Letter, Correspondence - To Elisha Baxter, May 1874
Object number2014.059.07
DateMay 19, 1874
Associated LocationArkansas
MediumPaper, Ink, Pencil
Dimensions12 5/8 × 7 3/4 in. (32.1 × 19.7 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
Terms
[Front]
Hall of Representatives
May 19, 1874
To His […]
Elisha Baxter
I respectfully
request an order on your disbursing
officer for $50 fifty dollars to
purchase stamps and
I will return his […] to your
[…] fund out of
his appropriation made by
his Legislation
Respectfully
Chas [Charles] C Reid
Clerk of his House
Approved and Maj[or] Wright will
furnish his funds
Elisha Baxter
Gov[ernor] of Arkansas
[Back]
No. 31
Rec[ieve]d twenty […]
$20.00 on the within
order
Ch[arles] C. Reid clerk
for [...] Black
His draft will be paid
as soon as the funds
are on hand.
May 19th, 1874
Weldon E. Wright
Chief of Finance for […] [Stevenson?]
Elisha Baxter was born on September 1, 1827 in Rutherford County, North Carolina and was first generation American. He married Harriet Patton on August 16, 1849 and they had six children. The Baxters moved to Batesville, Arkansas in 1852 and in 1858 he was elected to the lower house of the state legislature. In 1873, Baxter became the tenth Governor of Arkansas. During his tenure, he was ousted from the State House by Joseph Brooks and his supports resulting in the Brooks-Baxter War. However, Baxter was restored to the governorship by President Ulysses S. Grant. The 1874 election saw the end of Baxter in the State House, with Augustus H. Garland wining the governorship, and he retired from politics four years later. Baxter passed away on May 31, 1899 and is buried in Batesville’s Okalawn Cemetery.
Status
Not on viewCollections
April 22, 1874
