Trust Terri- 1875; interment in Old English Cemetery, Salisbury, N.C.tory of the Pacific Islands, 1967-1972; special assistant to the CRAIK, William, a Representative from Maryland; bornHigh Commissioner, 1972-1976; executive director, Plebiscite near Port Tobacco, Md., October 31, 1761; attended Dela-Commission, Northern Mariana Islands, 1975; special assist- meve School in Frederick County; studied law; was admittedant to the Resident Commissioner, Commonwealth of North- to the bar and commenced practice in Port Tobacco andern Mariana Islands, 1976-1978; director for administration, Leonardtown; moved to Baltimore; was appointed chief jus-Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 1978-198 1; special as- tice of the fifth judicial district of Maryland January 13,sistant to the High Commissioner, 1981-1985; is a resident of 1793, and served until his resignation in 1796; elected as aYork County, Pa. Federalist to the Fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jeremiah Crabb; reelected to the Fifth CRAMER, John, a Representative from New York; born and Sixth Congresses and served from December 5, 1796, toin Waterford, N.Y., May 17, 1779; attended the rural schools March 3, 1801; again appointed chief justice of the fifthand was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., judicial district of Maryland and served from October 20,in 1801; studied law; was admitted to the bar and com- 1801, to January 28, 1802; resided in Frederick, Md.; diedmenced practice in Waterford, N.Y.; presidential elector on prior to 1814. the ticket of Jefferson and Clinton in 1804; appointed a master in chancery in 1805; member of the State assembly CRAIL, Joe, a Representative from California; born inin 1806 and 1811; served in the State senate 1823-1825; Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa, December 25, 1877; attend-delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1821; elect- Biographies 841 ed as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourthrepresentatives in 1809; prosecuting attorney of Montgomery Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); again a memberCounty 1813-1816; elected president judge of the court of of the State assembly in 1842; died in Waterford, Saratogacommon pleas in 1817; elected to the Twenty-first and County, N.Y., June 1, 1870; interment in Waterford RuralTwenty-second Congresses, elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to Cemetery. the Twenty-third Congress, and elected as a Whig to the CRAMER, William Cato, a Representative from Florida;Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1837); de-- born in Denver, Cob., August 4, 1922; moved with his par-clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1836; resumed ents to St. Petersburg, Fla., in 1925; attended the publicthe practice of his profession in Dayton; associate justice of schools and St. Petersburg Junior College; enlisted in thethe supreme court of Ohio at the time of his death in Naval Reserve in 1943 and served as a gunnery officer untilDayton, Ohio, on November 13, 1851; interment in Woodland discharged as a lieutenant in 1946; was cited for his activi-Cemetery. ties during the invasion of southern France; was graduated CRANE, Philip Miller (brother of Daniel B. Crane), a Rep- from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill inresentative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., 1946 and from Harvard Law School in 1948; was admitted toNovember 3, 1930; attended DePauw University, University the Florida bar in 1948 and commenced the practice of lawof Michigan, and the University of Vienna; Hillsdale Col- in St. Petersburg, Fla.; served in the State house of repre-lege, Hillsdale, Mich., B.A., 1952; Indiana University, Bloom- sentatives 1950-1952 and was minority leader in 1951; un- successful candidate for election in 1952 to the Eighty-thirdington, md., M.A., 1961, and Ph.D., 1963; served with the Congress; delegate or alternate delegate to the RepublicanUnited States Army, on active duty, from 1954 to 1956; National Conventions, 1952-1984; Republican National Com-taught at Indiana University for three years; moved to mitteeman from Florida, 1964-1984; county attorney for Pin-Peoria, Ill., and taught history from 1963 to 1967 at Bradley ellas County in 1953 and 1954; elected as a Republican to theUniversity; employed by the Republican Party in 1962 as a Eighty-fourth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (Janu-public relations expert; director of research for the Illinois ary 3, 1955-January 3, 1971); was not a candidate for reelec-Goldwater Organization in 1964; director of schools, West- tion, but was an unsuccessful nominee in 1970 for theminster Academy, Northbrook, Ill., from 1967 to 1968; at the United States Senate; is a resident of St. Petersburg, Fla.request of , served as one of his advisors and researchers on political and national issues from 1964 to CRAMTON, Louis Convers, a Representative from Michi-1968; director, Intercollegiate Studies Institute since 1968; gan; born in Hadley Township, Lapeer County, Mich., De-- member, with more than sixty other United States Senators cember 2, 1875; attended the common schools of the county;and Representatives, of the National Advisory Board of was graduated from the Lapeer High School in 1893 andYoung Americans for Freedom since 1965; president of the from the law department of the University of Michigan atAmerican Public Affairs Educational Fund, Washington, Ann Arbor in 1899; was admitted to the bar in 1899 andD.C., since 1965; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-first commenced practice in Lapeer, Mich.; discontinued the prac-Congress, by special election, November 25, 1969, to fill the

tice of his profession in 1905 and published the Lapeervacancy caused by the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld; re-- County Clarion 1905-1923; law clerk of the State senateelected to the nine succeeding Congresses (November 25, three terms; deputy commissioner of railroads of Michigan1969-January 3, 1989); appointed by President Reagan in in 1907; secretary of the Michigan Railroad Commission1986 to serve on the Commission on the Bicentennial of the from September 1907 to January 1, 1909; member of theUnited States Constitution; is a resident of Mount Prospect, State house of representatives in 1909 and 1910; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the eight succeedingIll. Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1931); unsuccessful can- CRANE, Stephen (grandfather of Joseph Halsey Crane), a didate for renomination in 1930; special assistant to theDelegate from New Jersey; born in Elizabethtown (now Eliz- Secretary of the Interior in 1931 and 1932; circuit judge ofabeth), N.J., in July 1709; sheriff of Essex County; was the fortieth judicial circuit from November 21, 1934, to De- chosen by the Elizabethtown Associates to go to England cember 31, 1941; delegate to the Republican National Con- and lay a petition before the King in 1743; member of the vention in 1940; resumed the practice of law; member, Statetown committee in 1750; judge of the court of common pleas house of representatives, 1948-1960; died in Saginaw, Mich.,during the agitation over the stamp act; member of the June 23, 1966; interment in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Lapeer,State general assembly 1766-1773 and served as speaker in Mich. 1771; mayor of Elizabethtown 1772-1774; was appointed CRANE, Daniel Bever (brother of Philip Miller Crane), achairman of the county committee of New Brunswick in Representative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Cook County,1774; Member of the Continental Congress 1774-1776; chair- Ill., January 10, 1936; attended the public schools of Chicago; man of the town committee in 1776; member of the State A.B., Hillsdale College, 1958; D.D.S., Indiana University,council in 1776, 1777, and 1779; died in Elizabeth, N.J., July 1963; graduate work, University of Michigan 1964-1965; den- 1, 1780; interment in the First Presbyterian Church Ceme- tist; served in the United States Army, captain, 1967-1970;tery. elected as a Republican to the Ninety-sixth and to the two CRANE, Winthrop Murray, a Senator from Massachu- succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1979-January 3, 1985);setts; born in Dalton, Mass., April 23, 1853; attended the unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninety-ninthpublic schools of Dalton, Wilbraham Academy, Wilbraham, Congress; resumed the practice of dentistry; is a resident ofMass., and Williston Seminary, Easthainptdn, Mass.; en- Danville, Ill. gaged in the manufacture of paper at Dalton; lieutenant CRANE, Joseph Halsey (grandson of Stephen Crane), agovernor of Massachusetts 1897-1899; Governor 1900-1902; Representative from Ohio; born in Elizabethtown (now Eliza-appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Theodore beth), N.J., August 31, 1782; was a student at PrincetonRoosevelt in 1902, but declined; appointed and subsequently College; studied law; was admitted to the bar of New Jerseyelected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill in 1802 and practiced; moved to Dayton, Ohio, in 1804 andthe vacancy caused by the death of George F. Hoar; reelect- continued the practice of law; member of the State house ofed in 1907 and served from October 12, 1904, to March 3, 842 Biographical Directory

