Senate Years of Service:
1799-1805
Party:
Federalist
DAYTON, Jonathan, (son of Elias Dayton), a Delegate, a Representative, and a Senator from New Jersey; born in Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth),…
Senate Years of Service: 1913-1921Party: RepublicanSHERMAN, Lawrence Yates, a Senator from Illinois; born near Piqua, Miami County, Ohio, November 8, 1858; moved with his parents to Illinois…
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