H. Doc. 108-222 - Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774-2005

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764 Biographical Directory
BYRON, William Devereux (husband of Katharine presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Twenty-ninth
Edgar Byron and father of Goodloe Edgar Byron), a Rep- Congress and served from October 6, 1845, to January 24,
resentative from Maryland; born in Danville, Pittsylvania 1846, when he was succeeded by William H. Brockenbrough,
County, Va., May 15, 1895; moved to Williamsport, Wash- who contested the election; elected as a Whig to the Thir-
ington County, Md. with his parents in 1899; attended the tieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4,
public schools, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H., and 1847-March 3, 1853); chairman, Committee on Expenditures
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y.; during the First World War on Public Buildings (Thirtieth-Congress); unsuccessful can-
enlisted as a private in the Aviation Corps; commissioned didate in 1852 for reelection to the Thirty-third Congress;
a first lieutenant, and was assigned as an instructor in resumed the practice of law in Tallahassee; moved to St.
flying and in aerial gunnery; engaged in the leather manu- Louis, Mo., in 1859; during the Civil War served in the
facturing business in 1919; served as mayor of Williamsport Confederate Army with rank of lieutenant colonel; engaged
1926-1930; member of the State senate 1930-1934; member in the practice of law in New York City 1868-1872, and
of the Maryland Roads commission in 1934 and 1935; elected subsequently in St. Louis, Mo.; member of the State senate
as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh of Missouri 1878-1882; died in St. Louis, Mo., February 28,
Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his death 1896; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
in an airplane crash at Jonesboro, near Atlanta, Ga., Feb-
ruary 27, 1941; interment in Riverview Cemetery, Williams- CABELL, George Craighead, a Representative from
port, Md. Virginia; born in Danville, Pittsylvania County, Va., January
25, 1836; attended the Danville Academy, and the law school
of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1857; was
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Danville
C
in 1858; edited the Republican and later the Democratic
Appeal in Danville; elected Commonwealth attorney for
CABANISS, Thomas Banks (cousin of Thomas Chipman
Danville in September 1858, and served until April 23, 1861,
McRae), a Representative from Georgia; born in Forsyth,
when he volunteered as a private in the Confederate Army;
Monroe County, Ga., August 31, 1835; attended private
commissioned major in June 1861 and was assigned to the
schools and Penfield College; was graduated from the Uni-
Eighteenth Regiment, Virginia Infantry; promoted to the
versity of Georgia at Athens in 1853; studied law; was ad-
rank of colonel and served until the close of the Civil War;
mitted to the bar in 1861; entered the Confederate Army
resumed the practice of his profession; elected as a Democrat
April 1, 1861, and served throughout the Civil War; returned
to the Forty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses
to Forsyth, Ga., and commenced the practice of law; member
(March 4, 1875-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on
of the State house of representatives 1865-1867; appointed
Railways and Canals (Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Con-
assistant secretary of the State senate in 1870 and secretary
gresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 to
in 1873; resigned to become solicitor general of the Flint
the Fiftieth Congress; resumed the practice of law in
circuit, which office he held until 1877; served in the State
Danville, Va.; died in Baltimore, Md., June 23, 1906; inter-
senate 1878-1880 and 1884-1886; elected as a Democrat to
ment in Green Hill Cemetery, Danville, Va.
the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895); un-
successful candidate for renomination in 1894; appointed a
CABELL, Samuel Jordan, a Representative from Vir-
member of the Dawes Commission to adjust affairs in the
ginia; born in Albemarle (now Nelson) County, Va., Decem-
Indian Territory; mayor of Forsyth, Ga., in 1910; judge of
ber 15, 1756; attended the College of William and Mary,
the city court in 1913 and 1914; died in Forsyth, Ga., August
Williamsburg, Va.; left school to enter the Revolutionary
14, 1915; interment in Oakland Cemetery.
Army; appointed captain of Amherst County Volunteers in
1776; assigned to the Sixth Virginia Regiment; promoted
CABELL, Earle, a Representative from Texas; born on
a farm, south of Trinity River in Dallas County, Tex., Octo- to the rank of major for gallantry at Saratoga in 1777;
ber 27, 1906; graduated from North Dallas High School in served in Washington’s army in 1778 and 1779 and attained
1925; attended Texas A. & M. and Southern Methodist Uni- the rank of lieutenant colonel; was taken prisoner by the
versity; in 1932 with two brothers organized Cabell’s, Inc. British May 12, 1780, at the capture of Charleston; after
(dairies and convenience stores) and became president and the war returned to Virginia and engaged in planting; mem-
chairman of the board; engaged in banking and investments; ber of the State house of delegates 1785-1792; member of
elected mayor of Dallas May 1961 and reelected in 1963, ratification convention in 1788; elected as a Republican to
serving until his resignation February 3, 1964, to be a can- the Fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March
didate for Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty- 4, 1795-March 3, 1803); was not a candidate for reelection
ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, in 1802; died on his estate ‘‘Soldiers’ Joy,’’ near New Market
1965-January 3, 1973); unsuccessful candidate for reelection (now Norwood), Nelson County, Va., August 4, 1818; inter-
in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; retired and returned ment in the family burying ground on his farm near Nor-
to Dallas where he died September 24, 1975; interment in wood, Va.
Restland Memorial Park.
CABLE, Benjamin Taylor, a Representative from Illi-
CABELL, Edward Carrington, a Representative from nois; born in Georgetown, Scott County, Ky., August 11,
Florida; born in Richmond, Va., February 5, 1816; attended 1853; moved with his parents to Rock Island, Ill., in Sep-
Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), tember 1856; attended the public schools and Racine College,
Lexington, Va., in 1832 and 1833 and Reynolds’ Classical Racine, Wis.; was graduated from the University of Michigan
Academy in 1833 and 1834; was graduated from the Univer- at Ann Arbor in 1876; engaged in agricultural pursuits and
sity of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1836; moved to Florida also became interested in various manufacturing enter-
in 1837 and engaged in agricultural pursuits near Tallahas- prises; chairman of the western branch of the Democratic
see; delegate to the Territorial convention to form a State National Committee in 1892; chairman of the Democratic
constitution in 1838; returned to Virginia; studied law; was executive committee in 1902; delegate to the Democratic
admitted to the bar in 1840; returned to Tallahassee, Fla.; National Convention in 1904; elected as a Democrat to the
upon the admission of Florida as a State into the Union Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); de-
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clined to be a candidate for renomination in 1892; engaged the feed and grain business in Paterson, N.J.; member of
in agricultural pursuits as joint owner of a ranch near San the State house of assembly in 1884 and 1885; sheriff of
Antonio, Tex.; died in Rock Island, Ill., on December 13, Passaic County 1887-1890; elected as a Democrat to the
1923; interment in Chippiannock Cemetery. Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-
March 3, 1895); was not a candidate for renomination in
CABLE, John Levi (great-grandson of Joseph Cable), a
1894; member of the board of inspectors of the State prison;
Representative from Ohio; born in Lima, Allen County, Ohio,
resumed his former business pursuits; died in Paterson,
April 15, 1884; attended the public schools; Kenyon College,
N.J., January 20, 1902; interment in Cedar Lawn Cemetery,
Gambier, Ohio, LL.B., 1906 and from the law department
near Paterson, N.J.
