Samuel Hooper papers, 1836-1902.

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Samuel Hooper papers, 1836-1902.

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Papers of merchant, financier, and legislator Samuel Hooper, ca. 1836-1902. Correspondence, financial papers, deeds, government papers, printed materials, and estate papers document his business and political careers, including his tenure in the United States House of Representatives from 1861 until his death in 1875, during which Hooper helped shape the finance and currency policies of the Civil War. Includes correspondence of Hooper's father-in-law William Sturgis, his wife Anne Sturgis Hooper, and Salmon Portland Chase, U.S. secretary of state and chief justice, as well as papers of banker Frederick Dobbs Tappan.

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