Conkling, Roscoe
lawyer, statesman, was born Oct. 30, 1828, in Albany, N. Y. He was appointed district attorney for Oneida county; in 1858 was elected mayor of Utica, to which place he had removed in 1846; and at the close of 1858 was elected a representative from New York to the thirtysixth congress. He was re-elected to the thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth, thirtyninth and fortieth congresses. In 1867 he was chosen a senator in congress for the term ending in 1873. He was president of the republican state convention of 1867; and was reelected to the senate for the term ending in 1879; and was also re-elected for the term ending in 1885. He died April, 1888, in New York.