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dress in Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876. Presided at impeach- 

 ment trial of Secretary Belknap and the Joint Electoral Commission. iSy^'yy. 



WILLIAM PITT FESSENDEN. 



MAINE. 



Regent on behalf of the Senate, appointed December 4, 1861; reappointed 



March 7, 1865. 



Born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, October 16, 1806; died in Portland, 

 Maine, September 8, 1869. A. B., Bowdoin, 1823. LL. D., Bowdoin, 1858 ; 

 and Harvard, 1864. Admitted to the Bar, Bridgeton, Maine, 1827. Member 

 of Maine Legislature, i832-'4o, i845-'46, and 1853-54. Presidential Elector, 

 1852. Member of U. S. House of Representatives from Maine, May 31, 1841- 

 March 3, 1845. Member of U. S. Senate from Maine, July 4, i854-December 6, 

 1864, December 4, i865~April 10, 1869. Secretary of the Treasury, July, 1864- 

 March, 1865. 



MILLARD FILLMORE. 



NEW YORK. 

 Regent ex officio, as Vice-President of the United States, March 4, 1849-1850. 



Born in Summer Hill, Cayuga County, New York, February 7, 1800; 

 died in Buffalo, New York, March 7, 1874. D. C. L., University of Oxford. 

 Admitted to the Bar, Buffalo, New York, 1823. Member of the New York 

 Legislature, i828-'32. Member of U. S. House of Representatives from New 

 York, December 2, i833-March 3, 1835, September 4, i837~March 3, 1843. 

 Comptroller of the State of New York, 1847. Vice-President of the United 

 States, March 4, 1849. President of the United States, July 9, 1850. 



GRAHAM NEWELL FITCH. 



INDIANA. 



Regent on behalf of the House of Representatives, appointed January 7, 1850; re- 

 appointed January 2, 1852. 



Born in LeRoy, New York, December 6, 1809; died in Logansport, In- 

 diana, November 29, 1892. Educated in Middlebury and Geneva, New 

 York. M. D., Medical College, Fairfield, New York. Practised medicine 

 in Logansport, Indiana, 1834. Professor in Rush Medical College, Chicago, 

 i844-'49- Professor of Surgery, Indiana Medical College, i878-'83. Mem- 

 ber of Indiana Legislature, i836-'39. Member of U. S. House of Represen- 

 tatives from Indiana, December 3, 1849 March 3 J ^53- Member of U. S. 

 Senate from Indiana, December 7, i857~March 2, 1861. Colonel in War of 

 the Rebellion, i86i-'62. Presidential Elector, 1844, 1848, 1856. 



LAFAYETTE SABINE FOSTER. 



CONNECTICUT. 

 Regent as President of the Senate, Acting Vice-President pro tern., April 15, 1865. 



Born in Franklin, Connecticut, November 22, 1806; died in Norwich, 

 Connecticut, September 19, 1880. A. B., Brown, 1828. LL. D., Brown, 



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