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Up for sale a VERY RARE! "Louisiana Senator" Solomon W Downs Signed Page
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Solomon
Weathersbee Downs (1801 – August 14, 1854) was a
United States Senator from Louisiana.
Born in Montgomery County, Tennessee, he pursued
classical studies and graduated from the Transylvania University (in Lexington, Kentucky) in 1823. He studied law,
was admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in Bayou Sara, Louisiana. He moved to Ouachita, Louisiana and
then to New Orleans
in 1845, where he engaged in the practice of law and was a successful planter. Downs
was United States Attorney for the district of
Louisiana from 1845 to 1847 and a member of the State constitutional convention. He was
elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1847, to
March 3, 1853; while in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on
Engrossed Bills (Thirtieth Congress) and a member of the Committee on Private
Land Claims (Thirtieth through Thirty-second Congresses). He was appointed by
President Franklin Pierce as collector of the port of New Orleans in 1853. He died in Lincoln County, Kentucky and was buried on
his family plantation (later reinterred in Riverview Cemetery, Monroe,
Ouachita.)
