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Train, Charles Russell

soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 18, 1817, in Framingham, Mass. He was elected to the Massachusetts legislature in 1847; and from 1848 to 1851 he was district attorney for northern Massachusetts. He was a second time appointed district attorney; and in 1857 and 1858 served as a member of the state council. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the thirtysixth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. In 1875 he was elected attorney-general of Massachusetts.