Shanks, John P. C
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born June 17, 1826, in Martinsburg, Va. He was elected to the Indiana legislature in 1853 and 1854; and in 1860 was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirtyseventh congress. He visited the field of Bull Run in July, 1861, as a spectator, but became a participant. He was a delegate to the Pittsburgh soldiers' convention of 1866; and again elected to the fortieth congress. He was re-elected to the forty-first, forty-second, and forty-third congresses as a republican. In 1875 he was appointed an Indian agent.
SHANKS, FRANKLIN WILLIAM GORE, journalist, was born April 20, 1837, in Shelbyville, Ky. He is a journalist of New York city, and the author of Recollections of Distinguished Generals; and A Noble Treason, a tragedy.