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LOT 1160:
TYLER JOHN: (1790-1862) American President 1841-45. A.L.S., J Tyler, as President, one page, 8vo, n.
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TYLER JOHN: (1790-1862) American President 1841-45. A.L.S., J Tyler, as President, one page, 8vo, n.
TYLER JOHN: (1790-1862) American President 1841-45. A.L.S., J Tyler, as President, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to Mr. [John C.] Spencer, with blind embossed seal to the upper left corner. Tyler states in full, `I have concluded to send up the name of William Tyler for the Choctaw Commission. Let them reject it if they please.' Some light age wear, VG.
John C. Spencer (1788-1855) American Politician, Lawyer & Judge. United States Secretary of War 1841-43 and of the Treasury 1843-44.
The Choctaw were a prominent Indian tribe in southern Mississippi, of Muskogee stock. Allies of the French and enemies of the British, the tribe drifted west in the 18th century towards what is now Oklahoma, where they remained self-governing and semi-civilised until their absorption into American citizenship in 1906.
