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Schenck, Robert Cumming

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 4, 1809, in Franklin, Ohio. In 1840 he was elected a representative to the Ohio legislature; was reelected in 1842; and was a representative in congress from his native state from 1843 to 1851. In 1861 he served as brigadier and major-general in the union army; and in 1862 was elected to the thirty-eighth congress. He was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress. He was reelected to the fortieth and forty-first congresses. In 1870 he was appointed minister to England; and on his return to the United States, settled in Washington city in the practice of his profession. He died March 23, 1890, in Washington, D. C.