The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-20 00:00:00

MANAGERS OF IMPEACHMENT.

JOHN A. BINGHAM, of Cadiz, Ohio, was born at Mercer,
Pennsylvania,inlBls;received an academic education; passed
two years in a printing office ; was a student of Franklin
College, Ohio ; was admitted to the bar in 1840 ; was dis-
trict-attorney for Tucarawas County, Ohio, from 1846
until 1849 ; was Chairman of the Managers of the House
in the impeachment of Judge Humphreys, impeached of
high treason iu 1863 ; was appointed by Mr. Lincoln
United States District Judge for the southern district of
Florida, when he declined; was appointed Judge Advo
cate in the Union army in 1864, and later iu that year was
appointed solicitor of the Court Claims ; was Special
Judge Advocate in the trial of the assassination conspira-
tors in 1865 ; was elected to the 31th, 35th, 36th, 37th,
and 39th Congress, and was re-elected to the 40th Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 13,369 votes against
11,947 votes for Mitchner, Democrat.
THADDEUS STEVENs, of Lancaster, Pennsyl vania,Was born
in Caledonia County, Vermont, April 4, 1792 ; graduated at
Dartmouth College, and removed to Pennsylvania in 1814;
while teacher in an academy he studied law, and was
admitted to the bar; was a member of the State Legisla-
ture of Pennsylvania in 1833, 1831, 1835, 1837, and 1841;
was a member of the State Constitutional Convention in
1838 ; was appointed a Canal Commissioner in 1818 ; re-
moved to Lancaster, Penn., in 1818 ; was elected to the
31st, 32d, 36th, 37th, 38th, and 39th Congress, and was
re-elected to the 40th Congress as a Republican, receiv-
ing 14,298 votes against 8,675 votes for Reynolds, De-
mocrat.

GEORGE S. BOUTWELL, of Groton, Massachusetts, was
born at Brookline, Massachusetts, January 28th, 1818 ; re-
ceived a public school education ; was engaged in mercan-
tile pursuits previous to 1850, when he studied law and
commenced practice ; was a member of the Legislature
of Massachusetts in 1842, '43, '44, '47, '4B, '49, and '5O ; was
State Bank Commissioner in 1849 and 1850; was Governor
of Massachusetts in 1851, '52 ; was Secretary of the State
Board of Education of Massachusetts for five years ; was
a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College
from 1850 to 186 C ; was a member of the Peace Congress
of 1861; was the first Commissioner of Internal Revenue
in 1862 and 1863; was elected to the Thirty-eighth and
Thirty-ninth Congress, and re-elected to the Fortieth Con-
gress as a Republican, receiving 9,847 votes against 2,885
votes for Saltonstall, Democrat.

BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, of Gloucester, Mass., was born
at South Deerfield, New Hampshire, November 5, 1818;
graduated at Waterville College, Maine; studied law and
commenced its practice in Lowell, Mass. ; was a member
of the State House of Representatives in 1853; was a mem-
ber of the State Senate of Massachusetts in 1859; entered
the Union army in 1861 as Brigadier-lieneral ; was soon
promoted to the rank of Major-General, and served through
the war ; was elected to the Fortieth Congress as a Re-
publican, receiving 9,021 votes, against 2,838 votes foi
Northend, Democrat.
JOHN A. LoGAN, of Carbondale, Illinois, was born in
Jackson county, 111., whore he received a common school
education, and subsequently gradultod at tho Louisville
University; enlisted as a private in the Illinois Volun-
teers, and became quartermaster, in the war with Mexico;
was elected Clerk of the Jackson County Court iu 1819 ;
studied and practised law; was elected to the Legislature
of Illinois in 1852, '53, '56, and '57 ; was Prosecuting At-
torney from 1853 to 1837 ; was a Presidential Elector in
1856 ; was elected to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh
Congress ; resigned, and entered the Union army as
Colonel, and reached the rank of Major-General in the
late war ; was appointed Minister to Mexico in 1865, but
declined; and was elected to the Fortieth Congress as a
Republican, receiving 203,045 votes, against 147,058 for
Dickey, Democrat.

JAMES F. WILSON, of Fairfield, lowa, was born at
Newark, Ohio, October 19th, 1828 ; received an academic
education ; studied law and commenced its practice in
Iowa; was a member of the Constitutional Convention of
lowa in 1856 ; was a member of the State Legislature in
1837, '59, and '6l ; was elected to the Thirty-seventh Con-
gress for the unexpired term of S. R. Curtiss ; was re-
elected to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congress;
and to the Fortieth Congress as a Union Republican, re-
ceiving 16,406 votes, against 10,515 votes for Warren, Re-
publican.

THOMAS WILLIAMS, of Alleghany, Pennsylvania, was
born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Aug. 28
1606 ; graduated at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, in
1838; studied and practised law; was a member of the
State Senate of Pennsylvania in 1838, '69, '4O, '4l, and of
the House of Representatives of the same State in 1861,
'62 ; was elected to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth
Congress; and was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress as
a Republican, receiving 14,197 votes, against 10,012 votes
for Childs, Democrat.