Autograph letter signed : Charleston, to an unidentified friend in New York, 1832 July 5.

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Autograph letter signed : Charleston, to an unidentified friend in New York, 1832 July 5.

Introducing Judge Richardson.

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Richardson, John Peter, 1801-1864

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Governor and Congressman in U.S. House representing South Carolina; born at Hickory Hill plantation in Clarendon County, S.C.; 1819 graduate of South Carolina College at Columbia; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Fulton, S.C.; member of the S.C. House of Representatives, 1825-1833; judge of the circuit court; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by death of Richard L. Manning; reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress where he s...

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...