Dingley
NELSON, an American legislator; born in Durham, Me., Feb. 15, 1832. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1855; was elected to the State Legislature six times; was governor of Maine in 1874-1875; was elected to Congress in 1881, and was re-elected for seven terms. He was the author of the Dingley Tariff Bill of 1897, and a member of the Anglo-American Commission of 1898. He died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 13, 1899.