Wadsworth, James W
soldier, capitalist, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 12, 1842, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was brevetted major for gallantry at the battle of Five Forks. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1878 and 1879; and was comptroller of the state from 1879 to 1881. In the latter year he was elected a representative from New York to the forty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the forty-eighth, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth, and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.