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of the U.S. House of Representatives:
Representative from Wisconsin; born in Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio, February
4, 1826; attended the common schools; was graduated from the Western Reserve
College, Hudson, Ohio, in 1845; taught school for a season in Mississippi;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in
Cleveland, Ohio; moved to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1857 and continued the practice
of law; entered the Union Army in May 1861 as colonel of the Fourth Regiment,
Wisconsin Volunteers; promoted to the rank of brigadier general on March
13, 1863, and in the following June lost a leg at Port Hudson; breveted
major general on March 13,
1865, and resigned on May 15, 1865; elected
as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses
(March 4, 1865-March 3, 1871); chairman, Committee on Militia (Fortieth
Congress), Committee on Elections (Forty-first Congress); was not a candidate
for renomination in 1870; continued the practice of law in Washington,
D.C.; through his efforts the taking of meteorological
observations in the interior was inaugurated; appointed Commissioner of
Patents by President Grant and served from November 1, 1878, to May 7,
1880; died in Washington, D.C., April 14, 1905; interment in Arlington
National Cemetery.
Halbert Eleazar Paine, soldier, born in Chardon, Ohio,
4 February, 1826. After his graduation at Western Reserve in 1845 he studied
law, was admitted to the bar of Cleveland in 1848, and removed to Milwaukee
in 1857. He entered the National army in May, 1861, as colonel of the 4th
Wisconsin regiment, and became brigadier general of volunteers on 13 March,
1863. He served mainly in the Army of the Gulf, and lost a leg in the last
assault on Port Hudson, Louisiana, where he commanded the 3d division of
the 19th corps. He defended Washington during General Jubal A. Early's
raid in 1864, was breveted major general of volunteers on 13 March,
1865, and resigned on 3 May of that year. He was afterward elected to congress
from Wisconsin as a Republican, serving from 4 December, 1865, till 3 March,
1871, and was instrumental in the passage of a bill, dated 19 December,
1869, that provided for taking meteorological observations in the interior
of the continent. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention
of 1866, and after the expiration of his third term in congress practiced
law in Washington, D. C., where he was United States commissioner of patents
from 1879 till 1881. He is the author of " Paine on Contested Elections"
(Washington, 1888).
Courtesy of the National Archives
Photo By Michael
Robert Patterson, 1999
Photograph By M. R. Patterson,
October 2002
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