L(ewis) C(harles) Levin. Speech… On the Bill to to Raise a Regiment of Mounted Riflemen. Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 7, 1846.

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L(ewis) C(harles) Levin. Speech… On the Bill to to Raise a Regiment of Mounted Riflemen. Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 7, 1846.

pp. 16. Foxed and lightly stained. Unbound. 8vo. Sabin 40756.

Washington: Gideon 1846

Est: $400 - $600

Lewis Charles Levin (1808–60) was the first Jew elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he was the American Party candidate from Pennsylvania in 1844 and was re-elected twice before being defeated in 1850.