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Rockwell, Francis W

lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, governor, was born May 26, 1844, in Pittsfield, Mass. In 1873 he was appointed one of the special justices of the district court of Central Berkshire, Mass.; and held several local offices. In 1879 he was elected a representative in the state legislature; in 1881 was elected a state senator; and was re-elected in 1882. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-eighth congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the fortyninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican. From its incorporation in 1893 he has been president of the City Savings bank of Pittsfield, Mass.