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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 8: early professional life.—September, 1834, to December, 1837.—Age, 23-26. (search)
no part in politics. His letters written in 1836 make no reference to the political canvass of that year, which ended in Van Buren's election. Young men of similar education—as Robert C. Winthrop and Hillard—were elected to the Legislature, then much larger than now, soon after they entered on manly life; Winthrop was elected to the Legislature in Nov., 1834. Hillard and John O. Sargent, a classmate of Sumner, were elected to the same body in Nov., 1835; and his classmate, Browne, in Nov., 1837. but no one seems to have thought of him in such a connection, and certainly he had no ambition for the place. Samuel Lawrence, who knew him intimately at this time, writes: He was devoted to law and literature, and I do not believe that political life had once been in his thoughts. In 1835, he took a share in a speculation,—his only venture of the kind through life. He was duped by the assurances of brokers into investing in the American Land Company, of New York, the officers of <