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THE PRESIDENTS COUNSEL
We gave in the last Number of the Weekly the portraits of Messrs.
Stanbery, Curtis, and Evarts, of President Johnsons counsel, employed in the
Impeachment trial. We give in this Number an accurate portrait of Mr. William S.
Groesbeck.Mr.
Groesbeck is a native of New York, and about forty-two years of age. He removed to
Cincinnati, Ohio, at an early age. He was a member of the Commission of 1852 for codifying
the laws of Ohio, and also of the Constitutional Convention of the previous year. He was a
member of the Thirty-fifth Congress. He was also a member of the Peace Congress of 1861,
and was subsequently in the State Senate of Ohio.
The trial of the impeachment of the
President was resumed in the Senate on April 9, with the opening speech for the defense
made by Mr. Curtis. On the subsequent day Adjutant-General Thomas was examined as to the
instructions under which he attempted to take possession of the War Office. The testimony
as far as elicited does not as yet show the line of defense proposed by the counsel of the
President.
WM. S. GROESBECK, ESQ.
OF THE PRESIDENTS COUNSEL (Portrait)
April 25, 1868 page 260
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