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Show TH K L AT K J VUti K DBA K K. Hon. CHAJtLEa D. Dkake, late chief justice of the United Stated court of claims, -who was found dead in his bed at Washington, was born in Cincinnati, O., on April 11, 111. He entered the navy as a midshipman in ls-7, but remained re-mained in the service three years only, when he abandoned it to study law.and was admitted to the bar in 18:53. In the following year he Bottled ia St. Louis, where he practised his profession sue-eessfully sue-eessfully -for many years. At the outbreak out-break of tiie rebellion he took an active and Conspicuous part against the seces-1 sion movement and became one of the leading nieu ia the republican party ID his state. In 1865 he was a member and vice-president of the convention that framed the present constitution of Missouri. In January, 1807," Mr. Drake was elected to the United States senate sen-ate as the successor of li. .' it at. Brown. Three years later came th' split in the republican party of the state, in which B.Gbatz Browm and Gakl Schurz led off one wing of the party, which finally became identified with the democracy: Mr. DRAKE remained a stalwart republican repub-lican and in December, 1870, was appointed ap-pointed chief justice of the court of claims. To accept this place on the bench he threw up his seat ill the sen- ate three years before the expiration of I his term, although he thereby made the j election of the late General Francis P. ' Bi.AlK, a democrat, possible as his sue- ' cessor. He remained on the bench of the cour' of claims until .January, 1885, when he was retired on the lull salary sal-ary of sooeo. |