The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . -ister, Andrew Stevenson. Upon his arrival athome, in 1839, he was nominated to the Pennsyl-vania house of representatives ; in March, 1840, wasa delegate to the democratic state c
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . -ister, Andrew Stevenson. Upon his arrival athome, in 1839, he was nominated to the Pennsyl-vania house of representatives ; in March, 1840, wasa delegate to the democratic state convention, andfrom 1842-47 was recorder of Philadelphia, with therecord that no decision of his was ever reversed. Avolume of them is high authority. In 1842 he wasnominated for mayor of Philadelphia by the democ-racy, with which party he has always been identi-fied, and, though defeated, the whig majority wasreduced from 5,000 to 400. In the same year hewas made inspector of the State penitentiary, andsoon after controller of public schools, holding thusthree important offices at the same time. In 1856 hewas elected mayor, after three defeats, and perform-ed valuable work of oiganization after the consolida-tion of the districts with the city ; the system inau-gurated by him continuing until the new charterwas secured in 1885, which he helped to frame, andwhich he outlined in 1857. As president of the board. ^^kytfikJ^.c^ /^, =r£^^^ 112 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPiEDIA of directors of Girard college, in 1859, he introducedtechnological instniction, and now is a member ofthe board of city trusts, including the managementof the same college. During the war he was at thehead of the state electoral ticket in the McClellan,Douglas and Lincoln campaigns. In 1873 Mr. Vauxwas congressman-at-large to the forty-third congress,and on Jlay 20, 1890, was elected to fill the un-expired term of Samuel J. Randall, deceased, in thefifty-first congress. Mr. Vaux has been president ofthe board of insp
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