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HON. H. C. HANSBROUGH. 



^ENATOR HANSBROUGH has been one of the most active and efficient 

 k3 advocates of the development of the West through irrigation. By his long 

 experience in the far West he has become thoroughly familiar with the oppor- 

 tunities and results of irrigation, and has come to be regarded as the most 

 strenuous advocate in the Senate of the utilization of the vacant public lands 

 through national irrigation works. His position as Chairman of the Senate 

 Connnittee on Public Lands, and also as a member of the Committee on 

 Agriculture and Forestry, has given him exceptional opportunities for advancing 

 the interests of the West in Congress, and his name will alwa^'s be connected 

 with the irrigation movement because of the introduction by him of the first bill 

 (which has passed the Senate) providing for the construction of national 

 irrigation works. 



Henry Clay Hansbrough was born at Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, 

 Illinois, January 30, 1848. He was educated in a common school, and in 1867 

 removed to California, where he learned the printing trade ; later published a 

 daily paper at San Jose, California. He was with the San Francisco Chronicle 

 from 1870 to 1879 ; then published a paper at Baraboo, Wisconsin, for two 3'ears, 

 removing to the Territor}- of Dakota in 1882, and became prominent in journalism 

 and in public affairs, being twice elected mayor of the city of Devil's Lake ; was 

 National Committeeman for eight years ; was nominated for Congress by the first 

 Republican State Convention in North Dakota, and before the expiration of his 

 term in the House was elected to the United States Senate, in 1891, and reelected 

 in 1897. 



