Deboe, William J
physician, lawyer, United States senator, was born in 1849, in Crittenden county, Ky. He has served seven years as a member of the republican state central committee and was a member of the state campaign committee in 1896. In 1893 he was elected state senator for a term of four years.
He was elected to the United States senate after one of the most sensational and memorable sessions of the legislature of the state. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903. a DE BOLT, REZIN A., soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1828, in Fairfield county, Ohio. He removed to Missouri in 1858; and was for two years commissioner of public schools. He entered the volunteer army as a captain; and re-entered the army in 1864 as a major. he was elected circuit judge, and continued in the office until elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-fourth congress as a democrat.
DE BOW, JAMES DUNWOODY BROWNSON, lawyer, journalist, author, was born July 10, 1820, in Charleston, S. C.
He was professor of political economy and commercial statistics in the university of Louisiana in 1848; and was for three years at the head of the census bureau of Louisiana. In 1853 he was appointed superintendent of the United States census; was president of the commercial convention at Knoxville in 1857; contributed several articles to the Encyclopedia Britannica; was one of the founders of the Louisiana Historical society, now the Academy of Science. He was the author of Encyclopedia of the Trade and Commerce of the United States; The Southern States, Their Agriculture, Commerce, etc.; Industrial Resources of the Southwest; and Compendium of the Seventh United States Census. He died Feb. 27, 1867, in Elizabeth, N. J.