Bainbridge Wadleigh letter, 1876 Dec. 20.

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Bainbridge Wadleigh letter, 1876 Dec. 20.

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Letter of Bainbridge Wadleigh to a Mr. Conant, most likely Charles F. Conant, who served in various capacities with the U.S. Treasury Department during the administrations of presidents Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes. Writing from New Orleans, La., Wadleigh comments on the contested 1876 presidential election in Louisiana, during which the Louisiana Returning Board threw out Democratic ballots in order to ensure a victory for Republican Rutherford B. Hayes. Wadleigh also describes a trip to a sugar plantation in Plaquemines Parish, a visit to Lake Pontchartrain over the shell road, and invitations from various social clubs in New Orleans.

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Wadleigh, Bainbridge, 1831-1891

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A native of Bradford, N.H., Bainbridge Wadleigh practiced law and served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives before being elected as a Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate in 1872. After failing to win a second term as a senator in the elections of 1878, Waleigh resumed the practice of law in Boston, Mass., where he died in 1891. From the description of Bainbridge Wadleigh letter, 1876 Dec. 20. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 190612698 ...

Conant, Charles F., 1835-1886

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