the State Senate. As early as
1843 he was elected a Representative to Congress from Kentucky and
held the position until 1847. He was re-elected to the Thirty-Seventh,
Thirty-Eighth, and Thirty-Ninth Congresses. He died before the
expiration of the last term for which he was elected.--417, 570.

JAMES W. GRIMES was born in Deering, New Hampshire, October 16, 1816.
He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1836, and soon after removed to
Iowa, where he was, in 1838, elected to the first Territorial
Legislature. From 1854 to 1858 he was Governor of Iowa. In 1859 he was
elected a Senator in Congress, and was in 1865 elected for a second
term, which will end in 1871. In 1865 he received the degree of LL.D.
from Iowa College. He was a delegate to the Peace Congress of 1861.
For a number of years he has been Chairman of the Committee on Naval
Affairs.

JOSIAH B. GRINNELL was born in New Haven, Vermont, December 22, 1821.
He received a collegiate and theological education. In 1855, he went
to Iowa, where he turned his attention to farming, and became the most
extensive wool-grower in the State. He was four years a member of the
Iowa Senate, and two years a special agent for the General Post
Office. In 1862 he was elected a Representative from Iowa to the
Thirty-Eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Thirty-Ninth. He was
succeeded by William Loughridge in the Fortieth Congress.--70, 153,
507, 572, 573, 574.

JOHN A. GRISWOLD was born in Rensselaer County, New York, in 1822. He
has been engaged in the iron trade and business of banking. He was
once Mayor of the City of Troy. In 1862 he was elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirty-Eighth Congress, was
re-elected in 1864, and again in 1866.--523.

_JAMES GUTHRIE_ was born near Bardstown, Kentucky, in 1795. Having
spent some years in trading with New Orleans as the owner of
flatboats, he settled in Louisville as a lawyer, at the age of
twenty-five. He was at one time shot by a political opponent, and was
in consequence laid up for three years. He served nine years in the
State Legislature and six years in the Kentucky Senate. He
subsequently took an active part in the banking business, and was
President of the Nashville and Louisville Railroad. He was President
of the Kentucky Constitutional Convention of 1851. In 1853 he became
Secretary of the Treasury under President Pierce. He was a delegate to
the Chicago Convention of 1864. In 1865 he was elected United State