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912 Biographical Directory to California in 1877 and established a wholesale fruit and D commission business; was a member of the National Guard of California, and subsequently assisted in the organization DADDARIO, Emilio Quincy, a Representative from of the Coast Guard, of which he later became brigadier Connecticut; born in Newton Center, Suffolk County, Mass., general in command of the Second Brigade; elected as a September 24, 1918; attended the public schools in Boston, Republican to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891- Mass., Tilton (N.H.) Academy, and Newton (Mass.) Country March 3, 1893); declined to be a candidate for renomination Day School; graduated from Wesleyan University, Middle- in 1892; in 1894 settled in New York City, where he became town, Conn., in 1939; attended Boston University Law interested in the automobile industry; retired to Westport, School 1939-1941; transferred to University of Connecticut N.Y., in 1907; died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November and graduated in 1942; was admitted to the bar in Con- 24, 1911; interment in Hillside Cemetery, Westport, N.Y. necticut and Massachusetts in 1942 and commenced the practice of law in Middletown, Conn.; in February 1943 en- CUTTS, Charles, a Senator from New Hampshire; born listed as a private in the United States Army; assigned in Portsmouth, N.H., January 31, 1769; graduated from Har- to the Office of Strategic Services at Fort Meade, Md.; served vard University in 1789; studied law; admitted to the bar overseas in the Mediterranean Theater; was separated from in 1795 and practiced; member, State house of representa- the service as a captain in September 1945; awarded the tives 1803-1810, serving as speaker in 1807, 1808, and 1810; United States Legion of Merit and Italian Medaglia elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate to fill d’Argento medals; member of the Connecticut National the vacancy caused by the resignation of Nahum Parker Guard; mayor of Middletown, Conn., 1946-1948; appointed and served from June 21, 1810, to March 3, 1813; subse- judge of the Middletown Municipal Court and served from quently appointed to fill the vacancy occurring at the close 1948 to 1950 when he was called into active service with of his term and served from April 2, 1813, to June 10, the Forty-third Division of the Connecticut National Guard 1813, when a successor was elected; elected secretary of during the Korean conflict; served as a major with the Far the United States Senate and served from October 12, 1814, East Liaison Group in Korea and Japan until separated to December 12, 1825; moved to Fairfax County, Va., and from the service as a major in 1952; resumed the practice settled near Lewinsville, Va., where he died January 25, of law in Hartford, Conn.; elected as a Democrat to the 1846; interment in a private cemetery near Lewinsville, Eighty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January Fairfax County, Va. 3, 1959-January 3, 1971); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-second Congress in 1970; unsuccessful can- CUTTS, Marsena Edgar, a Representative from Iowa; didate for Governor of Connecticut in 1970; Director, Office born in Orwell, Addison County, Vt., May 22, 1833; attended of Technology Assessment, 1973-1977; president, American the common schools of his native village and St. Lawrence Association for the Advancement of Science, 1977-1978; co- Academy, Potsdam, N.Y.; moved to Sheboygan Falls, Wis., chair, American Bar Association, Association for the Ad- in 1853; taught school for two years, at the same time study- vancement of Sciences, Conference of Lawyers and Sci- ing law; moved to Oskaloosa, Iowa, in June 1855 and com- entists, 1979-1989; is a resident of Washington, D.C. pleted his law studies; was admitted to the bar in August and commenced practice in Montezuma, Iowa; prosecuting DAGGETT, David, a Senator from Connecticut; born in attorney of Poweshiek County in 1857 and 1858; member Attleboro, Mass., December 31, 1764; pursued preparatory of the State house of representatives at the extra session studies and graduated from Yale College in 1783; taught in May 1861; served in the State senate from January 1864 in a private school and also in the Hopkins Grammar School; until August 1866, when he resigned and returned to studied law; admitted to the bar in 1786 and commenced Oskaloosa; again a member of the State house of representa- practice in New Haven, Conn.; member, State house of rep- resentatives 1791-1796, and served as speaker 1794-1796; tives 1870-1872; attorney general of Iowa 1872-1877; pre- member, State council or upper house 1797; member, State sented credentials as a Republican Member-elect to the house of representatives 1805; again served in the State Forty-seventh Congress and served from March 4, 1881, to council 1809-1813; State’s attorney