Excerpt from Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William Pitt Fessenden (a Senator From Maine): Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, 41st Congress, 2d Session, December 14, 1869 His preeminent public career dates, strictly, from his eu trance into this body in 1854, as from this time he gave himself exclusively to his public duties. 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.