Thirty-Ninth, and Fortieth
Congresses.--348, 503, 504, 519, 553.

TOBIAS A. PLANTS was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, March 17,
1811. After teaching school for several years, he studied law, and was
admitted to the bar in 1841. Having settled in Ohio, he served in the
State Legislature from 1858 to 1861. In 1864 he was elected a
Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was
re-elected in 1866.--509.

LUKE P. POLAND was born in Westford, Vermont, November 1, 1815. Having
received an academical education he studied law, and was admitted to
the bar in 1836. In 1839 and 1840 he was Register of Probate for
Lamoille County. In 1843 he was a member of the State Constitutional
Convention, and in the following year was elected Prosecuting Attorney
for his County. In 1848 he was elected by the Legislature one of the
Judges of the Supreme Court of Vermont. This position he continued to
hold by annual elections until November, 1865, when he was appointed
to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate occasioned by the
death of Judge Collamer. His term of service in the Senate closing
March 4, 1867, he took his seat as a Representative from Vermont in
the Fortieth Congress.--28, 459.

SAMUEL C. POMEROY was born in Southampton, Massachusetts, January 3,
1816. He entered Amherst College in 1836, and in 1838 went to Monroe
County, New York, where he resided four years. He returned to his
native town in 1842, and having espoused the Anti-Slavery cause, he
labored zealously to advance its principles. Annually for eight years
he ran on the Anti-Slavery ticket for the Massachusetts Legislature,
without success, until 1852, when he was elected over both Whigs and
Democrats. In 1854 he aided in organizing the New England Emigrant Aid
Society, and was its financial agent, and the same year he conducted a
colony to Kansas. He was a member of the Territorial Defense
Committee, and was active in his efforts to protect the settlers from
the border ruffians. During the famine in Kansas, he was Chairman of
the Relief Committee. He was a delegate to the Republican National
Conventions of 1856 and 1860. In 1861 he was elected a Senator in
Congress from Kansas, and was re-elected in 1867 for the term ending
in 1873.--404, 487, 495.

THEODORE M. POMEROY was born in Cayuga, New York, December 31, 1824.
He graduated at Hamilton College, and adopted the profession of law.
From 1850 to 1856 he was District Attorney for his nati