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The election of J. Frank Allee and Lewis Heisler Ball to
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the Senatorships was in the interest of harmony. Mr. Allee had been the chief lieutenant of Mr. Addicks since the advent of the latter into Delaware politics, serving as chairman of the Union Republican State Committee. As a political organizer he was unexcelled. As the leader of the Union Republican forces in Kent and Sussex from 1895, he built up an organiza- tion that completely revolutionized the politics of those two counties and turned almost every election district over to the Republican party. Each succeeding election showed marked Republican gains.
Mr. Allee comes from good Delaware stock. While not trained in statecraft, he was brought up to habits of industry. One of the earliest of that family in the State was Abraham Allee, who married a sister of Doctor James Tilton ; and Jacob Allee Killen, son of Chancellor Killen, set up one of the earliest presscs at Dover, and printed the proceedings of the General Assembly as early as 1800. The father of J. Frank Allee is remembered as a watchmaker and jeweler, at Dover, who in after years, lived on a farm near Wyoming, a man of the strictest integrity, and respected and honored in business circles. He was for ycars the Secretary and Treas- urer of the Delaware Railroad Company.
J. Frank Allee was born in Kent County, in 1857, and after acquiring the usual education afforded by the public schools, learned the trade of watch-making with his father. He succeeded the latter in business in Dover, and built up a good trade, whereby he supported his father, who became a confirmed invalid several years before his death. On the election of Anthony Higgins to the Senate in 1889, Mr. Allce became actively identified with Republican politics in Kent County, and early showed a decided aptness in political affairs. He was active, alert, and a good fighter. He was adroit in management, and won supporters by his indomitable energy and perseverance. These qualities made him the leader of the Union Republican party, and when Mr. Addicks found that he could not clect himself, it was but natural that he should
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J. FRANK ALLEE.
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throw his influence in favor of the election of his trusted lieutenant, the man who for ten years had stood by him with unfaltering devotion. In that way he became United States Senator.
During the four years that he served in that exalted posi- tion, he was true to himself, to his friends, and to his party. He accomplished much for his State, won the respect and regard of his Congressional associates, and gained the close friendship of President Roosevelt, whose policies he cham- pioned with splendid loyalty. When he was convinced, after the session of the General Assembly of 1905, that Mr. Addicks could never reach the Senate, he came out in an open, manly way, and announced that he owed his first allegiance to his party, that the claim of the party was paramount to the claim of any individual in the party. This was the entering wedge which led to the triumphant election of Henry A. DuPont to the senatorial vacancy a year later. It led to a final break with Mr. Addicks, and the latter has since shown the same narrow, bitter, vindictive feeling towards Mr. Allee, that has been repeatedly charged against Mr. Addicks by those who have exploited his nature and character in recent magazine and newspaper literature.
Dr. Lewis Heisler Ball, who was elected to the short sen- atorial term as the choice of the Regular Republicans, owed his election to his activity as a political manager. He came of sturdy Mill Creek Hundred stock, his ancestors having been among the earliest settlers in that Hundred. His father, John Ball, was a farmer, as were his father and grandfather before him, and while plain folks, they were people of the strictest integrity, and held the high regard of the community in which they lived. Dr. Ball was born at Milltown, Septem- ber 21, 1861, and after an education obtained at the public schools, graduated at Delaware College in 1882, and after- wards studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1885. Set- tling later at Faulkland, in Mill Creek Hundred, he has since followed the practice of medicine.
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He early showed an inclination towards politics, serving as a member of the Republican committee from the Hundred in which he lived, afterwards as chairman of the county com- mittee, and later as chairman of the Regular Republican State Committee. The services rendered in these places brought him into close touch with the political forces, and led to his rapid, and almost unprecedented political preferment in public stations. In 1898, he was nominated for the office of State Treasurer, and having received the united support of both factions of the Republican party was triumphantly elected. He served a full term, and two years later was re- nominated for the same office by the Regular Republicans. In the adjustment that followed between the two factions, he was made the nominee of both factions for Representative in Congress, and with the remainder of the Republican ticket, was elected. He served as Representative until March 4, 1903, when he took his seat in the United States Senate. His term as Senator terminated March 4, 1905. He has always been a staunch Regular Republican, and has given unwavering allegiance to that organization, serving uninter- ruptedly as a member of its county and state committees.
