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Sickles, Daniel Edgar

soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 20, 1823, in New York city. In 1847 he was elected to the assembly of New York, and in 1856 to the state senate. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-fifth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress He served in the union army during the rebellion; lost a leg in battle, and attained the rank of major-general of volunteers. In 1866 he was appointed minister resident to the Netherlands, but declined. He was subsequently appointed a colonel in the regular army; and in 1867 was brevetted a major-general for gallant and meritorious services at Gettysburg. He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.