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Found in 10 Collections and/or records:

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James Gordon Bennett Papers

Identifier: MSS 12427
Abstract

Newspaper publisher. Correspondence, clippings, drafts of articles, and printed material reflecting Bennett’s career as publisher of the New York Herald.

Dates 1845-1934; Majority of material found within ( 1861-1864)
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James Gillespie Blaine Family Papers

Identifier: MSS12914
Abstract

United States secretary of state, United States representative and senator from Maine, and journalist. Family and general correspondence, speeches, writings, diaries, memoirs, notebooks, scrapbooks, and other papers documenting Blaine's public career.

Dates 1776-1945; Majority of material found within 1870-1892
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Thomas Corwin Correspondence

Identifier: MSS16964
Abstract

Lawyer, Ohio governor, U.S. representative and senator, and U.S. secretary of the treasury. Correspondence received during Corwin's tenure as secretary of the treasury. Subjects include appointments to and removals from office, Whig politics, and financial and commercial policies of Millard Fillmore's administration.

Dates 1850-1853
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Hamilton Fish Papers

Identifier: MSS20602
Abstract

Congressman, senator, governor, and secretary of state. Correspondence, journals, diaries, subject files, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Fish's service as secretary of state under Ulysses S. Grant, as a member of Congress, and governor of New York.

Dates 1732-1914; Majority of material found within 1840-1890
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George P. Fisher Papers

Identifier: MSS20636
Abstract

Public official and judge of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. Correspondence, legal papers, commissions, biographical sketches, essays, speeches, and other material relating to Fisher's legal career and other topics.

Dates 1772-1905
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Willie Person Mangum Papers

Identifier: MSS31179
Abstract

Jurist and U.S. senator and representative from North Carolina. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, legal papers, genealogical material, financial papers, and printed matter concerning local, southern, and national politics, the Whig Party in the South, economic and social conditions in North Carolina, the Mangum plantation, and education of the Mangum children.

Dates 1771-1906; Majority of material found within ( 1771-1868)
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John McLean Papers

Identifier: MSS32326
Abstract

U.S. representative from Ohio, U.S. postmaster general, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and Ohio Supreme Court associate justice. Correspondence, financial data, docket book, printed matter, a file of reports, opinions and briefs arranged by case name, and other papers relating to McLean’s service as postmaster general and Supreme Court justice.

Dates 1816-1866; Majority of material found within 1829-1860
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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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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers

Identifier: MSS41210
Abstract

Reformer, feminist, and suffragist. Correspondence, speeches, articles, drafts of books, scrapbooks, and printed matter documenting Elizabeth Cady Stanton's career as an advocate for women's rights. Includes material on her efforts on behalf of women's legal status and women's suffrage, the abolition of slavery, rights for African Americans following the Civil War, temperance, and other nineteenth-century social reform movements.

Dates 1814-1946; Majority of material found within 1840-1902
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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