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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 12 12 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 4 4 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus 1825-1893 (search)
igned his seat in 1860, and was elected a delegate to the Mississippi secession convention. In 1861 he joined the Confederate army; in 1863-64 was a representative of the Confederacy in Europe, where he procured financial aid, but was unsuccessful in securing the recognition of the Southern Confederacy. After the war he became Professor, first of Political Economy and Social Science, in the Mississippi State University, and afterwards of Law. In 1872-76 he was a member of Congress. On April 27, 1874, he delivered an eloquent address on the death of Charles Sumner, for which he was highly praised, excepting by a few of his constituents, who, because of it, unsuccessfully endeavored to prevent his re-election. In 1877 he was elected to the United States Senate, and there strongly opposed both the debasement and the inflation of the currency. His views upon this question were widely repudiated in his State, whose legislature formally called on him to change his views or resign his s
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Fairchild; four men and one woman......1871 Act punishing intoxication by fine and imprisonment......1872 First State meeting of the American Constitutional Union, 666 delegates, at Milwaukee......Aug. 7, 1873 Potter railroad law, relating to railroads, express, and telegraph companies, fixing rates of transportation, and providing for railroad commissioners......March 11, 1874 St. Paul and Northern railroads announce to the governor that they cannot obey the Potter law......April 27, 1874 Supreme Court sustains the Potter law......September, 1874 Real estate of soldiers' orphans' home transferred to the regents of the State University for a medical college.......1875 Supreme Court rejects the application of Miss Lavinia Goodell for admission to the bar, as a calling inconsistent with the duties of the sex......January, 1876 Potter railroad law of 1874 made much less stringent......Feb. 18, 1876 Legislature enables women to practise law......1877 State pa