Up Salt River

ID: 668
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This political cartoon shows the Democratic and Whig candidates for the 1848 election in the same boat being pulled by former president Martin Van Buren. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #634 in Carroll County notes the residence of Mexican-American War hero and 1848 vice presidential candidate, William Orlando Butler. William O. Butler was born in Jessamine…