s exertions, recruited and equipped two and a half
regiments for service in the late war. Having resumed his residence in
New Jersey, he was, in 1866, elected a Senator in Congress from that
State.--569.

ZACHARIAH CHANDLER was born in Bedford, New Hampshire, December 10,
1813. He received an academical education, and removed to Michigan,
where he engaged extensively in mercantile pursuits and in banking. In
1851 he held the office of Mayor of Detroit. In 1852 he was an
unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Michigan. He entered the United
States Senate, during the Thirty-Fifth Congress, as the successor of
General Cass. In 1863 he was re-elected to the Senate for the term
ending in 1869.--27, 397.

_JOHN W. CHANLER_ was born in the City of New York in 1826. In 1859
and 1860 he was a member of the General Assembly of New York. In 1862
he was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-Eighth
Congress, and was re-elected to the Thirty-Ninth and Fortieth
Congresses.--64, 156, 337, 338, 571.

J. FRANCISCO CHAVES was born in New Mexico in 1833. He studied
medicine in New York, and subsequently devoted several years to
mercantile pursuits and cattle-raising. In 1861 he entered the
military service as Major of the First New Mexico Infantry, and after
seeing much active service was mustered out as Lieutenant-Colonel. In
1865 he was elected a Delegate from New Mexico to the Thirty-Ninth
Congress.

DANIEL CLARK was born in Stratham, New Hampshire, October 24, 1809. He
graduated at Dartmouth College in 1834, and was admitted to the bar in
1837. From 1842 to 1857 he was repeatedly a member of the New
Hampshire Legislature. In 1857 he was elected a Senator in Congress
from New Hampshire, and in 1861 he was re-elected for the term ending
in 1867. At the close of the first session of the Thirty-Ninth
Congress he resigned his seat in the Senate, having been appointed U.
S. District Judge for New Hampshire.--28, 201, 202, 388, 453, 455,
456, 479.

READER W. CLARKE was born in Bethel, Clermont County, Ohio, May 18,
1812. He learned the art of printing, but subsequently studied law,
and was admitted to the bar in 1836. In 1840 and 1841 he was a member
of the Ohio Legislature. He was a delegate to the Baltimore Convention
of 1844, and was a Presidential Elector in the same year. For six
years succeeding 1846 he held the office of Clerk of the Courts of
Clermont County. He was a delegate to the Chicago Convention of 1860.