Mr. & Mrs. J B Varnum address
- Title:
- Mr. & Mrs. J B Varnum address
- Collection:
- 19th Century Prison Reform Collection
- Date:
- 1807-1868
- ID Number:
- RMM01157_B01_F18_026_01
- Collection Number:
- 1157
- File Name:
- RMM01157_B01_F18_026_01.jpg
- Work Type:
- documents
- Description:
- This note of address probably refers to Joseph Bradley Varnum (1751-1821) who was a United States Senator from Massachusetts between 1811 and 1817, serving as president pro tempore in 1813. He also served on the United States House of Representatives for Massachusetts's 9th and then 4th districts, made 6th Speaker between 1807 and 1811. A few years later, Enos T Throop joined the House on behalf of New York's 20th district. Both politicians belonged to the Democratic-Republican Party and so must have been close acquaintances.
Like Enos T Throop and other followers of President Maarten Van Buren, Varnum was a vocal critic of slavery. On March 3, 1805, he submitted a Massachusetts Proposition to amend the Constitution and abolish the slave trade. This proposition was tabled until 1807, when under Varnum's leadership the amendment moved through Congress and passed both houses on March 2, 1807. President Thomas Jefferson signed it into law on March 3, 1807. Although he was not actively involved in the prison reform movement, Varnum's relationship with Governor Enos T Throop suggests the complex web of social reform linking these two movements. - Cite As:
- Enos Thompson Throop. Papers, #1157. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Enos Thompson Throop Papers
- Box:
- 1
- Folder:
- 18
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the 19th Century Prison Reform Collection is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of its age, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright]. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2017 from print materials held in the Rare and Manuscript Collections, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Katherine Thorsteinson. For more information about these volumes, please contact the Rare and Manuscript Collections at rareref@cornell.edu. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.