Chandler, John.-Was a native of Maine when a part of Massachusetts, representing it in the State Senate from 1803 to 1805, and in Congress from 1805 to 1808, and for three years was Sheriff of Kennebeck County. In 1812 he was appointed Brigadier-General, and took an active part in the Canadian campaign, having his horse shot under him at the battle of Stony Creek, where he was wounded and taken prisoner. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1820, being one of the first two Senators from Maine after its separation from Massachusetts, serving two terms, until 1829. In 1829 he was appointed Collector of the port of Portland, serving until 1837; and he died at Augusta, September, 1841.

Chandler, Joseph R.-He was born in Massachusetts; was liberally educated, and studied law; edited a newspaper in Philadelphia for many years; was a Representative in Congress, from Pennsylvania, from 1849 to 1855; and was appointed Minister to Naples by President Buchanan in 1858.

Chandler, Thomas.-He was a State Senator in 1827, and a Representative in Congress, from New Hampshire, from 1829 to 1833.

Chandler, Zachariah.-Born in Bedford, New Hampshire, December 10, 1813; received an academical education; was bred a merchant; was Mayor of Detroit, Michigan in 1851; defeated candidate for Governor of Michigan in 1852; and is a Senator in Congress from Michigan, having succeeded Senator Cass in that capacity, and taking his seat in the Thirty-fifth Congress. He has served as a member of the Committee on the District of Columbia, and Chairman of the Committee on Commerce. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1863, for the term ending in 1869.

Chaney, John.-He was born in Maryland, and was a Representative in Congress, from Ohio, from 1833 to 1839.

Chanler, John Winthrop.-Born in the city of New York, in 1826; was a member of the New York Assembly, in 1859 and 1860, and declined a renomination; and in 1862 he was elected a Representative, from New York, to

the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving on the Committee on Patents.

Chapin, Graham H.-He was born in Connecticut; graduated at Yale College in 1817; and was a Representative in Congress, from New York, from 1835 to 1837, and died in 1843.

Chapman, Augustus A.-He was born in Virginia, and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1843 to 1847.

Chapman, Bird B.-He was born in Connecticut, and, on removing to Nebraska, was elected a Delegate, from that Territory, to the Thirty-fourth Congress.

Chapman, Charles.-Born at Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut, June 21, 1799; received a classical education; he is a lawyer by profession; was three times a member of the House of Representatives of the State; he was United States Attorney during the administration of Mr. Tyler, and a Representative in the Thirty-second Congress, from Connecticut.

Chapman, Henry.-He was born in Pennsylvania, and elected a Representative to the Thirty-fifth Congress, from his native State, serving as a member of the Committee on the Judiciary.

Chapman, John.-He was a Representative in Congress, from Pennsylvania, from 1797 to 1799.

Chapman, John G.-He was born in Charles County, Maryland, July 5, 1798, and died December 10, 1856. He laid the foundation of his education at Yale College, which he left during his senior term, on account of his health, and afterwards refused a diploma which was tendered to him by the faculty. He studied law with William Wirt, and, after practising for some time, turned his attention to politics, and between the years 1824 and 1844, he was almost constantly in the Legislature of Maryland. In 1845 he was elected a Representative in Congress, and again re-elected in 1847, serving on important committees, and doing much good for his constituents and the public at large. He was chosen President of the Convention which

framed the present Constitution of Maryland; and his last public act was to preside as Chairman of the National Whig Convention, which met in Baltimore, in 1856, to nominate Millard Fillmore for the Presidency. He was an eloquent speaker, filled all his public trusts with fidelity, and died lamented by a large number of warm personal friends.

Chapman, Reuben.-He was born in Virginia, and was a Representative in Congress, from Alabama, from 1835 to 1847; also Governor of that State, from 1847 to 1849..

Chappell, A. H.-He was born in Georgia, and was a Representative, from that State, to the Twenty-eighth Congress.

