as
a member of the New Hampshire Legislature. He was a Representative
from New Hampshire in the Thirty-Fifth and Thirty-Sixth Congresses. In
1865 he entered the Senate of the United States for the term ending in
1871.

JOHN A. J. CRESWELL was born in Port Deposit, Maryland, November 18,
1828. He graduated at Dickinson College in 1848, and was admitted to
the bar in 1850. He was successively a member of the Maryland House of
Delegates, Assistant Adjutant-General for the State and a
Representative in the Thirty-Eighth Congress. In 1865 he was chosen a
United States Senator for the unexpired term of T. H. Hicks,
deceased.--134, 136.

SHELBY M. CULLOM was born in Wayne County, Kentucky, November 27,
1829, and was removed to Illinois, when scarcely a year old, by his
parents, who settled in Tazewell County. He spent two years as a
student at the Mount Morris Seminary. Having studied law, he entered
upon the practice of his profession in Springfield, and was
immediately elected City Attorney. In 1856 he was elected to the State
Legislature, and was re-elected in 1860, and chosen Speaker of the
House. In 1856 was a Fillmore Elector for the State at large. In 1864
he was elected a Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-Ninth
Congress. In 1866 he was re-elected by more than double his former
majority.--516.

CHARLES V. CULVER was born in Logan, Ohio, September 6, 1830. Having
settled in Western Pennsylvania, he engaged in business pursuits, and
especially in banking. He was largely concerned in railroads and other
public enterprises. In 1864 he was elected a Representative from the
Twentieth District of Pennsylvania to the Thirty-Ninth Congress. He
was succeeded in the Fortieth Congress by Darwin A. Finney.--575.

WILLIAM A. DARLING was born in Newark, New Jersey, December 17, 1817.
He shortly after settled in New York City, where he received a
commercial education, and devoted himself to the wholesale business.
He became a Director of the Mercantile Library Association, and served
eleven years as officer and private of the Seventh Regiment, National
Guard. From 1847 to 1854 he was Deputy Receiver of Taxes for New York
City. In 1860 he was a Presidential Elector, and in 1863 and 1864 was
President of the Union and Republican Organization of New York City.
In 1864 he was elected a Representative from New York to the
Thirty-Ninth Congress. He was nominated for the Fortieth Congress, and
was defeated by _Fernando Wood_ by