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Keywords: Michael C. Kerr - Brady-Handy.jpg Kerr Hon Michael C of Ind Speaker of H of R 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 between 1865 1880 Creator Mathew Brady Creator Levin Corot Handy PD LOC-image cwpbh 04462 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 This summary was created using Commons SumItUp PD-Brady-Handy DEFAULTSORT Kerr Michael C Speakers of the United States House of Representatives Members of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana Photographs by Mathew Brady and Levin Handy Black and white photographic portraits of men
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