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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: M74- 46
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Title, Dates: Portrait of Augustus Emmet Maxwell, 1848.
Amount: 1.00 photographs 44 x 52 cm.
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Biographical/Historical:     Augustus Emmet Maxwell was a jurist and statesman who moved to Tallahassee, Florida in 1845. He served as Florida's second Attorney General from 1846 to 1847 and in the Florida House of Representatives from 1847 to 1848, when he resigned to become the second Florida Secretary of State. He held that position until 1849 when voters elected him to the Florida Senate. In 1853 he became a member of the United States Congress, serving with distinction until his retirement in 1857.

    After the secession of Florida and the organization of the Confederate States Congress in 1861, the Florida Legislature elected Maxwell to the Confederate States Senate, in which capacity he served from 1862 to 1865. In 1866 Governor William Marvin appointed him to the Florida Supreme Court but Maxwell resigned within a year for political reasons. In 1877 Governor George Drew appointed him as judge of the First Judicial Circuit of Florida, an office he maintained until his resignation in 1885 to attend Florida's Constitutional Convention. In 1887 Governor Edward A. Perry appointed Maxwell to the Florida Supreme Court where he remained until 1891.
Summary:     This single-item collection consists of a portrait of A. E. Maxwell when he was Secretary of State, a position he held from 1848 to 1849. The portrait is a black and white salt print, which is a photograph overlaid with charcoal.
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Subject Access Fields: Maxwell, A.E. 1820-1903 (Augustus Emmet),
Secretary of State.
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