for New Haven County March 3, 1883 (the closing day of Congress), when he was 1811-1813; elected as a Federalist to the United States Sen- succeeded by John C. Cook, who contested the election; elect- ate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Chauncey ed to the Forty-eighth Congress and served from March Goodrich and served from May 13, 1813, to March 3, 1819; 4, 1883, until his death in Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, was not a candidate for reelection; resumed the practice Iowa, on September 1, 1883, before the assembling of the of law; associate instructor in the New Haven Law School Congress; interment in Forest Cemetery. in 1824; appointed in 1826 to the Kent professorship of CUTTS, Richard, a Representative from Massachusetts; law in Yale College, in which capacity he served until 1848; born on Cutts Island, Saco, Mass. (now Maine), June 28, judge of the State supreme court 1826-1832, and then served 1771; attended rural and private schools; was graduated as chief judge until 1834; mayor of New Haven in 1828; from Harvard University in 1790; studied law; engaged ex- retired from public life; died in New Haven, Conn., on April tensively in navigation and commercial pursuits; member 12, 1851; interment in Grove Street Cemetery. Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography. of the State house of representatives in 1799 and 1800; elected as a Republican to the Seventh and the five suc- DAGGETT, Rollin Mallory, a Representative from Ne- ceeding Congresses (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1813); was an vada; born in Richville, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., February unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1812 to the Thir- 22, 1831; moved with his father to northwestern Ohio in teenth Congress; appointed superintendent general of mili- 1837; attended school in Defiance, where he also learned tary supplies and served from 1813 to 1817; appointed Sec- the printing business; crossed the plains to the Pacific coast ond Comptroller of the United States Treasury on March in 1849; followed mining until 1852, and in that year started 6, 1817, and served in this capacity until March 21, 1829; the Golden Era at San Francisco; with others established died in Washington, D.C., April 7, 1845; interment in St. the San Francisco Mirror in 1860, and united it with the John’s Graveyard; reinterment in Oak Hill Cemetery in San Francisco Herald; moved to Nevada in 1862 and settled 1857. in Virginia City; elected a member of the Territorial council Biographies 913 in 1863; became connected editorially in 1864 with the Terri- served as attorney for the State comptroller in 1911 and torial Enterprise; clerk of the United States district court 1912; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, 1867-1876; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth Con- and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, gress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); unsuccessful candidate to January 6, 1919, when he resigned having been appointed for reelection in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; ap- judge of the magistrate’s court in 1919; reappointed in 1929 pointed Minister Resident to Hawaii July 1, 1882, and and served from January 7, 1919, to July 21, 1931; ap- served until April 10, 1885, when he resigned; engaged in pointed judge for the court of special sessions on July 22, editorial work in San Francisco, Calif., until his death there 1931, and served until his death in Bellmore, Nassau Coun- November 12, 1901; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery. ty, N.Y., on November 17, 1935; remains were cremated Bibliography: Weisenburger, Francis Phelps. Idol of the West; The Fab- and the ashes deposited in Fresh Pond Road Crematory, ulous Career of Rollin Mallory Daggett. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univer- Brooklyn, N.Y. sity Press, 1965. DALE, Porter Hinman, a Representative and a Senator DAGUE, Paul Bartram, a Representative from Pennsyl- from Vermont; born in Island Pond, Essex County, Vt., vania; born in Whitford, Chester County, Pa., May 19, 1898; March 1, 1867; attended the public schools and Eastman attended the public schools; took special studies at West Business College; studied in Philadelphia and Boston and Chester State Teachers College and studied electrical engi- spent two years in study with a Shakespearean scholar and neering at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, Pa.; United States actor; taught school in Green Mountain Seminary, Water- Marine Corps, First World War, 1918-1919; assistant super- bury, Vt., and Bates College, Lewiston, Maine; studied law; intendent of the Pennsylvania Department of Highways, admitted to the bar in 1896 and commenced practice at 1925-1935; deputy sheriff, Chester County, Pa., 1936-1943; Island Pond; chief deputy collector of customs at Island