Autograph Letter Signed Secy Mahlon Dickerson To Nicholas Biddle President Of The Bank Of The

by Navy Department Mahlon Dickerson

$750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

1-1/2 pages, pen and ink on paper. Folio. Old folds, else fine. Item #256446 A chronicle of the short-lived Bank of the United States and its continued involvement in US Navy pensions. After the demise of the Second Bank of the United States in 1836, a result of the historical “Bank War” between US President Andrew Jackson and Bank President Nicholas Biddle, Biddle attempted to resuscitate the institution as a commercial

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