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Alexander James Dallas, lawyer, politician, financier, 1759-1817

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Author
Walters, Ray,
Date of Publication
1943.
Call Number
923.4 D145
Responsibility
by Raymond Walters, Jr.
Author
Walters, Ray,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press,
Date of Publication
1943.
Physical Description
vi p., 1 β., 251 p. front. (port.) 21 cm.
Series
Pennsylvania lives
Notes
Without thesis note.
"Bibliographical note": p. 239-243.
Subjects
Dallas, Alexander James, - 1759-1817.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1809.
United States - Politics and government - 1809-1817.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.4 D145
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Bosom friends : the intimate world of James Buchanan and William Rufus King

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22229
Author
Balcerski, Thomas J.
Date of Publication
2019.
Call Number
973.68 B174
Responsibility
Thomas J. Balcerski.
ISBN
9780190914592 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Author
Balcerski, Thomas J.
Place of Publication
New York, NY
Publisher
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication
2019.
Physical Description
x, 337 pages : Illustrations, maps : 25 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Remembering -- Leavening, 1786-1819 -- Hardening, 1820-1834 -- Messing, 1834-1840 -- Wooing, 1840-1844 -- Ministering, 1844-1848 -- Running, 1848-1853 -- Presiding, 1853-1868 -- Epilogue: Preserving -- Washington residences of James Buchanan and William Rufus King (1834-1853) -- Percentage correlation of roll call votes of James Buchanan with senators of the Bachelor's Mess, 23rd to 28th Congresses (1834-1844) -- Calendar of correspondence of James Buchanan / Harriet Lane Johnston and William Rufus King / Catherine Margaret Ellis (1837-1868.
Summary
"Politicians James Buchanan (1791-1868) of Pennsylvania and William Rufus King (1786-1853) of Alabama has excited much speculation through the years. Why did they never marry? Might they have been gay, or was their relationship a nineteenth-century version of the modern-day 'bromance'? Then, as now, they have intrigued by the many mysteries surrounding them. In Bosom Friends : the Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King, Thomas Balcerski explores the lives of these two politicians and discovers one of the most significant collaborations in American political history. Unlikely companions from the start, they lived together as messmates in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse. There developed a bosom friendship that blossomed into a significant political partnership. Before the Civil War, each man was elected to high executive office, William Rufus King the vice-presidency in 1852 and James Buchanan as the nation's fifteen president in 1856. This book offers a dual biography of James Buchanan and William Rufus King. Special attention is given to their early lives prior to elected office, the circumstances of their boardinghouse friendship, and the juicy political gossip that has circulated about them ever since. In addition, the author traces their many contributions to the Jacksonian political agenda, manifest destiny, and the debates over slavery, while finding their style of politics to have been disastrous for the American nation. Ultimately, Bosom Friends demonstrates that intimate male friendships among politicians were, and continue to be, an important part of success in American politics"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects
King, William R. (William Rufus), - 1786-1853.
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Male friendship - United States
Presidents - United States
Legislators - United States
United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.68 B174
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Buchanan's campaign in Lancaster County

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Author
Brady, Gerard.
Date of Publication
1949
a stately mansion. It is through the fame that Buchanan had achieved as Congressman, Senator, Secretary of State under President Polk, Ambassador to Russia and England that we find Lancaster in the political limelight. Buchanan had been a great factor in American politics for many years. �In 1848
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Responsibility
by Gerard Brady.
Author
Brady, Gerard.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1949
Physical Description
[97]-135 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 53, no. 4
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Politics, Practical - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Elections - United States
Presidents - United States
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 53, number 4 (1949), p. 97-135Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.53
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The counter-revolution in Pennsylvania, 1776-1790

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Author
Brunhouse, Robert Levere,
Date of Publication
1942.
Call Number
974.8029 B895
  1 website  
Responsibility
[by] Robert Levere Brunhouse.
Author
Brunhouse, Robert Levere,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Date of Publication
1942.
Physical Description
viii, 368 p. incl. maps. 23 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 299-318.
Contents
The Background -- The Rise of the Radicals (1776-1778) -- Triumph of Radicalism (1778-1780) -- The Conservatives Emerge (1780-1782) -- Conservatives Ride to Power (1782-1784) -- Counter-Revolution Halter(1783-1786) -- Triumph of the Counter-Revolution (1786-1790).
Summary
From the Preface: "Only with the detailed story of the struggle between radical and conservative forces in each state can one gain a more complete understanding of the history of the Revolution and the Confederation."
Subjects
United States - Politics and government - Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States - Politics and government - 1783-1789.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8029 B895
Websites
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Diplomatic dispatches of the Dept. of State, 1833-1864 : Russia, v.14

