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Letters to Washburne

B. 1816 · D. 1887

Elihu Benjamin Washburne was an American politician. A member of the Washburn family, which played a prominent role in the early formation of the United States Republican Party, he served as a congressman from Illinois before, during and after the American Civil War. He was a political ally of President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant. During Grant's administration, Washburne was the 25th United States Secretary of State briefly in 1869, and was the United States Minister to France from 1869 to 1877.

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Letter

Krantz to Washburne, January 5, 1877

From Krantz
To Washburne
January 5, 1877

[Inclosure.—Translation.] Mr. Krantz to Mr. Washburne. Paris, January 5, 1877. [Ministry of agriculture and commerce, Universal International Exhibition 1878, cabinet of senator, commissioner-general.] Sir: The Government of the United States…