. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. callender in the State of New York hiswishes had not been sufficiently con-sulted by the president, and findingthat the senate was in favor o
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. callender in the State of New York hiswishes had not been sufficiently con-sulted by the president, and findingthat the senate was in favor of con-firming the presidential appointment,deemed it his duty to resign his posi-tion in the senate and retire to privatelife. Whatever opinions may exist as toMr. Conklings course in this contro-versy, he merits a place of honor inthese pages for the statesmanship whichhe manifested in the previous historyof the nation. Deriving his existencefrom honorable ancestry, he was bornat Albany, N. Y., in 1828. His fatherwas a member of the seventeenth Con-gress, was appointed Minister to Mexico in 1852, and associated judicially with the United Slates districtcourt in the State of New York. Koscoe Conkling was educated for the practice of law, and soonafter entering upon the duties of his profession became prominentas an attorney. The political arena, however, presented a fine fieldfor the exercise of his executive talents and oratory, and about a year. Roscoe Conkling. Lawyer, Statesman and Prominent Public Speaker. after his admission to the bar he was appointed district attorney forOneida county. Residing at Utica while pt^rforming the duti(;s of his position, in1858, he received the nomination for mayor of that city, and by hispopularity secured his election. Filling this office satisfactorily, hisfriends in the district united their forces and elected him a memberof the thirty-sixth Congress. The able manner in which he theremaintained the interests of the nation and his constit
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