Duff Green Papers 1716-1883 (bulk 1827-1845)

Green, Ben. E. (Benjamin Edwards), 1822-1907

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Credit Mobilier of America

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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States. Born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaw Settlement in South Carolina; though just a boy, participated in the battle of Hanging Rock during the Revolution, captured by the British and imprisoned. He worked for a time in a saddler's shop and afterward taught school before studying law in Salisbury, N.C. In 1788 he was appointed solicitor of the western district of North Carolina, comprising what is now the State of Tennessee. Upon the admission of T...

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

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Edward Everett was an American statesman, clergyman, and orator, as well as professor of Greek at Harvard University and president of Harvard University, 1846-1849. Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard with highest honors in 1811, completing an M.A. in Divinity in 1814. After a brief stint as a minister, Harvard offered him the newly created position of Professor of Greek; brilliant but untrained, Everett went to Göttingen to prepare for...

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. As one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, he argued over 200 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1814 and his death in 1852. During his life, he was a member of the Federalist Party, the Nati...

Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866

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Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United States Senate and served in the Cabinets of two U.S. Presidents, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. He was also the 1848 Democratic presidential nominee and a leading spokesman for the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which held that the people in each territory should decide whether to permit slavery. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he attended Philli...

Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792-1864

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George Mifflin Dallas (July 10, 1792 – December 31, 1864) was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of Philadelphia from 1828 to 1829 and as the 11th vice president of the United States from 1845 to 1849. The son of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander J. Dallas, George Dallas attended elite preparatory schools before embarking on a legal career. He served as the private secretary to Albert Gallatin and worked for the Treasury Department and the Second Bank of the United Stat...

Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850

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John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. He is remembered for strongly defending slavery and for advancing the concept of minority states' rights in politics. He did this in the context of protecting the interests of the white South when its residents were outnumbered by Northerners. He began his political career as a nationalist, mo...

Crallé, Richard K. (Richard Kenner), 1800-1864

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Editor of the works of John C. Calhoun. From the description of Richard K. Crallé papers, 1814-1861. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981821 Newspaper editor, confidential clerk of John C. Calhoun, and editor the The works of John C. Calhoun, 1854-58. From the description of Papers of Richard Kenner Crallé [manuscript] 1829-60. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647968670 ...

Kendall, Amos, 1789-1869

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Editor of the Extra Globe, Washington, D.C. From the description of Letters, 1840-1844. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36437687 American politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to John Mills, United States Attorney in Boston, 1840 May 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270491445 American politican. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Frankfort, to W. W. Worsley, bookseller in Lex...

Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850

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Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), the twelfth president of the United States. In 1841, he was appointed to the command of the Sourthern Division of the United States. In the spring of 1845, Taylor appointed to command the Army of Occupation stationed in Corpus Christi. In May 1846, Taylor led his army into north Mexico. Following the battle of Monterey, Taylor was ordered to join General Winfield Scott at the siege of Veracruz. Taylor's victory at at the Battle of Buena Vista made him a national hero....

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

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Epithet: US President British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x000128 James Buchanan, Jr. (1791-1868) was the 15th President of the United States, serving from 1857–1861. Prior to his presidency, Buchanan represented Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives and later the Senate, and served as Secretary of State under President James K. Polk (1845-1849). Source : About the White Hous...

Hill, Isaac, 1789-1851

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Governor of and U.S. senator from New Hampshire and publisher. From the description of Isaac Hill papers, 1829-1834. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980684 Journalist, publisher, governor of New Hampshire, U.S. senator, and member of President Andrew Jackson's "kitchen cabinet." From the description of Papers, 1811-1852. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963781 ...

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

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Martin Van Buren (b. Kinderhook, New York, December 5, 1782-d. July 24, 1862, Kinderhook, New York), studied law, was admitted to bar, New York, 1803; moved to Huson surrogate of Columbia Co.; member of State Senate, 1813-1820; attorney general of New York, 1815-1819; delegate to state constitutional convention, 1821; U.S. Senate Democrat, March 4, 1821-1828; Governor of New York, 1828-1829; U.s. Secretary of State, March 12, 1829 - August 1, 1831; Vice President, 1832; President, 1836-1840....

