The Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey.. The Supervising Inspector-General of Steam Vessels.. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing. United States Senators, Classification of, as to terms of service Fish Commission... Legations abroad.. Attorney and assistants. United States Supreme Court, Officers of. 196 196 196 196 197 174 187 .218,219 176 Justices of, biographies of. Unofficial list of Representatives, 53d Congress.... 213 OFFICIAL CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY. MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. VICE PRESIDENT AND PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE. Levi Parsons Morton was born at Shoreham, Vermont, May 16, 1824; received a public school and academic education; entered a country store at Enfield, Massachusetts, at fifteen years of age, and commenced his mercantile business at Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1843; removed to Boston in 1850, and to New York in 1854; engaged in banking business in 1863 in New York and London; was appointed by the President Honorary Commissioner to the Paris Exposition of 1878; was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress, as a Republican, from the Eleventh Congressional District of New York, and was re-elected to the Forty-seventh Congress. Was appointed Minister to France by President Garfield in March, 1881, and resigned his seat in Congress to accept the appointment. Was nominated for the Vice Presidency by the Republican Convention at Chicago in 1888, and was inaugurated as Vice President on the 4th of March, 1889. ALABAMA. SENATORS. John T. Morgan, of Selma, was born at Athens, Tennessee, June 20, 1824; received an academic education, chiefly in Alabama, to which State he emigrated when nine years old and has since resided there; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1845, and practiced until his election to the Senate; was a Presidential Elector in 1860 for the State at large and voted for Breckinridge and Lane; was a Delegate in 1861 from Dallas County to the State Convention which passed the ordinance of secession; joined the Confederate Army in May, 1861, as a private in Company I, Cahaba Rifles, and when that company was assigned to the Fifth Alabama Regiment, under Col. Robert E. Rodes, he was elected Major, and afterward Lieutenant-Colonel of that regiment; was commissioned in 1862 as Colonel and raised the Fifty-first Alabama Regiment; was appointed Brigadier-General in 1863 and assigned to a brigade in Virginia, but resigned to rejoin his regiment, whose colonel had been killed in battle; later in 1863 he was again appointed Brigadier-General and assigned to an Alabama brigade which included his regiment; after the war he resumed the practice of his profession at Selma; was chosen a Presidential Elector for the State at large in 1876 and voted for Tilden and Hendricks; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed George Goldthwaite, Democrat; took his seat March 5, 1877; was re-elected in 1882, and again in 1888. His term of service will expire March 3, 1895. James L. Pugh, of Eufaula, was born in Burke County, Georgia, December 12, 1820; received an academic education in Alabama and Georgia; came to Alabama when four years old, where he has since resided; was licensed to practice law in 1841, and was so employed when elected to the Senate; was Taylor Elector in 1848, Buchanan Elector in 1856, and State Elector for Tilden in 1876; was elected to Congress without opposition in 1859; retired from the Thirty-sixth Congress when Alabama ordained to secede from the Union; joined the Eufaula Rifles, in the First Alabama Regiment, as a private; was elected to the Confederate Congress in 1861 and re-elected in 1863; after the war resumed the practice of the law; ENTERED ACCORDING TO Act of CongrESS, IN THE YEAR 1892, BY W. H. MICHAEL, IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, AT WASHINGTON. NOTE. The new biographies in this edition are those of Senator Eppa Hunton, of Virginia, successor to Hon. John S. Barbour, deceased, and Hon. Samuel Greeley Hilborn, Third district of California; Hon. John B. Brown, First district of Maryland; Hon. Lewis P. Ohliger, Sixteenth district of Ohio; Hon. William Allen Sipe, Twenty-fourth district of Pennsylvania; Hon. John Loundes McLaurin, Sixth district of South Carolina, and Edwin Le Roy Antony, Ninth district of Texas. The Seventh district of New Jersey and the Second district of New York are vacant. The subcommittees on the regular appropriation bills of the Senate and House are given as matter often sought for by those having business with Congress. No changes having occurred in the boundaries of Congressional districts since the last edition of the Directory, the maps were not inserted in this edition. The unofficial list of the members of the House of Representatives, Fiftythird Congress, has been carefully revised and corrected as far as possible at this date. |