His ardent patriotism and ambitious temperament carried him into the war, where his brilliant career is known and read of all men.
The most distinguished accession to the House was John J.Crittenden of Kentucky.

He had never before served in that branch, but he had been chosen to the Senate six times by the Legislature of his State,--for five full terms and for the remainder of Mr.Clay's term when he retired in 1842.

Only one other man, William E.King of Alabama, has ever been so many times elected to the Senate.
Mr.Crittenden, like Mr.Clay, entered the Senate at thirty years of age.

His service began the day that Madison left the Presidency, and ended the day of Lincoln's inauguration.

But in this long period he had served only two full terms, and his total service in the Senate was little more than twenty years.