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 WILLIAM LINDSAY

, of Frankfort, was born in Rockbridge County, Va., September 4, 1835; settled in Clinton, Hickman County, Ky., in November, 1854; commenced the practice of law in 1858; served in the Confederate army continuously from July, 1861, till May, 1865; was paroled as prisoner of war at Columbus, Miss., May 16, 1865; resumed the practice of law in Hickman County, Ky., in the autumn of 1865; was elected State senator for the Hickman district in August, 1867; was elected judge of the Kentucky court of appeals in August, 1870, and served till September, 1878; from September, 1876, until September, 1878, was chief justice of the court; has practiced law in Frankfort. Ky., since September. 1878; was elected State senator for the Frankfort district in August, 1889; was appointed and served as a member of the World's Columbian Commission, for the country at large, from the organization of the commission until February 20, 1893; was appointed and confirmed as member of the Interstate Commerce Commission in January, 1892, but declined to accept the appointment; was elected United States Senator on February 14, 1893, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John G. Carlisle, and was reëlected in January, 1894, for the full term commencing March 4, 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.