s appointed by President Pierce
Governor of Kansas, but declined the office. In 1862 he was elected a
Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-Eighth Congress, and
was re-elected to the Thirty-Ninth. He was succeeded in the Fortieth
Congress by John Covode.--144, 505.

JOSEPH H. DEFREES was born in White County, Tennessee, May 13, 1812.
When eight years old he removed to Piqua, Ohio, and a few years after,
he entered a printing-office, in which he obtained the most of his
early education. In 1831 he established a newspaper in South Bend,
Indiana, and two years after removed to Goshen, where he engaged in
mercantile pursuits. In 1836 he was elected Sheriff of Elkhart County.
In 1849 he was elected to the House of Representatives of Indiana, and
in 1850 to the State Senate. In 1864 he was elected a Representative
from Indiana to the Thirty-Ninth Congress. His successor in the
Fortieth Congress is William Williams.

COLUMBUS DELANO was born in Shoreham, Vermont, in 1809. When eight
years old he removed to Mount Vernon, Ohio, where he studied law and
was admitted to the bar in 1831. In 1844 he was elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-Ninth Congress. In 1860 he was
a delegate to the Chicago Convention. In 1861 he was appointed
Commissary General of Ohio. Two years after he was a member of the
Ohio Legislature. In 1864 he was a delegate to the Baltimore
Republican Convention, and was in the same year elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-Ninth Congress. His successor
in the Fortieth Congress is _George W. Morgan_.--236, 285 539, 564.

HENRY C. DEMING was born in Connecticut. He graduated at Yale College
in 1836, and at the Harvard Law School in 1838. He had been a member
of the Lower House and Senate of Connecticut, and for six years Mayor
of Hartford, when in 1861 he went into the war as Colonel of the
Twelfth Connecticut Regiment. He participated in the capture of New
Orleans, and was Mayor of that city until 1868, when he returned to
his native State, and was soon after elected a Representative in the
Thirty-Eighth Congress, and was re-elected in 1865, He was succeeded
in the Fortieth Congress by _Richard D. Hubbard_.--31.

CHARLES DENISON was born in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, January 23,
1818. He graduated at Dickinson College in 1839, and entered the
profession of law. In 1862 he was elected a Representative from
Pennsylvania to the Thirty-Eighth Congress, and was re-elected in
1864.