Henry Shaw Briggs
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Henry Shaw Briggs was brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Henry Shaw Briggs
George N. Briggs
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George Nixon Briggs was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. A Whig, Briggs served for twelve years in the United States House of Representatives, and served seven one-year terms as t
Henry Shaw Briggs
…prior to and after the war, Briggs was a lawyer and politician. He served as a state legislator, Massachusetts Auditor and a judge. Briggs was born to George Nixon Briggs, (governor of Massachusetts from 1844–1851) on August 1, 1824, in Lanesborough, Massachusetts. Henry Briggs graduated from Williams College in 1844 and…
Portrait c. 1848
Hiland Hall of Vermont was a longtime friend and Congressional colleague.