he now resides. In 1839 he was elected
to the Ohio Legislature. He was re-elected in 1841, and made Speaker
of the House. In 1849 he was elected Judge of the Supreme Court of
Ohio. In 1862 he was elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Thirty-Eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Thirty-Ninth and
Fortieth Congresses.--319, 443, 508.

WILLIAM SPRAGUE was born in Cranston, Rhode Island, September 11,
1830. He was educated chiefly at the Irving Institute, Tarrytown, New
York. He subsequently spent several years in the counting-room of his
uncle, upon whose death he came into possession of one of the largest
manufacturing interests in the country. In 1861 he was elected
Governor of Rhode Island. He entered with zeal into the national cause
at the breaking out of the rebellion, and was with the Rhode Island
Volunteers at the first battle of Bull Run. In 1862 he was elected a
Senator in Congress from Rhode Island for the term ending in
1869.--27, 494.

JOHN F. STARR was born in Philadelphia in 1818. He removed to New
Jersey in 1844, and engaged in business pursuits. In 1863 he was
elected a Representative from New Jersey to the Thirty-Ninth Congress.
He was succeeded in the Fortieth Congress by William Moore.

THADDEUS STEVENS was born in Caledonia County, Vermont, April 4, 1793.
He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1814, and in the same year
removed to Pennsylvania. While teaching in an academy he studied law,
and in 1816 was admitted to the bar in the County of Adams. In 1833 he
was elected to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, and served four terms,
rendering signal service to the State by originating the school-system
of Pennsylvania. He early espoused the cause of anti-slavery, and
became an earnest advocate of equal rights. In 1836 he was elected a
member of the Convention to revise the State Constitution, and refused
to append his name to the amended instrument, because it restricted
suffrage on account of color. In 1838 he was appointed a Canal
Commissioner. In 1842 he removed to Lancaster, where he now resides.
In 1848 he was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the
Thirty-First Congress. He was re-elected to the Thirty-Second,
Thirty-Sixth, Thirty-Seventh, Thirty-Eighth, Thirty-Ninth, and
Fortieth Congresses.--18, 24, 29, 34, 48, 156, 308, 325, 333, 336,
357, 366, 417, 418, 435, 436, 449, 463, 478, 502, 503, 504, 513, 514,
518, 524, 528, 535, 536, 547, 555, 557, 563, 575.

WILLIAM M. STEWART was