Ficklin, Orlando B., lawyer and politician was born in Kentucky, Dec. 16, 1808, and admitted to the bar at Mt. Carmel, Wabash County, Ill., in March 1830.  In 1834 he was elected to the lower house of the Ninth General Assembly.  After serving a term as State's Attorney for Wabash County, in 1837 he removed to Charleston, Coles Coounty, where in 1838, and again in'42, he was elected to the Legislature, as he was for the last time in 1878.  He was four times elected to Congress, serving from 1843 to '49, and from 1851 to '53; was Presidential Elector in 1856, and candidate for the same position on the Democratic ticket for the State-at-large in 1884; was also a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1856 and '60.  He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1862.  Died at Charleston, may 5, 1886.

Notes & Sources:
Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, 1907, p. 164. Transcribed by L. K Ortman