Papers, 1825-1851.

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Papers, 1825-1851.

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Papers include a letter, 1825, on economic conditions in Mexico; a land grant, 1830, for property in Texas; a letter, 1837, from Edward B. Dudley, governor of North Carolina, complaining about the activities of troops stationed in North Carolina to supervise the removal of the Cherokee Indians; routine letters to Poinsett as secretary of war; and a letter, 1851, concerning Poinsett's personal financial affairs.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851

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Charleston and Georgetown, S.C. attorney, plantation owner, and politician. Poinsett served as the U.S. Secretary of War under President Martin Van Buren from 1837 to 1841. From the description of Letters, 1837-1839. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 37522812 U.S. diplomat and secretary of war. An amateur of natural history, he imported and cultivated the Mexican flower named in his honor, and was one of the founders in 1840 of the National Institu...

Dudley, Edward, 1849-

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