1913; declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1912; chair-elector on the Republican ticket in 1864; died in Newport, man, Committee on Canadian Relations (Fifty-ninth and Six-R.I., January 27, 1873; interment in Common Burial Ground. tieth Congresses), Committee on Rules (Sixty-first and Sixty- second Congresses); resumed his former business pursuits; CRAPO, William Wallace, a Representative from Massa- died in Dalton, Mass., October 2, 1920; interment in Daltonchusetts; born in Dartmouth, Mass., May 16, 1830; moved Cemetery. with his parents to New Bedford, Mass., in 1832; attended Bibliography: DAB; Griffin, Solomon B. W. Murray Crane, A Man and private and public schools of New Bedford, and was graduat- Brother. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1926; Johnson, Carolyn. Win- ed from the local high school in 1845; attended Phillips throp Murray Crane: Republican Leadership,1892-1920.Northampton, Academy, Andover, Mass., and later the Friends' Academy Mass.: Smith College, 1967. at New Bedford; was graduated from the latter institution in CRANFORD, John Walter, a Representative from Texas;1848 and from Yale College in 1852; studied law at Harvard born near Grove Hill, Clarke County, Ala., in 1862; attendedLaw School for one year; was admitted to the bar in 1855 the common and high schools of Alabama and fmished pre-and commenced practice in New Bedford; city solicitor of paratory studies under a private tutor; moved to TexasNew Bedford 1855-1867; member of the State house of repre- about 1880 and settled at Sulphur Springs; studied law; wassentatives in 1857; elected to the Forty-fourth Congress to admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Texas;fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Buffington; member of the State senate 1888-1896; elected president proreelected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and tempore of the twenty-second senate; elected as a DemocratForty-seventh Congresses and served from November 2, to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1897,1875, to March 3, 1883; chairman, Committee on Banking until his death in Washington, D C, March 3, 1899; inter-and Currency (Forty-seventh Congress); was not a candidate ment in the City Cemetery, Sulphur Springs, Tex. for renomination in 1882; resumed the practice of law and also engaged in banking and in the manufacture of fine CRANSTON, Alan, a Senator from California; born incotton goods; member of the Republican National Committee Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, Calif., June 19, 1914; attend-in 1884; appointed by Governor Wolcott in 1897 a member of ed the public schools in Los Altos, Calif., Pomona College,the commission to revise street railway regulations; died in and the University of Mexico; graduated, Stanford Universi-New Bedford, Mass., February 28, 1926; interment in the ty 1936; International News Service, covering England, Ger-Rural Cemetery. many, Italy, and Ethiopia 1937-1938; chief, foreign language division, Office of War Information 1940-1944; enlisted in CRARY, Isaac Edwin, a Representative from Michigan; the United States Army in 1944 and served until the conclu-born in Preston, New London County, Conn., October 2, sion of the Second World War; national president, United1804; attended the public schools, and was graduated from World Federalists 1949-1952; elected State comptroller ofTrinity College, Hartford, Conn., in its first class in 1827; California in 1958, and reelected in 1962; business career instudied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- land investment and home construction; elected as a Demo-tice in Marshall, Mich., in 1833; delegate to the State consti- crat to the United States Senate in 1968 for the term com-tutional convention in 1835; upon the admission of Michigan mencing January 3, 1969; reelected in 1974, 1980, and againas a State into the Union was elected as a Jacksonian to the in 1986 for the term ending January 3, 1993; DemocraticTwenty-fourth Congress and as a Democrat to the Twenty- whip 1977-; chairman, Committee on Veterans' Affairsfifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses and served from January (Ninety-fifth, Ninety-sixth, and One-hundreth Congresses). 26, 1837, to March 3, 1841; regent of the University of Michi- CRANSTON, Henry Young (brother of Robert Benniegan 1837-1844; founded the public-school system of Michi- Cranston), a Representative from Rhode Island; born ingan; member of the State board of education 1850-1852; Newport, R.I., October 9, 1789; attended the public schools;editor of the Marshall Expounder for several years; member engaged in mercantile pursuits in New Bedford, Mass.;of the State house of representatives 1842-1846, and speaker moved to Newport, R.I., in 1810, and engaged in the commis-of the house in 1846; died in Marshall, Calhoun County, sion business until 1815; studied law; was admitted to theMich., on May 8, 1854; interment in Oakridge Cemetery. bar in 1819 and commenced practice in Newport; clerk of Bibliography: DAB. the court of common pleas 1818-1833; member of the State CRAVENS, James Addison (second cousin of James Harri- house of representatives 1827-1843; member and vice presi-son Cravens), a Representative from Indiana; born in Rock- dent of the convention that framed the State constitution iningham County, Va., November 4, 1818; moved with his 1842; elected as a Law and Order candidate to the Twenty-father to Indiana in 1820 and settled near Hardinsburg, eighth Congress; reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninthMadison Township, Washington County; attended the public Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1847); again a member ofschools; engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising; the State house of representatives 1847-1854 and servedserved in the war with Mexico as major of the Second Indi- three years as speaker; died in Newport, R.I., February 12,ana Volunteers in 1846 and 1847; member of the State house 1864; interment in Island Cemetery. of representatives in 1848 and 1849; served in the State senate 1850-1853; commissioned brigadier general of militia CRANSTON, Robert Bennie (brother of Henry Youngin 1854; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh and Cranston), a Representative from Rhode Island; born inThirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1865); was Newport, R.I., January 14, 1791; attended the public schools;not a candidate for renomination in 1864; delegate to the employed in the collection of internal revenue 1812-18 15;Union National Convention of Conservatives at Philadelphia sheriff of Newport County 1818-1827; postmaster of Newportin 1866 and to the Democratic National Convention in 1868; in 1827; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth,resumed agricultural pursuits; died in Hardinsburg, Wash- and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1837-March 3,ington County, md., June 20, 1893; interment in the Hardin 1843); member of the State house of representatives 1843-Cemetery. 