The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-29
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Newly Elects senators.


Newly Elects senators.
With the exception on Roscoe Couk
ling, Of New York, and Simon Came
ron, of Pennsylvania, all the recentl,
elected United States Senators are mel
new to the Senatorial arena. We fol.
low with Q brief sketch of the success
full competitors. b.
Roscoe Conkling, reelected to thu
United States Senate from this State FOL
the long term, is q native OF Albany
He was born in the year 1929. He re
ceived an academic training, and sub.
sequently entered upon the study Of law
and in due time commenced the prac-
tice Of that profession. In 1916 he re-
moved to Utica, Of which city he is now
q resident when at home. He served
ss District Attorney for Oneida county
in 1850, and was elected Mayor Of Utica
in 1858. Mr.. Conkling has served as
Representative from his district in the
Thirty.siIth, Thirty-seventh and Thir,
ty-ninth Congresses. He was reelected
as Representative in the Fortieth Con.
gress, but having been Immediately at.
.terward elected United States Senator
from this State as q Union Republican,
to succeed Senator Ira Harris, Republic
can, be took his seat in the Senate in
March, 1857. His present term Of ser,
vice will expire the coming March.
Simon Cameron, who, like Mr. Conk
ling, is bis own successor to his seat
in the Senate, was horn in Lam
caster county, Pennsylvania, in 1899
As a journeyman printer he worked
In Washington city at an early perio
OF his career, and subsequently edited
newspapers at Doylestown and Harris.
burg, in his native State. Later he
became actively interested in large rail-
road and banking Observation-Disclosures
which he has retained up to the pres
en-, time in connection with the Penn
sylyania Central Railroad. At the
breaking out OF the war in 1861, Mr.
Cameron was appointed by Lincoln
Secretary OF War. In 1862 he was
appointed to the Russian Mission, and
resigned his Secretaryship. Mr.. Cam
eron has had a large experience in the
United States Senate. He was first elect
ed to that body 10 lS45, serving until
l849, and in 1867 he was reelected for
the term ending 1878 In 1861 he re-
signed to assume the duties Of Secretary
of War, and on his return from Russia
WAS again elected to succeed Senator
Cowan. a Democrat, and took his seat
in 1867. His present term of service
will expire next March. He has been
re- elected tor the long term.
Of w. J. Jones. Republican, who
succeeds Senator Nye. as Senator from
Nevada, little is known. When elected
10 the Senate recently by the Legisla-
ture of that State, it was stated that he
was railroad Spectator, and had ex-
tensive interests in that branch of in
dusrry in Nevada. He is elected for
the long term
General John B. Gordon, announced
this morning by telegraph as having
been elected Senator for the long term
from Georgia, is, we believe, a native
of that State. He is about forty-fve
years Of age, and during the civil war
earned distinction az corps comman.
der on the Confederate SIDE. Although
not elected to any office, he has given
wise political counsels to the people OF
his State on several occasions Pro-
fessioually he has been connected with
insurance matters as President OF an
insurance company In the late Presi-
Dental canvass General Gordon was a
warm supporter OF Greeley and Brown.
john j. Patterson is the recently
elected Senator for the long term from
South Carolina, succeeding Senator
Sawyer, a carpet-bagger. He is from
PENNSYLVANIA, and is thus equally a
carpet.bagger himself. He is said to
be a nephew of Simon Cameron.
General w. L. Mcmillan, elected q
few days ago to the Senate from Louisi-
ana by the Peoples or McEnery Legis'
iature $50 called in contradistinction to
the Kellogg or usurping Legislature Of
that State J, is q native Of Ohio. Dur
ing the late war he served in the Union
armies OF the Potomac and of the Ten
nessee After the close of the war he
removed to Louisiana and engaged IN
planting. In his politics he was al
ways q Republican, and has acted with
that party since his residence in Louisi'
ana. In the last election in that State
he was elected a State Senator, and
when the complications between the
two Legislatures arose he acted with
the Peoples Legislature, BY which
body he has been sent to the Senate.
General McMillsn's term expires on
March g. 1873
John Ray, Who was elected to the
Senateby the kellogg Legislature and
who 10 q claimant for the seat held by
General Mcmillan, was born in Mis-
souri,. About the year 1888 be settled
in Louisiana, and has since prscticed
there the profession Of the law. He
has at various times been active in State
politics, having several times been
elected to the Louisisps Legislature
In 1859 he ran 40 Know Nothing
candidate for Lieutenant Governor, but
was defeated. He was a Union man
during the war and remained at home,
Throughout all the party vicissitudes
Of the war he has been Republican.
His alleged term expires in March
next
Louis v. Bogy. Senator elect from