Caleb Blood Smith Signature Autograph Abraham Lincoln Cabinet Civil War VG Cond.

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Caleb Blood Smith Signature Autograph Abraham Lincoln Cabinet Civil War VG Cond.:
$150.00

Caleb blood SmithAutograph

Signature, as antebellum U.S.congressman from Indiana, “Caleb B. Smith, Connersville Indiana,”on a 2” x 4” portion of an album page.Smith later became Secretary of the Interior in the administration ofAbraham Lincoln (March 5, 1861-December 31, 1862).

Signatureis in Very Good condition, light and evenly toned, slight foxing to edges notaffecting the signature.

SMITH,Caleb blood, a Representative from Indiana; born in Boston, Mass.,April 16, 1808; moved with his parents to Ohio in 1814; attended MiamiUniversity, Oxford, Ohio, 1825-1826; studied law; was admitted to the bar in1828 and commenced practice in Connersville, Fayette County, Ind.; founded andedited the Indiana Sentinel in 1832; member of the State house ofrepresentatives 1833-1837, 1840, and 1841, and served as speaker in 1836;unsuccessful candidate for the Twenty-seventh Congress in 1841; elected as aWhig to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4,1843-March 3, 1849); chairman, Committee on Territories (Thirtieth Congress);appointed by President Zachary Taylor a member of the board to investigateclaims of American citizens against Mexico; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, andpracticed his profession; member of the peace convention of 1861 held inWashington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war;appointed Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Lincoln andserved from March 5, 1861, to January 1, 1863, when he resigned to become judgeof the United States District Court for the District of Indiana, in whichcapacity he served until his death in Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind.,January 7, 1864; interment in the City Cemetery, Connersville, Ind.

Bibliography

Bochin, Hal W. “Caleb B. Smith’s Opposition to the MexicanWar.” Indiana Magazine of History 69 (June 1973): 95-114; Thomas,Richard J. “Caleb blood Smith: Whig Orator and Politician Lincoln’s Secretaryof Interior.” Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1969.

Biographical Directory of United States Congress.

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