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    <title>John Bell papers, 1815-1861</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Bell, John</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1797-1869</namePart>
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  <abstract>Volume containing correspondence, speeches, and Bell's reports in congress.  Includes material on patronage in Tennessee, national politics, and Bell's candidacy for president in 1860.  Correspondents include Neill Smith Brown, Frederick Steidinger Heiskell, Washington Hunt, and Balie Peyton.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 14,930.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1971.</note>
  <note>U.S. representative and senator from Tennessee, and U.S. secretary of war.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brown, Neill Smith</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1810-1886</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Heiskell, Frederick Steidinger</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1786-1882</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hunt, Washington</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1867</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Peyton, Balie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1803-1878</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Congress.</namePart>
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    <topic>Patronage, Political</topic>
    <geographic>Tennessee</geographic>
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    <topic>Presidents</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Election</topic>
    <temporal>1860</temporal>
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    <geographic>Tennessee</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>To 1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1815-1861</temporal>
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    <occupation>Cabinet officers</occupation>
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    <occupation>Lawyers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Senators, U.S. Congress</occupation>
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