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Proctor, Redfield 1831-

Statesman; born in Proctorsville, Vt., June 1, 1831; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1851; subsequently studied law in the Albany Law School; entered the National army at the outbreak of the Civil War as lieutenant; was mustered out as colonel in 1865. He was elected to the State legislature in 1867; to the State Senate in 1874; lieutenant-governor in 1876; governor in 1878; was Secretary of War in 1889-91; and then became a United States Senator. At the request of the President, Senator Proctor visited Cuba in March, 1898, and his report on the conditions existing there powerfully influenced public opinion in the United States.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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