. Portrait and biographical album of Isabella County, Mich . ents chair. Notwithstanding this, never wasthere presented to a man a better opportunity to im-mortalize his name, and to win the gratitude of anation. He failed utterly. He retired to his homein Greenville, Tenn., taking no very active part inpolitics until 1875. On Jan. 26, after an excitingstruggle, he was chosen by the Legislature of Ten-nessee, United States Senator in the forty-fourth Con-gress, and took his seat in that body, at the specialsession convened by President Grant, on the 5th ofMarch. On the 27th of July, t875, the
. Portrait and biographical album of Isabella County, Mich . ents chair. Notwithstanding this, never wasthere presented to a man a better opportunity to im-mortalize his name, and to win the gratitude of anation. He failed utterly. He retired to his homein Greenville, Tenn., taking no very active part inpolitics until 1875. On Jan. 26, after an excitingstruggle, he was chosen by the Legislature of Ten-nessee, United States Senator in the forty-fourth Con-gress, and took his seat in that body, at the specialsession convened by President Grant, on the 5th ofMarch. On the 27th of July, t875, the ex-Presidentmade a visit to his daughters home, near CarterStation, Tenn. When he started on his journey, he wasapparently in his usual vigorous health, but on reach-ing the residence of his child the following day, wasstricken with paralysis, rendering him raUied occasionally, but finally passed away at2 , July 31, aged sixty-seven years. His fun-eral was attended at Geenville, on the 3d of August,with every demonstration of respect. ¥. « i)(^t#^ .Mt_*. EIGHTEENTH PRESIBENT. 87
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