1872 New York state election
The 1872 New York state election was held on November 5, 1872, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, a Canal Commissioner, an Inspector of State Prisons and a U.S. Representative-at-large, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly.
Image: John Adams Dix
Image: Francis Kernan Brady Handy
John Adams Dix was an American politician and military officer who was Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York and Union major general during the Civil War. He was notable for arresting the pro-Southern Maryland General Assembly, preventing that divided border state from seceding, and for arranging a system for prisoner exchange via the Dix–Hill Cartel, concluded in partnership with Confederate Major General Daniel Harvey Hill.
John Adams Dix
Dix as a Senator
Share of the Mississippi & Missouri Railroad Company, issued 24. September 1856 and signed by John Adams Dix
Line engraving of Dix from a US Treasury specimen book, c. 1902