Title: Thomas Ewing, Jr
First published: 2008
Description: "Examines Thomas Ewing, Jr.'s career as a real estate lawyer, judge, soldier, and speculator in Kansas and how he came to national prominence in the fight over the proslavery Lecompton Constitution, was instrumental in starting the Union Pacific Railroad, and became the first chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biography, Businessmen, Generals, History, Judges, Kansas Civil War, 1861-1865, Lawyers, Legislators, Missouri Civil War, 1861-1865, United States, United States. Congress. House, United states, congress, house, biography, Legislators, united states, Generals, biography, Lawyers, biography, Lawyers, ohio, Judges, biography, Kansas, biography, Businesspeople, biography, Kansas, history
Places: Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, United States
People: Ewing family, Thomas Ewing (1829-1896)
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865
LC classification: E415.9.E95 S65 2008