| | '''Nathaniel Prentice Banks''', a Representative from [[Massachusetts]]; born in Waltham, Mass., January 30, 1816; member of the State house of representatives 1849-1852, for two years serving as speaker; member of the State constitutional convention of 1853; elected as a [[Democrat]] to the Thirty-third Congress, as the candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress, and as a [[Republican]] to the Thirty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1853, until he resigned December 24, 1857, to become [[Governor]]; Speaker of the House of Representatives (Thirty-fourth Congress). | | '''Nathaniel Prentice Banks''', a Representative from [[Massachusetts]]; born in Waltham, Mass., January 30, 1816; member of the State house of representatives 1849-1852, for two years serving as speaker; member of the State constitutional convention of 1853; elected as a [[Democrat]] to the Thirty-third Congress, as the candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress, and as a [[Republican]] to the Thirty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1853, until he resigned December 24, 1857, to become [[Governor]]; Speaker of the House of Representatives (Thirty-fourth Congress). |