Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1889 — RAUM SUCCEEDS TANNER. [ARTICLE]

RAUM SUCCEEDS TANNER.

An Illinots Man Appointed Pension tom- < inißSioner. The President Saturday appointed. General Green B; Baum, of Illinois, to be Commissioner of Pensions. General Raam was sworn in at noon. He is a prominent member of the G. A. R. [Greep Berry Raum was born in GoT eouda, Pope county. His.. December 3’ 1829. He received a edmmon school education, studied law and was'admitted‘to the bar in 1853. In 1856 he removed with his family to Kansas and at once affiliated with the Free State party. Becoming obnoxious to the pro-slavery faction, he returned the following year to Illinois and settled at Harrisburg. At the opening of the civil war he made his fiist speech as a u-ajte -attending eeart at Metropolis, 111.

Subsequently he entered the army as Major of the Fifty-sixth Illinois Regiment, and was promoted Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-General. He was made Brigadier-General of Volun 1 teers. February 16, 1865, but resigned his ' commission May 6. He served under Gen- > eral Rosecrans in the Mississippi campaign :of 1862. At Corinth he ordered and led the : charge that broke the Confederate left and captured a battery. He was with Grant at Vicksburg and was wounded at Missionary Ridge in 1863. In October, 1864, he reinforced Reseca, Ga,, and held it against General John B. Hood. In 1866 he became President of Jhe Cairo & Vincennes railroad. 32—• ’ —=* ’. . I He was elected to Congress and served from March JfitSffiynnttrM&CffS, 1569. In 1876 he presided over the t lllinois Republican Convention, and the same year was a delegate to the National Convention of the party at Cincinnati. He waszappointedby General Grant Commissioner of Internal Revenue, August 2, 1876, in office.until May of 1883: In that time he collected $850,000,000. Ho wrote reports for his bureau forseven years successively. He is author of “The Existing Conflict between Republican Government and Southern Oligarchy” (1884.) He has been practicing law in Washington. since ratiring . from office, which be did by resignation.]