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 JULIUS C. BURROWS

, of Kalamazoo, was born at Northeast, Erie County, Pa., January 9, 1837; received a common school and academic education; by profession a lawyer; was an officer in the Union Army 1862–64; prosecuting attorney of Kalamazoo County 1865–67; appointed supervisor of internal revenue for the States of Michigan and Wisconsin in 1867, but declined the office; elected a Representative to the Forty-Third, Forty-Sixth, and Forty-Seventh Congresses; appointed solicitor of the United States Treasury Department by President Arthur in 1884, but declined the office; elected a delegate at large from Michigan to the national Republican convention at Chicago in 1884; elected to the Forty-Ninth. Fiftieth, and Fifty-First Congresses; twice elected Speaker pro tempore of the House of Representatives during the Fifty-First Congress, and was elected to the Fifty-Second and Fifty-Third Congresses and reëlected to the Fifty-Fourth Congress as a Republican by over 13,000 plurality; resigned his seat in the House January 23, 1895, to assume the office of United States Senator from Michigan, to which he had been elected by the legislature, to fill out the unexpired term of Francis B. Stockbridge, deceased, and took his seat in the Senate the same day. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899.