The campaign of 1904 opened with much bitter feeling be- tween the factions in the Republican party. The convention of the Regular Republicans for the purpose of nominating a State ticket was held first, on August 9th, and resulted in the nomination of Dr. Joseph H. Chandler of Christiana Hundred, New Castle county, for Governor, and Horace G. Knowles of Wilmington for Representative in Congress. The Union Re- publican convention met at Dover, on August 23rd, and nominated, by acclamation, Henry C. Conrad of Wilmington for Governor, and Dr. Hiram R. Burton of Lewes for Con- gress. The Democratic convention, held on August 30th after a long and animated session nominated Caleb S. Penne- will of Dover for Governor and Edward D. Hearne of George- town for Congress.
The Republicans, knowing that with divided ranks the
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Democratic ticket would win, set about the work of uniting upon one State ticket, acceptable to both factions. After much parleying the two Republican State committees agreed upon Preston Lea of Wilmington as the candidate for Governor, and it was ordered that his name should be placed on the official ballot by both the Regular and Union Repub- lican parties. Mr. Conrad resigned as the Union Republican nominee for Governor, but Dr. Chandler the Regular nom- inee, refused to resign, and his name appeared on the official ballot, but not as the nominee of the Regulars, and at the election he received 802 votes, ail of which were polled in New Castle County. The contest in November resulted in the elec- tion of Preston Lea as Governor by the following vote, Lea 22,532; Pennewill 19,780; Chandler 802. Dr. Hiram R. Burton became the nominee of both Republican factions for Congress, by arrangement of the two State committees, after the voluntary retirement of Mr. Knowles, who had been nom- inated by the Regulars; and at the election Dr. Burton was elected over Mr. Hearne, the Democratic nominee, by a majority of 3,960.
The General Assembly of 1905 showed a political division as follows, Senate, Republicans 10, Democrats 7; House of Representatives, Republicans 21, Democrats 14. The Senate was not fully organized for three weeks, the Union Repub- licans nominated Alvan B. Conner for Speaker, and the Regulars nominated George W. Sparks. The Democrats held aloof, voting for a candidate of their own. Mr. Conner held a majority of the Republican votes from the beginning, and was, on January 26th, elected Speaker by the votes of all the Republican members. The House of Representatives organ- ized without serious difficulty by the election of William D. Denney as Speaker.
The term of Lewis Heisler Ball as United States Senator ex- piring on March 4, 1905, it fell to the lot of this Assembly to choose his successor. The balloting began on January 27th, no caucus of the whole body of Republicans having been held
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previously. Mr. Addicks, who had been making a fight for the senatorship since 1892, controlled, at the beginning of the balloting at this session, all of the Republican votes from Kent and Sussex counties, a total of 23. In all previous contests his vote had stood unitedly by him, without break or division, the slogan being for years, " Addicks or nobody." After three weeks of balloting, from day to day, with Mr. Addicks lead- ing, some of the followers of the latter began to show signs of discontent, and announced their intention of voting for some one other than Mr. Addicks. On February 17th six of the Addicks followers broke away from him, and after that date Mr. Addicks was never able to get more than fifteen votes in any meeting of the joint assembly. His fifteen friends how- ever stood by him until the end of the session, thereby pre- venting an election. During the session scattering votes were given to several Republicans. On two ballots on March 15th Harry A. Richardson, of Dover, received sixteen votes, and on several ballots Henry A. Du Pont received fifteen votes. On the last day of the session, March 23rd, the final ballot for Senator resulted as follows: John Edward Addicks, 15; Henry A. Du Pont, 14; Willard Saulsbury, 13; James H. Hughes, 8 ; T. Coleman Du Pont, 1; Simeon S. Pennewill, 1; and no one having received the required constitutional majority, the session of 1905 adjourned without electing a senator.
