Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) to Salmon Chase
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01989 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 2 June 1862 Pagination: 1 p. + docket 16.5 x 12.5 cm Order a Copy
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to send in the name of George W. Lane of Indiana as his choice for superintendent of the United States Mint at Denver, Colorado. Written on Executive Mansion stationery. According to Basler (5: 256), Chase opposed Lane's nomination, and Lincoln did not send it to Congress until January 1863. Lane's tenure at the Denver Mint marked the end of private coinage in the United States.
Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 -1862,
p. 256
Executive Mansion,
Washington June 2, 1862
Hon. Sec. of Treasury
My dear Sir
Please send a nomination for George W. Lane, of Indiana, as Superintendent of the Mint at Denver, Colorado, Territory.
Yours truly
A. Lincoln.
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