. In 1862 he was chosen a State Senator, and served as such
until he was elected a Representative from Missouri to the
Thirty-Ninth Congress. He was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress.

HENRY B. ANTHONY was born of Quaker ancestry, at Coventry, Rhode
Island, April 1, 1815. He graduated at Brown University in 1833. He
became editor of the "Providence Journal" in 1838. He was chosen
Governor of Rhode Island in 1849, and served two terms. In 1859 he was
elected a Senator in Congress from Rhode Island, and was subsequently
re-elected for a second term, which ends in 1871.--36, 37, 487, 488,
497.

SAMUEL M. ARNELL was born in Maury County, Tennessee, May 3, 1834. He
studied at Amherst College, Massachusetts, and adopted the profession
of law, which he practiced in Columbia, Tennessee. In April, 1865, he
was elected a member of the Legislature of Tennessee, and in the
following August was elected a Representative in Congress. The
Tennessee delegation not being admitted at the opening of the
Thirty-Ninth Congress, he continued to hold his seat in the
Legislature. He was the author of the Franchise Law, which became a
part of the Constitution of Tennessee, and of the Civil Rights Bill of
Tennessee. He took his seat as a member of the Thirty-Ninth Congress
at the opening of its second session, and was re-elected to the
Fortieth Congress.

DELOS R. ASHLEY studied and practiced the profession of law in Monroe,
Michigan. In 1849 he removed to California, where he was elected
District Attorney in 1851. He was elected to the Assembly in 1854, and
to the State Senate in 1856. He subsequently held the office of
Treasurer of State. Having removed to Nevada in 1864, he was elected
the Representative from that State to the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and
was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress.

JAMES M. ASHLEY was born in Pennsylvania, November 14, 1824. He spent
several years of his early life in a printing-office, and was some
time a clerk on Ohio and Mississippi steamboats. He studied law, and
was admitted to the bar in 1849, but immediately engaged in the
business of boat-building. He subsequently went into the wholesale
drug business in Toledo. In 1858 he was elected a Representative from
Ohio to the Thirty-Sixth Congress, and has been a member of every
succeeding Congress, including the Fortieth.--306, 503, 513, 515, 525,
566.

JEHU BAKER was born in Fayette County, Kentucky, November 4, 1822. He
received a good education, and e