1600 majority, in a District giving
Hoffman (Dem.) for Governor nearly 6000 majority.--81.

_GARRETT DAVIS_ was born at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, September 10,
1801. Having received an English and classical education, he studied
law, and was admitted to the bar in 1823. With his professional labors
he joined a considerable attention to agricultural pursuits. In 1833
he was elected to the Legislature, and was twice re-elected. He was a
member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1839. From the latter
year to 1847 he was in Congress, representing the District in which
Henry Clay resided, of whom he was a warm personal and political
friend. In 1861 he was elected a Senator in Congress from Kentucky,
and was re-elected in 1867.--24, 136, 171, 199, 208, 243, 287, 296,
430, 458, 460, 484, 493, 498, 531, 533, 534, 548, 572.

THOMAS T. DAVIS was born in Middlebury, Vermont, August 22, 1810.
Having removed to the State of New York, he graduated at Hamilton
College in 1831, and was admitted to the bar in Syracuse in 1833. He
has devoted much attention to business relating to railroads,
manufactures, and mining. In 1862 he was elected a Representative from
New York to the Thirty-Eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the
Thirty-Ninth. He was succeeded in the Fortieth Congress by Dennis
McCarthy.--63, 361.

HENRY L. DAWES was born in Cummington, Massachusetts, October 30,
1816. Having graduated at Yale College in 1839, he engaged
successively in school-teaching, editing a newspaper, and practicing
law. From 1848 to 1853 he was a member of the Legislature of
Massachusetts. In 1853 he was chosen District Attorney for the Western
District of the State, and held the office until 1856, when he was
elected a Representative from Massachusetts to the Thirty-Fifth
Congress. He has been a member of every subsequent Congress, including
the Fortieth.--30, 478.

_JOHN L. DAWSON_ was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, February 7,
1813. He was educated at Washington College, adopted the profession of
law, and was, in 1845, appointed by President Polk United States
Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Since 1844 he has
been a member of most of the Democratic National Conventions. In 1850
he was elected a Representative to the Thirty-Second Congress, and was
re-elected to the Thirty-Third, in which he served as Chairman of the
Committee on Agriculture, and was the author of the Homestead Bill
which passed in 1854. In 1855 he wa