Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1885 — JOHN CHARLES BLACK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JOHN CHARLES BLACK.

John Charles Black, the new Commissioner of Pensions, was born at Lexington, Mo., in January, 1839. He received an academic education, and graduated at Wabash College, Ind. A short time afterward be entered the army in the Thirtyseventh Illinois Regiment. When he left it in 1865 he .held the rank of Brevet Brigadier General. His next step was to procure admission to the bar. He entered the office of a prominent firm in Chicago for this purpose, and in due time was admitted to the practice of his profession. His home is at Danville, 111. General Black has been active in politics as a Democrat, and has been frequently nominated for office. Several-unsuccessful nominations for Congress, the last only last fall, have maintained his prominence in local party straggles, and are significant of the respect in which his Ability is held. Gen. Black was the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1872, and when Gen. Logan was sent to the Senate in 1879 Black was the Democratic caucus, nominee. He was a delegate at large to the last Democratic National Convention, before which an attempt was made to put him in nomination for the Vice Presidency, which he prevented.

Appointed Commissioner of Pensions.