HIRAM BARNEY


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Hiram Barney

We are ready to carefully listen to your proposal to offer the people and capitalists of the United States an opportunity to loan the Mexican Republic the funds necessary to vindicate their rights and govern themselves.
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Benito Juarez Government. The United States initially supported the Mexican Republicans (as opposed to the French puppet Emperor Maximilian) with investments and loans (see {605684} ) as well as weapons smuggling. See {44430}.

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Hiram Barney
  • Born: May 30, 1811
  • Died: May 18, 1895
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Hiram Barney was an American lawyer, abolitionist, and politician who served as Collector of the Port of New York from 1861 - 1864 during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln.