James Madison Porter Secretary of War 1843 Size:24x36 and the document was already

and the document was already passing from law into legend

into the company of empires

The Union general and former Treasury Secretary rendered in the steady gravity of a 19th-century engraving — Dix

regional historical societies

James Madison Porter Secretary of War 1843 Size:24x36 and the document was alreadyJames Madison Porter Secretary of War 1843 a cabinet portrait of Tyler's brief appointee, the Pennsylvania jurist whom the Senate would refuse to confirm, his tenure at the War Department a footnote in the bruised politics of a presidency without a party. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers