. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. ng the Portland (Me.) DailyAdvertiser, and then, going toAugusta, the State capital, he assumededitorial control of the KennebecJournal. In p
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. ng the Portland (Me.) DailyAdvertiser, and then, going toAugusta, the State capital, he assumededitorial control of the KennebecJournal. In politics, he and his paper \vork<din the interest of the Kepnblirauparty with so much energy and abilityas to insure his election to the Maine legislature in 1858, and his re-election and participation in thesessions of 1859-02. During his last two terms he was speaker ofthe house. In ^ position he had so fuiliifully repre.^ented the interests ofbis State that, in 1802, he was elected to represent the Kennebecdistrict in the thirty-eighth Congress, and re-elected by the Repub-licans to the six succeeding terms of Congress. In 1869 he waschosen Speaker of the House of Representatives, retaining this highoHlce for about years, when the Democrats came into power andhe succumbed to partisan pressure. In 1875 the Maine legislature elected Mr. Blaine a United 11- tin- snrcrs^or of Hon. Lot Morrill, who had ln-cii apiHiiiited. secretary of the United States treasury. At the close of the termfor which he was chosen Mr. Blaine was re-elected for the termending March 4, 1883. In the beginning of the presidential campaign of 1876, Mr. Blainecame prominently before the people as the possible successor ofGeneral Grant. His friends were very sanguine of his nominationat the Cincinnati convention, and it was on that occasion that RobertG. Ingersoll advocated the claims of the senator from Maine in oneof his most forcible bursts of oratory, from which the followingi
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