Senator Hawley of Connecticut offers the unusual example of a statesman of the North who, by birth, was a Southerner. Joseph Roswell Hawley of Hartford was born at Stewartsville, Richmond County, North Carolina, October 31, 1826. At the age of twenty-one years he graduated from Hamilton College, New York, and three years later, in 1850, he was admitted to the bar at Hartford, where he has resided ever since.

Mr. Hawley practiced his profession for six and a half years, and then entered the field of journalism by becoming editor of the Hartford Evening Press in February, 1857., April 15, 1861, Mr. Hawley enlisted in the Union army as a lieutenant. Serving with gallantry through the war, he rose rank by rank through successive promotions for merit until he reached the rank of brigadier-general and brevet major-general. He was not mustered out of the service until January 15, 1866.

In April, 1866, General Hawley was elected Governor of Connecticut. His political rewards and his public positions of distinction have been conspicuous ever since that time. In 1867 the Evening Press was consolidated with the Hartford Courant, of which he became editor. General Hawley was a delegate to the Free Soil National Convention of 1852, was chairman of the Republican National Convention of 1868, and a Presidential elector in the same year. He was also a delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1872, 1876 and 1880.

One of the most noteworthy periods in the busy career of Senator Hawley was that which saw the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of American independence. He was president of the United States Centennial Commission from its organization in March, 1873, to the completion of the work of the Centennial Exposition of 1876 in Philadelphia. Senator Hawley is a trustee of Hamilton College. He has received the degree of Doctor of Laws from that institution, from Yale University and from Trinity College.

In November, 1872, he was elected a Representative in the Fortysecond Congress to fill a vacancy caused by the death of S. L. Strong. He was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress and again elected to the Forty-sixth Congress. He was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican to succeed William W. Eaton, Democrat, taking his seat March 4, 1881. He was re-elected in 1887, 1893 and 1899, his term therefore expiring in 1905.

Henry M. Teller, of Central City, Colorado, was born in the town of Granger, Allegany County, New York, May 23, 1830. His ancestors came from Holland and were among the early settlers of New York State. His father was a farmer in comfortable circumstances and gave him a good education, first in the common schools, then in Rushford Academy and Alfred University. He taught school for several years prior to his study of the law. He was admitted to the bar at Binghamton, New York. In January, 1858, he removed to Illinois and practiced law there until April, 1861, when he removed to Central City, Colorado.

His ability as a lawyer soon gained him prominence. In politics he affiliated with the Republicans, but declined to become a candidate for office until the admission of Colorado to the Union in 1876. He was one of the two Senators elected to represent the Centennial State and in the drawing to determine which should hold the full term he received the term ending March 3, 1877. He was re-elected December 11 for the full term, and served until April 17, 1882, when he resigned to accept the appointment of Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Arthur. On March 3, 1885, he retired from the Cabinet and on the following day took his seat in the Senate, having been elected to succeed Nathaniel P. Hill. In 1891 he was re-elected without opposition.

Senator Teller always has been reckoned as one of the strong men of the Republican party, who could be depended upon to offer his best energies in support of protection and the other leading tenets of the party, national or international. He has been recognized as one of the ablest authorities on all questions referring to the public lands, which were matters of great importance during the settlement of the West.

In June, 1896, he took the radical step which separated him from his party on the leading question of the day. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at St. Louis and was recognized as the leader of the bi-metallists in that convention. Unwilling to accept the financial plank of the platform there adopted, he withdrew from the convention, leading the famous "bolt." Six months later he was re-elected to the Senate as an Independent Silver Republican, receiving ninetyfour votes out of a total of one hundred in the State Legislature of Colorado. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903. Senator Teller is recognized as one of the ablest advocates of silver in the currency controversy.