BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.



THE WISCONSIN CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION, STATE
        OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE SENATE
                       AND ASSEMBLY,

    WITH DISTRICTS, IIOE rOST-OFTICES AND BIOGRArHICAL SKETCHES.



              MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
                           SEATO0S.

  ANGUS CAMERON, of La Crosse, was born at Caledonia, Livingston
county, New York, July 4, 1826; received an academic education; studied
law at Buffalo, in that state, and graduated at the National Law School,
Ballston Spa; removed to La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1857; was a member of
the state senate of Wisconsin in 1863, '64, '71 and '72; was a member of
the
legislative assembly of Wisconsin in 1866 and '67, and was speaker in 1857;
was a member of the National Republican Convention at Baltimore in 1864;
was one of the regents of the University of Wisconsin from 1866 to 1875;
was
elected to the United States Senate by the votes of Republicans, Democrats
and Liberals to succeed Matthew H. Carpenter, and took his seat March 4,
1875. His term of service will expire March 3, 1881.
  MATTHEW     H. CARPENTER, of Milwaukee, was born in Moretown,
  Vermont, in 1824; entered the Military Academy, at West Point, in 1842,
and
  remained there two years; studied law with Rufus Choate, and was admitted
  to the bar; removed to Wisconsin in 1848, and entered upon the practice
of
  his profession; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican,
  and took his seat March 4, 1869, and served until March 4, 1875, serving
as
  president pro tern. a portion of his term; and elected again in 1879 for
the
  term expiring March 3, 1885, receiving 84 votes in joint legislative conven-
  tion, January 22, against 28 for Edward G. Ryan (Dem.) and 13 for Gabriel
  Bouck (Greenbacker).
                     JRfEPRESEX YTA TI, ES.
                          -First District.
       Racine, Kenosha, Walwortb, Rock and Waukesha counties.
  CHARLES G. WILLIAMS, of Janesville, was born at Royalton, Niagara
county, Neew York, October 1S, 1829; received an academic education; is by
profession a Lawyer; he came to Wisconsin in 1856, and settled at Janesville;
was elected a presidential elector in 1868, and elected to the State senate
in
the same year, and was re-elected in 1870, and was twice chosen president
pro tempore of that body; was elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth