"I think every gentleman on this floor is as well satisfied as I am that Duluth is destined to become the commercial metropolis of the universe, and that this road should be built at once."
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Democratic Party (United States) politiciansLawyers from the United StatesMembers of the United States House of RepresentativesPresbyterians from the United StatesGovernors of Kentucky
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Speech on the St. Croix and Bayfield Railroad Bill, Jan. 27, 1871.
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J. Proctor Knott
James Proctor Knott (August 29, 1830 – June 18, 1911) was the Attorney General of Missouri at the outset of the American Civil War and Governor of Kentucky from 1883 to 1887.
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