Green Clay Smith papers, 1863-1891.

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Green Clay Smith papers, 1863-1891.

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Smith's papers consist of a scrapbook and two miscellaneous items. Smith's scrapbook contains a variety of newspaper clippings and published speeches related to the Civil War, Kentucky politics during that era, and Smith's post-war activity as a prohibitionist and Union veteran. Most of the clippings are either speeches given by Smith, letters written by Smith, or articles that reference Smith. Many of the articles concern Smith's 1863 campaign for representative from Kentucky's Sixth Congressional District and political issues Smith faced in Congress. Post-war material documents Smith's campaign as the presidential candidate of the National Prohibition Party and his work with the Union Veterans' Union.

.33 cubic feet.

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United States. Congress 1863-1865)

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Union Veterans' Union

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Smith, Green Clay, 1826-1895

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Green Clay Smith was a United States Congressman from Kentucky, a Union General during the Civil War, and a Territorial Governor of Montana. Born in 1826, he was the son of John Speed Smith and Elizabeth (Clay) Smith, who was the daughter of Green Clay and the sister of Cassius and Brutus Clay. Green Clay Smith served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Mexican War and practiced law in Covington until 1861. After the beginning of the Civil War, Smith served in the Kentucky House of Representatives and al...