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 RICHARD ROLLAND KENNEY

, of Dover, was born in Sussex County, Del., September 9, 1856; graduated from Laurel Academy, Delaware, June, 1874; attended Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y.; read law under the tuition of the late Senator Willard Saulsbury, of Dover; was admitted to the bar October 19, 1881, and has practiced his profession since; was elected State librarian in January, 1879, and held that office for two terms; was appointed adjutant-general of the State by Governor B. T. Diggs, January, 1887, and retired from that office at the end of his term, January, 1891; was delegate to the national Democratic convention at Chicago in 1892; was made a member of the national Democratic committee in 1896, which position he still holds; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat January 19, 1897, to fill the vacancy caused by the legislature of 1895 failing to elect a Senator to succeed the Hon. Anthony Higgins, whose term expired March 4, 1895. He took his seat February 5, 1897. His term of service will expire March 8, 1901.