Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1887 — THE NEXT SENATE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE NEXT SENATE.

Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Newly Elected United States Senators. Davis, of Minnesota; Cockrell, of Missouri; Daniel, of Virginia, and Others. „C.K, DAVIS, OF MINNESOTA. , Ex-Governor Onsbtitan K. Davi*. of St. Paul, has been chosen Senator from Minnesota, in the place of Hon. S. J. It. McMillan. He received h i almost unanimous support from the Kepio tfcan jitess before the meetin ' of the Legi-laizre, and at the first ballot in the caucus, on the withdrawal of Mr. McMillen, received 93 votes out of 94, tke nomination afterward being made unanimous. He is a man in the prime of life, about 50 years of age, a practicing lawyer of high repute in St. Paul, a good debater, and much respected by those with whom he is brought'into professional contact. He was popular as a Governor of the State, and has been devoted largely to the intellectual work of his preL ssion, having been engaged in many important suits.

Unlike several of the new Senators from the West, Governor Davis is not a rich man, although he has a large income from his law business. MAHOXE'S SUCCESSOR. The retirement of Mnlione on the 4th day of Match will bring to the United States Senate John YV. Daniel, who has for many years been prominent in Virginia politics. Mr. Daniel was bom in the Lynchburg district, the great tobacco-pro-ducing section of Virginia, in 1842. He is tall, sitnder, and handsome, with a high, broad forehead, surmounted by black, curly hair. He was a Boldier in the Confederate army, and is a trifle lame from a wound received at the battle of Gettysburg. One of his ancestors was a Justice of the United States Supreme Court during Van Boren’s administration, and another was a member of Congress from Virginia while Andrew Jackson was President. Mr. Daniel is said to be a very fine lawyer, and enjoys a large and lucrative practice. He is the author of several law books, which are regarded us excellent authorities by the legal profession.. He is married to a lady of

wealth and culture. Mr. Daniel delivered the address at the oereinonies attending the completion ©f the Washington monument. P. C. CHEXEY, OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. Ex-Governor Pei son C. Cheney, who has been elected United States Senator from New Hampshire, is a native of Ashland, N. H., having been bom in 1828. He was educated in the common schools of Peterborough, N. H., and Parsonfield, Me., Seminal y. At an early age he took charge of a paper-mill, and worked it so successfully that in eight years he was able to build a new arid more eX-

tensive one in company with two other gentlemen, but eventually became sole proprietor of it. He is also interested in large timber tracts near Washington and the Amoskeag Indurated Fiber Ware Company at Peterborough. Mr. Cheney has faithfully served his fellow citizens in many responsible public positions of trust. He represented Peterborough in the lower house of the Legislature in 1853; * he was Quartermaster of the Thirteenth Regiment, N. H. V., from 1862 until 1863, Railroad Commissioner from 1864 to 1867, at which time (’67) he took up his residence in Manchester. In 1871 he was elected Mayor of that city, declining a second term. In 1875 he was elected Governor of the State after a red-hot .Contest by the Legislature, and for a secoria term the followingyear bythe vote of the people. Senator Cheney is largely interested in the capital and moneyed institutions.of the

State, being President of the People’s ( Saving* Bank of Manchester; of the Amoskeag Fire Insurance Company; of the Manchester Electric Light Company; Vice President of the New Hampshire Insurance Company at Concord Manufactory; and a director in several other moneyed institutions. WILLIAM B. BATE, OF TENNESSEE. General William B. Bate, who has been choseu Senator by the Tennessee Legislature, was born in Sumner County, that

-State, sixty-four years ago. He took part in the Mexican war, enlisting in the service as -a private. He was promoted to a lieutenancy for bravery. May 5, 1861, he was elected Colonel of the Second Confederate Tennessee Regiment, which was mustered into service at Lynchburg, Va., soon afterward. Colonel Bate was severely wounded at Shiloh, and was at once promoted. He led the regiment in many desEerate engagements and received honorale mention for his skill as a commander. After the close of the war General Bate practiced law at Gallatin and acquired the reputation of being a first-class criminal lawyer. In 1882 he received the nomination for Governor and was elected. He was re-elected in 1884 by a reduced majority, due to his support of the candidates for Railroad Commissioners, who were defeated. He was twice beaten for United States Senator—first by Andrew Johnson in 1875, and, in 1881 by Howell E. Jackson. He is for free trade, and strongly opposed to the Blair educational bill. F. M. COCKRELL, OF MISSOURI. Francis Marion Cockrell, recently elected United States Senator from Missouri fojt

the third time, was born in Johnson County, that State, October 1, 1834. He was ambitious to become a professional man, and, after due preparation, entered Chapel Hill College, Missouri, as a student. After his graduation in July. 1853, he read law and was admit ted to the bar. He began practice at Warreneburg, Mo., and pursued it with success and undivided attention until 1861, when he entered the Confederate army. Before the end of the war he attained the rank of Brigadier General. His first civil office was that he now holds, to which he was elected as successor to Carl Schurz, in 1874. He was re-elected in 1880, and again in 1887. , W. C. WHITTHORNE, OF TENNESSEE. Washington Gnrran Whittbome, who has lately been chosen Senator by the Tennessee Legislature, was bom in Marshall County, Tennessee, in the year 1825. He was carefully educated, and a graduate of East Tennessee - University. Having determined to follow the legal profession, Mr. Whitthorne became a student of law under James K. Polk, of whose office he was an inmate when that statesman was elected to the Presidency. Shortly after his admission to the bar he began to interest himself in State polities. He was a member of the Legislature of Tennessee for six years prior to the war, and once—lßs9-60 Speaker of the Assembly. Mr. Whitthorne was on the Breckenridge electoral ticket in 1860. Upon the breaking out of the war he became Assistant Adjutant General, serving in Western Virginia. Governor Isbam G. Harris, of Tenpessee, made him Adjutant General of. the State in 1861, an office which he held until the close of the war. He then opened a law office at Columbia, Tenn.. where he soon built up a large pracbce. His political disabilities were removed in 1870, and in the following year he was** elected to the House of Representatives. He servedhis district durirg six Congresses, until the close of the Forty-seventh. His work as a member of the Committee on Naval Affairs, of which, he was Chairman six years, made a marked impression on publio opinion. J C.OHN H. REAGAN, OF TEXAS. Hon. John H. Reagan, who has been chosen as the successor of S. B. Maxey in the Senate from Texas, was bom in Sevier Couniy, Tenn., October 8, 1818. He received a limited collegiate education, studied law, nnd settled in the Republic of Texas in 1839, where he became both farmer and lawyer. He was Deputy Surveyor of the Public Lands from 1839 to 1843, and was elected to the Legislature in 1847. Five years after he was made Judge of the District Court, resigning in 1856, when he was re-elected for another tenn, In 1857 he was elected Representative to Congress, and, re-elected., in 1859. In 1861 he was a member of tha Texas Secession Convention, and was a Representative of that State in the Confederate Congress. He was at thecloseof the war Postmaster General of the Confederate Government, In 1875 he was a member of the Texas Constitutional Convention. and was elected successively to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixfh, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses. Ohio is called the Buckeye State buckeyes a tree of that name flourishes there.