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The national portrait gallery of distinguished Americans

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Henry Perkins
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Table of Contents

v. 1: George Washington, 1st President U.S.
Martha Washington
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Major-General Nathanael Greene
Major-General Anthony Wayne
Major-General William Moultrie
Major General Israel Putnam
Colonel Timothy Pickering
Governor Isaac Shelby
Governor Aaron Ogden
John Marshall, LL.D., Chief Justice U.S.
Edward Shippen, LL.D., Chief Justice of Pennsylvania
Brigadier-General Jonathan Williams
Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President U.S.
Hon. Henry Clay, U.S. Senate
Major-General Andrew Jackson, President U.S.
Hon. Daniel Webster, U.S. Senate
Hon. William Wirt
Hon Lewis Cass, Secretary of War
Commodore Thomas Macdonough, U.S. Navy
Major-General Alexander Macomb
Hon. Joel R. Poinsett, LL.D.
Hon. Josiah S. Johnston, U.S. Senate
Hon. Edward Livingston
Hon. Louis M'Lane, Secretary of State
Right Rev. William White, D.D., Bishop of Pennsylvania
Rev. Timothy Dwight. S.T.D. LL.D.
Hon. Joel Barlow
Colonel John Trumbull
Gilbert Charles Stuart, Esq.
Samuel Latham Mitchell, M.D., LL.D.
Theodoric Romeyn Beck, M.D. Washington Irving, Esq.
Catharine M. Sedgwick
James Fenimore Cooper, Esq.
v. 2: Benjamin Franklin, LL.D., F.R.S.
Thomas Jefferson, 3d President U.S.
John Hancock, President of Congress
John Jay, President of Congress, Chief Justice U.S.
Patrick Henry
Major-General Joseph Warren
Major-General Henry Knox
Major-General Benjamin Lincoln
Major-General David Wooster
Major-General Philip Schuyler
Hon. Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury
Governor John E. Howard
Brigadier-General Otho H. Williams
Governor John Brooks
Colonel Francis Barber
John Barry, U.S. Navy
Daniel Boon[!]
David Rittenhouse, LL.D., F.R.S.
David Humphreys, LL.D.
Edward Preble, U.S. Navy
Oliver H. Perry, U.S. Navy
Major-General Jacob Brown
Governor Dewitt Clinton
Hon. James A. Bayard
Hon. John C. Calhoun, Vice President U.S.
Governor Robert Y. Hayne
Hon. William Gaston
Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury
Mrs. Marcia Van Ness
Noah Webster, LL.D.
Caspar Wistar, M.D.
David Hosack, M.D., F.R.S.
James Kent, LL.D.
Charles Ewing, LL.D., Chief Justice of New Jersy
Governor George Wolf.
v. 3: James Madison, 4th President U.S.
Mrs. Madison
James Monroe, 5th President U.S.
John Dickinson
Francis Hopkinson
Elias Boudinot
Benjamin Rush, M.D.
David Ramsay, M.D.
Major-General Arthur St. Clair
Major-General Lachlan M'Intosh
Major-General Daniel Morgan
Brigadier-General Francis Marion
Brigadier-General Andrew Pickens
Brigadier-General Henry Lee
Brigadier-General William Augustine Washington
Major-General Morgan Lewis
Benjamin Tallmadge
Governor James Jackson
Governor William Richardson Davie
Paul Jones, U.S. Navy
Richard Dale, U.S. Navy
William Bainbridge, U.S. Navy
Stephen Decatur, U.S. Navy
Fisher Ames
Rufus King
Stephen Van Rensselaer
William Pinkney
Lindley Murray
Charles Brockden Brown
Robert Fulton
Joseph Story, LL.D.
Major-General William Henry Harrison
Martin Van Buren, Vice President U.S.
Mahlon Dickerson, Secretary of the Navy
Felix Grundy, U.S. Senate.

Edition Notes

NUC pre-1956 NH 0319235
Each volume has added engraved t.p. with dates: v.1: 1834; v. 2: 1835. An engraved portrait by any of a number of artists precedes each biographical essay.
Original issue has imprint: New York, M. Bancroft, 1834-1839.
LC copy imperfect: v. 1 only.

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Philadelphia
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Library of Congress
E176 .H562

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Pagination
4 v. :

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6967533M
Internet Archive
nationalportrai00artsgoog
LCCN
06010803

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