of George Washington University, Washington, D.C., J.D.,
1909; was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced prac- CADWALADER, John, a Representative from Pennsyl-
tice in Lima, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Allen County vania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 1, 1805; was grad-
1917-1921; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and uated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia
Sixty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1925); in 1821; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and
chairman, Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Sixty- commenced practice in Philadelphia; solicitor for the Bank
eighth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in of the United States in 1830; captain of a military company
1924; resumed the practice of law; again elected to the Sev- during the riots of 1844 in Philadelphia; elected as a Demo-
enty-first Congress; reelected to the Seventy-second Con- crat to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March
gress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate 3, 1857); declined to be a candidate for renomination in
for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; re- 1856; resumed the practice of law in Philadelphia; appointed
sumed the practice of law; special assistant to attorney gen- judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern
eral of Ohio 1933-1937; special counsel to the Reconstruction District of Pennsylvania in 1858 and served until his death
Finance Corporation in the liquidation of the Lima First in Philadelphia, Pa., January 26, 1879; interment in Christ
American Bank & Trust Co.; appointed Government appeal Churchyard.
agent of Selective Service Board No. 2, Lima, Ohio, 1948-
CADWALADER, Lambert, a Delegate and a Representa-
1960; author and publisher; died in Lima, Ohio, September
tive from New Jersey; born near Trenton, N.J., in 1742;
15, 1971; entombment in a niche in St. Boniface Episcopal
attended Dr. Alison’s Academy, and the University of Penn-
Church, Sarasota, Fla.
sylvania at Philadelphia in 1760; member of the common
CABLE, Joseph (great-grandfather of John Levi Cable), council of Philadelphia at the beginning of the Revolution;
a Representative from Ohio; born in Jefferson County, then signed the nonimportation agreement in 1765; delegate to
in the Terrritory Northwest of the River Ohio (now in the the provincial convention in Pennsylvania in 1775 and to
State of Ohio), April 17, 1801; attended the public schools; the State constitutional convention in 1776; entered the Rev-
studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- olutionary Army and commanded a regiment of ‘The
tice in Jefferson County; established and published the Jef- Greens’’; lieutenant colonel of the Third Pennsylvania Bat-
fersonian and Democrat at Steubenville, Ohio, in 1831 and talion in 1776; colonel of the Fourth Pennsylvania Line;
later the Ohio Patriot at New Lisbon, Ohio; elected as a after being taken a prisoner at Fort Washington on the
Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses Hudson resigned from the Army; Member of the Continental
(March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); was not a candidate for Congress in 1785, 1786 and 1787; elected to the First Con-
renomination in 1852; moved to Sandusky, Ohio, in 1853 gress (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791); elected to the Third
and published the Daily Sandusky Minor; in 1857 estab- Congress (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1795); died on his estate,
lished the American and later the Bulletin at Van Wert, ‘‘Greenwood,’’ near Trenton, N.J., September 13, 1823; inter-
Ohio; moved to Wauseon, Ohio, and established the ment in the Friends Burying Ground, Trenton, N.J.
Wauseon Republican; subsequently moved to Paulding, Bibliography: [Rawle, William Henry]. Colonel Lambert Cadwalader, of
Trenton, New Jersey. [Philadelphia?: n.p., 1878].
where he published the Political Review; died in Paulding,
Ohio, May 1, 1880; interment in Live Oak Cemetery.
CADY, Claude Ernest, a Representative from Michigan;
born in Lansing, Ingham County, Mich., May 28, 1878; at-
CABOT, George (great-grandfather of Henry Cabot
tended the common schools and the high school of his native
Lodge, great-great-great-grandfather of Henry Cabot Lodge,
city; engaged in the wholesale and retail grocery business
Jr.), a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Salem, Mass.,
from 1899 to 1913; was active in the amusement business,
December 3, 1752; received a classical education and at-
being owner of three theaters in Lansing, and also had
tended Harvard College; member of the State provincial con-
financial interests in other Michigan cities 1914-1925; in
gress in 1775; delegate to the State constitutional convention
the wholesale candy and fountain supplies business from
in 1777 and to the convention that ratified the Constitution
1925 to 1932; served as a member of the board of aldermen
of the United States in 1787; elected to the United States
1910-1917; member of the Lansing Police and Fire Commis-
Senate and served from March 4, 1791, to June 9, 1796,
sion 1918-1928; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third
when he resigned; appointed the first Secretary of the Navy
Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); unsuccessful can-
in the Cabinet of President John Adams in 1798, but de-
didate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress;
clined; member, executive council of Massachusetts 1808;
served as postmaster at Lansing, Mich., 1935-1943; retired
delegate to the Hartford convention of 1814 and served as
from political and business life; died in Lansing, Mich., No-
its presiding officer; died in Boston, Mass., April 18, 1823;
vember 30, 1953; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery.
interment in the Granary Burial Ground, Boston, Mass.;
reinterment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
CADY, Daniel (uncle of John Watts Cady), a Representa-
Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; Lodge, Henry C. Life
tive from New York; born in Canaan, Columbia County,
and Letters of George Cabot. 1877. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press,
N.Y., April 29, 1773; attended the public schools; studied
1974.
law in Albany, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar in 1795 and
CADMUS, Cornelius Andrew, a Representative from commenced practice in Florida, N.Y.; moved to Johnstown
New Jersey; born at Dundee Lake, Bergen County, N.J., (then in Montgomery County), N.Y., and continued the prac-
October 7, 1844; attended the public schools; engaged in tice of law; member of the State assembly 1808-1813; village
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trustee in 1808 and supervisor in 1809 and 1810; district Miss., in early youth; studied law; was admitted to the bar
attorney of the fifth district in 1813; elected as a Federalist and commenced practice in Woodville, Miss.; judge of the
to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); supreme court of Mississippi,1829-1832; elected as a Jack-
was not a candidate for renomination in 1816; resumed the sonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4, 1833-March
practice of law; served as justice of the State supreme court, 3, 1835); retired from the practice of law and settled on
fourth district, from June 7, 1847, to January 1, 1855, when Woodlawn plantation in the parish of Terrebonne, near the
he resigned; served as judge of the court of appeals in 1853; town of Houma, in Louisiana; died while on a visit to New
presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1856 and Orleans, La., in 1859; interment in the cemetery of the
served as president of the State electoral college; died in Stewart family in Wilkinson County, Miss.
