Civil War ALS Mayor of Chicago To Congressman/General Frank Blair Jr For Sale

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Civil War ALS Mayor of Chicago To Congressman/General Frank Blair Jr:
$250.00

Condition as seen, Wonderful early Civil War June 17th 1861 ALS written by the Mayor of Chicago to Congressman Frank Blair Jr talking about getting men for the Army that Blair was trying to raise in Missouri to defend the State. Interesting comment in the letter is that the men would not want to be restricted to Cairo Illinois! \"Long John\" John Wentworth had a long Political Career. Comes with the transmission envelope with Congressman Blairs name on it.

“Long John” Wentworth dominated Chicago politics from the time he arrived in the city as a young Jacksonian Democrat until he left public life as a Republican supporter of Abraham Lincoln. So-called for his six foot six inch height, “Long John” had been born in New Hampshire, graduated from Dartmouth College, and arrived in Chicago in 1836. He quickly became the editor of the Chicago Democrat and two years later owned the paper. Raucous and partisan as a newspaperman, he was elected in 1843 as the youngest, and tallest, member of the 24th Congress. His growing opposition to slavery, culminating in his vote against the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, ended his congressional career in 1854. He became a Republican, stumping for Fremont in 1856 and supporting Lincoln in 1858 and 1860. He also served two terms as a flamboyant and heavy handed mayor of Chicago. Few fellow Republicans came to terms with his arbitrary style, ambition, and popularity and he was often at odds with others in the party. Abruptly, in 1861, after supporting Lincoln for president and then urging that no compromises with the South, he closed his newspaper and retired from public life. He spent his remaining decades tending to his 5000 acre estate, and writing on local history. His wife died in 1870 and only one of his five children was living when he himself died in October 1888. Characteristically, he had built a 72 feet obelisk, the tallest in the Rosehill Cemetery, to mark his last resting place.

Born: March 5, 1815Wentworth.jpeg

Birthplace: Sandwich New Hampshire

Father: Paul Wentworth 1782 – 1855

Mother: Lydia Cogswell 1793 – 1872

Wife: Roxana Marie Loomis 1817 – 1870

(Buried: Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum Chicago Illinois)

Married: November 13, 1844 in Troy New York

Children:

Riley Loomis Wentworth 1845 – 1846

Marie Loomis Wentworth 1847 – 1849

John Wentworth Jr. 1849 – 1852

Roxana Atwater Wentworth Bowen 1854 – 1935

(Buried: Oakwood Cemetery Troy New York)

John Paul Wentworth 1857 – 1858

(Buried: Oakwood Cemetery Troy New Party:

1843 – 1855: Member of Democratic Political Party

1857 – 1888: Member of Republican Political Long John due to his height of Six-foot Six-Inch Graduated from Dartmouth CollegeDeath.jpg

1841: Attended Harvard University Law before War:

School Teacher and Newspaper Article Contributor

Law Clerk in Law Office in Chicago Illinois

Editor and Manager of Chicago Democrat Newspaper

1837 – 1838: City Printer for the City of Chicago Illinois

1838: Aide to Illinois Governor Carlin

1841 – 1843: Attorney in Chicago Illinois

1842: Received the Wentworth Letter from Joseph Smith.

1843 – 1851: United States Congressman from IllinoisDeath 1.jpg

1843 – 1845: Member of House Territories Committee

1845 – 1851: Member of House Interstate Commerce Committee

1851 – 1853: Attorney in Chicago Illinois

1853 – 1855: United States Congressman from Illinois

1857 – 1863: Mayor for the City of Chicago Illinois

1857: Charged with assaulting Attorney Charles Cameron

1857: Leader of raid on “the sands” Chicago’s red - light District the district caught fire and burned.

Civil War Career:

1857 – 1863: Mayor for the City of Chicago Illinois

1861: Cook County Delegate Illinois State Constitutional Convention

1863 – 1865: Attorney in Chicago Illinois

1865 – 1867: United States Congressman from Illinois

1865 – 1867: Member of House Roads and Canals Committee

1865 – 1867: Member of House Ways and Means after War:

1865 – 1867: United States Congressman from Illinois

1865 – 1867: Member of House Roads and Canals Committee

1865 – 1867: Member of House Ways and Means Committee

1867 – 1888: Attorney in Chicago October 16, 1888

Place of Death: Chicago Illinois

Cause of Death: Softening of the brain

Age at time of Death: 73 years old

Burial Place: Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum Chicago Illinois

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