John J. Crittenden papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2600
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; United States; United States. Dept. of Justice. Office of the Attorney General; Whig Party (U.S.); Secession; History; Tariff; Slavery; Banks and banking
Description: Correspondence, speeches, legal papers, and other papers.  Chiefly correspondence covering Crittenden's career as U.S. attorney general and U.S. senator from and governor of Kentucky.  Subjects include national politics, particularly banking and tariff matters, slavery, Mexico, and Texas; the southern Whigs; Crittenden's relations with Henry Clay; reactions to the Crittenden Compromise; and Kentucky politics and law.  Correspondents include George Edmund Badger, Francis Preston Blair, Orlando Brown, Albert T. Burnley, Henry Clay, John M. Clayton, Charles Augustus Davis, Reverdy Johnson, Richard M. Johnson, Amos Adams Lawrence, Robert Perkins Letcher, C.S. Morehead, S.S. Nicholas, John S. Pendleton, Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, Robert Augustus Toombs, and Robert C. Winthrop.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available in part, no. 13,714.

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

Purchase, 1905-1983.

U.S. attorney general and U.S. senator from and governor of Kentucky.

Collection material in English.

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