Excerpt from The Life of Benjamin F. Wade A word of the plan of the book for the casual reader. I take Mr. Wade through his career at the bar and on the bench till his election to the senate of the United States. I then go back to his election to the Ohio senate and pursue his political career with a thread of political history. So I sometimes conduct him through a congress, and then return to an intervening election campaign. This seems the more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.