collector of Bolivar County from 1872 until his
election to the United States Senate from Mississippi, February 3,
1875, as a Republican, to succeed Henry R. Pease, Republican, and took
his seat March 4, 1875. His term of service expired March 3, 1881.

UNITED STATES CONGRESSMEN.

RICHARD H. CAIN was born in Greenbrier County, Virginia, April 12,
1825. His father removed to Ohio in 1831, and settled in Gallipolis.
He had no education, except such as was afforded in Sabbath-school,
until after his marriage; entered the ministry at an early age; became
a student at Wilberforce University at Xenia, Ohio, in 1860, and
remained there for one year; removed, at the breaking out of the war,
to Brooklyn, New York, where he was a pastor for four years; was sent
by his Church as a missionary to the freedmen in South Carolina; was
chosen a member of the Constitutional Convention of South Carolina;
was elected a member of the State Senate from Charleston, and served
two years; took charge of a republican newspaper in 1868; was elected
a representative from South Carolina in the Forty-third Congress as a
Republican, receiving 66,825 votes against 26,394 for Lewis E.
Johnson, and was again elected to the Forty-fifth Congress as a
Republican, receiving 21,385 votes against 16,074 votes for M. P.
O'Connor, Democrat.

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ROBERT C. DE LARGE was born at Aiken, South Carolina, March 15, 1842;
received such an education as was then attainable; was a farmer; was
an agent of the Freedmen's Bureau from May, 1867, to April, 1868, when
he was elected a member of the State Constitutional Convention; was a
member of the House of Representatives of the State Legislature in
1868, 1869, and 1870; was one of the State Commissioners of the
Sinking Fund; was elected in 1870 State Land Commissioner, and served
until he was elected a representative from South Carolina in the
Forty-second Congress as a Republican, receiving 16,686 votes, against
15,700 votes for C. C. Bowen, Independent Republican; was appointed a
trial justice, which office he held when he died at Charlestown, South
Carolina, February 15, 1874.

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ROBERT BROWN ELLIOTT was born at Boston, Massachusetts, August 11,
1842; received his primary education at private schools; in 1853
entered High Holborn Academy in London, England; in 1855 entered Eton
College, England, and graduated in 1859; studied law, and