SIXTH DISTRICT.

Counties. The cities of Gloucester, Haverhill, Newburyport, Salem, and twenty-two towns in Essex.

GEORGE BAILEY LORING, of Salem, was born at North Andover, Massachusetts, November 8, 1817; was fitted for college at Franklin Academy in that town; was graduated at Harvard University in 1838; received the degree of M. D. at the Harvard Medical College in 1842; was appointed Surgeon of the Marine Hospital at Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1843; was Surgeon of the Seventh Regiment M. V. M. in 1842, '43, and '44; was appointed Commissioner to Revise the United States Marine Hospital System in 1849; was appointed Postmaster of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1853; was a member of the Massachusetts, House of Representatives in 1866 and '67; was President of the Massachusetts Senate in 1873, '74, '75, and '76; was a Delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1868, '72, and '76; was appointed United States Centennial Commissioner for Massachusetts in 1872; and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 12,119 votes against 11,003 votes for Charles P. Thompson, Democrat. Re-elected.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-The city of Lawrence and parts of Essex, Middlesex, and Worcester Counties. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, of Lowell, was born at Deerfield, New Hampshire, November 5, 1818; graduated at Waterville College, Maine; studied law and commenced its practice in Lowell, Massachusetts; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1853, and of the Convention of the same year to revise the Constitution of Massachusetts; was a member of the State Senate of Massachusetts in 1859; entered the Union Army in 1861 as BrigadierGeneral; was soon promoted to the rank of Major-General, and served through the war for the suppression of the rebellion; was elected to the Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second, and Fortythird Congresses, and was again elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 12,100 votes against 9,379 votes for John K. Tarbox, Democrat.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Parts of Middlesex, Norfolk, and Worcester, and wards 22, 23, and 25 of the city of Boston, in Suffolk.

WILLIAM CLAFLIN, of Newton, was born at Milford, Massachusetts, March 6, 1818; was educated at the public schools and at Brown University; engaged for many years in the shoe and leather business at St. Louis, Missouri, and afterwards Boston; was a member of the State House of Representatives 1849-'52, of the State Senate 1860 and 1861, serving the last year as President of the Senate; was a member of the Republican National Executive Committee from 1864 to 1875, serving as Chairman from 1868 to 1872; was Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts 1866-'69; was Governor of Massachusetts 1870-'72; and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 14,245 votes against 12,497 votes for W. W. Warren, Democrat. Re-elected.

NINTH DISTRICT.

Counties. The city of Worcester and parts of Worcester and Norfolk Counties.

WILLIAM W. RICE, of Worcester, was born at Deerfield, Massachusetts, March 7, 1826; was fitted for college at Gorham Academy, Maine; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1846; was preceptor in Leicester Academy, Massachusetts, for four years; studied law at Worcester with Hon. Emory Washburn and Hon. George F. Hoar; was admitted to the bar and has practised since at Worcester; was appointed Judge of Insolvency for the county of Worcester in 1858; was Mayor of the city of Worcester in 1860; was District Attorney for the Middle District of Massachusetts 1869-'74; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1875; and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 13,890 votes against 10,248 votes for George F. Verry, Democrat. Re-elected.

TENTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Franklin and Hampshire, with parts of Worcester and Hampden.

AMASA NORCROSs, of Fitchburg, was born in Rindge, New Hampshire, January 26, 1824; received an academic education; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1847; has since been engaged in practice; was a member of the State House of Representatives of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1858, 1859, and 1862, and of the State Senate of Massachusetts in 1874; was Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Tenth Congressional District from August, 1862, until May, 1873, when the office was abolished; was Mayor of the city of Fitchburg in 1873 and 1874, and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 15,779 votes against 8,928 votes for S. O. Lamb, Democrat. Re-elected.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Berkshire, and all of Hampden, except the city of Holyoke.

GEORGE D. ROBINSON, of Chicopee, was born at Lexington, Massachusetts, January 20, 1834; prepared for college at Hopkins Classical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; graduated at Harvard College in 1856; was principal teacher at the Chicopee High School 1856'65; studied law with Hon. Charles Robinson, jr.; was admitted to the bar at Cambridge, Massachusetts; commenced practise at Chicopee in 1866; was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1874, and of the State Senate in 1876; and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 11,922 votes against 9,760 votes for Chester W. Chapin, Democrat. Re-elected.