Owing to the failure to elect a senator to succeed L. Heisler Ball, whose term expired March 4, 1905, a vacancy ensued from the latter date, J. Frank Allee remaining the only repre- sentative in the United States Senate from Delaware. This continued until May, 1906, when Governor Lea received assurances from the Republican members of the General As- sembly that they would go into caucus, and that whoever should receive the caucus nomination would be voted for by the Republican members of the General Assembly, thereby insuring the election of a United States Senator. Acting upon these assurances, a call was issued by Governor Lea, conven- ing the General Assembly in special session on May 29, 1906.
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The two houses met in pursuance of that call on the above day, and then adjourned until June 12th. A caucus of the Republican members was held on the evening of June 11th, which resulted in the selection of Col. Henry A. Du Pont as the caucus nominee by the following vote : Henry A. Du Pont 20 votes, John Edward Addicks 10 votes, and Herbert H. Ward 1 vote.
On the next day, June 12th, the General Assembly met in joint session, and the first ballot taken resulted in the election of Henry A. Du Pont, who received 28 votes, the Democratic members of the Assembly voting blank. Col. Du Pont's election was for the unexpired term of L. Heisler Ball, the latter having retired from the Senate on March 4, 1905.
The following table shows the gradual increase in popula- tion from the first census in 1790 to the twelfth census in 1900 :
POPULATION FROM 1790 TO 1900 INCLUSIVE
Census.
New Castle.
Kent.
Sussex.
State.
1790
19,686
18,920
20,488
59,094
1800
23,361
19,554
19,358
64,273
1810
24,429
20,495
27,750
72,674
1820
27,899
20,793
24,057
72,749
1830
29,720
19,913
27,115
76,748
1840
33,120
19,872
25,093
78,085
1850
42,780
22,816
25,936
91,532
1860
54,797
27,804
29,615
112,216
1870
63,515
29,804
31,696
125,015
1880
77,716
32,874
36,008
146,608
1890
97,182
32,664
38,647
168,493
1900
109,697
32,762
42,276
184,735
DELAWARE CIVIL LIST.
List of Governors of New Castle, Kent and Sussex prior to the formation of Delaware as a State in 1776.
Dutch Rule.
Cornelius Jacobsen May
1624-1625 David Peterson De Vries 1632-1633
William Van Hulst
1625-1626
Wouter Van Twiller
1633-1638
Peter Minuit
1626-1632
Sir William Kieft .
1638-1638
256
GENERAL HISTORY OF THE STATE.
Swedish Rule.
Peter Minuit
1638-1641 Peter Hollandaer 1641-1643
John Printz 1643-1647
Dutch Puie.
Peter Stuyvesant
1647-1653
Swedish Rvic.
John Pappegoya
1653-1854 John Claude Rysing
1654-1655
Dutch Rule.
Peter Stuyvesant
1655-1655
Jacob Alrichs
1657-1657
Dirck Smidt
1655-1655
Gregorius Van Dyck
1657-1658
John Paul Jaquet
1655-1655
William Beekman
1658-1659
Andreas Hudde
1655-1657
Alexander D' Hinoyossa
1659-1664
English Rule.
Richard Nichols
1664-1664
Francis Lovelace
1667-1668
Robert Needham
1664 -- 1667
John Carr
1668-1673
Dutch Rule.
Anthony Colve
1673-1673
Peter Alrichs
1673-1674
English Rule.
Edmond Andros
1674-1674 Jolin Collier
1676-1677
Edmund Cantwell
1674-1676
Christopher Billop
1675-1681
Anthony Brockholst 1681-1681
Under the Penn Government.
