Born November 25, 1817, at Malden-on-Hudson, N. Y. Graduated from Union College in 1835, and was admitted to the bar in 1839. In 1849 he became joint proprietor with William Cullen Bryant and managing editor of the New York Evening Post. In 1861 he was appointed Consul at Paris, by President Lincoln; in December, 1864, Charge d'Affaires, and in April, 1865, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of France, where he remained until the close of the Civil War. In 1874 chairman of the commission to investigate the management of the New York State canals; elected Secretary of State in 1875, and appointed by President Cleveland, sole United States Commissioner to the International Exposition of Sciences and Industry, at Brussels, 1888. He is chairman of the "Tilden Trust;" a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a vice-president of the Century Association and honorary member of the New York Chamber of Commerce. He resides, when in New York City, at 21 Gramercy Park.

(Democrat Eighth Senate District.)

Born May, 1857, in New York City. He was educated in the public schools, St. Francis Xavier College, St. Mary's College, Niagara Falls, and graduated at Columbia College Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1878. He was elected to represent the Sixth Congressional District in Congress in 1888. In 1889 he was elected Register of the City and County of New York, and in 1892 he was elected Surrogate of New York County for the term of fourteen years. He resides at 52 Beach street, New York City.

Born May 20, 1855, in Germany, and came to this country in his infancy. He was educated at St. Nicholas Parochial School, Fifth Street Public School and the De La Salle Institute, and was admitted to the bar in 1877. He was Member of Assembly in 1887, and in July of same year, President Cleveland appointed him Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third New York District. In March, 1890, Governor Hill appointed him to fill a vacancy on the City Court Bench, and in November, 1890, he was elected County Clerk of New York County, which office he resigned in November, 1891, to accept an appointment by Governor Hill to the Court of Common Pleas Bench in place of Judge Allen, deceased. In 1892 he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the full term of fourteen years, on a nomination by both the Republican and Democratic parties. He has been a resident of the Eleventh Ward of New York City during the past thirty-four years, in which he still resides at No. 267 Sixty-seventh street.