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Rh accordance with President. Johnson's proclamation in 1865, and was elected its president. In 1866 he was chosen governor for four years, but in 1867 he was removed from office by Gen. Philip H. Sheridan's orders. He was elected to congress, taking his seat on 6 Dec, 1875, and served through two terms. On 3 Dec, 1883, he re-entered the house, and in 1885 he was re-elected.

THROOP, Enos Thompson (troop), governor of New York, b. in Johnstown, Montgomery co., N. Y., 21 Aug., 1784 ; d. on his estate of Willow- brook, near Auburn. N. Y*., 1 Nov., 1874. lie re- ceived a classical education, studied law at Al- bany, and was admitted to the bar in 1806. Dur- ing his residence at Albany, he became acquainted with Mar- tin Van Buren, then also a law-student, and this acquaint- ance ripened into friendship. After ad- mission tothe bar, Mr. Throop began prac- tice at Auburn, soon became active in poli- tics as a member of the Republican par- ty, and was appoint- ed postmaster of the village, and in 1811 county clerk of Ca- yuga county. In 1814 he was elected a mem- ber of congress, as a supporter of the war measures of the administra- tion. He took part in the debates upon the impor- tant measures to which the close of the war and the grostration of public and private credit gave rise. [e also supported and voted for the act changing the compensation of congressmen from six dollars a day to $1,800 per annum, a course which temporari- ly clouded his political fortunes. Popular dissatis- faction with his action was such that he was defeated at the election of 1816, which was held in April of that year, and thereupon resigned his seat for the remainder of his unexpired term. In April, 1823, he was appointed one of the eight circuit judges for which the constitution of 1821 provided. In, induced chiefly by the solicitation of Martin Van Buren, Judge Throop consented to be placed upon the state ticket, as the Democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor, with Mr. Van Buren as the candidate for governor, a step which rendered it necessary for him to resign his judicial office. It was expected that Andrew Jackson would be elect- ed president at the same election, in which event Van Buren would be made secretary of state ; and the latter desired to leave the office of governor and the leadership of the party in the hands of a friend. These expectations were fulfilled, and Mr. Throop succeeded to the office of governor on 12 March, . He was re-elected governor in 1830. Dur- ing his first term the construction of the Chenango canal became one of the chief questions of state policy. He declared himself, in his message to the legislature, unalterably opposed to the plan. This step raised such a vehement opposition to him in the localities through which the proposed canal would pass, that in 1832 he declined to be present- ed as a candidate for a third term. In 1833 he was appointed by President Jackson naval officer at the port of New York, which office he held un- til 1838, when President Van Buren appointed him charge d'affaires of the United States to the king- dom of the Two Sicilies (Naples), where he remained until he was superseded in 1842. After spend- ing two years in Paris, he returned to the United States, and resided upon an estate on the banks of Owasco lake near Auburn, N. Y. In 1847 he removed to Michigan, where he purchased a farm of 800 acres, and became noted among agricul- turists. Advancing years compelled him to give up farming, and in 1857 he returned to his former home, removing in 1868 to New York city, but a few years later again returning to his residence near Auburn.— His nephew, Montgomery Hunt, lawyer, b. in Auburn, N. Y., 26 Jan., 1827, was educated in Geneva, Switzerland, and Naples, Italy, and at Hobart college ; studied law, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1848. He practised in Utica, N. Y., from 1851 till 1864, first in partnership with his uncle, Ward Hunt, and after 1856 with Roscoe Conkling, then in New York city till 1870, when he was appointed a commissioner to revise the statutes of the state. He acted as chairman of the commission, which prepared the New York code of civil procedure that was enacted partly in 1877 and partly in 1880. Since 1878, when the codification was ended, Mr. Throop has devoted himself to legal authorship, changing his residence in 1880 from New York city to Albany. He has published " The Future : a Political Essay " (New York, 1864) ; " Treatise on the Validity of Verbal Agreements " (Albany. 1870) ; " Annotated Code of Civil Procedure " (1880) ; " The New York Justice's Manual " (1880) ; " Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts " (1887) ; and " Revised Statutes of the State of New York " (8th ed., 1888).

THRUSTON, Charles Mynn (throo'-ston), soldier, b. in Gloucester county, Va., in 1738; d. near New Orleans, La., in 1812. He was educated at William and Mary college, and after prosecuting his theological studies in England was ordained to the ministry of the Episcopal church in Gloucester county. Subsequently he removed to Clarke county, and officiated in a church, near Shenandoah river, that is still standing. At the beginning of the Revolution he raised a company, was commissioned as captain, and badly wounded at Trenton. On his recovery he was appointed colonel, being known as the " warrior parson." After the war he was a judge and a member of the legislature, and in 1808 removed to Louisiana. — His son, Buckner, jurist, b. near Winchester, Va., in 1763 : d. in Washington, D. C, 30 Aug., 1845, received a classical education, emigrated in early life to Kentucky, and there studied law and was admitted to the bar. He practised in Frankfort, taking an active part in public affairs, and was elected U. S. senator in 1805, declining the post of U. S. judge of the territory of Orleans, to which he had been appointed immediately before. On 1 July, 1809, he resigned his seat in the senate to accept the appointment of U. S. judge for the District of Columbia, which office he held until his death. — Buckner's son, Charles Mynn, soldier, b. in Lexington, Ky., 22 Feb., 1789; d. in Cumberland, Md., 18 Feb., 1873, entered the U. S. military academy in 1813, and in July, 1814, was commissioned as lieutenant of artillery, and assigned to duty on Governor's island, New York harbor, where he was engaged in erecting fortifications till the close of the war with Great Britain. He became adjutant of his regiment in 1821, and during the Florida war in 1835-6 was acting adjutant-general of the Florida army. Resigning on 31 Aug., 1836, he settled on a farm at Cumberland, Md. He became president of a bank in 1838, and mayor in 1861. At the beginning of