MICHIGAN.

SENATORS.

THOMAS W. FERRY, of Grand Haven, was born at Mackinaw, Michigan, June 1, 1827; received a public-school education; has been engaged in business pursuits; was a member of the House of Representatives of Michigan in 1850; was a member of the State Senate in 1856; was Vice-President for Michigan in the Chicago Republican Convention of 1860; was appointed in 1864 to represent Michigan on the Board of Managers of the Gettysburg Soldiers' National Cemetery, and was re-appointed in 1867; was elected to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Fortyfirst Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, but did not take his seat, having subsequently been elected to the United States Senate, to succeed Jacob M. Howard, Republican. He took his seat in the Senate March 4, 1871, was chosen President pro tempore March 9 and 19, and again December 20, 1875, and by the death of Vice-President Wilson he became acting Vice-President, serving as such until March 4, 1877. He was re-elected Senator January 17, 1877, and was re-elected President pro tempore of the Senate March 5, 1877, February 26, 1878, and April 17, 1878. His term of service will expire March 3, 1883.

ISAAC P. CHRISTIANCY, of Lansing, was born at Caroga, (then Johnstown,) New York, March 12, 1812; received an academic education at the Johnstown and Ovid Academies; studied law with Hon. John Maynard until 1836, when he removed to Monroe, Michigan, where he completed his legal studies with Hon. Robert McClelland; was admitted to the bar, and practised until called to the bench of the Supreme Court in 1858; was Prosecuting Attorney 1841-'46; was a Delegate to the National Free-Soil Convention at Buffalo in 1848; was a member of the State Senate of Michigan from January 1, 1850, until January 1, 1852; was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court of Michigan from January 1, 1858, until February 27, 1875, (Chief Justice from January, 1872, until January 1, 1874;) and was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed Z. Chandler, Republican. He took his seat March 4, 1875. He was nominated and confirmed Minister to Peru, January 30, 1879.

Counties.-Hillsdale, Lenawee, Monroe, and Washtenaw.

EDWIN WILLITS, of Monroe, was born at Otto, Cattaraugus County, New York, April 24, 1830; removed to Michigan in September, 1836; graduated at the Michigan University in June, 1855; located at Monroe in April, 1856; studied law with Senator I. P. Christiancy, was admitted to the bar in December, 1857, and has practised law ever since at Monroe; was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Monroe County in 1860, and held the office till December 31, 1862; was elected a member of the State Board of Education in 1860, and was re-elected in 1866, holding the position twelve years; was on the Commission to revise the Constitution of the State in 1873; was appointed Postmaster of Monroe, January 1, 1863, by Abraham Lincoln, and was removed by Andrew Johnson, October 15, 1866; was Editor of "The Monroe Commercial" from 1856 to 1861; and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 19,211 votes against 17,024 votes for John J. Robison, Democrat, Granger, and Greenbacker. Re-elected.

THIRD DISTRICT.

Counties.-Barry, Branch, Calhoun, Eaton, and Jackson.

JONAS H. MCGOWAN, of Coldwater, was born in the township of Smithtown, Mahoning (then Columbiana) County, Ohio, April 2, 1837; in 1854 removed with his parents to Orland, Steuben County, Indiana; in 1857 he entered the University of Michigan, and graduated in June, 1861; taught in the city schools of Coldwater, Michigan, for one year, and then enlisted as a private in the Fifth Michigan Cavalry Volunteers; was afterward promoted to a Captaincy; raised a company for the Ninth Michigan Cavalry, and went into active service with that regiment in the spring of 1863; by reason of injuries received in a cavalry charge, he was dis

abled, and resigned his commission in February, 1864, returning to Coldwater, where he studied law with the Hon. C. D. Randall, and was admitted to the bar in 1867; from 1868 to 1872 he was Prosecuting Attorney; served one term as State Senator, and seven years as Regent of the University of Michigan, resigning to take his seat in the Forty-fifth Congress, to which he was elected as a Republican, receiving 19,878 votes against 17,223 votes for Fidus Livermore, Democrat. Re-elected.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, Saint Joseph, and Van Buren.

