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Found in 4 Collections and/or records:

 Collection

Zachariah Chandler Papers

Identifier: MSS15552
Abstract Secretary of the interior and senator from Michigan. Correspondence, principally letters received, only a few dating after 1879, relating chiefly to the politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Reflects the views of the antislavery element of the Republican Party when Chandler was serving on the Republican Congressional Committee and the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War and as chairman of the Committee on Commerce. Also includes material pertaining to the early political history of...
Dates 1854-1899; Majority of material found within 1854-1879
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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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Ulysses S. Grant Papers

Identifier: MSS23333
Abstract

United States president and army officer. General and family correspondence, speeches, reports, messages, manuscript of Grant’s memoirs (1885), military records, financial and legal records, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and miscellaneous papers relating to Grant’s career in the military, politics, and government.

Dates 1819-1974; Majority of material found within 1843-1885
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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