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WILLIAM M. STEWART - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 34789

The first US Senator from Nevada signs a 3½x2 card. Signature: "Wm M Stewart/Nevada", 3½x2 card. William M.

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WILLIAM M. STEWART
The first US Senator from Nevada signs a 3½x2 card.
Signature: "Wm M Stewart/Nevada", 3½x2 card.William M. Stewart (1827-1900), formerly Attorney General of California (1854), moved to Virginia City, Nevada in 1860 and was involved in development of the Comstock Lode. Upon the admission of Nevada as a state, he was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate (1864-1875, 1887-1905). Senator Stewart was a key player in the drafting of the 15th Amendment that gave Black males the right to vote. In 1866, he and his senatorial colleague, James W. Nye, framed and introduced the bill whereby Congress moved Nevada's boundaries eastward at Utah's expense and gave Nevada a section of the Arizona Territory, which provided the state an outlet to the Pacific Ocean via the Colorado River and the Gulf of California. Stewart declined President Grant's offer of a Supreme Court appointment. As an advocate of silver coinage, he split with the regular Republican Party in the 1890s. Slight foxing. Slightly toned at edges. Otherwise, fine condition.

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