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 NELSON W. ALDRICH

, of Providence, was born at Foster, R. I., November 6, 1841; received an academic education; is engaged in mercantile pursuits; was president of the Providence common council in 1871–73; was a member of the Rhode Island general assembly in 1875–76, serving the latter year as speaker of the house of representatives; was elected to the House of Representatives of the Forty-Sixth and reëlected to the Forty-Seventh Congress; was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed Ambrose E. Burnside, Republican; took his seat December 5, 1881, and was reëlected in 1886 and in 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.