NORMAN BUEL An Ameri can lawyer and born at Rome, N. V. He was educated at the high school in his native city, studied law, and in 1S36 was admitted to the bar. He immediately removed to Chicago. Ill., where he began drew up the first charter of the incorporated city in IS3', and was elected first city IIe was county attorney for Cook County in 1839, and in 1844 was elected to the State of which body he remained a member by successive re elections until 1560. Originally a Democrat, lie allied himself with the Republican Party in 1856, was a delegate to the Philadelphia Convention in that year, and became chairman of the Illinois State Central Committee of the He held this position when the second Republican national e convened in Chicago in 1860, and to the adroit political management of Judd, Joseph Medill. and Leonard Swett is probably due, as much as to any other one thing, the nomination of Lincoln for the Presidency. In 1861 he was
appointed by President Lincoln Minister to Prussia, where he remained until 1865, and suc cessfully exerted his influence to prevent the recognition of the Confederacy. Having returned to America in 1865, he was elected to Congress in 186S, and served two terms. lie was one of the committee of managers of President Johnson's impeachment on the part of the House. The most important legislation of which he was the author was the act creating inland ports of entry and providing for shipment of goods in bond into the interior of the country. In 1873 he was Collector of United States Customs at Chicago. For twenty years before his death he was the best-known rail way lawyer in the country, and was closely con nected at one time or another with the develop ment of most of the great Western trunk lines.