Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sixth Florida Infantry; was a member of the Constitutional Convention of the State in 1865; was a candidate for Elector on the Greeley and Brown ticket in 1872, and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Conservative Democrat, receiving 13,163 votes against 12,623 votes for W. J. Purman, Republican.

SECOND DISTRICT.

Counties.-Alachua, Baker, Brevard, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dade, Duval, Hamilton, Madison, Marion, Nassau, Orange, Putnam Saint John's, Suwannee, and Volusia.

HORATIO BISBEE, of Jacksonville, was born at Canton, Maine, May 1, 1839; graduated at Tufts College, Massachusetts, in 1862; was a private soldier in Company F, Fifth Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteers, under the first call for Union troops in April, 1861; afterwards was Čaptain, Lieutenant-Colonel, and Colonel of the Ninth Maine Regiment of Volunteers; was United States District Attorney for the Northern District of Florida from_January, 1869, to February, 1873, and Attorney-General of that State from February to June, 1872, and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 11,470 votes against 11,452 votes for Jesse J. Finley, Democrat.

GEORGIA.

SENATORS.

JOHN B. GORDON, of Atlanta, was born in Upson County, Georgia, February 6, 1832; was educated at the University of Georgia; was admitted to the bar, but practised law only a short time; at the beginning of the war entered the Confederate Army as Captain of Infantry, and was promoted Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier-General, Major-General, and to the command of the Second Army Corps; commanded one wing of General Lee's army at Appomattox Court-House; was wounded in battle eight times; was the Democratic candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1868, and his party claimed his election by a large majority, but his opponent, Rufus H. Bullock, was declared elected; was a member of the National Democratic Convention of 1868 from Georgia; was a Delegate from the State at large to the National Democratic Convention of 1872; was elected Presidential Elector for the State at large on the Seymour and Blair ticket in 1868, and the Greeley and Brown ticket in 1872; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed Joshua Hill, Republican, and took his seat March 4, 1873. His term of service will expire March 3, 1879.

BENJAMIN HARVEY HILL was born in Jasper County, Georgia, September 14, 1823; received a classical education, graduating at the University of Georgia, at Athens, in 1844; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1845, and commenced practice at La Grange, Georgia; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1851, '59, and '60; was defeated as the American candidate for Congress in 1855, receiving 6,813 votes against 6,883 votes for H. Warner, Democrat; was defeated as the American candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1857, receiving 46,889 votes against 57,631 votes for J. E. Brown, Democrat; was a Presidential Elector on the Bell and Everett ticket in 1861; was a Delegate to the State Convention of 1861, and advocated the Union until the secession ordinance had been adopted; was a Delegate from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress, and subsequently a Senator from Georgia in the Confederate Congress; was arrested in 1865 and imprisoned in Fort Lafayette; was elected a Representative from Georgia in the Forty-fourth Congress, (to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Garrett McMillan,) and was re-elected to the Fortyfifth Congress, but resigned, having been elected a United States Senator from Georgia. He took his seat March 5, 1877, and his term of service will expire March 3, 1883.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

Counties.-Appling, Bryan, Bullock, Burke, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Clinch, Echols, Effingham, Emanuel, Glynn, Liberty, MacIntosh, Pierce, Scriven, Tatnall, Ware, and Wayne. JULIAN HARTRIDGE, of Savannah, was born at Savannah, Georgia; received a collegiate education; attended law-school at Cambridge, Massachusetts; practises law; has been Solicitor-General of the Eastern Judicial Circuit of Georgia; member of the Legislature of Georgia; Delegate to the Charleston Democratic Convention in 1860; was in the Confederate Army during first year of the war; was a member of the Confederate Congress; was Chairman of Executive Committee of the Democratic party of Georgia in 1871; Delegate for the State at large to National Democratic Convention in 1872; elector for the State at large on the Democratic ticket in 1872; was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 11,465 votes against 5,922 votes for John E. Bryant, Republican.

SECOND DISTRICT.

Counties.-Baker, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Lowndes, Miller, Mitchell, Quitman, Randolph, Terrell, Thomas, and Worth.