Johnstown, N.Y., October 31, 1859; interment in Johnstown
Cemetery. CAHILL, William Thomas, a Representative from New
Jersey; born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 25, 1912; moved
CADY, John Watts (nephew of Daniel Cady), a Rep- with his parents to New Jersey in 1919; graduated from
resentative from New York; born in Florida, Montgomery Camden (N.J.) Catholic High School in 1929, St. Joseph’s
County, N.Y., June 28, 1790; attended school at the Old College in 1933, and Rutgers Law School in 1937; special
Stone Manse at Fort Hunter, and was graduated from Union agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1937 and
College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1808; studied law; was admit- 1938; was admitted to the bar in 1939 and commenced the
ted to the bar and commenced practice in Johnstown (then practice of law in Camden, N.J.; city prosecutor of Camden,
in Montgomery County), N.Y.; town clerk of Johnstown 1814, N.J., in 1944 and 1945; first assistant prosecutor of Camden
1816, and 1817; county supervisor 1818-1822 and 1826-1829; County 1948-1951; special deputy attorney general of the
member of the State assembly in 1822; elected to the Eight- State of New Jersey in 1951; member of the New Jersey
eenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); was not general assembly 1951-1953; elected as a Republican to the
a candidate for renomination in 1824; resumed the practice Eighty-sixth and to the five succeeding Congresses until his
of law at Johnstown, N.Y.; district attorney of Fulton County resignation (January 3, 1959-January 19, 1970); Governor
1840-1846; justice of the peace of Johnstown in 1853; died of New Jersey, January 20, 1970-January 15, 1974; senior
in Johnstown, N.Y., January 5, 1854; interment in Johns- fellow, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 1974-
town Cemetery.
1978; resumed the practice of law; was a resident of Haddon-
field, N.J., until his death on July 1, 1996; interment at
CAFFERY, Donelson (grandfather of Patrick Thomson
Calvary Cemetery.
Caffery), a Senator from Louisiana; born near Franklin, St.
Mary Parish, La., September 10, 1835; attended private
CAHOON, William, a Representative from Vermont; born
schools in Franklin, St. Mary’s College, Baltimore, Md., and
in Providence, R.I., January 12, 1774; attended the common
Louisiana University at New Orleans; studied law; during
schools; moved with his parents to Lyndon, Vt., in 1791
the Civil War served as a lieutenant in the Thirteenth Lou-
and engaged in milling and agricultural pursuits; member
isiana Regiment; served as clerk of court in 1866; admitted
of the State house of representatives 1802-1810; succeeded
to the bar in 1867 and commenced the practice of law in
his father as town clerk in 1808; presidential elector in
Franklin, La.; sugar planter; delegate to the State constitu-
1808 and voted for Madison and Langdon; county judge
tional convention in 1879; member, State senate 1892-1893;
1811-1819; appointed major general in the militia in 1808
appointed and subsequently elected as a Democrat to the
and served during the War of 1812; delegate to the State
United States Senate in 1894 to fill the vacancy caused
constitutional conventions in 1814 and 1828; member of the
by the death of Randall Lee Gibson and served from Decem-
executive council 1815-1820; Lieutenant Governor of
ber 31, 1892, to March 3, 1901; was not a candidate for
Vermont in 1820 and 1821; elected on the Anti-Masonic
reelection in 1900; chairman, Committee on Enrolled Bills
ticket to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses
(Fifty-third Congress), Committee on Corporations Orga-
(March 4, 1829-March 3, 1833); unsuccessful candidate in
nized in the District of Columbia (Fifty-sixth Congress); re-
1832 for reelection to the Twenty-third Congress; died in
sumed the practice of law; died in New Orleans, La., on
Lyndon, Vt., May 30, 1833; interment in Lyndon Town Cem-
December 30, 1906; interment in Franklin Cemetery, Frank-
etery, Lyndon Center, Vt.
lin, La.
Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi- CAIN, Harry Pulliam, a Senator from Washington; born
ography. in Nashville, Davidson County Tenn., January 10, 1906;
moved with his parents to Tacoma, Pierce County, Wash.,
CAFFERY, Patrick Thomson (grandson of Donelson
in 1911; attended the public schools and Hill Military Acad-
Caffery), a Representative from Louisiana; born near Frank-
emy at Portland, Oreg.; graduated, University of the South,
lin, St. Mary Parish, La., July 6, 1932; attended public
Sewanee, Tenn., 1929; pursued graduate study in England
schools of Franklin and Hanson Memorial High School; B.A.,
and Germany; engaged in newspaper work in Portland,
University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1955; J.D., Louisiana
Oreg., 1924-1925, and in the banking business at Tacoma,
State University Law School, 1956; associate and managing
Wash., 1929-1939; elected mayor of Tacoma, Wash., in 1940,
editor, Louisiana Law Review, 1955-1956; was admitted to
and again in 1942 for a four-year term; took leave of absence
the bar in 1956 and commenced practice in New Iberia,
in May 1943 to enter the United States Army as a major;
La.; assistant district attorney, sixteenth judicial district of
served in the United States Army in the European theater
Louisiana, 1958-1962; elected to Louisiana house of rep-
1943-1945; resumed his duties as mayor of Tacoma until
resentatives, 1964-1968; elected as a Democrat to the Nine-
June 15, 1946; elected as a Republican to the United States
ty-first and Ninety-second Congresses (January 3, 1969-Jan-
Senate on November 5, 1946, for the term commencing Jan-
uary 3, 1973); was not a candidate for reelection in 1972
uary 3, 1947; subsequently appointed on December 26, 1946,
to the Ninety-third Congress; resumed the practice of law;
to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1947,
is a resident of New Iberia, La.
caused by the resignation of Hugh B. Mitchell, and served
CAGE, Harry, a Representative from Mississippi; born from December 26, 1946, to January 3, 1953; unsuccessful
at Cages Bend of the Cumberland River, Sumner County, candidate for reelection in 1952; member of the Subversive
Tenn., birth date unknown; moved to Wilkinson County, Activities Control Board, Washington, D.C., 1953-1956;
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moved to Florida in 1957; resumed banking business and CALDER, William Musgrave, a Representative and a
civic work; resided in Miami Lakes, Fla., where he died Senator from New York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 3,
March 3, 1979; cremated; ashes scattered on a golf course 1869; attended the public schools of Brooklyn; apprenticed
in Bethesda, Md. to the carpenter’s trade and studied at the evening school
of Cooper Institute, New York City; engaged in building
CAIN, Richard Harvey, a Representative from South
construction in 1893; building commissioner of the Borough
Carolina; born in Greenbrier County, Va., April 12, 1825;
of Brooklyn 1902-1903; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-
moved with his father to Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1831 and at-
ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1905-
tended school; entered the ministry, and was a pastor in
March 3, 1915); was not a candidate for reelection in 1914;
Brooklyn, N.Y., from 1861 to 1865; moved to South Carolina
elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and
in 1865 and settled in Charleston; delegate to the constitu-
served from March 4, 1917, to March 3, 1923; unsuccessful
tional convention of South Carolina in 1868; member of the
candidate for reelection in 1922; chairman, Committee to
State senate 1868-1872; manager of a newspaper in Charles-
Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Sixty-sixth and
ton in 1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Con-
Sixty-seventh Congresses); again engaged in building con-
gress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate
struction and was also a director in many Brooklyn financial
for renomination in 1874; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress
institutions; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 3, 1945; inter-
(March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate for
ment in Greenwood Cemetery.