1847, and served one year as speaker; served in the State senate; elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March CRAVENS, James Harrison (second cousin of James Ad- 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); was elected the first mayor of New-dison Cravens), a Representative from Indiana; born in port on June 9, 1853; resigned the same day; presidentialHarrisonburg, Rockingham County, Va., August 2, 1802; Biographies 843 studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1823 and commencedDemocrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress, by special election, practice in Harrisonburg, Va.; moved to Franklin, Pa., inSeptember 12, 1939, to ifil the vacancy caused by the death 1823 and resumed the practice of law; moved to Madison,of his father, William Ben Cravens; reelected to the four md., in 1829 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; membersucceeding Congresses and served from September 12, 1939, of the State house of representatives in 1831 and 1832;to January 3, 1949; was not a candidate for renomination in moved to Ripley County, md., in 1833, where he practiced1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; died in Fort Smith, Ark., law and managed a farm; member of the State senate inApril 16, 1974; interment in Forest Park. 1839; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); unsuccessful candidate of the CRAWFORD, Coe Isaac, a Senator from South Dakota; Free-Soil Party for Governor of Indiana in 1852, member ofborn near Volney, Allamakee County, Iowa, January 14, the State house of representatives in 1856; unsuccessful can-1858; attended the common schools and was instructed by a didate for election to the attorney generalship of the Stateprivate tutor; was graduated from the law department of the in 1856; lieutenant colonel of the Eighty-third Regiment,University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1882; was admitted to the Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War; during Mor-bar and commenced practice at Independence, Iowa; moved gan's raid in Indiana he and his soldiers were taken captive;to Pierre, Territory of Dakota, in 1883 and continued the died in Osgood, Ripley County, md., December 4, 1876; inter-practice of law; prosecuting attorney of Hughes County in ment in Versailles Cemetery, Versailles, md. 1887 and 1888; member, Territorial council 1889; upon the CRAVENS, Jordan Edgar (cousin of William Ben Cra-admission of South Dakota as a State was elected as a vens), a Representative from Arkansas; born in Frederick-member of the first State senate; attorney general of South town, Madison County, Mo., November 7, 1830; moved withDakota 1892-1896; unsuccessful Republican candidate in his father to Arkansas the following year; attended the1896 for Representative at Large to the Fifty-fifth Congress; common schools, and was graduated from the Cane Hillattorney for the Chicago & North Western Railway Co. for Academy at Boonsboro (now Canehill), Washington County,the area around South Dakota 1897-1903, when he resigned; Ark., in 1850; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1854moved to Huron in 1897; Governor of South Dakota 1907- and commenced practice in Clarksville, Ark.; member of the1908; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate State house of representatives in 1860; entered the Confeder-and served from March 4, 1909, to March 3, 1915; unsuccess- ate Army in 1861 as a private, promoted to colonel in 1862,ful candidate for renomination in 1914; chairman, Commit- and continued in the service until the close of the Civil War;tee on Expenditures in the Interior Department (Sixty-first returned to Clarksville; prosecuting attorney of JohnsonCongress), Committee on Claims (Sixty-second Congress); re-- County in 1865 and 1866; member of the State senate 1866-sumed the practice of law in Huron, S.Dak., until 1934, 1868; elected as an Independent Democrat to the Forty-fifthwhen he retired from active business and political life; died Congress; reelected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth andin Yankton, S.Dak., April 25, 1944; interment in Municipal Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1883);Cemetery, Iowa City, Iowa. was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882 to Bibliography: Armin, Calvin. "CoeI.Crawford and the Progressive Movement in South Dakota." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado, the Forty-eighth Congress; resumed the practice of law in 1957; Meyer, Edward L. "Coe I. Crawford and the Persuasion of Progres- Clarksville, Ark.; judge of the circuit court 1890-1894; died sive Movement in South Dakota." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minne- in Fort Smith, Ark., April 8, 1914; interment in Oakland sota, 1975. Cemetery, Clarksville, Ark. CRAWFORD, Fred Lewis, a Representative from Michi- CRAVENS, William Ben (father of William Fadjo Cravensgan; born in Dublin, Erath County, Tex., May 5,1888; at- and cousin of Jordan Edgar Cravens), a Representative fromtended the public schools, business college at Peniel, Tex., Arkansas; born in Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Ark., Janu-and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; engaged in ary 17, 1872; attended the common schools, Louisville (Ky.)accountancy at Des Moines, Iowa, and Detroit, Mich., 1914- Military Academy, and Staunton (Va.) Military Academy;1917; built, financed, and operated beet sugar mills in vari- was graduated from the law department of the University ofous sections of the United States 1917-1935; also engagedin Missouri at Columbia in 1893; was admitted to the Arkansasmanufacturing, ranching, and overland transportation; di- bar the same year and commenced practice in Fort Smith,rector of the Michigan National Bank and the Refmers Ark.; city attorney of Fort Smith 1898-1902; served as pros-Transport & Petroleum Corp. of Detroit, Mich., at time of ecuting attorney for the twelfth judicial district of Arkansas 1902-1908; elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first,death; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fourth and to and Sixty-second Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1913);the eight succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, was not a candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third1935, to January 3, 1953; unsuccessful candidate for renomi- Congress; resumed the practice of law; elected to the Seven-nation in 1952; retired to his farm at Allentown, Prince ty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses and servedGeorges County, Md.; died in Washington, D.C., April 13, from March 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., on1957; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery. January 13, 1939; interment in Oak Cemetery, Fort Smith, CRAWFORD, George Walker, a Representative from Ark. Georgia; born in Columbia County, Ga., December 22, 1798; CRAVENS, William Fadjo (son of William Ben Cravens),was graduated from Princeton College in 1820; studied law; a Representative from Arkansas; born in Fort Smith, Sebas-was admitted to the bar in 1822 and commenced practice in tian County, Ark., February 15, 1899; attended the publicAugusta, Ga.; attorney general of the State 1827-1831; schools, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, the Uni-member of the State house of representatives 1837-1842; versity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., and was graduatedelected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the from the law school of Washington and Lee University, Lex-vacancy caused by the death of Richard W. Habersham and ington, Va., in 1920; was admitted to the bar in 1920 andserved from January 7, 1843, to March 3, 1843; Governor of commenced practice at Fort Smith, Ark.; during the FirstGeorgia 1843-1847; appointed Secretary of War in the Cabi- World War served as a seaman in the United States Navy;net of President Taylor and served from March 8, 1849, to city attorney of Fort Smith, Ark., for ten years; elected as aJuly 23, 1850; presided over the State secession convention 844 Biographical Directory in 1861; died on his estate, "Be! Air," near Augusta, Ga., CRAWFORD, William, a Representative from Pennsylva- July 27, 1872; interment in Summerville Cemetery. nia; born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1760; received a liberal Bibliography: DAB; Cleveland, Len G. "George W. Crawford of Georgia,schooling; studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, 1798-1872." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, 1974. and in 1781 received his degree; immigrated to the United CRAWFORD, Joel, a Representative from Georgia; bornStates and settled near Gettysburg, Adams County, Pa.; pur- in Columbia County, Ga., June 15, 1783; completed prepara-chased a farm on Marsh Creek in 1785, where he spent the tory studies; studied law at the Litchfield Law School; wasrest of his life practicing medicine; associate judge for admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Sparta inAdams County 1801-1808; elected as a Republican to the 1808; moved to Milledgeville, Ga., in 1811; served in the warEleventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, against the Creek Indians as second lieutenant and aide-de-1809-March 3, 1817); again resumed the practice of medicine camp to Brigadier General Floyd in 1813 and 1814; resumednear Gettysburg, Pa., where he died on October 23, 1823; the practice of law in Milledgeville; member of the Stateinterment in Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pa. house of representatives 1814-1817; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth CRAWFORD, William Harris, a Senator from Georgia; Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); returned to Sparta,born in Nelson County, Va., February 24, 1772; moved with Hancock County, in 1828; member of the State senate inhis father to Edgefield District, S.C., in 