Regular Democratic Ticket For Governor Claiborne F Jackson For Lieut Governor Thomas C Reynolds

by Missouri Election Ticket

$150 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

NP: np, nd 1860 . Narrow printed broadside, 26 x 10 cm. Edge tears, repaired on verso with Japanese paper. Claiborne F. Jackson won the Governorship of Missouri, and began his term of office in January 1861. The debate over whether Missouri would secede from the Union began shortly after he took office, and he aligned himself with the Confederacy. The state legislature vacated his election and a provisional governor was appointed to replace him. Jackson and

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