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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 16 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, State of (search)
emocrat. Reuben H. Walworth. William Goodell. Washington HuntWhig 1850Horatio SeymourDemocrat Horatio SeymourDemocrat. 1852 Washington HuntWhig. Minthorne Tompkins. Myron H. ClarkWhig 1854Horatio SeymourDemocrat. Daniel Ullman. Green C. Bronson. John A. KingRepublican 1856 Amasa J. ParkerDemocrat. Erastus Brooks. Edwin D. MorganRepublican1858Amasa J. ParkerDemocrat. Lorenzo Burrows. Gerrit Smith. 1860William Kelly. James T. Brady. Horatio SeymourDemocrat 1862 James S. WadsworthRepublican Reuben E. FentonRepublican 1864 Horatio SeymourDemocrat. 1866John T. HoffmanDemocrat John T. HoffmanDemocrat. 1868John A. GriswoldRepublican 1870 Stewart L. WoodfordRepublican John A. DixRepublican 1872 Francis KernanDemocrat. Samuel J. TildenDemocrat 1874 John A. DixRepublican Lucius RobinsonDemocrat 1876 Edwin D. MorganRepublican Alonzo B. CornellRepublican 1879 Lucius RobinsonDemocrat. John Kelly Tam.-Dem. Harris Lewis. John W. Mears. Grover ClevelandDemocra
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wadsworth, James Samuel 1807- (search)
Wadsworth, James Samuel 1807- Military officer; born in Geneseo, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1807; educated at Harvard and Yale colleges; studied law with Daniel Webster; and was admitted to the bar in 1833, but never practised, having sufficient employment in the management of a large patrimonial estate. He was a member of the peace convention in 1861, and was one of the first to offer his services to the government when the Civil War broke out. When communication between Washington and Philadelphia was cut off in April, 1861, he chartered a vessel and filled it with supplies, with which he sailed for Annapolis with timely relief for Union soldiers there. In June he was volunteer aide on General McDowell's staff, and was noted for bravery in the battle of Bull Run. In August he was made brigadier-general of volunteers, and in March, 1862, military governor of the District of Columbia. In that year he was Republican candidate for governor of New York, but was defeated by Horatio Seymour