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Benjamin Franklin Hallett (December 2, 1797 – September 30, 1862) was a Massachusetts lawyer and Democratic Party activist, most notable as the first chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Benjamin Franklin Hallett was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts. After graduating from Brown University in 1816, he studied law and began a journalistic career in Providence, Rhode Island. He soon moved to Boston, where he began with the Boston Advocate, shifting to the Boston Daily Advertiser in 1827. At that time he espoused the views of the Anti-Masonic Party, but when that particular group went out of fashion he switched to the Democratic Party as an enemy of Henry Clay. He joined and became a prominent member of the Suffolk County, Massachusetts bar.
As a candidate for Congress in 1844 and 1848 he was defeated both times by Whig Robert C. Winthrop. In the latter race Charles Sumner was also a candidate, representing the Free-Soil Party. In 1848 he became, for four years, the first Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
In March 1853, President Franklin Pierce appointed Hallett to succeed George Lunt for a four-year term as United States District Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. At the 1856 Democratic National Convention, Hallett was chairman of the Platform Committee.
Role in the splintering of the 1860 Democratic Convention
In 1860 he was chosen as a delegate, but skipped the Charleston, South Carolina, meeting (the convention, scheduled April 23-May 3, 1860, coincided with the death of Hallett's wife, Laura Smith Larned, of bilious fever, on May 3, 1860). Trying to regain the seat he had vacated, the convention at Baltimore voted 138 to 112 to deny Hallett the seat. He then joined the walk-out Convention that nominated John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane.
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<p>Benjamin Franklin Hallett (December 2, 1797 – September 30, 1862) was a Massachusetts lawyer and Democratic Party activist, most notable as the first chairman of the Democratic National Committee.</p>
<p>Benjamin Franklin Hallett was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts. After graduating from Brown University in 1816, he studied law and began a journalistic career in Providence, Rhode Island. He soon moved to Boston, where he began with the Boston Advocate, shifting to the Boston Daily Advertiser in 1827. At that time he espoused the views of the Anti-Masonic Party, but when that particular group went out of fashion he switched to the Democratic Party as an enemy of Henry Clay. He joined and became a prominent member of the Suffolk County, Massachusetts bar.</p>
<p>As a candidate for Congress in 1844 and 1848 he was defeated both times by Whig Robert C. Winthrop. In the latter race Charles Sumner was also a candidate, representing the Free-Soil Party. In 1848 he became, for four years, the first Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.</p>
<p>In March 1853, President Franklin Pierce appointed Hallett to succeed George Lunt for a four-year term as United States District Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. At the 1856 Democratic National Convention, Hallett was chairman of the Platform Committee.</p>
<p>Role in the splintering of the 1860 Democratic Convention</p>
<p>In 1860 he was chosen as a delegate, but skipped the Charleston, South Carolina, meeting (the convention, scheduled April 23-May 3, 1860, coincided with the death of Hallett's wife, Laura Smith Larned, of bilious fever, on May 3, 1860). Trying to regain the seat he had vacated, the convention at Baltimore voted 138 to 112 to deny Hallett the seat. He then joined the walk-out Convention that nominated John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane.</p>
Wikipedia.org article for Benjamin F. Hallett, viewed May 30, 2020
<p>Benjamin Franklin Hallett (December 2, 1797 – September 30, 1862) was a Massachusetts lawyer and Democratic Party activist, most notable as the first chairman of the Democratic National Committee.</p>
<p>Benjamin Franklin Hallett was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts. After graduating from Brown University in 1816, he studied law and began a journalistic career in Providence, Rhode Island. He soon moved to Boston, where he began with the Boston Advocate, shifting to the Boston Daily Advertiser in 1827. At that time he espoused the views of the Anti-Masonic Party, but when that particular group went out of fashion he switched to the Democratic Party as an enemy of Henry Clay. He joined and became a prominent member of the Suffolk County, Massachusetts bar.</p>
<p>As a candidate for Congress in 1844 and 1848 he was defeated both times by Whig Robert C. Winthrop. In the latter race Charles Sumner was also a candidate, representing the Free-Soil Party. In 1848 he became, for four years, the first Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.</p>
