Abraham Lincoln Assassination Trial Judge John Bingham signed autograph & photo

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Abraham Lincoln Assassination Trial Judge John Bingham signed autograph & photo:
$99.99

IMPORTANT! Please read the ENTIRE description below and scroll down to see ALL of the pictures with this listing BEFORE offerding as we DO NOT accept returns. We meticulously describe every item to avoid confusion. Ask questions BEFORE offerding. Thank you. Abraham Lincoln Assassination Trial Judge John Bingham signed autograph & photo! a.imagelink {color:#8c3709;} a:hover.imagelink {color:#8c3709;} a:visited.imagelink {color:#453c45;} a.imagelink img.saleimage { border: 2px solid #8c3709; } a:visited.imagelink img.saleimage { border: 2px solid #453c45; } DescriptionCheck it out...Here\'s a VERY UNCOMMON 8\" wide by 10\" tall professionally mated photo and 100% authentic HAND-SIGNED AUTOGRAPH of former Ohio Congressman (1855 and 1873) and the the Judge Advocate at the trial of the conspirators of the Abraham Lincoln assassination and later the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, Judge John Bingham (Died in 1900)- The matt features a vintage signature card with a large HAND- SIGNED ink fountain pen signature signed \"Jno. A. Bingham April 8 / \'91\" on front and has been tipped to a larger beige colored matt with a modern photo of Judge Bingham attached. GREAT item ready for display!

Here\'s some info on Judge Bingham:

John Armor Bingham (January 21, 1815 – March 19, 1900) was an American Republican Representative from Ohio, an assistant to Judge Advocate General in the trial of the Abraham Lincoln assassination, and a prosecutor in the impeachment trials of Andrew Johnson. He is also the principal framer of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Bingham\'s political activity continued despite the Whig Party\'s decline. Campaigning as candidate of the Opposition Party, he was elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress, representing the 21st Congressional District. In Washington, DC, he roomed at the same boarding house as fellow Ohio Representative Joshua Giddings, a prominent abolitionist Bingham admired. Voters re-elected Bingham to the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses as a Republican. However, the district was one of two Ohio districts eliminated in the redistricting following the census of 1860. Bingham thus ran for re-elected from what became the 16th District. Known for his abolitionist views, he lost to Democratic peace candidate Joseph W. White, and thus failed to return for the Thirty-eighth Congress, in part because Union soldiers (mostly-Republican leaning), who were away from home fighting in the war, were not allowed to vote by mail in Ohio at the time. Nonetheless, the House of Representatives appointed him as one of the managers of impeachment proceedings against West H. Humphreys. During the Civil War, Bingham strongly supported the Union and became known as a Radical Republican. President Abraham Lincoln appointed him Judge Advocate of the Union Army with the rank of major during his hiatus from Congress, and Bingham briefly became solicitor of the United States Court of Claims in 1865. Bingham defeated White in the next congressional election (Ohio had changed its law and now allowed soldiers away from home to vote by mail) and thus returned to serve in the Thirty-ninth Congress, which first met on March 4, 1865. he following month, the capital fell into chaos as John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, and Booth\'s co-conspirator Lewis Powell severely injured Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night of April 14, 1865. Booth died on April 26, 1865 from a gunshot wound. When the trials for the conspirators involved in the Lincoln assassination were ready to start, Bingham\'s old friend from Cadiz, Edwin Stanton, appointed him to serve as Assistant Judge Advocate General along with General Henry Burnett, another Assistant Judge Advocate General, and Joseph Holt, the Judge Advocate General. The accused conspirators were George Atzerodt, David Herold, Lewis Powell (Paine), Samuel Arnold, Michael O\'Laughlen, Edman Spangler, Samuel Mudd, and Mary Surratt. The trial began on May 10, 1865. The three prosecutors spent nearly two months in court, awaiting the jury\'s verdict. Bingham and Holt attempted to obscure the fact that there were two plots. The first plot was to kidnap the president and hold him hostage in exchange for the Confederate prisoners held by the Union. The second was to assassinate the president, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward and thereby throw the government into electoral chaos. The prosecution did not reveal the existence of a diary taken from Booth\'s body, which made clear that the assassination plan dated from 14 April. The defense surprisingly did not call for Booth\'s diary to be produced in court. On June 29, 1865, the eight were found guilty for their involvement in the conspiracy to kill the President. Spangler was sentenced to six years in prison; Arnold, O\'Laughlen and Mudd were sentenced to life in prison, and Atzerodt, Herold, Paine and Surratt were sentenced to hang. They were executed July 7, 1865. Surratt was the first woman in American history to be executed. O\'Laughlen died in prison in 1867. Arnold, Spangler and Mudd were pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in early 1869. Bingham continued his career as a representative and was re-elected to the Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty-second Congresses. He served as Chairman of the Committee on Claims from 1867 to 1869 and a member of the Committee on the Judiciary from 1869 to 1873. In 1868, Bingham was one of the House managers in the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. Bingham was also implicated in the Credit Mobilier scandal and in 1872, he lost the election. Three local Republican political bosses made a deal to cut out Bingham, instead selecting Lorenzo Danford as the party\'s candidate. Thus, Danford came to represent the 16th district in the Forty-third Congress and was re-elected several times but with a hiatus. Bingham died in Cadiz, Ohio on March 19, 1900, nine years after his wife Amanda. He was interred next to her in the Old Cadiz (Union) Cemetery in Cadiz. In 1901, Harrison County erected a bronze statue honoring Bingham in Cadiz.

What a great vintage item with a 100% authentic signature! This is an ORIGINAL item, NOT REPRODUCTION item! Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 4.75 postage is required.
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