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in New Hampshire; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1835; and was a Representative in Congress, from Illinois, from 1849 to 1851.

Young, William S.-He was born in Nelson County, Kentucky; and was a Representative in Congress, from that State, from 1825 to 1827.

Yulee, David L.-He was born in the West Indies, of Hebrew extraction, in 1811, but when quite young was removed to Virginia, where he received the rudiments of a classical education. He emigrated to Florida in 1824, and though he studied law, he divided his time between the practice of his profession and the pursuits of agriculture. He was a Delegate to Congress, from the Territory of Florida, from 1841 to 1845, bearing the name of Levy, and, as Yulee, was a Delegate to the Convention which formed the State Constitution; and was elected a Senator in Congress, in 1845, where he continued until 1861, officiating as Chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. He was also President of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad in Florida. Withdrew from the Senate to take part in the Rebellion of 1861, and at the close of the conflict he was confined in Fort Pulaski as a Prisoner of State.

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office, and in 1829 took upon himself the management of a newspaper at Paris, Tennessee. In 1834 he was editor and publisher of the Columbian Observer," in the same State; in 1835 he was elected State printer, and re-elected in 1837; in 1842 he removed to Nashville, and edited the "Banner;" in 1843 he was elected Comptroller of the State Treasury, and was re-elected in 1845 and 1847; in 1849 was elected to the State Senate; in 1850 was a contractor for building the Suspension Bridge at Nashville; in 1851 and 1852 again edited the "Nashville Banner;" and was elected a Representative in Congress, from Tennessee, in 1853, where he continued until the close of the Thirtyfifth Congress, serving in the same as a member of the Committee on Territories. He subsequently joined the great Rebellion, and served as a General of Volunteers, and was killed at the battle of Somerset, Kentucky. He was a Delegate to the "Peace Congress" of 1861.

Zubly, John Joachim. He was a native of Switzerland; graduated at Princeton College in 1770; settled in Savannah, Georgia, as a Presbyterian Minister; was a Doctor of Divinity, and preached in the German, English, and French languages; and, though elected as a Delegate to the Continental Congress in 1755, was disloyal to the American cause, and denounced on the floor of Congress as a traitor to the American cause. He died in Savannah in 1781.

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SUCCESSIVE SESSIONS OF CONGRESS.

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Showing the Commencement and Termination of each Session of Congress held under the Present Constitution, with the Number of Days in each.

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