HINDS, JAMES, a Representative from Arkansas;
born in the town of Hebron, near Salem, N.Y., December 5, 1833;
attended the common schools and the State normal school at Albany, N.Y.;
attended law school at St. Louis, Mo., and was graduated from the Cincinnati Law College in 1856;
was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in St. Peter, Minn.;
district attorney for three years and served for some time as United States district attorney for the State of Minnesota;
joined an expedition under Governor Sibley against the Indians on the western frontier in 1862;
although a member of the Democratic Party, was a supporter of President Lincoln;
moved to Little Rock, Ark., in 1865 and continued the practice of law;
delegate from Pulaski County to the State constitutional convention in 1867;
served as a commissioner to codify the State laws;
upon the readmission of Arkansas to representation was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress and served from June 22, 1868, until assassinated near Indian Bay, Ark., October 22, 1868;
interment in East Norwich, N.Y.
