1834 Mass Gov Election Ticket John Quincy Q Adams

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This week I will be listing several pieces of old political ephemera, so check my other auctions. I buy at local auctions and estate sales in rural NH all week and list most everything I find on Ebay. I typically offer old photos, stereoviews, postcards, programs, view books, trade cards, books, advertising, railroad, sports, military, toys, dolls, etc., etc. All items guaranteed to be vintage and original, no reproductions. Check my other auctions for more fun old stuff.THIS ITEM: Ticket from the 1834 Massachusetts gubernatorial election measures 11 3/4" by 4". Small piece of the top left corner missing, otherwise fine. After losing the 1828 presidential election, Adams went on to win election as a National Republican and Whig to the House of Representatives, serving for seventeen years, from 1831 until his death. In 1834 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, losing to John Davis. During the years 1836-37 Adams presented to Congress the many petitions for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. In 1841, Adams represented the Amistad Africans in the Supreme Court of the United States and successfully argued that the Africans, who had seized control of a Spanish ship w they were being held as illegal slaves, should not be taken to Cuba but should be considered free and have read more

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