s. Two years later was re-elected to the Thirty-Ninth Congress,
and was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress.--223, 360, 439, 504.

B. GRATZ BROWN is grandson of John Brown, who was United States
Senator from Kentucky in 1805. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky, May
28, 1826. Having graduated at Yale College and studied law, he settled
at St. Louis, Mo., where he edited the "Missouri Democrat," from 1854
to 1859, and was a member of the State Legislature. He raised a
regiment at the breaking out of the war, which he commanded during its
term of service. He was among the foremost champions of freedom in
Missouri, and was elected a Senator in Congress from that State for
the term commencing in 1863 and ending in 1867. He was succeeded by
Charles D. Drake.--285, 477, 493.

_CHARLES R. BUCKALEW_ was born in Columbia County, Pennsylvania,
December 28, 1821. He was admitted to practice law in 1843, and was
elected Prosecuting Attorney for his native county in 1845. In 1850 he
was elected a Senator in the State Legislature, which office he held
for a series of years. In 1854 he was a Commissioner to exchange the
ratifications of a treaty with Paraguay. He was a Presidential Elector
in 1856, and Chairman of the State Democratic Committee in 1857. He
was appointed by President Buchanan Minister to Equador in 1858, and
held the position until 1861. He was, in 1863, elected United States
Senator from Pennsylvania for the term ending 1869.--296, 401, 413,
494, 532, 535, 547, 548.

RALPH P. BUCKLAND was born in Leyden, Massachusetts, January 20, 1812,
and was removed by his parents to Ohio in the same year. From 1831 to
1834 he was clerk in a large cotton commission house in New Orleans.
Returning to Ohio, he took an academical course of study at Kenyon
College. Having studied law, he was admitted to the bar in 1837. He
was a member of the Philadelphia Whig Convention of 1848. In 1855 and
1857 was elected to the Senate of Ohio. In 1861 he was appointed
Colonel of the Seventy-Second Ohio Infantry, and commanded a brigade
in the battle of Shiloh. He was promoted to the rank of Brigadier
General, and participated in the siege of Vicksburg. He was
subsequently assigned to the command of the District of Memphis, and
defeated Forrest in his attack on that city. At the close of the war
he was brevetted a Major General of Volunteers. In 1864, while absent
in the field, he was elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Thirty-Ninth Congress