Clifford, Nathan. Remarks of Mr. Justice Clifford in the consultations of the Electoral Commission respecting the electoral votes of the state of Florida. Washington: Joseph L. Pearson, printer, 1877.
CLIFFORD, Nathan, a Representative from Maine; born in Rumney, N.H., August 18, 1803; attended the public schools of Rumney, the Haverhill (N.H.) Academy, and New Hampton Literary Institute; taught school and gave vocal lessons; studied law in New York; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Newfield, York County, Maine, in 1827; member of the State house of representatives 1830-1834 and served as speaker the last two years; attorney general 1834-1838; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); was not a candidate for renomination in 1842; Attorney General of the United States in the Cabinet of President Polk and served from October 17, 1846, to March 17, 1848; commissioner to Mexico, with the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, from March 18, 1848, to September 6, 1849; through him the treaty was arranged with the Mexican Government by which California became a part of the United States; resumed the practice of law in Portland, Maine; appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, January 28, 1858, and served until his death; president of the electoral commission convened in 1877; died in Cornish, York County, Maine, on July 25, 1881; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
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[ Top ]Clifford, Nathan. Remarks of Mr. Justice Clifford in the consultations of the Electoral Commission respecting the electoral votes of the state of Florida. Washington: Joseph L. Pearson, printer, 1877.
------. Speech of Mr. Clifford, of Maine, on the resolution of Mr. Campbell, of South Carolina, concerning the New Jersey disputed election. Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 10 and 11, 1839. Washington [D.C.]: Printed at the Globe Office, 1840.
------. Speech on the bill to distribute the proceeds of the public lands among the states. [N.p., 1841].
------. Speech of Mr. Nathan Clifford, of Maine, on the tariff bill, delivered in the House of Representatives, July 11, 1842. Washington: Globe Office, 1842.
Clifford, Philip G. Nathan Clifford, Democrat, 1803-1881. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.