His Excellency Elbridge Gerry LLD Governour of Massachusetts 1811 Seahawks_Poster A pantheon arranged with Whiggish

A pantheon arranged with Whiggish reverence

and men of letters into a single engraved pantheon — a Victorian act of remembrance that arranges the republic's faces in tidy rows

with Old Rough and Ready sketched mid-council among his officers

when the empire he once attended in Vienna had already dissolved into the unwelcome new geography of postwar Europe

his likeness rendered in the careful gravity reserved for those who carried Manifest Destiny's confidence and its rot in equal measure

His Excellency Elbridge Gerry LLD Governour of Massachusetts 1811 Seahawks_Poster A pantheon arranged with WhiggishHis Excellency Elbridge Gerry LLD Governour of Massachusetts 1811. A signer of the Declaration rendered here in the full ceremony of his Bay State governorship the engraving styling him with that antique honorific 'Governour,' a year before his name would be welded forever to the redistricting cartoon that gave us the word gerrymander. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the