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and a Representative in Congress, from 1821 to 1823. He died in St. Augustine, Florida, where he had gone for his health, March 26, 1852, aged sixty-nine years.

Bartlett, Bailey. He was Sheriff of Essex County, Massachusetts, for many years, and a Representative in Congress, from Massachusetts, from 1797 to 1801.

Bartlett, Ichabod.-He was born in Salisbury, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, in 1786; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1808; studied law, and settled in Portsmouth, where he was eminently successful in his profession, and was a Representative in Congress, from 1823 to 1829, serving on the Committee on Naval Affairs. He was also frequently in the State Legislature, and a member of the Convention to revise the State Constitution. He died in Portsmouth, October 19, 1853.

Bartlett, Josiah.-Born in New Hampshire in 1768, and died at Stratham, in that State, April 14, 1838. He was a physician of extensive practice, and a Representative in Congress, from New Hampshire, from 1811 to 1813. His father, bearing the same name, was a man of note, and the first Governor of New Hampshire after the adoption of the Federal Constitution.

Bartlett, Thomas, Jr.-He was born in Vermont; adopted the profession of law; and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1851 to 1853. He served three years in the State Legislature, both houses; was County Attorney in 1839 and 1841; and President of the State Constitutional Convention of 1850.

Bartley, Mordecai.-He was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and was a Representative in Congress, from Ohio, from 1823 to 1831, and Governor of Ohio, from 1844 to 1846.

Barton, David. He was one of the first emigrants to the Territory of Missouri; President of the Convention which met to form a State Constitution, in 1820; was a Senator in Congress, from Missouri, from 1821 to 1831, and a man of distinguished talents. Died near Boonville, Missouri, September 28, 1837.

Barton, Richard W.-He was born in Virginia, and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1841 to 1843. He also served in the State Legislature, and was the first President of the Valley Agricultural Society. Died in Frederick County, Virginia, March 15, 1859.

Barton, Samuel.-He was born in New York, served three years in the Assembly of that State, and was a Representative in Congress, from 1835 to 1837.

Basset, Richard.—He was a member from Delaware of the Convention which formed the Constitution, and a Senator in Congress, from its adoption until 1793. He was also a Justice of the Federal Supreme Court; Governor of Delaware, from 1798 to 1801; and died in September, 1815.

Bassett, Burwell.-He was born in New Kent County, Virginia, and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1805 to 1813, from 1815 to 1819, and from 1821 to 1831.

Bateman, Ephraim.-He was born in Cumberland, New Jersey; was a Senator in Congress, from that State, from 1826 to 1829; and was a member of the Committees on Agriculture and Enrolled Bills; having previously been a Representative in Congress, from 1815 to 1823; serving on the Committees on the Post-office and Accounts. Died January 21, 1829.

Bates, Edward.-Was born September 4, 1793, at Belmont, Goochland County, Virginia. His education was commenced by his father, and succeeded by several years of academic instruction, mostly at Charlotte Hall, Maryland, and finished by an accomplished private tutor. In early youth he declined a midshipman's warrant, and served in 1813, at Norfolk, in the Virginia Militia, from February to October. 1814 he migrated to St. Louis, there studied law, and began to practise in 1816. In 1818 he was appointed Prosecuting Attorney for that Circuit; in 1820 was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, and was the same year appointed Attorney-General of the new State of Missouri. He resigned that office in 1822, and was elected to

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the lower branch of the State Legislature. In 1824 he was appointed by President Monroe United States Attorney for the Missouri District; in 1826 resigned, and was elected a Representative in Congress from Missouri, serving from 1827 to 1829. In 1830 he was elected to the State Senate, and in 1834 again to the lower house of the Legislature. In 1835, being enfeebled by sedentary labor, he moved to the country, and practised law for seven years, travelling much on horseback around the prairies. In 1842 he returned to St. Louis; and in 1850 he was appointed by President Fillmore Secretary of War, but declined the office. In 1853 was elected Judge of the St. Louis Land Court, which office he resigned in 1856. During that year he presided at the Whig Convention of Baltimore, and in 1858 received from Harvard University the degree of LL.D. In 1861 was appointed Attorney-General in President Lincoln's Cabinet.

Bates, Isaac C.-Born at Granville, Massachusetts, in 1780, and graduated at Yale College in 1802. He studied law and attained a high position as an advocate. He was frequently in the State Legislature and a member of the Executive Council; was a Representative in Congress, from 1827 to 1833, and a Senator in Congress, from 1841 to 1845; and was Chairman of the Committee on Pensions. He died in Washington City, March 16, 1845.

Bates, James.-He was bred a physician; for some years connected with the Insane Hospital at Augusta; and was a Representative in Congress, from Somerset County, Maine, from 1831 to 1833, and a member of the Committee on Expenditures in the Postoffice Department.

Bates, James W.-He was born in Goochland County, Virginia, and was a Delegate to Congress, from the Territory of Arkansas, from 1820 to 1823.

