History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . William Dorsheimer William Dorsheimer; born in Lyons, Wayne county, N. Y.,February 5, 1832; attended Phillips academy, Andover, Harvard college; studied law and was admitted to thebar; practiced in New York City; appointed major in theunion army in August, 1861; appointed United States attorneyto the northern district of New York, March 28. 1867; waslieutenant governor under Samuel J. Tilden in 1875-1876 andunder Lucius Robinson in 1877-1878; was elected as a demo-crat to the forty-eighth congress and served March 4, 1883
History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . William Dorsheimer William Dorsheimer; born in Lyons, Wayne county, N. Y.,February 5, 1832; attended Phillips academy, Andover, Harvard college; studied law and was admitted to thebar; practiced in New York City; appointed major in theunion army in August, 1861; appointed United States attorneyto the northern district of New York, March 28. 1867; waslieutenant governor under Samuel J. Tilden in 1875-1876 andunder Lucius Robinson in 1877-1878; was elected as a demo-crat to the forty-eighth congress and served March 4, 1883to March 3, 1885; died at Savannah, Ga., March 26, li. Ward Hunt Ward Hunt, jurist; born at Utica, N. Y., June 14, 1810;graduated Union college, 1826; admitted to the bar; memberstate assembly, 1839; mayor of Utica, 1844; opposed annexa-tion of Texas and extension of slavery; supported Van Burenin 1848; joined the republican party in 1856; judge of the courtof appeals, 1865; chief judge court of appeals, 1868; com-missioner of appeals, 1870; appointed to the United Statessupreme court bv President Grant in 1872; retired on accountof ill health, 1883; died at Washington, D. C, March 24, 1886. ; * . ,. !?*?£> { 1872] THE LIBERAL REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT 137 Congress thereon, wholly free from Executive inter-ference or dictation. On the first ballot in the con-vention Adams had 205 votes, Greeley 147, Trumbull110, Davis 92y2, B. Gratz Brown 95, Curtin 62, Chase2y2. For a choice 358 votes were necessary. At thispoint B. Gratz Brown withdrew, evidently under anarrangement with Greeleys friends, in favor of the NewYorker, bringing his vote t
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