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Carlisle, John Griffin

lawyer, state senator, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 5, 1835, in Kenton, Ky. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1859-1861; was nominated for presidential elector on the democratic ticket in 1864, but declined; and was elected to the state senate in 1866, and re-elected in 1869.

He was a delegate at large from Kentucky to the national democratic convention at New York in 1868; was nominated for lieutenant-governor of Kentucky in 1871; resigned his seat in the senate in 1871; and was elected lieutenant-governor in 1871, serving until 1875. He was alternate presidential elector for the state at large in 1876; was elected to the fortyfifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, fortyeighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses; was elected speaker in the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, and fiftieth congresses; and was elected to the United States senate May 17, 1890, to fill a vacancy. He resigned to accept the portfolio of secretary of the treasury in President Cleveland's cabinet in 1893, and entered upon the duties of the office March 7, 1893, and served until 1897.