ch is now the
"Daily Journal of Commerce." In 1861 he was elected Mayor of Kansas
City. He was in the military service as Major and Lieutenant-Colonel
from 1861 to 1864. He was wounded and taken prisoner at Lexington,
Missouri, and after his exchange saw much active service in Tennessee.
While still in the army, he was elected a member of the Missouri
Senate, and in 1864 he was elected a Representative from Missouri to
the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was re-elected in 1866.

PETER G. VAN WINKLE was born in the City of New York, September 7,
1808, and removed to Parkersburg, West Virginia, in 1835. He was a
member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850, and of the
Wheeling Convention of 1861. He aided in forming the Constitution of
West Virginia in 1862. He became a member of the Legislature of that
State at its organization, and in November, 1863, he was elected a
United States Senator from West Virginia for the term ending in
1869.--194, 459.

_DANIEL W. VOORHEES_ was born in Fountain County, Indiana, September
26, 1828. He graduated at the Indiana Asbury University in 1849, and
commenced the practice of law in 1851. He held the office of United
States District Attorney for three years, by appointment of President
Buchanan. In 1860 he was elected a Representative to Congress from
Indiana, and re-elected in 1862. He appeared in December, 1865, as a
member of the Thirty-Ninth Congress, but remained only a short time,
his seat having been successfully contested by Henry D.
Washburn.--568.

BENJAMIN F. WADE was born in Feeding Hills Parish, Massachusetts,
October 27, 1800. He received a common-school education, and was
employed for some time in teaching. At the age of twenty-one he
removed to Ohio and engaged in agriculture. He subsequently studied
law, and was admitted to the bar in 1828. Thereafter he successively
held the offices of Justice of the Peace, Prosecuting Attorney for
Ashtabula County, State Senator, and Judge of the Circuit Court. In
1851 he was elected a United States Senator from Ohio, and has been
twice re-elected, his third term ending in 1869. In March, 1867, he
was elected President, _pro tempore_, of the Senate, and thus became
acting Vice-President of the United States--15, 28, 50, 276, 279, 283,
428, 454, 477, 490, 576.

_ANDREW H. WARD_ is a lawyer by profession, and a resident of
Cynthiana, Kentucky. He was a Representative from the Sixth District
of Kentucky to the Thirty-Ninth Co