CIVIL WAR REPUBLIC SENATOR CONGRESSMAN LEBANON NEW HAMPSHIRE AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE

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CIVIL WAR REPUBLIC SENATOR CONGRESSMAN LEBANON NEW HAMPSHIRE AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE:
$15.94

AARON HARRISON CRAGIN

(1821 - 1898)

CIVIL WAR REPUBLICAN SENATORand CONGRESSMAN from NEW HAMPSHIRE

APPOINTED by PRESIDENTHAYES as COMMISSIONER for the PURCHASE of HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION in ARKANSASin class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\">HERE\'S CRAGIN’S SIGNATURE REMOVED FROM A 19th CENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, SIGNED:

“A. H. Cragin

Lebanon, N. H.”

Thedocument measures 7” x 4” and is in very good, clean condition.

A RARE &Excellent Piece of New Hampshire Political History to add to your Autograph,Manuscript & Ephemera Collection!

Biography of the Honorable

Aaron H. Cragin

Aaron Harrison Cragin (February 3,1821– May 10, 1898) was an Americanpolitician and a United States Representativeand Senator from New Hampshire.

Early life

Born in Weston,Vermont, Cragin completed preparatory studies, studied law,was admitted to the bar in Albany,New Yorkin 1847 and commenced practice in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Career

Cragin was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representativesfrom 1852 to 1855.

Elected by the AmericanParty to the Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress, Cragin served from (March 4, 1855 –March 3, 1859). While in the House of Representatives, he was chairman of theCommittee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Thirty-fourth Congress).

Cragin resumed the practice of law and in 1859 was again a member of theState house of representatives. In 1860 he was a delegate to the RepublicanConvention in Chicago, and a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists conventionin 1866. He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1864;was reelected in 1870, and served from March 4, 1865, to March 3, 1877. Whilein the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills (Thirty-ninthCongress) and a member of the Committee to Audit and Control the ContingentExpense (Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses), the Committee on Naval Affairs(Forty-first and Forty-third Congresses), and the Committee on Railroads(Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses).

Appointed by President Rutherford Hayesas one of the commissioners for the purchase of the Hot Springs Reservation in Arkansas,Cragin served as chairman from 1877 to 1879.

Death

Cragin died in Washington, D.C.on May 10, 1898 (age 77 years, 96 days). He is interredat School Street Cemetery, Lebanon, New Hampshire.

Family life

Son of Aaron and Sarah Whitney, Cragin married Isabella Tuller and theyhad a son, Harry Wilton Cragin, who graduated from Yale Universityand was appointed third assistant in the United States Patent Office.

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