Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . 1855, ^^5^> 1859, and was a member of the state House of Representa-tives in 1859, 1868 and 1869, serving the last yearas Speaker. He was one of the commissioners on therevision in 1857 of the public laws of Rhode i860 he was a Delegate to the Republican Con-vention at Chicago, which nominated AbrahamLincoln for the Presidency. In 1870 he was electedRepresentative to the Forty-second Congress from the First District of
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . 1855, ^^5^> 1859, and was a member of the state House of Representa-tives in 1859, 1868 and 1869, serving the last yearas Speaker. He was one of the commissioners on therevision in 1857 of the public laws of Rhode i860 he was a Delegate to the Republican Con-vention at Chicago, which nominated AbrahamLincoln for the Presidency. In 1870 he was electedRepresentative to the Forty-second Congress from the First District of Rhode Island, and was re-electedto the Forty-third, Forty-fourth and Forty-fifthCongresses. In the Forty-second Congress heserved on the committees on Elections and Revo-lutionary Claims and the War of 1812 ; in the For-ty-third, on the Committee on Patents; in theForty-fourth on the Committee of Banking and Cur-rency, and in the Forty-fifth on the same committeeand Expenditures in the War Department. Amonghis speeches in Congress that have been publishedfor circulation are those on the presentation by theState of Rhode Island of the Statue of Roger. B, T, EAMES, WiUiams, Currency and Free Banking, Countingthe Electoral Votes, Resumption of Specie Pay-ments, Repeal of the Resumption Clause, Coinageof the Silver Dollar, Treasury Notes as a Substitutefor National Bank Notes, the Tariff, and Reductionof Letter Postage. In the fall of 1878 he declinedto be a candidate for re-election to Congress. Hewas in 1879 elected a Representative to the GeneralAssembly from Providence. He was re-elected tothat office in 1880, and in 1884 was elected Senatorfrom Providence. Mr. Fames became identifiedwith the Republican party at its first stood by it through the struggle for nationallife, and has always been a firm supporter of itsprinciples and policy. He was married in War- 30 MEN OF PROGRESS. wick, R. I., May 9, 1849, to Laura S. Chapin,daughter of Josiah and Asenath (Capron)
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