EDWIN WILLIAM KEIGHTLEY, of Constantine, was born in Van Buren Township, La Grange County, Indiana, August 7, 1843; received a common-school education, and for one year was a student at the Valparaiso Collegiate Institute; entered the Law Department of the University of Michigan, graduated in March, 1865, and commenced practice in Saint Joseph's County, Michigan; was elected, in 1872, Prosecuting Attorney of the county for two years, commencing January 1, 1873; was appointed Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Michigan to fill a vacancy; in April, 1875, was nominated by both parties and elected Circuit Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial District for the term of six years, beginning May 1, 1876; and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,716 votes against 16,330 votes for Henry Chamberlain, Democrat and Greenback candidate.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

Counties.—Allegan, Ionia, Kent, Muskegon, and Ottawa.

JOHN W. STONE, of Grand Rapids, was born at Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio, July 18, 1838; received an academic education; removed to Allegan County, Michigan, in 1856; commenced the study of law in 1859; was elected County Clerk of Allegan County in 1860; was admitted to the bar in January, 1862; was re elected County Clerk in 1862; was elected Prosecuting Attorney in 1864, and re elected twice, holding the office six years; was elected President of Allegan Village in 1872; was elected Circuit Judge of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit of Michigan in April, 1873, which office he held until November 1, 1874, when he resigned, and removed to Grand Rapids to enter upon the practice of law; has continued in the practice of the profession ever since; was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican. receiving 21,908 votes against 18,546 votes for Myron Harris, Democratic and Greenback candidate, and 50 votes for a Temperance candidate. Re-elected.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Clinton, Genesee, Ingham, Livingston, Oakland, and Shiawassee.

MARK S. BREWER, of Pontiac, was born October 22, 1837, in Addison, Oakland County, Michigan; he worked upon his father's farm until he was nineteen years of age; was educated at Romeo and Oxford Academies; commenced reading law in 1861 with Ex-Governor Wisner and Hon. M. E. Crofoot, and in 1864 was admitted to the bar at Pontiac, in his native couuty, where he has since resided and practised his profession; was Circuit Court Commissioner for Oakland County in 1866-'67-'68 and '69; was City Attorney of the city of Pontiac in 1866-'67; was elected to the State Senate of Michigan in 1872 and served two years; and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 23,356 votes against 21,615 vo:es for George H. Durand, Democrat. Re-elected.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Huron, Lapeer, Macomb, Sanilac, Saint Clair, and Tuscola.

OMAR D. CONGER, of Port Huron, was born in 1818, at Cooperstown, New York; removed, with his father, Rev. E. Conger, to Huron County, Ohio, in 1824; pursued his academic studies at Huron Institute, Milan, Ohio, and graduated in 1842 at Western Reserve College; was employed in the geological survey and mineral explorations of the Lake Superior copper and iron regions in 1845, 46, 47, and in 1848 engaged in the practice of law at Port Huron, Michigan, where he has since resided; was elected Judge of the Saint Clair County Court in 1850, and Senator in the Michigan Legislature for the biennial terms of 1855, '57, and '59, and was elected President pro tempore of the Senate in 1859; was elected in 1866 a member of the Constitutional Convention of Michigan; was a Presidential Elector on the Republican ticket in 1864; was elected to the Forty-first, Forty-second, Forty-third, and Forty-fourth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 15,818 votes against 13,177 votes for Anson E. Chadwick, Democrat. Re-elected.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Alcona, Alpena, Bay, Cheboygan, Clair, Emmett, Gladwin, Gratiot, Iosco, Isabella, Midland, Montcalm, Montmorency, Presque Isle, Roscommon, and Saginaw.

CHARLES C. ELLSWORTH, of Greenville, was born at Berkshire, Franklin County, Vermont, January 29, 1824; received a common school and academical education; is a lawyer by profession and practice; was appointed by Governor Barry Prosecuting Attorney of Livingston County, Michigan, in 1850; removed to Montcalm County, Michigan, in 1851; was a member of the State House of Representatives 1852-1854; was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Montcalm County at two successive elections; was appointed by the President of the United States a Paymaster in the Union Army in 1862, and served until the close of the war; and was elected to the Forty fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 16,098 votes against 15,760 votes for Frederic H. Potter, Democrat.

NINTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Chippewa, Delta, Grand Traverse, Houghton, Kalkaska, Keweenaw, Lake, Leelenaw, Mackinac, Manistee, Manitou, Marquette, Mason, Mecosta, Menomonee, Missaukee, Newaygo, Oceana, Ontonagon, Osceola, Schoolcraft, Wexford, Otsego, and Crawford.

JAY A. HUBBELL, of Houghton, was born at Avon, Michigan, September 15, 1829; graduated at the University of Michigan in 1853; was admitted to the practice of law in 1855; removed to Ontonagon, Michigan, in November, 1855; was elected District Attorney of the Upper Peninsula in 1857, and again in 1859; removed to Houghton, Michigan, in February, 1860; was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Houghton County in 1861, in '63, and in '65; was engaged in the practice of law until 1870, and has been identified with the development of the mineral interest of the Upper Peninsula; was appointed by the Governor of Michigan in 1876 State Commissioner to the Centennial Exhibition, and collected and prepared the State exhibit of minerals; was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,224 votes against 12,656 votes for John H Kilbourne, Democrat. Re-elected.

MINNESOTA.

SENATORS.

WILLIAM WINDOM, of Winona, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, May 10, 1827; received an academic education; studied law at Mount Vernon, Ohio; practised his profession in that State and in Minnesota until 1859; was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Knox County in 1852; removed to Minnesota in 1855; was a Representative in the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses; was appointed by the Governor of Minnesota, in July, 1870, to fill the unexpired term of Hon. Daniel S Norton, deceased, in the Senate of the United States; was subsequently elected as a Republican, and was re-elected in 1877. His term of service will expire March 3, 1883.

SAMUEL. J. R. MCMILLAN, of Saint Paul, was born at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1826; received a classical education, graduating at Duquesne College, Pittsburgh, in 1846; studied law with Shaler & Stanton, was admitted to the bar in 1849, and commenced practise at Stillwater, Minnesota, in 1852; was elected Judge of the first judicial circuit in 1857; was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1864, to fill a vacancy, was elected and re-elected, and resigned in 1874; was appointed in 1874 and afterward re-elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and resigned when he was elected to the United States Senate, as a Republican, to succeed Alexander Ramsey, Republican, and took his seat March 4, 1875. His term of service will expire March 3, 1881.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

Counties.-Blue Earth, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Jackson, Martin, Mower, Murray, Nobles, Olmsted, Pipestone, Rock, Steele, Waseca, Watonwan, and Winona.

MARK H. DUNNELL, of Owatonna, was born in Buxton, Maine, July 2, 1823; graduated at Waterville College, Maine, in 1849; for five years was the Principal of Norway and Hebron Academies; in 1854 was a member of the Maine House of Representatives, and in 1855 a member of the State Senate; during the years 1855, '57, '58, and '59 was State Superintendent of Common Schools; in 1856 was a Delegate to the National Republican Convention at Philadelphia; in 1860 commenced the practice of the law at Portland; in 1851 entered the Union Army as Colonel of the Fifth Maine Infantry; in 1862 was United Sates Consul at Vera Cruz, Mexico; in January, 1865, became a citizen of Minnesota; was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1867; was State Superintendent of Public Instruction from April, 1867, to August, 1870; was elected to the Forty-second, Fortythird, and Forty-fourth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 26,010 votes against 16,065 votes for E. C. Stacey, Greenback, Temperance, and Democratic candidate. Re-elected.

SECOND DISTRICT.

Counties.-Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Dakota, Goodhue, Kandiyohi, Le Sueur, Lincoln, Lyons, McLeod, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Rice, Scott, Sibley, Swift, and Wabasha. HORACE B. STRAIT, of Shakopee, was born in Potter County, Pennsylvania, January 26, 1835; received a common-school education; removed to Indiana in 1846, and from there to Minnesota in 1855; entered the Union Army in 1862 as Captain in the Ninth Minnesota Infantry; was promoted to Major of said regiment in 1864, and was serving at the close of the war as Inspector-General on the staff of General McArthur; was elected Mayor of Shakopee

in 1870, and re-elected in 1871 and '72; has been one of the trustees of the Minnesota Hos. pital for the Insane since 1866; since the close of the war has been engaged in mercantile, manufacturing, and banking business, and is now President of the First National Bank of Shakopee; was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Fortyfifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 19,730 votes against 14,990 votes for E. T. Wilder, Democrat.

