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Chris Harter
29 August 1997
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 item
COLLECTION DATES: May 31, 1851
PROVENANCE: Southern Cross Books, Timothy Bakken, Box 221, Claridon Hills, IL 60514
RESTRICTIONS: None
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society.
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ACCESSION NUMBERS: 1997.0567
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Joseph Albert Wright (1810-1867) was born in Pennsylvania. He moved to Bloomington, Indiana (Monroe Co.), with his family in 1819, where he assisted his father in the brick business. After a short stay at college, he began studying law in Bloomington. In 1829, he moved to Rockville (Parke Co.) and established a successful law practice. He married Louisa Cook, the daughter of local farmer William Cook, two years later.
Wright was elected to the state House of Representatives in 1834 and to the Senate in 1839. He served in the United States Congress (1843-1845) and as governor of Indiana (1849-1857). In 1857, he was appointed Minister to Prussia by President Buchanan. Wright returned to the United States in 1861, and was appointed by Indiana Governor Oliver P. Morton to fill a vacancy in the U. S. Senate, a position he held for two years. He was again appointed Minister to Prussia by President Andew Johnson in 1865. He served until his death in 1867.
(See also: SC 1637, James A. Wright Letters; SC 10, Edward Allen Collection; SC 101, Silas Blizard Papers; SC 674, Allen Hamilton Letters; M 8, Conrad Baker Letters; M 82, John G. Davis Papers; M 98, W. H. English Collection; M 211, A. G. Mitten Collection; M 315, Samuel Hall Papers; OM 199, Aaron Meredith, Lieutenant's Commission; F 248, John Legg Diary; BV 1889, Amelia Nowland Scrapbooks. Most contain documents signed by Wright or correspondence.)
No information located in available resources for Hamilton Robb.
Sources: Representative Men of Indiana. Vol. 2. (1880) p. 247-48.
This collection consists of a one-page, handwritten letter from Hamilton Robb in Jeffersonville, Indiana, to Governor James A. Wright. It is dated May 31, 1851. In it, Robb asks Gov. Wright to grant executive clemency to a convict named Tabor.
MAIN ENTRY: Robb, Hamilton, fl. 1851
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Wright, Joseph A. (Joseph Albert), 1810-1867
Clemency--Indiana
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