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VAN WYCK, Charles Henry, senator, born in Poughkeepsie, New York, 10 May, 1824. He was graduated at Rutgers in 1843, adopted the profession of law, and in 1850-'6 was district attorney of Sullivan county, New York He served in congress in 1859-'63, having been chosen as a Republican, and while holding his seat in that body became colonel of the 10th legion, or 56th regiment, of New York volunteers. He served with Gem George B. McClellan in the peninsula campaign, and in 1865 was made brevet brigadier-general of volunteers. He was again in congress in 1867-'71, and was chairman of the committee on retrenchments. He removed to Nebraska in 1874, engaged in farming, was a delegate to the Constitutional convention in 1876, state senator in 1876-'80, and in 1881 became United States senator.
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