Letters, 1883-1894.

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Letters, 1883-1894.

Letters written at Albany, N.Y. and Washington, D.C. to his aunt, Jennie Scott, Delaware County, N.Y. Lamont writes in 1883 "...that I have been appointed Private Secretary to Governor Cleveland." In 1892 letter he writes that "I hope you have not believed the absurd newspaper stories about my sickness-I am simply neither very sick nor very well but I am getting better." Also writes about his father's death and mother's illness.

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Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908

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Grover Cleveland, born in Caldwell, NJ, 18 March 1837; moved to Buffalo, NY in 1855; Erie County Sheriff, 1871-1874; Mayor of Buffalo, 1882; Governor of New York, 1883-1884; President of the United States, 1885-1889, 1893-1897; married Frances Folsom, 1886; died at Princeton, NJ, 24 June 1908....

New York (State). Governor

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Articles I and IV of the State Constitution authorize the governor to grant executive clemency to convicted criminials (Executive Law, Sections 15-19). Among the types of clemency offered is restoration of citizensip rights, by which the governor restores civil rights lost as a result of a conviction (e.g. right to vote, right to hold public office). From the description of Restoration of citizenship rights application ledgers, 1857-1902. (New York State Archives). WorldCat record id...

Lamont, Daniel Scott, 1851-1905

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