William Penn, Proprietor
1681-1718
William Markham, Deputy
1681-1684
Thomas Lloyd, President of Council
1684-1684
William Clayton, President of Council
1684-1685
Thomas Holme, President of Council
1685-1685
William Clarke, President of Council
1685-1686
Arthur Cooke, President of Council
1686-1686
John Simcock, President of Council
1686-1686
Francis Harrison, President of Council
1686-1686
Arthur Cooke, President of Council
1686-1686
John Simcock, President of Council
1686-1687
William Clarke, President of Council
1687-1688
Thomas Lloyd, Commissioner
1688-1688 -
Robert Turner, Commissioner
1688-1688
Arthur Cooke, Commissioner
1688-1688
John Sin.cock, Commissioner
1688-1688
John Eckley, Commissioner
1688-1688
John Blackwell, Lieutenant-Governor
1688-1690
Thomas Lloyd, President of Council
1690-1691
William Markham, Deputy-Governor
1691-1693
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GENERAL HISTORY OF THE STATE.
Benjamin Fletcher, Deputy-Governor
1693-1693
William Markham, Deputy-Governor 1693-1694
John Goodson, Deputy-Governor
1694-1694
Samuel Carpenter, Deputy-Governor
1694-1698
William Markham, Lieutenant-Governor
1698-1699
Andrew Hamilton, Lieutenant-Governor
1699-1702
Edward Shippen, President of Council
1702-1704
John Evans, Lieutenant-Governor
1704-1709
Charles Gooding, Lieutenant-Governor
1709-1717
William Keith, Lieutenant-Governor
1717-1726
Patrick Gordon, Lieutenant-Governor
1726-1727
John Penn,
Thomas Penn, & Proprietaries
1727-1775
Richard Penn,
James Logan, President of Council
1736-1738
George Thomas, Lieutenant-Governor
1738-1747
Anthony Palmer, President of Council
1747-1748
James Hamilton, Lieutenant-Governor
1748-1754
Robert Hunter Morris, Lieutenant-Governor
1754-1756
William Denny, Lieutenant-Governor
1756-1759
James Hamilton, Lieutenant-Governor
1759-1763
John Penn, Lieutenant-Governor
1763-1771
James Hamilton, President of Council
1771-1775
Delegates to Stamp Act Congress, 1765. Thomas Mckean, Caesar Rodney.
Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas Mckean.
Signers of the Constitution of the United States.
George Read, Gunning Bedford, Jr., Jacob Broom,
John Dickinson, Richard Bassett.
Signers of the Articles of Confederation.
Thomas Mckean, John Dickinson, Nicholas Van Dyke.
Delegates to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1788.
Thomas Mckean 1774-76, and from 1778 to 1783
George Read 1774-77 ; re-elected in 1779, but declined to serve.
Caesar Rodney 1774-78, and from 1783 to 1784
John Dickinson 1776-77, and from 1779 to 1780
John Evans
1776-77
Nicholas Van Dyke
1777-82
James Sykes
1777-78
Thomas Rodney
1781-83, and from 1785 to 1788
Philemon Dickinson
1782-83
17
258
GENERAL HISTORY OF THE STATE.
Samuel Wharton
1782-83
James Tilton
1783-85
Eleazer McComb
1782-84
Gunning Bedford, Jr.,
1783-86
John Vining
1784-86
John McKinly
1784-85
Henry Latimer
1784-85
Samuel Patterson
1-784-85
John Patten
1785-86
William Peery
1785-86
Nathaniel Mitchell
1786-88
Gunning Bedford
1786-87
Dyre Kearney
1787-88
President of Continental Congress. Thomas Mckean, elected July 10, 1781. Members of the Council of Safety, 1776.
New Castle County.
Kent County.
Sussex County.
James Latimer
Caesar Rodney
David Hall
John McKinly
James Sykes
Jacob Moore
Abram Robinson
Thomas Collins
John Wiltbank
John Lea
John Baning
John Rodney
Nicholas Van Dyke
Richard Bassett
James Rench
Privy Councilors.
