Sayles Jenks Bowen papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1000
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Elections
Description: Correspondence, business papers, and legal papers.  Subjects include the elections of 1876 and 1880, the presidential administration of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, political support for Chester Alan Arthur, James Gillespie Blaine, and James A. Garfield, and opposition to Ulysses S. Grant.  Correspondents include James Gillespie Blaine, William E. Chandler, Frederick Douglass, Reuben E. Fenton, Robert Todd Lincoln, James H. Platt, and Whitelaw Reid.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Charles A. Barker, 1977.

Converted to gift and purchase, 1978.

Public official and mayor of Washington, D.C.

Collection material in English.

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