WILLIAM E. SMITH, of Albany, was born at Augusta, Georgia, March 14, 1829; received an academical education; studied law, was admitted to the bar in May, 1848, under a special

act of the Legislature, and has since practised; is also a planter; was elected Ordinary of Dougherty County, Georgia, in 1853; was elected Solicitor-General of the Southwest Circuit in 1858, and the same year was appointed by Gov. Brown to fill the unexpired term of John W. Evans; was nominated as the candidate of the Union party in Dougherty County for the State Convention in 1860, but declined in favor of Hon. Lott Warren; entered the Confederate Army as a volunteer in the Fourth Georgia Volunteers, after the State seceded; was elected Captain in April, 1862; lost a leg in the defence of Richmond, at King's Schoolhouse, June 25, 1862; was elected to the Confederate Congress in 1863; was tendered the office of Circuit Judge, in 1874, by Gov. Smith, but declined;_was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,627 votes against 8,015 votes for R. H. Whiteley, Republican.

THIRD DISTRICT.

Counties. Coffee, Dodge, Dooly, Irwin, Lee, Macon, Montgomery, Pulaski, Schley, Stewart, Sumter, Taylor, Telfair, Webster, and Wilcox.

PHILIP COOK, of Americus, was born in Twiggs County, Georgia, July 31, 1817; was partially educated at Oglethorpe University, Georgia; read law at the University of Virginia, and has continued the practice; was elected to the State Senate of Georgia in 1859, '60, and '63; was elected a member of the State Convention of 1865, called by President Johnson; entered the Confederate service in April, 1861, as a private; was commissioned First Lieutenant, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel, and, in August, 1863, Brigadier-General; was elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, but not allowed to take his seat; was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 10,684 votes against 4,280 votes for W. P. Pierce, Republican.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Campbell, Coweta, Chattahoochee, Carroll, Douglas, Harris, Heard, Marion, Meriwether, Muscogee, Talbot, and Troup.

HENRY R. HARRIS, of Greenville, was born at Sparta, Georgia, February 2, 1828; removed to Greenville, Meriwether County, Georgia, where he now resides, in 1833; graduated at Emory College in 1847; is by profession a planter; was a member of the Georgia Convention of 1861; was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,797 votes against 5,785 votes for H. W. Hilliard.

FIFTH DISTRICT.

Counties. Clayton, Crawford, De Kalb, Fayette, Fulton, Henry, Houston, Milton, Monroe, Pike, Spalding, and Upton.

MILTON A. CANDLER, of Atlanta, was born in Campbell County, Georgia, January 11, 1837; received a classical education, graduating at the University of Georgia in 1854; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1856, and commenced practice at Decatur, Georgia; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1861-63; of the State Constitutional Convention in 1865; and of the State Senate in 1868-'72; was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress, receiving 18,083 votes against 8,720 votes for William Markham, Republican.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

Counties. Baldwin, Ribb, Rutts, Jasper, Jones, Laurens, Newton, Putnam, Rockdale, Twiggs, Walton, and Wilkinson.

JAMES H. BLOUNT, of Macon, was elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 12,996 votes against 4,578 votes for Samuel G. Gove, Republican.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Cobb, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Haralson, Murray, Paulding, Polk, Walker, and Whitfield.

WILLIAM H. FELTON, of Cartersville, was born in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, June 19, 1823; graduated at the University of Georgia, at Athens, in August, 1842; graduated at the Medical College of Georgia, at Augusta, in March, 1844; is a farmer by profession and practice; was a member of the State House of Representatives of Georgia, from Cass (now Bartow) County, in 1851; was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, and was re-elected to the Fortyfifth Congress as an Independent Democrat, receiving 13,269 votes against 10,807 votes for W. H. Dabney, Democrat.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Columbia, Elbert, Glascock, Greene, Hancock, Hart, Jefferson, Johnson, Lincoln, McDuffie, Oglethorpe, Richmond, Taliaferro, Warren, Washington, and Wilkes. ALEXANDER HAMILTON STEPHENS, of Crawfordville, was born in that part of Wilkes County, Georgia, which now forms a part of Taliaferro County, February 11, 1812; gradu