Thomas McDonough
1777
Major James Black
1785
George Latimer
1777
Col. Charles Pope
1786
George Evans
1777
Eleazer McComb
1787
Eleazer McComb
1779
Allen McLane
1788
James Raymond
1779
Gunning Bedford, Sr.
1790
Isaac Griffith
1781
George Wilson
1790
Samuel Patterson
1783
Manlove Emerson
1790
James Booth
1783
Nathaniel Mitchell
1792
John Lea
1783
George McCall
1792
James Sykes
1786
Attorney-Generals of Delaware.
Gunning Bedford
1778-1790
Alfred R. Wooten
1860-1864
Nicholas Ridgely
1790-1801
Jacob Moore
1864-1869
Nicholas Vandyke
1801-1806
Chas. B. Lore
1869-1874
Outerbridge Horsey
1806-1810
John B. Penington
1874-1879
Thomas Clayton
1810-1815
George Gray
1879-1885
James Rogers
1815-1830
John H. Paynter
1885-1837
Robert Framc
1830-1835
John Biggs
1887-1892
James Rogers
1835-1840
John R. Nicholson
1892-1895
Edward W. Gilpin
1840-1850
Robert C. White
1895-1501
Willard Saulsbury
1850-1855
Herbert H. Ward
1901-1905
George P. Fisher
1855-1860
Robert H. Richards
1905-
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GENERAL, HISTORY OF THE STATE.
Adjutant Generals.
Samuel White
1807-1808
Mark G. Loffand
1862-1863
Jexse Green
1808-1814
S. M. Harrington, Jr.
1863-1863
John Mitchell
1814-1814
Edward D. Porter
1863-1875
Robert Dill
1814-1814
William Reynolds
1875-1877
Cornelius P. Cornegys
1814-1316
William S. McCaulley
1877-1879
William Hill Wells
1816-1820
James Parke Postles
1879-1887
James Rogers
1820-1827
Richard R. Kenney
1887-1891
William Green
1827-1833
Garrett J. Hart
1891-1895
Thomas Stockton
1833-1833
Samuel A. Macallister,
1895-1895
John McClung
1833-
Garrett J. Hart
1895-1901
George Davis
1862-1862
J. Pusey Wickersham
1901-
State Treasurers.
Samuel Patterson
1771-1778
William Cannon
1849-1851
Dr. James Tilton
1778-1781
John R. Sudler
1851-1855
Joshua Gordon
1781-1786
William J. Clarke
1855-1855
John Gordon
1786-1789
Samuel B. Hitch
1855-1861
Francis Maury
1789-1791
Loxley R. Jacobs
1861-1863
Robert Clarke
1791-1792
Lewellyn Tharp
1863-1865
Thomas Sipple
1792-1794
William J. Clarke
1865-1867
John Clark
1794-1799
Robert H. Davis
1867-1871
Dr. Henry Molleston
1799-1808
Thomas B. Giles
1871-1875
Samuel Paynter
1808-1813
Robert J. Reynolds
1875-1879
Cornelius P. Comegys
1813-1821
John M. Houston
1879-1883
William W. Green
1821-1824
William Herbert
1883-1891
Cornelius P. Comegys
1824-1830
Wilbur H. Burnite
1891-1895
Peter S. Parker
1830-1835
Charles H. Atkins
1895-1897
Elijah Cannon
1835-1839
Willie M. Ross
1897-1899
William D. Waples
1839-1841
Lewis Heisler Ball
1899-1901
Gardiner H. Wright
1841-1843
Martin B. Burris
1901-1905
James S. Buckmaster
1843-1845
Thomas N. Rawlins
1905-
Jacob Faris
1845-1849
Insurance Commissioners.
