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11616 Henry Wilson US Vice President  CDV showing the distinguished
politician, standing before a polished wooden chair and leaning against a
column draped with a tasseled curtain.  Back marked E. Anthony,  NY
from photographic negative in Brady’s National Portrait Gallery.
“Henry Wilson (February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) was the 18th
Vice President of the United States.  During the American Civil War, he
was a leading Republican who devoted his enormous energies to the
destruction of what he called the Slave Power, which he defined as a
conspiracy of slave owners to seize control of the federal government and
block the progress of liberty.  After the Civil War, he was elected vice
president in 1872, on President Ulysses S. Grant's Republican ticket; he
served in this position from March 4, 1873 until November 22, 1875,
when he died in office,”  $135