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clned the office with the evident deter | imitation to withdraw from political life. 1 He had already won the attention of l Commodore Vanderbilt and the warm | friendship of his eldest son, William H. l Vanderbilt. In 1866 Mir. DepeW was ap-
 pointed the attorney for the New York | and Harlem railroad and in 1869, when 1 this company and the New York Gen.
 tral were consolidated and became the l New York Central and Hudson River
 Railroad company, with Commodore Vanderbilt at it's head, MT. DepeW was made the attorney of the new organl- zation and was afterwards elected a 1 member of the board of directors. In
 1875 he was promoted to be general
 counsel for the entire Vanderbilt sys- tenn and was elected to directorship ln 1 each of the lines comprised in it.
 In 1872 Mr. Depew was the candidate for lieutenant governor on the liberal republican or Greedy ticket, but his par ty was unsuccessful and he shared it's fate, but acted with the republican par ty the next year and has. canvassed the state and county for the patry ever since. In 1874 he was the choice of the legislature for regent of the state unl- versity In the struggle for the United States senatorship from New York i'll 1881 MT. Depew on the nineteenth ballot lacked but ten votes of an election and on the thirty-fourth ballot this record was repeated and other ballots carried him very near to the goal In 1885 the republicans of all factions in the legis- lature being in a majority of nearly two-t thirds, rendered the United States senatorship to Mr. Depew, but he had become committed to many business and professional trusts and declined the honor. Tn 1882 William H. Vanderbilt retired from the presidency of the New York Central and the management was reorganized. James H. Rutter was made president and MT. Depew second vice president. Upon the death of MT. Rutter in 1885 MT. Depew was elevated to the presidency and he held this of- flee until April 27, 1S9S when he was made chairman of the board of direc- tors of the entire Vanderbile system of railroads. He is also a director in a large number of other important cor porations.
 At the national republican convention of 1888 MT. Depew was candidate for the presidential nomination, and re- ceived the solid vote of the state of New York and on one ballot ninety nine votes were cast for him. MT. Depew was delegate at large from the state of New York to the national re- publican convention at Minneapolis in 1892 and he was reelected to present the name of President Harrison. He ole IoJa 1 L. selected by the New York delegation to present the name of Governor Morton for the presidency.
 MT. DepeW is an active member of "The Skull and Cross Bones Club" of Yale college and also the Holland soci- ety of New York and the Huguenot so- cfety of America. He was for seven years president of the Union League club of New York, term longer by several years than this distinguished position has been held by any other. On declining further election he was made an honorary life member He was for ten years in succession elected president of the Yale Alumni associa- tion. Having ended a decade of service he declined a reelection and was made an honorary member. MT. DepeW was married to Elise Hegeman on the 9th of November, 1871, and has one child, a son. Mrs. Depew died on May ', 1893. MT. Depew has been the orator on three great national and international occa- sions-the unveiling of the statue of lib- erty in New York harbor, the centen- nial celebration of the inauguration of the first president of the United States, George Washington, and the opening of the great worlds fair at Chicago, cele- brating the discovery of America by Co., lumbus, in 1892