Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1886 — DAKOTA SENATORS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DAKOTA SENATORS.

The Two Slen Chosen to Represent the Prospective State in the v IJ. S. Senate. Hon. G. D. Moody.' ' Gideon D. Moody, one of the newly elected United States Senators from Dakota, was bo& in Cortland, N. Y., in 1832, entered the Union army, rising from the ranks to a colonelcy. Removing to Dakota he was made Speaker, of the Assembly in

1808, and re-elected in 1874. In the years intervening he served as a member of the House. He was sent as a delegate to tfip Constitutional Convention of 1883, and served ns chairman of the committee appointed to prepare the memorial to the President and Congress setting forth Dakota’s claim to sisterhood in the Uhited States. _____ Hon. W. J. Edgeirton. W. J. Edgerton, the Uuited States Sena-tor-elect from Dakota, who, with Mr. Moody, his colleague, is in Washington awaiting recognition, has already served in

the Senate. He was chosen to succeed the Hon. William Windom, of Minnesota, when the latter was chosen for Garfield’s Cabinet. Upon the close of his Senatorial term* he was commissioned, Dec. 23, 1883, Chief Justice of Dakota, which position he held, until succeeded by the Hon. Bartlett Tripp.