Volume III Part 66 (2/2)

Spencer, Daniel C., nominated for ca.n.a.l com., 1876, iii. 339; defeated, 350.

Spencer, John C., son of Ambrose Spencer, i. 263; gifts, character, and career of, 263-5; likeness to Calhoun, 264; home at Canandaigua, 264; DeWitt Clinton's opinion of, 264; candidate for U.S. Senate, 266-7; defeated, 267; fails to become atty.-gen., 274; speaker of a.s.sembly, 276; opposes Tompkins' accounts, 276; headed electoral ticket, 1832, 393.

Seward's reliance upon, ii. 34; sec. of state, 36; ambitious to go to U.S. Senate, 38; sec. of war, 48; breaks with Weed, 48; with Scott at Albany, 176.

Spencer, Joshua A., defeated for U.S. Senate, ii. 38.

Spinner, Francis B., nominated for state comp., 1874, iii. 325; defeated, 331; nominated for sec. of state, 1877, 384; defeated, 387.

”Stalwarts,” t.i.tle of faction in Rep. party, 1880, iii. 429; use of regretted, 482.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, daughter of Daniel Cady, i. 169; gifts of, 169.

Starin, John H., aspires to be gov., 1879, iii. 414; career of, 414 and note; name presented for gov., 1882, 492; defeated, 494.

State debt, Hoffman's estimate of, 1846, ii. 108-9.

Steam navigation, history of its inception, i. 75-6.

Stephens, Alexander H., predicts civil war, ii. 279.

Stevens, Samuel, ancestry and career of, i. 376; nominated for lt.-gov., 376; defeated, 377; energy of, 390; renominated for lt.-gov., 1832, 393.

Stevens, Thaddeus, approves legal tender act, iii. 32; dislike of Johnson, 132; opposes his policy, 137; defeats Raymond, 141.

Stewart, Alvan, nominated for gov., ii. 82; character and career of, 82-3; defeated, 89; increasing strength, 89.

Stewart, William, brother-in-law of George Clinton, i. 117; made a.s.st. atty.-gen., 117.

Stillwell, Silas M., nominated for lt.-gov., i. 402; character and career of, 402; defeated, 404.

Stranahan, Ferrand, member of Council, i. 231.

Stroud, Reuben W., nominated for ca.n.a.l com., 1872, iii. 296; elected, 302; renominated, 1874, 315; defeated, 319.

Suffrage, restrictions of under first const.i.tution, i. 9.

Sumner, Charles, a.s.saulted by Brooks, ii. 225; Seward on, 225; excitement in North, 226; leads radicals in U.S. Senate, iii. 14; opposes President Johnson, 128; removed from Com. on Foreign Affairs, 278.

Sutherland, Jacob, appointed Supreme Court judge, i. 322.

”Swallow-tails,” faction of Tam., iii. 325; history of name, 325.

Swartwout, John, dist.-atty., i. 117, 121; challenges DeWitt Clinton, 127; wounded twice, 127; leader of Burrites, 152.

Sweeny, Peter B., known as Peter Brains Sweeny, iii. 177; Tweed's reliance upon, 177; begins, 1857, as dist.-atty., 177; the Mephistopheles of Tam., 178; hidden from sight, 178; city chamberlain, 178; cost of confirmation, 178; author of Tweed charter, 228; takes position of most lucre, 229; exposure of startling crime, 246; resigns from office, 1871, 247; escapes to Europe with plunder, 248; compromises and returns, 248, note.

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