renomination in 1878; appointed a bishop of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church in 1880 and served until his CALDERHEAD, William Alexander, a Representative
death in Washington, D.C., January 18, 1887; interment from Kansas; born on a farm near New Lexington, Perry
in Graceland Cemetery. County, Ohio, September 26, 1844; received private school-
Bibliography: Lewis, Ronald L. ‘Cultural Pluralism and Black Recon- ing and also attended the common schools and Franklin
struction: The Public Career of Richard H. Cain.’ Crisis 85 (February College, New Athens, Ohio; during the Civil War enlisted
1978): 57-60.
in August 1862 as a private in Company H, One Hundred
and Twenty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was
CAINE, John Thomas, a Delegate from the Territory
transferred to Company D, Ninth Veteran Reserves, for dis-
of Utah; born in the parish of Kirk Patrick, Isle of Man,
ability incurred in service and discharged June 27, 1865;
January 8, 1829; attended the common schools in Douglas,
moved to Harvey County, Kans., in 1868 and engaged in
Isle of Man; immigrated to the United States in 1846 and
agricultural pursuits near Newton; moved to Newton, Kans.,
lived in New York City until 1848, when he went to St.
in 1872 and taught school and studied law; was admitted
Louis; settled in the Territory of Utah in 1852 and taught
to the bar in 1875; moved to Atchison, Kans., and continued
school; served as secretary of the Territorial council during
to study law; also engaged in teaching; settled in Marysville,
the sessions of 1856, 1857, 1859, and 1860; one of the found-
Marshall County, Kans., in 1879 and commenced the prac-
ers of the Salt Lake Herald in 1870, serving as managing
tice of law; served as prosecuting attorney of Marshall Coun-
editor and president; delegate to the constitutional conven-
ty 1889-1891; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth
tions in 1872 and 1882; member of the Territorial council
Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful can-
in 1874, 1876, 1880, and 1882; recorder of Salt Lake City
didate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress;
in 1876, 1878, 1880, and 1882; elected as a Democrat to
elected to the Fifty-sixth and to the five succeeding Con-
the Forty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by
gresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1911); chairman, Com-
the action of the House declaring the Delegate-elect ineli-
mittee of Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Fifty-
gible; reelected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth, Forty-
eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate
ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses and on the People’s Party
for renomination in 1910; resumed the practice of law in
ticket to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses and
Marysville, Kans., until 1920, when he retired from active
served from November 7, 1882, to March 3, 1893; was not
business pursuits and moved to Enid, Okla., where he died
a candidate for renomination in 1892; was an unsuccessful
on December 18, 1928; interment in Marysville Cemetery,
Democratic candidate for Governor of Utah in 1895; member
Marysville, Kans.
of the State senate in 1896; resumed the management of
the Salt Lake Herald; died in Salt Lake City, Utah, Sep-
CALDWELL, Alexander, a Senator from Kansas; born
tember 20, 1911; interment in Salt Lake City Cemetery.
at Drakes Ferry, Huntingdon County, Pa., March 1, 1830;
attended the public schools; enlisted in 1847 as a private
CAKE, Henry Lutz, a Representative from Pennsylvania;
in the Mexican War; moved to Columbia, Pa., in 1848; em-
born near Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pa.,
ployed in a bank and subsequently went into business for
on October 6, 1827; attended the common and private
himself; moved to Leavenworth, Kans., in 1861 and engaged
schools; learned the art of printing, and published the Potts-
in the transportation of military supplies to the various
ville (Pa.) Mining Record until the Civil War; entered the
posts on the plains; engaged in the building of railroads,
Union Army April 17, 1861, as a second lieutenant, and
especially the Missouri River and Kansas Central Railroad;
was elected colonel of the Twenty-fifth Regiment, Pennsyl-
elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and
vania Volunteer Infantry, in Washington, D.C., May 1, 1861;
served from March 4, 1871, to March 24, 1873, when he
reorganized the regiment after three months’ service; com-
resigned; manufactured wagons and carriages 1877-1897;
manded the Ninety-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer
president of the First National Bank of Leavenworth 1897-
Infantry, from September 23, 1861, to March 12, 1863, when
1915; died in Kansas City, Mo., May 19, 1917; interment
he resigned and settled in Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, Pa.;
in Mount Muncie Cemetery, Leavenworth, Kans.
engaged in the mining and shipping of anthracite coal; elect-
Bibliography: Dictionary of American Biography; LaForte, Robert S.
ed as a Republican to the Fortieth and Forty-first Con-
‘‘Gilded Age Senator: The Election, Investigation, and Resignation of Alex-
gresses (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1871); chairman, Com-
ander Caldwell, 1871-1873.’’ Kansas History 21 (1998-99): 234-255.
mittee on Accounts (Forty-first Congress); unsuccessful can-
didate for renomination in 1870; resumed the mining and CALDWELL, Andrew Jackson, a Representative from
shipping of coal; died in Northumberland, Pa., August 26, Tennessee; born in Montevallo, Shelby County, Ala., July
1899; interment in Riverview Cemetery. 22, 1837; moved to Tennessee in 1844 with his parents,
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who settled near Nashville; attended the common schools; tember 13, 1847 for service in the Battle of Chapultepec,
was graduated from Franklin College, Tennessee, in 1854; Mexico; honorably mustered out August 25, 1848; elected
taught school in Nashville 1854-1857; moved to Trenton in to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851);
1857 and studied law; during the Civil War served in the chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department
Confederate Army as a private and regimental quarter- of the Treasury (Thirty-first Congress); was not a candidate
master in the First Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry; resumed for reelection to the Thirty-second Congress; resumed the
his law studies; was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1867 practice of law in Louisville; delegate to the Union National
and commenced the practice of law in Nashville, Tenn.; at- Convention at Philadelphia in 1866; died in Louisville, Ky.,
torney general for the district of Davidson and Rutherford September 17, 1866; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery.
Counties, Tenn., 1870-1878; served as a member of the State
CALDWELL, Greene Washington, a Representative
house of representatives in 1880 and 1882; elected as a
from North Carolina; born in Belmont, Gaston County, N.C.,
Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses
April 13, 1806; pursued academic studies; was graduated
(March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); was not a candidate for
from the medical department of the University of Pennsyl-
reelection to the Fiftieth Congress; resumed the practice
vania at Philadelphia in 1831 and practiced; assistant sur-
of law; died in Nashville, Tenn., November 22, 1906; inter-
geon in the United States Army 1832; studied law; was
ment in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
admitted to the bar and practiced in Charlotte, N.C.; mem-
CALDWELL, Ben Franklin, a Representative from Illi- ber of the State house of commons 1836-1841; elected as
nois; born near Carrollton, Greene County, Ill., August 2, a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-
1848; moved to Illinois in April 1853 with his parents, who March 3, 1843); was not a candidate for renomination in
settled near Chatham, Ill.; attended the public schools; en- 1842; appointed superintendent of the United States Mint
gaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the Board of Su- at Charlotte in 1844; participated in the war with Mexico
pervisors of Sangamon County in 1877 and 1878; member as captain of Infantry; commissioned captain of the Third
of the State house of representatives 1882-1886; served in Dragoons April 9, 1847, and was mustered out July 20,
the State senate 1890-1894; upon his election to Congress 1848; member of the State senate in 1849; unsuccessful can-
in 1898 he resigned the presidency of the Farmers’ National didate for election in 1850 to the Thirty-second Congress;
Bank of Springfield, which office he had held since 1885; resumed the practice of medicine; died in Charlotte, N.C.,
president of the Caldwell State Bank of Chatham; elected July 10, 1864; interment in the Old Cemetery.
