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... convention that adopted the first California constitution , and was two years in the State Senate , and president of that body . In 1856 he was elected a Senator in Congress for six years from the 4th of March V. ...
... convention that adopted the first California constitution , and was two years in the State Senate , and president of that body . In 1856 he was elected a Senator in Congress for six years from the 4th of March V. ...
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John Wien Forney. in Congress for six years from the 4th of March , 1857. I had seen him but once before , in 1848 , when Mr. Edwin Croswell , the well - known editor of the Albany Argus , who is still living in New York , greatly ...
John Wien Forney. in Congress for six years from the 4th of March , 1857. I had seen him but once before , in 1848 , when Mr. Edwin Croswell , the well - known editor of the Albany Argus , who is still living in New York , greatly ...
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... March , 1858 , after the latter had spoken of the producing class of the North as the " mudsills " of society , illustrate this theory . Mr. Broderick said : " I , sir , am glad that the Senator has spoken thus . It may have the effect ...
... March , 1858 , after the latter had spoken of the producing class of the North as the " mudsills " of society , illustrate this theory . Mr. Broderick said : " I , sir , am glad that the Senator has spoken thus . It may have the effect ...
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... March 4 , 1861 , I was present as Clerk of the House . At the inauguration of March 4 , 1865 , I was present as Secretary of the Senate . James Buchanan , as ex - President , heard the re- markable first message of the man who succeeded ...
... March 4 , 1861 , I was present as Clerk of the House . At the inauguration of March 4 , 1865 , I was present as Secretary of the Senate . James Buchanan , as ex - President , heard the re- markable first message of the man who succeeded ...
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... [ March 5 , 1871. ] IX . CIRCUMSTANCE often controls men as inexorably as con- science . Many a Confederate would have been a Radical if he had lived in the North , just as many a Radical would have been a Confederate if he had lived in ...
... [ March 5 , 1871. ] IX . CIRCUMSTANCE often controls men as inexorably as con- science . Many a Confederate would have been a Radical if he had lived in the North , just as many a Radical would have been a Confederate if he had lived in ...
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| Title | Anecdotes of Public Men |
| Author | John Wien Forney |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers, 1877 |
| Original from | University of Iowa |
| Digitized | 10 Sep 2015 |
| Length | 444 pages |
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