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Autograph album signed by 4 Presidents, members of the Supreme Court, etc.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04224 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph album Date: circa 1867 Pagination: 1 v. Height: 19.3 cm, Width: 12.6 cm Order a Copy

Signers includes: four men who became president: Andrew Johnson, U.S. Grant (as General), James A. Garfield and Rutherford B. Hayes. Eight justices of the Supreme Court: Justices R. M. Waite (Chief Justice), W. H. Swampe, S. F. Miller, Nathan Clifford, Stephen Field, W. Strange, James P. Bradley and Ward Hunt. Two ministers of China have signed in Chinese with transliteration, and six members of the Embassy have signed. In addition, there are statesmen including: Henry S. Lane, Richard Yates, James Dixon, Jacob D. Cox, Lyman Trumbull, Gideon Welles, Elias S. Spinner, Benjamin F. Wade, Lot M. Morrill, John Sherman, Henry Wilson, Schuyler Colfax, Thaddeus Stephens, John A. Bingham, J. J. Farnsworth, and John H. Rice.

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