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Biographical directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989 : the Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States, from the First through the One Hundredth Congresses, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1989, inclusive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13892
Corporate Author
United States. Congress.
Edition
Bicentennial ed.
Date of Publication
1989.
Call Number
923.2 U58 Oversize
Corporate Author
United States. Congress.
Edition
Bicentennial ed.
Place of Publication
Washington, D.C
Publisher
U.S. G.P.O.,
Date of Publication
1989.
Physical Description
xi, 2104 p. ; 31 cm.
Series
Senate document ; no. 100-34
Notes
"Closing date of compilation, June 30, 1988."
"Compiled and edited under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, Congress of the United States ... Bruce A. Ragsdale, editor in chief ... Kathryn Allamong Jacob, editor in chief"--P. v.
Rev. ed. of: Biographical directory of the American Congress, 1774-1971.
Includes bibliographies.
Subjects
United States. - Continental Congress - Biography - Dictionaries.
United States. - Congress - Biography - Dictionaries.
Additional Author
Ragsdale, Bruce A.
Jacob, Kathryn Allamong.
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing.
United States. Congress.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.2 U58 Oversize
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Memorial addresses on the life and character of Samuel J. Randall, a representative from Pennsylvania, delivered in the House of representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-first Congress, first session

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Corporate Author
United States. Congress
Date of Publication
1891.
Call Number
923.2 R188
  1 website  
Corporate Author
United States. Congress
Place of Publication
Washington
Publisher
Govt. print off.,
Date of Publication
1891.
Physical Description
157 p. front. (port.) 26 cm.
Series
51st. Cong., 1st sess. House. Misc. doc. 265
Notes
Published by order of Congress.
Subjects
Randall, Samuel J. - 1828-1890.
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Congress. Memorial address.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.2 R188
Websites
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Journal of the first session of the Senate of the United States of America : begun and held at the city of New-York, March 4th, 1789, and the thirteenth year of the independence of the said states

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Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Date of Publication
--M, DCC, LXXX, IX.-- [1789]
Call Number
Bookk 837 1789
Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Place of Publication
New-York
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Greenleaf,
Date of Publication
--M, DCC, LXXX, IX.-- [1789]
Physical Description
172 pages ; 34 cm (fol.)
Notes
Signatures: [A]² B-2U².
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 837 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Subjects
1789.
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1809.
New York (N.Y.) - Imprints (Thomas Greenleaf)
United States.
Labels (Provenance)
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
No spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington)
United States. Congress. Senate.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 837 1789
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the second session of the Third Congress, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia November 3d, 1794. And in the nineteenth year of the sovereignty of the said United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22045
Corporate Author
United States. Congress. Senate.
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XCIV [1794]
Call Number
Book 843 1794
Corporate Author
United States. Congress. Senate.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by John Fenno, printer to the Senate of the United States.
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XCIV [1794]
Physical Description
114, [11] pages 33 cm
Notes
3d Cong., 2d sess., Nov. 3, 1794 to March 3, 1795.
Speech of President Washington to Congress, Nov. 19, 1794: p. 6-12.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under that of J. W. Nitton also on second flyleaf.
Book number 843 as assigned by Yeates.
Greely,
Subjects
Legislative journals - United States.
Legislative journals.
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1809.
United States.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington)
United States. Congress Senate.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 843 1794
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Journal // of the // Senate // of the // United States of America : // being the second session // of the // Fifth Congress. // Begun and held at the city of Phila- // delphia, November the thirteenth // one thousand seven hundred // and ninety-seven, and in the // twenty-second year of // the sovereignty of // the said United // States

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Corporate Author
United States. Congress. Senate.
Date of Publication
[1798]
Call Number
Book 846 1798
Corporate Author
United States. Congress. Senate.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
// Printed by John Fenno, // printer to the Senate of the United States,
Date of Publication
[1798]
Physical Description
501, [1], vii, [1], 24 pages ; 22 cm (8vo in 4s)
Notes
5th Cong., 2d sess., Nov. 13, 1797 to July 16, 1798.
Date from Evans cited below.
P. 308 and 314 wrongly numbered 307 and 214.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-Z⁴ ('G' missigned 'F') Aa-Zz⁴ Aaa-Ttt⁴ (Ttt4 blank).
Appendix (vii p.) contains "A list of the acts passed at the second session of the Fifth Congress of the United States," and a list of the senators whose seats will be vacated in 1799, 1801 and 1803.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 846 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans,
NUC pre-1956,
Subjects
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 846 1798
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Acts passed at the first [-third] session of the fifth Congress of the United States of America : begun and held at the city of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the fifteenth of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven : and of the independence of the United States, the twenty-first : published by authority

