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THE STANDARD DICTIONARY OF FACTS 



upon other Departments for statistical data 

 obtained by them. 



It is his further duty to make such special 

 investigations and furnish such information to 

 the President or Congress as may be required 

 by them on the foregoing subject-matters and 

 to make annual reports to Congress upon the 

 work of said Department. 

 SECRETARIES OF COMMERCE AND LABOR 



Speaker of the House of Representatives. The 

 title of the presiding officer of the House of 

 Representatives. He is elected by the members 

 of that body. Below is given a list of the Speak- 

 ers who have presided since the first Congress : 

 SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE 



NAME 



F. A. Muhlenburg, . 

 Jonathan Trumbull, 

 F. A. Muhlenburg, . 

 Jonathan Dayton, . 

 Theo. Sedgwick, . . 

 Nathaniel Macon, . 

 Joseph B. Varnum, 

 Henry Clay, .... 

 Langdon Cheves, 



Henry Clay 



John W. Taylor, . . 

 Philip P. Barbour, . 



Henry Clay 



John W. Taylor, . . 

 Andrew Stevenson, 



John Bell 



James K. Polk, . . 

 R. M. T. Hunter, . 



John White 



John W. Jones, . . 

 John W. Davis, . . 

 Robert C. Winthrop, 

 Howell Cobb, . . . 



Linn Boyd 



Nathaniel P. Banks, 

 James L. Orr, . . . 

 Wm. Pennington, . 

 Galusha A. Grow. . 

 Schuyler Coif ax, . . 

 James G. Elaine, . . 

 Michael C. Kerr, . . 

 Samuel J. Randall, 

 Joseph W. Keifer, . 

 John G. Carlisle, . . 

 Thomas B. Reed, . 

 Charles F. Crisp, . . 

 Thomas B. Reed, . 

 David B. Henderson. 

 Joseph G. Cannon, . 



State 



Pa. 



Conn. 



Pa. 



N.J. 



Mass. 



N. C. 



Ky. 



S. C. 



Ky. 



N.Y. 



Va. 



Ky. 



N.'Y. 



Va. 



Tenn. 



Tenn. 



Va. 



Ky. 



Va. 



Ind. 



Mass. 



Ga. 



Ky. 



Mass. 



S. C. 



N.J 



Pa. 



Ind. 



Me. 



Ind. 



Pa. 



Ohio 



Ky. 



Me. 



Ga. 



Me. 



Iowa 



111. 



1750 

 1740 

 1750 



1760 1824 



1746 

 1757 



1813 

 1837 

 1750 1821 

 1852 

 1857 

 1852 

 1854 

 1841 

 1852 

 1854 



1801 

 1809 

 1801 



1777 

 1776 

 1777 

 1784 

 1783 

 1777 

 1784 

 1784 

 1797 

 1795 

 1809 

 1805 

 1805 

 1799 

 1809 

 1815 

 1800 

 1816 

 1822 

 1796 

 1823 

 1823 

 1830 

 1827 

 1828 

 1836 

 1835 

 1839 

 1845 



1840 1906 



1857 20-23 

 1869 



1849 24 



1887 



1845 



1848 



1850 



1894 



1808 



185 



1894 



1873 



1862 



1907 



1893 

 1876 



Con- 

 gress 



4, 



2 

 3 

 5 

 6 

 7-9 

 10, 11 

 12,13 

 13 



14-16 

 16 

 17 

 18 

 19 



9 32 



1885 38-40 



41-43 

 44 



1890 44-46 

 47 

 48-50 



1902 



1896 52, 53 



1902 54, 55 

 56, 57 

 59, 60 



YEARS 



1789-91 

 1791-93 

 1793-95 

 1795-99 

 1799-01 

 1801-07 

 1807-11 

 1811-14 

 1814-15 

 1815-20 

 1820-21 

 1821-23 

 1823-25 

 1825-27 

 1827-34 

 1834-35 

 1835-39 

 1839-41 

 1841-43 

 1843-45 

 1845-47 

 1847-49 

 1849-51 

 1851-55 

 1855-57 

 1857-59 

 1859-61 

 1861-63 

 1863-69 

 1869-75 

 1875-76 

 1876-81 

 1881-83 

 1883-89 

 1889-91 

 1891-95 

 1895-99 

 1899-03 

 1903- 



JUSTICES OF THE UNITED STATES 



SUPREME COURT 

 (Names of the Chief Justices in italirs.) 



NAME 



John Jay, N. Y 



John Rutledge, S. C., . 

 William Gushing, Mass., 

 James Wilson, Pa., . . 

 John Blair, Va., . . . 

 Robert H. Harrison, Md. 

 James Iredell, N. C., . 

 Thomas Johnson, Md., 



SERVICE 



Term 



1789-1795 

 1789-1791 

 1789-1810 

 1789-1798 

 1789-1796 

 1789-1790 

 1790-1799 

 1791-1793 



Born 



1745 

 1739 

 1733 

 1742 

 1732 

 1745 

 1751 

 1732 



Died 



1829 

 1800 

 1810 

 1798 

 1800 

 1790 

 1799 

 1819 



Uruguay. The Republic of Uruguay, 

 formerly a part of the vice royalty of Spain, and 

 subsequently a province of Brazil, declared its 

 independence, August 25, 1825, which was re- 

 cognized by the Treaty of Montevideo, signed 

 August 27, 1828. The Constitution of the 

 Republic was sworn July 18, 1830. By the 

 terms of this charter, the legislative power is in 

 a Parliament, composed of two houses, the 

 senate and the chamber of representatives, 

 which meet in annual session, extending from 

 February 15th to July 15th. In the interval 

 of the session, a permanent committee of two 

 senators and five members of the lower house 

 assume the legislative power, as well as the gen- 

 eral control of the administration. The rep- 

 resentatives are chosen for three years, in the 

 proportion of one to every 3,000 inhabitants, of 

 male adults who can read and write. 'The 

 senators are chosen by an electoral college, 

 whose members are directly elected by the people. 

 There is one Senator for each department, chosen 

 for six years, one-third retiring every two years. 

 There are sixty-nine representatives and nineteen 



