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    <title>Sayles Jenks Bowen papers, 1836-1882 (bulk 1876-1882)</title>
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    <namePart>Bowen, Sayles Jenks</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1813-1896</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, business papers, and legal papers.  Subjects include the elections of 1876 and 1880, the presidential administration of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, political support for Chester Alan Arthur, James Gillespie Blaine, and James A. Garfield, and opposition to Ulysses S. Grant.  Correspondents include James Gillespie Blaine, William E. Chandler, Frederick Douglass, Reuben E. Fenton, Robert Todd Lincoln, James H. Platt, and Whitelaw Reid.</abstract>
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  <note>Public official and mayor of Washington, D.C.</note>
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      <namePart>Arthur, Chester Alan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1829-1886</namePart>
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      <namePart>Blaine, James Gillespie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1830-1893</namePart>
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      <namePart>Blaine, James Gillespie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1830-1893</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Chandler, William E. (William Eaton)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1917</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Douglass, Frederick</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1818-1895</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Fenton, Reuben E. (Reuben Eaton)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1885</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Garfield, James A. (James Abram)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1831-1881</namePart>
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      <namePart>Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1885</namePart>
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      <namePart>Hayes, Rutherford Birchard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1822-1893</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lincoln, Robert Todd</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1843-1926</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Platt, James H</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1894</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Reid, Whitelaw</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1837-1912</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <topic>Elections</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <temporal>1876</temporal>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <temporal>1880</temporal>
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