1779 and to Colum- 1827 and 1828; appointed a commissioner to run the bounda-bia County, Ga., in 1783; pursued classical studies in a pri- ry line between Alabama and Georgia in 1826; unsuccessfulvate school and in Richmond Academy, Augusta, Ga.; stud- candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1828 and 1831; delegateied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in to the International Improvement Convention in 1831; elect- ed in 1837 a State commissioner to locate and construct theLexington, Ga., in 1799; appointed to prepare a digest of the Western & Atlantic Railroad; died near Blakely, Earlylaws of Georgia in 1799; member, State house of representa- County, Ga., April 5, 1858; interment in the family buryingtives 1803-1807; elected to the United States Senate to fill ground on his plantation in Early County, Ga. the vacancy caused by the death of Abraham Baldwin and served from November 7, 1807, to March 23, 1813, when he CRAWFORD, Martin Jenkins, a Representative fromresigned; served as President pro tempore of the Senate Georgia; born in Jasper County, Ga., March 17, 1820; attend-during the Twelfth Congress; declined the portfolio of Secre- ed Brownwood Institute and Mercer University, Macon, Ga.;tary of War tendered by President James Madison in 1813; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1839 and practicedMinister to France 1813-1815; returned home to act as agent in Hamilton, Ga.; also engaged in agricultural pursuits;for the sale of the land donated by Congress to Lafayette; member of the State house of representatives 1845-1847; moved to Columbus, Ga., in 1849; delegate to the Southernappointed Secretary of War by President Madison in August convention at Nashville in May 1850; judge of the superior1815; transferred to the Treasury in October 1816, and courts of the Chattahoochee circuit from February 1, 1854,served under Presidents Madison and James Monroe until to November 1854; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-1825; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President of the fourth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses and servedUnited States in 1824; due to illness refused the tender of from March 4, 1855, until January 23, 1861, when he with-President John Adams that he remain Secretary of the drew; elected to the Confederate Provisional Congress andTreasury; returned to Georgia and was appointed judge of served from January 1861 to February 22, 1862; appointedthe northern circuit court in 1827, which position he held by President Davis a special commissioner to the Govern- until his death in Oglethorpe County, Ga., September 15, ment of the United States at Washington; raised the Third1834; interment on his estate, "Woodlawn," near Crawford, Georgia Cavalry Regiment in May 1862; served with it oneOglethorpe County, Ga. year, and was then placed on the staff with Maj Gen. Bibliography: DAB; Green,Philip.The Life of WilliamCrawford. Howell Cobb, where he served until the close of the Civil Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1965; Mooney, Chase. War; appointed judge of the superior court of the Chattahoo- William H. Crawford, 1772-18,3'4. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, chee circuit to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of 1974. Judge James Johnson on October 1, 1875; reappointed in 1877 and served until February 9, 1880, when he resigned; CRAWFORD, William Thomas, a Representative from appointed February 10, 1880, to the supreme court of Geor-North Carolina; born near Waynesviile, Haywood County, gia to fill a vacancy; reappointed, and served until his deathN.C., June 1, 1856; attended the public schools and Waynes- in Columbus, Ga., July 23, 1883; interment in Linnwoodville Academy; member of the State house of representatives Cemetery. 1884-1888; engrossing clerk of the State house of representa- Bibliography: DAB. tives in 1889; was graduated from the law department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1890; was CRAWFORD, Thomas Hartley, a Representative fromadmitted to the bar in 1891 and commenced practice in Pennsylvania; born in Chambersburg, Pa., November 14,Waynesville; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and 1786; was graduated from Princeton College in 1804; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1807 and commenced prac-Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895); dele- tice in Chambersburg; elected as a Jacksonian to thegate to the American Bimetallic League in Washington, Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1829-D.C., in 1893; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to March 3, 1833); member of the State house of representa-theFifty-fourthCongress;presentedcredentialsasa tives in 1833 and 1834; appointed a commissioner to investi-Member-elect to the Fifty-sixth Congress and served from gate alleged frauds in the sale of the Creek Reservation inMarch 4, 1899, to May 10, 1900, when he was succeeded by 1836; appointed by President Van Buren Commissioner ofRichmond Pearson, who contested the election; unsuccessful Indian Affairs and served from October 22, 1838, to Octobercandidate for election in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress; 30, 1845; appointed by President Polk as judge of the crimi-delegate to the Democratic State conventions 1900-19 12; del- nal court of the District of Columbia in 1845 and servedegate to the gubernatorial convention in 1908; elected as a until 1861, when the court was reorganized; died in Wash-Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3, ington, D.C., on January 27, 1863; interment in the Congres-1909); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1908 to the sional Cemetery. Sixty-first Congress; resumed the practice of law in Waynes- Biographies 845 yule, N.C., where he died November 16, 1913; interment inwar resumed the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to Green Hill Cemetery. the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses (March 4, 1869- March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in CREAGER, Charles Edward, a Representative from Okla- homa; born near Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, April1872; engaged in the practice of his profession until his 28, 1873; attended the public schools of Ohio, and Northerndeath in Carmi, White County, 111., June 26, 1890; interment Indiana University; engaged in the newspaper business; en-in Maple Ridge Cemetery. listed as sergeant major in the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infan- CREELY, John Vaudain, a Representative from Pennsyl- try during the Spanish-American War and served undervania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., November 14, 1839; re- General Miles in the Puerto Rican campaign; city editor ofceived a classical education; studied law; was admitted to the the Columbus Press-Post 1899-1901; editor of the Daily Leader, Marietta, Ohio, 1902-1904; moved to Muskogee,bar in 1862 and practiced in Philadelphia; during the Civil Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in November 1904 andWar served with the Union Army as an officer of Light engaged in the newspaper business, later becoming publish-Artillery; member of the Philadelphia city council for four er and editor of several Oklahoma newspapers; elected as ayears; elected as an Independent Republican to the Forty- Republican to the Sixty-first Congress (March 4, 1909-Marchsecond Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); before his 3, 1911); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to theterm of service had expired he mysteriously disappeared, Sixty-second Congress; employed in the United States Indianand upon the application of his sister, Adelaide G. Creely, to Service and later engaged in oil production until 1934, whenwhom was awarded his estate, he was declared legally dead he retired; was a resident of Muskogee, Okla., until hison September 28, 1900, by the orphans' court of Philadel- death there on January 11, 1964; interment in Greenhillphia. Cemetery. CREIGIITON, William, Jr., a Representative from Ohio; CREAL, Edward Wester, a Representative from Ken-born in Berkeley County, Va., October 29, 1778; was graduat- tucky; born in a log house near Mount Sherman, Larueed from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.; studied law; was County, Ky., November 20, 1883; attended the public schoolsadmitted to the bar in 1798 and commenced practice in of Hart and Larue Counties, KY.; taught school for nineChillicothe, Ohio; secretary of state 1803-1808; member of years in Larue County and between teaching terms attendedthe State house of representatives in 1810; elected as a Re- Southern Normal School at Bowling Green, Ky., and Eastpublican to the Thirteenth