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county auditor's office, which enabled him to pay 

 his expenses at Corydon Seminary. After two years 

 there he spent a year at Bloomington University, and 

 on his return obtained a place in the county clerk's 

 office at Corydon. Here he studied law in trie office 

 of Judge William A. Porter, and at the age of twenty- 

 two was admitted to the bar and began practice. In 

 politics he had been a Whig from boyhood, and he 

 joined the Republican party upon its organization, 

 stumping the State for Gen. Fremont in 1856. Mr. 

 Gresham was elected to the State Legislature in 1860, 

 and as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs 

 secured the passage of a bill which placed Indiana 

 almost on a war footing. When the war broke out he de- 

 clined a renomination for the legislature and enlisted 

 as a private in the Thirty-eighth Indiana Volunteers, 

 and was soon made lieutenant-colonel of the regiment. 

 His first active service in the war was at Shiloh, his 

 next at Corinth, and at Vicksburg he met Gen. Grant. 

 After the surrender Grant and Sherman united in 

 recommending him for a brigadier's commission, 

 which he received. While in command of a division 

 of Sherman's army before Atlanta, Gen. Gresham was 

 shot in the knee, and lie lias never fully recovered 

 the use of his shattered leg. In 1865 he was brevetted 

 major-general, and on being mustered out began the 

 practice of law in New Albany, Ind. He was offered 

 by President Grant the collcctorship of the port of 

 New Orleans, and subsequently the office of Dis- 

 trict Attorney for Indiana, but declined both offers. 

 He was twice nominated for Congress, but was de- 

 feated. In 1869 President Grant tendered him the 

 appointment of United States District Judge for Indi- 

 ana, which he accepted, and during the twelve years 

 of his judgeship there not one of his decisions was 

 reversed. In 1880 he was a candidate for 1'nited 

 States Senator, but was defeated by Benjamin Harri- 

 son. President Arthur called Judge Gresham to his 

 Cabinet in 1883, giving him the portfolio of Postmas- 

 ter-General, and later he succeeded Judge Folder as 

 Secretary of the Treasury. He shared the President's 

 views regarding a revision of the tariff and the reduc- 

 tion of the surplus revenue. He resigned his place 

 in the Cabinet to become United States Judge of the 

 Seventh Judicial District, holding court at Chicago, 

 which place he held for many years, and his deci- 



JOIIN GRIFFIN CARLISLE was born in Campbell 

 (now Kenton) County, Ky., Sept. 5, 1835, and was 

 the youngest son of a large family. He received a 



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sions have been regarded as models of fairness 

 and legal accuracy. He was a candidate for the 

 Republican nomination for President in 1884, and 

 again in 1888, and refused a nomination from the 

 People's party in 1892. In that year he voted for 

 Mr. Cleveland, giving his reasons 'in a letter written 

 during the campaign. 



JOHN GRIFFIN CARLISLE. 



common-school education, studied law with Senator 

 John W. Stevenson, taught school for a time in Cov- 

 ington, and was admitted to the bar in 1858. He 

 soon came to be regarded as a lawyer of ability, and 

 bis practice eventually grew to be one of the largest 

 in Kentucky. In 1859 he was elected to the lower 

 house of the State Legislature. In 1866 he was 

 elected State Senator, and in 1869 was re-elected. 

 From 1871 to 1875 he was Lieutenant-Governor of 

 Kentucky. In 1876 he was elected to Congress, and 

 was continually returned until he succeeded the late 

 Senator Beck in the United States Senate, in 1890. 

 He was chosen Speaker of the House in 1883, and 

 also in 1885 and 1887. He was clear-headed and 

 even-tempered, and none of his rulings were ever 

 reversed by the ll<iii>r. During the Forty-sixth 

 Congress his internal-revenue bill made him the 

 recognized leader of his party on the question of taxa - 

 tion; and in all the succeeding tariff debates he has 

 led his party, both in and out of Congress. Mr. Car- 

 lisle is a student, and finds little time for the social 

 side of official life. Mrs. Carlisle comes of an old 

 and well-known Kentucky family, her father being 

 John A. Goodson, first Mayor of Covington. She is a 

 woman of refinement and great decision of character. 

 HILARY A. HERBERT was born in Laurensville, S. C., 

 in 1838, and while a child was taken by his father to 

 Alabama. He was educated at the University of 

 Alabama and the University of Virginia, and after 

 studying law was admitted to the bar. Upon the 

 breaking out of the war he entered the service of the 

 Confederacy as a captain, and was afterward pro- 

 moted and became colonel of the Eighth Alabama 

 Volunteers. He was disabled at the battle of the 

 Wilderness, and after the war resumed the practice 

 of law at Greenville, Ala. In 1872 he removed to 

 Montgomery, where he has since practiced. lie was 

 elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, and has been re- 

 turned to every Congress since that time up to and 

 including the Fifty-second. As chairman of the 

 Committee on Naval Affairs he showed decided 

 ability and carried his bills through with little de- 

 lay. He has during his entire congressional career 

 favored reform in the tariff, and has made many 

 speeches thereon ; and he has also supported all 

 measures of civil-service reform. He is opposed to 

 the free coinage of silver, and has often spoken 



