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Manuscript Group 144
JOHN F. HARTRANFT PAPERS
1853-1897
.25 cu. ft.


John F. Hartranft (b. 1830, d. 1889), lawyer, soldier, politican, was commissioned colonel of the 51st Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry, 1861; promoted brigadier general of volunteers for gallantry at Spotsylvania Court House, 1864; and brevetted major general of volunteers for conspicuous gallantry in driving back the enemy at Fort Stedman, 1865. In 1865 Hartranft was elected on the Republican ticket as auditor general of Pennsylvania. He was reelected in 1868. In 1872 he was elected governor and served two terms in that office. With the expiration of his second term, he was given command of the Pennsylvania National Guard. He was appointed postmaster at Philadelphia in 1879 and from 1881 to 1885 was collector of the Port of Philadelphia.

Along with miscellaneous family items, papers consist of commissions, appointments, and certificates relating to Hartranft's various military and political positions. Additional Hartranft materials will be found in the John F. Hartranft-Shireman Family Papers (Manuscript Group 474), the Governor John F. Hartranft Correspondence and Issues Files in Record Group 10, the Hartranft-Stockham-Shireman Family Photographs (Manuscript Group 461), and the Records of Brevet General John Frederick Hartranft as Special Provost Marshal for the Trial and Execution of the Assassins of President Lincoln (National Archives Record Group 393) in the NARA Affiliated Archives.





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