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Judge Thomas Ewing
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About this work
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.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineJudge Thomas Ewing. ca. 1840. Daniel Dickinson, born Litchfield, CT 1795-died Litchfield, CT after 1866. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alexander Vernon Wasson. CC0.