as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-
eighth Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1905); unsuc- CALDWELL, James, a Representative from Ohio; born
cessful candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth in Baltimore, Md., November 30, 1770; moved with his fa-
Congress; elected to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907- ther to Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1772 and settled
March 3, 1909); was not a candidate for renomination in on what is now the site of the city of Wheeling; received
1908; again engaged in banking in Chatham, Ill.; died in a liberal schooling; moved to St. Clairsville, Ohio, in 1799;
Springfield, Ill., on December 29, 1924; interment in Oak engaged in mercantile pursuits and later in banking; dele-
Ridge Cemetery. gate to the convention which framed the first constitution
of Ohio; clerk of the court of Belmont County, Ohio, 1806-
CALDWELL, Charles Pope, a Representative from New
1810; captain in an Ohio regiment in the War of 1812;
York; born near Bastrop, Bastrop County, Tex., June 18,
member of the State senate 1809-1812; elected as a Repub-
1875; attended the public schools; was graduated from the
lican to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses (March
law department of the University of Texas at Austin in
4, 1813-March 3, 1817); resumed banking and mercantile
1898 and the law department of Yale University in 1899;
business in St. Clairsville, Ohio; died in Wheeling, Va. (now
was admitted to the bar in Austin, Tex., in 1898, and later
West Virginia), in May 1838; interment in Episcopal Ceme-
in New York City, where he commenced practice in 1900;
tery, St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio.
appointed by Governor Dix a delegate to the Atlantic Deeper
Water Ways Convention in 1910; delegate to the Democratic CALDWELL, John Alexander, a Representative from
National Convention in 1912; elected as a Democrat to the Ohio; born in Fairhaven, Preble County, Ohio, April 21,
Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses (March 1852; educated in the common schools of his native county
4, 1915-March 3, 1921): declined to be a candidate for re- and also by private teachers; taught school for several years;
nomination in 1920; resumed the practice of law in New was graduated from the Cincinnati Law College in 1876;
York City; appointed associate justice of the court of special was admitted to the bar the same year; again engaged in
sessions of New York City January 1, 1926, and served teaching; commenced the practice of law in Cincinnati, Ohio,
until December 1935; resumed the practice of law in Long in 1878; prosecuting attorney of the Cincinnati police court
Island, N.Y.; died in Sunnyside, Queens County, N.Y., July 1881-1885; elected judge of the city police court in 1887;
31, 1940; remains were cremated and the ashes scattered elected president of the Ohio League of Republican Clubs
over his ancestral estate in Bastrop County, Tex. in 1887; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first, Fifty-
second, and Fifty-third Congresses and served from March
CALDWELL, George Alfred, a Representative from
4, 1889, until May 4, 1894, when he resigned; mayor of
Kentucky; born in Columbia, Adair County, Ky., October
Cincinnati 1894-1897; Lieutenant Governor of Ohio 1899-
18, 1814; attended the common schools; studied law; was
1901; elected judge of the court of common pleas in 1902,
admitted to the bar in 1837 and commenced practice in
and served until his death in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 24,
Adair County; member of the State house of representatives
1927; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery.
in 1839 and 1840; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-
eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); chairman, CALDWELL, John Henry, a Representative from Ala-
Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treas- bama; born in Huntsville, Ala., April 4, 1826; attended the
ury (Twenty-eighth Congress); commissioned major and common schools of Huntsville and Bacon College,
quartermaster of Volunteers in the war with Mexico June Harrodsburg, Ky.; taught school in Limestone County, Ala.,
26, 1846; major of Infantry March 3, 1847, and major of four years; moved to Jacksonville, Ala., in 1848; was prin-
voltigeurs April 9, 1847; brevetted lieutenant colonel Sep- cipal of the Jacksonville Female Academy 1848-1852 and
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of the Jacksonville Male Academy 1853-1857; edited the cation 1948-1950; Administrator, Federal Civil Defense Ad-
Jacksonville Republican in 1851 and 1852 and assumed the ministration 1950-1952; member and later chief justice of
editorship of the Sunny South in 1855; member of the State Supreme Court of Florida; engaged in farming, banking,
house of representatives in 1857 and 1858; studied law; and practice of law; resided in Tallahassee, Fla., until his
was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice death October 23, 1984.
in Jacksonville, Ala.; during the Civil War enlisted in the
CALDWELL, Patrick Calhoun, a Representative from
Confederate Army and organized Company A of the Tenth
South Carolina; born near Newberry, S.C., March 10, 1801;
Alabama Regiment, from St. Clair and Calhoun Counties,
was graduated from South Carolina College (now the Uni-
and served throughout the war; promoted to major and then
versity of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1820; studied law;
to lieutenant colonel; served in the Army of Virginia; elected
was admitted to the bar in 1822 and commenced practice
solicitor for the tenth judicial circuit in 1863 but was de-
in South Carolina; member of the State house of representa-
posed by the Provisional Governor in 1865; reelected the
tives 1838-1839; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sev-
same year, and in 1867 was removed from office for refusing
enth Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); unsuccessful
to obey military orders; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-
candidate for reelection to the Twenty-eighth Congress;
third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March
served in the State senate in 1848; died in South Carolina
3, 1877); chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Forty-fourth
November 22, 1855.
Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1876;
resumed the practice of law; died in Jacksonville, Ala., Sep-
CALDWELL, Robert Porter, a Representative from Ten-
tember 4, 1902; interment in Jacksonville Cemetery.
nessee; born in Adair County, Ky., December 16, 1821;
CALDWELL, John William, a Representative from Ken- moved with his parents to Henry County, Tenn.; a few years
tucky; born in Russellville, Logan County, Ky., January 15, later moved to Obion County; attended the public schools
1837; attended the common schools and Bethel College; at Troy and Lebanon; studied law at Troy; was admitted
moved with his uncle to Texas in 1850, where he worked to the bar and commenced practice in Trenton in 1845;
on a farm; engaged as a clerk and as a surveyor; returned member of the State house of representatives in 1847 and
to Kentucky and studied law in the Louisville University; 1848; served in the State senate in 1855 and 1856; elected
was admitted to the bar in 1858 and commenced practice attorney general for the sixteenth judicial circuit of Ten-
in Russellville, Ky.; volunteered as a private in the Confed- nessee in 1858; during the Civil War was a major in the
erate Army in 1861 and was immediately elected captain Twelfth Regiment, Tennessee Infantry, of the Confederate
of the ‘‘Logan Grays’’; promoted to major, lieutenant colonel, Army; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress
and colonel of the Ninth Regiment, Kentucky Infantry; re- (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1873); unsuccessful candidate for
sumed the practice of law in Russellville in 1865; elected renomination in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; resumed
judge of the Logan County Court in 1866 and reelected the practice of law in Trenton, Tenn.; died in Trenton March
in 1870; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth, Forty- 12, 1885; interment in Oakland Cemetery.
sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1877-March
CALDWELL, William Parker, a Representative from
3, 1883); declined to be a candidate for reelection; president
Tennessee; born in Christmasville, Carroll County, Tenn.,
of the Logan County Bank; died in Russellville, Ky., July
November 8, 1832; attended school at McLemoresville,
4, 1903; interment in Maple Grove Cemetery.
