Richard Menefee
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Richard Hickman Menefee was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. Due to his oratory skill, he was dubbed "the young Patrick Henry of the West." He was presumed the successor to Henry Clay as leader of
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The Destruction of the Caroline by George Tattersall
John J. Crittenden
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John Jordan Crittenden was an American statesman and politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He represented the state in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and twice served as U
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…Representatives. His best known speech in that body urged restraint in the Caroline affair with the British. His reputation, and that of fellow Kentuckian John J. Crittenden, were tarnished due to their involvement in a duel between Representatives William J. Graves and Jonathan Cilley, in which the latter was mortally…
Crittenden in 1857
Crittenden, portrait by G. P. A. Healy, 1857
Crittenden's Supreme Court nomination
Daguerreotype of Crittenden by Mathew Brady, c. 1846