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Description Michael C. Kerr - Brady-Handy.jpg | Michael C. Kerr . Library of Congress description: "Kerr, Hon. Michael C. of Ind. Speaker of H of R" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.04462 . CALL NUMBER: LC-BH832- 821 <P&P>[P&P] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English:
Michael Crawford Kerr
(
March 15
,
1827
–
August 19
,
1876
) was an
American
legislator. He was born at
Titusville
,
Pennsylvania
, was educated at the Erie Academy and graduated at the law school of
Louisville University
in
1851
. He removed to
New Albany
,
Indiana
, in
1852
, and was a member of the
State Legislature
in
1856
to
1857
. He was elected to Congress in
1864
as a "war" Democrat, having vigorously opposed the "
Copperhead
" element in his district. He served in the
United States House of Representatives
as a
Democrat
from
Indiana
from
1865
to
1873
. In Congress he was looked upon as one of the leaders of the Democratic party. He strongly opposed the
Republican
policy of
reconstruction
in the Southern States. He was not reëlected in
1872
. His views on financial questions did not meet with favor in his constituency, where he openly antagonized the inflationists and the "greenback" element and favored the resumption of specie payments. In
1874
, however, after a sharp contest he was reëlected, and on his reëntry into Congress was elected to the
speakership
. He presided as Speaker at only the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress and died of
consumption
shortly after its adjournment.
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Mathew Brady died in 1896 and Levin C. Handy died in 1932. Photographs in this collection are in the public domain in the United States as works published before 1929 or as unpublished works whose copyright term has expired (life of author + 70 years).
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