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APPENDIX I
A Senator from Wyoming; born in Hinsdale, Berkshire County, MA, June 20, 1844; attended the common schools and Hinsdale Academy; during the Civil War enlisted in the Forty-ninth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and served as a private and non-commissioned officer until he was mustered out of the Service; received the Congressional Medal of Honor September 30, 1893 for gallantry on the battlefield at the siege of Port Hudson, LA, May 27 to July 9, 1863; later served as Captain in the Massachusetts Militia; engaged in farming and stock raising in MA; moved to Wyoming (then a part of the Dakota Territory), in 1868; became interested in the real estate, mercantile, livestock, and lighting businesses in Cheyenne; member Territorial Senate 1873-1874 and served as President; member of the City Council, 1873-1874; Treasurer of Wyoming 1876, 1879, 1882, 1884; member Territorial Senate, 1884-1885; Mayor of Cheyenne, 1885; appointed Governor of the Territory of Wyoming by President Chester A. Arthur in February 1885, but was removed by President Grover Cleveland in 1886; again appointed Governor by President Benjamin Harrison in March 1889 and served until elected to the position in 1890; elected as the first Governor of the State in September 1890, but resigned on September 24, 1890, having been elected as a Republican to the United States Senate November 18, 1890, and served until March 4, 1893; resumed agricultural pursuits and stock raising; again elected to the United States Senate in 1895; reelected in 1901, 1907, 1913, 1918, and again in 1924, and served from March 4, 1895 until his death in Washington, D.C. November 24, 1929; Chairman, Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Fifty-second, Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Claims (Fifty-sixth through Fifty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Irrigation (Fifty-ninth Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Fifty-nine through Sixty-first Congresses), Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Fifty-ninth Congress), Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Appropriations (Sixty-second and Sixty-sixth through Seventy-first Congresses), Committee on Engrossed Bills (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses). [Photo: U.S. Senate Historical Office]
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