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...admitted to the bar. He has always been a prominent Republican, and was sent as a delegate to the national Republican conventions of 1888 and 1900. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for three years, and was elected to the national House, from the eighth district in 1893. He has served continuously since that time, and has been for a number of years a member of the committee on ways and means, which is one of the most important in the House of Representatives. He was also chairman of the committee on library and art during...
...home from a month's trip in the Middle West, where he has been addressing many universities and discussing entrance examinations with high school principals and others. Professor E. C. Moore, a graduate of an Ohio college, is now in Illinois on a journey through about the same district, which he undertook at the request of the Alumni Association. Assistant Dean W. R. Castle '00 delivered a number of speeches last fall on his way to Honolulu, and E. H. Wells '97, secretary of the Alumni Association, spoke throughout the whole Northwest on a trip which took...
...Carolina, stopping at the Universities of Alabama and Georgia. At Columbia he will visit the University of South Carolina, and on March 20 will stop at Wofford College on his way to Asheville. March 24 will be occupied by a trip to Guilford College and other colleges of the district. On the evenings of March 28 and 29 he will speak at dinners given by the Harvard Clubs of Washington and Maryland respectively, and on April 1 he will attend in Morristown a banquet given by the Harvard Club of New Jersey...
...figures in detail are as follows: Massachusetts, 1941; New York, 449; Pennsylvania, 171; Ohio, 135; Illinois, 87; Maine, 87; New Hampshire, 74; Rhode Island, 68; California, 64; New Jersey, 59; Connecticut, 56; Missouri, 56; Iowa, 46; Indiana, 43; Minnesota, 33; District of Columbia, 31; Maryland, 26; Vermont, 26; Colorado, 25; Kentucky, 23; Wisconsin, 22; Michigan, 20; Tennessee, 20; Kansas, 19; Georgia, 16; Washington, 16; Texas, 15; North Carolina, 14; Oregon, 12; Alabama, 11; Nebraska, 11; Virginia, 10; South Carolina, 9; Oklahoma, 8; South Dakota, 8; Utah 8; Montana, 7; West Virginia, 7; Delaware, 5; Mississippi, 5; North Dakota, 4; Wyoming...
...enlisted in the Confederate Army where he served as second lieutenant until General Lee's surrender. He was the bearer of the last despatch from the general to Jefferson Davis. In 1867 he received his degree from the University of Virginia; fourteen years later he was appointed United States district attorney for the Eastern district of Virginia, by President Arthur, and was also elected to Congress from Virginia on the Republican ticket as representative at large. After his defeat in the election for governor of the state in 1885, he moved to New York to practice law. Mr. Wise...