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Palmer (JOHN MCAULEY American lawyer)

JOHN MCAULEY, American lawyer; born in Eagle Creek, Scott co., Ky., Sept. 13, 1817. In 1839 he was admitted to the bar, and in 1843 was elected probate judge of Macoupin co., Ill.; in 1847 was elected a member of the constitutional convention, and in 1849 county judge of Macoupin co. was elected to the State Senate in 1852, and 1854. He presided over the Republican State Convention in 1856. He made an unsuccessful canvass for Congress in 1859; elector on the Lincoln ticket in 1860. In 1861 he was State delegate to the peace congress in Washington. He entered the army in 1861, retiring in 1866 with the rank of Major-General, U. S. A. He then settled in Springfield, Ill. In 1868 he was elected the 16th governor of Illinois, and served four years from January, 1869. In 1872 he returned to the Democratic party and supported Greeley for President. He was nominated by the Democrats in the Legislature in 1877 and twice afterward of Home Secretary. The mismanageas their candidate for United States ment of affairs in the Crimea caused the Senator, without however, being elected; was delegate-at-large to the National Democratic convention in 1884, and was nominated by the Democratic State convention for governor in 1888 and defeated. In 1896 he was the candidate of the Gold Democrats for President of the United States. He died Sept. 25, 1900.