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To: Grand Old Partisan
Old Beast Butler kept showing up like a bad penny. He led the House effort to impeach Andrew Johnson.

Beast was also was one of the lawyers fighting Milligan in ex parte Milligan. He lost that case. James Garfield, later president, was Lambdin Milligan's lawyer.

246 posted on 07/22/2003 3:14:59 PM PDT by rustbucket
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To: rustbucket
Abraham Lincoln first offered the 1864 vice presidential nomination to Ben Bulter, who turned it down.
247 posted on 07/22/2003 3:17:44 PM PDT by Grand Old Partisan (You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
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