When he was a newly elected Speaker, this portrait and profile of Michael Kerr were published in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. The image is based on Mathew Brady’s photo of Kerr and is a typical Member’s public image for the period—including the House Chamber chair seen in numerous photographic portraits. The profile described Kerr as a man who “possessed dauntless courage” and whose “power of logic made him a most powerful antagonist.”
History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives, “Hon. Michael C. Kerr of Indiana, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.,” https://history.house.gov/Collection/Listing/2008/2008-146-001/ (October 28, 2020)
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