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in Dover. He was first elected to the United States 

 Senate in 1869, and was still a Senator when selected 

 as the leading member of Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet. 

 He was a member of the Electoral Commission of 

 187 6-' 77, and both in 1830 and 1884 was regarded as 

 a possible candidate for the presidency. 



DANIEL MANNING was born in Albany, N. Y. ? in 

 August, 1831j and began life at an early age as a print- 

 er's apprentice. He advanced from that position 

 in the office of the Albany "Atlas" (subsequently 

 merged in the " Argus"), until he became the editor- 

 in-chief of the "Argus" in 1873, occupying succes- 

 sively the places of foreman of the composing-room, 

 manager of the mechanical department, reporter of 

 legislative proceedings, and associate editor. He also 

 became a considerable owner in the paper, and his 

 position brought him into relations with the promi- 

 nent politicians of his party in New York. He was 

 for some years a director in several corporations, and 

 in 1882 became President of the National Commercial 

 Bank at Albany. He took an active part in the poli- 

 tics of his State, being for several years chairman of 

 the Democratic State Committee, and was credited 

 with controlling the State delegations in the National 

 Conventions of 1880 and 1884. 



WILLIAM CROWNINSHIELD ENDIOOTT 

 was born in Salem, Mass., in 1827. He 

 was graduated at Harvard College in 

 1847, admitted to the bar in 1850, and 

 practiced his profession for some years 

 in Salem, and served as a member of the 

 Common Council of that city. From 

 1858 to 1863 he was City Solicitor, and 

 also president of a bank. He was ap- 

 pointed Judge of the Supreme Court of 

 Massachusetts in 1873, and served nine 

 years ; after which he resumed his law 

 practice, living in the suburbs of Boston. 

 Previous to 1860 he was connected with 

 the Whig party. In 1884 he was Demo- 

 cratic candidate for Governor of Massa- 

 chusetts. 



WILLIAM C. WHITNEY was born in 

 Conway, Mass., in 1839, and was a son 

 of Gen. James S. Whitney, a prominent 

 Massachusetts Democrat. He was gradu- 

 ated at Yale College in 1863, and. after 

 studying at Harvard Law School, en- 

 tered the office of Judge Abraham R. 

 Lawrence in New York. He became con- 

 nected as counsel with several insurance 

 companies and other corporations. He 

 was defeated as a candidate for District 

 Attorney of New York in 1872, but in 

 1875 was appointed Counsel to the Cor- 

 poration, an office which he held until 

 1882. 



LUCIUS QUINTUS CURTIUS LAMAB Was 



born in Putnam County, Ga., in Sep- 

 tember, 1825, was graduated from Emory 

 College at the age of twenty, and ad- 

 mitted to the bar in 1847. Two years 

 later he became Professor of Mathemat- 

 ics in the University of Mississippi, but 

 after holding the chair one year returned 

 to Georgia and opened a law office at 

 Covington. He was elected to the Legis- 

 lature in 1853, but a year later returned 

 to Mississippi and settled on a planta- 

 tion in Lafayette County. He served in 

 the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Con- 

 gresses, but resigned in 1860 and took part in the Se- 

 cession Convention of his State. He served in the 

 Confederate army as a colonel, and was sent on a 

 mission to Russia in 1863 by Jefferson Davis. After 

 the war he was Professor of Political Economy and 

 Social Science in the University of Mississippi, and 

 was elected to the Forty-third Congress. He first en- 

 tered the United States Senate in 1877, and was re- 

 elected in 1882. 



WILLIAM FREEMAN VILAS was born in Chelsea, Vt., 

 July 10, 1840, being the son of Judge Levi B. Vilas, 

 who removed to Wisconsin and settled at Madison in 

 1851. He was graduated at the State University of 

 Wisconsin, and then studied at the Albany (N. Y.) 

 Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1860, and be- 

 gan practice in Madison. He entered the military 

 service as a captain of volunteers in 1862. and had ad 

 vanced to the rank of colonel when, in August, 1863, 

 he resigned and returned to the practice of his profes- 

 sion. His first prominence in national politics was as 

 chairman of the Democratic National Convention in 

 1884. 



AUGUSTUS H. GARLAND was born in Covington, 

 Tenn., in June, 1832, but his parents removed the 

 next year to Arkansas. After completing his educa- 

 tion, he entered upon the practice of law at Washing- 

 ton, Ark., but subsequently removed to Little Rock. 

 He was a Whig in politics, and in 1860 was a candi- 

 date for elector on the Bell-Everett ticket. After his 

 State went into the secession movement, he was 

 chosen to the Provisional Congress at Montgomery, 

 which framed the Confederate Constitution, ana 

 served afterward in the Congress of the Confeder- 

 acy. After the war he resumed the practice of law 



DANIEL MANNING, 



Secretary of the Treasury. 



at Little Rock, and was chosen to the United States 

 Senate in 1867, but was not permitted to take his 

 seat. He was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1874, 

 and at the end of his two-years' term was again 

 chosen to the United States Senate. He was re-elect- 

 ed in 1883. 



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