s
Senator from Kentucky for the term ending in 1871.--46, 134, 160, 210,
214.

ROBERT S. HALE was born, in Chelsea, Vermont, September 24, 1822, and
graduated at the University of Vermont in 1842. He settled for the
practice of law at Elizabethtown, New York. He subsequently held the
position of Judge of Essex County, Regent of the University of New
York, and Presidential Elector. In 1864 he was elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was
succeeded in the Fortieth Congress by Orange Ferris.--82, 372.

_AARON HARDING_ was born in Greene County, Kentucky. He was admitted
to the bar in 1833. He was elected to the Kentucky Legislature in
1840. In 1861 he was elected a Representative from Kentucky to the
Thirty-Seventh Congress and was re-elected to the Thirty-Eighth and
Thirty-Ninth Congresses. His successor in the Fortieth Congress is _J.
Proctor Knott_.--361, 462.

ABNER C. HARDING was born in East Hampton, Connecticut, February 10,
1807. He practiced law in the State of New York, and subsequently in
Illinois. He was for many years engaged extensively in farming and
railroad management. In 1848 he was a member of the Illinois
Constitutional Convention, and subsequently of the Legislature. In
1862 he enlisted as a private in the Eighty-Third Illinois Infantry,
and became its Colonel. He was promoted to the rank of Brigadier
General. In 1864 he was elected a Representative from Illinois to the
Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was re-elected in 1866.--522.

_BENJAMIN G. HARRIS_ was born in Maryland, December 13, 1806. He was
for a time a student of Yale College, and afterwards studied at the
Cambridge Law School. He returned to his native State and engaged in
the practice of law and agriculture. He served for several years in
the Maryland House of Delegates. In 1863, and again in 1865, he was
elected a Representative to Congress from Maryland. In May, 1865, he
was arrested and tried by court-martial for violating the Fifty-Sixth
Article of War, and was declared guilty; but the President ordered the
sentence of the court to be remitted in full. He was succeeded in the
Fortieth Congress by _Frederick Stone_.

IRA HARRIS was born in Charleston, New York, May 31, 1802. He
graduated at Union College in 1824, and soon after entered upon the
practice of law in Albany, and for many years devoted attention
exclusively to his profession. In 1844 he was elected to the New York
Legislature, and served t