NATIONAL UNION TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, OF ILLINOIS. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ANDREW JOHNSON, OF TENNESSEE. FOR ELECTORS, SAMUEL BRANNAN, OF SAN FRANCISCO. J.G. McCALLUM, OF EL DORADO. W.W. CRANE, OF ALAMEDA. CHARLES MACLAY, OF SANTA CLARA. J.W. OLIVER, OF SISKIYOU. FOR CONGRESS, THIRD DISTRICT, JOHN BIDWELL, OF BUTTE. SUPERVISOR FIRST DISTRICT, J.C. PRUED. FOR COUNTY TREASURER, HENRY MOLINEUX - Rare Book Insider
NATIONAL UNION TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT

[Election of 1864]

NATIONAL UNION TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, OF ILLINOIS. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ANDREW JOHNSON, OF TENNESSEE. FOR ELECTORS, SAMUEL BRANNAN, OF SAN FRANCISCO. J.G. McCALLUM, OF EL DORADO. W.W. CRANE, OF ALAMEDA. CHARLES MACLAY, OF SANTA CLARA. J.W. OLIVER, OF SISKIYOU. FOR CONGRESS, THIRD DISTRICT, JOHN BIDWELL, OF BUTTE. SUPERVISOR FIRST DISTRICT, J.C. PRUED. FOR COUNTY TREASURER, HENRY MOLINEUX

Downieville CA?: 1864
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Broadside ticket, 2-3/4" x 3-7/8." Small mounting remnants on blank verso. Very Good. "Sierra County Republican ticket for the election of 1864, in which the national Republican Party temporarily adopted the name National Union Party. Henry Molineux was treasurer of Sierra County, Calif. (of which Downieville is the seat); see N.Z.R. Molyneux, History, genealogical and biographical, of the Molyneux families (Syracuse, N.Y.: C.W. Bardeen, 1904), p. 99-102." [OCLC entry.] OCLC 78931206 [Brown, BYU] as of July 2024. The Lincoln Financial Foundation also owns a copy.
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BY THE HONORABLE JAMES KENT, ESQUIRE CHANCELLOR OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME OR MAY CONCERN: KNOW YE, THAT [JAMES TALLMADGE JUNIOR] HAVING BEEN DULY EXAMINED AND REGULARLY ADMITTED AS A [COUNSELLOR] IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, IN THE TERM OF [JUNE] IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND [FOURTEEN] I DO HEREBY AUTHORIZE AND LICENSE THE SAID [JAMES TALLMADGE JUNIOR] TO APPEAR IN THE SAID COURT, AND THERE TO PRACTICE AS A [COUNSELLOR] ACCORDING TO THE RULES AND CUSTOMS OF THE SAID COURT, AND THE LAWS OF THIS STATE. GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND THE SEAL OF THE SAID COURT, AT [NEW YORK] THE [ELEVENTH] DAY OF [JULY] IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND [FOURTEEN] [signed in ink manuscript] JAMES KENT

Kent, James 7" x 10-3/4". Printed certificate on thick paper, the New York State seal at the bottom left corner. Printed in typescript with several fonts, completed in ink manuscript [as noted by the brackets]and signed in ink by James Kent. Text surrounded by an ornamental rectangular border. Acknowledgment in ink manuscript on verso, dated and signed by Isaac L. Kip, Assistant Registrar. Very Good. James Kent [1763-1847] the son of Moss Kent, a lawyer, is considered one of the great jurists of any era. Admitted to the New York Bar in 1785, he was a State Assemblyman, the first professor of law in Columbia College, Governor Jay's appointee as Master in Chancery; New York's Chief Justice; and a member of the 1821 State Constitutional Convention, where he unsuccessfully opposed raising the property qualification for Negroes. His four-volume COMMENTARIES ON AMERICAN LAW is a foundation of American jurisprudence. Tallmadge became a Congressman and author of the Tallmadge Amendment, which would have prohibited Slavery in the contemplated State of Missouri.
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