Papers, 1846-1900.

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Papers, 1846-1900.

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Political speeches and correspondence, reflecting the political climate in Ohio following the Civil War, Republican Party activities and potential Ohio Republican candidates, the disputed election of President Rutherford B. Hayes, political appointments, the resumption of species payment, and U.S. Treasury Dept. business; together with 33 scrapbooks, chiefly containing newspaper clippings (1871-1897), but also political cartoons, transcriptions of speeches published in pamphlet form, and a small amount of printed matter, following Sherman's career as both public servant and politician in the U.S. Senate (1871-1877), as Secretary of the Treasury during the Hayes administration (1877-1881), and his return to the U.S. Senate in 1881 through Jan. 1897 when he became Secretary of State under President William Mckinley.

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