J. Turner to Blanche Kelso Bruce regarding a short term loan - American History 1493-1945 - Adam Matthew Digital

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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC09400.530
From Archive Folder	Collection of letters of the first African American to serve a full term in the Senate
Title	J. Turner to Blanche Kelso Bruce regarding a short term loan
Date	18 April 1880
Author	Turner, J. Milton (1840-1915)
Recipient	Kelso Bruce, Blanche
Document Type	Correspondence
Content Description	Wants to borrow $25 for 10 or 12 days.
Subjects	African American History African Americans in Government Congress Reconstruction Government and Civics Finance Debt
People	Bruce, Blanche Kelso (1841-1898) Turner, J. Milton (1840-1915)
Place written	s.l.
Theme	African Americans; Government & Politics
Sub-collection	The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Additional Information	Blanche Kelso Bruce was born into slavery near Farmville, Prince Edward County, Va. on March 1 1841. He was tutored by his master's son, but left his master at the beginning of the civil war and taught school in Hannibal Mo. After the civil war Bruce became a planter in Mississippi, and a member of the Mississippi Levee Board, and Sheriff and Tax Collector for Bolivar County from 1872-1875. Bruce was then elected as a Republican to the United States Senate, where he served from March 4 1875 - March 3 1881. Bruce was the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate. In 1881 Bruce was appointed by President James Garfield as the Register of the Treasury. Bruce then went on to serve as the Recorder of Deeds for the District of Colombia from 1891-1893, returning to the office of Register of the Treasury from 1897 until his death on March 17, 1898.
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945

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