Judge
of the Sixth Judicial Circuit. Resigning this office in 1855, he went
to Nebraska, and became a member of the Legislative Council. Having,
in 1860, settled in Colorado, he was appointed Judge of the Supreme
Court for that territory, and held this office until he was elected a
delegate to the Thirty-Ninth Congress from Colorado. He was succeeded
in the Fortieth Congress by George M. Chilcott.

AUGUSTUS BRANDEGEE was born in New London, Conn., July 15, 1828. He
graduated at Yale College in 1849, and at the Yale Law School in 1851.
From 1854 to 1861 he served in the Connecticut Legislature, of which
he was Speaker in the latter year. He was a Presidential Elector in
1861, and was elected a Representative to the Thirty-Eighth Congress
from Connecticut in 1863, and was re-elected in 1865. He was succeeded
in the Fortieth Congress by Henry H. Starkweather.

HENRY H. P. BROMWELL was born in Baltimore, Maryland, August 26, 1823.
Having spent seven years of his boyhood in Ohio, he went to Illinois
in 1836, and came to the bar in 1853. He was subsequently an editor,
Judge of a County Court, and Presidential Elector. In 1864 he was
elected a Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-Ninth Congress,
and in 1866 was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress.--349, 538.

_JAMES BROOKS_ was born in Portland, Maine, November 10, 1810. When
eleven years old he became a clerk in a store. At sixteen he was a
school-teacher, and at twenty-one graduated at Waterville College.
After several years spent in traveling and writing letters for the
press, he was, in 1835, elected to the Legislature of Maine. In 1836
he established the "New York Daily Express," of which he has since
been chief editor. In 1847 he was elected to the General Assembly of
New York. In 1849 and again in 1851 he was elected a Representative in
Congress. In 1863 he was returned to Congress. In December, 1865, he
took his place as a member of the Thirty-Ninth Congress, but held it
only until the 6th of April following, his seat having been
successfully contested by William E. Dodge. In 1866 he was elected a
Representative from New York to the Fortieth Congress.--17, 20, 25,
335, 336, 568.

JOHN M. BROOMALL was born in Upper Chichester, Pennsylvania, in 1816.
Having received a common-school education, he devoted himself to legal
studies and pursuits. In 1861 he was a Presidential Elector. In 1862
he was elected to represent the Seventh Pennsylvania District in
Congres