CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.

MEMBERS OF THE FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.

ALABAMA.

SENATORS.

GEORGE E. SPENCER, of Decatur, was born in Jefferson County, New York, November I, 1836; was educated at Montreal College, Canada; was admitted to the bar in Iowa in 1857; was Secretary of the Iowa Senate of 1856; entered the Army as Captain, Assistant Adjutant-General of Volunteers, in 1862; recruited and raised the First Alabama Cavalry, United States Volunteers, in 1863; commanded a brigade of cavalry on Sherman's grand march; was brevetted Brigadier-General for " gallantry on the field;" resigned position in the Army July 4, 1865; was appointed Register in Bankruptcy for the fourth district of Alabama in May, 1867; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, and took his seat July 25, 1868, and was re-elected in 1872. His term of office will expire March 3, 1879.

JOHN T. MORGAN, of Selma, was born at Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee, June 20, 1824; received an academic education, chiefly in Alabama, to which State he emigrated when nine years old, and has since resided there; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1845, and practised until his election to the Senate; was a Presidential Elector in 1860, for the State at large, and voted for Breckinridge and Lane; was a Delegate in 1861 from Dallas County to the State Convention which passed the ordinance of secession; joined the Confederate Army, in May, 1861, as a private in Company I, Cahawba Rifles, and when that company was assigned to the Fifth Alabama Regiment, under Col. Robert E. Rodes, he was elected Major and afterward Lieutenant-Colonel of that regiment; was commissioned in 1862 as Colonel and raised the Fifty-first Alabama Regiment; was appointed Brigadier-General in 1863, and assigned to a brigade in Virginia, but resigned to rejoin his regiment, whose colonel had been killed in battle; later in 1863 he was again appointed Brigadier-General, and assigned to an Alabama brigade, which included his regiment; after the war, he resumed the practice of his profession at Selma; was chosen a Presidential Elector for the State at large in 1876, and voted for Tilden and Hendricks; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed George Goldthwaite, Democrat, and took his seat March 5, 1877. His term of service will expire March 3, 1883.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

Counties.-Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Mobile, Monroe, and Washington.

JAMES TAYLOR JONES, of Demopolis, was born at Richmond, Virginia, in 1832, and has resided since 1834 in Marengo County, Alabama; was educated at Princeton College, New Jersey, and having graduated in the Law School of the University of Virginia, has since practised law; enlisted in April, 1861, in the Confederate service as a private in the Fourth Alabama Regiment, and in 1862 was promoted to be Captain of his company; was a Delegate in 1865 to the Constitutional Convention of Alabama, and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10,582 votes against 8,771 votes for F. G. Bromberg, Independent.

SECOND DISTRICT.

Counties. Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Covington, Escambia, Montgomery, and Pike

HILARY A. HERBERT, of Montgomery, was born at Laurensville, South Carolina, March 12, 1834; removed to Greenville, Butler County, Alabama, in 1846; attended the University of Alabama in 1853-54 and the University of Virginia 1855-'56; studied law, and was admitted to the bar; entered the Confederate service as Captain; was promoted to the colonelcy of the Eighth Alabama Volunteers; was disabled at the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864; continued the practice of the law at Greenville, Alabama, until 1872, when he removed to Mcatgomery, where he has since practised; was elected a Representative from Alabama in the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 11,435 votes against 9,394 votes for Gerald Hall, Republican. Re-elected.

THIRD DISTRICT.

Counties.-Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Lee, and Russell.

JEREMIAH N. WILLIAMS, of Clayton, was born in Barbour County, Alabama; received a liberal education, graduating at the University of South Carolina; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and has since practised; entered the Confederate Army in January, 1861, with the rank of Captain, and on the organization of the First Regiment of Alabama Infantry was elected Major; served a year, and was then forced to retire on account of ill-health; was elected to the State Legislature of Alabama in 1872, but not permitted to take his seat; was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 14,089 votes against 3,896 votes for W. H. Betts, Republican.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Dallas, Hale, Lowndes, Perry, and Wilcox.

CHARLES M. SHELLEY was born in Sullivan County, Tennessee, December 28, 1833; removed to Alabama with his father in 1836; received but a limited education; was brought up to the trade of an architect and builder, and has ever since followed that business; he entered the Confederate scrvice in February, 1861, as Lieutenant, and was stationed first at Fort Morgan, and was afterwards attached to the Fifth Alabama Regiment; after further service he was commissioned Brigadier-General, and served under Generals Joseph E. Johnston and Hood; after the war he returned to his occupation, and now resides in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama; he was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 9,685 votes against 8,675 votes for Jere Haralson, Republican, and 7,236 votes for James T. Rapier, Republican. Re-elected.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Autauga, Bibb, Chambers, Chilton, Clay, Coosa, Elmore, Macon, and Talla

poosa.

