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 CUSHMAN KELLOGG DAVIS

, of St. Paul, was born in Henderson, Jefferson County, N. Y., June 16, 1838; received a common-school and collegiate education, graduating from the University of Michigan in June, 1857; is a lawyer by profession; was first lieutenant in the Twenty-Eighth Wisconsin Infantry 1862–64; was a member of the Minnesota legislature in 1867; was United States District Attorney for Minnesota 1868–73; was governor of Minnesota 1874–75; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed S. J. R. McMillan, Republican, and took his seat March 4, 1887; was reëlected in 1893; was a member of the commission which met at Paris, September, 1898, to arrange terms of peace between the United States and Spain. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.