Gustav Koerner
German American politician, lawyer, judge, and diplomat (1809-1896) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 86
Gustav Philipp Koerner, also spelled Gustave or Gustavus Koerner, was a German-American revolutionary, journalist, lawyer, politician, judge and statesman in Illinois and Germany, and a Colonel of the U.S. Army who was a confessed enemy of slavery.
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Koerner in his youth.
Sophie Koerner, née Engelmann (1815-1888), spouse of Gustav Koerner
Replica of the coffin of Abraham Lincoln, Museum of Funeral Customs, Springfield, Illinois, 2006.
Koerner in his last years.![Warrant of Apprehension of the year 1833 for Gustav Peter Philipp Körner, exhibited by the Scrupulous Interrogation Office (German: Peinliches Verhör-Amt).[18]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Steckbrief.jpg/500px-Steckbrief.jpg)
Warrant of Apprehension of the year 1833 for Gustav Peter Philipp Körner, exhibited by the Scrupulous Interrogation Office (German: Peinliches Verhör-Amt).[18]
Storming the Guards of Frankfurt at night on 3 April 1833, contemporary history copper engraving.About this person
He married on 17 June 1836 in Belleville Sophia Dorothea Engelmann ; they had 9 children. He belonged to the co-founders and was one of the first members of the Grand Old Party, and was a close confidant of Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd, and had an essential role in his nomination and election for president in 1860.
