ter
he was elected District Attorney of Cavaleras County, and held the
office until 1859. He was subsequently a member of the State Senate.
In 1863 he was elected a Representative from California to the
Thirty-Eighth Congress, and was successively re-elected to the
Thirty-Ninth and Fortieth Congresses.--356, 357, 358, 510, 575.

RALPH HILL was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, October 12, 1827, and
was left in early life entirely dependent upon his own exertions.
After taking an academical course of study, he attended the New York
State and National Law School at Ballston Spa, where he graduated to
the degree of LL.B., in 1851. In the following year he settled in the
practice of his profession at Columbus, Indiana. In 1864 he was
elected a Representative from Indiana to the Thirty-Ninth Congress.
His successor in the Fortieth Congress is Morton C. Hunter.--356.

_ELIJAH HISE_ was born in Pennsylvania, and removed in early life to
Lexington, Kentucky. Having studied law, he established himself in
Russellville, Kentucky, for the practice of his profession. He served
as member of the State Legislature and a Judge of the Superior Court
of Kentucky. He was long regarded as one of the moat eloquent and
effective political speakers of Kentucky. In 1865 he was elected a
Representative from Kentucky to the Thirty-Ninth Congress. In May,
1867, he was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress, and a few days after
committed suicide, alleging the gloomy political prospects of the
country as a reason for the act. His successor in the Fortieth
Congress is Jacob S. Galladay.--511, 521.

PHINEAS W. HITCHCOCK was born in New Lebanon, New York, November 30,
1831. Having graduated at Williams College, Massachusetts, in 1855, he
studied law, and emigrated to Nebraska Territory in 1857. In 1861 he
was appointed by President Lincoln Marshal of the Territory, and held
this office until his election as a Delegate from Nebraska to the
Thirty-Ninth Congress.

_JOHN HOGAN_ was born in Ireland, January 2, 1805, and came with his
father to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1817. He was apprenticed to a
shoemaker, and obtained the rudiments of education in the Asbury
Sunday School. In 1826 he removed to Illinois, where he engaged in
mercantile pursuits. In 1836 he was a member of the State Legislature,
in 1838 Commissioner of the Board of Public Works, and in 1841
Register of the Land Office by appointment of President Harrison. He
removed to St. Louis, and engag