Envelope with a franked signature of Emanuel Bernard Hart, a U.S. Congressman, addressed to Georgia Governor Howell Cobb in Milledgeville, Georgia, in 1851. Hart's signature as a Congressman is rare due to his short two-year tenure.
Subject: Jews--United States--Politics and government
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Free franked envelope signed by Henry Meyer Phillips (1884) as a member of the 35th Congress. Phillips, a renowned Philadelphia lawyer, was the first Philadelphia Jew elected to Congress. The envelope dates from 1857.