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A nine-foot-tall portrait of NH native John A. Dix, who, as President Buchanan’s Secretary of the Treasury, set “the hearts of the people everywhere ablaze”… NEXT:  The famous “Shoot Him On the Spot” memo >> John Adams Dix (born in Boscawen, 1798) issued what the NY Herald called “the first command to shed blood thatContinue reading “Gen. John Adams Dix (State House)”