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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC09400.004 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of letters of the first African American to serve a full term in the Senate |
| Title | Henry C. Bruce to Blanche Kelso Bruce discussing a loan for a horse |
| Date | 16 June 1879 |
| Author | Bruce, Henry C., (fl. 1875-1879) |
| Recipient | Kelso Bruce, Blanche |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | This is a letter between the two brothers, that discusses a loan that henry had taken from the bank for $50 to buy a horse. He was letting the Senator Bruce know that he had repaid it, and would "write you more fully tomorrow" from the docket it seems that the Senator sent his brother the $50 to repay the bank. This must have come in the letter which Henry acknowledges receiving in the first sentence of the letter. |
| Subjects | African American History African Americans in Government Congress Law Reconstruction Government and Civics Debt Children and Family Banking Finance |
| People | Bruce, Blanche Kelso (1841-1898) Bruce, Henry C. (fl. 1875-1879) |
| Place written | Atchison Kansas |
| Theme | Government & Politics; African Americans |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Additional Information | Blanche Kelso Bruce was born into slavery near Farmville, Prince Edward County, Va. on March 1 1841. He was tutored by his master's son, but left his master at the beginning of the civil war and taught school in Hannibal Mo. After the civil war Bruce became a planter in Mississippi, and a member of the Mississippi Levee Board, and Sheriff and Tax Collector for Bolivar County from 1872-1875. Bruce was then elected as a Republican to the United States Senate, where he served from March 4 1875 - March 3 1881. Bruce was the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate. In 1881 Bruce was appointed by President James Garfield as the Register of the Treasury. Bruce then went on to serve as the Recorder of Deeds for the District of Colombia from 1891-1893, returning to the office of Register of the Treasury from 1897 until his death on March 17, 1898. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |