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Thomas Ewing, Sr., Papers

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The Zachary Taylor Administration, 1849 Daguerreotype by Mathew Brady. From left to right: William B. Preston, Thomas Ewing, John M. Clayton, Zachary Taylor, William M. Meredith, George W. Crawford, Jacob Collamer and Reverdy Johnson, (1849). Library of Congress.

 

(Microfilm Edition)

University of Notre Dame

Finding aid available at www.archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/index/EWI008.htm

Thomas Ewing, Sr. (1789 –1871) was Whig politician from Ohio. He served in the U.S. Senate (1831-1836), was appointed as Secretary of the Treasury in 1841, was named the first Secretary of the Interior. In 1849, he served a second partial term in the U.S. Senate.  He is also known as the foster father of famous American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman.

 

6 reels, 6-page guide

 

 

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