Raum, Green Berry
soldier, lawyer, congressman, author, was born Dec. 11, 1829, in Golconda, Ill. In 1861 he participated in the war for the union as major of the fifty-sixth Illinois volunteers, and was promoted to the rank of brevet brigadier-general in 1864, and to the full rank of brigadier in 1865. In 1866 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the fortieth congress as a republican. He was commissioner of internal revenue from 1876 to 1883; and subsequently United States commissioner of pensions.
He is the author of The Existing Conflict between Republican Government and Southern Oligarchy.