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Blair, Francis Reston

soldier, lawyer, congressman, author, was born Feb. 19, 1821, in Lexington, Ky. He adopted the profession of the law; and was a member of the Missouri legislature in 1852-54. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-fifth and thirty-seventh congresses. He was a colonel of volunteers in 1861; in 1862 was appointed a major-general in the army, and was subsequently re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress. In 1868 he was nominated for vice-president of the United States on the ticket with Horatio Seymour, and was defeated. He was a senator in congress to fill a vacancy in 1871-73. In 1848 he published the Life and Public Services of General William A.

Butler. He died July 8, 1875, in St. Louis, Mo.