President of the Northern Central Railroad of Pennsylvania
(1863-74), Secretary of War Under General Grant, and
Senator from Pennsylvania. Charles E. Stuart (1810-87),
Lawyer and Senator, was a descendant of Daniel Stuart
who came to America before 1680. Stephen Arnold
Douglas (1813-61), Senator and unsuccessful candidate
of the Democratic party for the Presidency in 1860,
was of Scottish origin. Joseph Ewing MacDonald
(1819-91), who held a foremost place among constitutional
lawyers and was Democratic candidate for Governor
of Indiana in 1864, was of Scottish ancestry.
Francis Montgomery Blair (1821-75), a descendant of
Commissary Blair of Virginia, was Senator from Missouri
(1871-73), and Democratic candidate for Vice-President
in 1868. James Burnie Beck (1822-90), born in
Dumfriesshire, was Member of Congress (1867-75) and
Senator from 1876 to 1890. He served on many
important committees. Joseph McIlvaine (1765-1826),
United States Senator from 1823 to 1826, was grandson
of a Scot. His father fought on the Colonial side
in the Revolution. Randall Lee Gibson (1822-92),
of Scottish ancestry, Major-General in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War, was United States Senator
from Louisiana from 1883 till his death. His
grandfather, Randall Gibson, was one of the founders
of Jefferson College, Mississippi. John Brown
Gordon (1832-1904), Lieutenant-General in the Confederate
Army, thirty-fifth Governor of Georgia and United
States Senator, was grandson of a Scot. Marcus
Alonzo Hanna (1837-1904) was also partly Scottish descent.
Calvin Stewart Brice (1845-1898), Chairman of the
Democratic Campaign Committee (1888) and Senator from
Ohio (1891-97), claimed descent from Bruce of Kinnaird.
Daniel Hugh McMillan (b. 1846), was much identified
with the welfare of Buffalo. His grandfather was
“John the Upright,” arbiter of the Hollanders
of the Mohawk Valley during the latter part of the
eighteenth century. Alexander McDonald (d. 1903),
Senator from Arkansas (1868-71), was the son of John
McDonald who came to the United States in 1827, and
was one of the first to discover and develop bituminous
coal mines on the west branch of the Susquehanna River
in Pennsylvania. John Lendrum Mitchell (1842-1904),
grandson of John Mitchell, farmer of Aberdeenshire,
was State Senator of Wisconsin, Member of Congress
from Wisconsin (1891-93), and Senator from the same
state (1893-99), was also noted as a capitalist.
Samuel James Renwick MacMillan (d. 1897), Chairman
of the Committee of Commerce, was of Covenanting descent.