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Elkins, Stephen Benton

soldier, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 26, 1841, in Perry county, Ohio. He was a member of the territorial legislative assembly of New Mexico in 1864 and 1865. He held the offices of territorial district attorney, attorney-general, and United States district attorney; elected to the fortythird congress as a republican, and while was abroad was renominated and elected to the forty-fourth congress. After leaving congress he removed to West Virginia and devoted himself to business affairs; was appointed secretary of war in 1891; and in 1894 was elected to the United States senate as a republican. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.