Edward Everett (Congressional Biographical Directory)
Reference
“Everett, Edward,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000264.
EVERETT, Edward, (father of William Everett), a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Dorchester, Mass., April 11, 1794; graduated from Harvard University in 1811; tutor in that university 1812-1814; studied theology and was ordained pastor of the Brattle Street Unitarian Church, Boston, in 1814; professor of Greek literature at Harvard University 1815-1826; overseer of Harvard University 1827-1847, 1849-1854, and 1862-1865; elected to the Nineteenth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1835); declined to be a candidate fo
Margaret Garner, detail
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The modern Medea - the story of Margaret Garner
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Illustrations Collection, Library of Congress
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Cropped from the larger image originally that appeared in Harper's Weekly Magazine, May 18, 1867
The Modern Medea - Margaret Garner, February, 1856
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The modern Medea - the story of Margaret Garner
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Illustrations Collection, Library of Congress
Source note
Image originally appeared in Harper's Weekly Magazine, May 18, 1867.
Edward Everett (American National Biography)
Scholarship
Daniel Walker Howe, "Everett, Edward," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-00352.html.
In 1853 the Massachusetts legislature elected Everett to the U.S. Senate. He spoke against the Kansas-Nebraska Bill but was absent when the vote on it was taken. Though he pleaded illness, his constituents were outraged, and Everett resigned, having served but fifteen months of his six-year term. For the rest of the 1850s, Everett was cast in the politically futile role of a moderate in a time of polarization. A Burkean conservative dedicated to balance and harmony, he felt the Union was being torn apart by ideological extremism.
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The seceding South Carolina delegation. Keitt, Boyce Chestnut, M'Queen, Ashmore, Hammond, Bonham, Miles
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Illustrations Collection, Library of Congress
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Cropped form the larger image that originally appeared in Harper's Weekly Magazine, December 22, 1860
Lawrence Massillon Keitt
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The seceding South Carolina delegation. Keitt, Boyce Chestnut, M'Queen, Ashmore, Hammond, Bonham, Miles
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Illustrations Collection, Library of Congress
Source note
Cropped form the larger image that originally appeared in Harper's Weekly Magazine, December 22, 1860
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Goff, Hon. Nathan of W. Va Secty. Navy - Hays Admin.
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