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Thomas H. Dudley was born Camden, New Jersey to British parents who emigrated from the parish of St. Peter, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England. Dudley was serving as the Camden County Clerk, and in 1845, he was admitted to the New Jersey Bar where he was called upon to write a City Charter for Camden. Dudley was a Republican, and worked hard to secure the presidential nomination for Abraham Lincoln, who in return appointed Dudley Consul for Liverpool in 1861. Dudley is often considered as Lincoln's spymaster because he helped reduce trade of military equipment between Britain and the Confederacy during the Civil War. He served as the Liverpool Consul for eleven years before returning home to America in 1872, where was elected a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1886, and was a member of the council in the American Philosophical Society in 1887, 1890, and 1893.

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Thomas H. Dudley was born Camden, New Jersey to British parents who emigrated from the parish of St. Peter, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England. Dudley was serving as the Camden County Clerk, and in 1845, he was admitted to the New Jersey Bar where he was called upon to write a City Charter for Camden. Dudley was a Republican, and worked hard to secure the presidential nomination for Abraham Lincoln, who in return appointed Dudley Consul for Liverpool in 1861. Dudley is often considered as Lincoln's spymaster because he helped reduce trade of military equipment between Britain and the Confederacy during the Civil War. He served as the Liverpool Consul for eleven years before returning home to America in 1872, where was elected a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1886, and was a member of the council in the American Philosophical Society in 1887, 1890, and 1893.
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