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Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2)

CHAPTER XV
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10, 1862; _Robert Wilson_, appointed in place of Johnson.
NEW HAMPSHIRE .-- John P.Hale; Daniel Clark.
NEW JERSEY .-- _John R.Thomson_, died Sept.

12, 1862; John C.Ten Eyck; Richard S.Field, appointed in place of Thomson; _James W.
Wall_, elected in place of Thomson.
NEW YORK .-- Preston King; Ira Harris.
OHIO .-- Benjamin F.Wade; Salmon P.Chase, resigned March 5, 1861, to become Secretary of Treasury; John Sherman, elected in place of Chase.
PENNSYLVANIA .-- David Wilmot, elected in place of Cameron; Edgar Cowan; Simon Cameron, resigned March 5, 1861.
RHODE ISLAND .-- James F.Simmons, resigned December, 1862; Henry B.
Anthony; Samuel G.Arnold, elected in place of Simmons.
TENNESSEE .-- Andrew Johnson, resigned March 4, 1862, to be military governor of Tennessee.
VERMONT .-- Solomon Foot; Jacob Collamer.
VIRGINIA .-- Waitman T.Willey; John S.Carlile.
WISCONSIN .-- James R.Doolittle; Timothy O.Howe.] [** An anachronism occurs in stating that Senator Baker of Oregon had witnessed as a child the funeral pageant of Lord Nelson.

He was not born for five years after Lord Nelson fell.

The error was taken from a eulogy pronounced on Senator Baker after his death.
The occurrence referred to was doubtless some one of the many military pageants in London at the close of the Napoleonic wars.] [*** NOTE .-- The following is a list of Representatives in the Thirty- seventh Congress.

Republicans are given in Roman, Democrats in Italic, American or Old-Line Whigs in small capitals.
CALIFORNIA .-- Aaron A.Sargent; Frederick F.Low; Timothy G.Phelps.
CONNECTICUT .-- Dwight Loomis; _James E.English; George C.Woodruff_; Alfred A.Burnham.
DELAWARE .-- George P.Fisher.
ILLINOIS .-- Eilhu B.Washburne; Isaac N.Arnold; Owen Lovejoy; William Kellogg; _William A.Richardson_, elected Senator; _John A.McClernand_, resigned 1861 to enter the army; _James C.Robinson; Philip B.Fouke; John A.Logan_, resigned 1861 to enter the army; _William J.Allen_, elected in place of Logan; _Anthony L.Knapp_, elected in place of McClernand.
INDIANA .-- _John Law; James A.Cravens; William S.Holman_; George W.Julian; Albert G.Porter; _Daniel W.Voorhees_; Albert S.White; Schuyler Colfax; William Mitchell; John P.C.Shanks; W.McKee Dunn.
IOWA .-- Samuel R.Curtis, resigned Aug.


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