[Edward Dickinson]. [between 1839-1856]

United States

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Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 with post offices being established as early as 1876. From the guide to the Franklin County, Idaho Post Office Location Records, 1876-1945, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) These photographs document Region 4, started in 1910, of the US Forest Service, covering Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. From the guide to the US Forest Service Photograph Collection., 19...

United States. Congress. House

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U.S. House of Representatives is the lower house of Congress. From the guide to the Subscription lists, 1870, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) The first session of the Congress of the United States, under a resolution passed by the Congress of the Confederation, on September 13, 1788, was called to meet in New York City on March 4, 1789. On the appointed day only 13 Members of the House were present and, as this number did not constitute a quorum, the sessions...

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

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Edward Everett was an American statesman, clergyman, and orator, as well as professor of Greek at Harvard University and president of Harvard University, 1846-1849. Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard with highest honors in 1811, completing an M.A. in Divinity in 1814. After a brief stint as a minister, Harvard offered him the newly created position of Professor of Greek; brilliant but untrained, Everett went to Göttingen to prepare for...

Stanton, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1812-1891

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Lawyer, editor, jurist, and U.S. congressman from Maysville, Ky. From the description of Richard H. Stanton : miscellaneous papers, 1847-1853. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49336647 ...

Chamberlain, E. M. (Ebenezer Mattoon), 1805-1861

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Dickinson, Edward, 1803-1874

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Edward Dickinson (b. January 1, 1803, Amherst, MA–d.June 16, 1874, Boston, MA) was an American politician from Massachusetts. He is also known as the father of the poet Emily Dickinson....

Howard, William Alanson, 1813-1880

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Republican congressman from Michigan and governor of Dakota Territory. From the description of William Alanson Howard papers, 1856-1880 and 1895. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419834 ...

Hunt, Theodore G. (Theodore Gaillard), 1805-1893

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Theodore G. Hunt was district attorney for New Orleans, a Louisiana state representative for Orleans Parish (1837-1842), and U.S. Representative for Louisiana (1853-1855). He served as colonel of the Fifth Louisiana Regiment, Confederate Army, in 1861 and 1862. He was appointed adjutant general of Louisiana with the rank of brigadier general by Governor Allen and remained in active service until the close of the Civil War. From the description of Theodore G. Hunt letter, circa 1854. ...

Briggs, George N. (George Nixon), 1796-1861

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Governor of Massachusetts, 1844-51. From the description of Letter : Lanesboro, Mass., to an unidentified correspondent, 1835 Nov. 12. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 29461777 George Nixon Briggs (1796-1861) began to study law in 1813 and in 1818 was admitted to the bar. In 1824, he was elected town clerk of Lanesboro, Mass., and in 1826, was appointed chairman of the commissioners of highways of Berkshire County. In 1830, he was elected to Congress, where he served...

Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869

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Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) was the 14th President of the United States (1853-1857). Prior to his presidency he served in both the House of Representatives (1833-1837) and the Senate (1837-1842) as a legislator from New Hampshire. Although a Northerner, he sympathized with the Southern cause during the American Civil War and was good friends with Jefferson Davis....

Massachusetts. General Court

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The Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, chartered by the English Crown in 1629, sat as a General Court, which after the 1630 emigration to America became the government of the Massachusetts Bay colony. It consisted of colony freemen (company stockholders); and the governor, deputy governor, and assistants (magistrates) chosen by them. The latter group met separately as a Court of Assistants, but in 1634 its legislative powers were ceded to the General Court as a whole (Ma...