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James Buchanan

Date: 1860
Description: A head and shoulders portrait of James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States, 1857-1861. Buchanan was born in Cove Gap near Mercersburg, Pennsylva...
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Asaph Whittlesey

Date: 1860
Description: Asaph Whittlesey dressed for his journey from Ashland to Madison, Wisconsin, to take up his seat in the state legislature. Whittlesey is attired for the lo...
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Leonard J. Farwell

Date: 1860
Description: Leonard J. Farwell (1819-1889), Madison businessman-promoter and Wisconsin's only Whig governor (1852-1854). When this salted paper portrait was taken, Far...
Photograph

Louis P. Harvey

Date: 1860
Description: Portrait of Republican Louis P. Harvey, while he was Wisconsin secretary of state (1860-1861). Harvey became governor in January, 1862, but drowned in the ...
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Wisconsin Senate Clerks

Date: 1860
Description: Oval portrait of Wisconsin Senate Clerks. Standing in back is J.H. Warren. Seated from left to right are J.B. Selby, Mr. Wright, Willard Merrill, G.M. Powe...
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Wisconsin State Assembly

Date: 1860
Description: Composite photograph of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
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Wisconsin Senate

Date: 1860
Description: Composite photograph of the Wisconsin Senate.
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Charles G. Hammarquist

Date: 1860
Description: Waist-up oval framed portrait of Charles Hammarquist, Representative in the Wisconsin Assembly from Fort Atkinson.
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Frederick W. Horn

Date: 1860
Description: Waist-up oval portrait of Frederick W. Horn (1815-1893). A Democrat, he was a Representative in the Wisconsin Assembly from Cedarburg. He was a lawyer and ...
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Samuel F. Clise

Date: 1860
Description: Waist-up portrait of Samuel Clise, from a composite photograph of the Wisconsin State Assembly of 1860.
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George B. Goodwin

Date: 1860
Description: Quarter-length oval-framed portrait of George B. Goodwin.
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Gabriel Bouck

Date: 1860
Description: Waist-up oval-framed portrait of Gabriel Bouck.
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James H. Howe

Date: 1860
Description: Oval-framed waist-up portrait of James Howe.
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Wisconsin Senate, State Officers and Supreme Court in 1860

Date: 1860
Description: Composite of photographic portraits of the men of the Wisconsin Senate, State Officers and Supreme Court.

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