Autograph letters signed (3) : New York and Berlin, to Benjamin Franklin Butler, 1826 Jan. 4-1836 Aug. 1.

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Autograph letters signed (3) : New York and Berlin, to Benjamin Franklin Butler, 1826 Jan. 4-1836 Aug. 1.

Concerning the introduction of a bill concerning the Masters in Chancery and Henry Wheaton's diplomatic future.

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Wheaton, Henry, 1785-1848

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Henry Wheaton's career included terms as a reporter for the U.S. Supreme Court (1816-1827) and U.S. chargé d'affaires to Denmark (1827-1834). He was a noted historian of international law. From the description of Letter to Mr. Plumer, ca. 1820. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235181043 ...

Butler, Benjamin Franklin, 1818-1893

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Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the sixth and youngest child of John Butler and Charlotte Ellison Butler. His father served under General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and later became a privateer, dying of yellow fever in the West Indies not long after Benjamin was born. He was named after Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. His elder brother, Andrew Jackson Butler (1815–1864), would serve as a colonel in the Union Army during t...