GRANT, Ulysses S. Autograph letter signed ("U. S. Grant"), as President, to Interior Secretary Columbus Delano (1809-1896), Long Branch, N. J., 26 August 1875. 3 pages, 4to, on Long Branch stationery . MANAGING NEWS OF THE RESIGNATION OF A CABINET MEMBER. "With this I send the acceptance of your resignation. There is no need of publicity until about the time I shall want to name your successor. At this time I have thought of but two names for the place. One is the present Commissioner of Int. Rev. the other is Mr. Wayne McVeigh of Pa." Grant goes on to explain that he will not be back in Washington until mid-October, and may ask Delano to meet him in Ohio when a successor can be named. He will perhaps submit a short list to "ask the opinion of the Cabinet about, and get an answer in time to name your successor so as to have him qualify by the first of October." Grant chose neither of the men mentioned, but turned to Zachariah Chandler, a Michigan Senator and businessman whom Grant met in Detroit in the 1850s, when Lt. Grant fell on ice in front of Chandler's store and filed a slip-and-fall lawsuit. Grant won only six cents in damages, but relations were sufficiently repaired by the 1870s for Grant to tap him for the Cabinet. As a mayor of Detroit and U. S. Senator, Chandler compiled an impressive record as an abolitionist.
GRANT, Ulysses S. Autograph letter signed ("U. S. Grant"), as President, to Interior Secretary Columbus Delano (1809-1896), Long Branch, N. J., 26 August 1875. 3 pages, 4to, on Long Branch stationery . MANAGING NEWS OF THE RESIGNATION OF A CABINET MEMBER. "With this I send the acceptance of your resignation. There is no need of publicity until about the time I shall want to name your successor. At this time I have thought of but two names for the place. One is the present Commissioner of Int. Rev. the other is Mr. Wayne McVeigh of Pa." Grant goes on to explain that he will not be back in Washington until mid-October, and may ask Delano to meet him in Ohio when a successor can be named. He will perhaps submit a short list to "ask the opinion of the Cabinet about, and get an answer in time to name your successor so as to have him qualify by the first of October." Grant chose neither of the men mentioned, but turned to Zachariah Chandler, a Michigan Senator and businessman whom Grant met in Detroit in the 1850s, when Lt. Grant fell on ice in front of Chandler's store and filed a slip-and-fall lawsuit. Grant won only six cents in damages, but relations were sufficiently repaired by the 1870s for Grant to tap him for the Cabinet. As a mayor of Detroit and U. S. Senator, Chandler compiled an impressive record as an abolitionist.
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