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tabula county, 183.J-37, and state senator, 1837-39, and 1841-43. He supported the Harrison and Tyler ticket in is40. and was actively influen- tial in nuUifyinic: the divorce law of the state, and in his oi)positiou to the adoption of more strin- gent fugitive slave laws. He was pre- siding judge of the third judicial district of Ohio, 1847-51; was elected U.S. senator as a Whig, in 1851, 1857 and 1863, serv- ing from Dec. 1, 1851, to March 4, 18G9. While in the senate lie voted for the re- peal of the fugitive slave law in 1852; supported the Mis- souri Compromise; opposed the Lecomp- ton Constitution in 1858, and the appropriation of $:J0.000.000 for the purchase of Cuba, fearing it would be settled b}- slave holdei's; was chairman of the committee on territories: a member of the joint peace commission, and before the war was chairman of the joint committee on the conduct of the war; advocated confiscating the property of southern leaders, emancipating their slaves and establishing Negro suffrage in the District of Columbia. He was president pro tern, of the sen- ate in April, 1865, and ex-offlcio acting vice-pres- ident of the United States, and in March, 18G7, was elected president of the senate. He was a delegate to the loyalists* convention at Philadel- phia in 1866; opposed President Lincoln's recon- struction policy, and with Representative Henry Winter Davis, issued the "Wade-Davis man- ifesto." He voted for the impeachment of Pres- ident Johnson, and was a leading candidate before the Republican national convention at Chicago in 1868 for vice-president. He resumed the prac- tice of law in Jeflferson, Oliio, in 1869, and the same year was appointed a government director of the Pacifi':: railroad. He was a member of the Santo Domingo commission by appointment of President Grant, 1871, and favored annexation; was attorney of the Northern Pacific railroad, and chairman of the Ohio delegation to the Re- publican national convention at Cincinnati. June 14, 1876, supporting the candidacy of Rutherford B. Hayes, although he subsequently opposed his policy toward the south. His biography was written by Albert G. Riddle (1888). Senator Wade diwl in Jefferson. Ohio. March 2, 1878.

WADE, Edward, representative, was born in West Springfield. Mass., Nov. 22, 1803: son of James Wade, and brother of Benjamin F. Wade

(q.v.). He removed with his father to Jeflferson, Ohio, in 1821, where lie helped on the farm until 1824; subsequently studied law in Albany and Troy, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar in 1827, and began practice in Jeflferson, Ohio. He was jus- tice of the peace of Ashtabula county; removed to Unionville in 1832, and to Cleveland, 1837; was a Free-soil representative from the nine- teenth district of Oiiio in the 33d congress; and a Republican representative in the 34th. 35th and 36th congresses, sei'ving from Dec. 5, 1853 to March 3, 1S61. He died at Cleveland, Aug. 7, 1862.

WADE, James Franklin, soldier, was born in Jeflferson, Ohio, April 14, 1843; son of Benjamin Franklin Wade (q.v.). He attended the common schools: entered the Union army as 1st lieuten- ant, 6th Jliimesota cavalry, Maj- 14, 1861; was pro- moted major and brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers 1865; commissoned major, 9th cav- alry, U.S.A., 1866; promoted lieutenant-colonel, March 20, 1879; colonel, 5th cavalry, U.S.A., April 21, 1887, brigadier-general. May 26, 1897, and major-general of volunteers, Maj' 4, 1898, serving in the war against Spain. General Wade was placed at the head of the Cuban evacuation commission, and in January, 1899, became mil- itary governor of Cuba. He was promoted major- general, U.S.A., in 1903, and succeeded General Davis in the command of the division of the Philippines in July, 1003.

WADHAMS, Edgar Philip, R.C. bishop, was born at Wadhams Mills, Essex county, N.Y.. May 21, 1817. He removed with his parents to Westport, N.Y., in 1822; was graduated from Middlebury college, Vt., in 1838, and from the General Theological seminar}'. New York city, in 1843; was ordered deacon in 1843, and was gi\en charge of the missions at Port Henry, Wadhams Mills and Ticonderoga. He joined the Roman Catholic church in June, 1845; attended St. Mary's seminary, Baltimore, ]Md., and was or- dained priest Jan. 15, 1850, b}' Bishop McCloskey, at the Pro-cathedral, Albany, N.Y., where he re- mained as assistant, 1850-65. He was appointed rector of the cathedral and vicar-general of the diocese in 1865 and on the erection of the diocese of Ogdensburg, Feb, 15, 1872, was appointed its first bishop and was consecrated at Alljany, N.Y., May 5, 1872, by Archbishop McCloskey, assisted b}' Bishops Williams, and De Goesbriand. He founded Mohawk Hill (colh-ge) Watertown, N.Y. He died in Ogdenslmrg. N.Y., Dec. 5, 1891.

WADLEIQH, Bainbridge, senator, was born in Bnidford, N.H., Jan. 4, 1831; son of John Dow and Huldah (Gillingham) Wadleigh. He at- tended the common schools and Kimball Union academy. Plainfield, N.H.; read law in the of- fice of.M.W. Tappan of Bradford; was admitted to the bar in Newport, N.H., in February. 1850,