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Payne (SERENO ELISHA American)

SERENO ELISHA, American legislator. He was born at Hamilton, N. Y., in 1843, studied at the University of Rochester, and was admitted to the bar in 1866. He became first city clerk, then supervisor, district attorney and head of the education board at Auburn and, elected in 1883, for almost thirty years served in the House of Representatives. In politics he was a Republican, and specialized in tariff legislation, being largely responsible for the Payne-Aldrich Act of 1909. He died in 1914.