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vention that passed the ordinance of seces-
sion in 1851, and was also member of the
provisional Confederate Congress that SUBJ
sequently met the same year at Montgom-
cry, Ala. He served in both the House
and the Senate of the Confederate Con-
gress, being in the Senate when the war
closed. He was elected from Arkansas to
the United States Senate March, 4, 1857,
but was not admitted to his seat. He
made the test-oath case as to lawyers in the
Supreme Court of the United States and
gained it. He practised law at Little Rock
| with success till 1874, when he was elected
Governor of Askansas without opposition,
and at the expiration of his term was elect
ed to the United States Senate, again hav-
lug no opposition, and succeeded Powell
Clayton. He has taken high rank as law
yer from the day he entered the Senate,
and has for some timc been a member of
the Judiciary Committee He is Of me-
dunn hight and speaks with clearness, de-
liberation and force. His wife died soon
| after he was elected to the Senate, and
he has since remained a wi lower.
WIN. c. ENDIcoTT.
William Crowninshield Endicott, Mr..
Cleveland's Secretary of War, was born in
Salem in 1897, and is the son of William
Putnam Endicott and Mary, daughter of
Hon. Jacob Crowninshield, who was Re-
preventative to Congress. He attended the
Salem schools, and was graduated from
Harvard College in the class of 1s47. He
married his cousin, daughter of George
Peabody, and has two children, son and
a daughter. Judge Endicott studied at
Harvard Law School, and read law in the
office of the late Nathaniel J. Lord. He
was admitted to the Bar about 1850 and a
few years later formed a partnership with
the late ]. W. Perry and continued with
him until his appointment by Gov. WASH
burne to seat on the Supreme Bench in
1878. This position he held until 1882,
when he resigned on account of his health.
In 1882 he made an extended tour Of the
continent. He was a member of the Salem
Common Council in 1852, 1858 and 1857,
when he was elected President of that board.
He was City Solicitor from 1858 to 1868. He
is member of the Historical Society and
of the Board of Overseers of Harvard Col
lege. The coming Secretary of War is q
direct descendant from Gov-John Endicott.
Politically, Mr.. Endicott is of Wing antece-
dents, his afflliation with the Democratic
party dating from the Bell-Everett cam
paign of 1850, but he has never been an ac-
tive politician. Last fall, it may be recall
ed, he was the candidate of his party for
Governor in the State, but did not himself
appear in the canvass, and received a com.
paratively small VOTE As lawyer and Q
Judge Mr.. Endicott holds high rank, and
personally he is gentleman of the highest
character The object of the appointment
is manifestly to crafty the independent al
lies of the Democracy, and may be accept
ed as an indication Of Mr.. Cleveland's pur'
pose to mako them, if possible, permanent
supporters of himself and his party. The
rank and file of the regular Democracy ap-
pear to aequiesce in that idea, as a shrewd
and polite thing TO do, though there are un-
questisnably dozen leading New England
Democrats the selection of any one of whom
for the Cabinet they would have hailed with
warmer and more sincere satisfaction.
| WILLIAM =. Villas.
| Mr.. Villas was born at Chelsea, Orange
County, VT, July 8, 1910. When he was
eleven years old he went to Wisconsin,
where, a few months after, he was entered
pupil of the preparatory department of the
University of that State. In 1858 he matric-
ulated in the freshman class of that insti.
tuition, and was graduated there in 1861
After taking his academical degree, he
studied law in Albany, N. Y, and was
graduated from the law school of that city
in 1860. After his admission to the Supreme
Court of New York he removed to Wis
consin, where, on his birthday, July 9, 1850,
he made his first argument before the Su-
pIeme Court of that State. In the same
year, 1860, he became partner with Charles
T. Wakeley, a lawyer of good standing
| Upon the outbreak Of the war Mr.. Villas
entered the army as captain in the Twenty
third Wisconsin Volunteers, and rose to be
Major and Leutenant-C Colonel. He resign
ed his commission and resumed the practice
of the law Jan. 1, 1864. In 1872 Gen. G.. F.
| Bryant joined him in partnership, and in
1877 his brother, E. P. Villas, also became
| a partner in the firm. The Supreme Court
of Wisconsin appointed Col. Villas one
of the revisors of the State in 1875, and the
revision of 1878, adopted by the State, was
partly made by him. In 1879 Mr.. Villas
refused the use of his name as a candidate
for the Governor of Wisconsin. He has
persistently declined office, but went to
Chicago as a delegate to the convention OF
1884, which honored him with its permanent
chairman ship.
| WILLIAM G. WHITNEY.
| William Collins Whitney, who has been
appointed Secretary of the Navy, is q
native of Conway, Mass, and was born In
1889. His father, Gen. James S. Whitney,
who had been Collector of the Port of Bos-
ton, delegate to the Charleston Conven-
tion in 1860, and prominent among the
great Democrats of that State, was regard
ed as one of the leaders of the party. The
latter died in 1878 during the exciting con-
test against Benjamin F. Butler. After
being graduated at Wilson Seminary at East
Hampton, William G. Whitney entered
Yale College 1852 With William G. Sum.
ner, the we'll known writer and teacher up
on Political Economy, who was his class
mate, Mr.. Whitney divided the prize for
English Essays. He was chosen to deliver
the Grafton of his class on graduation. En-
terlng the Harvard Law School, he was
graduated in 1855, and continued his studies
| in N. Y. with Abraham r. Lawrence,
now one ofthe Judges ofthe Supreme Court.
On his admission to the bar he began the
practice of his profession, which he has since