Hull, Isaac
commodore, was born March 9, 1775, in Derby, Conn. He is distinguished as the commander of the American frigate Constitution, which captured the British frigate Guerriere, in the first naval action of the war of 1812, and for which he received a gold medal from congress. He died Feb. 13, 1843, in Philadelphia, Pa. HULL, JOHN A. T., soldier, manufacturer, state senator, congressman, was born May 1, 1841, in Sabina, Ohio. He enlisted in the twenty-third Iowa infantry in July, 1862; and was first lieutenant and captain. He was elected secretary of the Iowa state senate in 1872, and re-elected in 1874, 1876, and 1878; and was elected secretary of state in 1878, and reelected in 1880 and 1882. He was elected lieutenant-governor in 1885 and re-elected in 1887. He was elected to the fiftysecond, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.