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Voorhees, Daniel Wolsey

lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 26, 1827, in Butler county, Ohio. He was appointed United States district attorney for Indiana in 1858, and held that office until he entered congress in 1861. He was elected to the thirtyseventh, thirtyeighth, thirty-ninth, forty-first, and fortysecond congresses.

He was appointed United States sena- 2 tor to fill a vacancy, and took his seat Nov. 12, 1877. Soon after entering the senate he addressed that body in favor of free coinage of silver and the preservation of the greenback currency as full legal-tender money; and in this speech he laid down the principles on which as a direct issue the state of Indiana was carried by the democratic party the following year. He was re-elected in 1885, and was re-elected in 1891.