served in
Congress were several distinguished men. David Davis of Illinois, who
had been fifteen years on the Bench of the Supreme Court of the United
States, now entered the Senate as the successor of General Logan. With
the exception of John Rutledge, who served in the House of
Representatives after he had been on the Supreme Bench, Judge Davis is
the only man who entered Congress after service on the Bench. John
Jay was Minister to Great Britain and Governor of New York after he
resigned the Chief-Justiceship; and Oliver Ellsworth was Minister to
France after his retirement from the Bench. A large proportion of
the justices had been in Congress before they entered upon their
judicial service; but the transfer of Judge Davis to the Senate was
a reversal of the natural order.

Samuel J. Kirkwood, already well known by his service in the Senate,
now returned from Iowa.--Preston B. Plumb of Kansas, who had
been printer, editor, soldier in the civil war with the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel, member of the Bar, reporter of the Supreme Court of
his State, Speaker of the House of Representatives of Kansas, now
succeeded James M. Harvey. Mr. Plumb was actively and largely engaged
in business affairs, and had perhaps as accurate knowledge of the
resources of the West as any man in the country.--A. H. Garland entered
from Arkansas, being promoted from the Governorship of his State. He
was popular among his own people, and had been a member of the
Secession Convention and of both branches of the Confederate Congress.
His reputation as a lawyer had preceded his entrance into the Senate,
where he was at once accorded high rank among his political
friends.--John R. McPherson, a business man of good repute in New Jersey,
succeeded Mr. Frelinghuysen.--Edward R. Rollins of New Hampshire,
who had creditably served six years in the House, now came to the
Senate as the successor of Aaron H. Cragin.--Alvin Sanders, who was
appointed Governor of the Territory of Nebraska by Mr. Lincoln in
1861, and held the position until the State was admitted to the Union
in 1867, now came as one of her senators.--Richard Coke who had been
Governor of Texas, and Lafayette Grover who had been Governor of
Oregon, now entered the Senate.--Isham G. Harris, who had been in
Congress twenty-five years before and had played a somewhat conspicuous
part in the rebellion as Governor of Tennessee, now succeeded Henry
Cooper as senator from that State.

--Will