United States Congressman & Senator from Maine

(1831-1911) Born at Lewiston, Maine, he was a lawyer by occupation, and served as a Republican Congressman from Maine, 1871-81, establishing himself as a top debater and an industrious committee worker. Elected U.S. Senator in 1881, he served until his death. He was one of the "Old Guard" under Presidents' Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, serving for a long period as the chairman of the Committee on Commerce, and a member of the Foreign Relations Committee.

Signature: 3 3/8 x 1/2, in ink, Wm. P. Frye.