. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . aged in the practice of the law. In1844 he was called from his retirement by the voiceof the people of the commonwealth to fill the highestoffice in their gift. He so conducted his administrationas their chief executive that he received from them thehighest expression of their confidence aud regard bybeing re-elected with an increased majority, and thattoo against an opposing candidate of the most esti-mable character, whose exalted virtues and worthwere acknowledged by all.
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . aged in the practice of the law. In1844 he was called from his retirement by the voiceof the people of the commonwealth to fill the highestoffice in their gift. He so conducted his administrationas their chief executive that he received from them thehighest expression of their confidence aud regard bybeing re-elected with an increased majority, and thattoo against an opposing candidate of the most esti-mable character, whose exalted virtues and worthwere acknowledged by all. But he bad scarcely entered upon the duties of his second term before he became the victim of a diseasewhich in its early progress excited apprehensions inthe minds of his friends that it might prove Governor himself, though conscious that his dis-ease was deep-seated, yet seemed to cherish with con-fidence the hope that the vigor of his constitution andthe skill of his physicians would eventually restorehim to health. It was not until the morning of the9th of July, 1848, when a severe and copious hemor-. GOVERNOR FRANCIS R. SHI/NK rhage from the lungs took place, that he gave up en-tirely the hope of life and felt that his days wereindeed numbered. Upon that day, being Sunday, hewrote his letter of resignation,—the last public act ofhis life. His professional attainments, especially in the moreabstract principles of law, were large, and as a coun-selor he had few superiors. But he shrunk from thepersonal collision its practice in the courts involved,and retired from the bar to engage in employmentsand studies more congenial with his taste. His administration as the chief magistrate of thiscommonwealth shows that he was no novice in thegreat and fundamental principles of government. Hisstate papers indicate that he had deeply studied thequestions of policy involving the great interests ofPennsylvania and the country at large, that he hadlooked at their remote as we
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