CHARLES DICK.

Charles Dick, Republican, of Akron, was born at Akron November 3, 1858; educated in public schools; was store clerk, bank bookkeeper and teller; later grain commission merchant; served two terms as auditor, Summit County; in 1894 was admitted to Ohio bar; was long major and lieutenant-colonel of the Eighth Regiment, Ohio National Guard, being subsequently elected brigadiergeneral, and now serving as major-general; was several years member and three times chairman Republican County Executive Committee; served as chairman of Ohio Republican State Executive Committee in campaigns of 1892, 1893, 1894, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902 and 1903; was closely associated with Senator Hanna in preliminary canvass for McKinley's nomination, serving as secretary at Chicago headquarters of the Republican National Committee during subsequent campaign; secretary Republican National Committee from March, 1897, to July, 1900; was chosen delegate to represent Nineteenth Ohio district in Republican National conventions of 1892 and 1896, and one of the delegates-at-large to rep resent Ohio in the Republican National conventions of 1900 and 1904; was engaged in active service with his regiment during Spanish-American war; returning from Cuba, upon the death of Hon. S. A. Northway in 1898, was elected to Congress from the Nineteenth Ohio district for the short and long terms; was twice re-elected, serving in the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh and Fiftyeighth Congresses; as chairman of the Committee on the Militia and member of the Committee on Military Affairs, secured enactment of what is known as the Dick Militia Law; is President of Interstate National Guard Association; was unanimously chosen United States Senator by the Republicans of the Seventysixth Ohio General Assembly for the short and long terms, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator M. A. Hanna, February 15, 1904. Address, Akron, Ohio.

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THE SECOND CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF OHIO.

(1850-1.)

N ACCORDANCE with the expressed will of the people as recorded in the act of the General Assembly of Ohio of 1849-1850, an election was held in 1850 for members of a constitutional convention, which met in the hall of the House of Representatives, May 6th, 1850, and which is the author of the present constitution of Ohio.

The membership of the convention was:

Adams County-J. McCormick and George Collings.
Ashland County-John J. Hootman.

Ashtabula County-E. B. Woodbury and B. B. Hunter.
Auglaize County-Sabirt Scott and William Sawyer.
Belmont County-William Kennon and Daniel Peck.
Brown County-John H. Blair and James Loudon.
Butler County-James B. King and Elijah Vance.
Carroll County-Van Brown.

Champaign County-Joseph Vance.

Clark County-Samson Mason.

Clermont County-S. F. Norris.

Clinton County-Isaiah Morris.

Columbiana County-Henry H. Gregg and Samuel Quigley.

Coshocton County-John Johnson.

Crawford County-Richard W. Cahill.

Cuyahoga County-S. J. Andrews and Ruben Hitchcock.

Defiance County-Jacob J. Green.

Delaware County-W. M. Warren.

Erie County-James W. Taylor.

Fairfield County-William Medill, Daniel A. Robertson and John Chaney. Franklin County-John Graham, J. R. Swan and Henry Stanberry. Gallia County-Simeon Nash.

Geauga County-Peter Hitchcock.

Greene County-A. Harlan.

Guernsey County-William Lawrence and Robert Leech.

Hamilton County-W. S. Groesbeck, G. W. Holmes, Dan. J. Jones,

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Hancock County-John Ewing.

Harrison County-Samuel Morehead and Josiah Scott.

Henry County-Albert V. Stebbins.

Highland County-Thomas Patterson and John A. Smith.

Hocking County-F. Case.

Holmes County-D. P. Leadbetter.

Huron County-Joseph M. Farr.

Jackson County-D. D. T. Hard.

Jefferson County-William S. Bates.

Knox County-John Sellers and M. H. Mitchell.

Lake County-H. C. Gray.

Lawrence County-H. N. Gillett.

Licking County-L. Case and H. S. Manon.

Logan County-Benjamin Stanton..

Lorain County-Norton S. Townshend and H. D. Clark.

Lucas County-John E. Hunt.

Madison County-Charles McCloud.
Mahoning County-Robert Forbes.
Medina County-S. Humphreyville.
Meigs County-V. B. Horton.

Miami County-William Barbee and G. Volney Dorsey.
Monroe County-Edward Archbold and Thomas A. Way.
Montgomery County-Joseph Bennett and Geo. B. Holt.
Morgan County-William Hawkins.

Muskingum County-David Chambers and Richard Stillwell.
Perry County-John Lidey.

Pickaway County-Elias Florence.

Portage County-Friend Cook.

Preble County-David Barnett and Thomas J. Larsh.

Richland County James P. Henderson and S. J. Kirkwood,

Ross County John L. Green, James T. Worthington and Wesley Clay

pool.

Sandusky County-C. J. Orton.

Seneca County-E. T. Stickney.

Shelby County-H. Thompson.

Stark County-Herman Stidger and Joseph Thompson.

Summit County-Wm. S. C. Otis and L. Swift.

Trumbull County-Jacob Perkins and R. P. Ranney.

Tuscarawas County-Alden I. Bennett and Jacob Blickensderfer.
Union County-Otway Curry and C. S. Hamilton.

Warren County-G. J. Smith and Milton J. Williams.

Washington County-Thomas W. Ewart and William P. Cutler.

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Wayne County-John Larwill, Leander Firestone, E. Wilson.
Wyandot County-B. P. Smith.

WILLIAM MEDILL, President.

W. H. GILL, Secretary.

W. S. V. PRENTISS and

DAVID H. MORTLEY, Assistant Secretaries.
J. V. SMITH, Reporter.

HENRY REED, Assistant Reporter.

JOHN W. CARROLLTON and

H. OKEY, Sergeants-at-Arms.

JAMES ARNOLD, Doorkeeper.