h Congress, and was re-elected in 1866.

_SAMUEL S. MARSHALL_ was born in Illinois, and was educated at
Cumberland College, Kentucky. He devoted himself to the practice of
law in Illinois, and was elected to the State Legislature in 1846. He
served two years as State Attorney, and, in 1851, was elected a Judge
of the Circuit Court, and held the office until 1854, when he was
elected a Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-Fourth Congress
and was re-elected in 1856. He was a delegate to the Chicago
Democratic Convention of 1864, and was the same year elected, a
Representative to the Thirty-Ninth Congress. He was re-elected in
1866.--148, 352.

GILMAN MARSTON was born in Orford, New Hampshire. In 1837 he graduated
at Dartmouth College, and in 1840 at the Dane Law School. He commenced
the practice of law in the following year, in 1845 he was elected to
the New Hampshire Legislature, and served four years. In 1859 he was
elected a Representative from New Hampshire to the Thirty-Sixth
Congress, and was re-elected in 1861. In June, 1861, he was appointed
Colonel of the Second Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers, and in
1863 was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. He participated in
many battles, and on the fall of Richmond retired from the army. Early
in 1865 he was re-elected a Representative in Congress from New
Hampshire. His successor in the Fortieth Congress is Jacob H.
Ela.--31.

JAMES M. MARVIN was born in Ballston, New York, February 27, 1809. He
spent his boyhood on a farm, and received an academical education.
When not in public life he has been occupied in managing a large
estate. In 1846 he was elected to the Legislature of New York, and
subsequently held, for three terms, the office of County Supervisor.
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.

HORACE MAYNARD was born in Westborough, Massachusetts, August 30,
1814. He graduated at Amherst College in 1838. Soon after, he removed
to Tennessee, and was appointed Professor of Mathematics in the
University of East Tennessee. While holding this position he studied
law, and was admitted to the bar in 1844. He was a Presidential
Elector in 1852, and in 1856 was elected a Representative from
Tennessee to the Thirty-Fifth Congress, and was twice re-elected. He
was in Washington as a member of the Thirty-Seventh Congress when the
rebels took posses