Justin Smith Morrill Papers, 1825-1923.

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Justin Smith Morrill Papers, 1825-1923.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122387635

This collection consists of correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, scrapbooks, and U. S. Congressional reports and documents covering Justin Morrill's legislative career (1854-1898). The papers relate to his efforts in behalf of the Morrill Tariff Act of 1861, the sponsorship of the original and later land grant college acts, and other controversial post-Civil War political issues. Correspondents include James G. Blaine, Salmon P. Chase, L.E. Chittenden, Schuyler Colfax, Charles Dewey, Hamilton Fish, and Horace Greeley.

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Michigan State University Libraries, Main Library

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Michigan State University Libraries, Main Library

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Dewey, Charles

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