94 The Smithsonian Institution 



185 1. Admitted to the Bar, Centerville, Maryland, and Norwich, Connecti- 

 cut, 1830, '31. Member of the Connecticut Legislature, i839-'4i, 1846- 

 '48, and i854-'7o; and Speaker, 1847-48, 1854, and 1870. Mayor of Nor- 

 wich, Connecticut, i85i-'52. Member of U. S. Senate from Connecticut, 

 March 4, 1855-March 4, 1867. President of the Senate /r<? tern., 1865-67. 

 Justice of Supreme Court of Connecticut, i87o-'76. Professor of Law in 

 Yale, 1869. 



MELVILLE WESTON FULLER. 



ILLINOIS. 



Regent ex officio, as Chief Justice of the United States, October 8, 1888. 



Born in Augusta, Maine, February 11, 1833. A, B., Bowdoin, 1853. 

 LL. D., Northwestern University; Bowdoin, 1888; and Harvard, 1890. Stud- 

 ied law in Bangor and at Harvard. Admitted to the Bar, 1855. President 

 of Council of Augusta and City Solicitor, 1856. Member of Illinois Con- 

 stitutional Convention, 1862. Member of Illinois Legislature, 1863-65. 

 Chief Justice of the United States, 1888. 



JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD. 



OHIO. 



Regent on behalf of the House of Representatives, appointed December 21, 1865 ; 

 reappointed January 7, 1868, February 2, 1870, January, 1872, January 14, 

 1878, April 14, 1879. 



Born in Bedford, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, November 19, 1831 ; died in 

 Elberon, New Jersey, September 19, 1881. Educated in high schools, 

 Chester and Hiram, Ohio. A. B., Williams, 1856. A. M., Williams, 1859. 

 LL. D., Williams, 1872 ; and University of Pennsylvania, 1881. Tutor of Latin 

 and Greek in Hiram College, 1856. President of Hiram College, i857-'59. 

 Member of Ohio Senate, i859-'6o. Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier- 

 General, Major-General, 1861-63. Member of U. S. House of Represen- 

 tatives from Ohio, December 7, 1863-June 16, 1880. Elected to U. S. Senate 

 from Ohio, 1880. President of the United States, March 4, 1881. 



LUCIUS JEREMIAH GARTRELL. 



GEORGIA. 



Regent on behalf of the House of Representatives, appointed December 14, 1857; 



reappointed February 21, i860. 



Born in Wilkes County, Georgia, January 7, 1821 ; died in Adanta, Georgia, 

 April 7, 1891. Educated in Randolph-Macon, Virginia, and Franklin College, 

 now University of Georgia. Admitted to the Bar, 1842. Solicitor-General 

 of Georgia, i843-'47. Member of Georgia Legislature, 1847-51. Presiden- 

 tial Elector, 1856. Member of U. S. House of Representatives from Georgia, 

 December 7, 1857-March 2, 1861. Colonel and Brigadier-General in Con- 

 federate Army. 



