Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814–1869), seated, with his son Edwin Lamson Stanton (1842–1877), standing in profile
<p>Photograph shows American lawyer and politician Edwin Stanton formally posed with his son a few years before Stanton became U.S. Attorney General for President Buchanan (1860–1861) and then Secretary of War for Presidents Lincoln and Johnson (1862–1868).
</p><p>Purchase and gift from the James Madison Council and George S. Whiteley, IV, 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:153.001). Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
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MEDIUM:  1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
Photographer is unknown.
[between 1852 and 1855]
Library of Congress, Prints &amp; Photographs Division, LC-USF34-014360 LC-DIG-ppmsca-19600 (digital file from original item), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/ppmsca/19600/19600u.tif">uncompressed archival TIFF version (26 MiB)</a>, color level (pick white point), desaturated, cropped, and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.6.1