Trial of Tobias Watkins, Late Fourth Auditor of the Treasury in the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for Washington County, May Term 1829, for Frauds Upon the U. States

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Washington DC:: Duff Green,, 1829.. Full Leather.. UNCOMMON. Tobias Watkins was a physician who was born in Maryland in 1780 and lived until 1855. He graduated from St. Johns College, Annapolis, in 1798 and from the Philadelphia Medical College in 1802. He was a surgeon in the army during the war of 1812, the assistant surgeon-general of the U.S. following the war, and later became the fourth auditor of the U.S. treasury (1824 - 9). This last position ended in his public trial for embezzlement followed by imprisonment. [from AppletonÕs Cyclopedia of Biography, ca 1879]. Watkins was a close friend of the president, John Quincy Adams, who was deeply embarrassed by his treachery. Adams said: ÒThat an officer under my Administration, and appointed partly at my recommendation, should have embezzled any part of the public moneys is a deeper affliction to me than almost anything else that has happened; that he was personally and warmly my friend aggravates the calamity ...Ó [excerpt from ÒContemporary Institutional Arrangements for Managing Political Appointments and the Historical Processes of DepoliticizationÓ by Stuart C. Gilman, 2003.] In very good condition in full red leather boards with gilt title to front board, gilt rules to spine, and gilt borders to edges of boards. Minor chipping to head of spine and minor rubbing to boards. Occasional spots of foxing throughout interior and small damp stain to edge of front free end page. 188 pages. LAW/120108. Very Good.

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