Judge Thomas Ewing
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Judge Thomas Ewing

Daniel Dickinson, born Litchfield, CT 1795-died Litchfield, CT after 1866 · ca. 1840

watercolor on ivory
Smithsonian American Art Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Judge Thomas Ewing, born in West Virginia in 1789, began his career as a schoolteacher in Ohio. He went on to practice law and in 1830 was elected to the U.S. Senate. This portrait shows Ewing at around fifty-five years old, about the time he became secretary of the treasury for President Tyler.

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