"(November 30, 1831 -- July 10, 1881) Phineas Warren Hitchcock was a(n) public servant, lawyer, U.S. marshal, surveyor general, publisher, businessman, and American politician. Hitchcock was born in New Lebanon, Columbia County, New York and moved to Omaha, Nebraska in 1857. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He was appointed as a U.S. Marshall (1861 - 1864), appointed surveyor general of Nebraska and Iowa (1867 - 1869). Hitchcock was elected as a Republican Delegate to the Thirty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1865, to March 1, 1867, when the Territory was admitted as a State into the Union. Later elected as a Republican to the United States Senate (March 4, 1871 - March 3, 1877), he was not reelected. During his time in the Senate, he served as chairman on the Committee on Territories (44th congress). [Adapted from: 'biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=H000648]"