er to France, 1836-42; United States
senator, 1845-48; Democratic candidate for President, 1848; senator,
1849-57; secretary of state, 1857-60; died at Detroit, Michigan, June
17, 1866.

DOUGLAS, STEPHEN ARNOLD. Born at Brandon, Vermont, April 23, 1813; judge
of the Supreme Court of Illinois, 1841; member of Congress, 1843-47;
United States senator, 1847-61; Democratic candidate for President,
1860; died at Chicago, June 3, 1861.

EVERETT, EDWARD. Born at Dorchester, Massachusetts, April 11, 1794;
professor of Greek at Harvard, 1819-25; editor the _North American
Review_, 1819-24; member of Congress, 1825-35; governor of
Massachusetts, 1836-40; minister to England, 1841-45; president of
Harvard College, 1846-49; secretary of state, 1852-53; senator, 1853-54;
candidate of Constitutional Union party for Vice-President, 1860; died
at Boston, January 15, 1865.

STEVENS, THADDEUS. Born in Caledonia County, Vermont, April 4, 1792;
graduated at Dartmouth College, 1814; removed to Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, and admitted to the bar, 1816; Whig member of Congress,
1849-53; Republican member of Congress, 1859-68; proposed impeachment of
President Johnson, 1868; died at Washington, April 11, 1868.

SUMNER, CHARLES. Born at Boston, January 6, 1811; graduated at Harvard,
1830; admitted to the bar, 1834; United States senator, 1851-74;
assaulted in Senate chamber by Preston Brooks, May 22, 1856; chairman of
committee on foreign affairs, 1861-71; died at Washington, March 11,
1874.

SEWARD, WILLIAM HENRY. Born at Florida, Orange County, New York, May 16,
1801; graduated at Union College, 1820; admitted to the bar, 1822;
member State Senate, 1830-34; Whig governor of New York, 1838-43; United
States senator, 1849-61; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1860; secretary of state, 1861-69; died at Auburn, New York,
October 10, 1872.

CHASE, SALMON PORTLAND. Born at Cornish, New Hampshire, January 13,
1808; United States senator from Ohio, 1849-55; governor of Ohio,
1856-60; secretary of the treasury, 1861-64; chief justice of the
Supreme Court, 1864-73; died at New York City, May 7, 1873.

SHERMAN, JOHN. Born at Lancaster, Ohio, May 10, 1823; admitted to the
bar, 1844; Republican member of Congress from Ohio, 1855-61; senator,
1861-77; secretary of the treasury, 1877-81; senator, 1881-97;
secretary of state, 1897-98; candidate for presidential nomination in
1884 and 1888; died at Washington, October 22, 1900.

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