William Lewis Sharkey letter, 1868 Sept. 8.

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William Lewis Sharkey letter, 1868 Sept. 8.

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William Lewis Sharkey writes to B.R. Curtis regarding the constitutionality both of an act imposing a 3-cent tax on a pound of cotton and the composition of the U.S. Congress, as some Southern States had been denied representation.

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Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873.

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William Lewis Sharkey was a Mississippi State Representative (1828-1829), a justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court (1832-1851), and a Unionist during the Civil War. He was appointed a commissioner in 1865 along with William Yeager to confer on behalf of the state with President Andrew Johnson. Johnson appointed Sharkey to be provisional governor between June and October 1865. He was elected a U.S. Senator in 1865 but was denied his seat by the Congress. From the description of Will...

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