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ent of public schools, ami in 1848 was admitted to the bar. He stumpeil the state for Gen. ZacJiary Taylor m 1848; and declined the noui- iuation of his party for state senator in 1849, and for governor of the state in 1850. He was the first president of Iowa Wesleyau university and also tilled the chair of mental and moral .sciences, 1853-.>"). He was U.S. senator, 1855-05, and re- signed his seat during tiie s])ecial session of the senate. May 13, 1865, to take his .seat in tiie cabinet of President Johnson as secretary i;f the interior, liaving been nominate I l>y Piesident Lincoln in March, 1865. He was again elected to the senate in 1866 and resigned from the cabinet, March 4, 1867, to take his seat for a third senatorial term. He was a candidate for a fourth term, but was defeated by W. B. Allison. At the close of his term, March 3. 1873, he retired to his home at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. He was presiding judge of the court of commissioners of Alabama claims, 1883-85. His fame as an orator and debater was second only to Webster and .Sumner, and in there- ply to the latter in the Santo Domingo question his speech attracted wide attention as an example of convincing oratory. He was for a time editor of the Washington Chronicle. He received the degree of LL.D. from Indiana Asbuiy (Dejiauw) university in 1858. Senator Harlan's mother died in 1896 in Park count}-, Ind., aged one hun dred years and five months. He died in Mt. Pleastint, Iowa. Oct. 5, ISOO.

HARLAN, John Marshall, jurist, was born in Boyle county, Ky., Jime 1, 1833; son of the Hon. James (1800-1863) and Mary Harlan; and grand- son of James Harlan. He was graduated from Centre college, Kentucky, in 1850, stvulied in the law department of Transylvania university, and was admitted to the bar in 1853. He was married Dec. 23, 1856, toMalvina F., daugh- ter of John Shank- lin of EvaiLsville, Ind. In 1858 he was elected judge of the Franklin county court, holding the of- fice one year. In 1859 iie was nominated as the candidate of the Whig party for the office of re]jre-

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"^ and failed of elec- tion by sixty seven votes. The next year he was on the Bell and Everett electoral ticket in Ken- tucky, and following that election he removed to Louisville, in 1861, and became associated in the practice of law with the Hon. W. F. Bullock.

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When the civil war broke out he took an active part in the support of the Union cau.se. He raised the 10th Kentucky volunteer infantry, one of the regiments constituting the original division c4" Gen. George H. Thomas, and remaii.ed in acti^e service in the field until the death of his father in February, 1863, when he resigned, his presence being required at home. At this time his nomi- nation for brigadier -general was before the senate, but he was compelled to rem;; in in civil life. He was attorney general of Kent i.cky, 1863- 67, anil then resumed his law practice in Louis- ville. In 1871 and 1875 he was defeated as the Republican candidate for governor of Kentucky. He served as a member of the Louisiana commis- sion in 1877, and on Nov. 29, 1877, was commis- sioned as associate justice of the U.S. supreme court, in place of David Davis, resigned. He was connected with the Columbian iiniveisit\% Wash ington, D.C., as professor of the constitutional jurisprudence, 1889-91; professor of public and private international law, 1890-91; and professor of the constitutional jurisprudence of the United States, of the law of domestic relations, of com- mercial paper and of torts after 1891. In 1892 lie was appointed by President Harrison a mt r. l-er of the Bering Sea tribunal of arbitration. He re- ceived the degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin in 1883, and from Centre college, Kentucky, and the College ot New Jersey in 1884.

HARLAN, Richard, physician, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 19, 1796. He attended school in his native city, studied medicine, and made a voyage to Calcutta as ship's surgeon. He was graduated from the medical de}iartment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1818, and set- tled in Philadelphia, where in 1821 he was made professor of comparative anatomj- in the Museum. He was on the board of cholera commissioners in 1832 and at one time was surgeon to the city hospital. He went to Europe in 1839 and remained abroad till 1843. He then removed to New Orleans, and the same j'ear was elected vice- president of the Louisiana medical society. He was a member of other professional and learned organizations in the United States and Europe. He is the author of: Ohscrvnditnn an the Genus Sal- amandni (1824); Fauna Americana (1825); Amer- ican llerpetoloejy (1827); Medical and Physical liesearches (1835); and published a translation < f History of Embalming by Gannal (1840). He died in New Orleans, La., Sept. 30, 1843.

HARLAND, Henry, author. Avas born in St. Petersburg, Russia, March 1, 18C1 He attended the College of tiie city of New York and also Harvard university, but was not graduated. He was employed in the office of tfie surrogate of New York, 1883-86, and then devoted him.self to literary pursuits, writing under the pen-name