Subscription list for a speech by Hon. Francis P. Blair on the Kansas question, delivered in the House of Representatives. [Washington]. March 23, 1858
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Blair Jr., Francis Preston, 1821-1875
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Blair was born in Lexington, Kentucky. He was the third and youngest son of newspaper editor and politician Francis Preston Blair, and Eliza Violet (Gist) Blair. He was the brother of Montgomery Blair, a Mayor of St. Louis and Postmaster General under Lincoln, and the cousin of B. Gratz Brown, a U.S. Senator and Governor of Missouri. Blair attended schools in Washington, D.C., was matriculated in Yale and the University of North Carolina, but graduated from Princeton University in 1841, and then...
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Francis Preston Blair, Jr. (Feb. 19, 1821-July 9, 1875) was the only Free-Soiler from a slave state elected to Congress in 1856. As a Congressman from Missouri Blair denounced the Kansas-Nebraska Act as a violation of the Missouri Compromise. He was defeated for re-election to Congress in 1858. From the guide to the Subscription list for a speech by Hon. Francis P. Blair on the Kansas question, delivered in the House of Representatives. [Washington]., March 23, 1858, (Un...