Cobden, Richard, 1804-1865

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Richard Cobden, English textile manufacturer and politician. From the guide to the Richard Cobden manuscript material : 1 item, ca 1843, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Cobden was born in Dunford, Sussex, England on June 3, 1804; became a middle-class manufacturer and MP, advocating free trade, non-intervention in foreign affairs, an end to aristocratic misrule, and a variety of radical political reforms; became intere...

Cabell, John J.

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Born on November 30, 1772, in Virginia. Early convert to religion of Swedenborgianism. Studied medicine in Philadelphia, became a physician in Lynchburg, Virginia. Also store owner, salt manufacturer, farmer and owner/editor of several political newspapers. Established weekly paper, the Jeffersonian Republican, in 1828 with Achilles D. Johnson; became a semi-weekly and renamed The Jeffersonian in 1830 with Cabell and Richard K. Cralle as editors; ceased publication ca. 1832. Died in Kanawha Coun...

Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841

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Epithet: of Add MS 34580 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001094.0x00030c American Indian fighter and president of the United States. From the guide to the William Henry Harrison letter, 1795, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) U.S president, Mar.-Apr. 1841; territorial governor of Indiana, 1801-1813; Ohio congressman, 1816-1819, state senator, 1819-1821, senator 1825-1828. From ...

Ellis, Henry, 1777-1869

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English librarian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Octave Delepierre, 1845 May 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270614089 From the description of Autograph letter signed : "British Museum", to Robert Balmanno, 1827 Apr. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270614079 From the description of Autograph letter signed : "British Museuam", to G.P.R. James, 1849 Apr. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270614096 From the description of...

MacGregor, John, 1825-1892

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John MacGregor, Vice President of the Ragged Schools Society and founder of the Shoeblack Brigade, took up canoeing in 1865. His narrative of his first long journey, A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe (1866), went through thirteen editions. He chronicled his journey to the Middle East in The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Red Sea and Gennesareth (1869). A dedicated promoter of the sailing canoe, he founded the Royal Canoe Club. From the description of Log books of voyages in the Rob Roy, ...

Eaton, John Henry, 1790-1856

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Biographical note: American lawyer and politician; served as U.S. Senator (1818-1829), U.S. Secretary of War (1829-1831), governor of Florida (1834-1836), and U.S. minister to Spain (1836-1840). Alexander Macomb (1782-1841) was commanding general of the U.S. Army from 1828 to 1841. From the description of Letter to General Macomb, 1829-1829. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 48433475 Tennessee state representative, 1815-1816; Tennes...

Peel, Robert, 1788-1850

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Sir Robert Peel, second baronet, British Prime Minister from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835, and also from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846. From the guide to the Robert Peel manuscript material : 3 items, ca. 1822-1835?, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) British statesman, of Tamsworth, Staffordshire, Eng. From the description of Correspondence, 1816-1864 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record i...

Green, Duff, 1791-1875

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Journalist, politician, and industrial promoter. From the description of Papers of Duff Green, 1810-1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71070528 Businessman, publisher, printer for U.S. Congress, 1827-1833. From the description of Letter : Washington, to W.R. Smith, 1834 Oct. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22456195 From the description of Letter : Dalton, Ga., to H. Maynard, 1874 Jan. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22456215 Editor, indus...

Tyler, John, 1790-1862

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John Tyler (b. March 29, 1790, Charles City County, Virginia–d. January 18, 1862, Richmond, Virginia), was the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845) and the first to succeed to the office following the death of President William Henry Harrison....

Madison, James, 1751-1836

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James Madison (1751-1836) was the fourth president of the United States, born in Port Conway, Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia legislature from 1776 to 1780 and from 1784 to 1786, and the Continental Congress from 1780 to 1783. His proposals at and management of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 earned him title "father of the U.S. Constitution." He cooperated with Alexander Hamilton and Jay in writing a series of papers (pub. 1787-88 under title of The Federalist) explaining the ne...

Green, Lucretia

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