History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . RuFus William Rufus William Peckham, jurist; born at Albany, N. Y.,November 8, 1838; educated at the Albany academy and inPhiladelphia; admitted to the bar, 1859; district attorney,Albany county, 186S-1871; corporation counsel of Albany,1880-1881; justice supreme court, 3d judicial district, 1883-1886;associate judge of the court of apjieals, 1886-IS95; ajiiiointedto United States supreme court, December 3, 1895 when theNew York senators refused to confirm the ai)poiiitmeni of hisbrother, Wheeler Hazard Peckham; died at A
History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . RuFus William Rufus William Peckham, jurist; born at Albany, N. Y.,November 8, 1838; educated at the Albany academy and inPhiladelphia; admitted to the bar, 1859; district attorney,Albany county, 186S-1871; corporation counsel of Albany,1880-1881; justice supreme court, 3d judicial district, 1883-1886;associate judge of the court of apjieals, 1886-IS95; ajiiiointedto United States supreme court, December 3, 1895 when theNew York senators refused to confirm the ai)poiiitmeni of hisbrother, Wheeler Hazard Peckham; died at Altarnont, N. Y.,October 24. Cornelius Newton Hliss Cornelius Newton Bliss, American merchant and politician;born in Fall River, Mass., January 26, 1833; clerk in NewOrleans, subse(]uently in Boston and in 1866 was taken as apartner in the commission business of J. S. & E. Wriglit & com-pany of the latter city; in 1881 his firm was merged into thatof Bliss, Fabyon & Co. of New York; chairman of the republi-can state committee, 1887-1888 and treasurer of the republicannational committee of 1892, 1896, 1900 and 1904; secretary ofthe interior in President McKinlcys cabinet, 1897-1898. Anattempt was made to draw him into the controversy broughtabout by the charges of Alton B. Parker that large contribu-tions had been made to the republican campaign fund bycorporations, but he refused to make an\ statement in regardto the matter; died in New York City, October 9, 1911. 1887] HISCOCK GOES TO THE SENATE 329 Republicans had the advantage of precedent and logicin objecting to the Congress districts as a basis
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