Raynors HCA 2019-01
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Booklet, 6” x 9”, 32pp., “Letter of General Benj. F. Butler, to Hon. E. R. Hoar. Gives His Officcial and Political Biography, with a Reply to the Judge's Imputations Upon the General”, 1876 “Published by Request”. On December 14, 1869, President Grant nominated Att. Gen. Hoar to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, but he was not confirmed by the United States Senate. In the Senate, Butler led the effort to vote down Hoar's nomination. Hoar's defeat created continual hostility between Butler and Hoar.[
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