9;
courageous stand of Van Buren for, 268-70;
gifts, character, and career of, 270-2;
supported war of 1812, 270;
opposed Missouri Compromise of 1820, 272;
known as champion of freedom, 272;
relations with Van Buren, 272;
declines to join Bucktail party, 272;
effort to prevent Tompkins' nomination, 277-9.

King's (Columbia) College, Gouverneur Morris a graduate of, i. 73.

Kinsella, Thomas, Brooklyn _Eagle_, a leading Dem. editor, iii. 420.

Kirkland, Charles S., in constitutional con., 1846, ii. 103;
on elective judiciary, 109.

Kirkpatrick, Thomas, nominated for prison insp., 1871, iii. 264;
elected, 275.

Knower, Benjamin, state treas., i. 294;
member Albany Regency, 294;
go-between of Van Buren and Clinton, 346, 348.

Know-Nothing party, see Native American party.

Labor Reform party, state con. of, 1877, iii. 384;
its principles, 389;
coalesces with Greenback party, 389;
issues call for Nat. con., 389;
see Nat.-Green.-Lab.-Reform party.

Labor Reform vote, 1870, iii. 244, note.

Ladue, Oliver, nominated for canal comr., 1862, iii. 45, note;
defeated, 51.

Laflin, Fordyce, nominated for prison insp., 1866, iii. 226;
elected, 227.

Laning, Albert P., character of, iii. 20;
patriotic sentiments, 20;
presents resolutions, 40;
del. to Nat. Dem. con., 1864, 108;
defeated for nomination for lt.-gov., 207;
ch'm. state con., 1878, 392;
rules in favour of Kelly, 393.

Lansing, Abraham G., removed as state treas., i. 165;
character of, 165;
restored as treas., 172.

Lansing, Garrett T., son of preceding, i. 165;
removed as master in chancery, 179.

Lansing, John, Jr., del. to amend Articles of Confederation, i. 29;
fitness for, 30;
withdraws from con., 30;
refuses to sign Federal Constitution, 31;
member of Poughkeepsie con., 33;
supports Clinton for gov., 1789, 43;
appointed to Supreme Court, 45;
story of his career, 129;
made chancellor, 129;
his murder, 130;
selected for gov., 1804, 131;
withdraws, 136;
reasons for, 152-3.

Lapham, Elbridge G., nominated for U.S. senator, 1881, iii. 481;
elected, 482.

Lapham, George H., nominated for state comp., 1881, iii. 484;
defeated, 486.

Lawrence, Cornelius V.R., candidate for mayor of N.Y., 1834, i. 400;
first year mayor was elective, 400;
spirited contest, 400;
elected, 401.

Lawrence, John, elected to U.S. senate, i. 70;
career and character of,