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Item# 9918
Price: $425
CSA #1, 5¢ green pair tied DARIEN / Ga. // FEB / 14 [1862] Valentine’s Day cds on narrow cover to “Hon. T[homas]. Butler King, Spotswood Hotel, Richmond, Va.”. See my column “Lordy and Neptune” re King’s son, Lordy, and slave companion / servant, Neptune, who went to war with him.ASDSEP09.pdf
Thomas Butler KING (1800-1864) was a congressional representative from Georgia; born in Massachusetts; admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1822 and commenced practice in Waynesville, Ga. in 1823; settled on St. Simons Island, Ga. to Retreat Plantation in 1826 and engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State senate in 1832, 1834, 1835, and 1837; with a long and significant political career; chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs; appointed by President Fillmore as collector of the port of San Francisco, Ca., again a member of the State senate in 1859; delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in 1860; appointed a commissioner of Georgia in 1861 to visit Europe in the interest of trade, and was a commissioner of the Confederacy in Europe 1861-1863. Much more information online. $425