ADDICKS, John Edward, American capi talist: b. Philadelphia, 21 Nov. 1841. He ac quired a large fortune as a gas manufacturer, organizing and becoming president of the Bay State Gas Company of Boston in 1884, and buy ing control of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Gas Company in 1892. For 11 years he was of national prominence as candidate for the United States senatorship from Delaware, which he did not succeed in obtaining, but till 1906 was able to prevent the election of any rival, leaving both of Delaware's seats vacant. In 1895 his rival was H. A. Du Pont, and among the members of the legislature voting was the former speaker of the Senate. later governor through the death of Governor Mar vel; the Democrats and Populists declared his vote illegal, and refused to seat Du Pont. In 1896 the Republican State Convention to elect delegates to the St. Louis National Con vention split and elected two sets, Du Pont and Addicks; the former was recognized as IregU.•
laro by the St. Louis Committee on Creden tials, while the other section called themselves Union Republicans. In 1899 a successor to Senator Gray was balloted for, but no elec tion followed. In 1900 as in 1896 two sets of delegates went to Philadelphia, and this time the committee seated the Addicks party; though he was thus recognized as State party chief, the 1901 election for Senator was again a stalemate, and as there were two to elect, the State was left entirely unrepresented in the Senate. In the session of 1903 Addicks nominally withdrew, and the legislature elected two Senators, a Regular for the short term and a Union for the long term. On 12 June 1906 Du Pont was elected. Addicks's fortune was greatly impaired by his political course and was still further diminished by a court order in 1907 which obliged him to pay $890,000 of profits unlawfully drawn from the Bay State company.