Description: Edwin McMasters Stanton served as Secretary of War in the Lincoln Administration during the Civil War and in the Andrew Administration. Stanton's effective management helped organize the massive military resources of the North and guide the Union to victory. Stanton was born in Steubenville, Ohio, and attended Kenyon College. Stanton was Secretary of War from 1862-1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06871
Subjects: Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States - Officials and employees;
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio); Washington (D.C.)
 

Description: Portrait of Albert Gallatin Riddle (1816-1902), an attorney from Cleveland, Ohio, who served in the Ohio state legislature (1848-1850) and in the United States House of Representatives (1861–1863). Riddle was also a prominent abolitionist involved with the defense of the Oberlin Rescuers in 1859, and a supporter of the women's suffrage movement, notable for his speech titled "The right of women to exercise the elective franchise under the Fourteenth Article of the Constitution," given during a suffrage convention in Washington, D.C., January 11, 1871. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS510_B01F77_Riddle
Subjects: United States - Officials and employees; Lawyers--Ohio; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Abolitionists -- Ohio; Suffrage -- Ohio;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of engraving of Colonel Robert Kingston Scott, 68th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (Civil War), chief of South Carolina's Freedmen's Bureau, as well as governor of that state, ca. 1860-1869. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00589
Subjects: United States - Officials and employees; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
 

Description: This is a portrait of journalist and author William Dean Howells, seen with his wife Elinor (Mead) Howells in Venice, Italy, where he served as U.S. Consul, ca. 1862-1865. Howells was born on March 1, 1837, in Martinsville (now Martins Ferry), Ohio. By his early 20s, Howells had become a newspaper reporter; he also began to write poetry and published his first collection in 1859. The Atlantic Monthly also began to publish his literary work, and Howells' reputation grew quickly. In 1860, the Republican Party selected him to write a biography of their presidential candidate, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln won the election of 1860 and rewarded Howells by appointing him the United States Consul to Venice. Howells remained in this position until 1865, when he returned to the United States and became an editor with The Atlantic Monthly. Howells became a well-known novelist during the late 19th century, publishing his first novel, "Their Wedding Journey," in 1872. He authored 35 novels over the next fifty years, as well as numerous short stories, plays, and poems. Howells was the first president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died on May 11, 1920. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC3403_001
Subjects: Authors, American--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Couples; United States - Officials and employees
Places: Venice (Italy)
 

Description: Formal portrait of Harry M. Daugherty, 1921. He served as a campaign adviser to candidate Warren G. Harding during the 1920 presidential campaign. After Harding was elected he appointed Daugherty Attorney General, a cabinet post that Daugherty held from 1921-1924. He resigned amid charges that he was involved in a conspiracy to defraud the government known as the Teapot Dome scandal. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01004
Subjects: United States - Officials and employees; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
 

Description: Portrait of Albert Gallatin Riddle (1816-1902), an attorney from Cleveland, Ohio, who served in the Ohio state legislature (1848-1850) and in the United States House of Representatives (1861–1863). Riddle was also a prominent abolitionist involved with the defense of the Oberlin Rescuers in 1859, and a supporter of the women's suffrage movement, notable for his speech titled "The right of women to exercise the elective franchise under the Fourteenth Article of the Constitution," given during a suffrage convention in Washington, D.C., January 11, 1871. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05194
Subjects: United States - Officials and employees; Lawyers--Ohio; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Abolitionists -- Ohio; Suffrage -- Ohio;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)