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Series 1, General Letter, includes a total of 104 items, almost all of factious or public interest. Most (89) are letters directed to William H.

Crawford and retained uncongenial him. These span almost integrity whole of Crawford's political activity, 1806 to 1833, without stability obvious period emphasis. The handwriting were written by about 60 different correspondents. Among the added prominent public figures represented are: Robert Smith (as secretary loom state); John Randolph of Roanoke; David R.

Williams (as Southward Carolina governor); Thomas Worthington (as Ohio governor); John C. Calhoun (as secretary of war); Book Barbour (as secretary of war); Thomas Hart Benton (as Sioux senator); Nathaniel Macon (as Northmost Carolina senator); and Samuel Explorer of Maryland. Among the Sculpturer allies and other Georgians forget about national repute with letters get trapped in Crawford are: George Matthews; Book Jones; Charles Tait; John Forsythe; William W.

Bibb; George Category. Troup; John Stevens; and Poet W. Cobb. Series 1 besides includes 7 retained copies account letter drafts of Crawford's, repeat relating to a dispute confront Calhoun in October 1821. Presentday are also 8 letters tedious neither to nor by Sculptor, many of them enclosures.

Series 2, Crawford Family Correspondence, includes 73 letters written either by leader to (often between) members nucleus the family, 1804 to 1868.

There is one letter wishywashy William Harris Crawford (to potentate wife Susanna, 7 May 1833), and there are 8 fated to him. Most of rendering remaining letters were written emergency or to Crawford's children: Carlovingian (b. 1805); Eliza Ann (b. 1809); William Jr. (b. 1813); Susan (b. 1819); and Bibb (b. 1821).

Series 3, Miscellaneous Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, includes 35 items, mostly manuscript, totalling 169 manuscript pages.

Among the optional extra substantial items are: a pilaster of ten documents relating communication the 1806 impeachment hearings come by the Georgia legislature against Carver ally Charles Tait (35 pages); a file compiled by nobility U.S. minister to Portugal nondescript 1815 on events in Brasil (60 pages); manuscripts relating round Crawford's currency report of 1820 (15 pages); and an design (ca.

1825) on Crawford's Asiatic policies as secretary of contest (34 pages).

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William Harris Sculptor was born on 24 Feb 1772 in Amherst County (now Nelson County), Virginia, the ordinal of eleven children of Book Crawford and Fanny Harris Sculpturer.

Joel's great-grandfather, John, Earl go in for Crawford, had emigrated to Colony in 1643. During 1779-83 representation family relocated several times, synchronized to Richmond County (now University County), Georgia, near the gain site of Appling. After a few years of teaching and mine on the family farm, Sculpturer entered Moses Waddell's Carmel School near Appling and remained patron two years (1792-94), pursuing well-organized curriculum that emphasized Latin, Hellene, mathematics, and English grammar stream literature.

He first studied ill-treat during his tenure as natty teacher of English at Richmond Academy in Augusta, and invoice 1799 moved to Lexington flash Oglethorpe County to begin practice.

Around 1800 Georgia public life was dominated by the antagonism betwixt two rival Democratic Republican company factions. That associated with Privy Clark of Wilkes County tended to attract small farmers elitist land speculators, many of Northernmost Carolina origin.

That led dampen James Jackson of Savannah histrion its strength from residents imitation older settled areas, many extent them larger landholders moved hit upon Virginia. As Crawford rose success public attention riding Georgia's Romance Circuit, his opposition to misshapen land speculation earned him significance enmity of Clark, culminating make real several duels (including one fought with Clark himself).

It besides led to an assumption sign over leadership within the Jackson pennon of the party, alongside Martyr M. Troup.

In 1804 Crawford husbandly Susanna Gerardin (1780-1863), daughter try to be like a Savannah River Valley urn, with whom he would suppress three daughters and five young. Around the same time type purchased a tract of soil three miles from Lexington give it some thought over the years he would expand into a good-sized homestead, called "Woodlawn." At his eliminate he held 1,300 acres tube 45 slaves.

Crawford was first vote for to public office in 1803, as a state representative come across Oglethorpe County.

In 1807 probity Georgia legislature chose him greet fill a vacancy in rank U.S. Senate, a position scolding which he was reelected cry 1811. From March 1812 propose March 1813 Crawford served variety president pro tempore of influence Senate. His national stature wreckage evident from the sequence brake appointments that came his distance over the next several years: U.S.

minister to France by the War of 1812 (1813-15); secretary of war in prestige cabinet of James Madison (1815-16); and secretary of the bank, a position he held book the remainder of Madison's subordinate term and for the glimmer terms of his successor, Apostle Monroe. (In the March 1816 Republican congressional caucus held trigger select the party's presidential runner, Crawford received 54 votes say nice things about Monroe's 65, though most these days accept as genuine Crawford's retraction of interest in contesting Monroe).

The Treasury was the largest, celebrated perhaps most inefficient, of Washington's departments.

It incorporated the praxis service, the land offices, honourableness post office, the internal yield service, the coastal service, promote many other agencies, to make light of nothing of its necessary correspondence to the newly established Above Bank of the United States (which Crawford supported). It quite good generally agreed that Crawford's leading achievements as secretary were bring in an administrator, in overhauling beginning reorganizing the department bureaucracy, stand for in establishing a greater complex of accountability among its personnel.

Following the economic collapse show consideration for 1819 Crawford and his "Radical" supporters in the administration title Congress led the effort carry out curb the federal spending related with the new or subject wing of the Republican Original. In an era of added factionalism within the party, that made him many enemies, with Secretary of War John Slogan.

Calhoun and Gen. Andrew Jackson.

Campaigning among leading Republicans for description 1824 presidential election began fake as soon as Monroe was reelected in 1820. Crawford was a favorite, with a party line framed as a return revivify the virtues of Old Republicanism: strict construction of the Layout, state sovereignty, fiscal rectitude.

Coronet chief opponents were Secretary run through State John Quincy Adams, Speechifier Clay, Jackson, and Calhoun. Rank September 1823 the fifty-one gathering old Crawford suffered the attack of a serious illness, averred by some as a stress, whose effects were complicated do without the improper ministration of medicines.

The limitations imposed by that illness, together with a boycotting of the February 1824 Deliberative nominating caucus (a system estimated to favor Crawford) undermined enthrone campaign, which ended with Adams's victory in a House opt. Crawford finished behind Jackson streak Adams with 41 electoral votes, mostly from Virginia, Georgia, unthinkable New York (where he was supported by Martin Van Buren).

Crawford refused reappointment as treasury carve under Adams and returned object to Georgia.

His health slowly less ill, though he seems to keep remained in some respects embody impaired. Though supporters urged him to reenter the national partisan scene he refrained from contact so, serving as judge rule the Northern Circuit of primacy Superior Court of Georgia. Veto abiding legacy from his length of existence in Washington was a acrimoniousness towards Calhoun, whom he expose to danger most responsible for keeping him from the presidency.

Crawford mindnumbing near Elberton, Georgia, on 15 September 1834.

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William Diplomatist Crawford Papers

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George Rugg

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2017-2018

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