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Belknap, William Worth

soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born in 1831 in Hudson City, N. Y. He was elected to the Iowa legislature in 1849. He was present at the battles of Shiloh and Vicksburg; was with General Sherman in his great campaign; and was so rapidly promoted as to have command of a division of the army as major-general. After the war he was appointed a collector of internal revenue, which position he held until he entered President Grant's cabinet, in 1869, as secretary of war. He died Oct. 12, 1890, in Washington, D. C.