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Petition subject: Charles Sumner resolution

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763665

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Joshua B. Smith, Cambridge; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. John Greenleaf Whittier
2. James T. Fields
3. Samuel Gridley Howe
4. Peleg W. Chandler
5. Samuel E. Sewall
6. W.D. Howells [William Dean Howells]
7. John S. Dwight
8. James Sturgis
9. William Claflin
10. W.R. Alger [William R. Alger]
11. Oliver Wendell Holmes
12. E.P. Whipple [Edwin Percy Whipple]
13. I. Ingersoll Bowditch
14. Richard Henry Dana Jr.
15. G.S. Hillard [George Stillman Hillard]
16. Henry L. Peirce
17. George B. Emerson
18. Josiah Quincy
19. Charles E. Wiggin
20. Charles A.B. Shepard
21. George T. Angell

Actions taken on dates: 1873-02-20,1873-02-20

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 20, 1873 and referred to the committee on federal relations with instructions to give the petitioners and remonstrants a hearing and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 20, 1873 and concurred

Total signatures: 28

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 28

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: To rescind and annul the censure of Charles Sumner for resolution on Civil War battle honors on regimental flags

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1873, H 141 adopted resolutions

Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.