<p>In March 1853, President Franklin Pierce appointed Hallett to succeed George Lunt for a four-year term as United States District Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. At the 1856 Democratic National Convention, Hallett was chairman of the Platform Committee.</p>
<p>Role in the splintering of the 1860 Democratic Convention</p>
<p>In 1860 he was chosen as a delegate, but skipped the Charleston, South Carolina, meeting (the convention, scheduled April 23-May 3, 1860, coincided with the death of Hallett's wife, Laura Smith Larned, of bilious fever, on May 3, 1860). Trying to regain the seat he had vacated, the convention at Baltimore voted 138 to 112 to deny Hallett the seat. He then joined the walk-out Convention that nominated John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane.</p>
Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009
Series: Case Files, 1790 - 1911
File Unit: U.S. v. Thomas Higginson
Item: Indictment of Thomas W. Higginson, 10/16/1854
Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009
Series: Case Files, 1790 - 1911
File Unit: U.S. v. Thomas Higginson
Item: Indictment of Thomas W. Higginson, 10/16/1854
Title:
Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009
Series: Case Files, 1790 - 1911
File Unit: U.S. v. Thomas Higginson
Item: Indictment of Thomas W. Higginson, 10/16/1854
Lawyer and statesman. Correspondence, diary, notes, writings, and engraved portraits relating primarily to Rush’s duties as attorney general, secretary of state, minister to Great Britain, and secretary of the treasury, and legal documents concerning a loan from the Netherlands he arranged to finance the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company in and near the District of Columbia.
ArchivalResource:
60 items; 1 containers plus 1 oversize; .2 linear feet
Lawyer and statesman. Correspondence, diary, notes, writings, and engraved portraits relating primarily to Rush’s duties as attorney general, secretary of state, minister to Great Britain, and secretary of the treasury, and legal documents concerning a loan from the Netherlands he arranged to finance the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company in and near the District of Columbia.
ArchivalResource:
60 items; 1 containers plus 1 oversize; .2 linear feet
Rush, Richard, 1780-1859. Richard Rush papers, 1805-1852.
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Hallett, Benjamin Franklin, 1797-1862
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Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).
Title:
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).
A collection of images, manuscripts, and printed material, mostly relating to the Massachusetts soldiers and regiments in the American Civil War. Some material relates to other Union regiments and the Confederate States of America.
ArchivalResource:
47 linear feet (143 boxes, 2 volumes)
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive);, 1861-1912 (bulk).
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Hallett, Benjamin Franklin, 1797-1862
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William Warland Clapp correspondence, 1790-1891 (inclusive), 1840-1891 (bulk)
Clapp, William Warland, Jr., 1826-1891. Correspondence, 1790-1891 (bulk 1840-1891)
Title:
William Warland Clapp correspondence, 1790-1891 (inclusive), 1840-1891 (bulk)
Letters to American journalist and author William Warland Clapp Jr. from his friends, colleagues, and family. Also includes some other papers.
William Warland Clapp correspondence, 1790-1891 (inclusive), 1840-1891 (bulk).
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Hallett, Benjamin Franklin, 1797-1862
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Letters, 1849, 1853, 1858.
Randall, Henry Stephens, 1811-1876. Letters, 1849, 1853, 1858.
Title:
Letters, 1849, 1853, 1858.
Autograph letters to Randall, regarding obtaining copies of a documentary history of New York, 1849 and 1853, and a letter from Thomas S. Williams to O. S. Seymour, 1858.
Randall, Henry Stephens, 1811-1876. Letters, 1849, 1853, 1858.
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Hallett, Benjamin Franklin, 1797-1862
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Letter: Washington, D.C., to Benjamin F. Hallet[t], Boston, Mass., 1854 July 22
Marcy, William L. (William Learned), 1786-1857. Letter: Washington, D.C., to Benjamin F. Hallet[t], Boston, Mass., 1854 July 22
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Letter: Washington, D.C., to Benjamin F. Hallet[t], Boston, Mass., 1854 July 22
Letter signed. Signed by Marcy, U.S. Secretary of State. Relates to the "conduct and discharge" of John Wise, one of the seamen of the brig R.W. Packer, and the subsequent trial and conviction of Captain Amariah Mayo, master of the Packer.
