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[284] Born in Pennsylvania, 1830; died, 1893. Graduated from Washington College (Pennsylvania), 1847; taught school in Kentucky and Pennsylvania; removed to Augusta, Maine, 1854; edited the Kennebec Journal and entered politics; in Maine legislature, 1858–1862; in Congress, 1862–1876, where he was prominent in reconstruction and other legislation, and was Speaker of the House from 1869–1875; charged with corruption in 1876; unsuccessful candidate for Presidency, 1876, and in the same year appointed to the Senate; failed to obtain Republican nomination for President, 1880; Secretary of State, March to December, 1881; in retirement from public life, wrote his Twenty Years of Congress (Vol. I., 1884); nominated for President and defeated, 1884; Secretary of State, 1889–1892.