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Connover, Simon Barclay

physician, United States senator, was born Sept. 23, 1840, in Middlesex county, N. J.

He was appointed assistant surgeon in the army of the Cumberland, in 1863, and stationed at Nashville, Tenn.; after several promotions, was ordered to Lake City, signed his commission. He was a mem- Fla., in 1866, and shortly afterward reber of the convention which framed the state constitution in 1868; was appointed state treasurer; was a member of the Chicago convention in 1868; and was appointed a member of the national republican committee, on which he served four years. He was elected to the state legislature from the county of Leon, and presided over that body. He was elected to the United States senate for the term commencing in 1873 and ending in 1879.