Official Congressional Directory, Volume 44, Issue 1, Part 2

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Page 37 - Metcalfe, and was admitted to the bar in the City of New York...
Page 87 - The original building was finally completed in 1827. Its cost, including the grading of the grounds, alterations, and repairs, up to 1827, was $2,433,844.13.
Page 30 - Delta; he was elected to the State Convention of 1851, and again to that of 1861, the latter body electing him a Brigadier-General; in 1865 he was elected to the Senate of the United States, but was not allowed to take his seat; in 1869 he was elected on the Republican ticket Governor of Mississippi, and was inaugurated in March, 1870; elected to the Senate of the United States, he resigned the office of Governor the...
Page 105 - Districts of Northern Ohio, Southern Ohio, Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan, Kentucky, Eastern Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, and Western Tennessee. Circuit Judges.
Page 87 - DOME. The dome of the original central building was constructed of wood, covered with copper. This was replaced in 1856 by the present structure of cast iron. It was completed in 1865.
Page 87 - The southeast corner stone of the original building was laid on the 18th of September, 1793, by President Washington, with Masonic ceremonies. It is constructed of sandstone from quarries on Aquia Creek, Virginia.
Page 34 - Virginia; was educated at Georgetown College, and at the University of Virginia; taught school and studied law ; emigrated to Missouri in 1837; was elected in 1841 Clerk of the County Probate Court...
Page 14 - 57, and to the State Senate, from the Fourth Senatorial District, 1863 and '64; was a Delegate to the National Democratic Convention, at New York, in 1868; and was elected to the Forty-fourlh Congress as a Democrat, receiving 8,723 votes agair.st 7,932 votes for James S.
Page 43 - 59, and '60; was a Peace Commissioner from the State of North Carolina to the Congress of Southern States at Montgomery, Alabama, in 1861 ; entered the Confederate Army, serving as Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier-General, and Major-General, and surrendered at Appomattox; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat in January, 1872, took his seat April 24, 1872, and was re-elected in 1876 and in 1883.
Page 46 - Ohio, graduating from that institution in 1872 in the classical course; was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Ohio in 1874...

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