. 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 . —French of —Piatt of —Mix of West —Clark of —Shannon of —Purple of —Reed of —Bryant of —Oldfield of —Tuttle of —Peck of Old of —Stone of New —Atwell of —Johnson of —Tiffany of —Parsons of East
. 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 . —French of —Piatt of —Mix of West —Clark of —Shannon of —Purple of —Reed of —Bryant of —Oldfield of —Tuttle of —Peck of Old of —Stone of New —Atwell of —Johnson of —Tiffany of —Parsons of East —Russell of —Beers of —Hutchinson of —Clark of East —Gager of —Carroll of —Cox of —Norton of —Hall of —Spurr of —Hawley of —Cornwall of —Bennett of —Hull of —Benjamin of —Usher of ——Griggs of —Linsley of —Hoyle of —Griswold of Killingworth249—Douglass of Hon. HENKV B. EAKRISON (JOVKRNOK. Henry Baldwin Harrison was born at NewHaven, September 11, 1821, and is therefore inhis 64th year. He studied at John E. LovelFsLancasterian school in New Haven, and, whiletaking the academic course at Yale, was assistant. Notwithstanding this doublestrain he was valedictorian of his class—that of1846. He fitted himself for the profession of lawand began practice with Lucius G. Peck, a prom-inent Whig. Mr. Harrison was an ardentHenry Clay Whig. In 1854 he was Domi-nated by the Whigs for Senator in the FourthDistrict and elected by a vote oi 2,597, against1,718 for Charles Atwater, Jr., Democrat. 1 ledrafted the personal-liberty bill, and realty nulli-tied the fugitive-slave law, which bad been soprolific of perjury. By this the pen
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