THIRD DISTRICT.

Counties.-Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone, Carlton, Cass, Chisago, Clay, Crow Wing, Douglas, Grant, Hennepin, Holcombe, Isanti, Itasca, Kanabec, Lac qui Parle, Lake, Meeker, Mille Lacs, Monongalia, Morrison, Otter Tail, Pembina, Pine, Polk, Pope, Ramsey, Saint Louis, Sherburne, Stearns, Stevens, Todd, Traverse, Wadena, Washington, Wilkin, Wright, and Yellow Medicine.

JACOB H. STEWART, of Saint Paul, was born at Clermont, Columbia County, New York, January 15, 1829; removed when very young with his parents to Peekskill, New York; received an academic education at the Peekskill Academy; studied medicine and graduated at the University Medical College of New York City March, 1851; practised his profession at Peekskill and his present place of residence, to which he removed in April, 1855; was a member of the State Senate of Minnesota of 1858-59; was Surgeon-General of Minnesota 1857 to 1863; was appointed Surgeon of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry April 17, 1861; was taken prisoner at the first battle of Bull Run, paroled, and allowed to care for his wounded at Sudley Church Hospital until they were able to be removed to Richmond, when he was permitted to return home without exchange "for voluntarily remaining on the battlefield in the discharge of his duty;" was Mayor of Saint Paul in 1864, 1868, 1872, 1873, and 1874; was Surgeon of the Board of Enrollment 1864 and 1865; was Postmaster of Saint Paul 1865 to 1870; was President of the Minnesota State Medical Society 1875 and 1876; was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 22,823 votes against 20,727 votes for W. W. McNair, Democrat.

MISSISSIPPI.

SENATORS.

BLANCHE K. BRUCE, of Floreyville, was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, March 1, 1841; received a limited education; became a planter in Mississippi in 1869; was a member of the Mississippi Levee Board, and Sheriff and Tax-Collector of Bolivar County from 1872 until his election to the United States Senate February 3, 1875, as a Republican, to succeed Henry R. Pease, Republican, and took his seat March 4, 1875. His term of service will expire March 3, 1881.

LUCIUS Q. C. LAMAR, of Oxford, was born in Putnam County, Georgia, September 17, 1825; was educated at Oxford, Georgia, and graduated at Emory College, Georgia, in 1845; studied law at Macon, Georgia, under the Hon. A. H. Chappell, and was admitted to the bar in 1847; moved to Oxford, Mississippi, in 1849; was elected Adjunct Professor of Mathematics in the University of the State, and held the position as assistant to Dr. A. T. Bledsoe, (editor of "The Southern Review,") which he resigned in 1850, and returned to Covington, Georgia, where he resumed the practice of law; was elected to the Legislature of Georgia in 1853; in 1854 moved to his plantation in La Fayette County, Mississippi, and was elected to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses of the United States, and resigned in 1860 to take a seat in the Secession Convention of his State; in 1861 entered the Confederate Army as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Nineteenth Regiment, and was promoted to the colonelcy; in 1863 was intrusted by President Davis with an important diplomatic mission to Russia; in 1866 was elected Professor of Political Economy and Social Science in the University of Mississippi, and in 1867 was transferred to the professorship of law; was elected to the Forty-third Congress of the United States, and was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress; and was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed James Lusk Alcorn, Independent, and took his seat March 5, 1877. His term of service will expire March 3, 1883.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

Counties.-Alcorn, Chickasaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes, Monroe, Oktibbeha, Pontotoc, Prentiss, and Tishemingo.

HENRY LOWNDES MULDROW, of Starkville, was born in Lowndes County, Mississi pi; graduated at the University of Mississippi, and received the degree of A. B. in the yea 1856, and the degree of L. B. in 1858; was admitted to the bar as attorney and soli itor in 1859, and is now a lawyer by profession; entered the Confederate Army in 1861, and held various positions in the line, and at the close of the war surrendered at Forsyth, Georgia, as a colonel of cavalry; held the position of District Attorney for the Sixth Judicial District of Mississippi from 1869 to '71; was elected to the State Legislature in 1875; and was elected to the Fortyfifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 20,597 votes against 6,420 votes for James W. Lee, Republican. Re-elected.