hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Browsing named entities in John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History. You can also browse the collection for William Pitt Fessenden or search for William Pitt Fessenden in all documents.
Your search returned 4 results in 2 document sections:
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 32 . (search)
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 34 . (search)
Chapter 34.
Blair
Chase chief justice
Speed Succeeds Bates
McCulloch Succeeds Fessenden
resignation of Mr. Usher
Lincoln's offer of $400,000,000
the second inaugural
Lincoln's literary rank
his last speech
The principal concession in the Baltimore platform made by the friends of the administration to their opponents, the radicals, was the resolution which called for harmony in the cabinet.
The President at first took no notice, either publicly or privately, of this r for the place, offered it to Joseph Holt of Kentucky, who declined, and then to James Speed, also a Kentuckian of high professional and social standing, the brother of his early friend Joshua F. Speed.
Soon after the opening of the new year, Mr. Fessenden, having been again elected to the Senate from Maine, resigned his office as Secretary of the Treasury.
The place thus vacated instantly excited a wide and spirited competition of recommendations.
The President wished to appoint Governor Mo