Writings of Hugh Swinton Legare, Late Attorney General and Acting Secretary of State of the United States: Consisting of A Diary of Brussels, and Journal of the Rhine; Extracts from His Private and Diplomatic Correspondence; Orations and Speeches; and Contributions to the New-York and Southern Reveiws. Prefaced by a Memoir of His Life. Embellished with a Portrait (FIRST EDITION. VOLUME ONE ONLY).
Charleston, SC / Philadelphia / New York / Boston: Bourges & James; Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.; D. appleton & Co.; James Munroe & Co., 1845. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION, 1845. Legaré was born in Charleston, South Carolina, of Huguenot and Scottish ancestry. From 1830 until 1832 he was the Attorney General of South Carolina, and he supported states' rights, he strongly opposed nullification. He was Attorney General until he was appointed chargé d'affaires to Brussels in 1832, serving there until 1836. In 1838, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society. (Wikipedia).
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