Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1888 — GEN. E. S. BRAGG. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GEN. E. S. BRAGG.

The Wisconsin ExCcngreisman's Nomination as Minister to Mexico Sent to the Senate. A Portrait and Brief Biographical Sketch of the New Appointee. I Washington special.] The President, on Thursday last, sent to the Senate the nomination of Gen. E. S. Bragg, of Wisconsin, to be Minister to the Republic of Mexico. The General is now in this city, and will probably remain here until his confirmation, and then go to Wisconsin to wind up his affairs there. He is in good health and spirits. Mr. Connery, the present Secretary of Legation in Mexico, will presently return to the United States. He took the position of Secretary with some sort of understanding that he was to be Minister when a vacancy occurred, and that a vacancy was likely to occur. He was very strongly indorsed for the place, and might have got the appoint-

ment, but is said to have meddled in the internal politics of the country, siding with the clericals in their contest with Diaz, and this, of course, made him undesirable to the precent political powers of the republic. Gen. Edward 8. Bragg was born at Unadilla, N. Y., Feb. 20, 1827. He received a classical education, which was completed at Geneva College. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar. Removing to Fond du Lac, Wis., he practiced his profession there. In 1868 and 1869 he was a member of the State Senate. Upon the breaking out of the war he entered the Union army as a Captain. This ■was in May, 1861. In October, 1855, he was mustered out of service with the full rank of Brigadier General. He was sent to represent his district in the Forty-fifth Congress, and was re-elected to the Fortysixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-ninth Congresses. He was defeated in the nominating conventions of the Forty-eighth and Fiftieth Congresses. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago which nominated Cleveland, and in eulogizing the then Governor of New York, said: “We love him for the enemies he has made,” alluding to Tammany’s opposition.