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Re: NYCongressman who sponsored Homestead Act of 1862
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Bob Huddleston <[log in to unmask]>
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Nowhere is an unnamed "Congressman from the Catskills" mentioned as the
sponsor of any Homestead Bill. Credit for the one that finally passed is
usually given to Galusha Grow, of Pennsylvania

Take care,

Bob

Judy and Bob Huddleston
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In an article on what seems to be a campaign website for the Green Party
candidate for U.S.Senate from NYS in the 2000 campaign - named Mark
Dunau --
at http://www.ruralparty.com/antirent.htm

the following statement is made.


"The first Homestead Act was sponsored by a Congressman from the
Catskills.
The opening of western public lands to farmers, and not land
speculators,
was a direct result of the Anti-Rent War and the national political
attention it received."

Can someone please tell me to whom he may have been referring? (that
sponsor
of the Homestead Act)

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