wo terms. In 1846 he was a delegate to the
State Constitutional Convention, and was the same year elected to the
State Senate. In 1847 he was elected Judge of the Supreme Court, and
held the office twelve years. In 1861 he was elected a Senator in
Congress from New York for the term ending in 1867, when he was
succeeded by Roscoe Conkling.

ROSWELL HART was born in Rochester, New York, in 1821. He graduated at
Yale College in 1843, and was admitted to the bar in 1847, but entered
immediately upon mercantile pursuits. In 1864 he was elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirty-Ninth Congress. His
successor in the Fortieth Congress is Lewis Selye.

ISAAC R. HAWKINS was born in Maury County, Tennessee, May 16, 1818. He
was engaged in agricultural pursuits until twenty-two years of age,
when he commenced the study of law. In 1843 he settled, for the
practice of law, in Huntington, Tennessee, where he now resides. He
served as a Lieutenant in the Mexican War. In 1860 he was elected to
the Legislature of Tennessee. He was a delegate to the Peace Congress
of 1861, and in the spring and summer of that year was actively
engaged in making speeches throughout his State against secession. In
September, 1862, he entered the army as Lieutenant-Colonel of the
Seventh Tennessee Cavalry. In 1864 he was captured by the enemy at
Union City, Tennessee, and was imprisoned at Mobile and Macon. He was
one of the fifty officers placed by the rebels under fire of the
Federal force off Charleston. Having been exchanged, he commanded the
cavalry force in Western Kentucky until the close of the war. In
August, 1865, he was elected a Representative from Tennessee to the
Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress.

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES was born in Delaware, Ohio, October 4, 1822. He
graduated at Kenyon College, and subsequently at the Cambridge Law
School. He was City Solicitor for Cincinnati from 1858 to 1861. He
went into the army at the opening of the war as Major of the
Twenty-Third Ohio Volunteers, and reached the rank of Brigadier
General. In 1864 he was elected a Representative from Ohio to the
Thirty-Ninth Congress. He was, in 1866, re-elected to the Fortieth
Congress, but having been elected Governor of Ohio in 1867, he
resigned his seat in Congress, and was succeeded by Samuel F. Carey.

JAMES H. D. HENDERSON was born in Livingston County, Kentucky, July
23, 1810. In 1817 he removed with his parents to Mi