Bishop Walden Perkins (October 18, 1841June 20, 1894) was a

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and

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from Kansas. Born in

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, he attended the common schools and Knox College (

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). He prospected for gold through

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and

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from 1860 to 1862 and served four years in the Union Army during the

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as sergeant,

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, and captain. He studied law in

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and was admitted to the bar in 1867, commencing the practice of law in

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. He moved to

Oswego, Kansas Oswego is a city in and the county seat of Labette County, Kansas, United States, and situated along the Neosho River. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,668. History Oswego is located on the site of an Osage village ca ...

and continued practice; he was a local county attorney for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad for two years and

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of Labette County in 1869. He was a judge of the

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of Labette County from 1870 to 1882, and became editor of the ''Oswego Register'' in 1873. Perkins was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1891. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress, but was appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of

Preston B. Plumb Preston B. Plumb (October 12, 1837December 20, 1891) was a United States senator from Kansas, as well as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Biography Born in Delaware County, Ohio, at 9 his family removed to Marysvill ...

, and served from January 1, 1892, to March 3, 1893, when a successor was elected and qualified. He resumed the practice of his profession in

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, and died there in 1894; interment was in

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