Flanders, Alvin
journalist, congressman, governor, was born in 1825 in Hopkinton, N. H. He took part in establishing the San Francisco Daily Times, with which he was connected until 1861.
Luring that year he was elected to the state legislature; spent two years in the United States branch mint; and in 1862 was appointed register of the Humboldt Bay Land office, which office he resigned.
He then removed to Washington territory, from which he was elected a delegate to the fortieth congress. In 1869 he was appointed governor of Washington territory.
FLANDERS, BENJAMIN FLANDERS, congressman, governor, was born Jan. 26, 1816, in Bristol, N. H. He became the editor of the Tropic newspaper of New Orleans; served as a member of the city government; was superintendent of a public school, and also of a railroad company. Towards the close of the year 1861 he was elected, under a new order of things, a representative from Louisiana to the thirty-seventh congress, taking his seat within a fortnight of its final adjournment; and in 1867 he was appointed, by military authority, governor of Louisiana. In 1870-73 he was mayor of New Orleans; and in 1873 was appointed United States treasurer of that city.