Record Group 59: General Records of the Department of State, 1763 - 2002 Series: Letters of Resignation and Declination of Federal Office, 1789 - 1974 File Unit: Sickles, Daniel E.
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Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 1819-1914
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In 1819, Sickles was born in New York City to Susan Marsh Sickles and George Garrett Sickles, a patent lawyer and politician. (His year of birth is sometimes given as 1825, and Sickles was known to have claimed as such. Historians speculate that Sickles chose to appear younger when he married a woman half his age.) He learned the printer's trade and studied at the University of the City of New York (now New York University). He studied law in the office of Benjamin Butler, was admitted to the ba...
