Samuel Freeman Miller correspondence and diaries
by Samuel Freeman Miller
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Letters from Miller to his brother-in-law, William Pitt Ballinger, an attorney of Galveston, Texas, concerning the status of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, nomination of John Marshall Harlan to the Court, judicial appointments, Republican Party politics, Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860, Reconstruction and relations between North and South, and Miller's membership in the Electoral Commission appointed to decide the disputed 1876 presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden. Also includes microfilm edition of Ballinger's diaries (1871-1876).
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Correspondence, Practice of law, Administration of Justice, Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ), Officials and employees, Politics and government, United States. Supreme Court, United States, United States. Electoral Commission (1877), Constitutional law, Election, Courts, Presidents, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Law, HistoryPeople
John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911), Samuel J. Tilden (1814-1886), Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), William Pitt Ballinger (1825-1888), Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893)Places
United States, Galveston, TexasTimes
1876, 1860, 1865-1898, 19th centuryShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Open to research.
Microfilm edition of typewritten typescripts of the diaries of William Pitt Ballinger held by the University of Texas Library (Austin, Tex.).
University of Texas Library, Austin, TX
Gift, Lucy Cocker Clarkson, via: Charles Fairman, 1988.
Lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.
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