Wade, Benjamin Franklin

(1800-1878), an American statesman, was a lawyer and Whig politician in Ohio; he had been in the State Senate and scrved as State Judge before his entrance into the U. S. Senate. His term in that body covers the long period of 1851-1869. He rapidly became known as one of the most outspoken anti-slavery and later Republican leaders. He strongly opposed the Kansas-Nebraska measure, and during the Rebellion he was chairman of the Joint Congre ional Committee on the Conduct of the War. Senator Wade opposed President Lincoln to some degree on the Reconstructio” problem, and was naturally in the opposition to President Johnson. He was chainnan of the Committee on Territories, and was chosen President gyv /em. of the Senate in 1867. President Grant appointed him to the San Domingo commi ion in 1871. Wade was a leading candidate for the Vice-Presidency in 1868, atid chairman of the Ohio deleyation in the convention that nominated Hayes. Wads worth, James 8. (1807-1864), was a prominent supporter of the Free-Soil party in New York. In 1861 he was a delegate to the Peace Convention in Washington, and was volunteer aide to General McDowell at Bull Run in 1861. He was in command of a brigade hefore Washington, and was military governor of the District of Columbia in 1862, Afterward commanded a division at Fred ericks burg and at Gettysburg, where he lost over half his men. He was killed while leading his division at the Wilderne .