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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 | 54 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 36 | 4 | Browse | Search |
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen | 13 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 14 : Fort Gibson , 1834 . (search)
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 15 : resignation from the army.-marriage to Miss Taylor .-Cuban visit.-winter in Washington .-President van Buren .-return to Brierfield , 1837 . (search)
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 23 : the Senate in 1845 . (search)
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 31 : thirty-first Congress, 1849 -50 . (search)
Chapter 31: thirty-first Congress, 1849-50.
The first session of the Thirty-first Congress opened on Monday, December 3, 1849.
In no preceding Senate had been seen more brilliant groups of statesmen from both South and North.
Among the distinguished senators then, or soon subsequently to be, famous, were Davis, Calhoun, Clay, Webster, Benton, Corwin, Cass, Fillmore, Johnson, Stephen A. Douglas, Seward, Chase, Houston, Badger, of North Carolina; Butler, of South Carolina; Hamlin, Hunter, and Mason, of Virginia; Berrien, Mangum, and Pierre Soule.
It was to this Congress that Mr. Clay presented his famous compromise resolutions, which may be regarded as the beginning of the last period of the long controversy between the sections before the secession of the Southern States from the Union.
It was memorable by the threatening prominence given to the Anti-slavery agitation, which was now beginning to overshadow all other Federal issues.
The growth of the Anti-slavery moveme
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 32 : Missouri Compromise. (search)
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 38 : Secretary of War , 1853 -57 . (search)
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 41 : the winter of 1859 . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Benton , Thomas Hart , -1858 (search)
Benton, Thomas Hart, -1858
Statesman; born near Hillsboro, N. C., March 14, 1782.
Before finishing his studies at Chapel Hill University, North Carolina, he removed to Tennessee, studied law, and obtained great eminence in his profession.
In the legislature of that State he procured the enactment of a law giving to slaves th the regular army from 1813 to 1815.
Removing to St. Louis in 1813, he established the Missouri inquirer there, and practised his profession.
He took an
Thomas Hart Benton. active part in favoring the admission of Missouri as a State of the Union, and was one of its first representatives in the United States Senate, which post d, so far as the national legislature is concerned.
He died in Washington, D. C., April 10, 1858.
The annexation of Texas.
On May 16, 17, and 20, 1844, Senator Benton delivered a remarkable and characteristic speech in the debate, while the Senate was in secret session, on the ratification of the treaty for the annexation o
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fremont , Jessie Benton 1824 - (search)
Fremont, Jessie Benton 1824-
Author; born in Virginia in 1824; was the daughter of Senator Thomas H. Benton, of Missouri; married John C. Fremont in 1841.
She has published The story of the Guard; Memoir of Thomas H. Benton; Souvenirs of my time; A year of American travel, etc.
Fremont, John Charles
Fremont, Jessie Benton 1824-
Author; born in Virginia in 1824; was the daughter of Senator Thomas H. Benton, of Missouri; married John C. Fremont in 1841.
She has published The story of the Guard; Memoir of Thomas H. Benton; Souvenirs of my time; A year of American travel, etc.
Fremont, John Charles
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fremont , John Charles 1813 -1890 (search)