Papers : of the Graham family, 1798-1925.

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Papers : of the Graham family, 1798-1925.

1798-1925

The collection contains correspondence, 1803-1830, and related materials of George Graham of Fairfax County, Va., and as chief clerk and acting secretary of the U.S. War Dept. and commissioner of the U.S. General Land Office, in part concerning the settlement of French refugees at Galveston Island, Mexico [now Texas], Jean Lafitte, and the financial claims of former president James Monroe. Some of Graham's correspondents include John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, James Madison, John Mason, and William Cabell Rives. Also includes 42 letters, 1817-1829, written by President James Monroe to Graham concerning Monroe's finances and indebtedness to the Bank of the United States, the "Ash Lawn" estate in Albemarle County, Va., Andrew Jackson, and the War of 1812. Also includes correspondence, 1829-1887, and related materials of George Mason Graham of Tyrone Plantation, Rapides Parish, La., and while adjutant general of the Louisiana state militia and president of the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, Alexandria, La. (now Louisiana State University). Some of the correspondents include Pierre G.T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Robert Charles Wickliffe. Also contains miscellaneous letters and papers of other members of the Crallé, Graham, and Stuart families of Virginia.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7279105

Virginia Historical Society Library

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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States. Born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaw Settlement in South Carolina; though just a boy, participated in the battle of Hanging Rock during the Revolution, captured by the British and imprisoned. He worked for a time in a saddler's shop and afterward taught school before studying law in Salisbury, N.C. In 1788 he was appointed solicitor of the western district of North Carolina, comprising what is now the State of Tennessee. Upon the admission of T...

Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

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P.G.T. Beauregard was a Confederate States Army general from New Orleans, Louisiana. The Aztec Club was organized in 1847 as a fraternal society for officers serving under General Winfield Scott's command in Mexico City. Several officers later became major Civil War leaders. From the description of Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard letter, 1892 Dec. 29. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 70294149 Former Confederate general and resident of New Orleans. At the t...

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

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John Quincy Adams (b. July 11, 1767, Braintree, Massachusetts-d. February 23, 1848, Washington, D.C.) was an American statesman who served as a diplomat, United States Senator, member of the House of Representatives, and the sixth President of the United States. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later the Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. He was the son of President John Adams and Abigail Adams. As a diplomat, Adams played an important role in neg...

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

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Henry Clay Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the Senate and House. He was the seventh House speaker and the ninth secretary of state. He received electoral votes for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 presidential elections. He also helped found both the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. For his role in defusing sectional crises, he earned the appellation of the "Great Compromiser" and was part of the "Grea...

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

Louisiana State Seminary for Learning and Military Academy (Alexandria, La.)

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Graham family.

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Represented in the collection primarily are George Graham (1770- 1830) who lived at Lexington Plantation in Fairfax County, Va., and served as chief clerk of the U.S. War Dept. and commissioner of the U.S. General Land Office under presidents Madison, Monroe, and Adams; and George Mason Graham (1807-1891), a Virginia native who moved to Tyrone Plantation in Rapides Parish, La., and served as an adjutant general of the Louisiana state militia and president of the Louisiana State Seminary (now Uni...

Lafitte, Jean, 1782-1854.

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Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.)

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United States. War Department

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Marcy served as Secretary of War under James K. Polk, 1845-1849. From the description of William L. Marcy letter : Washington [D.C.], to Col. J.D. Stevenson, New York City, ALS, 1846 June 26. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 43771263 Officer, Second U.S. Cavalry, 1868-1892. From the description of Report of Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane, 1870 Dec.15. (Montana State University Bozeman Library). WorldCat record id: 43955079 U.S. gov...

Mason, John, 1766-1849

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Stuart family.

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Madison, James, 1751-1836

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James Madison (1751-1836) was the fourth president of the United States, born in Port Conway, Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia legislature from 1776 to 1780 and from 1784 to 1786, and the Continental Congress from 1780 to 1783. His proposals at and management of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 earned him title "father of the U.S. Constitution." He cooperated with Alexander Hamilton and Jay in writing a series of papers (pub. 1787-88 under title of The Federalist) explaining the ne...

Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876

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Confederate Army officer, planter, and engineer. From the description of Braxton Bragg papers, 1833-1879 [microform]. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 44880220 Confederate General. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Mobile, to H. Storm, 1873 Oct. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133497 Army officer. From the description of Braxton Bragg papers, 1861-1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455179 G...

Graham, George, 1770-1830

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George Graham was born in Dumfries, Va., about 1772, and died in Washington in August, 1830. He graduated from Columbia College in 1790 and studied law. During the War of 1812 he commanded the "Fairfax Light-Horse." During the last two years of Madison's administration and until relieved by Calhoun, he was acting secretary of war. In 1818 he inspected General Lallemande's colonists at Orscaquies Bluffs on Trinity River and induced them to submit to the authority of the United States. He became p...

Graham, George Mason, 1807-1891.

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George Mason Graham was a planter of Tyrone Plantation, Rapides Parish, La., and a member of the Board of Supervisors of the State Seminary of Learning at Alexandria, La. From the description of G. Mason Graham commissions, 1858-1859. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 166300977 From the description of G. Mason Graham letter, 1860 Jan. 24. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 166300989 From the description of George Mason Graham letter, 1...

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

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James Monroe, fifth president of the United States of America (b. April 28, 1758, Monroe Hall, Virginia-d. July 4, 1831, New York, New York) fought with distinction in the Continental Army, and he practiced law in Fredericksburg, Virginia. As a young politician, he joined the anti-Federalists in the Virginia Convention which ratified the Constitution, and in 1790, an advocate of Jeffersonian policies, he was elected United States Senator. As Minister to France in 1794-1796, Monroe showed strong ...

Crallé family.

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Louisiana. Militia. Adjutant General.

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United States. General Land Office

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Under regulations approved on March 20, 1915, tracts set aside as villa sites under the provisions of an act of April 12, 1910, within the former Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, were offered for sale at public auction, beginning at Polson, Montana, on July 26, 1915. The sale was adjourned to Dayton, Montana, on August 6 and concluded at Kalispell, Montana, on August 7, 1915. There were 889 parcels of land, not less than 2 nor more than 5 acres in area, fronting on Flathead Lake, and under ...

Rives, William C. (William Cabell), 1793-1868

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William Cabell Rives was the son of Robert and Margaret Jordan (Cabell) Rives. He was educated at Hampden-Sydney College and at the College of William and Mary where he graduated in 1809. He studied law and politics under Thomas Jefferson. Rives served in the War of 1812 and in the Virginia House of Delegates. After his marriage, he lived at "Castle Hill," Albemarle County, Va. Rives served in the U. S. House of Representatives, 1823-1829 and in the U. S. Senate. He also was minister to France a...

Bank of the United States (1816-1836)

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In 1816, the Bank of the United States was rechartered, the first charter having expired in 1811, in an attempt to stabilize the national currency. Within the first three years, the bank was nearly ruined due to mismanagement. Langdon Cheves was elected president of its board of directors in 1819 and restored the bank's credit. In 1822, he resigned the post and was succeeded by Nicholas Biddle. The national charter for the bank expired in 1836, but Biddle kept the bank in operation until 1841, u...

Wickliffe, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1819-1895

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