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Library of Congress

Abraham Lincoln appointed John G. Stephenson as librarian of Congress

1861
Washington D.C., U.S.

Abraham Lincoln appointed John G. Stephenson as librarian of Congress in 1861 and the appointment is regarded as the most political to date. Stephenson was a physician and spent equal time serving as librarian and as a physician in the Union Army. He could manage this division of interest because he hired Ainsworth Rand Spofford as his assistant.


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