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Excerpt from Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of James Laird, a Representative From Nebraska: Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-First Congress, First Session His career as Congressman began with the Forty-eighth Congress. And he had just entered upon his fourth succes sive term. His achievements in the national House of Rep resentatives have been many and notable ones, which gave him prominence there among the strong and influential men of that body. He was especially solicitous for the welfare of the old soldier, for whom he labored with untiring zeal. The demands made upon him from a large and growing dis trict were even too much for a naturally strong and vigorous nature, both physically and mentally, such as were his. He devoted himself assiduously to the toil imposed upon him, but he was unable to hold up under the burden and broke down. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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