Papers, 1804-1887.

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Papers, 1804-1887.

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Correspondence, photographs, and autobiographical sketches relating mainly to Lanman's "Dictionary of the United States Congress" and to his interest in the United States Navy and the War Department. Autobiographical letters from the following North Carolina Congressmen are included: Joseph Carter Abbott, Archibald Hunter Arrington, Thomas Lanier Clingman (2), William Davidson, John Adams Gilmer, David Heaton, James Madison Leach, David Settle Reid, Alfred Moore Scales, Henry Marchmore Shaw, Francis Edwin Shober, John Pool, and Warren Winslow. Other items include: letters addressed to various Secretaries of the Navy throughout the 19th century; letters from Robert Smith, Secretary of the Navy under Thomas Jefferson, to Attorneys General Caesar A. Rodney and John Breckinridge; one broadside sent by Lanman to the Congress to announce a new edition of his "Dictionary"; 2 rare photographs--a wet collodion process proof of David Settle Reid attributed to Matthew Brady and a calotype of Congressman James Barroll Ricaud of Maryland; two letters from Daniel Moreau Barringer, a three-term congressman from North Carolina (1843-49), regarding Lanman's proposed "Dictionary"; and a biographical sketch of Barringer's uncle, Daniel Laurens Barringer, likewise a Congressman from North Carolina (1826-1835).

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7563449

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Smith, Robert, 1757-1842

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Scales, Alfred M. (Alfred Moore), 1827-1892

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Alfred M. Scales, a lawyer from Madison, N.C., was a Democratic Representative in Congress and was a presidential elector for Breckinridge and Lane. In 1861, he became a captain of the 13th Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers. In 1862, he was promoted to Brigadier General and given command of a brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, where he remained until the surrender at Appomatox in 1865. After the war, he served in the House of Commons, was again elected to Congress, and was elected gov...

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Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895

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Charles Lanman, writer, journalist and amateur painter, was born in Monroe, Michigan, June 15, 1819. He spent much of his career working as a journalist in Monroe and Cincinnati, Ohio. He moved to Washington DC in 1848 and worked as a librarian in various branches of government, including the War Department, the Copyrights Division of the Department of State, the executive library of President Fillmore, and the Interior Department. He wrote several books in his career on topics of travel and wil...

Winslow, Warren, 1810-1863

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Reid, David Settle, 1813-1891

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Barringer, Daniel Moreau, 1806-1873

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American lawyer, politician and diplomat; US Congressman from N.C. 1843-1849; US minister to Spain, 1849-1853 From the guide to the Daniel Moreau Barringer letters, 1844, 1857, undated, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Daniel Moreau Barringer of Cabarrus County and Raleigh, N.C., was a lawyer; North Carolina state legislator; United States representative, 1843-1849; minister to Spain, 1849-1853; active Whig and later Democrat; and member of t...

Gilmer, John A. (John Adams), 1805-1868

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Representative from North Carolina. From the description of Autograph clipped from the register of Brown's Hotel : Washington, DC., [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269561275 ...

Leach, J. M. (James Madison), 1815-1891

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Brady, Matthew.

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Bills of the 96th Congress to provide for temporary increases in the public debt limit, and for other purposes. From the description of Public debt legislation, 96th Congress : legislative history of public debt legislation, 1979-1980. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 243776779 Bill of the 96th Congress to impose a windfall profit tax on domestic crude oil, and for other purposes. From the description of Crude oil windfall profit tax act of 1980 ...

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Clingman, T. L. (Thomas Lanier), 1812-1897

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Pool, John, 1826-1884

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