John Quincy Adams 1767-1848
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| John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 |
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President John Quincy Adams signed Land Grant. Adams was the son of John Adams. After his Presidency,John Quincy Adams served 17 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, the only President to do so.
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John C. Calhoun 1782-1850
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| V.P. John C. Calhoun 1825-1832 |
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| Losing V.P. Candidate, John Sergeant, 1832 |
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Losing Vice Presidential Candidate, John Sergeant's hand-written letter to a Client, dated September 15, 1838. John Sergeant was Henry Clay's running mate when they lost to Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren in the landslide election of 1832.
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| Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 |
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President Andrew Jackson signed Land Grant, dated the 1st Day of June, 1829, assigning 81 Acres in Zanesville, Ohio, to Levi Knox (Jackson was the last president to sign Land Grants..And he only signed them during his first four year term).
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Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson 1767-1828
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| Rachel Jackson |
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Rachel Jackson was the only first lady ever accused of bigamy. Rachel married Lewis Robards of Kentucky at the age of 17. But Robards was insanely jealous and soon sent her back home to live with her parents, where a few months later she met a Young Andrew Jackson. Thinking that she was divorced, Jackson married her in August 1791. After much legal wrangling, they were remarried legally on January 17th, 1794. But the charge of adultery would haunt them the rest of their lives. (Click on Rachel's portrait for more information.)
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Andrew Jackson's "Cock-eyed" Indian Pipe, given to him by an old friend and Political ally from Nashville, Tennessee after he signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Both Jackson and his wife Rachel were avid pipe smokers. Rachel died of heart complications just two months before Jackson took office as the 7th President of the United States.
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Martin Van Buren 1782-1862
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| Martin Van Buren 1837-1841 |
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Martin Van Buren signed copyright #791 for the book: A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Capt. Charles H. Barnard, dated the 10th day of November 1829. The book was a narrative of the time that Capt. Barnard was marooned by his crew in the Faulkland Islands. The Islands were later made famaous by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Invasion.
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President Martin Van Buren signed military commission,promoting Edwin B. Babbitt to the rank of Captain of the Army, dated the 10th day of July 1838
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Richard Mentor Johnson V.P. 1837-1841
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| Richard Mentor Johnson 9th Vice President |
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Richard M. Johnson signed Free Frank as Vice President, dated February 1st, 1840. Johnson is credited with killing the Great Warrior Chief Tecumseh while serving under future President William Henry Harrison during the battle of the Thames in 1813. An unpopular Vice President, due mainly to the fact that he lived openly with and had children by one of his mulatto slaves, Johnson was dropped by Van Buren as his running mate in 1841. Preferring to run without a Vice President, Van Buren was defeated in his quest for a second term by Harrison, who would live only a month into his presidency.
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William Henry Harrison 1773-1841
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| William Henry Harrison 1841-41 |
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William Henry Harrison hand-written letter to a constituent relaying the news that his town, North Willam Hills, had been given a Post Office, Dated July 7th, 1817. Harrison served only one month as President, dying on the 4th of April 1841 from pneumonia. Despite being the second oldest man ever to become President, sixty eight, Harrison spoke for nearly two hours in a cold March drizzle. By the time he got back to the White House that afternoon he was feeling the first symptoms of the cold that would eventually kill him.
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| Treaty of Greenville Plaque |
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William Henry Harrison signed requisition for "eight pounds of flour and bef " to be fed to the Ottowa Indians. Harrison was the Aide-de-camp to General Anthony "Mad Anthony" Wayne at the time. The Northwest Indian war ended only a month earlier with the defeat of the Ottowas and the signing of the Greenville Treaty. It was this treaty that gave most of what is now Ohio to the United States. The requisition is dated September 6th, 1795
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| Pocket Bible carried by Cyress Norton into battle during the Mexican-American war, 1846-1848, Hand-Dated, July 8th, 1841
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| John Tyler 1841-1845 |
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President John Tyler signed Document Granting the remission of the forfeiture & Penalties in the Case of the Ship Yazoo, B.I.H. Trask, Ship's Master, Dated the 22cd of June, 1842.
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President John Tyler free-franked envelope to then Secretary of War, John Bell of Tennessee.
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