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Manuscript Group 277
GEORGE WOLF PAPERS
1829-1832
(17 Items)


Correspondence and a political broadside. The correspondence is from George Wolf (1777-1840), Governor of Pennsylvania, 1829-1835, in Harrisburg, to Samuel D. Ingham, in Washington, D.C., Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and a prominent Philadelphian.

The correspondence covers Pennsylvania politics and Wolf's opinions, Wolf's efforts to procure employment and preferment for his sons, Charles and Horace, in the federal government, political appointments, Anti-Masonic sentiments of the public, and loans to the Commonwealth from the Bank of Pennsylvania. Included are brief comments regarding national personalities such as Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. The political broadside of October 15, 1832 confirms Wolf's 1832 re-election and, in a handwritten addendum, notes a majority of 4,000 favor him. The printed broadside is signed by G.M. Dollar, Henry Horn, Antony Lausset, James Page and Jon Qinnard for the Executive Committee of Philadelphia.




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