Francis Preston Blair Jr.
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title:
Francis Preston Blair Jr.
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Francis Preston Blair Jr. was a United States Senator, a United States Congressman and a Union Army major general during the American Civil War. He represented Missouri in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and was active in preventing the State of Missouri from being absorbed into the Confederacy at the beginning of the Civil War. Blair was instrumental in appointing Nathaniel Lyon as the new military commander of the Western Department of the U.S. Army. He assisted Lyon in secur
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Union Army general, politician
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Preston_Blair_Jr.
date created:
2004-06-05T20:30:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T04:04:06Z
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