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Andrew Gregg Curtin, Civil War Governor of Pennsylvania

| December 15, 2011

Andrew Gregg Curtin served as Governor of Pennsylvania for six years (two terms of three years) from 15 January 1861 to 15 January 1867.  As Pennsylvania’s Civil War governor he took the lead among northern governors in supporting President Abraham Lincoln by raising troops, organizing them into combat units, setting up training camps (the first […]