#32061: GEORGE FRANKLIN EDMUNDS: SIGNED ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH, c. 1863
A crisp cdv-sized albumen photograph of Edmunds, probably from the studio of Mathew Brady, mounted on a piece of 1860's lined paper from the US Department of Agriculture (dating, photographer and mounting information compiled from pieces of information from other images in the same series). Image is signed at the bottom in ink by Edmunds. $195.00
From The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress:
EDMUNDS, George Franklin (1828-1919), a Senator from Vermont; born in Richmond, Chittenden County, Vt., February 1, 1828; attended the common schools and was privately tutored; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Burlington, Vt.; member, State house of representatives 1854-1859, serving three years as speaker; member, State senate, serving as its presiding officer in 1861 and 1862; appointed on April 3, 1866, and elected on October 24, 1866, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Solomon Foote; reelected in 1868, 1874, 1880, and 1886 and served from April 3, 1866, until his resignation, effective November 1, 1891; President pro tempore of the Senate (Forty-seventh and Forty-eight Congresses); chairman, Republican Conference (Forty-ninth to Fifty-first Congresses), Committee on Pensions (Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses), Committee on the Judiciary (Forty-second to Forty-fifth Congresses, and Forty-seventh to Fifty-first Congresses), Committee on Private Land Claims (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Foreign Relations (Forty-seventh Congress); appointed a member of the Electoral Commission to decide the contests in various States in the presidential election of 1876; resumed the practice of law in Philadelphia, Pa.; subsequently moved to Pasadena, Calif., where he died February 27, 1919; interment in Green Mount Cemetery, Burlington, Vt.
#32062: GEORGE HENRY WILLIAMS: SIGNED ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH, c. 1863
A crisp cdv-sized albumen photograph of Williams, probably from the studio of Mathew Brady, mounted on a piece of 1860's lined paper from the US Department of Agriculture (dating, photographer and mounting information compiled from pieces of information from other images in the same series). Image is signed at the bottom in ink by Williams. $195.00
From The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress:
WILLIAMS, George Henry (1823-1910), a Senator from Oregon; born in New Lebanon, Columbia County, N.Y., March 26, 1823; completed preparatory studies; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1844 and commenced practice at Fort Madison, Iowa Territory; judge of the first judicial district of Iowa 1847-1852; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1852; chief justice of the Territory of Oregon 1853-1857; reappointed by President James Buchanan but declined; member of the State constitutional convention of Oregon in 1858; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1865, to March 3, 1871; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; Attorney General of the United States in the Cabinet of President Ulysses Grant 1872-1875; nominated by President Grant as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1873, but subsequently his name was withdrawn; mayor of Portland, Oreg., 1902-1905; died in Portland, Oreg., April 4, 1910; interment in Riverview Cemetery.