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Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2)

CHAPTER XVIII
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Mr.Hill was a representative in the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses, and when the State seceded refused to resign.

He joined the Republican party after the war.

Mr.Norwood entered the Senate as a Democrat .-- Thomas W.Osborn and Abijah Gilbert, senators from Florida, were both from the North, the former a native of New Jersey, the latter of New York .-- The senators from Alabama, Willard Warner and George E.
Spencer, the former born in Ohio, the latter in New York, were both officers of the Union Army .-- Hiram R.Revels and Adalbert Ames were the senators from Mississippi.

The former was born in the South.

The latter was born in Maine, was a graduate of West Point and became highly distinguished as an officer in the war .-- John S.Harris and William Pitt Kellogg were senators from Louisiana.


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