Photographs of Matthew Fontaine Maury and R.M.T. Hunter, ca. 1870.

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Photographs of Matthew Fontaine Maury and R.M.T. Hunter, ca. 1870.

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One photograph is of Matthew Fontaine Maury by [Matthew] Brady's National Portrait Gallery and the second is of Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter by D. Appleton & Co., New York.

2 photographs : carte-de-visite.

University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7306022

University of Virginia. Library

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Hunter, R. M. T. (Robert Mercer Taliaferro), 1809-1887

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Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (April 21, 1809 – July 18, 1887) was a Virginia lawyer, politician and plantation owner. He was a U.S. Representative (1837–1843, 1845–1847), Speaker of the House (1839–1841), and U.S. Senator (1847–1861). During the American Civil War, Hunter became the Confederate States Secretary of State (1861–1862) and then a Confederate Senator (1862–1865) and critic of President Jefferson Davis. After the war, Hunter failed to win re-election to the U.S. Senate, but did ser...

Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873

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