William Medill papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2300
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Oregon question; Government relations; Indians of North America; Mexican War, 1846-1848; Railroads; Democratic Party (Ohio); Boundaries; United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs; United States. Dept. of the Treasury; United States; Antislavery movements; United States. Post Office Dept.
Description: Correspondence, account books, and other papers documenting Medill's service as first assistant postmaster general (1845), commissioner of Indian affairs (1845-1850), and first comptroller of the U.S. treasury (1857-1861).  Topics include local Ohio politics; railroad politics; President James K. Polk's settlment  of the Oregon question; dissatisfaction of Ohio Democrats with the administrations of presidents Polk, Pierce, and Buchanan; abolitionism; and the Mexican War.  Correspondents include William Allen, Luther Day, Augustus C. Dodge, James John Faran, Richard M. Johnson, John Y. Mason, Samuel Medary, Allen Granbery Thurman, David Tod, and Clement L. Vallandigham.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition of selected correspondence available, no. 8,396.

Microfilm of copies in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1946.

In part, photocopies. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1946-1967.

Purchase, 1943-1946.

transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

Lawyer, U.S. representative and governor of Ohio, and U.S. government official.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009238