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| | Congress, Law, and Politics |
 | | The course of the American Revolution and the creation of the nation that followed may be investigated in the papers of our earliest lawmakers, among them, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James McHenry, James Monroe, Robert Morris, and Roger Sherman. |
 | | The papers of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun --the Great Triumvirate--are especially illuminating for this era. |
 | | Other members, all later to be elected to the presidency and represented by collections of various sizes and complexion, include Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln. |
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