Author: [Revolutionary War Pensions] Taliaferro, John
Title: [Broadside] a Bill to Amend the Acts of July, Eighteen Hundred and Thirty-Six, and Eighteen Hundred and Thirty-Eight, Allowing Pensions to Certain Widows
Description: [Washington, D.C.], 1842. First edition. 1 p. 13.5 x 8 inches. The two sections allowed widows who remarried to claim benefits as well as those whose husbands died since the 1838 bill was passed. A contemporary note on the verso states that a similar bill was passed at the 26th Congress and "if it it can ever be called up it will pass again," as it did that year on August 23, 1842. John Taliaferro (1768-1853) was a member of Congress from Virginia who served numerous non- consecutive terms between 1801 and 1843 during which time he was elected as a Democratic Republican, a Crawford Republican, an Adams, as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate and as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth-twenty seventh Congresses (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1843) during which time he was chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Pensions. A strong Anti-Jacksonian he was author of the broadside: "Supplemental account of some of the bloody deeds of General Jackson, being a supplement to the "Coffin handbill." References: Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1915). Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. (New York, Lewis Historical Pub.Co. 1915) Vol. 2. pp. 129–130; Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/T000027). Very good, closed tear at fold.

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