Congress to ifil the vacancy Lynn College at Buffalo, Ky.; was graduated from the lawcaused by the resignation of Duncan McArthur; reelected to department of Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1906; wasthe Fourteenth Congress and served from May 4, 1813, to admitted to the bar in 1904 and commenced practice inMarch 3, 1817; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1815 to Hodgenville, Ky., in 1910; county superintendent of schoolsthe United States Senate, president of the branch bank of of Larue County, Ky., 1910-1918; county attorney 1918-1928;the United States at Chillicothe; elected to the Twentieth Commonwealth attorney 1929-1936; owner and publisher ofCongress and served from March 4, 1827, until his resigna- a weekly newspaper in Hodgenville, Ky., from 1918 until thetion in 1828; was appointed during the recess of Congress time of his death; member of the Democratic State executiveand nominated by President John Quincy Adams on Decem- committee 1924-1940; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofber 11, 1828, as a United States judge of the district court, Cap R. Carden; reelected to the Seventy-fifth and to thebut the Senate on February 16, 1829, passed a resolution three succeeding Congresses and served from November 5,that it was "not expedient to fill the vacancy at the present 1935, until his death in Hodgenville, Ky., on October 13,session of Congress"; reelected to the Twenty-first and 1943; interment in Red Hill Cemetery. Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1833); was not a candidate for renomination in 1832; resumed the CREAMER, Thomas James, a Representative from Newpractice of law; died in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, Octo- York; born near Garadice Lake, Ireland, May 26, 1843; immi-ber 1, 1851; interment in Grand View Cemetery. grated to the United States and took up his residence in Bibliography: DAB. New York City; attended the public schools; shipping clerk in a dry-goods house in 1860; studied law; was admitted to CRESWELL, John Angel James, a Representative and a the bar and practiced; member of the State assembly 1865-Senator from Maryland; born at Creswells Ferry (now Port 1867; served in the State senate 1868-187 1; city tax commis-Deposit), Cecil County, Md., November 18, 1828; attended the sioner for five years; acted as counsel for State commissionslocal academy at Port Deposit; was graduated from Dickin- to revise the tax laws; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-son College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1848; studied law; was admitted third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not ato the bar in Baltimore in 1850 and commenced practice in candidate for renomination in 1874; elected to the Fifty-Elkton, Md.; unsuccessful candidate for election on the Whig seventh Congress (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1903); was not aticket in 1850 to the Reform State Convention; member, candidate for renomination in 1902; resumed the practice ofState house of delegates 1861; affiliated with the Republican law in New York City, and died there August 4, 1914; inter-Party in 1861; adjutant general of the State 1862-1863; elect- ment in Greenwood Cemetery. ed as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress (March 4, CREBS, John Montgomery, a Representative from Illi-1863-March 3, 1865); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in nois; born in Middleburg, Loudoun County, Va., April 9,1864; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy 1830; moved to Illinois in 1837 with his parents, who settledcaused by the death of Thomas H. Hicks and served from in White County; attended the public schools; studied law;March 9, 1865, to March 3, 1867; chairman, Committee on was admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced practice inLibrary (Thirty-ninth Congress); was elected secretary of the White County, Ill.; served in the Union Army, and wasUnited States Senate in 1868, but declined to serve; appoint- commissioned lieutenant colonel, Eighty-seventh Regiment,ed Postmaster General by President Ulysses Grant 1869- illinois Infantry, in 1862; took part in the Mississippi, Vicks-1874, when he resigned; served as counsel of the United burg, and Arkansas campaigns; commanded a brigade ofStates before the Alabama Claims Commission 1874-1876; Cavalry in the Department of the Gulf; after the close of theresumed the practice of law; president of two banks; died 846 Biographical Directory near Elkton, Cecil County, Md., December 23, 1891; inter- try, and served with that regiment until May 12, 1864, when ment in Elkton Presbyterian Cemetery. he became a prisoner of war; upon his release from Fort Bibliography: DAB; Friedenberg, Robert V. "John A.J.Creswell ofDelaware in June 1865 joined his parents at Ellaville, Schley Maryland: Reformer in the Post Office." Maryland Historical Magazine 64 County, Ga.; studied law at Americus, Ga.; was admitted to (Summer 1969): 133-43. the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Ellaville; ap- CRETELLA, Albert William, a Representative from Con- pointed solicitor general of the southwestern judicial circuit necticut; born in New Haven, Conn., April 22, 1897; attendedin 1872, and reappointed in 1873 for a term of four years; the public schools of New Haven; graduated from Yale Uni-appointed judge of the superior court of the same circuit in versity in 1917; entered Yale University Law School butJune 1877; elected by the general assembly to the same interrupted studies and enlisted in the United States Navyoffice in 1878; reelected judge for a term of four years in June 18, 1918, and was in officers training school when the1880; resigned that office in September 1882 to accept the armistice was signed; reentered Yale Law School and grad- Democratic nomination for Congress; president of the Demo- uated in 1921; was admitted to the Connecticut bar the samecratic gubernatorial convention at Atlanta in April 1883; year and began practice in New Haven; moved to Northelected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and to the six Haven in 1926 and served as prosecuting attorney 193 1-1945succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1883, until and town counsel 1931-1970, excluding the years 1946 andhis death; chairman, Committee on Elections (Fiftieth Con- 1947; member of the State house of representatives 1947-gress), Committee on Rules (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Con- 1952; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third and to thegress); Speaker of the House of Representatives (Fifty-second two succeeding Congresses (January 3,1953-January 3,and Fifty-third Congresses); nominated for United States 1959); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to theSenator in the State primary of 1896; died in Atlanta, Ga., Eighty-sixth Congress and for election in 1960 to the Eighty-October 23, 1896; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. seventh Congress; engaged in the practice of law; died in Bibliography: DAB; Malone, Preston St. Clair. "The Political Career of New Haven, Conn., May 24, 1979; interment in St. LawrenceCharles Frederick Crisp." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, 1962; Cemetery, West Haven, Conn. Martin, S. Walter. "Charles F.Crisp: Speaker of the House." Georgia Review 8 (Summer 1954): 167-77. CRIPPA, Edward David, a Senator from Wyoming; born in Rock Springs, Sweetwater County, Wyo., April 8, 1899; CRISP, Charles Robert (son of Charles Frederick Crisp), a attended the public schools; during the First World WarRepresentative from Georgia; born inEllaville,Schley served as a private in the United States Army; councilmanCounty, Ga., October 19, 1870; attended the public schools of of Rock Springs 1926-1928; president of Union MercantileAmericus, Ga.; clerk in the Interior Department, Washing- Co., in 1930; owner and manager of Crippa Motor Co., Rockton, D.C., 1889-1891; parliamentarian of the House of Repre- Springs, Wyo.; president of North Side State Bank and direc-sentatives 1891-1895; studied law; was admitted to the bar in tor of Rock Springs Fuel Co. in 1940; Wyoming State high-1895 and commenced practice in Americus, Sumter County, way commissioner 1941-1947; appointed as a Republican toGa.; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fourth Congress to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by thefill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Charles F. death of Lester C. Hunt and served from June 24, 1954, toCrisp, and served from December 19, 1896, to March 3, 1897; November 28, 1954; was not a candidate for election to fillwas not a candidate for renomination in 1896; resumed the the vacancy; resumed business activities;died in Rockpractice