Bates, Martin W.-He was born in Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, February 24, 1787; he received a good English education, and became a lawyer by profession; having first studied medicine. He removed to Delaware, and was several times elected to

the Legislature of that State; and in 1850 was a member of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Delaware. He took his seat in the Thirty-fifth Congress, as a Senator from Delaware, serving on the Committees on Pensions and Revolutionary Pensions.

Baxter, Portus.-Was born in Brownington, Orleans County, Vermont; received a liberal education, adopted the occupation of a merchant, and was elected a Representative from Vermont to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committee on Elections; re-elected to the Thirtyeighth Congress, and served on the same Committee, and also on that of Expenditures in the Navy Department. In 1857 he was a Presidential Elector.

Bay, William V. N.-He was born in New York, and having become a citizen of Missouri, was elected a Representative in Congress, from 1849 to 1851.

Bayard, James A.-He was born in Pennsylvania, in 1767. After studying law at Philadelphia, he commenced the practice in Delaware. In 1796 he was elected a Representative in Congress, serving from 1797 to 1801; when he was appointed Minister to France. In 1804 he was elected to the United States Senate, of which body he continued a member, till he was appointed by President Madison, in 1813, a Commissioner to negotiate a peace with Great Britain. The absence of the Emperor from St. Petersburg preventing the transaction of any business, he proceeded to Holland. He lent his able assistance in the negotiation of the treaty of peace at Ghent. At Paris, he was apprised of his appointment as Envoy to the Court of St. Petersburg; this he declined. He tendered, however, his co-operation in forming a commercial treaty with Great Britain; but an alarming illness compelled him to return to the United States. He arrived in June, and died August 6, 1815.

Bayard, James A.-He has been a Senator in Congress, from Delaware, ever since 1851, and was Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, and a member of the Committees on the Library and on Public Grounds. In 1863

he was re-elected for his third term, but resigned in January, 1864.

Bayard, Richard H.-He was born in Delaware, graduated at Princeton College in 1814, and was a Senator in Congress, from Delaware, from 1836 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1845. He was subsequently appointed American Minister to Belgium.

Baylies, Francis.-Born in Bristol County, Massachusetts, in 1784; was Register of Probate in Bristol County, Massachusetts, from 1812 to 1820; a member of the State Legislature, from 1827 to 1832, and also in 1835; was a Representative in Congress, from Massachusetts, from 1821 to 1827, and in 1832 was appointed Chargé d'Affaires to Buenos Ayres, and died October 28, 1852. He was the author of "A History of the Plymouth Colony."

Baylies, William.-He graduated at Harvard College in 1760; was a member of the Provincial Congress in 1775; often a member of the Massachusetts State Council; and a Representative in Congress, from Massachusetts, from 1805 to 1809. He died at Dighton, Massachusetts, June 17, 1826, aged eighty-two years.

Baylies, William.-He was born in Massachusetts in 1777, educated a lawyer, and held many public offices, having been in the State Legislature in 1830 and 1831. He was a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts, from 1813 to 1817, and from 1833 to 1835, serving as a member of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims.

Bayley, Thomas.-He was born in Somerset County, Maryland, and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1817 to 1823.

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of the Legislature, he was elected by that body a Brigadier-General of the militia of Eastern Virginia. He resigned his seat, and was elected Judge of the Circuit Superior Court of Law. In 1844 he resigned his seat on the bench, and was elected to the House of Representatives from the Accomac District, and continued, by successive elections, a member of the House for twelve years, until the time of his death; during the Thirty-first Congress officiating as Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means. He lived and died on the same spot where his ancestors from England landed in 1666, and where they established the family home. He commanded the same brigade which his grandfather had commanded; and he held the same seat in the General Assembly of his State and in the House of Representatives, which his father had occupied before him. He died June 22, 1856, aged forty-five years.

Bayly, Thomas M.-Born in Virginia in 1775; entered public life in 1798, and continued therein until 1830; served in both branches of the State Legislature, and was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1830; having been a Representative in Congress, from Virginia, from 1813 to 1815. It was said of him that he never lost an election. Died in Accomac County in 1834.

Beale, Charles L.-Born in Canaan, Columbia County, New York, March 5, 1824; was prepared for college by a private tutor, and graduated at Union College in 1844; studied law at Kinderhook, and was admitted to the bar in 1849; was for several years a member of the Republican State Central Committee of New York; and in 1858 was elected a Representative to the Thirty-sixth Congress, from New York, serving as a member of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.

Beale, James M. H.-He was born in Virginia, and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1833 to 1837, and for two other terms, from 1849 to 1853.

Beale, R. L. T.-Born at Hickory Hill, Westmoreland County, Virginia, May 22, 1819; his education was obtained chiefly at Northumberland Aca

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demy, spending a short time at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania. In 1836 he commenced the study of law, and graduated at the University of Virginia, as a student of that profession, in 1838, and was licensed to practise in 1839. In 1847 he was elected a Representative in Congress, and was a member of the Committee on the Militia; he declined a re-election at the expiration of his term. In 1850 he was a member of the Reform Convention of Virginia, and in 1857 was elected to the State Senate.

Beall, Rezin.—He was an officer in Wayne's army, with Harrison and Van Rensselaer; occupied various public stations in Ohio, and was a member of Congress, from that State, from 1813 to 1815, and died at Wooster, Ohio, February 20, 1843, aged seventy-three

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Beaman, Fernando C.-He was born in Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, June 28, 1814; removed with his father to New York when a boy, and left an orphan at the age of fifteen; received a good English education at the Franklin County Academy; studied law in Rochester; removed to Michigan in 1888, and commenced the practice of his profession; was for six years Prosecuting Attorney for Lenawe County; was Judge of Probate for four years, and in 1860 was elected a Representative, from Michigan, to the Thirtyseventh Congress, serving on the Committee on Roads and Canals; re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress, and served on the same Committee; and also on that on Territories.

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York, from 1831 to 1836, and was Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary. He also held the offices of State Senator in 1823, and Asssistant Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State, and the Federal appointment of United States District Attorney for New York. Died at Utica, New York, May 6, 1860.

Beatty, John.-He graduated at Princeton College in 1769, and studied medicine; was a Representative in Congress, from New Jersey, from 1793 to 1795, having been a Delegate to the Continental Congress, from 1783 to 1785. He died at Trenton, April 30, 1826, aged seventy-seven years.

Beatty, Martin. He was a Representative in Congress, from Kentucky, from 1833 to 1835.

Beatty, William.-He was born in Ireland, and was a Representative in Congress, from Pennsylvania, from 1837 to 1841.

Beaumont, Andrew.-He was born in Pennsylvania, and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1833 to 1837, and died at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, October 30, 1853.

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Becker, George L.-He was Representative in Congress, from Minnesota; elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress.

Bedinger, George M.-He was an officer in the revolutionary war, having served as Adjutant in the expedition against Chillicothe, in 1779, and as a Major at the battle of Blue Licks, in 1782; he was one of the earliest emigrants into the State of Kentucky; was a member of the Kentucky Legislature in 1792, and a Representative in Congress, from 1803 to 1807. He spent the close of his life in retirement, and died at an advanced age.

Bedinger, Henry.-He was born in Virginia; received a classical education; adopted the profession of law; and was a Representative in Congress, from Virginia, from 1845 to 1849, where he was distinguished for his eloquence as a debater. In 1853 he was appointed Chargé d'Affaires to Denmark, and returned home in the autumn of 1858.

A few weeks after his return he partook | of a complimentary dinner tendered to him by his fellow-citizens of all parties. He died of pneumonia, at Shepherdstown, Virginia, November 26, 1858. During his residence in Denmark, he was successful in bringing about the treaty abolishing the Sound Dues.

Beecher, Philemon.-Born in New Haven, Connecticut; he was an able lawyer, and one of the early settlers of Ohio, to which he emigrated from Connecticut. He was a Representative in Congress, from Ohio, from 1817 to 1821, serving as a member of the Committee on the Judiciary, and re-elected from 1823 to 1829. He died at Lancaster, Ohio, November 30, 1839, aged sixty-four years.

Beekman, Thomas.-He was a Representative in Congress, from New York, from 1829 to 1831.

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mont, and was a Representative in Congress, from Ohio, from 1852 to 1853.

Bell, James.-Born November 13, 1804, in Francistown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1822; studied law, and completed his course at Litchfield was admitted to the bar in 1825, and commenced to practise at Gilmanton; removed to Exeter, and thence to Gilford; and for many years held a distinguished rank in his profession. In 1846 he was elected to the Legislature, and was a member of the Constitutional Convention of the State in 1850. He was elected United States Senator, in June, 1855, for six years; and died in Laconia, New Hampshire, May 26, 1857, whither he had gone from Washington to recruit his health.

Bell, James M.-He was born in Ohio, and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1833 to 1835.

Bell, John.-He was born near Nashville, Tennessee, February 15, 1797. He commenced his studies at Cumberland College, now the Nashville University, and graduated at the latter in 1814; he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1816. In 1817 he was elected to the State Senate; declined a re-election, and devoted the next ten years of his life wholly to his profession; in 1827 he was elected a Representative in Congress, and continued to be re-elected until 1841, officiating during one term as Speaker; in 1841 he accepted a seat in President Harrison's cabinet as Secretary of War, which post he resigned in five months after the accession of President Tyler; in 1847 he accepted a seat in the House of Representatives of Tennessee, but before the close of the year he was elected to the United States Senate, and was re-elected in 1852, serving, from time to time, as chairman of important committees until the close of the Thirty-fifth Congress. In May, 1860, he received from the Union party the nomination for President of the United States, but was defeated.

Bell, John.—He was a Representative in Congress, from Ohio, from 1850 to 1851.

Bell, Joshua F.-He was born in

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