US Congressman, US Senator. In 1856, he was a principle and teacher at the Madison Seminary in Lake County. It is here that he meet his first wife Jennie Hibbard, also a teacher at the Seminary. A lawyer who practiced first in Ohio, then in Michigan, during the Civil War he helped raise a company for the Union army that became Company D, 17th Michigan Volunteer Infantry. Commissioned its Captain and commander on August 8, 1862, he served until he was honorably mustered out on June 25, 1863. After the war he served as Kalamazoo County, Michigan's prosecuting attorney for four years. In 1872 was elected as a Republican to represent Michigan's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1873 to 1875. It would be the first of three separate terms he would be elected to for the District, serving again from 1879 to 1883, and from 1885 to 1893. In 1892 re-districting would see him run for and be elected as the Representative for the 3rd Congressional District, but he would only served until January 1893, when he resigned after being appointed as a United States Senator from Michigan to the United States Senate, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Francis B. Stockbridge. He would serve from 1893 to 1911, being re-elected on his own right twice. He died in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1915.
US Congressman, US Senator. In 1856, he was a principle and teacher at the Madison Seminary in Lake County. It is here that he meet his first wife Jennie Hibbard, also a teacher at the Seminary. A lawyer who practiced first in Ohio, then in Michigan, during the Civil War he helped raise a company for the Union army that became Company D, 17th Michigan Volunteer Infantry. Commissioned its Captain and commander on August 8, 1862, he served until he was honorably mustered out on June 25, 1863. After the war he served as Kalamazoo County, Michigan's prosecuting attorney for four years. In 1872 was elected as a Republican to represent Michigan's 4th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1873 to 1875. It would be the first of three separate terms he would be elected to for the District, serving again from 1879 to 1883, and from 1885 to 1893. In 1892 re-districting would see him run for and be elected as the Representative for the 3rd Congressional District, but he would only served until January 1893, when he resigned after being appointed as a United States Senator from Michigan to the United States Senate, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Francis B. Stockbridge. He would serve from 1893 to 1911, being re-elected on his own right twice. He died in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1915.
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