of law in Americus, Ga.; judge of the city court of Springs, Wyo., October 20, 1960; interment in St. JosephsAmericus 1900-19 12; again parliamentarian of the House of Cemetery. Representatives in the Sixty-second Congress; parliamentari- an of the Democratic National Convention in 1912; elected to CRISFIELD, John Woodland, a Representative fromthe Sixty-third and to the nine succeeding Congresses and Maryland; born near Chestertown, Kent County, Md., No-served from March 4, 1913, until October 7, 1932, when he vember 8, 1806; was educated at Washington College, Ches-resigned to become a member of the United States Tariff tertown; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1830 andCommission, in which capacity he served until December 30, commenced practice in Princess Anne, Somerset County;1932; was not a candidate for renomination in 1932, but was member of the State house of representatives in 1836; elect-an unsuccessful candidate for the nomination for United ed as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-States Senator to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of March 3, 1849); delegate to the State constitutional conven-William J Harris; member of the American World War tion in 1850; member of the peace conference of 1861 held inDebt Funding Commission; resumed the practice of his Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to preventchosen profession in Washington, D.C.; died in Americus, the impending war; elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-Ga., February 7, 1937; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery. seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); unsuccess- ful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth CRIST, Henry, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Congress; resumed the practice of law; delegate to the UnionFredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Va., October 20, 1764; National Convention, at Philadelphia in 1866; located andmoved with his father to Pennsylvania, where he attended founded the town of Crisfield, Somerset County, Md., inthe public schools; moved to Kentucky and engaged in the 1866; instrumental in building the Eastern Shore Railroadsurveying of lands; moved to Bullitt County, Ky., in 1788 and served as president; died in Princess Anne, Md., onand engaged in the manufacture of salt; member of the January 12, 1897; interment in Manokin Presbyterian Ceme-State house of representatives in 1795 and 1806; served in tery. the State senate 1800-1804; elected as a Republican to the Eleventh Congress (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1811); was a CRISP, Charles Frederick (father of Charles RobertWhig after the organization of that party; died near Shep- Crisp), a Representative from Georgia; born in Sheffield,herdsville, Bullitt County, Ky., August 11, 1844; interment England, January 29, 1845; later in that year his parentsin State Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky. immigrated to the United States and settled in Georgia; attended the common schools of Savannah and Macon, Ga.; CRITCHER, John, a Representative from Virginia; born entered the Confederate Army in May 1861; commissionedat Oak Grove, Westmoreland County, Va., on March 11, lieutenant in Company K, Tenth Regiment, Virginia Infan-1820; attended Brent's Preparatory School; was graduated Biographies 847 from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1839,ant colonel of the Seventh Missouri Cavalry Militia Regi- and later pursued higher studies in France for three years;ment; moved to Warrensburg in 1865 and continued the studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commencedpractice of law; appointed attorney general of Missouri by practice in Westmoreland County, Va.; served in the StateGov. Willard P Hall in 1864 to fill out the unexpired term of senate 1861 and 1874-1877; member of the State secessionAikman Welch, deceased; elected as a Democrat to the convention in 1861; served as lieutenant colonel of CavalryForty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; appointeda candidate for renomination in 1874; again elected to the judge of the eighth judicial circuit of Virginia, but was re-Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); Gover- moved under the resolution of Congress dated February 18,nor of Missouri 1881-1885; moved to Kansas City in 1885 1869, which provided that anyone who had borne armsand continued the practice of law; United States consul gen- against the United States should be dismissed from officeeral at the city of Mexico from April 5, 1893, to 1897; referee within thirty days; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-in bankruptcy from 1898 until his death in Kansas City, second Congress (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); died in Al-Mo., May 29, 1909; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery. exandria, Va., September 27, 1901; interment in the Episco- Bibliography: DAB; Powers, P. Joseph. "'Yours Very Truly, Thos. T. pal Cemetery. Crittenden': A Missouri Democrat's Observations of the Election of 1896." Missouri Historical Review 68 (January 1974): 186-203; Scholes, Walter V. CRITTENDEN, John Jordan (uncle of Thomas Theodore "Mexico in 1896 as Viewed by an American Consul." Hispanic American Crittenden), a Senator and a Representative from Kentucky; Historical Review 30 (May 1950): 250-57. born near Versailles, Woodford County, Ky., September 10, 1786; completed preparatory studies; attended Pisgah Acade- CROCHERON, Henry (brother of Jacob Crocheron), a my, Woodford County, Ky., Washington College (now Wash-Representative from New York; born on Staten Island, Rich- ington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., and was grad-mond County, N.Y., December 26,1772; attended the uated from William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., incommon schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits in North- 1806; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commencedfield; supervisor of Northfield 1808-1814; elected as a Repub- practice in Woodford County, Ky., in 1807; attorney generallican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, of Illinois Territory 1809-1810; served in the War of 1812 as1817); captain of militia in 1818; died in New Springville, aide to the Governor; resumed the practice of law in Russell-Richmond County, N.Y., on November 8, 1819; interment in yule, KY.; member, State house of representatives 1811-1817, St. Andrew's Churchyard, Richmond County, Staten Island, and served as speaker the last term; elected to the UnitedN.Y. States Senate and served from March 4, 1817, to March 3, CROCHERON, Jacob (brother of Henry Crocheron), a 1819, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on JudiciaryRepresentative from New York; born on Staten Island, Rich- (Fifteenth Congress); moved to Frankfort, Ky., in 1819; mond County, N.Y., August 23, 1774; engaged in agricultural member, State house of representatives 1825, 1829-1832; ap-pursuits; sheriff of Richmond County in 1802, 1811, and pointed and was confirmed as United States district attorneyagain in 1821; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first in 1827, but was removed by President Andrew Jackson inCongress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831); died in Richmond 1829; nominated in 1828 by President John Quincy Adams asCounty, Staten Island, on December 27, 1849; interment in an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the UnitedSt. Andrew's Churchyard, Staten Island, N.Y. States, but was not confirmed by the Senate; again elected to the United States Senate as a Whig and served from March CROCKER, Alvah, a Representative from Massachusetts; 4, 1835, to March 3, 1841; appointed Attorney General of theborn in Leominster, Mass., October 14, 1801; attended the United States by President William Henry Harrison Marchpublic schools and Groton Academy; proprietor of paper to September 1841; appointed and subsequently elected tomanufactories at Fitchburg; president of the Boston & Fitch- the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by theburg Railroad; member of the Hoosac Tunnel Commission; resignation of Henry Clay and served from March 31, 1842,member of the State house of representatives in 1836, 1842, to June 12, 1848, when he resigned; chairman, Committee onand 1843; served in the State senate for two terms; elected Military Affairs (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Con-as a Republican to the Forty-second Congress to fill the gresses); Governor of Kentucky 1848-1850, when he resigned; vacancy caused by the resignation of William B. Washburn; again appointed Attorney General by President Millard Fill-reelected to the Forty-third Congress and served from Janu- more 1850-1853; again elected to the United States Senateary 2, 1872, until his death in Fitchburg, Mass., December and served from March 4, 1855, to March 3, 1861; chairman,26, 1874; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Thirty-sixth Congress); Bibliography: DAB; Wheelwright, William Bond. Life and Times of elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March . 