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SHELBY MOORE CULLOM. 



ILLINOIS. 



Regent on behalf of the Senate, appointed March 23, 1885 ; reappointed March 28, 

 1889, and December 18, 1895. 



Born in Wayne County, Kentucky, November 22, 1829. Educated in Rock 

 River Seminary, Mount Morris, Illinois. Admitted to the Bar in Spring- 

 field, Illinois, 1855. City Attorney of Springfield, 1855. Presidential Elector, 

 1856. Member of the Illinois Legislature, i856-'6o, i872-'74, and its 

 Speaker, 1861, '73. Member of U. S. House of Representatives from Illinois, 

 December 4, i865~March 3, 1871. Governor of Illinois, January 8, 1877- 

 February 5, 1883. Member of U. S. Senate from Illinois, December 4, 1883- 

 March 3, 1901. 



GEORGE MIFFLIN DALLAS. 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



Regent ex officio, as Vice-P resident of the United States, August 10, 1846- 



March 4, 1849. 



Born in Philadelphia, July 10, 1792; died in Philadelphia, December 31, 

 1864. A. B., Princeton, 1810. LL. D., Princeton, 1854. Admitted to the 

 Bar, 1813. Secretary of the Russian Commission, i8i3-'i4. Deputy Attor- 

 ney-General for Philadelphia County, 1817. Mayor of Philadelphia, 1829. 

 U. S. Attorney for Pennsylvania, 1829-31. Member of U. S. Senate from 

 Pennsylvania, December 5, i83i-March 2, 1833. Attorney-General of Penn- 

 sylvania, i833~'35. U. S. Minister to Russia, i837-'3g. Vice-President of 

 the United States, i845-'49- U. S. Minister to Great Britain, i856-'6i. 



JAMES DWIGHT DANA. 



CONNECTICUT. 

 Regent elected by Congress, January 19, 1874; resigned December 27, 1877. 



Born in Utica, New York, February 13, 1813; died in New Haven, 

 Connecticut, April 14, 1895. Educated in Bartlett Academy, Utica, New 

 York. A. B., Yale, 1833. Ph. D., Munich, 1872. LL. D., Amherst, 1853; 

 Harvard, 1886; and Edinburgh, 1889. Instructor of Mathematics to United 

 States Naval Officers, i833-'36. Assistant in Chemistry, Yale, i836-'38. 

 Mineralogist, Geologist, and Zoologist of the United States Exploring Expe- 

 dition, i836-'42. Silliman Professor of Natural History and Geology in Yale, 

 i85o-'9o. Editor of American Journal of Science, i846-'95. Received Wol- 

 laston and Copley medals and Grand Walker prize. President of American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 1854. Original Member National 

 Academy of Sciences, 1863. 



DAVID DAVIS. 



ILLINOIS. 



Regent ex officio, as President of the Senate pro tern., October 13, 1881- 



March 4, 1883. 



Born in Cecil County, Maryland, March 9, 1815; died in Bloomington, 

 Illinois, June 26, 1886. Educated in Newark Academy. A. B., Kenyon. 



