United States Congressional Serial Set Volume 2; 3142 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...when the committee organized, in July, 1888, and conducted the successful Presidential campaign of that year; was re-elected in 1893. His term of service will expire March 3,1899. REPRESENTATIVES. AT LARGE. Alexander McDowell, of Sharon, was born in Franklin, Venango County, Pennsylvania, in 1845; received a common-school education; is a printer by trade; has been engaged in the banking business since 1870; was elected to the Fifty-third Congress as a Republican to S. Mis. Sp. 14 represent the State at large, receiving 511,433 votes, against 447,456 votes for Merritt, Democrat, 22,930 votes for McCorey, Prohibition, 4,313 votesf or Dawson, People's party, and 635 votes for Grundy, Labor. William Lilly, of Mauch Chunk, was born at Penn Yan, Yates County, New York, June 3, 1821; removed with his father, Colonel William Lilly, to Carbon County, Pennsylvania, in 1838; was employed with the Beaver Meadow Railroad Company, the only steam railroad in the Lehigh Valley; soon afterwards became a conductor, and shortly thereafter was advanced to a position of trust in the administrative department of the road; at the age of twenty was elected Colonel of one of the militia regiments of the Lehigh Valley, and, subsequently, Brigadier-General, being the youngest man in the State who had attained so high an honor; was elected a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1850 and 1851; was a Democrat in politics until the autumn of 1862, when he became a working Republican and has remained such ever since; has attended six National Republican Conventions, either as delegate or alternate, and has been a member of every important Republican State Convention since 1863; is a strong protective-tariff man, and occupied the chair at the New York...