Greenville College. He followed for some time the business of a
paper-maker, but gave attention to the study of law, and was admitted
to the bar in 1841, and practiced in Greenville. Here he married a
daughter of Andrew Johnson. In 1854 he was elected Judge of the First
Judicial Circuit of Tennessee. In May, 1865, he was elected a United
States Senator from Tennessee for the term ending in 1869. After a
protracted consideration and discussion of his case, he was sworn in
near the close of the first session of the Thirty-Ninth
Congress.--478, 482.

JAMES W. PATTERSON was born in Hanniker, New Hampshire, July 2, 1823.
He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1848. He was Professor of
Mathematics in Dartmouth College from 1854 to 1859, and was then
transferred to the chair of Astronomy and Meteorology. He was four
years Secretary of the Board of Education of New Hampshire, and in
1862 he was a member of the State Legislature. He was elected a
Representative from New Hampshire to the Thirty-Eighth and
Thirty-Ninth Congresses. At the expiration of the latter Congress he
became United States Senator from Vermont for the term ending in 1873.

SIDNEY PERHAM was born in Woodstock, Maine, March 27, 1819. Until his
thirty-fourth year he was a farmer and a teacher. In 1852 he was
elected a member of the State Board of Agriculture, and served two
years. In 1855 he was a member of the Maine Legislature, and
officiated as Speaker. In 1856 he was a Presidential Elector. In 1858
he was elected Clerk of a County Court, which position he held until
1862, when he was elected a Representative from Maine to the
Thirty-Eighth Congress. He was re-elected to the Thirty-Ninth and
Fortieth Congresses.

CHARLES E. PHELPS was born in Guilford, Vermont, May 1, 1833. Having
graduated at Princeton College in 1853, he came to the Maryland bar in
1855. In 1862 he was made Lieutenant-Colonel of the Seventh Maryland
Volunteers, and was discharged, on account of wounds, in 1864. He was
elected a Representative from Maryland to the Thirty-Ninth Congress,
and was re-elected in 1866.--156.

FREDERICK A. PIKE was born in Calais, Maine, where he now resides. He
adopted the profession of law, and served some time as Attorney for
the County. He was several years a member, and during one term
Speaker, of the Maine House of Representatives. In 1862 he was elected
a Representative from Maine to the Thirty-Seventh Congress, and was
re-elected to the Thirty-Eighth,