Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1859 — Election of a U. S. Senator in Minnesota. [ARTICLE]

Election of a U. S. Senator in Minnesota.

The Senate and House of Representatives of Minnesota Legislature, met in Joint Session yesterday, at 12 o’clock, and proceeded to the election of a United States Senator. On a call of the members, Hon. Morton S. Wilkinson, of Blue Earth County, received 79 votes, James Shields, (Dem.,) received 33 votes, and Willis A. Gorman, (Dem.) received 1. Mr. Wilkinson having received a majority of all the votes, was duly elected United States Senator from Minnesota, for the term of six years. Mr. Wilkinson has been identified with the Republican party of this State from its inception. He has labored for the dissemination of Republican principles, and is well known throughout the State as one of the party’s most effective stumpers. As a speaker and lawyer he ranks among the first, and as a guardian of the interests of Minnesota in the councils of the Nation, he will have no superior. He is an old resident of the State, has grown with its growth, knows its wants, and will maintain its honor at the Capitol of the Nation. His election was received with unanimity and a degree of enthusiasm which argues well for the coming Presidential Campaign.— St. Paul Minne sotian, (16/A.) _