Mason, J. M. (James Murray), 1798-1871
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United States senator.
U.S. Congressman, and Confederate commissioner to England and France; from Winchester (Frederick Co.), Va.
Confederate Diplomatic Commissioner in Europe.
Mason was a representative (1838-1839) and senator (1841-1861) from Virginia and is viewed as the author of the Fugitive Slave Law. He served the Confederacy as Minister to Great Britain. -- Dallas, at the time of the letter, was the U.S. Minister to Great Britain (1856-1861); he previously had been Minister to Russia (1837-1839), the 11th vice president of the United States (1845-1849) and Senator from Pennsylvania (1831-1833); he also held offices in Pennyslvania.
Virginia politician.
U.S. senator and representative from Virginia and Confederate diplomatic agent in Great Britain.
James Murray Mason served in both the U.S. House and the Senate from Virginia. During the Civil War he was sent as a diplomatic commissioner to Europe, especially Great Britain.
James Duncan Graham (1799-1865), an army engineer, distinguished himself in national border surveys.
Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887), zoologist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, pioneered field studies methods in botany and zoology, published prolifically in ornithology and zoology, and headed the U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries from its founding in 1871.
Asa Gray (1810-1888), Fisher professor of Natural History at Harvard (1842-1888), was a pioneer in plant geography and published widely on the descriptive botany of North America.
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Slavery
Botany
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Cotton trade
Cotton trade
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Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862
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Trent Affair, 1861
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Great Britain
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Manchester (England)
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Great Britain
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