r General July 26, 1865. He contested the seat held by
D. W. Voorhees as a Representative from Indiana, and was declared by
the Committee on Elections to be entitled to the place. He was
re-elected to the Fortieth Congress.--568.

WILLIAM B. WASHBURN was born in Winchendon, Massachusetts, January 31,
1820. He graduated at Yale College in 1844, and subsequently engaged
in the business of manufacturing. In 1850 he was a Senator, and in
1854 a Representative, in the Legislature of Massachusetts. He was
subsequently President of Greenfield Bank. In 1862 he was elected a
Representative to the Thirty-Eighth Congress, and was re-elected to
the Thirty-Ninth and Fortieth Congresses.

MARTIN WELKER was born in Knox County, Ohio, April 25, 1819. When a
farmer's boy and a clerk in a store, he applied himself diligently to
study, and without the aid of schools obtained a liberal education. At
the age of eighteen he commenced the study of law, and was admitted to
the bar in 1840. In 1851 he was elected Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas for the Sixth District of Ohio, and served five years. In 1857
he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, and served one term,
declining a renomination. At the beginning of the war he served three
months as a staff officer with the rank of Major, and was then
appointed Judge Advocate General of the State. In 1862 he was
Assistant Adjutant General of Ohio, and Superintendent of the draft.
In 1864 he was elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-Ninth
Congress and was re-elected to the Fortieth Congress.

JOHN WENTWORTH, grandson of a member of the Continental Congress of
1778, was born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, March 5, 1815. He graduated
at Dartmouth College, and completed a course of legal study in Harvard
University. In 1836 he removed to Illinois, and settled in Chicago. He
conducted the "Chicago Democrat," as editor and proprietor, for
twenty-five years. In 1837 he became a member of the Board of
Education, and occupied that position many years. In 1842 he was
elected a Representative from Illinois to the Twenty-Eighth Congress,
and subsequently served in the Twenty-Ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-First,
and Thirty-Second Congresses. In 1857 and 1860 he was Mayor of
Chicago, and was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of
1861. In 1864 a Representative in Congress for his sixth term. His
successor in the Fortieth Congress is Norman B. Judd. In 1867 the
degree of LL.D. was conferre