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pursued an academic course : returned to Virginia in 18S4 and edited and pulslished a Democratic newspaper for a number of years ; member of the Democratic State Central Committee, and chairman of the fourth congressional district committee ; elected in i8yi a member of the general as- sembly; register of the land office 1895-97; presented credentials as a member-elect in the fifty-fifth congress and served from March 4, 1897, until March 3, 1898, when he was succeeded by Robert T. Thorp, who contested his election ; elected to the fifty- sixth congress and served from March 4, 1899, until his death in Washington, D. C, March 3, 1900.

Flood, Henry Delaware, born at Appo- mattox county, Virginia, September 2, 1865, son of Joel W. Flood, a prominent farmer of the county, who served as major four years under Lee; attended the schools of Appo- mattox and Richmond, Washington and Lee University, and the University of Vir- ginia ; began the practice of law on Septem- ber 15, 1886; elected to the house of dele- gates of the general assembly of Virginia in 1887 and re-elected in 1889; elected to the state senate in 1891, and re-elected in 1895 and in 1899. In the senate he introduced a bill placing the state department of agri- culture upon a stronger basis ; and the bill authorizing the attorney-general to bring suit against the state of West Virginia for her pro rata share of the old state debt ; and he was made one of the commissioners elected by the legislature to carry out the provisions of the bill, and whose labors re- sulted in the consequent litigation, just recently ended. Elected attorney for the commonwealth of Appomattox county in

1891, 1895 and 1899; presidential elector on the Cleveland and Stevenson ticket in 1892 ; nominated for congress by the Democratic party in i8g6 and defeated ; elected as a Democrat to the fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first con- gresses and re-elected to the sixty-second congress (March 4, 1901-March 3, 191 1) ; he is still a member (1915) ; was author of reso- lution admitting Arizona and New Mexico to statehood. He was a member of the constitutional convention in 1901. His ad- dress is Appomattox, Virginia.

Fulkerson, Abram, born in Washington county, Virginia, May 13, 1834; was gradu- ated from the Virginia Military Institute; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced; entered the Confederate service in March, 1861, as a captain; promoted to major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel ; elected to the house of delegates of Vir- t;inia in 1871-1873, and to the senate of \irginia in 1877-1879; elected as a Read- juster CO the forty-seventh congress (March .-., t88i-March 3, 1883) I resumed the prac- tice of law after leaving congress: died at Bristol, Virginia, December 17, 1902.

Gaines, William Embre, born in Charlotte county, Virginia, August 30, 1844; attended the common schools ; when the civil war broke out in ]86i ; enlisted as a private in Company K, Eighteenth Virginia Regiment (Pickett's Division) ; re-enlisted in the Army of the Cape Fear and surrendered with Johnson, near Greensboro, North Carolina, in April, 1865, having attained the rank of adjutant of Manly's Artillery Battalion; en- gaged in business in banking in Burkeville, Virginia ; elected as a Republican to the Vir- ginia state senate in 1883, and served three