John R. McFee
1879-1883
Peter K. Meredith
1893-1897
Henry C. Douglass
1883-1885
Edward Fowler
1897-1901
Nathan Pratt
1885-1889
George W. Marshall
1901-
Isaac N. Fooks
1889-1893
Secretaries of State.
James Booth
1778-1799
William Warner
1808-1808
Abraham Ridgely
1799-1802
Thomas Clayton
1808-1810
William B. Shields
1802-1802
John Barratt
1810-1811
John Fisher
1802-1805
John Fisher
1811-1812
William Hazzard
1805-1805
Willard Hall
1812-1814
Peter Robinson
1805-1808
Peter Robinson
1814-1817
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GENERAL HISTORY OF THE STATE.
Henry M. Ridgely
1817-1820
James R. Lofland
1855-1859
Henry M. Ridgely
1820-1821
Edward Ridgely
1859-1863
Willard Hall
1821-1822
Nathaniel B. Smithers
1863-1863
Peter Robinson
1822-1823
Sam'1 M. Harrington, Jr. 1863-1865
Henry H. Wells
1823-1824
Custis W. Wright
1865-1871
Henry M. Ridgely
1824-1826
John H. Paynter
1871-1875
John M. Clayton
1826-1828
Ignatius C. Grubb
1875-1879
Sam'l M. Harrington
1828-1830
James L. Wolcott
1879-1883
Caleb S. Layton
1830-1833
William F. Causey
1883-1887
James Rogers
1833-1835
John P. Saulsbury
1887-1889
W. Hemphill Jones
1835-1836
John F. Saulsbury
1889-1891
Caleb S. Layton
1836-1836
David T. Marvel
1891-1893
John Brinckloe
1836-1836
John D. Hawkins
1893-1895
Robert Frame
1836-1837
Nathaniel B. Smithers
1895-1895
Charles Marim
1837-1841
J. Harvey Whiteman William H. Boyce
1897-1897
John Wales
1845-1846
James H. Hughes
1897-1901
Daniel M. Bates
1847-1851
Joseph L. Cahall
1905-
Alfred R. Robinson
1851-1855
Auditors of Accounts.
Eleazer Macomb
1787-1793
Aaron B. Marvel
1857-1861
Thomas Montgomery
1793-1807
William M. Hamilton
1861-1863
Peter Caverly
1807-1816
Andrew J. Calley
1863-1865
Joseph B. Harris
1816-1820
Robert G. Ellegood
1865-1867
John M. Clayton
1820-1824
Robert Lambdin
1867-1871
Ebenezer Blackiston
1824-1826
Robert G. Ellegood
1871-1875
Spencer Williams
1826-1832
Nathan Pratt
1875-1879
Jacob Biddle
1832-1835
John F. Staats
1879-1883
George S. Adkins
1835-1839
Jesse L. Long
1883-1887
Joseph L. Harper
1839-1841
James H. Boyce
1887-1891
Simon Spearman
1841-1845
John P. Dulaney
1891-1895
Abraham Staats
1845-1849
Beniah L. Lewis
1895-1899
Hiram W. McColley
1849-1851
John A. Lingo
1899-1900
Luther Swiggett
1851-1854
Isaac N. Fooks
1900-1901
George B. Dickson
1854-1855
Purnal B. Norman
1901-1905
William T. Alrichs
1855-1857
George H. Dick
1905-
United States Senators.
George Read
from March
4,1789
to September 18, 1793
Richard Bassett
March
4, 1789
March
4, 1793
Henry Latimer
February
7, 1795
February
28, 1801
John Vining
March
4, 1793
January
19, 1798
Samuel White
February
28,1801
November 4, 1809
Joshua Clayton
January
19, 1798
August
11,1798
William Hill Wells
March
17,1799
November 13, 1804
1895-1897
John W. Houston
1841-1845
George P. Fisher
1846-1847
Caleb R. Layton
1901-1905
261
GENERAL HISTORY OF THE STATE.