ROBERT F. LIGON, of Tuskegee, was born in Clarke County, Georgia; received an academic education; removed to Alabama before his majority; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and is now a practising lawyer and planter; was engaged in the war with Mexico as Captain of a volunteer company; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1849-'50, and of the State Senate in 1860; and re-elected in 1863; served in the Confederate Army as Captain; was Lieutenant-Governor of Alabama in 1874, and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,107 votes against 6,821 votes for D. B. Booth, Republican.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Fayette, Greene, Jefferson, Marion, Pickens, Sanford, Sumter, Tuscaloosa, Walker, and Winston.

GOLDSMITH W. HEWITT, of Birmingham, was born in Jefferson County, Alabama, February 14, 1834; received an academic education; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1856, and has since practised; entered the Confederate Army in 1861, and served until severely wounded at the battle of Chickamauga in 1863; was elected to the State House of Representatives in 1870, and to the State Senate in 1872 and '74, but resigned when he was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, without opposition, receiving 13,634 votes.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, De Kalb, Etowah, Marshall, Randolph, Saint Clair, Shelby, and Talladega.

WILLIAM HENRY FORNEY, of Jacksonville, was born at Lincolnton, North Carolina, November 9, 1823; received a classical education, graduating at the University of Alabama in 1844; served in the war with Mexico as a First Lieutenant in the First Regiment of Alabama Volunteers; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1848, and has practised ever since; was elected by the Legislature of Alabama a Trustee of the University of Alabama, and served 1851-'60; was a member of the State House of Representatives of Alabama 1859-'60; entered the Confederate Army at the commencement of hostilities in 1861 as Captain, and was successively promoted Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel, and Brigadier-General; surrendered at Appomattox Court-House; was a member of the State Senate of Alabama 1865–'66, serving until the State was reconstructed; was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, without opposition, receiving 14,319 Re-elected.

votes.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Colbert, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, and

Morgan.

WILLIAM W. GARTII, of Huntsville, was born in Morgan County, Alabama, October 28, 1827; educated at LaGrange, and at Emory and Henry College, Virginia; studied law at the University of Virginia; and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 14,529 votes against 8,910 votes for McClellan, Independent Democrat.

ARKANSAS.

SENATORS.

STEPHEN W. DORSEY, of Helena, was born at Benson, Vermont, February 28, 1842; received an academical education; removed when a boy to Oberlin, Ohio; was one of the first to volunteer in the Union Army, in which he served under General Grant at Shiloh, General Buell at Perryville, General Rosecrans at Stone River and Chattanooga, and General Thomas at Mission Ridge; in 1864 he was transferred to the Army of the Potomac, and took part in the battles of the Wilderness and of Cold Harbor, serving until the close of the war; returning to Ohio, he resumed business as an employé of the Sandusky Tool Company, and was soon chosen its President; on the same day he was elected, without his knowledge, President of the Arkansas Central Railway Company; removing to Arkansas, he was chosen Chairman of the Republican County and State Committees, was offered a seat in Congress by the Republi cans of the first district, but declined, and was elected almost unanimously to the United States Senate as a Republican, and took his seat March 4, 1873. His term of service will expire March 3, 1879.

AUGUSTUS H. GARLAND, of Little Rock, was born in Tipton County, Tennessee, June 11, 1832; in 1833 his parents removed to Arkansas; was educated at Saint Mary's College and Saint Joseph's College, in Kentucky; studied law and was admitted to practise in 1853 at Washington, Arkansas, where he then lived; in 1856 he removed to Little Rock; was a Delegate to the State Convention that passed the ordinance of secession in 1861; was a member of the Provisional Congress that met at Montgomery, Alabama, in May, 1861, and subsequently of the Confederate Congress, serving in both Houses, and being in the Senate when the war closed; was elected to the United States Senate from Arkansas for the term beginning March 4, 1867, but was not admitted to his seat; made the test-oath case as to lawyers in the Supreme Court of the United States, and gained it, [See Garland ex parte, 4 Wallace; ] followed the practice of law until the fall of 1874, when he was elected Governor of Arkansas, without opposition; was elected in January, 1876, by the Legislature of Arkansas, without opposition, to the United States Senate, as a Democrat, to succeed Powell Clayton, Republican, and took his seat March 5, 1877. His term of service will expire March 3, 1883.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

Counties.-Arkansas, Clay, Crittenden, Craighead, Cross, Desha, Green, Independence, Jackson, Lee, Lawrence, Lonoke, Mississippi, Monroe, Phillips, Poinsett, Prairie, Randolph, Saint Francis, Woodruff, and White.

LUCIEN C. GAUSE, of Jacksonport, was born in Brunswick County, North Carolina, December 25, 1838; removed with his father to Lauderdale County, Tennessee, when young; received his primary education at the private schools there, and was subsequently at the University of Virginia; studied law at Cumberland University, Tennessee, graduated there, and commenced practice at Jacksonport, Arkansas, in 1859; entered the Confederate Army in 1861, and served throughout the war, attaining the rank of Colonel; resumed practice at Jacksonport in 1865; was elected a member of the State Legislature in 1866; was appointed one of the Commissioners to represent the State government at Washington; was elected to the Forty-third Congress, but his competitor was permitted to occupy the seat without any action on the case; was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress and re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 15,841 votes against 404 scattering votes.

