. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . went into the bootand shoe business atSt. Louis, Mo., andremained there sevenyears. Since thenhe has been a mem-ber of one of thelargest boot and shoemanufacturing estab-1 ishments in NewEngland. Ex-Gov-ernor Claflins recordof ])olitical servicemay be summarizedin a general way asfollows: He was amember of the Mas-sachusetts House ofRepresentatives from1849 to 1853 ; of theState Senate in i860and 1861, presidingover that body thesecond year; waslieutenant-g
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . went into the bootand shoe business atSt. Louis, Mo., andremained there sevenyears. Since thenhe has been a mem-ber of one of thelargest boot and shoemanufacturing estab-1 ishments in NewEngland. Ex-Gov-ernor Claflins recordof ])olitical servicemay be summarizedin a general way asfollows: He was amember of the Mas-sachusetts House ofRepresentatives from1849 to 1853 ; of theState Senate in i860and 1861, presidingover that body thesecond year; waslieutenant-gove r n o rfrom 1866 to 1869 ;governor of the Statefrom 1869 to 1871 ; member of the National Republican Committee from1864 to 1876, and member of Congress from 1877 to1881. He was a Free-soiler in the early fifties, and heldaloof from the Know-nothing party, which he was urgedto join, saying that his particular fight was with came his nomination as the Republicanpartys candidate for governor. He himself was thenin New \ork doing yoemans • work to secure theelection of General (Irant to the presidency. The sit-. WILLIAM CLAFLIN uation bristled with difiliculties, and upon Mr. Claflin,as chairman of the National Republican Committee,devolved the task of surmounting them. It was soonafter the close of the war, and the dread of dictatorshipwas very widely diffused in the North. There was alsogreat doubt concerning General Grants efificiency onaccount of his inexperience in civil affairs. There])robably has not been since that time any nationalcampaign which has taxed more the efforts and exertion of the National Com-mittee, or which hasbeen more laborious ii or exhaustive. The 1 overwhelm i n g m a- jority which Grantand Colfax receivedwas in no small■^ degree due to the f labors of t h e N a- .1 tional Committee. ■i Ex-Governor C1 a f-lins administrationof State affairs wasup to the high stand-ard which his ablestjiredecessors had Congress he waso
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