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- GLC#
- GLC02925.24-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 3 March 1860
- Author/Creator
- Wood, Fernando, 1812-1881
- Title
- to Alfred Edmund Burr
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 20.3 cm, Width: 25.4 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Wood, Mayor of New York City, informs Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, that he will be able to speak at a political convention preceding the 1860 Presidential election. Written on New York Mayor's Office stationery. Labeled "private." Wood also served as a U.S. congressman from New York (1841-1842, 1863-1864, and 1867-1882). He was an outspoken Peace Democrat during the Civil War. Burr was the founder of the Hartford Times, a Connecticut newspaper. He served as a Connecticut Delegate to the 1864 Democratic National Convention.
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