ANDERSON, THOMAS L. Born in Green County, Kentucky, December 8, 1808. He was self was elected a Delegate to the Thirty-educated, and removed to Missouri fourth Congress from the Territory of Washington. ANDERSON, RICHARD C., JR. Born in Jefferson County, Kentucky; was elected a Representative in Congress from Kentucky, from 1817 to 1821, and was Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands during the Sixteenth Congress. In 1823 he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Colombia, and in 1826 Envoy Extraordinary to Panama; but died November 6, 1826. in 1830, where he commenced the practice of law at twenty-one years of age. He was elected to the Legislature of that State in 1840; was a Presidential Elector in 1844, 1848, 1852, and 1856; and a member of the Convention for remodeling the State Constitution in 1845, and was elected a Representative to the Thirty-fifth Congress, serving as a member of the Committee on Invalid Pensions. He has also been re-elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress. ANDERSON, WILLIAM. He was born in Chester County, New Jersey, in 1763 or '64, and was a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania, from 1809 to 1815, and from 1817 to 1819. ANDREWS, CHARLES. Born in Paris, Maine, in 1814; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1837; was a member of the State Legislature from 1839 to 1843, a portion of the time Speaker of the House; and a Representative in Congress, from Maine, from 1851 to the time of his death, which occurred in Paris, April 30, 1852. ANDREWS, GEORGE R. He was born in New York, and was a Representative in Congress, from the Fourteenth Congressional District in that State, from 1849 to 1851, and was a member of the Committee on Elections. ANDREWS, JOHN T. He was born in New York, and was elected a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1837 to 1859, serving as a member of the Committee on Expenditures in the State Department. ANDREWS, LANDAFF W. He was a member of the Kentucky Legislature in 1834, and in 1838 was elected a Representative in Congress, serving from 1839 to 1843, and acted on the Committees on Revolutionary Pensions and Accounts. He is now a member of the Kentucky Senate. ANDREWS, SAMUEL G. He was born in Derby, New Haven County, Connecticut, October 16, 1799; received an academical education; and removed with his father to Rochester, New York, in 1816. He has been occupied chiefly in mercantile and manufacturing pursuits; was for several years Mayor of Rochester; was a member of the New York Legislature in 1831 and 1832, from Monroe County, New York; Clerk of the Monroe County Court; Secretary of the State Senate of New York for four years; Clerk of the Court of Dernier Resort for four years; and was Postmaster of Rochester. He was elected a Representative from New York to the Thirty-fifth Congress, and is a member of the Committee on Roads and Canals. ANDREWS, SHERLOCK J. Born in Wallingford, Connecticut, in 1801; graduated at Union College; settled in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1825, and practiced law; was Judge of the Superior Court of that State, and elected a Representative in Congress, from 1841 to 1843, and was a member of the Commit Born in Fleming County, Kentucky, February 12, 1803; graduated at Transylvania University in 1824; and commenced the practice of law in 1826, in which profession he has since been actively engaged. tee on Commerce. ANGEL, WILLIAM G. He was a native of New York, and elected a Representative in Congress, from Burlington, Otsego County, in that State, from 1825 to 1827, and again from 1829 to 1833, and was a member of the Committees on Indian Affairs and on Territories. ANTHONY, JOSEPH B. Born in Pennsylvania; was elected a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1833 to 1837, serving as a member of the Committees on Territories and Military Affairs. He died at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, January 17, 1851. APPLETON, JOHN. Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, February 11, 1815; graduated at Bowdoin College, Maine, in 1834; was admitted to practice law at Portland, Maine, in 1837. In the winter of 1838-39 he became editor of a Democratic newspaper in that city, (The Eastern Argus,) and continued to be its editor for the next four or five years, during a part of which time he was also Register of Probate for the County of Cumberland. In 1845 he accepted an invitation from Mr. Bancroft, the Secretary of the Navy, to become Chief Clerk of the Navy Department; subsequently he succeeded Mr. Trist as Chief Clerk of the State Department, which was then presided over by Mr. Buchanan. In 1848 he was appointed, by President Polk, Chargé d'Affaires of the Uni ted States to Bolivia. On his return from that mission, which he resigned after the election of General Taylor, he resumed the practice of law at Portland, in partnership with Nathan Clifford, now one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States; but soon afterwards, in September, 1850, he was elected from the Portland District, a member of the Thirty-second Congress In 1855 he joined Mr. Buchanan at London, as Secretary of Legation, but returned home in time for the presidential canvass of 1856. In 1857, having been obliged from ill health to decline the position to which he had been invited, of editor of the Washington Union, he was appointed, by President Buchanan, Assistant Secretary of State. APPLETON, NATHAN. He Born at New Ipswich, New Hampshire, October 6, 1779. He entered Dartmouth College in 1794, but left his studies there, after being invited by his brother to join him in the mercantile business in Boston. became interested in the