Lawyer Gallery

Sir Thomas More, 1527, (1902). Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger

Sir Thomas More, 1527, (1902). Portrait of More (1478-1535) as Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor. More refused to subscribe to the Act of Supremacy which made Henry the head of the English Church. In 1534 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London, and beheaded on a charge of treason the following year. Illustration from Henry VIII, by A F Pollard, published by Goupil and Co, (London, New York, Paris, Edinburgh, 1902)

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Senator Preston Bierce Plumb of Kansas, 1870-1880. Creator: Unknown

Senator Preston Bierce Plumb of Kansas, 1870-1880. Plumb, Hon. P.B. of Kansas (Senator), between 1870 and 1880. [Politician, newspaper editor, and officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War; secretary of the Free-State convention; member of the Leavenworth constitutional convention]

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Guilford Wiley Wells of Mississippi, 1865-1880. Creator: Unknown

Guilford Wiley Wells of Mississippi, 1865-1880. Wells, Hon. Rep. Guilford Wiley of Miss. between 1865 and 1880. Private in 27th N.Y. Inf. Capt. in 19th N.Y. Cav. [Politician, lawyer and soldier in the Union Army: Twenty-seventh New York Infantry; One Hundred and Thirtieth New York Infantry; Nineteenth New York Cavalry. United States Consul General in Shanghai, China]

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