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- GLC#
- GLC00043.22-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- October 19, 1870
- Author/Creator
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
- Title
- Pardon of William B. Philips, convicted of embezzling money from the post office.
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Convicted of embezzling money from the post office; sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and to pay a $3454.78 fine. Pardoned for his "...good character, pliable nature, poverty, the punishment already suffered, and the fact that his bondsmen have paid in a large portion of the money taken...". (c/s Hamilton Fish) One bust engraving of Grant included.
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