He was succeeded in the Fortieth Congress by _George W.
Woodward_.
ARTHUR A. DENNY was born in Indiana, in 1822, and removed in boyhood
to Illinois. In 1851 he removed to Washington Territory, and was a
member of the Territorial Legislature from 1853 to 1861. He was four
years Register of the Land Office at Olympia, and was subsequently
elected a Delegate from Washington Territory to the Thirty-Ninth
Congress. He was succeeded by Alvan Flanders in the Fortieth Congress.
JAMES DIXON was born in Enfield, Connecticut, in 1814. He graduated at
Williams College in 1834, and soon after entered upon the practice of
law. In 1837 he was elected to the Legislature of Connecticut, and was
twice reelected. He was a Representative in Congress from Connecticut
from 1845 to 1849. In the latter year he was elected to the State
Senate. He was elected United States Senator from Connecticut in 1857,
and was re-elected in 1863.--423, 425, 495, 548.
NATHAN F. DIXON, son of a Senator of the same name, was born in
Westerly, Rhode Island, May 1, 1812, and graduated at Brown University
in 1833. After attending the Law Schools at New Haven and Cambridge,
he was admitted to the bar in 1837. From 1840 to 1849 he was a member
of the General Assembly of Rhode Island, and after having served in
the Thirty-First Congress, was again elected to the Legislature. In
1863 he was elected a Representative from Rhode Island to the
Thirty-Eighth Congress, and entered upon his second Congressional term
in 1865. He was in 1866 re-elected to the Fortieth Congress.
WILLIAM E. DODGE was born in Hartford, Connecticut, September 4, 1805.
Early in life he went to New York City, where he engaged actively, in
business. He has been forty years at the head of one of the most
extensive manufacturing and importing establishments in the country.
He was many years President of the National Temperance Society, and
has long been a prominent promoter of benevolent enterprises in New
York City. Having established his right to the seat held by _James
Brooks_, he was admitted a member of the Thirty-Ninth Congress in the
spring of 1866. He was succeeded by _James Brooks_ in the Fortieth
Congress.--511, 568.
IGNATIUS DONNELLY was born in Philadelphia, November 3, 1831, and was
educated at the Central High School of his native city. He studied law
and was admitted to the bar in 1853. He emigrated to Minnesota in
1857, and two years after was elected Lieutenant Governor of t
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