ANTI-SLAVERY WHIG PARTY CONGRESSMAN BELLEFONTE PA BLANCHARD AUTOGRAPH SIGNED VF!

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John Blanchard
(1787 - 1849)
US ANTI-SLAVERY WHIG PARTY CONGRESSMAN FROM BELLEFONTE, PENNSYLVANIA 1845-1849,
LAW PARTNER and FRIEND OF CIVIL WAR PA GOVERNOR and BELLEFONTE PA NATIVE, ANDREW GREGG CURTIN
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PROMINENT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE-EDUCATED CRIMINAL LAWYER PRACTICING IN LEWISTON and BELLEFONTE, PA 1815-1849.
When Blanchard’s term in Congress ended in 1849, he was not a candidate for re-nomination, and his Congressional term of service ended on March 3, 1849.
Blanchard died less than a week later on March 9, at the age of 61, while en route back to his home in Bellefonte, PA from Washington, D.C.
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HERE'S BLANCHARD’S SIGNATURE REMOVED FROM A 19
th
CENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, and SIGNED:
“J. Blanchard, West Chester Pa.”
The document measures 7” x 2½” and is in very fine+ condition.
A FINE PIECE OF PENNSYLVANIA POLITICAL HISTORY.
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BIOGRAPHY of the HONORABLE
JOHN BLANCHARD
BLANCHARD, JOHN, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Peacham Township, Cadedonia County, Vt., September 30, 1787; attended the common schools; taught school; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1812; moved to Pennsylvania in 1812 and settled in York, where he again taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar March 31, 1815, and commenced practice in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pa.; moved to Bellefonte the same year and continued the practice of law; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1849); was not a candidate for renomination in 1848; died in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pa., en route from Washington, D.C., to his home, March 9, 1849; interment in Union Cemetery, Bellefonte, Centre County, Pa.
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John Blanchard
Birth
30 Sep 1787, Peacham, Caledonia County, Vermont, USA
Death
9 Mar 1849 (aged 61), Columbia, Lancaster County, PA
Burial
Union Cemetery
, Bellefonte, Centre County, PA
Plot
Old Ground Section F plot 23
A NOTE ABOUT BLANCHARD’S LAW PARTNER, CIVIL WAR GOVERNOR ANDREW GREGG CURTIN
Andrew Gregg Curtin was governor through one of Pennsylvania's darkest periods of history, the American Civil War. Governor Curtin rallied support for President Abraham Lincoln and the Union cause and helped solidify the key role that Pennsylvania played in preserving the Union. Born April 22, 1817, in Bellefonte, Centre County, Curtin was the son of Roland Curtin (1764-1830), a Scots-Irish immigrant iron founder, and his second wife, Jean Gregg (1791-1854), who was the daughter of a major Pennsylvania politician and president pro tem of the U.S. Senate, Andrew Gregg.
Curtin next began the study of law with his mother's cousin, William W. Potter, and completed his studies in 1837 with Judge John Reed, founder of the Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle.
Curtin's early career was the practice of criminal law in Centre County. In partnership with
John Blanchard
, Curtin immediately gained a reputation as an excellent orator and for his support of Whig presidential candidates.
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