James A. Bayard
from November 13, 1804
to May
28, 1813
Outerbridge Horsey
January
12, 1810
March
4,1821
William Hill Wells
May
28, 1813
March
4, 1817
Caesar A. Rodney
J: nuary
12,1822
January
8, 1824
Nicholas Van Dyke
March
4,1817
November 8, 1826
Thomas Clayton
January 8, 1824
March
4,1827
Daniel Rodney
November
8,1826
January
12, 1827
Henry M. Ridgely
January
12, 1827
March
4,1829
Louis McLane
Marclı
4, 1827
January
7,1830
Arnold Naudain
January
7,1830
June
17, 1836
Richard H. Bayard
June
17, 1836
March
4, 1845
John M. Clayton
March
4, 1829
January
9,1837
Thomas Clayton
January
9,1837
March
4, 1847
Presley Spruance
March
4, 1847
March
4,1853
John M. Clayton
March
4,1845
February
23, 1849
John Wales
February
23, 1849
March
4, 1851
John M. Clayton
March
4, 1853
November 19, 1856
Joseph P. Comegys
November 19, 1856
January
14, 1857
Martin W. Bates
January
14, 1857
March
4,1859
James A. Bayard
March
4, 1851
January
29, 1864
Willard Saulsbury
March
4,1859
March
4,1871
George Read Riddle
January
29,1864
April
5,1867
James A. Bayard
April
5,1867
March
4,1869
Thomas F. Bayard
March
4,1869
January
18, 1885
George Gray
January
18, 1885
March
4, 1899
Anthony Higgins
March
4, 1889
March
4,1895
Richard R. Kenney
January
20,1897
March
4,1901
James Frank Allee
March
4,1903
March
4,1907
Henry A. DuPont
June
12,1906
Harry A. Richardson
March
4, 1907
Representatives in Congress.
John Vining
1792-1796
Kensey Johns
1828-1830
James A. Bayard
1796-1803
James A. Bayard
1828-1830
Caesar A. Rodney
1803-1805
John J. Milligan
1830-1838
James A. Bayard
1805-1806
Thomas Robinson, Jr.
1838-1840
James Broom
1806-1808
George B. Rodney
1840-1844
Nicholas Van Dyke
1808-1810
John W. Houston
1844-1850
Henry M. Ridgely
1810-1812
George Read Riddle
1850-1854
Thomas Clayton
1812-1815
Elisha D. Cullen
1854-1856
Thomas Cooper
1815-1817
William G. Whitely
1856-1860
Louis McLane
1817-1820
George P. Fisher
1860-1862
Caesar A. Rodney
1820-1822
Nathaniel B. Smithers
1863-1864
Daniel Rodney
1823-1827
John A. Nicholson
1864-1868
Louis McLane
1827-1828
Benjamin T. Biggs
1868-1872
Lewis Heisler Ball
March
4, 1903
March
4,1905
Eli Saulsbury
March
4, 1881
March
4,1889
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GENERAL HISTORY OF THE STATE.
James R. Lofland
1872-1874
L. Irving Handy 1896-1898
James Williams
1874-1878
John H. Hoffecker
1898-1900
Edward L. Martin
1878-1882
Walter O. Hoffecker
1900-1900
Charles B. Lore
1882-1886
L. Heisler Ball
1900-1902
John B. Penington
1886-1890
Henry A. Houston
1902-1904
John W. Causey
1890-1894
Hiram R. Burton
1904-
Jonathan S. Willis
1894-1896
Representatives to Foreign Countries Appointed from the State of Delaware.
James A. Bayard, Minister Plenipotentiary, France, February 19, 1801.
James A. Bayard, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary, Treaty of St. Petersburg, April 17, 1813.
James A. Bayard, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary, Treaty of Ghent, January 18, 1814.
Caesar A. Rodney, appointed to visit Buenos Ayres and Montevideo for obtain- ing accurate information respecting the conflict between Spain and her colonies, July 18, 1817.
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