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was urged to accept the nomination on the Whig ticket, but he again refused. His name was con- sidered for president by the Free Soil party at Buffalo. Aug. 9, 1848; and by the Whig national convention at Baltimore, June 16, 1852; and by the Republican national convention at Chicago, May 16, 1860. He was twice married, (irst in 1807 to Rebecca, daughter of Dr. Edwards of Virginia, who died in December, 1840, and secondly in 1843 to Sarah Bella (Ludlow) Garrard, widow of Col. Jephtha Garrard and a daughter of Israel and [Jharlotte (Chambers) Ludlow. The honorary de- a^ee of LL.D. was conferred on him by Wesleyan university. Conn., in 18;}5, and by Harvard col- lege in 1839. He was made an honorary mem- t)er of the New England Historic Genealogical jociety, Oct. 15, 1850 He delivered many ad- iresses, and published Reports of the United States Circuit Court (6 vols., 1829-55). He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 4, 1861.

McLEANt John, senator, was born in North Carolina in 1791. He received a limited education in the sch<x)ls of Logan county, Ky., where he liad removed with his father in 1795. He was admitted to the bar and practised in Shawnee- town. III., 1815-30. He was the first representa- tive from Illinois elected to congress and served in the 15th congress, 1817-19. Ho was a repre- sentative in the state legislature in 1820 and upon the resignation of Vivian Edwards from the U.S. Denate in 1824, lie w/is appointed by Governor Morrow to fill the vacancy and served, 1824-25. He was elected in 1829 U.S. senator for a full term to expire March 3, 18.35, by the unanimous vote of the legislature, and took his seat Dec. 7, 1829. H<)died in Shawneetown, III., Oct. 4, 1830.

MACLEANt John, educator, was born in Prince- ton, N.J., March 3, 1800; son of Dr. John (b. 1771) and Phoebe (Iteinbridge) Maclean. He was matriculated in 1813 and was graduated from the College of New Jersey, Princettm, A.B., 1816, the youngest man in his cla.ss, receiving his A.M. degree in 1819. He taught at Lawrenceville classical school, the Rev. I.saac V. Brown, prin- cipal, 1816-17; attended the Princeton Theological seminary, 1818-21; was a tutor in the College of New Jersey, 1818-22; declined a professorship at Dickinson, 1822: wjis professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at the College of New Jersey, 1822-23; and professor of mathematics there, 1823-29. wlien by rea.son of injudicious exercise of discipline the college had lost all but seventy-five of its pupils and the income had be- come crippled. He was then made vice-president of the college, the faculty was re-constructed and prosperity followed the changes, which included the addition to the faculty of Joseph Henry, Arnold Guyot and Stephen Alexander. He was ordained by the presbytery of New Brunswick,

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Feb. 5, 18*^. He was professor of languages at the College of New Jersey, 1829-30; professor of ancient languages and literature, 1830-36; of Greek, 1836-47, and of Greek language and liter- ature, 1847-54. In 1854 he succeeded James Carnahan as presi- dent of the college, having practically had charge of the administration of its affairs from 1850. Up- on his retirement in 1860 the permanent funds of the college, wliich were $15,000 when he assumed control, were over $250 000. A residence on Canal street, Princeton, N.J., was purcliased and pre- sented to him by

the college on his resignation. He was a director of the Princeton Theological semi- nary, 1861-86; a regent of the Smithsonian Institution; president of the American Coloni- zation society and a member of the Foreign Missionary society. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Washington college, Pa., in 1841 and that of LL.D. by the University of the State of New York in 1854. He published A School System for New Jersey (1829); which was originally a lecture delivered by him before the Literary and Philosophical Society of New Jersey in 1828 and the plan of which was closely followed by the legislature of New Jersey when the common school system of the state was estab- lished. He contributed many articles to the Princeton Review and the Presbyterian. He is the author of: Review of the Proceedings of the General Assembly for i^.?7 (1838); Examination of the Essays on Bacchus and anti-Bacchns (1841); Letters on the Elder Question (1844); Letters on the True Relation of Church and State to Schools and Colleges (1853); Plan for the Endoirment of of the College of New Jersey (by Prof. M. B. Hope with notes by Maclean); Inaugural Address (1854); Brief Narrative of the Work of Grace in the College of New Jersey (1856); Sermons (1846; 1857: 1858; 1859); Address before the American Colonization Society (54th annual report): Memoir of John Maclean, M.D. (1876); History of the College of Nexo Jersey (2 vols., 1877); Address to Senior Class of Princeton Theological Seminary ^ May U, 1884 (1885). He died in Princeton, N.J., Aug. 10. 1880.

McLEAN, John Roll, journalist, was born in Cincinnnti. Ohio. Sept. 17, 1848; son of Wash- ington and Mary L. McLean. He attended a