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Sigurd Anderson lectures, 1961-1963
- Title
- Sigurd Anderson lectures, 1961-1963
- Identifier
- P0017
- Date
- 1961-1963
- Creator
- Anderson, Sigurd, 1904-1990
- Description
- Extent
1 folder - A lecture titled "Lawyers in the Civil War," delivered before the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (1961), and an outline of an address, "Whatever Happened to Ole," given before Det Norske Nationalforbund in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1963). Anderson was a member of the Federal Trade Commission and served as Governor of South Dakota from 1950 to 1954.
Contents
- Article: "Lawyers In the War", delivered before the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. February 14, 1961. Mentions lawyers in the cabinet of Abraham Lincoln, including Edwin M. Stanton, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Senator William Fessenden, Edward Bates, Caleb B. Smith,and Montgomery Blair. Confederate cabinet members who were lawyers included Alexander Stephens, Robert Toombs, Robert M.T. Hunter, Judah P. Benjamin, John C. Breckendridge, Christopher Memminger, Thomas Bragg, Thomas Hill Watts, George Davis, Stephen R. Mallory and John Henninger Reagan. Four lawyers who served in the Union army would later become president, including Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester Arthur and Benjamin Harrison. 7 members of the Supreme Court served in the armed forces during the Civil War - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Stanley Matthews, William B. Woods and John M. Harlan fought for the Union, Edward B. White, Lucius Q.C. Lamar and Horace H Lurton fought in the ranks of the Confederacy.
- Article: "Whatever Happened to Ole?" delivered before Det Norske Nationalforbund i Minneapolis, Minnehaha Park, Minneapolis Minnesota July 14, 1963.
Location:
1/A/2 - Language
- English
- Subject
- Anderson, Sigurd, 1904-1990
- Civil War
- Lawyers
- Minneapolis (Minn.)
- Minnesota
- Norwegian American papers
- Politics and government
- Rights
- Rights undetermined.
- Type
- Manuscripts
Collection
Citation
Anderson, Sigurd, 1904-1990, “Sigurd Anderson lectures, 1961-1963,” Norwegian American Historical Association, accessed October 16, 2026, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/9645.