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The National Portrait Gallery of distinguished Americans / conducted by James B. Longacre, Philadelphia, and James Herring, New York, under the superintendence of the American Academy of the Fine Arts.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Biography.
- United States.
- National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4 volumes) : portraits.
- Place of Publication:
- Henry Perkins
- 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.
- v. 4. John Adams, Second President of the United States
- Abigail Adams, Consort of John Adams
- Samuel Adams, Governor of Massachusetts, &c.
- Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut
- John Rutledge, Governor of South Carolina
- Henry Laurens, President of Congress, &c.
- Thomas Sumter, Brigadier General U.S.A.
- Richard Montgomery, Major General U.S.A.
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Major General U.S.A.
- Thomas Pinckney, Major General U.S.A.
- Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Justice U.S.
- Thomas Mifflin, Major General U.S.A., and Governor of Pennsylvania
- Thomas McKean, Governor of Pennsylvania, &c.
- Robert Morris
- Joseph Habersham, Postmaster General, &c.
- Mordecai Gist, Brigadier General U.S.A.
- George Rogers Clarke, Brigadier General U.S.A.
- Simon Kenton, Brigadier General, &c.
- Joshua Barney, U.S. Navy
- Luther Martin, Attorney General of the State of Maryland
- Samuel Chase, Associate Justice U.S.
- Abraham Baldwin, Senator U.S. from Georgia
- Robert R. Livingston, Chancellor of the State of New York
- John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States
- Louisa Catherine Adams, Consort of John Quincy Adams
- William Harris Crawford, Secretary of the Treasury
- Hugh Lawson White, Senator U.S. from Tennessee
- John Randolph
- William Charles Cole Claiborne, Governor of Louisiana
- John McLean, Associate Justice U.S.
- Edward Everett, Governor of Massachusetts
- Thomas Say, naturalist
- Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D., F.R.S.
- Philip Syng Physick, M.D.
- John W. Francis, M.D.
- Lydia Huntley Sigourney
- Winfield Scott, Major General U.S.A.
- Edmund Pendleton Gaines, Major General U.S.A.
- Nicholas Biddle, President of the Bank of the United States.
- Notes:
- An engraved portrait by any of a number of artists precedes each biographical essay.
- Each biographical sketch has separate pagination.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 1162358142
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