Chappell, John J.-Born in Fairfield District, South Carolina, January 19, 1782; received a common school education; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1804; was a Solicitor of Equity, Colonel of militia, a Trustee of the State College in 1809, and a Bank Director; and a Representative in Congress, from South Carolina, from 1813 to 1817.

Charlton, Robert M.-He was a Judge, and a Senator in Congress, from Georgia, in 1852 and 1853. He died in Savannah, January 18, 1854.

Chase, Dudley.-Was born in Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, December 30, 1771. He received

an academic education, and graduated at Dartmouth College, in 1791. Having been admitted to the bar, he commenced practice in Vermont, and, from 1803 to 1811, he was State's Attorney for Orange County. He was a member of the Constitutional Conventions of 1814 and 1822. He was a Representative, from Randolph, to the Legislature of Vermont, in 1805, and the seven succeeding years, during five of which he was Speaker of the House of Representatives, and was again elected Representative, from the same town, in 1823 and 1824. He was elected United States Senator, from Vermont, from 1813 to 1819, but he resigned his seat in 1817. He was chosen Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont, in 1817, holding the same office, by annual re-elections, until

1821. He then returned to his profession of the law for a few years, and in 1824 he was again chosen United States Senator, from 1825 to 1831, inclusive, when he retired wholly from public life, and devoted his attention to farming and gardening, of which he was excessively fond. He was a brother of the late Philander Chase, Bishop of Illinois; and died at Randolph, Vermont, February 23, 1846.

Chase, George W.-He was born in New York, and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1853 to 1855.

Chase, Lucien B.-He was born in Vermont, and was a Representative in Congress, from Tennessee, from 1845 to 1847, and for a second term, ending in 1849. He is the author of a work entitled "History of President Polk's Administration."

Chase, Salmon P.-He was born in Cornish, New Hampshire, January 13, 1808. His education began at home, and was continued at the schools and academies of New Hampshire and Central Ohio, and completed at the Cincinnati College, and at Dartmouth, in New Hampshire, graduating in 1826. He studied law, in Washington City, with William Wirt, and has practised his profession in Cincinnati, Ohio, for many years. His first public position was that of School Examiner, in Cincinnati, in 1839; in 1840 he was a City Councilman; in 1845 he projected what was called a Liberty Convention; was a member of the Free-soil Convention held at Buffalo in 1848; and was a Senator in Congress, from Ohio, from 1849 to 1855; and elected Governor of Ohio, in 1855, and re-elected in 1857. In 1860 he was again chosen a Senator in Congress, but on the day after he took his seat, he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury in President Lincoln's Cabinet; having been a member also, of the Peace Congress of 1861.

Chase, Samuel.-He was born in New York, and was a Representative in Congress, from New York, from 1827 to 1829.

Chastain, Edward W.-He was born in South Carolina, and was a Re

presentative in Congress, from Georgia, from 1851 to 1855.

Cheatham, Richard. He was a Representative in Congress, from Tennessee, from 1837 to 1839. Died in September, 1845.

Chestnut, James. Born near Camden, South Carolina, in 1815; graduated at Princeton College; from 1842 to 1852 was a member of the State Legislature; from 1854 to 1858 he was a member of the State Senate; he was appointed to a seat in the United States Senate, taking his seat during the second session of the Thirty-fifth Congress, and was subsequently elected to that position, but resigned in December, 1860. He became identified with the Rebellion of 1861, as a member of the so-called Confederate Congress.

Chetwood, William. - Born in New Jersey in 1769; graduated at Princeton College in 1792; and admitted to the bar in 1798. During the Whiskey Insurrection he attended Major-General Lee, as aide-de-camp; at one time served in the State Council of New Jersey, and was elected to Congress, to fill a vacancy, during the administration of President, Jackson. He was an able lawyer, practised his profession until his seventieth year, and died December 18, 1857.