Tenn., and at Princeton, Ky.; studied law at Cumberland
CALDWELL, Joseph Pearson, a Representative from University, Lebanon, Tenn.; was admitted to the bar in 1853
North Carolina; born near Olin, Iredell County, N.C., March and practiced in Dresden and Union City, Tenn.; member
5, 1808; attended Bethany Academy, near Statesville, N.C.; of the State house of representatives 1857-1859; presidential
studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced prac- elector on the Democratic ticket of Douglas and Johnson
tice in Statesville, N.C.; served in the State senate in 1833 in 1860; delegate to the Democratic National Convention
and 1834; member of the State house of commons 1838- in 1868; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and
1844; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); was
Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); was not a can- not a candidate for reelection to the Forty-sixth Congress
didate for renomination in 1852; died in Statesville, N.C., in 1878; resumed the practice of law in Gardner, Tenn.;
June 30, 1853; interment in Old Statesville Cemetery. member of the State senate 1891-1893; died in Gardner,
Tenn., June 7, 1903; interment in the Caldwell Cemetery.
CALDWELL, Millard Fillmore, a Representative from
Florida; born in Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn., February CALE, Thomas, a Delegate from the Territory of Alaska;
6, 1897; attended the public schools, Carson-Newman Col- born in Underhill, Chittenden County, Vt., September 17,
lege, Jefferson City, Tenn., the University of Mississippi at 1848; attended the district schools and Bell Academy,
Oxford, and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; Underhill Flats, Vt.; moved to Fort Edward, Washington
during the First World War enlisted in the United States County, N.Y., in 1866; taught school near Underhill Center,
Army on April 3, 1918, was commissioned a second lieuten- Vt., in 1867 and 1868; moved to Fond du Lac, Wis., in
ant in the Field Artillery, and was discharged January 11, 1869; taught school in several districts in Fond du Lac Coun-
1919; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1922 and ty and then engaged in agricultural pursuits near Eden,
commenced practice in Milton, Fla., in 1925; served as pros- Wis.; town clerk of Eden 1881-1884; member of the board
ecuting attorney and county attorney of Santa Rosa County, of commissioners of Fond du Lac County 1884-1886; re-
Fla., 1926-1932; member of the State house of representa- turned to Fond du Lac and served as undersheriff of Fond
tives 1929-1932; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third du Lac County 1886-1888; county sheriff 1888-1890; engaged
and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1933- as a salesman of farm machinery; moved to Fairbanks, Alas-
January 3, 1941); was not a candidate for renomination ka, in 1898 and engaged in mining; elected as an Inde-
in 1940; resumed the practice of law; Governor of Florida pendent to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3,
from January 2, 1945, to January 4, 1949; chairman of the 1909); was not a candidate for renomination in 1908; en-
National Governors’ Conference in 1946 and 1947; chairman gaged in farming near McLaughlin, S.Dak., 1910-1915 and
of the Regional Board of Control for Southern Regional Edu- near Stevens Point, Wis., 1915-1920; retired from active pur-
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suits in 1920 and resided in Fond du Lac, Wis., until his Casey; reelected to the Eleventh Congress and served from
death in that city on February 3, 1941; interment in Calvary June 2, 1807, to March 3, 1811; declined to be a candidate
Cemetery. for reelection in 1810 to the Twelfth Congress; resumed
agricultural pursuits and engaged in milling; died in Cal-
CALHOON, John, a Representative from Kentucky; born
houn Mills, Abbeville District (now Mount Carmel, McCor-
in Henry County, Ky., in 1797; studied law; was admitted
mick County), April 14, 1817; interment in the family bury-
to the bar and practiced; member of the State house of
ing ground near his home.
representatives in 1820, 1821, 1829, and 1830; unsuccessful
candidate for election to the Twentieth Congress; received CALHOUN, William Barron, a Representative from
the credentials of an election to the Twentieth Congress, Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., December 29, 1796;
held November 5-7, 1827, to fill the vacancy caused by the was graduated from Yale College in 1814; studied law; was
death of United States Representative William S. Young, admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Springfield;
but, in order to avoid a contest, resigned and, together with member of the State house of representatives 1825-1834,
his opponent, Thomas Chilton, petitioned the Governor for serving as speaker 1828-1834; elected as a Whig to the
a new election; was again unsuccessful; elected as a Whig Twenty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses
to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses (March (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1843); chairman, Committee on
4, 1835-March 3, 1839); was not a candidate for reelection Private Land Claims (Twenty-sixth Congress); was not a
to the Twenty-sixth Congress; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in candidate for renomination in 1842; member of the State
1839; resumed the practice of law; returned to Kentucky; senate in 1846 and 1847, serving as its president; secretary
appointed judge of the fourteenth judicial district in January of State of Massachusetts 1848-1851; State bank commis-
1842; death date unknown. sioner 1853-1855; mayor of Springfield in 1859; again a
member of the State house of representatives in 1861 and
CALHOUN, John Caldwell (cousin of John Ewing
1862; died in Springfield, Mass., November 8, 1865; inter-
Colhoun and Joseph Calhoun), a Representative and a Sen-
ment in Springfield Cemetery.
