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Few men have enjoyed a greater degree of personal popularity among
neighbors, acquaintances, and the people of an entire States, than
General Oglesby. His frankness, his kindly disposition, his sympathy
with the desires and the needs of the great mass of the people, his
pride in Illinois and his devotion to her interests, all combined to
give him not merely the political support but the strong personal
attachment of his fellow-citizens.

--John H. Mitchell, a native of Pennsylvania who went to the Pacific
coast before he had fairly passed from the period of boyhood, now
returned as senator from Oregon at thirty-seven years of age. He had
been diligent and successful as a lawyer, and had acquainted himself
in a very thorough manner with the wants and the interests of his
State, to which he devoted himself with assiduity and success. He was
an accurate man and always discharged his senatorial duties with care
and fidelity.

The new senators from the South were in themselves the proof that
the Republicans still had control in several of the reconstructed
States, and that in others the Democrats had regained complete
ascendency.--Stephen W. Dorsey, who had been in the military service
from Ohio and settled in Arkansas after the war, now appeared as senator
from that State, at thirty-two years of age.--John J. Patterson, a native
of Pennsylvania, came from South Carolina, and Simon B. Conover, a native
of New Jersey, from Florida.--Georgia had been recovered by the
Democrats, and now sent John B. Gordon as senator to succeed Joshua
Hill. General Gordon had been conspicuous in the Confederate service,
commanding a corps in the army of General Lee. He enjoyed at the time
of his election great personal popularity in his State.--North
Carolina, though carried on the popular vote for General Grant, had
elected a Democratic Legislature; and A. S. Merrimon, prominent at the
bar of his State and of long service on the bench, now appeared with
credentials as senator to succeed John Pool.

The most conspicuous additions to the House of Representatives of the
Forty-third Congress were E. Rockwood Hoar of Massachusetts, Lyman
Tremaine of New York, L. Q. C. Lamar of Mississippi, William R.
Morrison of Illinois, John A. Kasson of Iowa, and Hugh J. Jewett of
Ohio. These gentlemen were already widely known to the country. Judge
Hoar and Mr. Tremaine served but one term; Mr. Jewett resigned to take
the Presidency of the Erie R