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[[File:Nathaniel Prentice Banks - Brady-Handy (1).jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|Nathaniel Prentice Banks]]

'''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).  

== U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives contest for the Thirty-fourth Congress ==

== U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives contest for the Thirty-fourth Congress ==