Louis Addison Dent papers, 1717-1946 [manuscript].

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Louis Addison Dent papers, 1717-1946 [manuscript].

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The papers chiefly concern Dent's public activities, particularly 1890-1900, and provide information about Washington, D.C., politics; the machinations behind appointments to various offices; his work for Secretary of State James G. Blaine; foreign affairs, especially in the West Indies, where he visited the U.S. consulates; abuses in the foreign service during the administration of Grover Cleveland; Dent's appointments to the Jamaican consulate (he had been appointed in 1892 but was removed by Cleveland and was reappointed in 1897, serving there during the War of 1898); and his work as registrar of wills in Washington, D.C., auditor of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, special assistant to the Attorney General, and as a member of various commissions, committees, and societies.

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