Signed Photo:Samuel C. Pomeroy, politician, c. 1863
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A crisp cdv-sized albumen photograph of Pomeroy, probably from the studio of Mathew Brady, mounted on a piece of 1860's lined paper from the US Department of Agriculture (dating, photographer and mounting information compiled from pieces of information from other images in the same series). Image is signed at the bottom in ink by Pomeroy. P From The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: POMEROY, Samuel Clarke (1816-1891), a Senator from Kansas; born in Southampton, Mass., January 3, 1816; attended Amherst College, Massachusetts, 1836-1838; moved to New York State in 1838 and taught school; returned to Southampton, Mass., in 1842; held various local offices; member, State house of representatives 1852-1853; organizer and financial agent of the New England Emigrant Aid Co.; moved to Kansas in 1854 and settled in Lawrence; moved to Atchison, Kans.; mayor of Atchison 1858-1859; member of the free State convention at Lawrence in 1859; president of the relief committee during the famine in Kansas in 1860 and 1861; upon the admission of Kansas as a State into the Union was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate; reelected in 1867 and served from April 4, 1861, to March 3, 1873; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872; chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Thirty-ninth through Forty-second Congresses); resided
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