[POLITICS IN AMERICA]. A group of pamphlets, glass plates, and other ephemera related to Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, and American politics of the 1840s, comprising:

A pair of Henry Clay sandwich glass cup plates from the election of 1844, one blue and one clear, both 3 1/2 in. diameter and featuring the profile image of Clay. Each plate with a unique scallop edge motif. (Clear plate with some chipping to edge, line at center near profile portrait; blue plate with wear but generally good condition.)

[With:] WALDO, S. Putnam. Memoirs of Andrew Jackson, Major-General in the Army of the United States; and Commander in Chief Division of the South. Hartford: John Russell, Jr., 1818. 315pp, 4 1/4 x 6 3/4 in., calf boards (scuffing to cover and wear to boards at corners, scattered spotting). This early edition was reprinted as a campaign biography in 1828.

[Also with:] A group of 9 political pamphlets, ca 1840s, documenting speeches, doctrines, and conventions. -- Sheet music, "Harry Clay and Frelinghuysen Written by Mr. J. Greiner at the Whig National Convention at Baltimore." Philadelphia and New York: G.E. Blake, 1844. -- Hand-colored 12 x 14 in. lithograph by N. Currier titled "Henry Clay. Nominated for Eleventh President of the United States," 1844.

Andrew Jackson won the 1828 presidential election becoming the 7th President of the United States, and was re-elected in 1832. Vice Presidents John C. Calhoun and Martin Van Buren served under him. Though he earned respect as the "Great Compromiser" and received electoral votes in three elections, Clay never successfully achieved the highest office in the land.

Collection of Tom Charles Huston