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REDFIELD PROCTOR
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in the senate as chairman of the committee on Agriculture and Forestry and as a member of the committee on Fisheries, Coast Defenses, Military Affairs, District of Columbia, Post Offices, the Philippines, and on the select committees on the University of the United States, and on Industrial Expositions. He is the author of " Early Vermont Conventions, 1776-1777," published in 1904. He is a member of the Republican party. His pastimes are hunting and fishing. A genealogy of the Proctor family has been published which contains a biographic sketch of Senator Proctor, and his life has been published by the Lewis Publishing Company, New York.

He was married May 26, 1858, to Emily J. Dutton. They have had five children, three of whom are living in 1906. Their oldest son, Fletcher D. Proctor, in 1889 succeeded his father as president of the Vermont Marble Works; he has also served politically in his state as a representative in the legislature, for the term 1890-91, and also for the term 1900-01, and he was also chosen speaker of the house for that year, and in the following year, 1901, he was elected to the state senate of Vermont.

Senator Proctor's address is Proctor, Vermont.