Joseph Smith Fowler papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Politics and government; Tennessee. Comptroller of the Treasury; Impeachment; Tennessee; History; Unionists (United States Civil War); Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Description: Correspondence, writings, memorandum book, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Fowler's political activities as a Unionist and to his service as comptroller of the treasury of Tennessee during the Civil War and as U.S. senator from Tennessee during Reconstruction.  Subjects include Reconstruction and the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 19,762.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service.

Gift, Elizabeth Shankland Chandler and Fowler Shankland via Mrs. Jefferson P. Chandler, 1931.

Gift, Mrs. William A. Croffut, 1931.

Gift, Elizabeth Johnston Sneed and Samuel Richards Johnston via John Clement Fitzpatrick, 1938.

Educator, lawyer, and U.S. senator from Tennessee.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010059

Material transferred from the Ethan Allen Hitchcock papers in 1942.