Bingham, Charles
clergyman, poet, was born June 16, 1828, in Geneseo, N. Y. He has been a clergyman since 1870, and now fills a pastorate in the First congregational church of Daytona, Fla.
BINGHAM, EDWARD FRANKLIN, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Aug. 13, 1828, in Concord, Vt. He received his education in the select and public schools and Peacham academy in Vermont, and at Marietta college, Ohio. During 1850-55 he was prosecuting attorney of Vinton, Ohio; and served as a representative in the Ohio legislature in 1855-57. In 1860 he was a delegate to the democratic national convention of Charleston, S. C., and Baltimore by adjournment. For several years he was a member of the board of education of Columbus, Ohio; city solicitor during 1867-71; chairman of the democratic examining committee of Ohio in 1868, and as such conducted the campaign of that year. In 1873 he was elected common pleas and district court judge, was twice re-elected and served until 1887, when he was appointed by the president of the United States as chief justice of the supreme court, District of Columbia, in which office he is now serving. In 1881 he was the nominee of the democratic state convention of Ohio for supreme judge of that state.