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[Cabinet photograph of Henry Harison Bingham]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02136.22 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph signed Date: 1865 ca. Pagination: 1 cabinet card Height: 17 cm, Width: 11 cm Order a Copy

With short biographical description on verso. Inscription on verso reads: Congressional Medal of Honor, Battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864. Brigidier General H.H. Bingham, Postmaster, Philadelphia, Pa. March 1867-December 1872. Resigned when he had been elected Clerk of the Courts - re-elected 1875. Congressman 1873-March 22, 1912, when he died.

Bingham, Henry Harrison, 1841-1912

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