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Blair, Montgomery

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Blair, Montgomery (1813–1883)

US politician and lawyer. As US solicitor in the court of claims 1855–58, he was associated with Curtis in the Dred Scott Decision. He was postmaster general in the Republican president Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, introducing free city delivery, a money-order system, and the use of railway mail cars. Blair went over to the Democrats after the Civil War because of his views on Reconstruction policy.

Blair was born in Franklin County, Kentucky. After service in the Seminole Wars, he studied law and practised in St Louis, Missouri. He then moved to Washington, DC.



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