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This photograph represents John Palmer Usher,1816-1889, a lawyer from Indiana and a member of President Abraham Lincoln's cabinet. Usher servers only two years as the seventh U.S. Secretary of the Interior,1863-1865, before returning to private life. In 1865, he becomes the chief counsel for the Kansas Pacific Railroad a position he holds until his retirement in 1880. Usher also resumes his political career when he moves to Lawrence, Kansas, in 1872, and is elected to serve one term as the town's mayor,1879 to 1881. On April 13, 1889, at the age of 73, Usher dies at the University Hospital in Philadelphia after a lengthy illness. Burial is at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, Kansas.
Date: Between 1860 and 1865
Item Number: 217921
Call Number: B Usher, John P. *5
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 217921
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Lawyers
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Politicians
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Kansas Pacific
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1861-1869
Government and Politics - Local Government - Municipal - Mayor
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Republican
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Counties - Douglas
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Kansas Pacific
Type of Material - Photographs
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