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Pierce, Gilbert Ashville

soldier, lawyer, journalist, governor, United States senator, author, was born Jan. 11. 1838, in Cattaraugus county, N. Y. In 1868 he was elected a representative in the Indiana legislature. In 1872 he accepted an editorial position on the Chicago Inter-Ocean; was made managing editor of that paper in 1876, and remained in editorial charge until 1881, when he was tendered, and accepted, the position of chief editorial writer on the Chicago Daily News. He was the author of the Dickens Dictionary, and of two novels of a political character, as well as a number of plays. In 1884 he was appointed governor of the territory of Dakota; and in 1889 became a United States senator from North Dakota.