Montgomery Blair
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The Honorable Montgomery Blair |
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| 20th United States Postmaster General | |
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In office March 5, 1861 – September 24, 1864 |
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| President | Abraham Lincoln |
| Preceded by | Horatio King |
| Succeeded by | William Dennison, Jr. |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 10, 1813 Franklin County, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | July 27, 1883 (aged 70) Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. |
| Political party |
Democratic (1848–54; 1865–1883) Republican (1854–65) |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Elizabeth Woodbury |
| Children | Woodbury Gist Montgomery, Jr. Minnie |
| Alma mater | United States Military Academy |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | United States Army |
| Years of service | 1835–1836 |
| Rank | Second Lieutenant |
| Battles/wars | Seminole War |
Montgomery Blair (May 10, 1813 – July 27, 1883), the son of Francis Preston Blair, elder brother of Francis Preston Blair, Jr. and cousin of B. Gratz Brown, was a politician and lawyer from Maryland. He served in the Lincoln administration cabinet as Postmaster-General from 1861 to 1864, during the Civil War.
Blair was born in Franklin County, Kentucky. His father, Francis P. Blair, Sr., was, as editor of the Washington Globe, a prominent figure in the Democratic Party during the Jacksonian era, and as a boy Montgomery "often listened to the talk of his father and Andrew Jackson." Blair graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1835, but after a year's service in the Seminole War, he left the Army, studied law, and began practice at St Louis, Missouri, in 1839. After serving as United States district attorney (1839–43) and as judge of the court of common pleas (1834–1849), he moved to Maryland in 1852 and devoted himself to law practice principally in the United States Supreme Court. He was United States Solicitor in the Court of Claims (1855–58) and was associated with George T. Curtis as counsel for the plaintiff in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857.
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