GILPIN, HENRY D.
\ɡˈɪlpɪn], \ɡˈɪlpɪn], \ɡ_ˈɪ_l_p_ɪ_n]\
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(1801-1860), was U. S. attorney for Pennsylvania in 1832, solicitor of the U.S. Treasury in 1837, and Attorney-General for the United States from 1840 to 1841, and was deeply interested in historical work. He edited the papers of James Madison, 1840.
By John Franklin Jameson
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