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 McENERY

McEWAN

not permitted to fill the position owing to the appointment of a military commander for that department. He was a representative in the Louisiana legislature, 186.1-67, and was chairman of the committee on public improvements. He was a delegate to the Democratic national con- vention at New York, July 4, 1868, and was elected governor of Louisiana in 1873, but was unseated by order of the President, his Republi- can opponent, William Pitt Kellogg, being seated. For four years Governor McEnery endeavored to gain possession of the government, and the po- litical controversy brought about an armed col- lision in the streets of New Orleans, Sept. 14, 1874, but the Kellogg government, owing to fed- eral support, continued to hold the state offices. He was recorder of mortgages for New Orleans, 1877-81 ; a delegate-at-large from Louisiana to the Democratic national convention at Cincin- nati, June 22, 1880, and was also appointed in 1880 agent to locate and survey the swamp lands claimed by the state, his compensation being fixed at one-half the .swamp lands recovered. He practised law at New Orleans, La., and at Washington, D.C, until his death. He died at New Orleans, La., March 28, 1891.

McENERY, Samuel Douglas, senator, was born in Monroe, La., May 28, 1837 ; son of Henry O'Neil and Caroline (Douglas) McEnery. He at- tended Spring Hill college, near Mobile, Ala., the U.S. Naval academy, Annapolis, Md., and the Uni- versity of Virginia, and was graduated from the

State and National Law school, Pough- keepsie, N. Y., in 1859. He entered the Con- federate army with the first company of volunteers formed at Monroe, La., and served as lieutenant throughout the war. He returned to his native town in 1865 ; taught school ; studied the Louisiana system of law, and settled in practice as an attorney. He took a leading part as a Democrat in all the po- litical movements in northern Louisiana. He was married June 27, 1878, to Elizabeth, daughter of C. W. Phillips, a cotton planter in Ouachita par- ish. La. He was elected lieutenant-governor, with Louis A. Wiltz as governor, for the term 1880-84, and when Governor Wiltz died in Octo- ber, 1881, he filled out his unexpired term as gov- ernor and was elected for the term 1884-88. During his administration of over six years he

rebuilt the levees, re-established in a great meas- ure the fiscal credit of the state, improved the public-school system, and organized the farmers for the protection and advancement of agricul- tural interests. He was defeated for re-nomina- tion in 1888 by Francis I. Nicholls, who as governor appointed him associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana, in which office he served 1888-97. He was nominated for governor at the regular Democratic state con- vention in 1891, but the ticket was defeated by the Anti-Lottery pai'ty. He was elected U.S. senator in 1896 for the term expiring March 3, 1903, taking his seat March 4, 1897, and on May 22, 1900, he was unanimously elected to be his own successor for the term ending March 4, 1909.

McENTEE, Jervis, painter, was born in Ron- dout, N.Y., July 14, 1828. He received his early education at Clinton Liberal institute, N.Y. He evinced ability as an artist, and was instructed in painting by Frederic E. Church, of New York city, 1850-51. He engaged in mercantile pursuits in Rondout, 1851-55 ; visited the Catskills on sketching tours, and in 1858 opened a studio in New York city. His first exhibit was at ti)e Na- tional Academy of Design in 1853 ; and he was elected an associate academician in 1860, and an academician in 1861. He visited Europe in 1869, studied in the principal art galleries on the con- tinent, and sketched in Italy and Switzerland. Up to 1860 he had devoted himself wholly to landscape, but from that year gave much atten- tion to figure painting. He was married in 1851 to Gertrude, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Jefferson and Caroline Mehetable (Fisher) Sawyer (q.v.). Among his principal pictures are: T]te Melanclioly Days Have Come (1860), owned b}- the National Academy ; Indian Summer (1861); Lctte Autumn (1863); Virginia in 1863 (1867), in the Paris Exposition of 1872; October Snow (1870); Venice (1870); Scribners Mill (1871); Sea from Shore (1873); Autumn, Old Mill in Winter, Autumn Day, Wood Path, and Cape Ann (1874); A Song of Summer (1876); Winter in the Moun- tains (1878); Clouds (1879); The Edge of a Wood and November (1880); Kaatskill River (1881); Autumn Memory (1883); Shadou's of Autumn, The Kaatskills in Winter and Yellow Autumn Woods (1884): ChHstmas Eve and Sundoirn in Winter (1885); Winter Morning (1886), and A Cliff in the Catskills (1888). He died in Rondout, N.Y., Jan. 27, 1891.

McEWAN, Thomas, representative, was born in Paterson, N.J., Feb. 26, 1854 ; son of Tiiomas and Hannah (Ledget) McEwan, and grandson of Jolm and Janet (Parke) McEwan, and of Isaac and Elizabeth (Grant) Ledget of county Down, Ireland. He attended the public schools of