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 ROGER Q. MILLS

, of Corsicana, was born in Todd County, Ky., March 30, 1832; removed to Texas in 1849; is a lawyer; was a member of the Texas legislature in 1859 and 1860; was colonel of the Tenth Texas Regiment; was elected to Congress as a Democrat in 1873 and served continuously until he resigned to accept the position of United States Senator, to which he was elected March 23, 1892, to succeed Hon. Horace Chilton, who had been appointed by the governor to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. John H. Reagan until the meeting of the legislature; took his seat March 30, 1892; was reëlected in 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.