district succeeded predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place jr/sr party term_end preceded birth_date term_start image article_title state name
3rd at-large benjamin h. clover '' seat eliminated '' preston b. plumb john martin 20 june 1894 rochester , ohio washington , d.c. united states senator republican march 3 , 1885 4 , 1893 march 3 , 1891 march thomas ryan stephen a. cobb 18 october 1841 january 4 , 1883 1 , 1892 march 4 , 1885 march bishop perkins.jpg bishop w. perkins
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bishop w. perkins

bishop walden perkins -lrb- october 18 , 1841june 20 , 1894 -rrb- was a united states representative and senator from kansas .
born in rochester , ohio , he attended the common schools and knox college -lrb- galesburg , illinois -rrb- .
he prospected for gold through california and new mexico from 1860 to 1862 and served four years in the union army during the civil war as sergeant , adjutant , and captain .
he studied law in ottawa , illinois and was admitted to the bar in 1867 , commencing the practice of law in princeton , indiana .
he moved to oswego , kansas and continued practice ; he was a local county attorney for the missouri , kansas & texas railroad for two years and prosecuting attorney of labette county in 1869 .
he was a judge of the probate court of labette county from 1870 to 1882 , and became editor of the `` oswego register '' in 1873 .
perkins was elected as a republican to the forty-eighth and to the three succeeding congresses , serving from march 4 , 1883 -- march 3 , 1891 .
he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the fifty-second congress , but was appointed to the u.s. senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of preston b. plumb , and served from january 1 , 1892 , to march 3 , 1893 , when a successor was elected and qualified .
he resumed the practice of his profession in washington , d.c. and died there in 1894 ; interment was in rock creek cemetery .
