Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1885 — JOHN CHARLES BLACK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JOHN CHARLES BLACK.

Appointed Commissioner of Pensions.

John Charles Black, the new Commissioner of Pensions, was bom at Lexington, Mo., in January, 1839. He received an academio education, and graduated at Wabash College, Ind. A short time afterward he 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 foi this purpose, and in due time was admitted to the practice of his profession. His home is at Danville, HI. 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 struggles, and are significant oi the respect in which his ability is held Gen. Black wafL 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 attompt-was made to pat him in nomination for the Tice Presidency, which he prevented.