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Gorman, Willis Arnold

soldier, lawyer, congressman, governor, was born Jan. 12, 1814, near Flemingsburg, Ky.

For several years he was a member of the Indiana state legislature. He was major of the third Indiana volunteers in the Mexican war, and in 1848 was civil and military governor of Puebla. He was a representative in congress from 1849 to 1853, from Kentucky. He was governor of Minnesota from 1853 to 1857, He was appointed brigadier-general in 1861, and was in the battles of Ball's Bluff and West Point. He died May 20, 1876, in St. Paul, Minn.