1861 he was elected to the State
Legislature. In 1863 he was elected a Representative to the
Thirty-Ninth Congress and was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress.

NATHANIEL G. TAYLOR was born in Carter County, Tennessee, December 29,
1819, and graduated at Princeton College in 1840. He studied law and
was admitted to the bar in 1843, but subsequently became a minister in
the Methodist Episcopal Church South. In 1852 he was a Presidential
Elector, and in 1854 was elected a Representative in Congress from
Tennessee. In 1865 he was re-elected a Representative in the
Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was admitted to his seat in July, 1866. R.
R. Butler was elected as his successor in the Fortieth Congress.--480.

_NELSON TAYLOR_ was born in South Norwalk, Connecticut, June 8, 1821.
He served through the Mexican War as Captain in the First Regiment of
New York Volunteers. He subsequently went to California, and was
elected a member of the State Senate in 1849. In 1853 he was elected
Sheriff of San Joaquin County, California. In 1861 he entered the
military service as Colonel of the Seventy-Second Regiment of New York
Volunteers, and became a Brigadier General. In 1864 he was elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirty-Ninth Congress. His
successor in the Fortieth Congress is _John Morrissey_.

M. RUSSELL THAYER was born in Petersburg, Virginia, January 27, 1819,
and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1840. He studied
law, and having been admitted to the bar in 1842, he located in
Philadelphia. In 1862 he was elected a Representative in the
Thirty-Eighth Congress, and was re-elected to the Thirty-Ninth. His
successor in the Fortieth Congress is Caleb N. Taylor--83, 225, 438,
522, 538.

FRANCIS THOMAS was born in Frederick County, Maryland, February 3,
1799. He was educated at St. John's College, Annapolis. He studied
law, and was admitted to practice at Frederick in 1820. He was elected
to the Maryland Legislature in 1822, 1827, and 1829, when he was
chosen Speaker. In 1831 he was elected a Representative in Congress,
and served for ten consecutive years. In 1841 he declined a
renomination for Congress. In the fall of that year he was elected
Governor of Maryland, and served until January, 1845. In 1848 he
supported Van Buren and Adams on the Buffalo Anti-Slavery platform. In
1850 he was a member of the Maryland Constitutional Convention. At the
breaking out of the Rebellion he raised a brigade of 3,000 volunt