ated at the University of Georgia, at Athens, in 1832; taught school eighteen months; was admitted to the bar at Crawfordville in 1834; was a member of the House of Representatives of the Georgia Legislature from Taliaferro County in 1836, 37, 38, 39, 40, and '41; and was a member of the State Senate from Taliaferro County in 1842; was run as a Presidential Elector for the State at large in Georgia on the Douglas and Johnson ticket in 1860; was elected to the Secession Convention of Georgia in 1861; opposed and voted against the ordinance of secession in that body, but gave it his support after it had been passed by the Convention against his judgment as to its policy; was elected by that Convention to the Confederate Congress which met at Montgomery, Alabama, February 4, 1861, and was chosen Vice-President under the Provisional Government by that Congress; was elected Vice-President of the Confederate States for the term of six years under what was termed the permanent government, in November, 1861; visited the State of Virginia on a mission under the Confederate Government in April, 1861, upon the invitation of that State; was one of the Commissioners on the part of the Confederate Government at the Hampton Roads conference in February, 1865; was elected a Representative to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Congresses, when he declined a re-election; was elected to the Senate of the United States in 1866, by the first Legislature convened under the new Constitution, but was not allowed to take his seat; was elected to the Forty-third Congress, (to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Ambrose R. Wright,) was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Jeffersonian Democrat, receiving 14,471 votes against 1,273 votes for Tennelle.

NINTH DISTRICT.

Counties. Banks, Clarke, Dawson, Fannin, Forsyth, Franklin, Gilmer, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison, Morgan, Pickens, Rabun, Towns, Union, and White.

HIRAM P. BELL, of Cumming, was born in Jackson County, January 27, 1827; received an academic education; taught school for two years, during which time he read law, was admitted to the bar November 28, 1849, and has practised since; was a candidate for Presidential Elector on the Bell and Everett ticket in 1860; was a Delegate to the Secession Convention in 1861 and opposed the secession ordinances; was appointed by the Convention a Commissioner to the State of Tennessee, to ask the co-operation of that State in the formation of a Southern Confederacy; was a State Senator in 1861, resigning to enter the Confederate Army in March, 1862; raised a company, of which he was elected Captain; was elected LieutenantColonel on the organization of the Forty-third regiment, and afterwards promoted to the colonelcy of the regiment; was dangerously wounded at Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi, December 29, 1862, and disabled from further service; was a Representative from Georgia in the Second Confederate Congress in 1864 and '65; was a member of the Democratic State Executive Committee, 1868-'71; was elected a Representative from Georgia in the Forty-third Congress; was a Delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Saint Louis that nominated Tilden and Hendricks; is a member, from the State at large, of the National Democratic Executive Committee, and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, (to fill the vacancy caused by the election of B. H. Hill to the Senate,) receiving 5,173 votes against 3,734 votes for Emory Speer, Independent, and 1,614 votes for Martin R. Archer, Republican.

ILLINOIS.

SENATORS.

RICHARD J. OGLESBY, of Decatur, was born in Oldham County, Kentucky, July 25, 1824; settled in Illinois, at Decatur, in 1836; received less than a common-school education; was a carpenter for two years; studied law in 1844, and was admitted to the bar in 1845; served one year in the Mexican war; worked two years in the mines in California; was elected to the State Senate of Illinois in 1860, served one session, and resigned to enter the volunteer service in 1861, at the commencement of the war for the suppression of the rebellion; was chosen Colonel, afterwards appointed Brigadier-General, and in 1863 (to take rank from November, 1862) a Major-General; resigned in 1864, and was elected that year Governor of Illinois for the term which expired in January, 1869; was re-elected Governor of Illinois in November, 1872, entered upon the duties of his office January 13, 1873, and on the 21st of the same month was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed Lyman Trumbull, Liberal. His term will expire March 3, 1879.

