John Catron, Judge of the Supreme Court of the US, 1839 developer_gift_idea the Kentucky senator rendered with

the Kentucky senator rendered with the studied dignity of a man certain the presidency was his — a certainty the electorate would

its iron legs threaded into the bay floor and its lantern room drawn with the patient precision of a draftsman who knew the Bay would test every joint

William McKinley Preparing to Speak to Large Crowd From Balcony 1900

the Fourteenth Amendment fresh ink

The portrait carries the stiff dignity of a Mexican War–era campaign sheet

John Catron, Judge of the Supreme Court of the US, 1839 developer_gift_idea the Kentucky senator rendered withJohn Catron, Judge of the Supreme Court of the US, 1839 a Jacksonian appointee rendered in the sober gravity befitting the bench, his likeness drawn the year he took his seat among the brethren who would, two decades later, hand down Dred Scott and split the republic at its seams. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and