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Sullivan, Thomas Russell

author, was born in 1849 in Massachusetts.

He is a novelist of Boston, and the author of Tom Sylvester; Roses of Shadow; Day and Night Stories; and several plays.

SULLIVAN, WILL VAN AMBERG, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 18, 1857, near Winona, Miss. He was a member of the democratic national convention in 1892, and was by the national democratic convention of 1896, at the request of the state of Mississippi, elected a member for Mississippi of the national democratic executive committee, which position he now holds. He was nominated for congress, though not a candidate for the position, but a deadlock between the four aspirants having continued for several days, the nomination was tendered to and accepted by him, and he was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

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