1869 40th US Congress Letterhead Alabama Politics Rep B Morris Wetumpka Letter

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I will be listing numerous political / legal letters from John Danner. It is time consuming so be sure to check back.
Letter to John Danner by Benjamin Morris.
The first photo is of Morris and the second Danner. The photographs and obituaries are not included.
Norris served as land agent for the State of Maine 1860-1863, and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1864. He served as paymaster in the Union Army in 1864 and 1865. He was appointed major and additional paymaster in the Bureau of Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, serving from May 1 to August 2, 1865, at Mobile, Alabama.
Norris resided on a plantation in Wetumpka, Elmore County until 1872. He served as member of the constitutional convention of Alabama in 1868. Upon the readmission of Alabama to representation, he was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress and served from July 21, 1868, to March 3, 1869. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress. He also was the 2nd Chairman of The Alabama Republican Party holding the position from 1868-1870. He died in Montgomery, Alabama, January 26, 1873. He was interred in South Cemetery, Skowhegan, Maine.
Provenance: Came from the estate of a descendant of John Danner.
Johann (John) Leonhard Conrad Danner was born 16 Apr 1827, and died 24 Dec 1872. 45 years old.
John Leonard Conrad Danner lived in Randolph county. At 21 he was chosen clerk of the circuit court of Randolph county. At the Beginning of President Buchanan's administration in 1857 was appointed to an official position in the department of the interior at Washington. He held that position until 1861 when the southern states succeeded from the union. He resigned and came home and join the war.
During the war he served alternately in the army and civil departments in Richmond (in an obituary of his wife, John Danner was mentioned as a mayor of Richmond during the war but I cannot find any evidence. I have an image of the obituaries of both). After the war he started a law practice in Richmond.
After the formal restoration of Alabama to the union he returned to the state and located in Montgomery. In 1869 he was appointed supreme court reporter. After that held a position with the IRS.
He also was appointed Judge years 1871-1872 in Montgomery.
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