The national portrait gallery of distinguished Americans
By: conducted by James B. Longacre and James Herring ; under the superintendence of the American Academy of the Fine Arts.
Contributors: Herring, James, 1794-1867.; Longacre, James Barton, 1794-1869.; American Academy of the Fine Arts.; Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: James B. Longacre; Alston Mygatt
Published: 1837
Place of publication: Philadelphia; Louisville
Language: eng
Subjects: United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: NUC pre-1956 NH 0319240
Each volume has added engraved t.p. with dates: v.1: 1834; v. 2: 1835; v.3: 1836; v. 4: 1839. An engraved portrait by any of a number of artists precedes each biographical essay.
Vol. 1 has imprint: Philadelphia : James B. Longacre ; Louisville : Alston Mygatt, 1846.
Vol. 2 has imprint: Philadelphia : Henry Perkins ; New York : Monson Bancroft -- London : O. Rich, 1837.
Vol. 3 and 4 have imprint: Philadelphia : James B. Longacre ; Louisville : Alston Mygatt, 1846.
Table of contents: title: v. 1: George Washington, 1st President U.S.; title: Martha Washington; title: Charles Carroll of Carrollton; title: Major-General Nathanael Greene; title: Major-General Anthony Wayne; title: Major-General William Moultrie; title: Major General Israel Putnam; title: Colonel Timothy Pickering; title: Governor Isaac Shelby; title: Governor Aaron Ogden; title: John Marshall, LL.D., Chief Justice U.S.; title: Edward Shippen, LL.D., Chief Justice of Pennsylvania; title: Brigadier-General Jonathan Williams; title: Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President U.S.; title: Hon. Henry Clay, U.S. Senate; title: Major-General Andrew Jackson, President U.S.; title: Hon. Daniel Webster, U.S. Senate; title: Hon. William Wirt; title: Hon Lewis Cass, Secretary of War; title: Commodore Thomas Macdonough, U.S. Navy; title: Major-General Alexander Macomb; title: Hon. Joel R. Poinsett, LL.D.; title: Hon. Josiah S. Johnston, U.S. Senate; title: Hon. Edward Livingston; title: Hon. Louis M'Lane, Secretary of State; title: Right Rev. William White, D.D., Bishop of Pennsylvania; title: Rev. Timothy Dwight. S.T.D. LL.D.; title: Hon. Joel Barlow; title: Colonel John Trumbull; title: Gilbert Charles Stuart, Esq.; title: Samuel Latham Mitchell, M.D., LL.D.; title: Theodoric Romeyn Beck, M.D. Washington Irving, Esq.; title: Catharine M. Sedgwick; title: James Fenimore Cooper, Esq.; title: v. 2: Benjamin Franklin, LL.D., F.R.S.; title: Thomas Jefferson, 3d President U.S.; title: John Hancock, President of Congress; title: John Jay, President of Congress, Chief Justice U.S.; title: Patrick Henry; title: Major-General Joseph Warren; title: Major-General Henry Knox; title: Major-General Benjamin Lincoln; title: Major-General David Wooster; title: Major-General Philip Schuyler; title: Hon. Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury; title: Governor John E. Howard; title: Brigadier-General Otho H. Williams; title: Governor John Brooks; title: Colonel Francis Barber; title: John Barry, U.S. Navy; title: Daniel Boon[!]; title: David Rittenhouse, LL.D., F.R.S.; title: David Humphreys, LL.D.; title: Edward Preble, U.S. Navy; title: Oliver H. Perry, U.S. Navy; title: Major-General Jacob Brown; title: Governor Dewitt Clinton; title: Hon. James A. Bayard; title: Hon. John C. Calhoun, Vice President U.S.; title: Governor Robert Y. Hayne; title: Hon. William Gaston; title: Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury; title: Mrs. Marcia Van Ness; title: Noah Webster, LL.D.; title: Caspar Wistar, M.D.; title: David Hosack, M.D., F.R.S.; title: James Kent, LL.D.; title: Charles Ewing, LL.D., Chief Justice of New Jersy; title: Governor George Wolf.; title: v. 3: James Madison, 4th President U.S.; title: Mrs. Madison; title: James Monroe, 5th President U.S.; title: John Dickinson; title: Francis Hopkinson; title: Elias Boudinot; title: Benjamin Rush, M.D.; title: David Ramsay, M.D.; title: Major-General Arthur St. Clair; title: Major-General Lachlan M'Intosh; title: Major-General Daniel Morgan; title: Brigadier-General Francis Marion; title: Brigadier-General Andrew Pickens; title: Brigadier-General Henry Lee; title: Brigadier-General William Augustine Washington; title: Major-General Morgan Lewis; title: Benjamin Tallmadge; title: Governor James Jackson; title: Governor William Richardson Davie; title: Paul Jones, U.S. Navy; title: Richard Dale, U.S. Navy; title: William Bainbridge, U.S. Navy; title: Stephen Decatur, U.S. Navy; title: Fisher Ames; title: Rufus King; title: Stephen Van Rensselaer; title: William Pinkney; title: Lindley Murray; title: Charles Brockden Brown; title: Robert Fulton; title: Joseph Story, LL.D.; title: Major-General William Henry Harrison; title: Martin Van Buren, Vice President U.S.; title: Mahlon Dickerson, Secretary of the Navy; title: Felix Grundy, U.S. Senate.; title: v. 4: John Adams, Second President of the United States; title: Abigail Adams, Consort of John Adams; title: Samuel Adams, Governor of Massachusetts, &c.; title: Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut; title: John Rutledge, Governor of South Carolina; title: Henry Laurens, President of Congress, &c.; title: Thomas Sumter, Brigadier General U.S.A.; title: Richard Montgomery, Major General U.S.A.; title: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Major General U.S.A.; title: Thomas Pinckney, Major General U.S.A.; title: Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Justice U.S.; title: Thomas Mifflin, Major General U.S.A., and Governor of Pennsylvania; title: Thomas McKean, Governor of Pennsylvania, &c.; title: Robert Morris; title: Joseph Habersham, Postmaster General, &c.; title: Mordecai Gist, Brigadier General U.S.A.; title: George Rogers Clarke, Brigadier General U.S.A.; title: Simon Kenton, Brigadier General, &c.; title: Joshua Barney, U.S. Navy; title: Luther Martin, Attorney General of the State of Maryland; title: Samuel Chase, Associate Justice U.S.; title: Abraham Baldwin, Senator U.S. from Georgia; title: Robert R. Livingston, Chancellor of the State of New York; title: John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States; title: Louisa Catherine Adams, Consort of John Quincy Adams; title: William Harris Crawford, Secretary of the Treasury; title: Hugh Lawson White, Senator U.S. from Tennessee; title: John Randolph; title: William Charles Cole Claiborne, Governor of Louisiana; title: John McLean, Associate Justice U.S.; title: Edward Everett, Governor of Massachusetts; title: Thomas Say, naturalist; title: Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D., F.R.S.; title: Philip Syng Physick, M.D.; title: John W. Francis, M.D.; title: Lydia Huntley Sigourney; title: Winfield Scott, Major General U.S.A.; title: Edmund Pendleton Gaines, Major General U.S.A.; title: Nicholas Biddle, President of the Bank of the United States.