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    William Pitt Fessenden (October 16, 1806 – September 8, 1869) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Fessenden was a Whig (later a Republican)...
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  • abolitionist legislator Samuel Fessenden, and brother of Treasury Secretary William P. Fessenden and congressman Samuel C. Fessenden. He was an uncle of Union...
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    Fessenden was born on July 16, 1784, in what now is Fryeburg, Maine (until 1820, Maine was part of Massachusetts). His father was the Rev. William Fessenden...
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    impeachment of President Andrew Johnson; the other senator from Maine, William P. Fessenden, voted for Johnson's acquittal. In 1869, Morrill was defeated by...
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    partnership with Horatio King. He studied law with the firm headed by Samuel Fessenden, was admitted to the bar in 1833, and began practicing in Hampden, Maine...
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  • congressional leaders of the faction were James G. Blaine, John A. Bingham, William P. Fessenden, Lyman Trumbull, and John Sherman. Their constituencies were primarily...
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  • Scott was depicted on Interest Bearing Notes during the early 1860s; William P. Fessenden (U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Treasury) appeared on fractional...
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    Machine at "Mr. Lincoln and Freedom: Salmon P. Chase" Eulogy on Chief-Justice Chase, delivered by William M. Evarts, 1874, at Project Gutenberg Biography...
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    anger against Johnson extended to his secretary of state—Senator William P. Fessenden of Maine said of Johnson, "he began by meaning well, but I fear that...
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  • of William P. Fessenden James Deering Fessenden (1833–1882), American Civil War brigadier general, son of William P. Fessenden John Milton Fessenden (1804–1883)...
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    was responsible for the formation of the 54th Massachusetts; and William P. Fessenden (1823) and Hugh McCulloch (1827) both served as Secretary of the...
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    William Fessenden, of Cambridge, and uncle to Samuel Fessenden, the father of William P. Fessenden. After graduation at Harvard in 1758, the elder Thomas...
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    of the Department of Interior in 1849. Under the chairmanship of William Pitt Fessenden, the committee played a decisive role during the Civil War. Appropriating...
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    one of seven states to have a split United States Senate delegation. William P. Frye was Maine's longest serving senator (1881–1911). Maine is one of...
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    Eder, state legislator and Maine Green Independent Party organizer William P. Fessenden, U.S. Senator Fletcher Hale, U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire...
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    replaced Chase with William P. Fessenden, a Radical Republican who had served as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. The aging Fessenden resigned in February...
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    Counselors: The President and the Executive Branch (1997). Congressional Quarterly. p. 87. "Janet L. Yellen Sworn In As 78th Secretary of the United States Department...
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    spring of 1839. He was the son of U.S. Senator William P. Fessenden and a brother of James Deering Fessenden, who would also serve as a general in the Union...
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  • 33rd (1853–1855) William P. Fessenden (W) 34th (1855–1857) Amos Nourse (R) Hannibal Hamlin (R) 35th (1857–1859) William P. Fessenden (R) 36th (1859–1861)...
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    William Fessenden Allen (1831–1906) was an American businessman in the Kingdom of Hawaii and Republic of Hawaii. William Fessenden Allen was born December...
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    Reverdy Johnson from Maryland, William P. Fessenden and Lot M. Morrill from Maine, James Guthrie and William O. Butler from Kentucky, David S. Reid from...
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    When William P. Fessenden resigned as Secretary of the Treasury in March 1865, Lincoln nominated Hugh McCulloch from Indiana to replace Fessenden at Treasury...
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    prominent abolitionist Samuel Fessenden and brother of Treasury Secretary William Pitt Fessenden and Congressman T. A. D. Fessenden. He was an uncle of Union...
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    Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian electrical engineer and inventor who received hundreds of patents in fields...
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    Recusants", had not been initially seen as certain to acquit. These were William P. Fessenden (R– ME), Joseph S. Fowler (R– TN), James W. Grimes (R– IA), John...
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  • William P. Fessenden (1806–1869) was a U.S. Senator from Maine from 1865 to 1869. Senator Fessenden may refer to: Samuel Fessenden (lawyer) (1847–1908)...
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    England family which included Samuel Fessenden, a Massachusetts state senator and US Treasury Secretary William P. Fessenden. In 1896, he graduated from Bowdoin...
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    autumn of 1833. He was the son of U.S. Senator William P. Fessenden and a brother of Francis Fessenden, who would also serve as a general in the Union...
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  • Walt Smith as Secretary of the Treasury William P. Fessenden James Ike Eichling as Postmaster General William Dennison, Jr. House of Representatives Tommy...
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    Editions. p. 16. ISBN 978-9-3863-6727-3 – via Google Books. Donald 1996, pp. 53–55. White 2009, p. 59. Simon 1990, p. 283. Weik, Jesse William. "Abraham...
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