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John Tyler: “The urgent demands of the service for the Gulf of Mexico and the substitution of iron for wood in the construction of…”

On the recordFebruary 22, 1844
The urgent demands of the service for the Gulf of Mexico and the substitution of iron for wood in the construction of ships plainly point to the establishment of a navy-yard at some suitable place on the Mississippi.
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John Tyler
Whig · Virginia

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