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Series
Title
Politics, Diplomacy, and Law
Date(s)
- 1644-1965 (Creation)
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This series contains letters, deeds, position appointments, and other documents affiliated with politicians, diplomats, lawyers, and judges. The materials represent United States presidents, congressmen, signers of the Declaration of Independence, and other influential national leaders; as well as noteworthy state and local leaders outside of Florida, and even several European leaders. Included are materials from John Quincy Adams, Napoleon Bonaparte, Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson, James Madison, James Oglethorpe, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Thomas Paine, Woodrow Wilson, and King Louis XVIII.