Biographies 2097 renomination; was appointed a commissioner to adjust the Hanover County, N.C.; clerk of a court of equity 1858-1861; claims of the Choctaw Indians in 1837; elected as a Demo- delegate to the Constitutional Union National Convention crat to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-March at Baltimore in 1860; engaged in newspaper work; edited 3, 1841); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Wilmington Daily Herald in 1860 and 1861; served as the Twenty-seventh Congress; moved to Trenton, N.J., and lieutenant colonel of the Third Cavalry, Forty-first North resumed the practice of law; delegate to the State constitu- Carolina Regiment, during the Civil War; elected as a Demo- tional convention in 1844; appointed chief justice of the su- crat to the Forty-second and to the three succeeding Con- preme court of New Jersey in 1853, but declined; appointed gresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1879); chairman, Com- Minister to Prussia on May 24, 1853, and served until Au- mittee on Post Office and Post Roads (Forty-fifth Congress); gust 10, 1857; again resumed the practice of law; delegate unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1878 to the Forty- to the peace convention held in Washington, D.C., in 1861 sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law and also en- in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; gaged in literary pursuits; editor of the Charlotte Journal- reporter of the supreme court of New Jersey 1862-1872; Observer in 1881 and 1882; delegate to the Democratic Na- commissioner of the sinking fund of New Jersey from 1864 tional Conventions in 1880 and 1896; mayor of Wilmington until his death; died in Trenton, N.J., November 18, 1873; 1898-1904; died in Wilmington, N.C., March 17, 1912; inter- interment in the cemetery of the First Reformed Dutch ment in Oakdale Cemetery. Church, Somerville, N.J. WADDILL, Edmund, Jr., a Representative from Vir- VUCANOVICH, Barbara Farrell, a Representative from ginia; born in Charles City County, Va., May 22, 1855; edu- Nevada; born Barbara Farrell in Camp Dix, New Jersey, cated by private tutors and attended Norwood Academy; June 22, 1921; attended Miss Quinn’s School, Albany, N.Y.; deputy clerk of the courts of Charles City, New Kent, Han- graduated from Albany Academy for Girls, Albany, N.Y., over, and Henrico Counties and of the circuit court of the 1938; attended, Manhattan College of Sacred Heart, New city of Richmond; studied law privately and in the Univer- York, N.Y., 1938-1939; businesswoman; staff, United States sity of Virginia at Charlottesville; was admitted to the bar Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, 1974-1982; delegate, Repub- in 1877 and commenced the practice of law in Richmond lican National Convention, 1976 and 1980; elected as a Re- in 1878; judge of the Henrico County Court in 1880; resigned publican to the Ninety-eighth and to the six succeeding Con- in 1883 to accept the position of United States attorney gresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1997); not a candidate for the eastern district of Virginia, which position he held for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress in 1996; until 1885; member of the State house of delegates from member of the White House Commission to Select White 1886 to March 4, 1889, when he resigned; unsuccessful Re- House Fellows, 2002. publican candidate for election in 1886 to the Fiftieth Con- gress; successfully contested as a Republican the election VURSELL, Charles Wesley (cousin of Carl Bert Albert), of George D. Wise to the Fifty-first Congress and served a Representative from Illinois; born in Salem, Marion Coun- from April 12, 1890, to March 3, 1891; was not a candidate ty, Ill., February 8, 1881; attended the public schools of for renomination in 1890; resumed the practice of law in Marion County, Ill.; hardware merchant in 1904; sheriff of Richmond, Va.; delegate to the Republican National Conven- Marion County 1910-1914; member of the State house of tions in 1892 and 1896; appointed judge of the District Court representatives 1914-1916; owner and publisher of the of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia Salem Republican 1916-1948; elected as a Republican to the March 22, 1908, and served until June 2, 1921, when he Seventy-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (Jan- was appointed as judge of the United States Circuit Court uary 3, 1943-January 3, 1959); unsuccessful candidate for of Appeals for the fourth circuit and was presiding judge reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress; retired and at the time of his death in Richmond, Va., April 9, 1931; resided in Salem, Ill., where he died September 21, 1974; interment in Hollywood Cemetery. interment in East Lawn Cemetery. WADDILL, James Richard, a Representative from Mis- souri; born in Springfield, Greene County, Mo., November W 22, 