Representative from Michigan to the Thirty-Ninth Congress,
and was re-elected in 1866.

WILLIAM PITT FESSENDEN was born at Boscawen, New Hampshire, October
16, 1806. He graduated at Bowdoin College in 1823, and in 1827 entered
upon the practice of law in Portland, Maine. In 1832 he was a delegate
to the Convention which nominated Henry Clay. In the same year he was
elected to the Maine Legislature, and again in 1840. In 1841 he was
elected a Representative in Congress, and declined a re-election. In
1845, 1846, and 1853 he served his fellow citizens in the State
Legislature. In 1853 he was elected a United States Senator from
Maine, and was re-elected in 1859. Upon the resignation of Mr. Chase
as Secretary of the Treasury, in July, 1864, he was appointed to that
office. On the 4th of March following he resigned his seat in the
Cabinet, and re-entered the United States Senate, to which he had been
elected for the term ending in 1871. In the Senate he has held the
important positions of Chairman of the Finance Committee and of the
Joint Committee on Reconstruction. He has received the degree of LL.D.
from Bowdoin College and Harvard University--27, 42, 136, 271, 224,
373, 377, 380, 394, 412, 419, 431, 432, 453, 456, 540.

_WILLIAM E. FINCH_ was born in Ohio in 1822, and at the age of
twenty-one was admitted to the bar. In 1851 he was elected to the
State Senate. In the following year he was a delegate to the
Convention which nominated General Scott for President. In 1861 he was
again elected a State Senator. In 1862 he was elected a Representative
from Ohio to the Thirty-Eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the
Thirty-Ninth. He was succeeded by _Philadelph Van Trump_ in the
Fortieth Congress.--437, 462, 476, 519.

GEORGE G. FOGG was a newspaper editor, of New Hampshire, until his
appointment by President Lincoln as United States Minister Resident
for Switzerland. He made a considerable fortune while there by
investing his salary in United States Securities when they were very
low in Europe. At the opening of the second session of the
Thirty-Ninth Congress he took his seat in the Senate, having been
appointed to fill the unexpired term of Daniel Clark, which closed on
the 4th of March, 1867. He was succeeded by James W. Patterson.

SOLOMON FOOT was born in Cornwall, Vermont, November 19, 1802, and
graduated at Middlebury College in 1826. Having occupied some years in
teaching, he studied law, and was admitted to the