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This page lists current or former United States Senators who do not have articles at Wikipedia. A biography of every U.S. Senator and Representative can be found at this public domain source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp. If you use this source, you can add the template {{bioguide}} in the "Sources" section of your new article.
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Interesting. Connected to Rutherfraud B. Hayes election. Perhaps a footnote is in order. "Never having abandoned his domicile in Louisiana, [Henry M. Spofford] returned to the city, and was about to resume his practice, when the earnest demand of the Democratic party drew him into the political field as a contestant for the senatorship. This was in 1876, when the Nicholls Legislature had been organized and was in full possession of the government of Louisiana. For this position Judge Spofford was nominated, and elected by a large majority. His title to the senatorial seat was opposed in the Senate by William Pitt Kellogg, who held a commission under the Legislature which had been displaced by the assembly which had organized under the governorship of Gov. Nicholls. The radical party then dominating in the Senate, after a long investigation and discussion by a committee, yielded to party demands and considerations, and against all truth, justice, and law, rejected Judge Spofford's claim. This contest imposed upon Judge Spofford an enormous amount of labor and expense at a time when his health had begun to fail. Repairing to a sanitary resort in the mountains of Virginia, a fatal disease, from which be had long suffered, developed with such potency, that before his family could reach him he departed this life on the 21st of August, 1880."
- Spofford, Jeremiah, A genealogical record: including two generations in female lines of families spelling their name Spofford, Spafford, Spafard, and Spaford, descendants of John Spofford and Elizabeth Scott, who emigrated in 1638 from Yorkshire, England, and settled at Rowley, Essex County, Mass. Boston: Printed by Alfred Mudge & Son, 1888, 525 pgs. David 15:51, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
(Moved here for writing from congressional wikiproject, --Rayc 02:32, 22 June 2006 (UTC))
- Franklin P. Glass
- Democrat, 1911-1913, Alabama
I found this: "Glass, Franklin Potts AL D 1913.11.17 1914.02.14 app; never seated not entitled to seat" at [*http://home.earthlink.net/~dbratman/senate_chron.html]
There is a 1920 volume with biographical sketches of FP Glass, pere et fils, that would probably answer this question. I could only find a 1904 bio of the father, a Princeton educated newspaper owner.
- see: A History of Birmingham and Its Environs by George M. Cruikshank, 1920 (volume two) pages 158 (FPG Sr.) and 160 (FPG Jr.) David 16:13, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
(Moved here for writing from wikiproject,--Rayc 02:34, 22 June 2006 (UTC))
- Asahel C. Beckwith (Wyoming)
