Benjamin Helm Bristow papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16000
Subjects: Correspondence; Practice of law; Law; United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Office of the Secretary; Whiskey frauds; Economic policy; United States. Solicitor General; Politics and government; United States; United States. Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Description: Correspondence, speeches, biographical material, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Bristow's service as U.S. solicitor general and U.S. secretary of the treasury in President Ulysses S. Grant's administrations and to his New York City law firm.  Includes a letterpress book of incoming and outgoing correspondence of the U.S. Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, concerning the whiskey frauds of 1875.  Correspondents include William W. Belknap, James Gillespie Blaine, Henry V. Boynton, George William Childs, David Davis, Anthony J. Drexel, George F. Edmunds, Hamilton Fish, William Cassius Goodloe, Ulysses S. Grant, John Marsgakk Harlan, W.A. Meriwether, Horace Porter, and Noah Haynes Swayne.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, William B. Bristow, 1937.

Converted to gift, 1946.

Army officer, lawyer, and  U.S. secretary of the treasury and solicitor general.

Collection material in English.

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