Photo of James Cavanaugh - Brady-Handy

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James Cavanaugh. Library of Congress description: "Hon. James Michael Cavanaugh of Minnesota"

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between 1860 and 1875

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.00180. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH83- 258 <P&P>[P&P]

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Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	18 May 1822	15 January 1896
Location of birth/death	Warren County	Manhattan
Work period	from 1844 until circa 1887
Work location	New York City, Washington, D.C.
Authority control	: Q187850 VIAF: 22965552 ISNI: 0000 0001 2209 4376 ULAN: 500126201 LCCN: n81140569 NLA: 35728355 WorldCat



Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	August 1855	26 March 1932
Authority control	: Q12033170 VIAF: 58349202 LCCN: n96077991 WorldCat

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English: James Michael Cavanaugh ( July 4, 1823 – October 30, 1879) was a Representative from Minnesota and a Delegate from the Territory of Montana. He was born in Springfield, July 4, 1823 and received an academic education. He engaged in newspaper work, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1854 and began practice in Davenport. He then moved to Chatfield, Fillmore County, Minnesota, in 1854 and continued the practice of law; upon the admission of Minnesota as a State into the Union, in 1858, was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress and served from May 11, 1858, to March 3, 1859; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress; moved to Colorado in 1861 and resumed the practice of law; also engaged in mining; member of the State constitutional convention in 1865; moved to Montana in 1866; elected as a Democrat a Delegate to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses (March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1871); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1870; engaged in the practice of law in New York City; returned to Colorado in 1879 and settled in Leadville, where he died October 30, 1879; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, New York City.

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Mathew Brady died in 1896 and Levin C. Handy died in 1932. Photographs in this collection are in the public domain in the United States as works published before 1923 or as unpublished works whose copyright term has expired (life of author + 70 years).

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