A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . s judicial labors, he was nominated to Con-gress from the Seventh District, and at the election fol-lowing was chosen to the Forty-third Congress by ahandsome majority. In this contest he was opposed byGeneral M. D. Manson, one of the most popular men inthe state, and the then Democratic member in Congressfrom this district, who had defeated the gallant GeneralLew Wallace in the election two years before. Duringthis term he served on the Co
A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . s judicial labors, he was nominated to Con-gress from the Seventh District, and at the election fol-lowing was chosen to the Forty-third Congress by ahandsome majority. In this contest he was opposed byGeneral M. D. Manson, one of the most popular men inthe state, and the then Democratic member in Congressfrom this district, who had defeated the gallant GeneralLew Wallace in the election two years before. Duringthis term he served on the Committee of Revision (forrevising the statutes of the United States). At the nextelection he was re-elected to the Forty-fourth Congress,the district being changed to the Ninth, and servedduring the last term on the Committee of Claims. Re-turning to Lebanon, he abandoned politics, and hassince devoted his entire time to the practice of his pro-fession. He was married, January 2, 1851, to ClarindaJ. Olive, daughter of Captain Robert Olive, of BooneCounty, by whom he has had six children, four boysand two daughters, all of whom are living except James. P^^vvuTTt^ frS^ZV^ CUL^Iy^yum <)lk Dist.\ REPRESEXTA TIVE MEN OE INDIANA. 5 R., who died at Washington City, in his twenty-secondyear, from lung disease, and was buried in the Congres-sional Cemetery in that city. He was a young man ofexcellent habits and decided promise. The otlier chil-dren, including Thomas J., who is reading law with hisfather, are living at home. Mr. Cason is a member ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church, a Republican inpolitics, and one of the leaders in the district and will be seen from the foregoing brief statement offacts that Judge Cason has been a man of universalprominence from a time almost antedating his the war he was an unswerving Union man, andwas detained from joining the army only by reasonof his health. That has been very poor all of hislife, and he never remembers the t
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