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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 187

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session and 15 in the next.
Mr. Norwood was not one of the leaders in either the senate or the house.
William Wallace Eaton was the last democratic senator from Connecticut up to the present date - (1912). He served in the state legislature as representative and senator, and in 1875 to his seat in the United States senate. Besides serving his own term he was appointed to fill our a few weeks of the unexpired term of William A. Buckingham deceased. He was appointed however after his election. Mr. Blaine characterizes him as the "positive and aggressive Eaton" 1 and again as "an old fashioned democrat, honest, sincere and outspoken in his sentiments." 2
During the disputed presidential debates, Mr. Eaton shows
1. Blaine. Twenty years in Congress. Vol 1 p 524
2. Blaine - Twenty years in Congress Vol 2. p 551

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185 session and 15 in the next. Mr. Norwood was not one of the leaders in either the senate or the house. William Wallace Eaton was the last democratic senator from Connecticut up to the present date - (1912). He served in the state legislature as representative and senator, and in 1875 to his seat in the United States senate. Besides serving his own term he was appointed to fill our a few weeks of the unexpired term of William A. Buckingham deceased. He was appointed however after his election. Mr. Blaine characterizes him as the "positive and aggressive Eaton" 1 and again as "an old fashioned democrat, honest, sincere and outspoken in his sentiments." 2 During the disputed presidential debates, Mr. Eaton shows 1. Blaine. Twenty years in Congress. Vol 1 p 524 2. Blaine - Twenty years in Congress Vol 2. p 551