Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1887 — OUR HOUSE OF LORDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OUR HOUSE OF LORDS.

Portraits and Sketches of Some of the Newly Elected United* States Senators. Dawes,of Massachusetts; Hale, of Maine; Hearst, of California, and Others. Henry X,. Dawes, of Massachusetts. Hon. Henry L. Dawes, who has been re-elected to the Senate from Massachusetts, was bom at Cummington, Mass., Oct. 30, 1816. He was graduated from Yale College, began life as a schoolteacher, and edited the Greenfield Gazette *nd Adams Transcript. At the same time he fitted himself by his exertions for the legal profession, and was admitted to the bar in 1842. He began his public career in 1848 as a member of the lower branch of the Legislature, and was returned in 1849 And 1852. In 1850 he was a member of the

State Senate. In 1853 he was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, and in the same year was aj pointed District Attorney for the Western District of Massachusetts, retaining that office until 1857. He was elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress in 1858, and was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh,Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Foity-first, Fortysecond, and Forty-third Congress, declining in 1875 to be a candidate for election to the Forty-fourth. He served ten years as Chairman of the Committee •on Elections, commencing with the Thirtysixth Congress—during the most important years in the history of the country—through the war and the reconstruction period. In those years there were more election contests than ever before, arising from the war. He was many years Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and while in Congress served on every important committee. He was the author of many tariff measures, and assisted in the construction of the wool and woolen tariff of 1868, which was th 3 basis of all duties on wools and wooleus irom that time till 1883. In 1875 Mr. Dawes, was elected to the National Senate to succeed Charles Sumner, whose unexpired term had been filled by William B. Washburn. He took his seat on March 4, 1875, and was re-elected on the expiration of his term in 1881. Eugene Hale, of Maine. Hon. Eugene Hale, who has just been chosen by the Maine Legislature as his own successor in the Senate, is a native of the Pine Tree State. He was born at Turner, Oxford County, June 9, 1835, longer ago than his appearance indicates, for he is a wonderfully well-preserved man. He received an academic education, and then read law. When 21 years of age he was admitted to the bar, and began practice. In a few years’ time he was in the enjoyment of comfortable means and an excellent professional practice. His first official position was as Attorney of Hancock County, which he

held nine consecutive years. In 1867 he was elected to the State Legislature. Hiq first election as a United States Congressman was to the Forty-first Congress. He was also elected to the Forty-second, Fortythird, Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth. In 1874 he declined the position of Postmaster General, to which he was appointed by President Grant. He also declined a place in Hayes’ Cabinet. While a member of the Forty-fifth Congress he was Ohairman of the Republican Congressional Committee. In January, 1881, he was elected Senator f(# the full term ending March 3,1887, succeeding Hannibal Hamlin. His re-election for a second term of six years has ju%t token place. George Hearst or California. Hon. George Hearst first took his feeat in the United Sta'es Senate in March, 1886, by appointment of the Governor of California, as the successor of the late Senator Miller. He has just been elected to serve the full term beginning with next March”. Mr. Hearst has had an eventful history. He went to California across the plains in 1850, and commenced as a common laborer in the mines. Finally he made pome money and formed a partner-

ship with Hoggin <fc Tevis, and the finr has amassed a large fortune in buying mining claims. They now own one of the largest and most profitable mines in Butte

City, Montana, and also mines in Arizona Colorado, Oregon, Mexico, Idaho, and California. Mr. Hearst is considered the most expert prospector on the Pacific coast, and his judgment in regard to a mine has never yet been at fault. He is a tall, well-formed man about fifty-five years old. He was a candidate for Governor of California in 1882, but Gen. Stoneman secured the nomination from the San Jose Convention and was elected. At the time of Senator Stanford’s election in 1885 Mr. Hearst received the complimentary votes of the Democrats. He is a very wealthy man, and among his real estate owns 40,000 acres of the finest lands in the State, situated in San Luis Obispo. He is the sole owner of the San Francisco Examiner. • Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut. The Connecticut Legislature has reelected Hon. Joseph It. Hawley to the Senate from that State. Mr. Hawley was born at Stewartsville, N. C., Oct. 31, 1826. His father was a native of Farmington, Conn., and to that State the family returned in 1837, afterward removing to Cazenovia, N. Y. Gen. Hawley received his early education at Farmington and Harford, Conn.,andin 1850 commenced a law practice in Hartford. He very early took a deep interest in the politics of the country and was an active opponent of slavery, especially of its extension to the Territories. In February, 1857, he became editor of the Hartford Evening Press. Upon the outbreak of the war he

enlisted (April 15, 18611, being the first man to enroll his name for volunteer service from Connecticut. He went to the field as Captain of the First Regiment Connecticut Volunteers and fought at Bull Run. After the three months’ campaign he recruited the Seventh Connecticut Volunteers and was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel. He was commissioned Colonel in 1862 and Brigadier General in 1864. He served in the Army of the James before Bichmond and Petersburg. He was appointed Military Governor of Wilmington, N. C., and was brevetted Major General in 1865; was Gen. Terry’s Chief-of-Staff at Bichmond, and was mustered out of the service in January, 1866. He was elected in April, 1866, to the Governorship of Connecticut, holding the office one year. He returned to journalism as editor of the Hartford Courant, and was President of the Chicago National Republican Convention in 1868. He was elected to the Fortysecond Congress Nov. 5, 1872. He was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress in April, 1873. Upon tho organization of the Centennial Commission he was chosen its President. In 1881 he wgs elected to the United States Senate and has just been reelected.

A. S. Paddock, of Nebraska. Hon. Charles H. Van Wyck was beaten for Senator in Nebraska, after a hard fight. His successor is Hon. Algernon S. Paddock, who was beaten by Van Wyck in 1881, after having served one term in the Senate.

Mr. Paddock was born in Glens Falls, N. Y., Nov. 5, 1830. He spent his youth at that place, entering the Glens Falls Academy in his thirteenth year. He pur-; sued his studies there; until he was eighteen years old, when he entered Union Col-

lege, New York, where he remained until his senior year, when he left and went to Detroit, Mich. He began the study of law there. In May, 1857, i e removed to Fort Calhoun, Neb., near where he pre-empted a farm and settled. In 1872 he moved to Beatrice, Gage County, where he now lives. During 1858 and 1859 he was engaged in editorial work for the Omaha Republican. In 1860 he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago that nominated Lincoln. He was nominated Secretary of Nebraska Territory, and assumed the position April 1, 1861. In 1864 he was a delegate to the National Convention at Baltimore. In 1857 he was a candidate for the Senate, but was defeated by John M. Thayer. In 18(18 he was nominated Governor of Wyoming by President Johnson, but declined the place. In the winter of 1874-’75 he was elected to the United States Senate for a term of six years. In the winter of 1880-’Bl lie was a candidate for re-election, but after eighteen ballots was defeated by C. H. Van Wyck. He served as a member of the Utah Commission, to whicn place he was appointed by President Arthur.