cotton manufacture, and in 1821 was one of the three original founders of Lowell. He was at different periods a member of the Legislature of Massachusetts, and from 1831 to 1833, and again in 1842, was elected a Representative of that State in Congress; but soon resigned his seat, and has since taken no part in public affairs. He has published pamphlets and essays on Currency, Banking, and the Tariff. APPLETON, WILLIAM. Born in Brookfield, Massachusetts, November, 1786, and was educated for mercantile pursuits, in which he has been engaged extensively and successfully for more than fifty years. He has taken a prominent part in various public enterprises and benevolent objects; given much attention to banking and financial operations, and was for some years, and until the close of the institution, President of the Branch Bank of the United States in Boston. In 1850, he was elected a Representative in Congress from Massachusetts, and re-elected in 1852. ARCHER, JOHN. He was born in Harford County, Maryland, in 1741, and graduated at Nassau Hall in 1760. He studied divinity, but on account of a throat affection, turned his attention to medicine, and went through a course of study at the Philadelphia Medical College, having received the first medical diploma ever issued in the New World. At the commencement of the Revolution, he had command of a military company; was a member of the State Legislature; and after the war he practiced his profession; he was a Representative in Congress, from Maryland, from 1801 to 1807; and died in 1810. As a medical man he commanded great influence, and several discoveries were made by him, which have been adopted by the profession. ARCHER, STEPHENSON. He was born in Harford County, Maryland, and elected a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1811 to 1817, when he was appointed Judge of Mississippi Territory. He was chosen a Representative in Congress again, from 1819 to 1821, and was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. ARCHER, WILLIAM S. Born in Amelia County, Virginia, March 5, 1789. He came of a Welsh family, a number of whom acquitted themselves with honor in the revolutionary war. He obtained the rudiments of his education at the best grammar schools of the day; graduated at the College of William and Mary; and studied law. In 1812 he was elected to the State Legislature, where he served, excepting one year, until 1819. In 1820 he was elected a Representative in Congress from Virginia, where he remained until 1835, taking an active part in all matters of national importance, and exerting a paramount influence, especially as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations and member of the Committee on the Missouri Compromise. In 1841 he was elected to the United States Senate, where he remained until 1847, having, from the start, been placed at the head of the Committee on Foreign Relations in that body. By his public acts, he commanded the respect of the country; and by the charms of his private character, won the friendship of many of the leading men of his day. On his retirement from public life, he devoted himself to the improvement of his paternal estate; and died March 28, 1855, of neuralgia, with which he had been afflicted for twenty years. ARMSTRONG, JAMES. A native of Pennsylvania; distinguished himself in the Indian wars, and was consulted by the proprietors of Pennsylvania on all matters connected with Indian affairs. In 1776, Congress promoted him from the rank of colonel to that of brigadier-general, and he assisted in the defence of Fort Moultrie, and in the battle of Germantown; in 1777 he resigned his commission in consequence of dissatisfaction as to rank. He was subsequently elected a Representative to Congress from Pennsylvania, serving from 1793 to 1795, and sustained a number of other honorable offices. He died at Carlisle, Penna., March 9, 1795, a few days after the expiration of his term in Congress. ARMSTRONG, JOHN. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and served as an officer during the revolutionary war. At the close of the war, in order to obtain redress for the grievances sustained by the officers of the army, he prepared the celebrated "Newburgh Letters," and they produced a deep sensation. After the war he returned to Pennsylvania, where he was made adjutant-general of the State; and to him was intrusted the direction of the last Pennsylvania war against the Connecticut settlers of Wyoming. Returning to New York, he was sent to the Senate of the United States, serving from 1800 to 1802. On the return of Chancellor Livingston from the French embassy, he was commissioned Minister in his place in 1804. Returning to his own country, he was called to the War Department by President Madison. During the campaign of 1813, he visited the northern frontier. His flight from Washington, with Mr. Madison and his cabinet, at the sacking of 1814, gave the coup de gráce to his official career as Secretary of War. It was charged, that the capital was lost by reason of his neglect to provide the means of defence. He was dismissed from office, and the duties of the War Department devolved upon Mr. Monroe, then Secretary of State. From that time he lived in retirement upon his estate at Red Hook, but passed a few years in Maryland. He published a brief history of the last war with England. He died at Red Hook, New York, April 1, 1843, aged eighty-four years. ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM. He was born in Lisburn, Antrim County, Ireland, December 23, 1782. He came to this country in 1792; had a limited education; studied law in Winchester, Virginia; devoted himself to mercantile pursuits. In 1813 he was appointed by Pre |