Wood, Fernando, 1812-1881 to Alfred Edmund Burr

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GLC#
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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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