MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | John_Adams_Gilmer_-_Brady-Handy.jpg (2560x4480) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: John Adams Gilmer - Brady-Handy.jpg Hon J A Gilmer of N C Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Brady-Handy Photograph Collection http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cwpbh 02106 CALL NUMBER LC-BH82- 4926 A <P P>P P between 1855 1865 Creator Mathew Brady PD LOC-image cwpbh 02106 John Adams Gilmer 1805 - 1868 was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Greensboro November 4 1805; attended the public schools and an academy in Greensboro N C ; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1832 and began practice in Greensboro N C ; county solicitor; member of the State senate 1846-1856; defeated as the Whig candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 1856; elected as the candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fifth Congress and reelected as a candidate of the Opposition Party to the Thirty-sixth Congress March 4 1857-March 3 1861 ; chairman Committee on Elections Thirty-sixth Congress ; member of the Second Confederate Congress in 1864; delegate to the Union National Convention of Conservatives at Philadelphia in 1866; died in Greensboro N C May 14 1868; interment in Presbyterian Church Cemetery This summary was created using Commons SumItUp PD-old-100 Photographs by Mathew Brady Gilmer John Adams Black and white photographic portraits of men Gilmer John Adams Members of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina Gilmer John Adams Know Nothing | ||||
