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Jacob Collamer after serving eleven years in the senate, died at the age of seventy-two. His associate Solomon Foot, for fifteen years senator, did not long survive him. It was to fill the place of the former that Luke Potter Poland was elected. Mr. Poland announced the death of his associate March 29, 1866 and on April 5, presented the credentials of George F. Edmunds. Unlike many of the senators whose interests seem to center about one certain question, Mr. Poland was interested in all of the public questions. He originated the bill for revising and consolidating the Statutes of the United States, he asked the department of agriculture to give to the public any information it might have regarding the cattle plague; he presented numerous pension petitions; he secured for Vermont the amount

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175 Jacob Collamer after serving eleven years in the senate, died at the age of seventy-two. His associate Solomon Foot, for fifteen years senator, did not long survive him. It was to fill the place of the former that Luke Potter Poland was elected. Mr. Poland announced the death of his associate March 29, 1866 and on April 5, presented the credentials of George F. Edmunds. Unlike many of the senators whose interests seem to center about one certain question, Mr. Poland was interested in all of the public questions. He originated the bill for revising and consolidating the Statutes of the United States, he asked the department of agriculture to give to the public any information it might have regarding the cattle plague; he presented numerous pension petitions; he secured for Vermont the amount