ator from South Carolina and a Vice President of the United
States; born near Calhoun Mills, Abbeville District (now CALKIN, Hervey Chittenden, a Representative from
Mount Carmel, McCormick County), S.C., March 18, 1782; New York; born in Malden, Ulster County, N.Y., March 23,
attended the common schools and private academies; grad- 1828; attended the public schools; moved to New York City
uated from Yale College in 1804; studied law, admitted to in 1847; employed in the Morgan Iron Works for five years;
the bar in 1807, and commenced practice in Abbeville, S.C.; in 1852 commenced business as a dealer in metals and iden-
also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member, State house tified with the shipping interests of the country; school offi-
of representatives 1808-1809; elected as a Democratic Re- cer in his ward; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first
publican to the Twelfth and to the three succeeding Con- Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); was not a can-
gresses and served from March 4, 1811, to November 3, didate for reelection in 1870; resumed his former business
1817, when he resigned; Secretary of War in the Cabinet pursuits in New York City until 1904, when he retired;
of President James Monroe 1817-1825; elected vice president died in the Bronx, New York City, April 20, 1913; interment
of the United States in 1824 with President John Quincy in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Adams; reelected in 1828 with President Andrew Jackson
CALKINS, William Henry, a Representative from Indi-
and served from March 4, 1825, to December 28, 1832, when
ana; born in Pike County, Ohio, February 18, 1842; studied
he resigned, having been elected as a Democratic Republican
law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; during the Civil
(later Nullifier) to the United States Senate on December
War served in the Union Army from May 1861 to December
12, 1832, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
1865, except three months in 1863, attached to the Four-
Robert Y. Hayne; reelected in 1834 and 1840 and served
teenth Iowa Infantry and the Twelfth Indiana Cavalry; took
from December 29, 1832, until his resignation, effective
up his residence in La Porte, Ind.; State’s attorney for the
March 3, 1843; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of Presi-
ninth Indiana judicial circuit 1866-1870; member of the
dent John Tyler 1844-1845; again elected to the United
State house of representatives in 1871; elected as a Repub-
States Senate, as a Democrat, to fill the vacancy caused
lican to the Forty-fifth and to the three succeeding Con-
by the resignation of Daniel E. Huger; reelected in 1846
gresses and served from March 4, 1877, to October 20, 1884,
and served from November 26, 1845, until his death in
when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Elections (Forty-
Washington, D.C., March 31, 1850; chairman, Committee
seventh Congress); moved to Tacoma, Wash., and resumed
on Finance (Twenty-ninth Congress); interment in St. Phil-
the practice of law; appointed United States associate justice
ip’s Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.
of the Territory of Washington in April 1889 and served
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ography; Calhoun, John C. The Papers of John C. Calhoun. Edited by until November 11, 1889, when the Territory was admitted
Robert Meriwether, W. Edwin Hemphill, and Clyde N. Wilson. 28 vols. to as a State into the Union; died in Tacoma, Wash., on Janu-
date. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1959-; Bartlett, Irving ary 29, 1894; interment in Tacoma Cemetery.
H. John C. Calhoun: A Biography. New York: W.W. Norton Co., 1993;
Cheek, H. Lee, Jr., ed. John C. Calhoun: Selected Writings and Speeches. CALL, Jacob, a Representative from Indiana; born in
Lanham, Md.: Nationa.l Book Network, 2003. Kentucky, birth date unknown; was graduated from an acad-
emy in Kentucky; studied law; was admitted to the bar
CALHOUN, Joseph (cousin of John Caldwell Calhoun
and practiced in Vincennes and Princeton, Ind.; judge of
and John Ewing Colhoun), a Representative from South
the Knox County Circuit Court, 1817, 1818, and 1822-1824;
Carolina; born in Staunton, Augusta County, Va., October
elected to the Eighteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused
22, 1750; moved with his father to South Carolina in 1756
by the death of United States Representative William Prince
and settled in Granville District, on Little River, near the
(December 23, 1824-March 3, 1825); died in Frankfort, Ky.,
present town of Abbeville; received a limited education; en-
April 20, 1826.
gaged in agricultural pursuits; served as a member of the
South Carolina house of representatives in 1804 and 1805; CALL, Richard Keith (uncle of Wilkinson Call), a Dele-
colonel of State militia; elected as a Republican to the Tenth gate from the Territory of Florida; born near Petersburg,
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Levi Va., October 24, 1792; attended the common schools and
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Mount Pleasant Academy; in 1814 entered the United States Theater, served on Odell Village Board, Odell School Board,
Army as first lieutenant in the Forty-fourth Infantry; special Gage County School Reorganization Board, Gage County
aide to Major General Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans; Fair Board, Gage County Extension Board, chairman of Gov-
promoted to captain in July 1818 and resigned May 1, 1822; ernor’s Committee on State Government Reorganization
settled in the Territory of Florida; studied law; was admitted Board, and chairman of Nebraska Power Review Board; en-
to the bar and practiced in Pensacola; member of the Terri- gaged as a farmer, stockman, and in the hardware and
torial council in 1822; brigadier general of the West Florida farm supply business; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-
Militia in 1823; elected to the Eighteenth Congress (March ninth Congress (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1967); unsuc-
4, 1823-March 3, 1825); receiver of the land office of the cessful candidate for reelection in 1966; to the Ninetieth
Territory of Florida; Governor of the Territory 1835-1840 Congress and in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress; deputy
and 1841-1844; unsuccessful candidate of the Whig Party administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration,
for Governor of the new State in 1845; died in Tallahassee, 1967-1968; served as president, Allied Industries Inter-
Fla., September 14, 1862; interment in a private cemetery national, Inc., and Agri-Tech in Nashville, Tenn.; is a resi-
on his estate. dent of Fairbury, Nebr.
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ist. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1961. CALLAWAY, Howard Hollis (Bo), a Representative
from Georgia; born in LaGrange, Troup County, Ga., April
CALL, Wilkinson (nephew of Richard Keith Call and
2, 1927; attended the public schools of LaGrange and Ham-
cousin of James David Walker), a Senator from Florida;
ilton in Georgia; graduated from Episcopal High School, Al-
born in Russellville, Logan County, Ky., January 9, 1834;
exandria, Va., 1944; attended Georgia Institute of Tech-
attended the common schools; moved to Jacksonville, Fla.;
nology, Atlanta, Ga.,1944-1945; graduated from the United
studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced; served as
States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., 1949; served
adjutant general in the Confederate Army during the Civil
in Korea as an Infantry platoon leader in 1949 and 1950
War; elected to the United States Senate on December 29,
and as an instructor in tactics at Infantry School, Fort
1865, but was not permitted to take the seat; member of
Benning, Ga., 1951-1952; president of Callaway Gardens,
the Democratic National Executive Committee; practiced law
1953-1970, and the Ida Cason Callaway Foundation, 1956-
in Jacksonville; elected as a Democrat to the United States
1970; director of Georgia Power Co., Atlanta, Ga., 1960-
Senate in 1879; reelected in 1885 and 1891 and served from
1964, and the Trust Co. of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga., 1958-
March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1897; chairman, Committee on
1964; chairman, Freedom’s Foundation at Valley Forge, Pa.,
Civil Service and Retrenchment (Fifty-third Congress), Com-
1966-1973; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-ninth Con-
mittee on Patents (Fifty-third Congress); retired and resided
gress (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1967); was not a can-
in Washington, D.C., until his death on August 24, 1910;
didate for reelection to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966; un-
interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.
successful candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1966; mem-
ber, executive committee, Republican National Committee;
CALLAHAN, Herbert Leon (Sonny), a Representative
National Committeeman for Georgia 1968-1973; Secretary
from Alabama; born in Mobile, Mobile County, Ala., Sep-
of the Army, 1973-1975; campaign manager, The President
tember 11, 1932; graduated from McGill Institute High
Ford Committee, July 1975-April 1976; unsuccessful can-
School, Mobile, Ala., 1950; attended the University of Ala-
didate for the Republican nomination to the United States
bama, Mobile, Ala., 1959-1960; United States Navy, 1952-
Senate in 1980; chairman, Colorado Republican Party, 1981-
1954; businessman; member of the Alabama state house
1987; chairman, GOPAC, 1987-1993; is a resident of Crested
of representatives, 1971-1979; member of the Alabama state
Butte, Colo.
