New Jersey. He was a member of Congress from that State from 1847 to
1851. In 1856 he was elected Governor of New Jersey, and held the
office till 1860. He was again elected a Representative to Congress in
1864, and was succeeded in the Fortieth Congress by _Charles Haight_.

_WILLIAM E. NIBLACK_ was born in Dubois County, Indiana, May 19, 1822,
and spent his early life on a farm. He attended the Indiana University
at intervals during three years, and afterwards devoted some time to
surveying and civil engineering. In 1845 he commenced the practice of
law, and in 1849 he was elected a Representative in the State
Legislature. In the following year he was elected to the State Senate.
In January, 1854, he was appointed Judge of the Third Judicial
Circuit, to fill a vacancy, and was, in the following fall, elected to
the office for the term of six years. In 1857 he was elected a
Representative from Indiana to the Thirty-Fifth Congress, and was
re-elected in 1859. After the close of the Thirty-Sixth Congress he
served one term in the State Legislature. In 1864 he was again elected
a Representative in Congress from Indiana, and was re-elected to the
Fortieth Congress.--526.

_JOHN A. NICHOLSON_ was born in Laurel, Delaware, November 17, 1827.
Having graduated at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, he studied law,
and settled in Dover, Delaware, where he was admitted to the bar in
1850. In 1865 he entered Congress as a Representative from Delaware,
and was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress.--361.

THOMAS E. NOELL was born in Perryville, Missouri, April 3, 1839. He
was admitted to the bar at nineteen years of age, and practiced until
1861, when he was appointed a Military Commissioner for the arrest of
disloyal persons. He subsequently went into the ranks of the State
militia, and reached the rank of Major. In 1862 he was appointed a
Captain in the Nineteenth Regiment of Regular United States Infantry.
In 1864 he was elected a Representative from Missouri to the
Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was re-elected in 1866.

DANIEL S. NORTON was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, April 12, 1829. After
being educated at Kenyon College, he served in the Mexican War. He
subsequently went to California, and thence to Nicaragua, where he
spent a year. Returning to Ohio, he studied law, and was admitted to
the bar in 1852. He emigrated to Minnesota in 1855, and was, two years
after, elected to the State Senate, to which he was three times
re-elect