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DE LEON

cuting attorney for the state, 1826-30. in a county adverse to his political views. He vt^as a Whig representative from the tenth Ohio district in the 29th congress, 1845-47, the Democratic candidate for governor carrying the district at the same election by a majority of 800. In May, 1846, he voted with John Quincy Adams and twelve other representatives against the famous declaration that 'war exists by an act of Mexico," and subsequently he defended his vote in an able speech upon v^hich Mr. Adams remarked, " There should not be in it a ' t ' crossed or an ' i ' dotted." In 1848 his name was proposed before the Whig state convention for the nomination as governor of Oliio, but he was defeated in convention by two votes. In 1850, having retired from the bar, he remov^ to New York city and became a member of the banking house of Delano, Durilev'y & Co., and after five years of successful business life he re- turned to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and engaged in gen- eral business and agriculture. In 1860 he was chosen a delegate to the Chicago convention, and seconded the nomination of Abraham Lincoln for the presidency. In 1861 he was appointed com- missary-general of the state of Ohio. In 1862 he was defeated in his candidacy for U.S. senator, receiving two votes less than were given to Benjamin Wade. In 1863 he was elected a repre- sentative in the 56th general assembly of Ohio, and in 1864 he was chairman of the Ohio delega- tion of the national convention at Baltimore, Md., which renominated Mr. Lincoln. He was a representative from the thirteenth Ohio district in the 39th congress, 1865-67, where he served as chairman of the committee on claims. He was a delegate to the Loyalists' convention at Philadelphia, in 1866. He successfully con- tested the seat of George W. Morgan in 1867 in the 40th congress, and served on the committee on foreign relations, and at the expiration of the term, refused to be again a candidate. As a representative, Mr. Delano was an advocate of a tariff for revenue only. He strongly opposed the claims of railroad companies for land grants and government subsidies. To his speech of July 24, 1866, was given the credit of carrjang the tariff bill of that session against what had been conceded the sense of the U.S. house of repre- sentatives. He was commissioner of internal revenue, 1869-70, and proved himself competent to contend successfully with the powerful whiskey ring then in existence. In 1870 President Grant appointed him secretary of the interior. He re- signed the portfolio in 1875 for the purpose of resuming his farming interests at Lakehome, his country residence near Mt. Vernon, Ohio. He was a trustee of Kenyon college and received from that institution the honorary degree of LL.D.

He endowed Delano Hall, a grammar school con- nected with the college. He died at Mount Ver- non, Ohio, Oct. 23, 1896.

DE LANG, Milton, representative, was born in Wampsville, Madison county, N.Y., Aug. 11. 1844. He was a merchant for eight years in his native town; was town clerk, 1867-69; was sheriff of Madison county, 1873-75, and 1879-81 ; and afterward engaged in banking and real estate business, and in manufacturing. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1884 and represented the twenty-sixth district of New York in the 50th and 51st congresses, 1887-91.

DE LARGE, Robert C, representative, was born in Aiken, fi.C, March 15, 1842. He was brought up as a farmer and after the civil war was appointed agent of the Freedmen's bureau, serving for one year from May, 1867. In 1868 he was a member of the state constitutional convention and represented his district in the state legislature, 1868-70. He was commissioner of the state sinking fund and state land commis- sioner, 1870-71 ; Republican representative from Charleston in the 42d congress, 1871-73, and trial justice for several years. He died in Charleston, S.C, Feb. 15, 1874.

DE LAWARRE, or DELAWARE, Thomas West, governor of Virginia, became third Lord De Lawarre in 1602. In 1609 he received an appointment as governor and captain-general of Virginia, and on his arrival in that colony found the people in a state of poverty and dis- order. He used his property freely for the good of the colony which he soon restored to pros- perity. Early in 1611 he started on a trip to the West Indies for the benefit of his health, but was storm stayed at the Indian settlement Chickohockie, the name of which was changed to Delaware, in honor of his visit. He was suc- ceeded in the governorship by Argall whose ad- ministration so disgusted the colonists that they sent for Lord De Lawarre to return. He sailed for Virginia but died at sea, June 7, 1618.

DE LEON, David Camden, surgeon, was born at Camden, S.C, in 1813; the eldest son of Dr. M. Hendricks and Rebecca (Lopez) De Leon, and grandson of John Jacob and Hanna (Hend- ricks) De Leon. He was descended on both sides from old Spanish families, who removed to the West Indies and thence to South Carolina about the middle of the eighteenth century. The De Leon family furnished officers to the army or navy in the Revolution, the war of 1812, and the Florida, Mexican and civil wars. David Camden was graduated from the South Carolina college, in 1833. Following the ex- ample of his father and uncle, who were both distinguished physicians, he was graduated from