Marcy, William L. (William Learned), 1786-1857. Letter : Washington, D.C., to Benjamin F. Hallet[t], Boston, Mass., 1854 July 22.
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Hallett, Benjamin Franklin, 1797-1862
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Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009
Series: Case Files, 1790 - 1911
File Unit: U.S. v. Thomas Higginson
U.S. v. Thomas Higginson
Title:
Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009
Series: Case Files, 1790 - 1911
File Unit: U.S. v. Thomas Higginson
Scope & Content:
This file unit concerns the Anthony Burns fugitive slave case. The defendant, Thomas Higginson, resisted the U.S. Marshal serving the writ to arrest Anthony Burns, a slave who had escaped from Virginia from his owner, Charles F. Suttle.
Jackson, Henry R. (Henry Rootes), 1820-1898. Henry Rootes Jackson scrapbook, ca. 1860.
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Henry Rootes Jackson scrapbook, ca. 1860.
The collection consists of a scrapbook containing a number of pamphlets and clippings such as: Biographical Sketches of Hon. John C. Breckinbridge and General Joseph Lane (1860); Address of Hon. John C. Breckinridge ... preceding the Removal of the Senate from the old to the new chamber, January 4, 1859 (1860); Remarks of Hon. Joseph Lane ... Dec. 19, 1859; The dividing line between federal and local authority (1859); Observations of territorial sovereignty (1860); Speech of Hon. J.P. Benjamin ... May 22, 1860; Reply of Hon. Jefferson Davis to the speech of Senator Douglas ... May 16 and 17, 1860 (1860); Speech of Hon. Robt. Toombs of Georgia ... May 21, 1860; Speech of President Buchanan on the evening of Monday, July 9, 1860; Speech of Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson ... July 18, 1860; Speech of Hon. B. F. Hallett ... June 25, 1860; Minority report of Mr. Stephen ... (1860).
Scrapbook, 1839-1860, of newspaper clippings and pamphlets concenring the Democratic Party. The volume includes speeches by Benjamin Franklin Hallett and proceedings of the Massachusetts State Democratic Conventions, 1839 and 1840.
Hallett, Benjamin Franklin, 1797-1862. Scrapbook, 1839-1860 / Massachusetts Democratic Party.
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Hallett, Benjamin Franklin, 1797-1862
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Records, 1860.
Democratic National Convention (1860 : Charleston, S.C.). Records, 1860.
Title:
Records, 1860.
Letters, minutes, resolutions, committee reports, ballots, and newspaper clippings (some of which deal with the convention and with the character of Ulysses S. Grant). Includes letters written by the delegations from Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Florida, South Carolina, and Texas upon their withdrawal from the convention and a letter of protest from the Massachusetts delegation against the excluding of Benjamin F. Hallett from the convention.
Democratic National Convention (1860 : Charleston, S.C.). Records, 1860.
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Hallett, Benjamin Franklin, 1797-1862
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Whiting Griswold Correspondence 1843-1874
Whiting Griswold Correspondence, 1843-1874
Title:
Whiting Griswold Correspondence 1843-1874
Lawyer and politician. Letters to Griswold from various prominent figures relating to such topics as the Whig, Free Soil, and American parties, the Democratic Party, his legal practice, Massachusetts politics, patronage, the Hoosac Tunnel, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Civil War, and the 1853 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention.
ArchivalResource:
210 items; 1 container; .2 linear feet
Letter: Washington, D.C., to Benjamin F. Hallet[t], Boston, Mass., 1854 July 22
Marcy, William L. (William Learned), 1786-1857. Letter: Washington, D.C., to Benjamin F. Hallet[t], Boston, Mass., 1854 July 22
Title:
Letter: Washington, D.C., to Benjamin F. Hallet[t], Boston, Mass., 1854 July 22
Letter signed. Signed by Marcy, U.S. Secretary of State. Relates to the "conduct and discharge" of John Wise, one of the seamen of the brig R.W. Packer, and the subsequent trial and conviction of Captain Amariah Mayo, master of the Packer.
Benjamin F. Hallett continued a career in journalism, became a politician and lawyer. Hallett was a US District Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
Benjamin F. Hallett graduate Brown University in the Class of 1816 in Providence, Rhode Island. Benjamin F. Hallett stayed in Providence for a period of time and started a journalist career.
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