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See also:DAVIS, See also:CUSHMAN See also:KELLOGG (1838-1900) , See also:American See also:political See also:leader and lawyer, was See also:born in See also:Henderson, New See also:York, on the 16th of See also:June 1838. He was taken by his parents to See also:Wisconsin Territory in the See also:year of his See also:birth, and was educated at See also:Carroll See also:College, See also:Waukesha; Wisconsin, and at the university of See also:Michigan, from which he graduated in 1857. After studying See also:law in the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:Alexander W. See also:Randall, he was admitted to the See also:bar in 186o. During the See also:Civil See also:War, as a first See also:lieutenant of Federal See also:volunteers, he served in the western See also:campaigns of 1862 and 1863, and in 1864 was an aide to See also:General See also:Willis A. Gorman (1814-1876). Resigning his See also:commission (1864) on See also:account of See also:ill-See also:health, he soon settled in St See also:Paul, See also:Minnesota, where he practised law in See also:partnership with General Gorman, and soon became prominent both at the bar and, as a Republican, in politics. He served in the See also:state See also:House of Representatives in 1867, 1868-1873 was See also:United States See also:district See also:attorney for Minnesota. In 1874-1876 he was See also:governor of the state, and from 1887 until his See also:death was a member of the United States See also:Senate. In the Senate he was one of the acknowledged leaders of his party, an able and frequent See also:speaker and a See also:committee worker of See also:great See also:industry. In See also:March 1897 he became chairman of the committee on See also:foreign relations at a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time when its See also:work was peculiarly influential in shaping American foreign policy. His extensive knowledge of inter-See also:national law, and his tact and See also:diplomacy, enabled him to render services of the utmost importance in connexion with the See also:Spanish-American War, and he was one of the See also:peace commissioners who negotiated and signed the treaty of See also:Paris by which the war was terminated. He died at St Paul on the 27th of See also:November 1900. Few public men in the United States since the Civil War have combined skill in diplomacy, constructive statesmanship, See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent for political organization, oratorical ability and broad culture to such a degree as Senator Davis. In addition to various speeches and public addresses, he published an See also:essay entitled The Law of See also:Shakespeare (1899).
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