Samuel Swartwout, the notorious former collector of customs at the Port of New York, dies

Samuel Swartwout, center of a scandal in 1841 in which he was alleged to have embezzled more that a million dollars from customs revenue at the Port of New York in his role as Collector, dies in New York City at the age of seventy-three. (By John Osborne)
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Senator John Middleton Clayton, negotiator of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, dies in Delaware

Senator J. M. Clayton, the former Secretary of State under President Taylor who negotiated the treaty in 1850 with Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer concerning British and American interests in Central America, dies in Dover, Delaware at the age of sixty. (By John Osborne)
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