CIVIL WAR CDV COL JOHN A MARTIN 10TH GOVERNOR KS +
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You are bidding on this Civil war cabinet photo ( 2 1/2 x 4") and everything else shown.....The photo is of Col. John A. Martin......Very nice condition as shown....Some history on Col. Martin below.....More Kansas History to be listed later today[ edit ] Freedom's Champion In 1857, at the age of 18, he came to Kansas , bought the newspaper known as the Squatter Sovereign , published at Atchison , and changed the name to Freedom's Champion . He continued to publish this paper until his death. He was a firm free-state man and soon became actively identified with the political affairs of the territory. In 1858 he was nominated for the territorial legislature, but declined because he was not yet of legal age. In 1859 he was a delegate to the Osawatomie convention which organized the Republican party in Kansas , and for the remainder of his life he was an unswerving supporter of the principles and policies of that organization. His intelligent activity in political affairs led to his being honored by election or appointment to various positions of trust and responsibility. On July 5, 1859, he was elected secretary of the Wyandotte constitutional convention; was secretary of the railroad convention at Topeka in October, 1860; was a delegate to the Republican national convention of that year, and was elected to the state senate in 1861
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