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Found in 10 Collections and/or records:

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Breckinridge Family Papers

Identifier: MSS13698
Abstract Family prominent in Kentucky and national politics and government. Correspondence, diaries, speeches and articles, subject files, financial and legal papers, scrapbooks, and other papers of various members of the Breckinridge family. The bulk of the collection is composed of the papers of John Breckinridge, Robert J. Breckinridge, John C. Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Mary Desha, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell...
Dates 1752-1980
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C. Chaillé-Long Papers

Identifier: MSS15479
Abstract

Soldier, explorer, and diplomat. Personal and official correspondence, articles, speeches, news clippings, scrapbook, awards, commissions, maps, and photographs concerning Chaillé-Long's career as an explorer and public servant.

Dates 1809-1918; Majority of material found within 1863-1918
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William E. Chandler Papers

Identifier: MSS15537
Abstract United States secretary of the navy, senator from New Hampshire, and lawyer. Principally bound volumes of correspondence documenting Chandler's activities as assistant secretary of the treasury, 1865-1867, secretary of the navy, 1882-1885, United States Senator from New Hampshire, 1887-1901, and chairman of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, 1901-1908. Includes material reflecting Chandler's prominence in the Republican Party and his role in the presidential campaigns of 1868 and 1872, in...
Dates 1863-1917
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Henry L. Dawes Papers

Identifier: MSS17988
Abstract United States representative and senator from Massachusetts. Correspondence, memoranda, letterbooks, diaries, speeches, reports, notebooks, biographical material, family papers, photographs, citations, congressional commissions, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, and an incomplete biography of Dawes by his daughter, Anna Laurens Dawes. The collection documents mainly Dawes's career as a federal legislator and his work on issues relating to the American Indian, including his tenure as...
Dates 1833-1933; Majority of material found within 1833-1903
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James O. Harrison Papers

Identifier: MSS25106
Abstract

Lawyer, educator, and railroad official. Correspondence, legal and financial records, biographical material, photographs, writings, notes, notebooks, scrapbooks, and printed matter documenting Harrison's personal and professional life, including his law practices in various Southern states and work with Lexington, Kentucky, public schools.

Dates 1803-1913; Majority of material found within ( 1836-1888)
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Abraham Lincoln Papers

Identifier: MSS30189
Abstract

United States president and representative and lawyer from Illinois. Correspondence and other papers relating primarily to Abraham Lincoln's presidency and the Civil War.

Dates 1774-1948
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John Sherman Papers

Identifier: MSS39784
Abstract Secretary of state, secretary of the treasury, and United States senator and representative from Ohio. Correspondence, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers chiefly relating to Sherman's role in Ohio politics after 1850. Includes family correspondence during Sherman's school years, general correspondence during his years in Congress and the cabinet, and papers relating to Kansas in the 1850s when he was a member of the House of Representatives committee investigating conditions in the...
Dates 1836-1900; Majority of material found within 1857-1894
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Matthew Simpson Papers

Identifier: MSS40162
Abstract

Methodist clergyman, educator, editor, and orator. Family and general correspondence, diaries, journals, notebooks, notes, scrapbooks, copies of speeches, sermons, and writings, and miscellaneous printed material relating to Simpson's early life in Ohio and Pennsylvania, his presidency of Indiana Asbury University (now DePauw University), editorship of the Western Christian Advocate, and service as a Methodist Episcopal bishop.

Dates 1829-1927; Majority of material found within ( 1833-1884)
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Lyman Trumbull Correspondence

Identifier: MSS43281
Abstract

United States senator from Illinois. Chiefly letters received by Trumbull and some drafts or copies of replies on political matters.

Dates 1843-1894; Majority of material found within 1855-1872
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Gideon Welles Papers

Identifier: MSS45054
Abstract

Secretary of the navy and newspaper editor. Correspondence, diaries, writings, naval records, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Welles's work as editor of the Hartford Times; his activities as a member of the Democratic Party and, later, the Republican Party in state and national politics; the role of the navy in the Civil War; and the presidential administrations of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.

Dates 1777-1911; Majority of material found within 1820-1876