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Ton (American lawyer born)

an American lawyer; born in Culpeper co., Va., June 9, 1809; removed to Indiana, and was admitted to the bar terms; was a presidential elector on the there in 1834. The same year he was elected to the legislature, serving two was elected to Congress. In 1843 he be- Harrison and Tyler ticket; and in 1841 gan to practise law in Terre Haute, was the Civil War had charge of a recruiting reëlected to Congress in 1847; and during post near Terre Haute and was provost marshal of the district. In 1877 he became Secretary of the Navy, but retired in 1881 to become chairman of the American Committee of the Panama Canal Papacy and the Civil Power"; "The His- Company. His publications include: "The tory of the Protective Tariff"; "Footprints of the Jesuits"; "Recollections of Sixteen Presidents, From Washington to Lincoln," etc. He died in Terre Haute, Sixteen Presidents, From Washington to Ind., Feb. 9, 1900.