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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Smith, Caleb B. (1808-1864) to Gideon Welles

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02490.15 Author/Creator: Smith, Caleb B. (1808-1864) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 27 January 1862 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 24.7 x 19.7 cm. Order a Copy

Recommends Alex H. Brown for an appointment in the Department of the Interior.

Member of Indiana State House of Representatives, 1833-1837, 1840-1841. U.S. Representative from Indiana, 1843-1849. Presidential Elector for Indiana, 1856. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1860. U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1861-1862, in Lincoln's cabinet. Judge of U.S. District Court, 1863-1864.

Smith, Caleb B. (Caleb Blood), 1808-1864
Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

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