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Cheves, Langdon.-He was born in Abbeville District, South Carolina, September 17, 1776; was admitted to the bar in 1801; elected to the State Legislature in 1808; and afterwards Attorney-General of the State. was a Representative in Congress, from 1811 to 1816, and was Speaker during the second session of the Thirteenth Congress. He was also a Commissioner of Claims under the treaty of Ghent; Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, from 1816 to 1819, and for a time President of the United States Bank. Résigning this trust, he returned to Carolina, and withdrew from public life. He died June 26, 1857.

Childs, Thomas, Jr.-He was born in New York, and was a Representative, from that State, during the Thirty-fourth Congress.

Childs, Timothy.-He was born

in Massachusetts; was a member of the Assembly of New York in 1828 and 1833; and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1829 to 1831, from 1835 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843. Died at Santa Cruz in November, 1847.

Chilton, Samuel.-He was born in Virginia, and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1843 to 1845.

Chilton, Thomas.-He was a native of Kentucky, and a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1827 to 1831, and for a second term, from 1833 to 1835.

Chinn, Joseph W.-He was a Representative in Congress, from Virginia, from 1831 to 1835, and died at Richmond, December 5, 1840.

Chinn, Thomas W.-He was born in Kentucky, and, removing to Louisiana, was elected a Representative in Congress, from 1839 to 1841.

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Chipman, Daniel.—Born 1765, in Salisbury, Connecticut; graduated at Dartmouth in 1788; was a lawyer by profession, and practised at Ripton, Vermont. He was for many years in the Legislature, and was frequently Speaker of the House of Representatives of his State, and a member of the last State Constitutional Convention; he was the first reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, and author of an able work on Law Contracts for the Sale of Specific Articles, which is highly esteemed by the profession. He was a member of Congress, from 1814 to 1817, and died in Ripton, April 23, 1850.

Chipman, John S.-He was born in Vermont, and was a Representative in Congress, from Michigan, from 1845 to 1847.

Chipman, Nathaniel.-Born in Salisbury, Connecticut, November 15, 1752; graduated at Yale College in 1777; and settled as a lawyer in Tinmouth, Vermont, and was Professor of Law for twenty-eight years in Middlebury College. In 1786 he was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court; in 1789 he was chosen Chief Justice; and in 1791 was appointed Judge of the United

Chittenden, T. C.-He was born in Massachusetts, and having removed to New York, was elected a Representative, from that State, to the Twentyseventh Congress.

Choate, Rufus.-Was born at Ipswich, Massachusetts, October 1, 1799. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1819, and was afterwards chosen a tutor in that institution, but having selected the law for his profession, he entered the Law School at Cambridge, and after spending a few months there, went to Washington and studied with William Wirt. He completed his legal studies at an office in Salem, and commenced the practice of his profession in the town of Danvers, in 1824. In 1825 he was elected a Representative to the Massachusetts Legislature, and in 1827 he was in the Senate of the same State. He took a prominent part in the debates, and won much reputation by his energy and sagacity. In 1832 he was elected a member of Congress from the Essex District, but declined a re-election in 1834, and removed to Boston, to devote himself to his profession. Here he took an eminent position at the bar, and soon came into an extensive practice. In 1841, on the retirement of Mr. Webster from the Senate, Mr. Choate was elected to fill the vacancy, and at the close of his term, he gave himself up wholly to his profession. He was a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, but resigned the

position. He was greatly distinguished for his eloquence, but his style of speaking was peculiar; his judgment in the management of causes was considered consummate. His published orations and arguments are quite numerous, and all of a high order. He died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, while on his way to Europe for his health, July 12, 1859.

Chrisman, James S.-He was born in Kentucky, and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1853 to 1855.

Christie, Gabriel.-He was a Representative in Congress, from Maryland, from 1793 to 1797, and from 1799 to 1801.

Christie, Henry.-He was a Representative in Congress, from Kentucky, from 1809 to 1811.

Churchwell, William M.-He was born in Tennessee, and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1852 to 1855.

Cilley, Bradbury.-He was a Representative in Congress, from New Hampshire, from 1813 to 1817.

