Hon. Abbott Lawrence, Representative in Congress From Massachusetts, January 1842 large S Dakota map Charles Sumner 1874 — a

Charles Sumner 1874 — a likeness of the Massachusetts senator rendered in the year of his death

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Hon. Abbott Lawrence, Representative in Congress From Massachusetts, January 1842 large S Dakota map Charles Sumner 1874 — aHon. Abbott Lawrence, Representative in Congress From Massachusetts, January 1842. A Whig industrialist's portrait drawn at the height of his Congressional tenure, when Massachusetts textiles and tariff politics moved in the same breath, and the rhetorical floor of the House still rang with arguments over what kind of country this would become. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of