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Large illustration of Millard Fillmore... John White Webster to be executed...
Large illustration of Millard Fillmore... John White Webster to be executed...
Item # 709946
July 27, 1850
BOSTON MUSEUM, July 27, 1850 The front page has a large sketch/likeness of the newly sworn-in president, Millard Fillmore, the last member of the Whig Party to serve as POTUS. Included is an lengthy article which includes his 1842 resignation speech when he left Congress.
An inside notice announces that Harvard Professor John White Webster's request for a commutation of his death sentence was denied. He was executed a few days later. Note: This case was immortalized on both television and radio, and is considered to be the first case to utilize forensic evidence.
Other news of the day, literary items, and a print of a sheet of music are also present.
Complete in 8 pages, a little rough at the left spine, in overall nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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