1800's AUTOGRAPH of ALEXANDER RAMSEY, Pennsylvania, Whig, US SECRETARY OF WAR!

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On paper, trimmed in gold at top.
It measures approximately 1 2/3" x 5 1/2"
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Alexander Ramsey (1815-1903). He was an American politician. He served as a Whig and Republican. He was elected from Pennsylvania as a Whig to the U. S. House of Representatives and served in the 28th and 29th congresses from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1847. He served as the first Territorial Governor of Minnesota from June 1, 1849 to May 15, 1853 as a member of the Whig Party. He served in a variety of offices between the 1840s and the 1880s. In 1855, he became the mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota. Ramsey was elected the second Governor of Minnesota after statehood and served from January 2, 1860 to July 10, 1863. Ramsey is credited with being the first Union governor to commit troops during the American Civil War. He happened to be in Washington, D.C. when fighting broke out. When he heard about the firing on Ft. Sumter he went straight to the White House and offered Minnesota's services to Abraham Lincoln. He resigned the governorship to become a U. S. Senator, having been elected to that post in 1863 as a Republican. He was re-elected in 1869 and held the office until March 3, 1875, serving in the 38th, 39th, 40th, 41st, 42nd, and 43rd congresses. Ramsey is also noted for his statements calling for the killing or removal of specific Native Americans, chiefly the Sioux (Dakota) people that lived in the state of Minnesota. These statements came in response to attacks by the Sioux on American settlements, resulting in the death of not less than 800 men, women and children, as mentioned in Abraham Lincoln's Second Annual Message on December 1, 1862. Ramsey declared on September 9, 1862: "The Sioux Indians of Minnesota must be exterminated or driven forever beyond the borders of the state." He went as far as offering money for scalps of Dakotas. Ramsey served as Secretary of War from 1879 to 1881 under President Rutherford B. Hayes. His signature, on card.
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