1923. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1981. 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); was a candidate for reelection at the time of his death; died in Frankfort, Ky., July 26, 1863; CROCKER, Samuel Leonard, a Representative from Mas- interment in State Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky. sachusetts; born in Taunton, Mass., March 31, 1804; was Bibliography: DAB; Kirwan, Albert D. John J. Crittenden: The Strugglegraduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1822; for Union. Lexington: Kentucky University Press, 1962; Ledbetter, Patsy S. engaged in manufacturing; member of the executive council "John J. Crittenden and the Compromise Debacle." Filson Club History of Massachusetts in 1849; elected as a Whig to the Thirty- Quarterly 51 (April 1977): 125-42. third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Con- CR! VrENDEN, Thomas Theodore (nephewof Johngress; president of the Taunton Copper Manufacturing Co.; Jordan Crittenden), a Representative from Missouri; borndied in Boston, Mass., February 10, 1883; interment in near Shelbyville, Shelby County, Ky., January 1, 1832; at-Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Taunton, Bristol County, Mass. tended the primary schools at Cloverport, KY.; was graduat- ed from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1855; served as CROCKETT, David (father of John Wesley Crockett), a registrar of Franldin County in 1856; studied law in Frank-Representative from Tennessee; born at the confluence of fort, KY.; was admitted to the bar in 1858 and commencedLimestone Creek and Noli-Chuckey River in the State of practice in Lexington, Mo.; served in the Union Army fromFranklin, which a few years later became Greene County, 1862 to 1864, being commissioned captain and later lieuten-Tenn., August 17, 1786; attended the common schools for a 848 Biographical Directory short time; moved to Lincoln County about 1808 and to what CROFT, Theodore Gaillard (son of George William Croft), is now Gibson County in 1822; commanded a battalion ofa Representative from South Carolina; born in Aiken, Aiken mounted riflemen under General Jackson in the Creek cain-County, S.C., November 26, 1874; attended the common paign in 1813 and 1814; member of the State house of repre-schools; was graduated from Bethel Military Academy, War- sentatives 1821-1823; unsuccessful candidate for election inrenton, Va., in 1895 and from the law department of the 1825 to the Nineteenth Congress; elected to the TwentiethUniversity of South Carolina at Columbia in 1897; was ad- and Twenty-first Congresses (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1831);mitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1830 to the Twenty-Aiken, S.C.; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth Con- second Congress; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to thegress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); un-George W. Croft, and served from May 17, 1904, to March 3, successful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty- fourth Congress; went to Texas to aid the Texans in their 1905; was not a candidate for renomination in 1904; resumed struggle for independence in 1836; joined a band of 186 menthe practice of law in Aiken, S.C.; member of the State in the defense of the Alamo, San Antonio de Bexar, and washouse of representatives in 1907 and 1908; served in the among those killed in that battle which terminated onState senate 1909-1912; enlisted in the U.S. Army October March 6, 1836; his body destroyed by pyre at the Alamo.29, 1918; was assigned to duty as a private in the Field Bibliography: DAB; Crockett, David. A Narrative of the Life of DavidArtillery Central Officers' Training School, Camp Zachary Crockett of the State of Tennessee. Edited by James A. Shackford andTaylor, and served until December 5, 1918, when he was Stanley J. Folmsbee. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1973; honorably discharged; resumed the practice of law; died in Shackford, James Atkins. David Crockett; The Man and the Legend.Aiken, S.C., March 23, 1920; interment in St. Thaddeus' Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1956. Episcopal Churchyard. CROCKETT, George William, Jr., a Representative from CROLL, William Martin, a Representative from Pennsyl- Michigan; born in Jacksonville, Duval County, Fla., Augustvania; born in Upper Macungie Township, Lehigh County, 10, 1909; attended the public schools; A.B., Morehouse Col-Pa., April 9, 1866; attended the public schools and Keystone lege, Atlanta, Ga., 1931; J.D., University of Michigan LawState Normal School, Kutztown, Pa.; was graduated from School, Ann Arbor, 1934; admitted to the Florida bar in 1934 and commenced practice in Jacksonville; senior attorney,Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; taught United States Department of Labor, 1939-1943; hearing offi-school; moved to Maxatawny in 1889 and engaged in the cer, Federal Fair Employment Practices Commission, 1943;general merchandise business; moved to Reading, Pa., in senior member of law firm, Detroit, 1946-1966; elected judge, 1897 and engaged in the retail clothing business and in recorder's court, Detroit, 1967-1979; acting corporation coun-banking; treasurer of Berks County 1909-1912; served as sel, city of Detroit, 1980; elected as a Democrat to thenaval officer, port of Philadelphia, from 1913 to 1918; dele-- Ninety-sixth Congress, November 4, 1980, in a special elec-gate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1912 and tion to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles1920; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress C. Diggs, Jr., and at the same time elected to the Ninety-(March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925); unsuccessful candidate for seventh Congress; reelected to the three succeeding Con-reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth Congress; resumed mer- gresses (January 3, 1981-January 3, 1989); is a resident ofcantile pursuits; died in Reading, Pa., October 21, 1929; in- Detroit, Mich. terment in Laureldale Cemetery, Laureldale, Pa. CROCKETT, John Wesley (son of David Crockett), a Rep- CROMER, George Washington, a Representative from In- resentative from Tennessee; born in Trenton, Tenn., July 10,diana; born near Anderson, Madison County, md., May 13, 1807; attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted1856; attended the common schools and Wittenberg College, to the bar and commenced practice in Paris, Tenn.; heldSpringfield, Ohio, and was graduated from the Indiana Uni- various local and State offices; was elected as a Whig to theversity at Bloomington in 1882; became editor of the Muncie Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837-(md.) Times in 1883; studied law; was admitted to the bar in March 3, 1841); elected by the State legislature attorney1886 and commenced practice in Muncie, Delaware County, general for the ninth district of Tennessee and served frommd.; prosecuting attorney for the forty-sixth judicial circuit 1841 to 1843; moved to New Orleans in 1843 and engaged inof Indiana 1886-1890; member of the State Republican com- business as a commission merchant; became editor of themittee in 1892 and 1894; mayor of Muncie 1894-1898; elected National May 22, 1848, and established the Crescent in 1850;as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to the three succeed- moved to Memphis, Tenn., in 1852, where he died Novembering Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1907); unsuccessful 24, 1852; interment in the Old City Cemetery, Paris, Tenn.candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress; CROFT, George William (father of Theodore Gaillardresumed the practice of his profession in Muncie, md., until Croft), a Representative from South Carolina; born in New-his death in that city November 8, 1936; interment in Beech berry County, S.C., December 20, 1846; attended the commonGrove Cemetery. schools in Greenville, S.C.; entered the South Carolina Mili- tary Academy at Charleston in 1863; the cadets of that CRONIN, Paul William, a Representative from Massachu- institution were mustered into the Confederate Army insetts; born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 14, 1938; 1864 and served until the close of the Civil War; attendedB.A., Boston University, 1962; M.P.A., John F. Kennedy the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1866 andGraduate School of Government, Harvard University, 1969; 1867; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1869 andelected selectman, town of Andover at age 23; Massachusetts commenced practice in Aiken, S.C., in 1870; president of thehouse of representatives, 1967-1969; chief assistant to Con- gressman F. Bradford Morse in Washington, D.C.; delegate State bar association; member of the State house of repre-- sentatives, 1882-1883 and 1901-1902; served in the Stateto Massachusetts State Republican conventions, 1962-1972; senate; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth Congressdelegate to Republican National Conventions, 1968 and 1972; and served from March 4, 1903, until his death in Washing-elected as a Republican to the Ninety-third Congress (Janu- ton, D.C., on March 10, 1904; interment in St. Thaddeus'ary 3, 1973-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful candidate for re-- Episcopal Churchyard, Aiken, S.C. election in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; president, Biographies 849

