William Wilkins was an American judge and politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Jacksonian member of the United States Senate from 1831 to 1834 and as a Democratic member of the United States H
William Wilkins United States Senator Brady Handy
William Wilkins in 1834 when he served in the U.S. Senate from PA painted by James Bowman.
The secretary of war was a member of the U.S. Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration. A similar position, called either "Secretary at War" or "Secretary of War", had been appointed
William Wilkins (American politician)
…United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, United States Minister to Russia and the 19th United States Secretary of War. Wilkins was born on December 20, 1779, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to Captain John Wilkins, a captain in the American Revolution, and Catherine Rowan…
Gilbert Stuart Major General Henry Dearborn 1913.793 Art Institute of Chicago
Swearing in of Dwight F. Davis as Secretary of War in 1925. Former secretaries John W. Weeks and Chief Justice William Howard Taft are standing beside him.
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Henry Knox by Gilbert Stuart 1806