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Rh union-republican ticket. He was a delegate to the republican national convention in 1868, which nominated General Grant for president; was elected to the legislature in 1872 from Marion County, as a republican, and served as speaker of the house at that session. He was appointed United States attorney for the district of Oregon by President Grant in 1874, reappointed in 1878 by President Hayes, and has since the expiration of his term held no other public office. He has at all times been an able exponent of the soundest views of his party and an interesting advocate of its principles. He is a successful and able lawyer in every field of professional endeavor, and a man free from hypocrisy, deception, or any species of indirection.

Joseph S. Smith, democrat, was elected in 1868 over David Logan, republican, to succeed Mr. Mallory, and served from March 4, 1869, to March 3,1871. Mr. Smith was born June 20, 1824, in the State of Pennsylvania. He came to Oregon and located at Oregon City in the year 1845, where he was admitted to the bar, and in 1853 removed to Puget Sound, where he was elected prosecuting attorney for the third judicial district, and where, in 1855, he was elected to the territorial legislature and chosen speaker. He was appointed United States attorney for the territory of Washington by President Buchanan, and at the expiration of his term of office removed to Salem in 1858, where he became connected with many large manufacturing interests. In the year 1870 he removed to Portland, Oregon, which continued to be his home until his death in 1884. While a member of congress he was largely influential in securing the passage of the joint resolution of 1870, which authorized the construction of the main line of the Northern Pacific Railroad down the Columbia River to a point at or near Portland, and conferred upon this company an additional grant of land