Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Rail-Road Co. Dividend Sheet signed by Thurlow Weed - 1861 dated Stock Transfer

Dividend Sheet signed by Thurlow Weed. Large size measures 13 6/8" x16".

Thurlow Weed (1797-1882) A New York political boss. While he never held national office himself, he was the principal political advisor to the prominent New York politician William H. Seward and was instrumental in the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison (1840), Henry Clay (1844), Zachary Taylor (1848), Winfield Scott (1852), John Charles Frémont (1856) and Abraham Lincoln (1860).

In 1863, Weed came out against the Emancipation Proclamation on the grounds that emancipation should be more gradual. He soon lost favor with the administration. Then he threw in with Andrew Johnson and his Reconstruction policies, which essentially ended Weed's political career in the Republican Party. He retired from public life not long after the Civil War and moved to New York City in 1867. There he briefly edited a newspaper, but while he remained engaged in politics he never sought or held another office and never exerted the sort of influence he had had in the past. He died in New York in 1882. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurlow_Weed