Description
Autograph Album from the 28th Congress of the United States (1843-1845), including Presidents John Quincy Adams, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and 250 other signers.
Octavo, [75pp]. Red leather, embossed illustrations, decorative gilt. Top edge gilt. Front hinge showing wear, some loss along the spine, solid text block. Clean throughout.
Other notable signatories include: Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens, Sen. Thomas Hart Benton, Attorney Gen. John J. Crittenden, and Gov. Hamilton Fish. Includes the signatures of 45 senators and 216 congressmen.
An exceptional piece. (Provenance: RR Auctions, September 2013)
Includes the following signers, in the order in which they appear in the album:
Senators: Willie P. Mangum, Ambrose H. Sevier, Levi Woodbury, Edward A. Hannegan, Jabez W. Huntington, Daniel Sturgeon, William S. Fulton, Samuel S. Phelps, John Fairfield, William Upham, Silas Wright, Jacob W. Miller, David Rice Atchison, William Woodbridge, James F. Simmons, Robert J. Walker, William Duhurst Merrick, James A. Pearce, John B. Francis, Rufus Choate, William L. Dayton, Alexander Barrow, Richard H. Bayard, John Henderson, William S. Archer, Thomas Clayton, Isaac C. Bates, William Allen, Benjamin Tappan, William Henry Haywood, Jr., Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, James Semple, Thomas Hart Benton, Arthur P. Bagby, Sidney Breese, Charles G. Atherton, Augustus S. Porter, George Evans, James Buchanan, Walter T. Colquitt, John Macpherson Berrien, William C. Rives, Ephraim H. Foster, Spencer Jarnagin, William R. King, John J. Crittenden.
House of Representatives: James G. Clinton, William B. Maclay, Washington Hunt, Selah B. Strong, Jeremiah E. Cary, Smith M. Purdy, Joseph H. Anderson, John T. Smith, Richard Brodhead, Joseph Buffington, Jacob S. Yost, Edward Joy Morris, Cornelius Darragh, Charles J. Ingersoll, George B. Rodney, John Wethered, John M. S. Causin, Francis Brengle, Thomas A. Spence, John P. Kennedy, Augustus A. Chapman, Walter Coles, Edmund W. Hubard, Archibald Atkinson, William Taylor, Lewis Steenrod, George W. Summers, Samuel Chilton, George W. Hopkins, Willoughby Newton, William Lucas, William L. Goggin, Thomas H. Bayly, Daniel M. Barringer, David S. Reid, Romulus M. Saunders, Archibald H. Arrington, James I. McKay, John R. J. Daniel, Kenneth Rayner, Thomas L. Clingman, Edmund Deberry, Joseph A. Woodward, Armistead Burt, John Campbell, Richard F. Simpson, Isaac E. Holmes, Alexander H. Stephens, Hugh A. Haralson, John H. Lumpkin, James W. Stone, George A. Caldwell, John W. Tibbatts, Willis Green, Henry Grider, Richard French, John White, Garrett Davis, William P. Thomasson, Linn Boyd, Horace Wheaton, Jeremiah Russell, Preston King, Charles Rogers, Moses G. Leonard, Levi D. Carpenter, Charles S. Benton, William A. Moseley, Orville Robinson, Daniel D. Barnard, Hamilton Fish, Albert Smith, George Rathbun, Thomas J. Patterson, Asher Tyler, Orville Hungerford, Samuel Beardsley, Lemuel Stetson, Byram Green, J. Phillips Phoenix, William Wright, Lucius Q. C. Elmer, George Sykes, Isaac G. Farlee, Littleton Kirkpatrick, Jeremiah Brown, Benjamin A. Bidlack, Charles M. Reed, Joseph R. Ingersoll, James Black, Michael H. Jenks, George Fuller, James Pollock, Andrew Stewart, John Dickey, Abraham R. McIlvaine, Alexander Ramsey, Henry D. Foster, Samuel Hays, James Irvin, John Ritter, John W. Jones, Hannibal Hamlin, Freeman H. Morse, Luther Severance, Robert P. Dunlap, Joshua Herrick, Shepard Cary, Benjamin White, Edmund Burke, John R. Reding, Moses Norris, Jr., John P. Hale, John Quincy Adams, Robert C. Winthrop, Amos Abbott, Charles Hudson, Henry Williams, Daniel P. King, Julius Rockwell, Osmyn Baker, Joseph Grinnell, William Parmenter, Henry Y. Cranston, Elisha R. Potter, Thomas H. Seymour, John Stewart, George S. Catlin, Samuel Simons, Jacob Collamer, George P. Marsh, Solomon Foot, Paul Dillingham, Jr., William S. Hubbell, Richard D. Davis, David L. Seymour, Henry C. Murphy, Charles H. Carroll, Amasa Dana, Chesselden Ellis, Zadock Pratt, Cave Johnson, Aaron V. Brown, George W. Jones, Alvan Cullom, Joseph H. Peyton, John B. Ashe, David W. Dickinson, William T. Senter, George W. Jones, Julius W. Blackwell, Andrew Johnson, Milton Brown, Jacob Brinkerhoff, Alexander Harper, James Mathews, Robert C. Schenck, John I. Vanmeter, William C. McCauslen, Edward S. Hamlin, Alfred P. Stone, Joseph Morris, Samuel F. Vinton, Joseph J. McDowell, Daniel R. Tilden, John B. Weller, Perley B. Johnson, Joshua R. Giddings, Elias Florence, Joseph Vance, Ezra Dean, Alexander Duncan, Emery D. Potter, Heman Allen Moore, Henry St. John, Pierre E. J. B. Bossier, John Slidell, Alcee L. La Branche, John B. Dawson, Isaac E. Morse, Robert D. Owen, Thomas J. Henley, Joseph A. Wright, William J. Brown, Andrew Kennedy, Thomas Smith, Samuel C. Sample, John W. Davis, Caleb B. Smith, Jacob Thompson, William H. Hammett, Tilghman M. Tucker, John J. Hardin, Joseph P. Hoge, John Wentworth, Robert Smith, Orlando B. Ficklin, Stephen A. Douglas, James E. Belser, James Dellet, George S. Houston, William W. Payne, Reuben Chapman, Felix G. McConnell, William L. Yancey, Gustavus M. Bower, James M. Hughes, James H. Relfe, James B. Bowlin, John Jameson, Edward Cross, Lucius Lyon, James B. Hunt, John A. McClernand, Robert McClelland, David Levy Yulee.
