Saunders, Alvin
merchant, banker, governor, United States senator, was born July 12, 1817, in Fleming county, Ky. He was postmaster at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, for seven years. He was a state senator for eight years; and was one of the commissioners appointed by congress to organize the Pacific Railroad company. He was governor of the territory of Nebraska from 1861 until it was admitted as a state in 1867; and was elected a United States senator from Nebraska for the term of six years from March 4, 1877.