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Your Price: $ 25.00
Item Number: Auto4953 |
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United States Civil War Congressman
One of the managers appointed to conduct the impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson!
United States Senator from Iowa
(1828-95) Born in Newark, Licking County, Ohio, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1851, and practiced in Newark, Ohio, and in Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa. He was a member of the constitutional convention of Iowa in 1857; served in the Iowa State House of Representatives in 1857, and the State Senate, from 1859-61, being its president in 1861. He was a U.S. Congressman during the Civil War and Reconstruction, serving from 1861-69. Served as chairman on the Committee on the Judiciary. He was one of the managers appointed by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1868 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson. He declined the appointment of U.S. Secretary of State in the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant. Instead he accepted Grant's appointment as government director of the Union Pacific Railroad serving in this position for 8 years. Served as U.S. Senator, 1883-95, being the chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining. He also served as a member of the Committee on Expenditures of Public Money; the Committee on Revision of the Laws of the United States; and the Committee on Education and Labor.
Signature: 4 x 3/4, in ink, James F. Wilson. Cut slightly irregular. Very desirable President Johnson impeachment related autograph. |
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