John Catron, Judge of the Supreme Court of the US, 1839 developer_gift_idea The portrait carries the stiff

The portrait carries the stiff dignity of a Mexican War–era campaign sheet

the Fourteenth Amendment fresh ink

its iron legs threaded into the bay floor and its lantern room drawn with the patient precision of a draftsman who knew the Bay would test every joint

when the annexation drums beat loudest and the Oregon line was still being drawn

William McKinley Preparing to Speak to Large Crowd From Balcony 1900

John Catron, Judge of the Supreme Court of the US, 1839 developer_gift_idea The portrait carries the stiffJohn Catron, Judge of the Supreme Court of the US, 1839 a Jacksonian appointee rendered in the sober gravity befitting the bench, his likeness drawn the year he took his seat among the brethren who would, two decades later, hand down Dred Scott and split the republic at its seams. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and