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21033
Corporate Author
United States.
Date of Publication
1797.
Call Number
Boook 244 1797
Alternate Title
Laws of the United States
Corporate Author
United States.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1797-1799)
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by William Ross ...,
Date of Publication
1797.
Physical Description
240, vii, [4], 244-561, [1], 26, iv, [48] pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2G⁴ [2H]⁴ 2I-4M⁴.
Printed marginalia.
Includes treaties.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 244 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Session laws - United States - Early works to 1800.
Diplomatic relations.
Session laws.
United States - Foreign relations - Early works to 1800.
United States.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Bindingn)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,Ud1745-1817,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Congress
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Boook 244 1797
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Report of the committee appointed to prepare and report articles of impeachment against William Blount, a senator of the United States, impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors ... Printed by order of the House of Representatives

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Corporate Author
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Impeachment of William Blount.
Date of Publication
[1798]
Call Number
Book 460 1798
Corporate Author
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Impeachment of William Blount.
Place of Publication
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
Printed by J. Fenno
Date of Publication
[1798]
Physical Description
vi, 16, clx pages 23 cm
Notes
[5th Cong., 2d sess. House. Doc.].
Evans #34785.
Blount was charged with conspiring to aid Great Britain in wresting the Floridas and Louisiana from Spain.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page opposite that of former owner R Hockden.
Book number 460 as assigned by Yeates.
Bound with Features of Mr. Jay's treaty. to which is annexed a view of the commerce of the United States, as it stands at present, and as it is fixed by Mr. Jay's treaty. Philadelphia: printed by Land & Ustick, for Mathew Carey, 1795.--Instructions to the envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary from the United States of Ameridca, to the French Republic,.... Philadelphia: Printed by W. Ross in Locust Street...[1798].--.Message from the President of the United States, accompanying sundry papers relative to the affairs of the United States with the French Republic. 18 January,1799, published by order of the House of Representatives -- Message from the President of the United States, accompanying a report of the Secretary of State....Philadelphia: Printed by John Ward Fenno. 1700.--.Report of the Committee, to whom was referred, so much of the President's speech, as relates to a revision and amended of the judiciary system.1 May 1800, published by order of the House of Representatives.-- A narrative of the suppression by Col. Burr, of the history of the administration of John Adams, late President of the United States, written by John Wood....New York: printed by Denniston and Cheetham, 1802.
Subjects
Blount, William, - 1749-1800.
Philadelphia (Pa.). - Fenno - (1798)
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Sitgreaves, Samuel,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Congress
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 460 1798
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Memorial addresses on the life and character of Thaddeus Stevens, delivered in the House of representatives, Washington, D.C., December 17, 1868

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Corporate Author
United States. 40th Cong., 3d sess., 1868-1869. House.
Date of Publication
1869.
Call Number
923.2 S846u
Corporate Author
United States. 40th Cong., 3d sess., 1868-1869. House.
Place of Publication
Washington
Publisher
Govt. print. off.,
Date of Publication
1869.
Physical Description
1 p. l., 84 p. 24 cm.
Notes
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Subjects
Stevens, Thaddeus, - 1792-1868.
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Congress.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.2 S846u
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Matthew Stanley Quay (late senator of Pennsylvania) : Memorial addresses delivered in the Senate and House of representatives, third session of the Fifty-eighth Congress. / Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on printing

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3113
Date of Publication
1905.
Call Number
923.2 Q2u
Place of Publication
Washington
Publisher
Govt. print. off.
Date of Publication
1905.
Physical Description
184 p. : port. ; 27 cm.
Subjects
Quay, Matthew Stanley, 1838-1904.
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Congress.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.2 Q2u
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Collection
James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 1 James Buchanan
Title
An Act supplementary to the “Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution”
Object ID
JBFP 1.6.3.003
Date Range
1832/06/07
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Collection
James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 1 James Buchanan
Title
An Act supplementary to the “Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution”
Description
An Act supplementary to the “Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution.” Accompanied by envelope from James Buchanan to Col. R. R Heitler, Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Washington, D.C.
Date Range
1832/06/07
Creator
United States. Congress
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Container
JBFP Part 1, Box 6
People
Buchanan, James
Heitler, Richard R.
Subjects
United States. Congress
Legislation
Statutes and codes
Search Terms
Acts, Legislative
Legislation
United States Congress
Buchanan Collections
James Buchanan
James Buchanan Presidential Library
Extent
1 item, 2 pages to scan, 8.25 x 8 in.
Object Name
Act
Language
English
Condition Notes
Pasted to boards.
Parent Object ID
JBFP Part 1 Series 6
Object ID
JBFP 1.6.3.003
Associated Material
James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections,
http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers
James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress,
https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/
James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html
James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,
https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm
Related Item Notes
James Buchanan Family Papers
MG-96 James Buchanan Collection
Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm
Photograph collections
Curatorial collections
Wheatland Mansion
Notes
May 2020 PastPerfect Conversion
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Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Accession Number
JBMS1996.461
Other Number
JBFP Part 1, Series 6, Subseries 3, Folder 3
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.
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