Hand Delivered Cover From RUFUS KING to SEC'Y OF TREASURY WM M MEREDITH, Wash DC

Item Specifics

Condition

Unused

Stamp Format

Single

Item Description

As it has no postal markings, it was likely
delivered to him without using the postal service
There is some information (not scanned) that comes with the cover
that discusses which Rufus King wrote / addressed the cover.

Addressed to Hon. Wm. M. Meredith, Washington DC

Rufus King (January 26, 1814 – October 13, 1876) was an American newspaper editor, public servant, diplomat, and a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War.

Rufus H. King died in Albany, N. Y., July 9, 1867. Mr. King was a native of Ridgefield, Conn. His father was an officer in the army of the Revolution, his name being associated in history with that of Major Andre as the officer to whom the British spy was delivered by his captors, and who had charge of him until he was executed.

Mr. King came to Albany in 1814, and in partnership with his brother-in-law, William McHarg, as a dry goods merchant, established a reputation for capacity and integrity which laid the foundation for enduring prosperity and ultimate fortune. He became a director in the New York State National Bank at an early day and more than twenty years ago succeeded the late Mr. Bloodgood as its president, soon after which he withdrew from his mercantile business and devoted hmiself to banking and to the purchase and sale of stocks. He was also president of the Albany Savings Bank and the Albany Insurance Company. The marked prosperity which has attended all these institutions furnishes sufficient evidence of his financial ability.

King was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as Minister to the Papal States in 1861 after being recommended by the Secretary of State Seward. On his way to Rome when the Civil War broke out, he took a leave of absence to join the Union Army. He was appointed a brigadier general of the Wisconsin militia on April 15, 1861, and of U.S. Volunteers on May 17, and was given authorization to raise a Wisconsin regiment. King helped organize what came to be known as the famous Iron Brigade, the Second, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Wisconsin, and Nineteenth Indiana volunteers, which he commanded briefly.

He served as Secretary of the Treasury under President Zachary Taylor from
March 8, 1849 - July 22, 1850, when Taylor died.

Meredith was president of the Philadelphia City Council from 1834 until 1849, and was a delegate to the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention in 1837. Meredith also served briefly as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 1841.

President Zachary Taylor, wanting a Pennsylvania Whig for his cabinet, appointed William M. Meredith to be the 19th Secretary of the Treasury. He began his term in office on March 8, 1849. Meredith strongly opposed the free trade legislation passed the year before under his predecessor Robert J. Walker. He felt that there was a need to protect the American workman, who was subject to competition from poorly paid European labor. Meredith's principal contribution in office was his Annual Report of 1849 in which he set forth an elaborate argument for a protective tariff.

This Item Is in Fine or Better Condition. 
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