Original 1849 Steel Engraving of Roger S. Baldwin by N/a - 1849

Washington DC: Whig Party. Good. 1849. Single sheet. CONDITION: Good with foxing amd soiling as shown. A scarce engraving the overall size is 9 by 6 and 1/2 inches with the image size being 6 by 5 inches. ; COMMENTS: . After having been a member of the city government in New Haven, in 1826 and 1828, Mr. Baldwin was elected in 1837 and again in 1838, a member of the Connecticut State Senate . In 1840 and 1841 he represented the town of New Haven in the General Assembly. He was chosen Governor of Connecticut in 1844 and was reelected in 1845. On the death of Hon. J. W. Huntington in 1847, Baldwin was appointed by Governor Clark Bissell to fill the vacancy thus occasioned in the United States Senate , and in December of that year he took his seat as a member of that body. He was elected by the Legislature in the following May to the same position, which he held until 1851. Since that period he has held no public office, except that he was one of the presidential electors in the canvass of 1860, and by appointment of Governor William Alfred Buckingham was a delegate to the Peace Convention which met in Washington, in 1861, by request of the State of Virginia. In all his career as a statesman he was distinguished for the wisdom of his counsels, the purity of his character, and an unswerving devotion to the progress of Liberty.; Engraved from a Daguerreotype by Brady and Engrave .This Engraving Was Removed from a damaged copy of the Book "The Whig Protrait Gallery" Which is Just a Collection of Famous Whig Party Members of the Day

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