DAVID DAVIS, of Bloomington, was born in Cecil County, Maryland, March 9, 1815; received a classical education, graduating at Kenyon College, Ohio, in 1832; studied law at Lenox, Massachusetts, and at the New Haven Law School; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Illinois in the fall of 1835, locating in 1836 at Bloomington; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1844; was a Delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1847; was elected in 1848 a Judge of one of the Circuit Courts in Illinois, and held the office by repeated elections until he resigned it in October, 1862; was a Delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1860; was appointed by President Lincoln a Judge of the

Supreme Court of the United States in October, 1852, and served until March 5, 1877, when he resigned to take his seat as United States Senator from Illinois, having been elected the previous January, by the votes of Independents and Democrats, to succeed John A. Logan, Republican. His term will expire March 3, 1883.

REPRESENTATIVES.

FIRST DISTRICT.

Counties. The first six wards of the city of Chicago, thirteen townships of Cook County, and all of Du Page County.

WILLIAM ALDRICH, of Chicago, was born at Greenfield, New York, in January, 1820; received a common-school education, with a private tutor one term in the higher branches of mathematics and surveying, and one term at an academy; was reared on a farm; taught school; engaged in mercantile pursuits in 1846; removed to Wisconsin in 1851, and, in addition to merchandising, engaged in the manufacture of lumber, woodenware, and furniture; was for three years Superintendent of Schools; was Chairman of the County Board of Supervisors one year; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1859; removed to Chicago in 1860, and has since been in the wholesale grocery business there; was chosen Alderman from the third ward of Chicago in the spring of 1876, and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 16,578 votes against 14,101 votes for John R. Hoxie, Democrat.

SECOND DISTRICT.

County. Part of Cook, (wards 7 to 14, .nclusive, of the city of Chicago.)

CARTER H. HARRISON, of Chicago, was born in Fayette County, Kentucky, February 15, 1825; received a classical education, graduating at Yale College in 1845; studied law, but was a farmer in his native county until 1855, when he graduated at Transylvania Law School, Lexington, Kentucky, and removed to Chicago; was elected a Cook County Commissioner in 1871, and served until December, 1874; was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 14,732 votes against 14,090 votes for George R. Davis, Republican.

Counties.-Part of Cook, and Lake.

THIRD DISTRICT.

LORENZO BRENTANO, of Chicago, was born at Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, November, 4, 1813; received a classical education; studied jurisprudence at the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg, and graduated as LL.D.; practised before the Supreme Court of Baden, and was the leading counsel for the defence in the celebrated state trial against Herr Von Struve for high treason; was elected, on attaining the legal age, to the Chamber of Deputies, where he joined the Liberal or opposition party, of which he finally became one of the leaders; was elected in 1848 to the Frankfort Parliament, and when in 1849 the Grand Duke of Baden had fled in consequence of the revolution, he became President of the Provisional Republican Government; after the defeat of the revolutionary army under Generals Miroslawski and Sigel, he was in contumaciam sentenced to imprisonment for life, but he had found an asylum in this country, where he first settled in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, as a farmer; in 1859 he removed to Chicago and was admitted to the bar, but soon became editor-in-chief and principal proprietor of "The Illinois Staats-Zeitung;" was a member of the State Legislature in 1862; was for five years President of the Chicago Board of Education; was a Presidential Elector on the Grant and Colfax ticket in 1868; a general amnesty having been granted to those who participated in the revolution, he revisited his native land in 1869, returning to Chicago after the great fire; was appointed United States Consul at Dresden in 1872, and served until April, 1876; and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 11,843 votes against 11,435 votes for J. V. Le Moyne, Democrat.

FOURTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Boone, De Kalb, Kane, McHenry, and Winnebago.

WILLIAM LATHROP, of Rockford, was born in Genesee County, New York, April 17, 1825; received a common-school education; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and has practised at Rockford since 1851; was elected a member of the General Assembly of Illinois in 1856, and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 13,241 votes against 5,991 votes for S. A. Hurlbut, Republican, and 8,140 votes for J. F. Farnsworth, Democrat

FIFTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Carroll, Jo Daviess, Ogle, Stephenson, and Whitesides.