senate, 1979-1983; unsuccessful candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for lieutenant governor in 1982; elected
CALLAWAY, Oscar, a Representative from Texas; born
as a Republican to the Ninety-ninth and to the eight suc-
in Harmony Hill (Nip-and-Tuck), Rusk County, Tex., October
ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1985-January 3, 2003); not
2, 1872; moved with his parents to Comanche County in
a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Eighth Con-
1876; attended the public schools, and was graduated from
gress in 2002.
the Comanche High School in 1894; taught school 1894-
CALLAHAN, James Yancy, a Delegate from the Terri- 1897; attended the University of Texas at Austin 1897-1899,
tory of Oklahoma; born on a farm near Salem, Dent County, and was graduated from the law department of that univer-
Mo., December 19, 1852; attended the common schools; en- sity in 1900; was admitted to the bar the same year and
tered the ministry in 1880; engaged in agricultural pursuits, commenced practice in Comanche, Tex.; prosecuting attorney
saw-milling, and mining; moved to Stanton County, Kans., of Comanche County 1900-1902; delegate to Democratic
in 1885; elected register of deeds in 1886; reelected in 1888 State conventions in 1896, 1898, 1900-1916, and 1920-1926;
and served until December 1889, when he resigned; returned elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and
to Dent County, Mo.; moved to Oklahoma in 1892 and set- Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1917); un-
tled near Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, and engaged in successful candidate for renomination in 1916; returned to
agricultural pursuits; elected on the Free Silver ticket to his ranch near Comanche, Tex., where he engaged in agri-
the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); was cultural pursuits and stock raising, and also in the practice
not a candidate for renomination in 1898; published the of law in Comanche; died in Comanche, Tex., January 31,
Jacksonian at Enid, Garfield County, Okla., until January 1947; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
1, 1913; retired from active business pursuits and resided
CALLIS, John Benton, a Representative from Alabama;
in Enid, Okla., until his death there on May 3, 1935; inter-
born in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, N.C., January 3,
ment in Enid Cemetery.
1828; moved to Tennessee in 1834 with his parents, who
CALLAN, Clair Armstrong, a Representative from Ne- settled in Carroll County, and thence, in 1840, to Lancaster,
braska; born in Odell, Gage County, Nebr., March 29, 1920; Grant County, Wis.; attended the common schools; studied
attended the public schools; graduated from Peru State Col- medicine for three years, but then abandoned its further
lege; during the Second World War served as an officer study; went to Minnesota in 1849; moved to California in
in the United States Navy on a destroyer in the Pacific 1851 and engaged in mining and the mercantile business;
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went to Central America in 1853; returned to Lancaster, to the Seventeenth through Twentieth Congresses, elected
Wis., in the fall of that year and again engaged in mer- as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through Twenty-fourth
cantile pursuits; entered the Union Army as a lieutenant, Congresses, and elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth
and was promoted to captain in the Seventh Regiment, Wis- Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1839); chairman, Com-
consin Volunteer Infantry, August 30, 1861; major January mittee on Commerce (Twentieth through Twenty-second
5, 1863; appointed by President Lincoln military super- Congresses), Committee on Foreign Affairs (Twenty-third
intendent of the War Department at Washington, D.C., in Congress), Committee on Ways and Means (Twenty-fourth
1864; promoted to lieutenant colonel February 11, 1865; set- and Twenty-fifth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for re-
tled in Huntsville, Ala., in 1865; resigned his commission election in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; appointed
in the Army on February 4, 1868; upon the readmission United States Minister to Russia by President Van Buren
of the State of Alabama to representation was elected as and served from May 20, 1840, to July 13, 1841; member
a Republican to the Fortieth Congress and served from July of the State constitutional convention in 1846; died at his
21, 1868, to March 3, 1869; was not a candidate for renomi- residence near Huntington, Suffolk County, N.Y., April 30,
nation in 1868; returned to Lancaster, Wis., and engaged 1862; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
in the real-estate business; member of the State assembly
CAMDEN, Johnson Newlon (father of Johnson Newlon
in 1874; retired from active pursuits; died in Lancaster,
Camden, Jr.), a Senator from West Virginia; born in Collins
Wis., on September 24, 1898; interment in Hillside Ceme-
Settlement, Lewis County, Va. (now West Virginia), March
tery.
6, 1828; attended school in Sutton, Va. (now West Virginia);
CALVERT, Charles Benedict, a Representative from appointed as a cadet to the United States Military Academy
Maryland; born in Riverdale, Prince Georges County, Md., at West Point from 1846 until 1848, when he resigned; stud-
August 24, 1808; completed preparatory studies at ied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Bladensburg Academy, Md.; was graduated from the Univer- Sutton in 1851; appointed the same year prosecuting attor-
sity of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1827; engaged in agri- ney for Braxton County; elected prosecuting attorney for
cultural pursuits and stock breeding; member of the State Nicholas County in 1852; engaged in the development of
house of delegates in 1839, 1843, and 1844; president of petroleum and in manufacturing in Parkersburg, Va. (now
the Prince Georges County Agricultural Society and the West Virginia) in 1858; president of the First National Bank
Maryland State Agricultural Society; vice president of the of Parkersburg at its organization in 1862; unsuccessful
United States Agricultural Society; founded the first agricul- Democratic candidate for Governor in 1868 and again in
tural research college in America (later the Maryland Agri- 1872; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate
cultural College at College Park), chartered in 1856; one and served from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1887; resumed
of the early advocates for the establishment of the United the practice of law at Parkersburg; again elected as a Demo-
States Department of Agriculture; elected as a Unionist to crat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused
the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); by the death of John E. Kenna, and served from January
was not a candidate for renomination in 1862; resumed agri- 25, 1893, to March 3, 1895; chairman, Committee to Audit
cultural pursuits; died in Riverdale, Prince Georges County, and Control the Contingent Expense (Fifty-third Congress),
Md., May 12, 1864; interment in Calvert Cemetery. Committee on Railroads (Fifty-third Congress); continued
former business pursuits; died in Baltimore, Md., April 25,
CALVERT, Ken, a Representative from California; born
1908; interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Parkersburg,
in Corona, Riverside County, Calif., June 8, 1953; graduated
W.Va.
from Corona High School, Corona, Calif., 1971; A.A., Chaffey Bibliography: American National Biography; Dictionary of American Bi-
College, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., 1973; B.A., San Diego ography; Summers, Festus. Johnson Newlon Camden: A Study in Individ-
State University, San Diego, Calif., 1975; restaurant man- ualism. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1937.
ager; business owner; staff for United States Representative
CAMDEN, Johnson Newlon, Jr. (son of the Johnson
Victor Veysey of California; unsuccessful candidate for nomi-
Newlon Camden), a Senator from Kentucky; born in Par-
nation to the Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982; chair, River-
kersburg, Wood County, W.Va., January 5, 1865; attended
side County, Calif., Republican Party, 1984-1988; elected as
Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Va., Phillips Academy,
a Republican to the One Hundred Third and to the five
Andover, Mass., Virginia Militar