The second session of the 41st Congress of the United States returns from its holiday recess

The second session of the Forty-first Congress returns from its holiday recess. The House and the Senate will now sit until July 15, 1870. In the House, James G. Blaine of Maine is in the speaker's chair. (By John Osborne)
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Ulysses Grant takes the oath as the eighteenth President of the United States at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC

Ulysses Simpson Grant took the oath as eighteenth President of the United States on the central portico of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. He preceded this with his first inaugural address in which he promised to safeguard the security of all citizens without regard to local prejudice. Just prior to this, the retiring president pro tempore of the Senate, Benjamin Wade, had administered the oath on the Senate floor to the new Vice President, Schuyler Colfax of Indiana.(By John Osborne)
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The 41st Congress of the United States opens in Washington, DC

The Forty-first Congress of the United States opened in Washington, D.C. on this day. Of the 243 representatives who sat in the House, 171 were Republicans, and 67 were Democrats. Five others sat as Conservatives. On this opening day, James G. Blaine, Republican of Maine, was elected Speaker of the House for the first time. He served as Speaker in the following two Congresses as well. The Senate swore in new Vice-President Schuyler Colfax, and then both delegations retired to the portico of the Capital to witness the taking of the oath of Ulysses Simpson Grant as President of the United States. (By John Osborne)

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Robert Brank Vance, detail

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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, October 7, 2008.
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engraving
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see below
Source citation
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buel, and the Century Company, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War ...: Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers (New York: Century Company, 1887), 669.
Source note
Original caption named image as that of Zebulon Vance, the subject's brother. Correction was made in the publication's errata section.
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