Autograph Note Signed Affixed To Printed Form Authorizing Every Senator To Subscribe To 12 Copies

by Reverdy Johnson Senator

$125 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Fine. Item #251236 ANS from Johnson asks for 12 copies to be delivered to him at the end of SessionJohnson was Senator from Maryland 1845-49, Attorney-General 1849-1850. He represented the slave-owning defendant in case Dred Scott v. Sandford. He was personally opposed to slavery and helped keep Maryland in the Union.

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