to practice. In 1870 he removed to Washington Territory and entered upon the practice of his profession. He was appointed United States Attorney for Washington Territory, April, 1875, by President Grant, and continued in that office until July, 1885; was reporter of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory from 1878 to 1885; was elected to the Fifty-first Congress from the Territory of Washington, and was elected to the United States Senate under the provisions of the Act of Congress admitting Washington Territory into the Union.

SENATOR WILLIAM B. ALLISON, of Iowa, is one of the most active men in the party. He has been in politics since 1860, when he was a delegate to the Chicago Convention. In 1861 he was appointed on the Governor's staff and devoted his attention to recruiting. In 1862 he was elected to Congress and re-elected for three consecutive terms. In 1873 he was elected to the United States Senate, and has been re-elected continuously. His term expires in 1897.

SENATOR NELSON WILMARTH ALDRICH, of Rhode Island, was born at Foster, R. I., November 6, 1841. He received an academic education, and in 1871 became President of the Providence Common Council, an office which he held until 1873. Two years later he was elected a member of the Rhode Island General Assembly, serving as Speaker of the House of Representatives during the session of 1876. He was subsequently elected to the House of Representatives of the Forty-sixth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-seventh Congress; was elected to the United States Senate to succeed Ambrose E. Burnside, in 1881, and was re-elected in 1888.

SENATOR SHELBY M. CULLOM, of Illinois, was born in Wayne Co., Ky., November 22, 1820. His family removed to Illinois when he was but one year old. He received an academic and university education; went to Springfield in the fall of 1853 to study law, and has since resided there; immediately upon receiving license to practice was elected city attorney; continued to practice law until he took his seat in the House of Representatives in 1865; was a presidential elector in 1856 on the Fillmore ticket; was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the Illinois Legislature in 1856, '60, 72, and 74, and was elected Speaker in 1861 and in 1873. He was elected a Representative from Illinois in the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses, serving from 1865 to 1871; was a delegate to the National Republican Convention at Philadelphia in 1872, being chairman of the Illinois delegation, and placed General Grant in nomination; was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1884, and chairman of the Illinois delegation; was elected Governor of

Illinois in 1876, and succeeded himself in 1880, serving from 1877 until 1883, when he resigned, having been elected to the Senate to succeed David Davis. He was re-elected in 1888.

SENATOR JAMES DONALD CAMERON, of Pennsylvania, commonly known as Don Cameron, was born at Middletown, Dauphin Co., Pa., in 1833, and after graduating from Princeton College, in 1852, engaged in mercantile pursuits and entered the Middletown Bank, now the National Bank of Middletown, as a clerk; in due course he became cashier, and eventually rose to be its president, which position he still occupies. He was a delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1868, and at Cincinnati in 1876; and in the latter year was appointed Secretary of War by Grant, which office he held until the following March. He was chairman of the Republican National Committee and a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1880; and was elected a United States Senator, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his father, in 1877, and was re-elected in 1879; and again in 1885.

SENATOR LYMAN R. CASEY, of North Dakota, is a New Yorker by birth, having been born in York, Livingston Co., in 1837; when young removed with his parents to Ypsilanti, Mich.; was prepared for Ann Arbor University, but never entered, because of ill-health; he was in the hardware business for many years, and after he retired from it went to Europe and traveled and studied for five years; settled in Dakota in 1882; is secretary and general manager of the Casey-Carrington Land Company, which owns over 100,000 acres in James River Valley, with a capital of $500,000, and has at this time 5,000 acres under cultivation; but never held any public office, except that of Commissioner of Foster County, until he was elected to the United States Senate, November 21, 1889, under the provisions of the acts of Congress admitting North Dakota and other States into the Union.

SENATOR WILLIAM EATON CHANDLER, of New Hampshire, has been prominent in the Republican party since early manhood. Born at Concord, N. H., Oct. 28, 1835, he graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1855. He was admitted to the bar in Concord in 1856. In 1859 he was appointed reporter of the Supreme Court, and began to take an interest in politics, being appointed secretary of the State Committee, and subsequently chairman. In 1862 he was elected to the State Legislature, Lower House, and in 1863-64 was its Speaker. In 1864 he was retained by the Navy Department as special counsel to prosecute the frauds in the navy-yard at Philadelphia. In 1865 he became first solicitor and

judge advocate-general of the Navy Department, later in the same year receiving the appointment of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. In 1867 he retired and resumed practice at home. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1878; a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1868, when he was chosen secretary of the National Committee, and held the position until 1876. In that year he attracted much attention by his advocacy of the claims of the Hayes electors in Florida, though he subsequently violently opposed Hayes's Southern policy. He was a delegate to the National Convention in 1880, and was a member of the National Committee the ensuing campaign. In 1881 he was named for U. S. Solicitor-General, but the partisan vote in the Senate defeated him. He was again in the State Legislature in 1881. He was appointed Secretary of the Navy in 1882, elected to the Senate in 1887, and has three years more to serve.