Cilley, Jonathan.-He was born in Nottingham, New Hampshire, July 2, 1802; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825; adopted the profession of law, and admitted to the bar in 1829; was at one time Speaker of the House of Representatives of Maine, of which he was a member from 1832 to 1837; and a member of Congress, from 1837 to the time of his death. He was killed, at the third fire, in a duel fought with William J. Graves, at Bladensburg, Maryland, February 24, 1838, with rifles, at eighty yards distance.

Cilley, Joseph.-He was born in New Hampshire, and was a Senator in Congress, from that State, from 1846 to 1847.

Claggett, Clifton.-He was born in Rockingham County, New Hampshire; was Judge of Probate of Hillsborough County, from 1823 to 1827; Judge of the Superior Court one or two years; was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1803 to

1805, and again from 1817 to 1821; and died in 1829, aged fifty-six years.

Claiborne, John.-He was a Representative in Congress, from Virginia, from 1805 to 1808. Died during the latter year.

Claiborne, John F. H.-Was a native of Natchez, Mississippi; educated and licensed as a lawyer in Virginia; was a Representative in the Legislature of Mississippi during three sessions, and a Representative in Congress, from 1835 to 1838; has since conducted the Natchez Fur Trader and also the Louisiana Courier, leading journals of the South, and was editor of an agricultural journal published in New Orleans. He held the office of United States Timber Agent, for the Districts of Louisiana and Mississippi, to which he was appointed by President Pierce. He wrote an historical work relating to the Southwest.

Claiborne, Nathaniel H. — He was born in Sussex County, Virginia; served many years in the Legislature of that State; was also a member of the Executive Council; and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1825 to 1837. Died in Franklin County, Virginia, August 15, 1859, aged eighty-three years.

Claiborne, Thomas.-He was a Representative in Congress, from Virginia, from 1793 to 1799, and again from 1801 to 1805.

Claiborne, Thomas.-He was a Representative in Congress, from Tennessee, from 1817 to 1819.

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Claiborne, William C. C.-He studied law, and settled in Tennessee, of which State he assisted in forming the Constitution, and afterwards represented it in Congress, from 1797 to 1801. 1801 he was appointed Governor of the Mississippi Territory, and in 1804 of Louisiana; and to that office he was also chosen by the people, after the adoption of its Constitution, from 1812 to 1816. He was then elected a Senator of the United States, but died before he took his seat, at New Orleans, November 23, 1817.

Clapp, Asa W. H.-He was born

in Maine, and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1847 to 1849.

Clark, Abraham.-Born near Elizabethtown, New Jersey, February 15, 1726. He was a self-made man, and because of his habit of giving legal advice gratuitously, he was called the "Poor Man's Counsellor." He was Sheriff, and Clerk of the Colonial Assembly, one of the Delegates to the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence; and, after the adoption of the Constitution, was a Representative in Congress, from 1791 to 1794. He died September 15, 1794, of stroke of the sun.

Clark, Ambrose W.-He was born near Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, February 19, 1810; received a common school education; was employed in a printing office at Cooperstown until he became of age; published for five years the Otsego Republican; established and published for eight years, in Lewis County, the Northern Journal; and also published for sixteen years the Northern New York Journal, in Watertown, Jefferson County. In 1859 he was elected a Representative, from New York, to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving on the Committee on Printing. He was re-elected to the Thirty-eighth Congress in 1862, and was Chairman of the Committee on Printing, and a member of the Committee on Accounts.

Clark, Archibald S.-He was a member of the New York Senate for four years, beginning with 1813, and was a Representative in Congress, from New York, from 1816 to 1817. He held the several positions of Clerk, Surrogate and Judge of Saratoga County. Died at Clarence, New York, December 4, 1821, aged forty-three years.

Clark, Beverly S.-He was born in Virginia, and was a Representative in Congress, from Kentucky, from 1847 to 1849.

Clark, Christopher.-He was a Representative in Congress, from Virginia, from 1804 to 1806.

Clark, Daniel.-He was born in Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, October 24, 1809; gradu