Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1887 — OUR HOUSE OF LORDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OUR HOUSE OF LORDS.

Portraits and Sketches or Some of the Newly Elected United States Senators. - Dawes, of Massachusetts; Hale, of Maine; Eearst, of California, and Others. * , / H«nry X. JJawcs, of Massachusetts. Hon. Henry L. Dawes, who has been re-elected to the Senate from Massachusetts, was bom at Cnnmiiugton, Mass., Oct. 30, 1810, He vns graduated from Vale College, began life as a school-

teacher, and edited the Greenfield Gazette and Adams Tranncript. At the same time ,he fitted himself by his exertions for the legal profession, and was admitted to the bar in 1842. He begnn his public career in 1848 as a member of the lower branch of the Legislature, and was returned in 1849 and 18 V 2. „ In 1850 he was a member of the State Senate. In 1853 he was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, and in the same year was a; pointed District Attorney for the Western District of Massachusetts, reinining that office until 1857. He wns elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress in 1858, and was re-elected to the Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh. Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth. Forty-first, Fortysecond, and Forty-third Congress, declining in 1875 to be a candidate for election to the Forty-fourth. He served ten years ns Chairman of the Committee on Elections, commencing with the Tfiirtysixth Congress—during the most important years in the history of the country—through the war and the reconstruction period. Eugene Hale, of Maine. Hon. Eugene Hale, who has jnst been chosen by the Maine Legislature as his own successor in the Senate, is a native of the Pine Tree State. He was bom at Turner,

Oxford County, June 9, 1835, longer ago than his appearance indicates, for he is a wonderfully well-preserved man. He received an academic education, and then read law. When 21 years of age he was admitted to the bar, and began practice. In a few years’ time he. was in the enjoyment of comfortable means and an excellent proressional practice. His first official position was as Attorney of Hancock County, which he heid nine consecutive years. In 1867 he was elected to the State Legislature. His first election as a United States Congressman was to the Forty-first Congress. He was also elected to the Forty-second, Fortythird, Forty-fourth and 1874 he declined-the position of Postmaster General, to which he was appointed by President Grant. He also declined a place in Hayes’ Cabinet. While a member of the Forty-fifth Congress die was Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee. In January, 1881, he was elected Senator for the full term eliding March 3,1887, succeeding Hannibal Hamlin. His re-election for second term of six years has just taken place. George Hearst of California.' Hen. George Hearst first took his seat iri the United States Senate in March , 1886. by appointment of the Governor of California, as tue successor of the late Sena-

tor Miller. He has just been elected to serve the full term beginning with next March. Mr. Hearst has had an eventful history. He went to California across the plains in 1850, and commenced as a common laborer in the mines. Finally h| made some njonev and formed a partnership with Haggra A Tevis, and the firm has amassed a large fortune in buying mining claims. They now own one of the largest and most profitable mines in Butte City, Montana, and also mines in Arizona Colorado, Oregon, Mexico, Idaho, and California. Mr. Hearst is considered the most

expert prospector on the Pacific coast, and' his judgment in regard to a mine has never been at fault. He is a tall, welbformed man about fifty-five years old. He was a candidate for Governor of California iu 1882, bat Gen. Stoneman secured the nomination from the San Jose Convention and was elected. At the time of Senator Stanford's election in 1885 Mr. Hearst received the complimentary votes of the Democrats. He is a very wealthy man, and among hia real "estate owns 40,000 acres of the finest lands in the State, situated in San Luis Obispo. He is the sole owner of the San Francisco Exitmi&er.

Joseph K. Hawley, of Connecticut. The Conhecticnt, Legislature has reelected Hon. Joseph R. Hawley to the Senate from that State. Mr. Hawley was bora at Stewartsville, N. C., Oc\ I], 1826. Hia father was a native of Fa i..iugton, Conn., and to that Sfate the family returned m 1837, afterward removing to Cazenovia, N. Y. Gen. Hawley received his t ally education at Farmington and Harford. Couu..audin 1850 commenced a law practice iu Hartford. He very early took a deep interest in the politics of the country and was an active opponent of slavt-rv, especially of its extension to t,he Territories. In February, 1857,; he became editor of the Hartford Keening Press. Upon the outbreak of the war he enlisted (April 15, lH(il), being the first man, to enroll his name for volunteer service irom. Connecticut. He went to the field as Captain of the First Regiment Connecticut Volunteers and fought at Bull Run. Aft<r the three months’ campaign he recruited the .Seventh Connecticut Volunteers and was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel. He was Commissioned Colonel in 1862 and Brigadier General ip 1864. He served in the Army Of the James before Richmond and Petersburg. He was appointed Military Governor of Wilmington, N. C., and was brevefied Major General in 1865; was Gen. TJjejq-y’s Chief-of-Stall' at Richmond, and was mustered out of the service in January, 1866. He Was elected in April, 1866, to the Governorship of Connec-

ticut, holding the office one year. He returned to journalism as editor o% the Hartford Courant, and was President of the Chicago National Republican Convention in 1868; He was elected to the Fortysecond Congress Nov. 5, 1872. He was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress in April, 1873. Upon the organization of the Centennial Commission he was chosen its President. In 1881 he was 'elected to the United States Senate and has just been reelected. George Gray, of Delaware. Hon. George Gray, who has just been reelected United States Senator from Delaware, was born in New Castle, Del., May 4, 1840. When he was 17 years of age he entered Piinceton College, graduating from there in 1859, After reading law for three years with his father, the late Andrew C. Gray, and with William C. Spruance, he passed a year at Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1863. Directly after his admission he commenced the practice of law at New Castle, and soon established a lucrative practice. In 1881,

having been made Attorney General by Governor Hall, he removed to Wilmington. ' llis first term expired in 1883, but he was reappointed by Governor Stockley; A. S. I’aililock, of Nebraska. Hon. Charles H. Van Wyck was beaten for Senator m Nebraska, after a hard fight. His successor is Hon. Algernon S. Paddock, who was beaten by Van Wyck in 1881, after having served one term in the Senate.

Mr. Paddock was born in Glens Falls, N. Y., Nov. s_, is:JO. He spent his youth at that place, entering the Glens Falls Academy in his thirteenth year. He pur-; sued his studies there; until he was eighteen ' years old, when he entered Union Col-

lege, New York, where he remained until his senior year, when he left and went to Detroit, Mich. He began the study of law there. In May, 1857, he removed to Fort Calhoun, Neb., near*where he pre-empted a farm antLsettled. In 1872 he moved to Beatrice, Gage County, where he nbw lives. During 1858 and 1858 he was engaged in editorial work for the Omaha Republican. In 1860 he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention at "Chicago that nominated Lincoln, He .was nominated Secretary of Nebraska Territory, and assumed the position April 1, 1861. In 1864 he Was a delegate to the National Convention at Baltimore. In 1857 he was a candidate for the Senate, but was defeated by John M. Thayer. In 4 1868 he was nominated Governor of Wyoming by President Johnson, but declined the place. In the winter of 1874-’75 he was elected to the United States Senate for a term of six' years. In the winter of 1880-81 he was a candidate for re-election, but after eighteen ballots was defeated by C. H. Van Wyck. He served as a member of the Utah Commission, to whicn placie he was appointed by President Arthur.