Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 to Salmon Chase
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01989 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 2 June 1862 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 16.5 cm, Width: 12.5 cm Order a Copy
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to send in the name of George W. Lane of Indiana as his choice for superintendent of the United States Mint at Denver, Colorado. Written on Executive Mansion stationery. According to Basler (5: 256), Chase opposed Lane's nomination, and Lincoln did not send it to Congress until January 1863. Lane's tenure at the Denver Mint marked the end of private coinage in the United States.
Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 -1862,
p. 256
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