George Henry Williams was an American judge and politician. He served as Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court,was the 32nd Attorney General of the United States,and was elected Oregon's U.S. senator,and served one term. Williams,as U.S. senator,authored and supported legislation that allowed the U.S. military to be deployed in Reconstruction of the southern states to allow for an orderly process of re-admittance into the United States. Williams was the first presidential Cabinet member to be appointed from the Pacific Coast. As attorney general under President Ulysses S. Grant,Williams continued the prosecutions that shut down the Ku Klux Klan. He had to contend with controversial election disputes in Reconstructed southern states. President Grant and Williams legally recognized P. B. S. Pinchback as the first African American state governor. Williams ruled that the Virginius,a gun-running ship captured by Spain during the Virginius Affair,did not have the right to bear the U.S. flag. However,he argued that Spain did not have the right to execute American crew members. Nominated for Supreme Court Chief Justice by President Grant,Williams failed to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate primarily due to Williams's removal of A. C. Gibbs,United States District Attorney at Portland,Oregon.
Lorenzo De Medici Sweat was a U.S. Representative from Maine.
William Pinkney Whyte,a member of the United States Democratic Party,was a politician who served the State of Maryland as a State Delegate,the State Comptroller,a United States Senator,the 35th Governor,the Mayor of Baltimore,Maryland,and the State Attorney General.
Robert Brown Elliott was a British Afro-Caribbean member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina,serving from 1871 to 1874.
George Earle Chamberlain Sr. was an American attorney,politician,and public official in Oregon. A native of Mississippi and member of the Democratic Party,Chamberlain's political achievements included appointment followed by election as the first Attorney General of Oregon,a stint as the state's 11th Governor,and two terms in the United States Senate in Washington,DC.
Eugene McLanahan Wilson was a lawyer and Democratic politician who served in various legal and political offices in Minnesota including as a member of Congress and as the fifth and seventh mayor of Minneapolis.
William Henry Stanton was an attorney,editor,politician and judge. He served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district,elected to fill the vacancy when Winthrop Welles Ketcham resigned and serving for three months from December 1876 to early March 1877. He was previously editor of the Scranton Daily Times until 1872.
William Bailey Lamar was an American attorney and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Florida from 1903 to 1909.
Horatio Bisbee Jr. was an American attorney and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Florida.
The secretary of state of Maine is a constitutional officer in the U.S. state of Maine and serves as the head of the Maine Department of State. The Secretary of State performs duties of both a legislative branch as well as an executive branch officer. The role oversees areas that include motor vehicle licensing,state identification,record keeping,and corporate chartering.
Henry Bradstreet Cleaves was an American politician and the 43rd Governor of Maine from 1893 to 1897.
The Maine Attorney General is the chief legal advisor and prosecutor of the State of Maine. The constitutional basis of the office is Article IX,Section 11 of the Maine Constitution,and the holder of the position is chosen biennially by the Maine Legislature in joint session. Maine is the only state to select its attorney general in such a manner.
The governor of Maine is the head of government of the U.S. state of Maine. Before Maine was admitted to the Union in 1820,Maine was part of Massachusetts and the Governor of Massachusetts was chief executive.
The United States Senate elections of 1876 and 1877 had the Democratic Party gain five seats in the United States Senate,and coincided with Rutherford B. Hayes's narrow election as President. Republicans remained in the majority,however.
The United States Senate elections of 1878 and 1879 were elections which had the Democratic Party retake control of the United States Senate for the first time since before the Civil War.
Ormandel Smith also spelled Ormandal Smith was an American politician from Maine. Smith,a Republican,served multiple posts in Maine state government from his election to the Maine House of Representatives in 1870 to his time in statewide office as the Secretary of State of Maine and Maine State Treasurer (1901-1906). In Maine,all statewide offices except Governor are elected by the Legislature,not the general electorate.
Orville Dewey Baker was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 24th Attorney General of Maine between 1885 and 1888.