SECOND DISTRICT.

Counties.-Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Columbia, Dorsey, Dallas, Drew, Grant, Hempstead, Howard, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lincoln, Little River, Miller, Nevada, Ouachita, Sevier, and Union.

WILLIAM F. SLEMONS, of Monticello, was born in Weakley County, Tennessee, March 15, 1830; was educated at Bethel College; removed to Arkansas in 1852; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1855, and practised until 1861; was a member of the Arkansas State Convention in 1861; entered the Confederate Army in July, 1861, and served through the war, after which he resumed the practice of law; was elected District Attorney in 1866, and reconstructed out of office in 1868; was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, and re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 15,566 votes against 14,159 votes for O. P. Snyder, Republican. Re-clected.

THIRD DISTRICT.

Counties.-Clark, Crawford, Faulkner, Franklin, Garland, Hot Spring, Johnson, Logan, Montgomery, Perry, Pike, Polk, Pulaski, Saline, Sebastian, Scott, and Yell.

JORDAN E. CRAVENS, of Clarksville, was born at Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri, November 7, 1830; his father moved to Arkansas the following year, and since then he has

resided in that State; received a common-school education, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1854, and has since then continuously practised; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1860; entered the Confederate Army in 1861 as a private, was promoted to a colonelcy in 1862, and continued in service until the close of the war; was a member of the State Senate in 1866; was a Presidential Elector on the Greeley ticket in 1872; and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 8,277 votes against 8,016 votes for John McClure, Republican, 5,925 votes for H. B. Stuart, Democrat, 681 votes for M. L. Rice, Greenback candidate, and 180 votes for V. Dell, Republican. Re-elected.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Conway, Fulton, Izard, Madison, Marion, Newton, Pope, Stone, Searcy, Sharp, Van Buren, and Washington.

THOMAS M. GUNTER, of Fayetteville, was born in Middle Tennessee, September 18, 1826; received a classical education, graduating at Irving College in 1850; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Fayetteville in 1853; was a Delegate from Washington County in the Arkansas State Convention of May, 1861; served in the Confederate Army as Colonel of the Thirteenth Arkansas Volunteers; was elected Prosecuting Attorney for the fourth judicial circuit in 1866, and held the office until his official position was terminated by the reconstruction of the State in 1868; contested the seat of W. W. Wilshire in the Forty-third Congress, and the House declared that he was entitled to it June 16, 1874; was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 12,355 votes against 4,167 votes for J. H. Huckleberry, Republican, and 54 scattering. Re-elected.

CALIFORNIA.

SENATORS.

AARON A. SARGENT, of Nevada City, was born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, September 28, 1827; was a printer and editor in early life; emigrated to California in 1849; studied law and came to the bar in 1854; was District Attorney of Nevada County, California, in 1855 and 1856; received the degree of M. A. from the College of California in 1865; was elected to the Thirty-seventh and Forty-first Congresses; was re-elected to the Forty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 18,055 votes against 15,378 votes for J. W. Coffroth, Democrat; and was subsequently elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed C. Cole, Republican, and took his seat March 4, 1873. His term of office will expire March 3, 1879.

NEWTON BOOTH, of Sacramento, was born at Salem, Indiana, December 25, 1825; graduated at the Asbury University in 1846; studied law at Terre Haute; was admitted to the bar in 1850, and removed to California, where he temporarily abandoned his profession and engaged in mercantile pursuits at Sacramento; returning to Terre Haute in 1857, he practised law there in 1860, when he again went to California; was elected to the State Senate of California in 1863; was elected Governor of California in 1871, and served until March, 1874, when he resigned, having been elected to the United States Senate as an Anti-monopo. list, to succeed Eugene Casserly, Democrat, (whose unexpired term had been filled by the election of John S. Hager, Anti-monopolist,) and took his seat March 9, 1875. His term of service will expire March 3, 1881.

REPRESENTATIVES.

County and city of San Francisco.

FIRST DISTRICT.

HORACE DAVIS, of San Francisco, was born at Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1831; was educated in the public schools of Worcester, and graduated at Harvard University in 1849; studied law in the Dane Law School, but abandoned professional pursuits by reason of failing health; removed to California in 1852, and has since resided at San Francisco, engaged in flour-mills; held no office, civil or military, until elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 22,114 votes against 19,363 votes for W. A. Piper, Democrat.

SECOND DISTRICT.

Counties.-Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Tuolumne.

HORACE FRANCIS PAGE, of Placerville, was born in Orleans County, New York, October 20, 1833; received a public-school education; emigrated to California in 1854; is a stageproprietor and mail-contractor; was unanimously nominated for the State Senate by the Republican Convention of El Dorado County in 1869, and defeated; and was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, and re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 20,815 votes against 15,916 votes for G. J. Carpenter, Democrat.