SENATOR JOSEPH N. DOLPH, of Oregon, was born at Dolphsburgh, in Tompkins (now Schuyler) Co., N. Y., October 19, 1835, and received a commonschool education, and for a time attended the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, N. Y. After arriving at the age of eighteen years, he taught school a portion of each year while acquiring an education, and was admitted to the bar in 1861. In 1862 he enlisted in Captain M. Crawford's company, known as the Oregon Escort, raised under an act of Congress for the purpose of protecting the emigration of that year to the Pacific Coast against hostile Indians, filling the position of orderly sergeant, and settled in Portland, Ore., in October, 1862, where he has since resided. In 1864 he was elected city attorney of the city of Portland, and the same year same year was appointed by President Lincoln District Attorney for the District of Oregon. He was a member of the State Senate in 1866, '68, 72 and 74; has been actively engaged since his removal to Oregon in the practice of his profession, as well as in various business enterprises. He was elected to the United States Senate to succeed Lafayette Grover, in 1883, and was re-elected in January, 1889.

SENATOR HENRY L. DAWES, of Massachusetts, was born at Cummington, Mass., October 30, 1816. Having left Yale he started out as a school teacher, then became editor of the Greenfield Gazette and Adams Transcript; and later on studied and practiced law. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts in 1848, 1849 and 1852; and was a member of the Senate of Massachusetts in 1850; he was also a member of the State Constitutional Convention of Massachusetts in 1853; and was District Attorney

for the Western District of Massachusetts from 1853 until 1857. In the latter year he was elected to the House of Representatives, in which he sat uninterruptedly for eighteen years, and in 1875 was elected a Senator, being chosen to succeed to Charles Sumner's seat in the Upper House, which he has ever since occupied.

SENATOR NATHAN FELLOWS DIXON, of Rhode Island, may be said to own his seat by heredity. His grandfather, Nathan Fellows Dixon I., was a Senator in 1840, and his father, Nathan Fellows Dixon II., was a member of Congress in 1849, and he himself served one term in the Lower House before he was elected to the Senate in 1889. Nathan Fellows Dixon III. is a lawyer by profession, as his father and grandfather were before him, and he graduated at Brown University, as all his ancestors did. Senator Dixon was born in the district he represents in 1847, was prepared for college at Westerly, was elected State Senator from the town of Westerly in 1885, and served as such until 1889, when he was elected to the Forty-eighth Congress, and in April, 1889, to the Senate.

SENATOR CUSHMAN KELLOGG DAVIS, of Minnesota, is a New Yorker by birth, having been born at Henderson, Jefferson Co., June 16, 1838. He received a common-school and collegiate education, graduating from the University of Michigan in June, 1857. He was first lieutenant in the Twenty-eighth Wisconsin Infantry, 1862-64; was a member of the Minnesota Legislature in 1867; was United States District Attorney for Minnesota, 1868-73; was Governor of Minnesota, 1874-75; was elected to the United States Senate, to succeed Senator McMillan, and took his seat March 4, 1887.

SENATOR WILLIAM P. FRYE, of Maine, was born at Lewiston, September 2, 1831; graduated at Bowdoin College, Maine, at the age of nineteen, and two years later settled down to practice law. He was a member of the State Legislature in 1861, 1862 and 1867; was mayor of the city of Lewiston in 1866 and 1867; was Attorney-General of the State of Maine in 1867, 1868 and 1869; was elected a member of the National Republican Executive Committee in 1872, re-elected in 1876, and re-elected in 1880. In the same year he was elected a trustee of Bowdoin College, and received the degree of LL.D. from Bates College in July, 1881; was a presidential elector in 1864; a delegate to the National Republican Conventions in 1872, 1876 and 1880; and was elected chairman of the Republican State Committee of Maine in place of James G. Blaine, in November, 1881. He sat as a Representative in the Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty