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Catron, Thomas Benton

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 6, 1840, in Lafayette county, Mo. He has served as district attorney, and United States attorney for New Mexico. He was four times a member of the New Mexico legislature, and served as a delegate to the fifty-fourth congress from that state.

CATTELL, ALEXANDER GILMORE, merchant, United States senator, was born Feb. 12, 1816, in Salem, N. J. In 1840 he was elected to the state legislature.

In 1846 he settled in Philadelphia as a merchant; became a director in the Mechanics' bank; and was elected to the city councils from 1850 to 1854. In 1855 he returned to New Jersey, but continued his business in Philadelphia. He was one of the early presidents of the Corn Exchange association of that city; in 1858 organized the Corn Exchange bank, and was president of the same. In 1866 he was elected a senator in congress from New Jersey for the term ending 1871 to fill a vacancy.