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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912

Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 164

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162 there are no democrats in New England. He further states that he was unanimously nominated at a democratic convention and "the free soilers saw fit to vote for me and I am proud of it." His career in the house was cut short by death. Charles Sumner in the senate and Horace Mann in the house offered eulogies. Though both were opposed to him in politics both agreed that few had studied public affairs more minutely or intelligently and they spoke in highest praise of this sincerity, honesty, purity of life, and influence he had wielded in his comparatively short public career. John J. McRae on Dec. 19 1851 was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jefferson Davis. He had served in both houses of the state legislature. His career in
 
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