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  practiced law in Cleveland, Ohio; came to Wisconsin in 1857; entered the
  Union rrmy as colonel of the fourth Wisconsin volunteers in 1861; was pro-
  moted to the rank of brigadier general for distinguished services in the
war
  for the suppression of the rebelliop, and of major general by brevet for
gal-
  lantry in the assault on Port Hudson, May 27, 1863 ; was elected to the
thirty-
  ninth and fortieth Congresses, and was re-elected to the forty-first Congress
  as a Republican, receiving 17,513 votes, against 17,0834 votes for Mitchell,
Dem-
  ocrat.

  Second District.-Coiumbia, Dane, Jefferson, and Rock counties.
  DAVID ATWOOD, of Madison, Wis., was born at Bedford, New Hamp-
  shire, December 15,01815; received a common school education, and became
  an apprentice to the printing business in Hamilton, New York, in 1832.
From
  1839 till after the election, in November, 1844, in connection with a brother,
  he published! a Whig peper entitled the "Hamilton Palladium."
In the win-
  ter of 1845, he removed permanently to the west, and first settled on a
farm,
  nesr Freeport, Illinois. In 1847, he took up his residence in Madison,
and
  ever since that time, has been editcr and publisher of the "State
Journal" at
  the Capital of Wisconsin. H1 was a member of the Legislature in 1861;
  United States Assessor for four years, commencing with the organization
of
  the Internal Revenue Department, in 1862, and Mayor of the city of Madison
  in 1868. On the 15th of February, 1870, he was elected a member of the
  forty-first Congress, as a republican, without organized opposition, to
fill the
  vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. B. F. Hopkins, which occutred on
  the 1st day of January, 1870.
  Thtrd District.-Crawford, Grant, Green, Iowa, LaFayette, Richland and Sauk
      counties.
   AM1ASA COBB, of Mineral Point, was born in Crawford county, Illinois,
 September 27, 1823; receivwd a public school education; cam- to Wisconsin
 Territory in 1842; was engaged in lead mining; served in the United States
 army as a private in the Mexican war, during which he studied law, and after-
 wards commenced practice ; was district attorney from 1850 until 1854; was
a
 member of the State Senate of Wisconsin in 1855 and 1856; was adjutant
 general of Wisconsin from 1855 until 1858; was a member of the Assembly
 in  1860  and   1861, serving  the  last  year  as   speaker;  entered
 the Union army as colonel of the fifth Wisconsin volunteers, which he had
 raised, and subsequently, during a recess of Congress, as colonel of the
forty-
 third Wisconsin volunteers, which he had also raised, serving with such
gal-
 lantry as to receive the brevet rank of Brigadier General; was elected to
the
 thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, and fortieth Congresses, and was re-elected
to the
 forty-first Congress as a republican, receiving .17,903 votes, against 11,162
 votes for Pas-more, democrat.
 Fourth -District.-Dodge, Fond du Lac, Ozaukee, Sheboygan and Washington

      counties.
  CHARLES A. ELDREDGE, of Fond du Lac, was born at Bridport, Ver-
mont, February 27, l8ti; went with his parents to New York; studied and
practiced law; settled in Wisconsin in 1848: was a member of the State senate