Letters. 1825-1873.

Smith, Caleb B. (Caleb Blood), 1808-1864

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Caleb Blood Smith, lawyer, congressman, and Secretary of the Interior. Smith was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives, and was reelected in 1834, 1835, and 1836. He represented Indiana in the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congress serving on the Committee of Foreign Affairs, and chairing the Committee on Territories. Known for his staunch opposition to the Mexican War, he refused another nomination and left Congress in 1849. He practiced law in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was p...

Free-Soil Party. National Convention (1857 : Buffalo)

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Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869

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Republican legislator from Maine who became a U.S. Representative, Senator, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Secretary of the Treasury. He was a strong opponent of slavery. From the description of Papers, 1837-1869. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17462689 William Pitt Fesssenden was a U.S. senator from Maine (1854-1864, 1865-1869) and Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War (1864-1865). His sons, General Francis and Brigadier General ...

Dartmouth College

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The celebration of the 150th anniversary of the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dartmouth College Case was held on April 9, 1969, in the Court of Claims, Washington, D.C.; the celebration also commemorated the career of Daniel Webster, the advocate who defended the case before the Supreme Court. During the ceremony Justice Earl Warren, Senator Thomas J. MacIntyre, and Dartmouth College President John Sloan Dickey spoke before an audience of legislators, jurists, historians, and alumni....

Swayne, Noah Haynes, 1804-1884

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Associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, state legislator from Ohio, and lawyer. From the description of Noah Haynes Swayne signature, 1873 August 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980563 American jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Clinton Rice, 1878 Nov. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270579131 Swayne practiced law in Coshocton, Ohio and served as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court (1862-1881). ...

Flanders, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1816-1896

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Benjamin Franklin Flanders was appointed Governor of Louisiana (1867-1868), served as Mayor of New Orleans (1870-1872), and was Assistant Treasurer of the United States in new Orleans (1873-1882). From the description of Flanders, Benjamin F., letter, 1891. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 82558222 Benjamin F. Flanders, a native of New Hampshire, studied law in New Orleans, served as Third Municipal District alderman (1848-1852), and was also...

Smith, Asa D. (Asa Dodge), 1804-1877

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Asa D. Smith was the seventh president of Dartmouth College; he was in office from 1863 to 1877. He was born in Amherst, N.H. in 1804. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1830 and from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1834. In 1849 he received his DD from Williams College, and in 1864 he received his LL D from the University of New York. He died in Hanover, N.H. in 1877. From the description of Papers, 1865-1876. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 237296549 ...

Coggeshall, William Turner, 1824-1867

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Military secretary to Governor Dennison of Ohio during Civil War from April 12, 1861 through Nov. 22, 1862. In 1862 he moved from Columbus to Springfield, Ohio with his wife and started a newspaper. In 1866 he was appointed Minister to Ecuador and died there in 1867. From the description of Diary, 1861-1862. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 48528773 ...

Barstow, Z. S. (Zedekiah Smith), 1790-1873

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Plumley, Benjamin Rush, 1816-1887.

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Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

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Lawyer. From the description of Letter, 1845 March 4, Cincinnati, [Ohio], to Robert F. Paine, Columbus, O[hio]. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 13541605 Salmon P. Chase served as the Secretary of the Treasury from 1861 to 1864. He oversaw the creation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (1862) and implemented the introduction of the income tax and the national currency. From the description of Letter press book of the Secretary of the Treasury. 1863, Ju...

Wade, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1800-1878

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American senator from Ohio (1851-1869). From the description of Autograph letter signed : Jefferson, Ohio, 1861 Apr. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 639962470 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, D.C., to an unidentified recipient 1865 Jan. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 639931419 Lawyer, U.S. senator from Ohio, and Republican Party leader. From the description of B.F. Wade papers, 1832-1886 (bulk 1852-1869). (Unknown). Wor...

American Party (Ohio)

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