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Francis Preston Blair, Junior (1821-75) was a member of prominent political family with ties to the border states of Missouri and Maryland but which opposed slavery and stood with Lincoln during the Civil War. After serving two terms in the Missouri Senate, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1856 as a Free Soil Democrat, an opponent of the expansion of slavery to the ...
28 de jul. de 2017 · An 1892 picture of a St. Louis biking club at the Frank Blair statue in Forest Park. Picture courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. When former St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay suggested in April 2015 that the time had come for a “reappraisal” of a Confederate monument standing in the city’s popular Forest Park, few St. Louisians knew that such a statue even existed in the area.
8 de fev. de 2017 · Francis Preston Blair, Jr. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. English: Francis Preston Blair (February 19, 1821 – July 9, 1875) was an American politician and Union Army general during the American Civil War. Seems redundant with following. Higher resolution.
Francis Preston Blair, Jr. (1821—1875) Quick Reference (1821–75) Union army officer, U.S. congressman and senator, born in Lexington, Kentucky. A ...
Francis P. Blair, Jr. was a Union general who served in Missouri and West. A Republican congressman from Missouri (1857-58, 1861, 1864) at the outset of the war, he organized pro-Union military units among German-Americans which were instrumental in keeping Missouri in Union. An early political backer of Edward Bates in 1860 and a military ...
Francis Preston Blair, Jr., was born in Lexington, Kentucky, on February 19, 1821. His father was an influential newspaper editor and advisor to Presidents Jackson and Lincoln. Young Blair studied at the College of New Jersey (now called Princeton), obtained a law degree at Transylvania College in Kentucky, and served briefly as attorney general of New Mexico Territory in 1847.
BLAIR, Francis Preston, Jr., a Representative and a Senator from Missouri; born in Lexington, Ky., on February 19, 1821; as a child moved with his father to Washington, D.C.; attended private schools and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; graduated from Princeton College in 1841; studied law at Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.; admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced ...
