Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1826, Oct. 31 | Born, Stewartville, Richmond County, N.C. |
| 1837 | Moved with family to Connecticut |
| 1847 | Graduated with honors, Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. |
| 1850 | Admitted to Connecticut bar and commenced practice |
| 1852 | Delegate to the national convention of the Free Soil Party Editor, Charter Oak, an abolitionist journal |
| 1855 | Married Harriet Ward Foote |
| 1856 | Helped organize Connecticut Republican Party |
| 1857 | Editor, Hartford Evening Press |
| 1861 | Commissioned a captain in the First Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry; promoted to lieutenant colonel of the Seventh Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers |
| 1862 | Colonel, Seventh Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers |
| 1864 | Brigadier general of United States Volunteers |
| 1865 | Brevetted major general of United States Volunteers |
| 1866 | Discharged from the army Elected governor of Connecticut |
| 1867 | Editor, Hartford Courant |
| 1868 | Chairman, Republican national convention, Chicago, Ill. |
| 1872 | Elected to the Forty-Second Congress to fill vacancy caused by death of Julius L. Strong |
| 1872-1876 | President, United States Centennial Commission |
| 1874 | Defeated for reelection to the United States House of Representatives |
| 1879-1881 | Member, United States House of Representatives |
| 1881-1905 | Member, United States Senate |
| 1904 | Declined renomination as senatorial candidate |
| 1905, Mar. 17 | Died, Washington, D.C. |