Plater, George – Plumer, William
Plater, George
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born in 1736 in St. Mary's county, Md. He was judge of the Maryland court of appeals; and was a delegate to the continental congress from 1778 to 1781. He was president of the convention which ratified the federal constitution; and was governor of Maryland in 1792. He died Feb. 10, 1792, in Annapolis, Md.
Plater, Thomas
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1801 to 1805.
Platt, Charles Adams
artist, was born Oct. 16, 1861, in New York city. He has given much attention to etching, in which branch of art he has been very successful. His works include Interior of Fishhouses; Fishing Boats; Provincial Fishing Village; Old Houses Near Bruges; Deventer, Holland; Quai des Orfèvres, Paris; and Dieppe.
Platt, Charles Davis
educator, author, was born March 18, 1856, in Elizabeth, N. J. He has been principal of the Morris academy at Morristown, N. J., since 1883. He is the author of a volume entitled Ballads of New Jersey in the Revolution.
Platt, Franklin
geologist, author, was born Nov. 19, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a Pennsylvania geologist, president of the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal company from 1881; and the author of Coke Manufacturing; Waste in Mining Anthracite; and other volumes of geological reports.
Platt, James H
soldier, physician, banker, congressman, was born July 13, 1837, in Canada. He was elected a member of the constitutional convention of Virginia in 1867. He was president of the People's Savings bank of Petersburg; and was elected a representative to the fortyfirst, forty-second and forty-third congresses as a republican.
Platt, Jonas
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 30, 1769, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was judge of the supreme court of New York; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1799 to 1801. He died Feb. 22, 1834, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Platt, Orville Hitchcock
lawyer, state legislator, United States senator, was born July 19, 1827, in Washington, Conn. He was clerk of the Connecticut state senate in 1855 and 1856; and was secretary of the state in 1857. He was a state senator in 1861 and 1862; and was a representative in the state legislature in 1864 and 1869, serving the latter year as speaker. He was elected a senator of the United States from Connecticut as a republican for the term of six years from March 4, 1879; in 1885 was re-elected for a second term, ending March 3, 1891; and was again elected in 1897 for term ending in 1903. mer-
Platt, Thomas Collier
chant, banker, congressman, United States senator, was born July 15, 1833, in Owego, N. Y. He was president of the Tioga National bank at its organization; and became largely interested in the lumbering in Michigan. He was county clerk of the county of Tioga in 1859, 1860, and 1861; and was elected to the forty-third and forty-fourth business congresses. He was elected United States senator in 1881, and resigned that office May 16 of the same year; and was chosen secretary and director of the United States Express company in 1879, and in 1880 was elected president of the company. He was member and president of the board of quarantine commissioners of New York from 1880 till 1888. He was president of the Southern Central railroad. He was elected United States senator in 1896, and took his seat March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903.
Platt, William Henry
clergyman, author, was born April 16, 1821, in Amenia, N. Y. He is an episcopal clergyman of Rochester, N. Y., and more recently of Petersburg, Va. He is the author of Influence of Religion in the Development of Jurisprudence; After Death-What?; God Out and Man In; and The Philosophy of the Supernatural.
Platt, Zephaniah
congressman, was born in 1740 in Dutchess county, N.
Y. He was a delegate from New York to the continental congress from 1784 to 1786.
Platt, Zephaniah
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1796 in Plattsburg, N. Y. He was appointed by the United States government its attorney to settle its claims on the Pacific coast. He was state attorney-general of Michigan for several years, and took high rank at the bar. He removed to South Carolina at the close of the civil war, and from 1868 until his death was judge of the second circuit. He died April 20, 1871, in Aiken, S. C.
Plautz, Samuel
clergyman, college president, was born June 13, 1859, in Gloversville, N. Y. For many years he filled a pastorate in Detroit; and is now the president of the Lawrence university of Appleton, Wis.
Pleasanton, Augustus James
soldier, author, was born in 1808 in District of Columbia. He was an army officer prominent for a short time as the author of a work on the Influence of the Blue Ray in Developing Animal and Vegetable Life. He died in 1894.
Pleasants, James
congressman, governor, United States senator, was born Oct. 24, 1769, in Goochland county, Va.
He was a representative in congress from 1811 to 1819; and was United States senator from 1819 to 1822. He was governor of Virginia from 1822 to 1825. He died Nov. 9, 1836, in Goochland county, Va.
Pleasants, John Hampden
journalist, was born Jan. 4, 1797, in Goochland county, Va. He removed to Richmond, Va., and in 1824 founded the Constitutional Whig and Public Advertiser, and was its chief editor for twenty-two years. He died Feb. 27, 1846, in Richmond, Va.
Pleasonton, Alfred
soldier, was born June 7, 1824, in Washington, D. C.
In 1844 he graduated from the United States Military academy. He took part in the Mexican war; served on frontier duty; and was an adjutant-general in the Seminole war. In 1861 he was appointed major; in 1862 was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers; and subsequently became major-general. He participated in the numerous actions that preceded the battle of Gettysburg, and was commander-in-chief of the cavalry in that engagement. In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general of the United States army. In 1868 he became United States collector of internal revenue; and a a few years later was appointed president of the Terre Haute and Cincinnati railroad.
Plowman, Thomas Scales
soldier, merchant, banker, congressman, was born June 8, 1843. After the war he engaged in the mercantile business; and was three times mayor of Talladega, Ala. For a number of years he has been president of the First National bank of Talladega, which he organized. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Plumb, Charles Sumner
educator, author, was born April 21, 1860, in Westfield, Mass. He has been professor of agriculture in various institutions; and since 1890 with the Purdue university of La Fayette, Ind. He is the author of A Biographical Directory of American Agricultural Scientists; Indian Corn Culture; and during 1887-91 edited and published a monthly magazine entitled Agricultural Science.
Plumb, Preston B
soldier, journalist, lawyer, state legislator, United States senator, was born Oct. 12, 1837, in Berkshire, Ohio. In 1856 he moved to Kansas; and the following year was instrumental in laying out the town site of Emporia; and founded The Kansas News. In 1851 he was a member of the Leavenworth constitutional convention; was admitted to the bar in 1861; and served with distinction through the civil war, attaining the rank of colonel. In 1867-68 he was a representative in the state legislature; and in 1877 became a United States senator from Kansas; and was re-elected in 1883 and in 1888. For fifteen years he was president of the Emporia National bank. He died Dec. 20, 1891, in Washington, D. C.
Plumb, Ralph
soldier, merchant, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born March 29, 1816, in Busti, N. Y. In 1854 he was elected a representative in the Ohio state legislature and served three sessions. He was brevetted lieutenantcolonel for long and meritorious service in the civil war. In 1866 he moved to Illinois; and in 1882 was elected mayor of Streator without an opposing vote, and continued in that office until 1885. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.
Plumer, Arnold
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843. He was subsequently appointed United States marshall for the western district of Pennsylvania.
Plumer, George
congressman, was born in Allegheny county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1821 to 1827.
Plumer, William
lawyer, state legislator, governor, United States senator, was born June 25, 1759, in Newburyport, Mass. He was for many years solicitor for the county of Rockingham; was for eight years a member of the state legislature, two years speaker of the house; and served as a member and president of the state senate. He was a senator in congress from 1802 to 1807; and was governor of New Hampshire in 1813, and from 1816 to 1819. He died June 22, 1850, in Epping, N. H.
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