. Evening post annual, Biographical sketches [with portraits] of the state officers, representatives in Congress, governor's staff, and senators and members of the General assembly of the state of Connecticut . cipated in the tarifflegislation of that Congress and ardently workedfor the protection of the varied manufacturingand farming interests in his district, with allwhich he is especially familiar. His reelection tothe Forty-ninth Congress furnishes conclusive evidence of the high esteem in which his previousservices in this position are held, and of the con-fidence reposed in him by his i
. Evening post annual, Biographical sketches [with portraits] of the state officers, representatives in Congress, governor's staff, and senators and members of the General assembly of the state of Connecticut . cipated in the tarifflegislation of that Congress and ardently workedfor the protection of the varied manufacturingand farming interests in his district, with allwhich he is especially familiar. His reelection tothe Forty-ninth Congress furnishes conclusive evidence of the high esteem in which his previousservices in this position are held, and of the con-fidence reposed in him by his intelligent constit-uency of the First District. Mr. Buck is a strong and earnest advocate ofprotection for home industries, and believes inadequately rewarding the workingman for hislabor. ISTo interest of the First CongressionalDistrict or of the State at large will suffer in hishands. A man unassuming in his manners, ofvigorous and independent thought, of soundjudgment and unimpeachable integrity, of liberalscholarship and training, and of broad and gen-erous sympathies, he wTill represent the FirstDistrict as he has done in the past, with dignityand honor in the councils of the National Con-gress. 37. Hon. CHAKLES L. MITCHELL, CONGRESSMAN, SECOND DISTRICT. Hon. Charles L. Mitchell is the son of thelate Edward A. Mitchell, who was for manyyears Postmaster of New Haven. Mr. EdwardA. Mitchell, with other members of the family,took an active part in establishing several of thegreat manufacturing industries which have builtup the property of the district his son has beenelected to represent. Through his mother,Charles L. Mitchell is a direct descendant ofThomas Fitch, who was Governor of Connecticutfrom 1754 to 1766. Fernhurst, the homesteadof Charles L. Mitchell, is one of the most attrac-tive of the many beautiful residences in theenvirons of New Haven, and has been in thepossession of the family for three L. Mitchell was born August 4. 1844,and educated at
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