PA Civil War Governor Andrew Curtin Autograph
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PA CIVIL WAR GOVERNOR ANDREW CURTIN AUTOGRAPH Bold signature "yours truly A. G. Curtin" on Pennsylvania Executive Chamber stationery. Andrew Gregg Curtin (April 22, 1817 – October 7, 1894) was a U.S. lawyer and politician . He served as the 15th Governor of Pennsylvania during the American Civil War . Curtin was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania . His parents were Roland Curtin, Sr., a wealthy Irish born iron manufacturer from County Clare , and Jane (Gregg) Curtin, the daughter of US Senator Andrew Gregg .[ 1] He attended Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law and was employed as a lawyer. His first public office was as Secretary of the Commonwealth. In 1855, Governor James Pollock appointed him as Superintendent of Public Schools. He switched political allegiance from the Whigs to the new Republican political party in 1860, with his successful run for governor. He served in that office from 1861 until 1867. During the Civil War, Curtin organized the Pennsylvania reserves into combat units, and oversaw the construction of the first Union military camp for training militia . It opened in an agricultural school nearby Harrisburg ( Pennsylvania ) as Camp Curtin on April 18, 1861, and more than 300 000 men were drilled there during 4 years. In the years that followed, Curtin became a close friend and confidant of Abraham
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