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Henry Taylor Blow (1817–1875)
Henry Taylor Blow served in the Missouri State Senate from 1854 to 1858. In 1861 he was appointed minister, or ambassador, to Venezuela by President Abraham Lincoln but resigned to return to St. Louis and politics. He served in the United States Congress from 1863 to 1867. Two years later, President Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) made him minister to Brazil. Henry Taylor Blow is well known for his support for the freedom of Dred Scott (1800?–1858), an African-American man once enslaved to Blow’s parents, Peter and Elizabeth Blow.
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