BLAIR, HENRY WILLIAM

(1834— 1920), son of William Henry and Lois Baker Blair. Educated in schools of New Hampshire. Admitted to bar in 1859. Served in Civil War with rank of lieutenant-colonel. Member New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1866 and in State Senate in 1868. Elected to Congre in 1875 and to the Senate of the United States in 1879. Service in the Senate extended to 1891. Author of Blair bill to extend federal aid to education in the States. Also bill to establish U.S. Labor Department. Wrote largely on temperance and was one of the ear preacher; filled various pulpits in Edinburgh, and was sometime prof. of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the Univ. His Sermons (4 vols.) achieved remarkable popularity.