ATKINSON, ARCHIBALD. Born in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, September 13, 1792. He left school at the age of eighteen, and entered the office of the Clerk of the County Court, and performed the duties of copyist, devoting his leisure time to the study of law, which he completed at the Law School of William and Mary College. In 1813 he joined the troops at Norfolk, as ensign of a volunteer company, which was attached to the 29th Regiment, and was at the battle of Craney Island. Upon leaving the army he commenced the practice of law in Smithfield, and was a member of the General Assembly from 1815 to 1817, and, also, of the House of Delegates and State Senate for several years. In 1843 he was elected a Representative in Congress, and served until 1848, and was a member of the Committees on Naval Affairs and Commerce. He was Prosecuting Attorney for his county twenty years; Mayor of Smithfield, and a magistrate. Of late years he has devoted his attention to agriculture.

AUSTIN, ARCHIBALD.

He was a Representative in Congress, from Virginia, from 1817 to 1819.

AVERETT, THOMAS H.

He was born in Virginia; was a resident of Halifax County, and elected a Representative in Congress, from the Third District in that State, from 1849 to 1853, and

was a member of the Committees on Invalid Pensions, and on Revisal and Unfinished Business.

AVERY, DANIEL.

He was elected a Representative in Congress, from Hamilton County, New York, from 1811 to 1815, and from Cayuga County, from 1816 to 1817.

AVERY, WILLIAM T.

Born in Maury County, Tennessee, November 11, 1819, and was very early in life thrown upon his own resources for education and support; he is a lawyer by profession; and was elected to the Legislature of Tennessee in 1843. He held several creditable positions in his native State, and was chosen a Representative to the Thirty-fifth Congress. He is a member of the Committees on Expenditures in the State Department, and on Private Land Claims.

AYCRIGG, JOHN B.

He was born in New York, and was elected a Representative in Congress, from New Jersey, from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843, and was a member of the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department, and the Joint Committee on the Library, and on Invalid Pensions.

BABCOCK, ALFRED.

He was a Representative in Congress, from New York, from 1841 to 1843.

BABCOCK, LEANDER.

He was born in New York, and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1851 to 1853.

BABCOCK, WILLIAM.

He was a Representative in Congress, from New York, from 1831 to 1833.

BACON, EZEKIEL.

He was born in Massachusetts; graduated at Yale College in 1794; the son of John Bacon; and a Representative in Congress, from Massachusetts, from 1807 to 1813.

BACON, JOHN.

He was born in Canterbury, Connecticut; graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1765; studied theology, and, after preaching for a time in Maryland, removed to Massachusetts, and settled in Boston. Owing to some difficulties with his congregation he relinquished the ministry, and subsequently held the positions of magistrate, representative in the State Legislature, Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, a member and President of the State Senate, and that of Representative in Congress, from Massachusetts, from 1801 to 1803. He died in Berkshire County, October 25, 1820.

BADGER, GEORGE E.

Born in the town of Newbern, N. Carolina, in 1795. He graduated at Yale College in 1813; studied and practiced law; and was elected

to the Legislature in 1816. In 1820 he was elected a judge of the Supreme Court, which he resigned in 1825; he was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Harrison in 1841; and was elected a Senator in Congress in 1846, and re-elected in 1848 for a term of six years, serving on the Committees on Military and Naval Affairs. late years he has been wholly devoted to the practice of his profession, visiting Washington occasionally to argue cases in the Supreme Court of the United States.

BADGER, LUTHER.

Of

Born in Partridgefield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, April 10, 1785, but his father removed to Broome County, New York, in 17 1786. Having made sufficient acquaintance in the common branches of an English education, he entered Hamilton College at the age of nineteen, and spent two years there. In 1807 he commenced the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1812, and continued to practice his profession until 1824, when he was elected a Representative to the Nineteenth Congress. He had been engaged in military services in his State, and in 1819 was appointed, by Governor Clinton, Judge-Advocate for the 27th Brigade of Infantry of New York State, which office he held for eight years. In 1832 he resumed the practice of law, and in 1840 was appointed Examiner in Chancery and Commissioner of United States Loans,

which office he held for three years. From 1846 to 1849 he was United States District Attorney for New York.

BAER, GEORGE.

He was a Representative in Congress, from Maryland, from 1797 to 1801, and again from 1815 to 1817.

BAGBY, ARTHUR P.

He was born in Virginia in 1794; was liberally educated; adopted the profession of law, and settled in Alabama in 1818; was elected a member of the Legislature in 1820 and 1822, and was Speaker of the House; was Governor of Alabama from 1837 to 1843; and a Senator in Congress, from that State, from 1842 to 1849. His last public position was that of Minister to Russia, to which he was appointed in 1848. He died of yellow fever at Mobile, September 21, 1858.

BAILEY, DAVID J.

He was born in Georgia, and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1851 to 1855.

BAILEY, JEREMIAH.

A Representative in Congress, from Lincoln County, Maine, from 1835 to 1837, and was a member of the Committees on Agriculture and Expenditures in the Post-office Department.

BAILEY, JOHN.