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Date of Publication
1946.
Call Number
Drawer 1, Sec. 5: #425
Place of Publication
Washington, DC
Publisher
The National Archives of the United States ,
Date of Publication
1946.
Physical Description
1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
Notes
Used as research material for MU Thesis "Simon Cameron's Political Exile as United States Minister to Russia" by Lamar Landon Libhart.
Subjects
United States - Politics and government - 1783-1865.
United States - Foreign relations - Russia - 1783-1865.
Additional Corporate Author
Buchanan, James ,
Cameron, Simon,
Taylor, Bayard ,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 1, Sec. 5: #425
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From the minute book of the Borough

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4852
Date of Publication
1941
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.45
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1941
Physical Description
145-146 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 45, no. 5
Subjects
Lancaster (Pa.) - Politics and government - To 1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Journal
Call Number
974.9 L245 v.45
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Guide to the published archives of Pennsylvania covering the 138 volumes of Colonial records and Pennsylvania archives, series I-IX

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13633
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Date of Publication
1949.
Call Number
974.8003 P412
Responsibility
by Henry Howard Eddy, with an alphabetized finding list and two special indexes compiled by Martha L. Simonetti.
Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg
Date of Publication
1949.
Physical Description
v, 101 p. 23 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 101.
Subjects
Pennsylvania - History - Sources - Bibliography.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - To 1775 - Sources - Bibliography.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Sources - Bibliography.
Additional Author
Eddy, Henry Howard,
Simonetti, Martha L.,
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania. Provincial Council.
Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council.
Additional Title
Pennsylvania archives
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8003 P412
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History of the formation of the Union under the Constitution : with liberty documents and report of the Commission

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Corporate Author
United States.
Date of Publication
1943]
Call Number
973.4 B655
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Responsibility
Sol Bloom, Director General.
Corporate Author
United States.
Place of Publication
[Washington
Publisher
U.S. Govt. Print. Off.,
Date of Publication
1943]
Physical Description
x, 885 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Cover title: Formation of the Union under the constitution.
Summary
The book was written as part of the National celebration of the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the U.S. Constitution.
Subjects
United States.
United States - Constitutional history.
United States - Politics and government.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.4 B655
Websites
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Horrifying facts! : read -- consider -- and weigh them!

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Date of Publication
2014.
Call Number
324.5 H816
  1 website  
Alternate Title
Erschreckende Thatsachen :
Responsibility
Translated from the German by Cecile Zorach.
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Publisher
LancasterHistory.org,
Date of Publication
2014.
Physical Description
39 pages ; 28 cm.
Notes
"Den 14ten September, 1808".
Contains statements by various Pennsylvania officials.
Library holds the German original.
Attributed to Henrich Schweitzer, Philadelphia, printer based on typographical evidence.
Shaw and Shoemaker 14953.
Summary
This resource is a pamphlet concerning the 1808 Pennsylvanian gubernatorial election between Democratic-Republican candidate Simon Schneider (Snyder) (1759-1819) and Federalist James Ross (1762-1847). The writers of the pamphlet were alerting the public to what they believed were threats to their freedoms if Snyder were elected: "Free Voters of Pennsylvania! Read the following pages, and consider what to do before it is too late. The time is extremely important: be alert, otherwise your freedom will disappear for ever, and all the famous rights and privileges will be sacrificed on the alter of anarchy." The pamphlet includes testimonials from area persons who were worried that Snyder would call a convention to change the constitution in order to take away the rights of poor men to vote and to establish a military tribunal about the rights of conscience.
Subjects
Snyder Simon - 1759-1819.
Ross, James - 1762-1847.
Campaign literature, 1808 - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - Governor - Elections.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Additional Author
Zorach, Cecile,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
324.5 H816
Websites
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Inventory of the county archives of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5264
Date of Publication
1941.
Call Number
974.816 P415
Responsibility
prepared by the Pennsylania Historical Survey, Division of Community Service Programs, Work Projects Administration .
Place of Publication
Reading, Pa
Publisher
Board of County Commissioners,
Date of Publication
1941.
Physical Description
409 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects
Archives - Pennsylvania - Berks County
Berks Count (Pa.) - Genealogy.
Berks County (Pa.) - Politics and government - Sources.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylania Historical Survey.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.816 P415
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