Louis McLane: Federalist and Jacksonian
McLane served in the House of Representatives, the Senate, as Jackson's Secretary of Treasury and Secretary of State, and as minister to Great Britain. After retiring from public office, he headed the Baltimore & Ohio railroad and pushed its move westward.
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New Brunswick, N.J.,
Rutgers University Press
[1973]
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Table of Contents:
- The old collector and his son
- A rising young federalist
- A villager in Washington
- Missouri
- and making one's way
- A man of reputation
- The Crawford campaign
- A new opposition
- Senator and supplicant
- Mission to England
- Beside the chief
- Climax
- Denouement
- Secretary of state
- A chapter on Morris
- The Baltimore & Ohio
- The Oregon cession
- "This cunning, diplomatic president"
- Retirement.