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 1 88 DUDLEY. DUDLEY. very heated, some soldiers who were in sympathy with the president's policy called a convention of ex-union soldiers and sailors who favored Mr. Johnson, to meet at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Dudley read the call, and then arranged for a convention of the veterans who favored the policy of Congress, to meet in Pittsburgh, Pa. This last was unanimously approved by the soldiers' union. It resulted in congratu- latory epistles pouring in from every sec- tion of the country, and his unanimous call to the chair in that enormous gather- ing of the country's defenders, to which he was escorted by General Benjamin F. Butler and General J. F. Farnsworth of Illinois. His popularity at this meeting was in no small degree due to the fact that it had been suggested to him by the secretary of the treasury, Hon. Hugh Mc- Culloch, that if he refrained from attend- ing the convention he would continue to hold his position in the treasury depart- ment. He resigned his position, and went. Returning to Washington, Mr. Dudley entered the employment of the " Great Republic," then published by Hon. G. F. Edmunds. He was active in forming equal suffrage leagues, an active worker in the organization of the G. A. R. ; was secre- tary of the ist national encampment, and there elected adjutant-general, but de- clined the office in favor of another. He was the first commander of the department of the Potomac, G. A. R., and organized posts and departments in all the states east of the Alleghanies. From 1867 to '71 he was engaged in party work with the Republican congres- sional committee, on the " Richmond State Journal," and in the reconstruction cam- paign in Virginia. He was military sec- retary and aide-de-camp to the governor of Virginia with the rank of colonel. While in Richmond he was admitted to the bar as attorney and counselor-at-law, and to the bar of the supreme court of the United States in 1S89. In 187 1 he removed to New York City, and was for a time traveling salesman for a crockery house. He took part in the Grant cam- paign of 1872, and in the fall of that year was appointed superintendent of Indian affairs for the territory of New Mexico. He remained in this office until it was abolished in 1S74. He was afterwards special commissioner of Indian affairs, and later on, clerk in the post-office department in Washington. In 1877 Colonel Dudley returned to his former home, in Boston, and was soon made superintendent of the Lamina Wood Company. In 1S82 he was elected to the secretaryship of the Law and Order League of Massachusetts, which position he still holds. He is also secretary of the National Law and Order League. In 18S4 he founded a weekly paper — the "Law and Order " — and edited it himself for two years. He is still a frequent contributor to magazines and the general press, on the law and order movement, the temperance question, the Indian problem, and social and economic questions. Colonel Dudley is a lineal descendant in the seventh generation from the famous Governor Thomas Dudley, who had the somewhat remarkable honor of being called upon to serve the Commonwealth under the first charter, as deputy-governor or governor eighteen years, he being the nominee at eight different elections. DUDLEY, LEWIS JOEL, was born in Guilford, New Haven county, Conn., No- vember n, 1815. He is the son of Joel and Harriet (Griswold) Dudley. He was brought up on a farm remote from the centre of the town, and put to work there- on at a very early age, attending the dis- trict school only in winter. He began the preparation for college at the Guilford Academy at the age of seven- teen ; continued the same at the academy of Worthington Village in Berlin, Conn., and entered Yale College at the age of nineteen. After graduation he taught the Lewis Academy in Southington, Conn., for one year, the Brainard Academy at Haddam, Conn., the next year, ami in 1840 became tutor at Yale. Meanwhile he attended Dr. Taylor's lectures on theology, moral government, and mental philosophy, in repeated courses. Leaving the tutorship in 1846, he spent the next year in the Yale law school, and hav- ing previously attended the lectures, re- ceived the degree of 1. 1.. 1!, in 1847. He passed the following year in the law office of Hungerford & Cone at Hartford, and was admitted to the bar in 1848. In 1849, at the suggestion of a high offi- cial at Yale, he opened a classical school at Northampton, Mass., to prepare pupils for college. This school was a success, and continued to flourish fourteen years, having pupils from almost every state in the Union. It was suspended in 1862 for reasons at- tributable to the then raging civil war. Mr. Dudley devoted his energies to the enlistment of the Northampton quota of soldiers, and to their comfort in the field.