Gallinger, Jacob H
journalist, physician, congressman, United States senator, was born March 28, 1837, in Canada. He practiced medicine and surgery from 1858 until he entered public life, and is a member of various state and national medical societies. He was a member of the house of representatives of New Hampshire in 1872-73 and 1891; and was a member of the state senate in 1878-80, being president of that body the last two years. He was surgeon-general of New Hampshire with the rank of brigadier-general in 1879-80. He was chairman of the delegation from his state to the republican national convention of 1888. He was elected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican, and declined renomination to the fiftyfirst congress, and was elected United States senator in 1890, and was re-elected in 1896.