Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1899 — EX-SENATOR HARLAN DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EX-SENATOR HARLAN DEAD.

iMt ftnilm eff Lincoln’s Cabinet Et-UaiM States Senator James ll.trha. the last survivor of President Linewflm's rahmet. passed away in Mount Pteasaut. lowa. Thursday. He had been rapndUy ffaiffiag for the last three months. The immediate cause off his death was wMLjgNtaiw off the fangs. At the time of his •death there- wee*- with him his daughter. Mbs. Luwolm; his nephew. Janies MThntffocd; the nurse- and two or three James Harlan was elected four times t® the- United States Senate and served i* that body sixteen years. His seat in the l Senate was declared vacant in 1857, white- he- was serving a term ending in ISta. hut he- was re-elected immediately. He- resigned ta 1565 to accept from PreshtemK Liincoim the place of Secretary of the Interior-, bet was again elected to the Senate in 18WS and served until 1873. Hie was a delegate to the peace conven-

tion an 1S&S1 and at different times was chairman off the Senate committees on puihifie- lands. District of Columbia anti Indium affairs. He was a member of the ek'aniniittee on foreign relations, agriculture and the Pacific- Itaiiroad. After tewving the Senate Mr. Harlan became editeoc off the Washington Chronicle. FVi'oa 1882 until 1885 Ice was presiding |®Sge off the court off commissioners of the Alabama claims. He was at (me time pnesiScatt off the lowa University. llr. Harlan was a native of Chirk County. REna&. having been born there Aug. 25.18&X He graduated at Indiana Ashbury University in 1845 and became superintendent off public- instruction in lo*wa in 1847. In 1855 he became president off the I->vra Wesleyan University and was first elected to the United States Senate- in 1855. Originally he belonged tab the Whig party.

JAMES HARLAN.