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WINDOM, William, senator, born in Belmont county, Ohio, 10 May, 1827. He received an academie education, studied law at Mount Vernon, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1850. In 1852 he became prosecuting attorney for Knox county, but in 1855 he removed to Minnesota, and soon afterward he was chosen to congress from that state as a Republican, serving from 1859 till 1869. In that body he served two terms as chairman of the committee on Indian affairs and also was at the head of the special committee to visit the western d tribes in 1865, and of that on the conduct of the commissioner of Indian affairs in 1867. In 1870 he was appointed to the United States senate to fill the unexpired term of Daniel S. Norton, deceased, and he was subsequently chosen for the term that ended in 187'7. He was re-elected for the one that closed in 1883, and resigned in 1881 to enter the cabinet of President Garfield as secretary of the treasury, but retired on the accession of President Arthur in the same year, and was elected by the Minnesota legislature to serve the red, reindeer of his term in the senate. In that body Mr. Windom acted as chairman of the committees on appropriations, foreign affairs, and transportation.
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