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 REDFIELD PROCTOR

, of Proctor, was born in Proctorsville, Vt., June 1, 1831; graduated at Dartmouth College and at the Albany Law School; served as lieutenant and quartermaster of the Third Regiment of Vermont Volunteers, on the staff of Maj.-Gen. William F. (“Baldy”) Smith, and was major of the Fifth and colonel of the Fifteenth Vermont Regiments; was a member of the Vermont house of representatives in 1867, 1868, and 1888; was a member of the State senate and president pro tempore of that body in 1874 and 1875; was lieutenant-governor from 1876 to 1878, and governor from 1878 to 1880; was a delegate to the Republican national convention of 1884, and chairman of the Vermont delegation in the same conventions of 1888 and 1896; was appointed Secretary of War by President Harrison in March, 1889; in November, 1891, he resigned from the Cabinet to accept the appointment as United States Senator, to succeed George F. Edmunds, and October 18, 1892, was elected by the Vermont legislature to fill both the unexpired and the full terms. His term of service will expire in 1899.