John Catron, Judge of the Supreme Court of the US, 1839 developer_gift_idea Abraham Lincoln in 1863 —

Abraham Lincoln in 1863 — a portrait fixed at the war's grimmest hinge

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William McKinley Preparing to Speak to Large Crowd From Balcony 1900

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when the annexation drums beat loudest and the Oregon line was still being drawn

John Catron, Judge of the Supreme Court of the US, 1839 developer_gift_idea Abraham Lincoln in 1863 —John Catron, Judge of the Supreme Court of the US, 1839 a Jacksonian appointee rendered in the sober gravity befitting the bench, his likeness drawn the year he took his seat among the brethren who would, two decades later, hand down Dred Scott and split the republic at its seams. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and