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EDMUND WINSTON PETTUS of Alabama United States Senator for the term commencing March 4, 1897; after his nomination the opposition to his election was merely nominal; received the entire vote of his party, and more; never was, before, a candidate for any political office; has been a delegate to all of the Democratic national conventions, except the first and last, since the war, and when a delegate was chairman of the Alabama delegation. On the 27th of June, 1844, Mr. Pettus married Mary L. Chapman, daughter of Judge Samuel Chapman, of Alabama. Of their six children, three sons died in early infancy; and two daughters and one son now live in Alabama. Mrs. Pettus is now with her husband in Washington, and is in perfect health.