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Polk, Felix Grundy, John Catron, and others) from 1835 to 1837, senator in the Tennessee General Assembly from 1839 to 1845, and an assiduous campaigner for the election of James K. Polk to the presidency of the United States. Upon Polk's inauguration, Laughlin traveled to Washington with Polk in expectation of appointment to an office in Polk's administration. He was rewarded with the office of recorder in the General Land Office.    Laughlin was an experienced diarist having kept several during various trips to Washington, to National Democratic Conventions, during sessions of the Tennessee General Assembly, and .while journeying from Nashville to Washington with President Polk. Upon arrival in Washington, he planned a new  diary, \"the Introduction to which is a fair and compendious account of my life, my family, connexions and adventures. A large portion of the book is taken up with this autobiography. I intend, in that book, and one like it to be marked No. 2, to take up my Diary on 1st May 1845, and continue it at least  while I remain in Washington. 1st. May is my birthday.\" Whether or not Laughlin continued his plan and prepared the second volume is uncertain, but a search for such a continuation in 1916 failed to produce the second volume containing the Washington journal part of the diary. All that survives of  this projected set is the first volume, bearing the title \"A Diary of Public events, and Notices of my Life and family-and of my private transactions  from January lst 1845 to __ and Sketch of my Life from Infancy, by Samuel Hervey Laughlin.\"    In writing his introduction, Laughlin drew on his memory, on family traditions, on former diaries, and on correspondence from kinsmen. His accounts of his family and life are anecdotal, incidental, and free-ranging, often including personal descriptions of kinsmen, neighbors, former teachers, and political acquaintances. In describing his paternal great uncle, John Sharp, and maternal grandfather, John Duncan, both of. whom were delegates to and anti-Federalists in North Carolina's Federal Constitutional Convention of 1788, Laughlin recounts events of the Canadian Campaign and later events of the American Revolution, the Battle of King's Mountain, and frontier and Indian wars in Tennessee."},{"label":"Digital Characteristics","value":"2 pages"},{"label":"Format","value":["Finding aids"]},{"label":"Rights","value":"The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers."},{"label":"Source Collections","value":["Samuel Laughlin Diary"]}],"description":"Samuel Laughlin Diary","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/ncdcr/iiif/480adc02-2711-4fe1-a03b-0116b6f19fe0/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Laughlin_Samuel_Hervey_Diary_MfP265_Final-1","height":1710,"width":1302,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/ncdcr/iiif/6936758f-0104-443e-823d-3ef272ab0925/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/ncdcr/iiif/6936758f-0104-443e-823d-3ef272ab0925","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1710,"width":1302},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/ncdcr/iiif/480adc02-2711-4fe1-a03b-0116b6f19fe0/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/ncdcr/iiif/6936758f-0104-443e-823d-3ef272ab0925/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/ncdcr/iiif/480adc02-2711-4fe1-a03b-0116b6f19fe0/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Laughlin_Samuel_Hervey_Diary_MfP265_Final-2","height":1707,"width":1297,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/ncdcr/iiif/d87ce71e-0976-44a2-a2a5-19fc4714b136/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/ncdcr/iiif/d87ce71e-0976-44a2-a2a5-19fc4714b136","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1707,"width":1297},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/ncdcr/iiif/480adc02-2711-4fe1-a03b-0116b6f19fe0/canvas/_2","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/ncdcr/iiif/d87ce71e-0976-44a2-a2a5-19fc4714b136/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/ncdcr/iiif/6936758f-0104-443e-823d-3ef272ab0925/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/ncdcr/iiif/logo"}