HORATIO C. BURCHARD, of Freeport, was born at Marshall, Oneida County, New York, September 22, 1825; graduated at Hamilton College, New York, 1850; studied and practised law; was engaged in mercantile business; was School Commissioner of Stephenson County, Illinois, from 1857 to '60; was a member of the Legislature of the State of Illinois from 1863 to '66; was elected to the Forty-first, the Forty-second, the Forty-third, and the Forty-fourth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 15,824 votes against 10,602 votes for J. Pattison, Democrat.

SIXTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Bureau, Henry, Lee, Putnam, and Rock Island.

THOMAS J. HENDERSON, of Princeton, was born at Brownsville, Haywood County, Tennessee, November 29, 1824; removed to Illinois at the age of eleven; received an academic education; was reared upon a farm; was elected Clerk of the County Commissioners' Court of Stark County, Illinois, in 1847, and served until 1849; was elected Clerk of the County Court of Stark County, and served from 1849 until 1853; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1852, and has since practised his profession; was a member of the State House of Representatives in 1855 and '56, and of the State Senate in 1857, '58, '59, and '60; entered the Union Army in 1862 as Colonel of the One hundred and twelfth Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, served until the close of the war, and was brevetted Brigadier-General in January, 1865, for gallant services in the Georgia and Tennessee campaigns, especially at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864; was elected a Presidential Elector for the State at large on the Republican ticket in 1868; was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 15,560 votes against 9,821 votes for Charles Dunham, Democrat.

SEVENTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Grundy, Kendall, La Salle, and Will.

PHILIP C. HAYES, of Morris, was born at Granby, Connecticut, February 3, 1833, and removed with his father's family to La Salle County, Illinois, during the summer of the same year; spent the first twenty years of his life on a farm; received a collegiate education; served in the Union Army, having been commissioned successively Captain, LieutenantColonel, and Colonel, and brevetted Brigadier-General; since the war has followed the profession of journalism, and is one of the publishers of "The Morris Herald;" was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 14,849 votes against 13,313 votes for Alexander Campbell, Independent.

EIGHTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Fort, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston, Marshall, and Woodford.

GREENBURY L. FORT, of Lacon, was born in Ohio, October 17, 1825; removed with his parents to Illinois in April, 1834; was raised on a farm; was admitted to the bar, and practised law; was elected Sheriff in 1850, Clerk of the Circuit Court in 1852, and County Judge in 1857; was an officer in the Union Army from April 22, 1861, to March 24, 1866; was elected to the State Senate of Illinois in 1866; was elected to the Forty-third and the Forty-fourth Congresses, and was re-elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 15,001 votes against 12,211 votes for George W. Parker, Democrat.

NINTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Fulton, Knox, Peoria, and Stark.

THOMAS A. BOYD, of Lewiston, Illinois, was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, June 25, 1830; received a classical education, graduating at Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1848; studied law in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania; was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice at Bedford, Pennsylvania; removed to Illinois in 1856, and continued in the profession until 1861; enlisted in the Seventeenth Illinois Infantry in 1861, and held the position of Captain; was elected a State Senator in 1866 and re-elected in 1870, and was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 14,548 votes against 14,061 votes for G. A. Wilson, Democrat, and 678 for H. M. Matthews, Independent.

TENTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer, Schuyler, and Warren. BENJAMIN F. MARSH, of Warsaw, was elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 14,252 votes against 13,496 votes for John H. Hungate, Democrat.

ELEVENTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, and Pike.

ROBERT M. KNAPP, of Jerseyville, is by profession a lawyer; was a member of the Fortythird Congress, and was again elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,949 votes against 12,622 votes for Joseph Robins, Republican.

TWELFTH DISTRICT.

Counties.-Cass, Christian, Menard, Morgan, Sangamon, and Scott.

WILLIAM M. SPRINGER, of Springfield, was born in Sullivan County, Indiana, May 30, 1836; removed to Illinois with his parents in 1848; graduated at the Indiana State University, Bloomington, in 1858; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1859; was Secretary of the State Constitutional Convention of Illinois in 1862; was a member of the State Legislature of Illinois in 1871-'72; was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress and re-elected to the Fortyfifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,409 votes against 13,714 votes for David L. Phillips, Republican.