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    <title>John McLean papers, 1817-1861 (bulk 1829-1860)</title>
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    <namePart>McLean, John</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1785-1861</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, legal briefs, financial data, docket book, printed matter, file of reports, opinions, and briefs arranged by case name, and other papers relating to McLean's service as U.S. postmaster general and U.S. Supreme Court justice.  Also contains material from his service as commissioner of the U.S. General Land Office.  Includes his notes on arguments made before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1830, including cases argued by John MacPherson Berrien, Francis Scott Key, David Bayard Ogden, Roger Brooke Taney, Daniel Webster, and William Wirt.  Subjects include the history of Washington, D.C.; Cincinnati, Ohio, Ohio state, and national politics; Indian affairs; international relations; presidential politics; secession; slavery; and the Whig Party.  Correspondents include Caleb Atwater, James Buchanan, John C. Calhoun, Salmon P. Chase, John M. Clayton, Thomas Corwin, George Mifflin Dallas, John Henry Eaton, Ninian Edwards, Edward Everett, Thomas Ewing, Duff Green, Isaac Hill, Samuel D. Ingham, Richard M. Johnson, Henry Lee, James Madison, Duncan McArthur, James Monroe, Richard Peters, William C. Rives, Richard Rush, Winfield Scott, Thomas Sergeant, William Henry Seward, Edwin McMasters Stanton, Joseph Story, Charles Sumner, Roger Brooke Taney, John Tyler, Henry Dana Ward, Daniel Webster, Thurlow Weed, and James Whitcomb.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 13,817.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1967.</note>
  <note>U.S. representative from Ohio, U.S. postmaster general, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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  <note>Two items from an unknown source were transferred from Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection in 2005.</note>
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      <namePart>Atwater, Caleb</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1778-1867</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Berrien, John MacPherson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1781-1856</namePart>
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    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Buchanan, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1791-1868</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1850</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1873</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clayton, John M. (John Middleton)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1796-1856</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Corwin, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1794-1865</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dallas, George Mifflin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1792-1864</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Eaton, John Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1790-1856</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Edwards, Ninian</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1775-1833</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Everett, Edward</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1794-1865</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ewing, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1789-1871</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Green, Duff</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1791-1875</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hill, Isaac</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1789-1851</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ingham, Samuel D. (Samuel Delucenna)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1779-1860</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnson, Richard M. (Richard Mentor)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1780-1850</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Key, Francis Scott</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1779-1843</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lee, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1787-1837</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Madison, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1751-1836</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McArthur, Duncan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1772-1839</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Monroe, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1758-1831</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ogden, David Bayard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1775-1849</namePart>
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    <topic>Trials, litigation, etc</topic>
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      <namePart>Peters, Richard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1780-1848</namePart>
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      <namePart>Rives, William C. (William Cabell)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1793-1868</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rush, Richard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1780-1859</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Scott, Winfield</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1786-1866</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sergeant, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1860</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Seward, William Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1801-1872</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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      <namePart>Stanton, Edwin McMasters</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1814-1869</namePart>
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      <namePart>Story, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1779-1845</namePart>
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      <namePart>Sumner, Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1874</namePart>
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      <namePart>Taney, Roger Brooke</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1777-1864</namePart>
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      <namePart>Taney, Roger Brooke</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1777-1864</namePart>
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      <namePart>Tyler, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1790-1862</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ward, Henry Dana</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1797-1884</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Webster, Daniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1852</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Webster, Daniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1852</namePart>
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      <namePart>Weed, Thurlow</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1797-1882</namePart>
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      <namePart>Whitcomb, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1795-1852</namePart>
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      <namePart>Wirt, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1772-1834</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>General Land Office.</namePart>
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      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Post Office Department.</namePart>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Indians of North America</topic>
    <topic>Government relations</topic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <temporal>1783-1865</temporal>
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    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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    <occupation>Jurists</occupation>
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