Up for auction a RARE VINTAGE! "U.S. Politicians" Multi-Signed Album Page. Signers are; William H Kurtz (Pennsylvania), William R Scapp (Ohio) and George Bliss (Ohio).
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William Henry Kurtz (January
31, 1804 – June 24, 1868) was a Democratic member
of the U.S. House of
Representatives from Pennsylvania. William H. Kurtz was born in York, Pennsylvania. He
attended the common schools and the York County Academy at York. He studied
law, was admitted to the bar on January 7, 1828, and commenced practice in
York. He served as prosecuting attorney of York County, Pennsylvania.Kurtz
was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses.
He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Public Expenditures during
the Thirty-third Congress. He resumed the practice of law and died in York in
1868. Interment in Prospect Hill Cemetery.
William Robinson Sapp (March 4, 1804 –
January 3, 1875) was a U.S.
Representative from Ohio,
and uncle of U.S. Representative William F. Sapp of Iowa. Born at Cadiz, Ohio, Sapp moved to Knox County, Ohio, where he attended the public schools. He
engaged in the mercantile business in Danville. He studied law. He was admitted to
the bar in 1833 and commenced practice at Millersburg, Ohio. He served as prosecuting attorney of Holmes County, Ohio. Presidential elector in
1844 for Clay/Frelinghuysen. He moved
to Mount Vernon, Ohio, in
1846. Sapp was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress
and reelected as an Opposition Party candidate
to the Thirty-fourth Congress
(March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1857). He was an unsuccessful candidate for
reelection. Assessor of internal revenue for the thirteenth district 1869-1872.
He served as collector of internal revenue from 1872 until his death in Mount
Vernon, Ohio, January 3, 1875. He was interred in Mound View Cemetery.
George Bliss (January 1, 1813
– October 24, 1868) was a member of the United
States House of Representatives from Ohio.
Bliss was born in Jericho, Vermont. He
attended Granville College. Moved
to Ohio in 1832, studied law with David Kellogg Cartter,
was admitted to
the bar in 1841 and became Cartter's law partner in Akron, Ohio.
Bliss
was Mayor of Akron in 1850.[1] In 1850 he was appointed the presiding judge of
the eighth
judicial district and continued in that role until the office
was discontinued after a constitutional change. He was elected to the Thirty-third Congress
(4 March 1853 – 3 March 1855) as a Democrat. Bliss
subsequently withdrew his nomination for re-election. He continued practising
law in Wooster, Ohio. In 1858, he
was principal counsel and attorney in the Oberlin–Wellington Rescue case,
assisting George Belden of Canton, the United States District
Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, in the prosecution.
Both conspirators were found guilty by the jury in the court of judge Hiram V. Willson, and punished.
Bliss
was elected to the Thirty-eighth congress
(4 March 1863 – 3 March 1865) and was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election
in 1864. He was a delegate to the Union National Convention at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in
1866. George Bliss died in Wooster, Ohio on 24 October 1868 and is buried in
Oak Hill Cemetery. Married Sarah J. Fish of Williamstown, New York,
and they had five children. After Bliss died, his family moved to Brooklyn, New York.