He was a Representative in Congress, for Massachusetts, from 1823 to 1831, serving on the Committees on Public Expenditures and Expen

ditures in the State Department; and died at Dorchester, Massachusetts, June 26, 1835.

BAILEY, THEODORUS.

He was born in 1752; was a Representative in Congress, from New York, from 1793 to 1797, and again from 1799 to 1803; and a Senator in Congress, from 1803 to 1804, when he was appointed Postmaster of New York City. He died September 6, 1828.

BAKER, CALEB.

He was born in Providence, Rhode Island; served four years in the New York Assembly; and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1819 to 1821.

BAKER, DAVID J.

He was a Senator in Congress, from Illinois, from 1830 to 1831.

BAKER, EDWARD D.

He was born in England, but having emigrated to Illinois, and been naturalized, was elected a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1849 to 1851, and was a member of the Committee on Public Lands.

BAKER, EZRA.

He was a Representative in Congress, from New Jersey, from 1815 to 1817.

BAKER, JOHN.

He was a Representative in Congress, from Virginia, from 1811 to 1813.

BAKER, OSMYN.

He was born in Massachusetts; graduated at Yale College in 1822; and was a Representative in Congress, from his native State, from 1841 to 1845.

BALDWIN, ABRAHAM.

Was a native of Connecticut, and a graduate of Yale College in 1772, and from 1775 to 1779 he was a tutor in that institution. Having studied law, he settled in Savannah, Georgia, and soon after his arrival there he was chosen a member of the Legislature. He originated the plan of the University of Georgia, drew up the charter, and persuaded the Assembly to adopt it, and was for some time its president. was a member of the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1788, and a member of the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States. From 1789 to 1799 he was a Representative in Congress, and from 1799 to 1807 he was a member of the United States Senate. He died March 4, 1807, aged fifty-three years.

BALDWIN, HENRY.

He

He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1779; graduated at Yale College in 1797; and was a Representative in Congress, from Pennsylvania, from 1817 to 1822. He was a distinguished lawyer, and was for many years Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. He died in Philadelphia, April 21, 1844.

BALDWIN, JOHN.

He was born in Connecticut; and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1825 to 1829, serving on one standing, and one select committee.

BALDWIN, ROGER SHERMAN.

Born at New Haven, Connecticut, January 4, 1793; graduated at Yale College in 1811; studied law at Litchfield Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1814; and established himself in practice at New Haven, where he has since continued to reside. In 1837 he was elected to the State Senate, re-elected in 1838, and chosen President pro tem. of that body. In 1840 and 1841 he was a Representative in the General Assembly, and in the latter year was associated with J. Q. Adams in the argument before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of the Africans of the Amistad. In 1844 and 1845 he was Governor of the State, and in 1847 was elected to the United States Senate by the Legislature of Connecticut, serving until 1851. Since that time he has been engaged in his professional duties.

BALDWIN, SIMEON.

Born at Norwich, Connecticut, December 14, 1761; graduated at Yale College in 1781. In 1783 he was appointed tutor at the college, and continued in that station until 1786, when he was admitted to the bar in New Haven, and commenced

the practice of law. From 1790 to 1803 he was Clerk of the District and Circuit Courts of the United States; was a Representative in Congress, from 1803 to 1805, and declined a re-election. In 1806 he was appointed, by the Legislature, Associate Judge of the Superior Court and of the Supreme Court of Errors, and held the office until 1817. In 1822 was chosen by the General Assembly one of the Commissioners to locate the Farmington Canal, and was made President of that Board. In 1826 was elected Mayor of New Haven. In 1830 he resigned his office as Commissioner. He died in New Haven, May 26, 1851.

BALL, EDWARD.

He was born in Virginia, and was a Representative in Congress, from Ohio, from 1853 to 1855, and was re-elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress.

BALL, WILLIAM LEE.

Born in Lancaster County, Virginia, and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1817 to 1824.

BANKS, JOHN.

He was born in Pennsylvania, and was a Representative in Congress, from Crawford County, in that State, from 1831 to 1836, and was a member of the Committees on Elections, Patents, and Claims.

BANKS, LINN.

Born in Virginia, and was for twenty successive years Speaker of

the House of Delegates of that State, and a Representative in Congress, from 1838 to 1842, and was a member of the Committee on Claims. He was found drowned in a stream in Madison County, Virginia, February 24, 1842.

BANKS, NATHANIEL P.

Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, January 30, 1816, of poor but respectable parents-operatives in a factory. He had no advantages but those afforded by the common school, but he became a lover of books at an early day, and that love has been a source of gratification to him all his life. His first venture before the public was in the capacity of newspaper editor in his native town, and he followed the same pursuit at Lowell. He studied law, but did not practice to any great extent, and in 1848 he was elected to the Legislature of Massachusetts, serving in both houses, and officiating for a time as Speaker. He was chosen President of the Convention held in 1853, for revising the Constitution of Massachusetts, and was soon afterwards elected a Representative in Congress, serving from 1853 to 1857, when he was elected Governor of Massachusetts, by a majority of 24,000. During his second term in Congress, he was elected Speaker, and, as a presiding officer, won a reputation for impartiality, as it is said that not one of his decisions was ever overruled by the House. He was