moved in 1854 to Maine, where he edited the Portland Advertiser and the Kennebec Journal;
member, State house of representatives 1859-1862, serving the last two years as speaker;
elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1863, to July 10, 1876, when he resigned;
Speaker of the House of Representatives (Forty-first through Forty-third Congresses); chairman, Committee on Rules (Forty-third through Forty-fifth Congresses);
reelected and served from July 10, 1876, to March 5, 1881, when he resigned to become Secretary of State; chairman, Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Forty-fifth Congress), Committee on Rules (Forty-fifth Congress);
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Christiania - the name of Oslo, from 1624 to 1925.
The Free State of Christiania - a partially self-governing neighborhood in the city of Copenhagen.
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