Lot 105
Fillmore, Millard - And Members of the 32nd Congress. Autogaph album with gilt lettering, 5 x 7¾ in., covers worn and loss to spine. Small label of Taylor & Maury Booksellers on front pastedown. Album with over 230 signatures--some 53 senators and 180 representatives-- from the 32nd Congress, which met from March 4, 1851 to March 4, 1853. Recto and verso of first page has the signatures of President Fillmore and six members of his cabinet (positions written in the hand of the album owner): President Millard Fillmore, Secretary of State Daniel Webster, Secretary of the Treasury Thomas Corwin, Secretary of the Interior Alexander H. H. Stuart, Postmaster Genernal Nathan K. Hall, Attorney General John J. Crittenden, and Secretary of War Charles M. Conrad. Other names who were prominent in politics, and some who would gain fame in the Civil War include: Alexander H. Stephens, Thaddeus Stevens, B.F. Wade, Lewis Cass, Charles Sumner, Hamilton Fish, Isaac Toucey, John Bell, William H. Seward, John C. Breckinridge, William H. Polk (brother of James K.), Horace Mann, Thomas A. Hendricks, R.M.T. Hunter, David R. Atchison, George E. Badger, S.R. Mallory, John P. Hale, and Richard Yates.
Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,500.
Sotheby's New York, Oct. 29, 1996; Paul Richards, 1978.
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