Sunsav Inc., 1975-1986; president, Highline Industries, Inc.,unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty- 1986 to present; is a resident of Andover, Mass. third Congress; mayor of Pittsfield, Mass., in 1894 and 1895; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1896; city CROOK, Thurman Charles, a Representative from Indi-solicitor 1896-1900; appointed justice of the superior court ana; born on a farm near Peru, Miami County, md., July 18,on January 25, 1905, and served until December 31, 1913, 1891; attended the Cass County schools, Logansport Highwhen he was appointed justice of the Massachusetts Su- School, Indiana State Normal, Purdue University, Indianapreme Judicial Court, m which capacity he served until his University, and graduated from Valparaiso University inretirement on October 1, 1937; died in Pittsfield, Mass., on 1930; learned the carpentry and cement trades; taught de- partmental work and coached athletics in Indiana highOctober 14, 1943; interment in Pittsfield Cemetery. schools 1913-1948; member of the State house of representa- CROSS, Edward, a Representative from Arkansas; born in tives 1939-1943; served in the State senate 1943-1947; fruitHawkins City, Tenn., November 11, 1798; attended the grower near Logansport, hid., 1924-1947; unsuccessful forpublic schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar and the Democratic nomination in 1946 to the Eightieth Con-practiced; moved to Arkansas in 1826; appointed May 26, gress; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first Congress1830, United States judge for the Territory of Arkrnsas; (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1951); unsuccessful candidateserved as United States surveyor general for Arkansas from for reelection in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress and forApril 30, 1836, until September 1, 1838; elected as a Demo- election in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress; farmer, horti-crat to the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty- culturist, and sheep raiser; was a resident of Macy, md., eighth Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1845); chairman, until his death in Rochester, md., on October 23, 1981. Committee on Private Land Claims (Twenty-eighth Con- CROOKE, Philip Schuyler, a Representative from Newgress); was not a candidate for renomination; judge of the York; born in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., March 2, 1810; was grad-State supreme court from July 1845 to 1855; president of the uated from Dutchess Academy in Poughkeepsie; studied law;Cairo & Fulton (later the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & South- was admitted to the bar in 1831 and commenced practice inern) Railway 1855-1862; appointed attorney general of Ar- Brooklyn, N.Y.; moved to Flatbush in 1838; member of thekansas in 1874; died at his country residence, "Marlbrook," Board of Supervisors of Kings County 1844-1852 and 1858-near Washington, Hempstead County, Ark., April 6, 1887; 1870, and chairman of the board in 1861, 1862, 1864, andinterment on his estate. 1865; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1852; Bibliography: DAB. elected a member of the general assembly as a Republican CROSS, Oliver Harlan, a Representative from Texas; born in 1863; served forty years in the National Guard of thein Eutaw, Greene County, Ala., July 13, 1868; attended the State of New York, from private to brigadier general, andpublic schools and was graduated from the University of during the Civil War commanded the Fifth Brigade, Nation-Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1891; teacher in the public schools al Guard, in Pennsylvania in June and July 1863; elected asat Union Springs, Ala., in 1891 and 1892; studied law; was a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination inDeming, N.Mex.; moved to McGregor, Tex., in 1894 and con- 1874; resumed the practice of law; died in Flatbush, N.Y.,tinued the practice of law; served as city attorney of McGre- March 17, 1881; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brook-gor in 1895 and 1896; moved to Waco, Tex., in 1896 and lyn, N.Y. continued the practice of law; assistant attorney of McLen- CROSBY, Charles Noel, a Representative from Pennsylva-nan County 1898-1902; member of the State house of repre-- nia; born September 29, 1876, in a farming settlementsentatives in 1900; district attorney of McLennan County named Cherry Valley, near Andover, Ashtabula County,1902-1906; retired from law practice in 1917 and assumed Ohio; attended preparatory schools, New Lyme (Ohio) Insti-agricultural pursuits; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy- tute, and Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa.; was graduatedfirst and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1929- from Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1897;January 3, 1937); was not a candidate for renomination in moved to Linesville, Pa., in 1901, engaging in the manufac-1936; engaged in agricultural pursuits and in real-estate ac- ture of silos and in the lumber business; engaged in agricul-tivities; died in Waco, Tex., April 24, 1960; interment in tural pursuits in 1914; member of the Linesville and Mead-Hearne Cemetery, Hearne, Tex. vile (Pa.) Boards of Education 1920-1929; president of the CROSSER, Robert, a Representative from Ohio; born in Meadville Chamber of Commerce 1922-1924; elected as aHolytown, Lanarkshire, Scotland, June 7, 1874; immigrated Democrat to the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, and Seventy-to the United States in 1881 with his parents and settled in fifth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1939); unsuccess-Cleveland, Ohio; moved to Salineville, Ohio, the same year ful candidate for renomination in 1938; moved to Montgom-and attended the public schools; was graduated from Kenyon ery County, Md., in 1940 and operated a large dairy farmCollege, Gambier, Ohio, in 1897; studied law at Columbia near Clarksburg; died in Frederick, Md., January 26, 1951;University in New York City and was graduated from Cin- interment in Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, Va.cinnati Law School in 1901; was admitted to the bar in 1901 CROSBY, John Crawford, a Representative from Massa-and commenced practice in Cleveland, Ohio; taught law at chusetts; born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., onBaldwin-Wallace Law School in 1904 and 1905; member of June 15, 1859; attended the public schools of Pittsfield; wasthe State house of representatives in 1911 and 1912; member graduated from Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie,of the fourth constitutional convention in 1912; elected as a N.Y., and from Boston University Law School, Boston,Democrat to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Mass.; was admitted to the bar in 1882 and commencedCongresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1919); chairman, Com- practice in Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Mass.; member ofmittee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce the school committee of Pittsfield 1884-1890; served in the(Sixty-fifth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomina- State house of representatives in 1886 and 1887; member oftion in 1918 and for election in 1920; elected to the Sixty- the State senate in 1888 and 1889; director of a bank and ofeighth and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (March 4, fire and life insurance companies; elected as a Democrat to1923-Jsnuary 3, 1955); chairman, Committee on Interstate the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); and Foreign Commerce (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Con-