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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

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William Allen Papers

Identifier: MSS10520
Abstract

Lawyer, farmer, and U.S. representative and senator from and governor of Ohio. Correspondence, speeches, memoranda, financial records, printed material, maps, and other papers largely relating to Allen's service as United States senator (1837-1848) and governor (1873-1875) of Ohio.

Dates 1796-1879; Majority of material found within 1840-1876
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Edward Bates Papers

Identifier: MSS12039
Abstract

Lawyer, politician, and United States attorney general. Correspondence, diary, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other material reflecting Bates’s career in Missouri state politics and the United States House of Representatives and as United States attorney general.

Dates 1818-1904; Majority of material found within ( 1861-1864)
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John Bell Papers

Identifier: MSS12336
Abstract

U.S. representative and senator from Tennessee, and U.S. secretary of war. Volume containing correspondence, speeches, and Bell's reports in Congress. Includes material on patronage in Tennessee, national politics, and Bell's candidacy for president in 1860.

Dates 1815-1861
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James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers

Identifier: MSS14258
Abstract

United States president, secretary of state, and representative and senator from Pennsylvania. Correspondence, his 1858 State of the Union message, and miscellaneous items pertaining primarily to Buchanan’s career before his election as president. Also correspondence of Harriet Lane Johnston, Buchanan’s niece and White House hostess.

Dates 1825-1887; Majority of material found within 1840-1866
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Edmund Burke Papers

Identifier: MSS14340
Abstract

Lawyer, newspaper editor, and U.S. representative. Correspondence, drafts of newspaper editorials, speeches, committee reports, resolutions, commissions, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Burke's career as a newspaper editor in New Hampshire and as a congressman.

Dates 1821-1881
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John C. Calhoun Papers

Identifier: MSS14787
Abstract

Vice president of the United States, U.S. secretary of state and secretary of war, and U.S. senator from South Carolina. Chiefly correspondence, a manuscript of Calhoun's last senate speech, and other papers relating to his career in government.

Dates 1818-1850
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John C. Calhoun Papers

Identifier: MSS84953
Abstract

Vice president of the United States, U.S. secretary of state and secretary of war, and U.S. senator from South Carolina. Chiefly correspondence reproduced from the John C. Calhoun Papers and other collections relating to Calhoun in the custody of the Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Includes his last Senate speech pertaining to the Compromise of 1850.

Dates 1811-1850
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John Fairfield Correspondence

Identifier: MSS20255
Abstract

U.S. senator and representative and governor of Maine. Principally letters from Fairfield to members of his family in Saco, Maine, while he was serving in Congress and as governor relating to personal and family affairs, politics, and life and society in Washington, D.C., and Augusta, Maine.

Dates 1828-1876; Majority of material found within 1835-1847
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Galloway-Maxcy-Markoe Families Papers

Identifier: MSS21857
Abstract

Correspondence, business records, financial records, legal documents, speeches, reports, essays, memoranda, and other papers of members of the Galloway, Maxcy (Maxey), and Markoe families relating to economic conditions in Maryland and foreign affairs and political events in the 1840s and 1850s.

Dates 1654-1888; Majority of material found within 1750-1860
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James Henry Hammond Papers

Identifier: MSS24695
Abstract

Senator, governor, and plantation owner. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, plantation manuals, account books, and scrapbooks pertaining chiefly to South Carolina and national politics in the three decades preceding the Civil War. Subjects include nullification, secession, slavery, the Southern Convention at Nashville, Tennessee (1850), state banks, states' rights, and the tariff. Also includes a mercantile letterbook, 1774-1780, of Andrew McLean.

Dates 1774-1875; Majority of material found within ( 1823-1864)
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Albert Gallatin Marchand Papers

Identifier: MSS86302
Abstract

United States representative and lawyer. Correspondence, a speech, and a printing plate relating chiefly to Marchand's two terms in the United States House of Representatives and life in Washington, D.C.

Dates 1801-1862; Majority of material found within 1839-1843
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William L. Marcy Papers

Identifier: MSS31336
Abstract

U.S. secretary of war and secretary of state, governor of New York, and lawyer. Correspondence, commonplace book, diary, drafts of diplomatic dispatches, writings, and other papers relating chiefly to Marcy's career in politics, diplomacy, and as a cabinet member in the administrations of James K. Polk and Franklin Pierce. Included is material collected and compiled by Henry Barrett Learned and others.

Dates 1806-1930; Majority of material found within ( 1806-1857)
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Louis McLane Correspondence

Identifier: MSS57083
Abstract

Lawyer, U.S. representative and senator from Delaware, diplomat, and cabinet officer. Correspondence primarily between McLane and members of his family relating to social life in Washington, D.C., his diplomatic duties, and national and congressional politics.

Dates 1795-1894; Majority of material found within ( 1817-1855)
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Henry Mason Morfit Papers

Identifier: MSS33431
Abstract

Lawyer. Correspondence and financial and business papers relating to Morfit's Washington, D.C., practice as a claims lawyer and as a political figure in the administrations of Andrew Jackson.

Dates 1819-1858; Majority of material found within ( 1844-1855)
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Polk Family Papers

Identifier: MSS36491
Abstract

Correspondence, indentures and legal agreements, circulars, pamphlets, and other papers relating to the Polk family, chiefly letters to William Polk. Also includes a biography of William Polk. Other family members represented include Leonidas Polk and James K. Polk.

Dates 1767-1859
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John Aldrich Stephenson Collection of the Hand, Fiske, and Aldrich Families Papers

Identifier: MSS65753
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, journals, travel diaries, manuscripts of sermons, poems, essays, and other writings, business and financial records, printed works, biographical and genealogical materials, drawings and reproductions of paintings and photographs, and other papers collected by Stephenson relating to the Hand, Fiske, and Aldrich families.

Dates 1745-1966
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Nicholas Philip Trist Papers

Identifier: MSS43232
Abstract Diplomat and lawyer. Family and general correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, notes, reports, legal and financial papers, writings, clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating to Trist's tenure as U.S. consul in Havana and his role in negotiating the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the Mexican War. Other topics include Trist's business interests, particularly his sugar plantations in Cuba and Louisiana; the establishment of the University of Virginia; the Oregon boundary...
Dates 1795-1873; Majority of material found within ( 1831-1848)
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Martin Van Buren Papers

Identifier: MSS43828
Abstract United States president, vice president, secretary of state, and senator from New York. Correspondence, drafts of writings, speeches, and messages to Congress, autobiographical material, notes, certificate, legal record book, estate record book, and other papers pertaining to slavery and the antislavery movement, banking and the Second Bank of the United States, party politics in New York State and at the national level relating to the Federalist, National Republican, Whig, and Democratic...
Dates 1787-1910; Majority of material found within 1820-1850
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Walt Whitman Papers

Identifier: MSS77909
Abstract

Poet. Correspondence, family papers, holograph drafts of Whitman's poetry and prose, printed matter, and miscellany. Includes a printed copy of O Captain! My Captain! with Whitman's handwritten corrections and letters exchanged with Abraham Leech, Whitman's earliest known correspondence.

Dates 1837-1957; Majority of material found within 1840-1891
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Richard Henry Wilde Papers

Identifier: MSS45633
Abstract

United States representative from Georgia, lawyer, and poet. Correspondence relating chiefly to national politics and to writings by Wilde.

Dates 1807-1867