1842; attended private schools and Springfield College; during the Civil War enlisted as a private in the Union WACHTER, Frank Charles, a Representative from Army and served from 1861 to 1863, when he resigned, Maryland; born in Baltimore, Md., September 16, 1861; at- having attained the rank of first lieutenant; studied law; tended private schools and St. Paul’s Evangelical School at was admitted to the bar in 1864 and commenced practice Baltimore, Md.; learned the trade of clothing cutter and in Springfield, Mo.; prosecuting attorney of Greene County in 1892 engaged in the cloth-shrinking business; member 1874-1876; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Con- of the jail board of Baltimore 1896-1898; unsuccessful can- gress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); resumed the practice didate for police commissioner of Baltimore in 1898; elected of law and also engaged in mining operations near Joplin, as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to the three suc- Mo.; died in Deming, Luna County, N.Mex., June 14, 1917; ceeding Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1907); was not interment in Mountain View Cemetery. a candidate for renomination in 1906; resumed his former business pursuits in Baltimore; member of the board of man- WADE, Benjamin Franklin (brother of Edward Wade), agers of Maryland Penitentiary from 1909 until his death a Senator from Ohio; born in Feeding Hills, near Springfield, in Baltimore, Md., on July 1, 1910; interment in Loudon Hampden County, Mass., October 27, 1800; received his Park Cemetery. early education from his mother; moved with his parents to Andover, Ohio, in 1821; taught school; studied medicine WADDELL, Alfred Moore, a Representative from North in Albany, N.Y., 1823-1825; returned to Ohio; studied law; Carolina; born in Hillsboro, Orange County, N.C., September admitted to the bar in 1828 and commenced practice in 16, 1834; attended Bingham’s School and Caldwell Institute Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of in Hillsboro; was graduated from the University of North Ashtabula County 1835-1837; member, State senate 1837- Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1853; studied law; was admitted 1838, 1841-1842; judge of the third judicial court of Ohio to the bar in 1855 and began practice in Wilmington, New 1847-1851; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate 2098 Biographical Directory to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1851, again engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Springfield, caused by the failure of the legislature to elect; reelected Greene County, Mo., January 13, 1911; interment in Maple as a Republican in 1856 and 1863 and served from March Park Cemetery. 15, 1851, to March 3, 1869; unsuccessful candidate for re- nomination in 1868; served as President pro tempore of the WADLEIGH, Bainbridge, a Senator from New Hamp- Senate during the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses; shire; born in Bradford, Merrimack County, N.H., January chairman, Committee on Territories (Thirty-seventh, Thirty- 4, 1831; attended the common schools and Kimball Union eighth, and Thirty-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful Repub- Academy, Plainfield, N.H.; studied law; admitted to the bar lican candidate for the vice presidential nomination in 1868; in 1850 and commenced practice in Milford, Hillsborough resumed the practice of law in Jefferson, Ohio, in 1869; County, N.H.; served six terms as town moderator; member, appointed a government director of the Union Pacific Rail- State house of representatives 1855-1856, 1859-1860, 1869- road; member of the Santo Domingo Commission in 1871; 1872; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate died in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio, on March 2, and served from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1879; unsuc- 1878; interment in Oakdale Cemetery. cessful candidate for reelection in 1878; chairman, Com- Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- mittee on Patents (Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses), ography; Shover, Kenneth. ‘‘The Life of Benjamin F. Wade.’’ Ph.D. dis- Committee on Privileges and Elections (Forty-fifth Con- sertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1962; Trefousse, Hans L. Ben- gress); resumed the practice of law in Boston, Mass., where jamin Franklin Wade: Radical Republican from Ohio. New York: Twayne he died January 24, 1891; interment in West Street Ceme- Publishers, 1963. tery, Milford, N.H. WADE, Edward (brother of Benjamin Franklin Wade), WADSWORTH, James, a Delegate from Connecticut; a Representative from Ohio; born in West Springfield, born in Durham, Middlesex County, Conn., July 8, 1730; Hampden County, Mass., November 22, 1802; received a received a thorough English training and was graduated limited schooling; moved to Andover, Ashtabula