Political miscellany, 1819-1888.

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Political miscellany, 1819-1888.

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Mostly letters from senators or others regarding politics and related concerns. Includes letters of Senator Thomas Edward Watson of Georgia; Judge George W. Nesmith; Senator Austin Franklin Pike of New Hampshire (1819-1886); E.C. Carrigan; and several with no salutation or signature. Also, calling cards of Senator Howell Edmunds Jackson of Tennessee, Senator William Mahone of Virginia, and Andrew Jackson, Jr.; and other miscellaneous items.

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Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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Nesmith, George W.

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Jackson, Andrew, Jr.

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Atkins, Dorothy.

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Pike, Austin F. (Austin Franklin), 1819-1886

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Watson, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), 1856-1922

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Thomas Edward Watson was born in Columbia County near Thomson, Georgia on September 5, 1856. He attended Mercer University in Macon, Georgia and during that time taught school for two years before he was admitted to the bar in 1875. Watson began practicing law in Thomson, Georgia in 1876, where he was also a farmer. Watson began his political career by winning election to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1882, where he served for one term. In 1888, Watson was appointed the presidential el...

Carrigan, E. C. (Edward Charles), 1850-1888

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Jackson, Howell Edmunds, 1832-1895

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Howell Jackson graduated from the Lebanon Law School in 1856, was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1880, to the U.S. Senate in 1881, was appointed U.S. Circuit judge by President Cleveland in 1891, and in 1893 became an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. From the description of Letter to Lawrence F. Bower, 20 November 1891. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339202 ...