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Letter Signed by 14 Members of Congress 1884
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THIS LETTER WAS DONATED TO THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR SOCIETY.
This Letter was singed by 14 Members of Congress & was ment as an endorsement of Captain J. G. Merritt to become the RNC's Sergeant-At-Arms. There is only one Signature I can't make out.
Here are the Fourteen Signatures
1. Joseph N. Dolph (U. S. Senator from Oregon)
2. John I. Mitchell (U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania)
3. Alfred C. Harmer (U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania)
4. William Walter Phelps (U.S. Representative from New Jersey, Ambassador to Germnay & Austria-Hungary)
5. Jacob Miller Campbell (U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania )
6. Thomas Brackett Reed (Maine Attorney General, U.S. Representative from Maine, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives)
6. Abraham Herr Smith (U. S. Representative from Pennsylvania)
7. Charles a. Boutelle (U.S. Representative From Maine)
8. William D. Washburn (U.S. Representative & later Senator From Minnesota)
9. David Bremner Henderson (U.S. Presentative from Iowa, Later Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives)
10. Robert R. Hitt (U. S. Representative From Illinois)
11. Thomas J. Henderson (U.S. Representative from Illinois)
12. Joseph G. Cannon (U.S. Representative From Illinois)
13. Frank Hiscock (U. S. Senator From New York)
14. Unknown
The Letter is on United States Senate Stationary, Dated 3 July 1884 And Addressed to the RNC Chair, B. F. Jones.
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