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was admitted to the bar in 1928, and held the
various positions of Justice of the Peace, Prose-
cutting Attorney for Ashtabula county, State
Senator. and President Of a Judicial Circuit.
In 1851 he was elected Senator ia Congress
from Ohio for the term ending in 1857 aud he
was reelected for second and third term,
ending in 1869, serving as Chairman of the
Committee on Territories, ana OF the special
committee on the Conduct of the War; and as a
member of the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions and on the District of Columbia. He was
also delegate TO the Philadelphia Loyaiists'
Convention of 1866.
CHARLES SUMNER.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts,,
January 6, 1911; graduated at Harvard College
in 1880; spent the three following years at the
Cambridge Law School; had the editorial
ch arge for three years of the American Juytst,
was admitted to the bar in 1884, and settled In
Boston; was subsequently the reporter of the
United States Circuit Court, and published three
volumes, which now bear his name; was for
three winters teacher at the Cam bridge Law
School, soon afterwards edited "Dunlap's
Treatise on Admiralty Practice" and about this
time declined protessorship rendered to him
BY his Alma Mater. In 1887 he visited Europe,
was received with marked attention in England,
and remained abroad until l840 During the
years l844-A6 he produced an edition OF
'Vesey's Reports" in twenty volumes; from
that time onward he frequently appeared in
puollc as speaker on various ohilanthroplc
and literary subjects and two volumes of his
oratIons were published in 1850
from Massachusetts,. In 1866, TOR words uttered
in debate on the subject of slavery, he was
assaulted at his desk in the Senate Chamber by
Preston Brooks, Representative from South
Carolina, from the effects OF which his health
suffered, and he again visited Europe, having
been, just before his departure, elected for a
second term to the Senate, In 1853 he pub
lished a work on "White Slavery in the Barbary
/ States,n and in 1856 volume of speeches and
addresses In 1868 he was reelected to the
Senate for the third term, ending in 1869,
serving as Chairman of the Committee on For
| eign Relations, and on several other important
committees, and was also member of the
national committee appointed to accompany the
remains of President Lincoln to Illinois. He
was also delegate to the Philadelphia Loyal
| ists' ConveRtion of 1866.
LYMAN TRUMBULL.
He was born in Colchester, Conn.,, in 1913; re-
ceIved good education; adopted the profession
| of law, removed to Illinois and became mem
Der OF the Legislature of that State in 1910; was
| Secretary of State in lS41 and 1872; Justice of
| the Supreme Court of Illinois from l848 to 1858;
was elected Representative from Illinois to the
| Thirty fourth Congress, and was elected Sena-
tor in Congress for the term commencing in
1856 and ending In 1861; serving as Chairman of
the Committee on the Judiciary, and as mem
| Der of the Committees on Public Buildings and
Grounds, and Indian Affairs, and was reelected
for the term ending in 1857 In 1864 he was
appointed Regent of the Smithsonian Insttu-
tiOn; was delegate to the Philadelphia Loyal-
ists Convention OF 1866, and in January, 1867,
States Senate for the term ending in 1873.
WILLIAM PITT FEssENDEN.
He was born at Boscawen, New Hampshire,
October l6, 1906; graduated at Bowdon College
in 1923; studied law, and was admitted to
| practice in Portland in 1927, where he has con-
tinued to practice to the present time; was a
member of the Maine Legislature in 1882 and
reelected in 1910; was a Representative in Con-
gIess from lS4l to l943, declining further SER
vice; was again in the Legislature in l845 and
l846, and reelected in 1858 and 1854 and was
elected Senator in Congress for six years from
March, 1858, serving as member of the Com
mittee on Finance, andH in 1859 was reelected
for term OF six years, serving as Chairman of
J the Committee on Finance, on the Library Com
mittee, and also as Regent of the Smithsonian
Institution. He was also Chairman of the
Special Joint Committee on Reconstruction. He
was member, in 1S42, OF the convention which
nominated Henry Clay for President and
also OF the conventions that nominated Generals
Taylor and Scott During the summer OF 1858
the degree OF LII. d. was conferred upon him
by Bowdoin College, of which institution he
Is trustee. He was also member of the Peace
pointed by President Lincoln Secretary of the
Treasury in the place of S. P. Chase, resigned,
| and soon afterwards received from Howard
University the degree of Ii. D. In 1864 he
was reelected Senator in Congress for the
term commencing IN 1865 and ending in 1871
He resigned his seat in the Cabinet and again
took his seat in the Senate March L. 1865, and
was again placed at the head of the COMMITTEES
on Finance. At the succeeding session of Con
gress he was made Chairman of the Special
| Joint Committee on Reconstruction (so-called)
and was the author of the report of that COM
mlttee recommending an amendment to the
! Constitution.
SIMON CAMERON.
He was born in Lancaster county PennsvI.
Vania, in 1893, and was left an orphan when
only nine years of age. He educated himself
| while pursuing the employment of a printer in
newspaper offices at Harrisburg and in Wash
ington city, and when twenty-five years of age
eaited and published Democratic journal in
the former city, having previously had charge
| OF paper, the Pennsylvania I7lteligencer at
| Doylestown, Pennsylvania. In 1882 he established
the Mlddletown Bank, and devoted much of his
attention to the railroad interests of his native
etate; and before entering Congress, he was
cashier of bank, President of two railroad
companies, and Adutant-General of the State.
de was first elected a Senator In Congress in
lS45, where he served until l849 and was re.
elected to the same position in 1857 for the
term ending in 1863 but resigned in 1861 He
was spoken of in 1860 as one OF the candi-
dates for the Presidency; and in 1861 he be-
came Secretary of War under President Lin
pointed Minister to Russia In 1862. He was
also delegate to the Baltimore Convention of
1864, and to the Philadelphia "Loyalists Con-
Vention" of 1866 and IN January, 1867 he was
again chosen a Senator in Congress from Penn.
sYlyania for the term ending 1873
ALEXANDER @. CATFELL
He was born in Salem New Jersey, February
IL, 1916; was educated at the village school;
| spent q part of his youth as a clerk in his
tatneT's store; was elected in 1910 to the State
| Legislatures from 1912 TO 1874 he was Clerk of
the General Assembly, and in the latter year he
was member of the State Constitutional Con-