After drawing his statue at the State House, I started reading up on Daniel Webster and became captivated by these two images:
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Daniel Webster Statue (Concord)
Sketch of the Daniel Webster statue in front of the NH State House:
The First Voter Check-List (Henniker, 1813)
In 1813, NH tests out a strange new voting procedure: keeping track of voters with an official checklist!
John T. Gilman
Gilman served as governor of NH from 1794-1805, and again from 1813-1816. The town of Gilmanton is named after his family. He was governor when the state legislature passed NH’s first mandatory voter check-list law. During the American Revolution he served in the “Minutemen” militia. Drawn from an engraving by Max Rosenthal. [Also see John Taylor GilmanContinue reading “John T. Gilman”
James Willis Patterson
Drawn from a portrait in the reading room at Tucker Free Library (Henniker, NH): Patterson taught school in New Hampshire, and later served as a Republican member of Congress during the Civil War, where he supported the establishment of Freedmen’s Schools in the South. [Also see James W. Patterson on Wikipedia]
The Weeks Act of 1911
Here’s a comic to celebrate the Weeks Act Centennial, drawn at the intersection of environmental science, government policy, activism, & private industry… ALSO SEE: The Weeks Act Music Video! >>
