Letter, September 19, 1867.

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Letter, September 19, 1867.

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Letter to Peregrine W. Browning, Dr. Charles Wells, and unnamed members of a committee, declining to speak at a mass meeting supporting President Andrew Johnson on September 21 because Lamon's schedule was already busy. Declares support for Johnson and opposition to radical aspects of Congressional reconstruction including attempts to impeach Johnson.

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Browning, Peregrine W., 1809?-1900

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Merchant of Washington, D.C. From the description of Peregrine W. Browning papers, 1825-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131911 ...

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

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Andrew Johnson (b. December 29, 1808, Raleigh, North Carolina-d. July 31, 1875, Carter's Station, Tennessee) became the seventeenth president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1808. He began his political career in Greenville, Tennessee in 1828. At the time of this letter he was the Democratic senator from Tennessee. Emerson Etheridge was born in Carrituck County, North Carolina. As a representative of Tennes...

Lamon, Ward Hill, 1828-1893

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Ward Hill Lamon, a close friend and a biographer of Abraham Lincoln. A native of Virginia, he moved to Illinois in 1847. He became Lincoln's law partner, and in the 1850's worked for his political career. In 1861, Lamon accompanied Lincoln to Washington. In the same year he was appointed Marshal of the District of Columbia. After Lincoln's assassination, Lamon practiced law in a partnership with Jeremiah S. Black. Black's son, Chauncey F. Black ghostwrote Lamon's Life of Abraham Lincoln (1872). ...

Wells, Charles, fl. 1867.

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