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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 151

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Mr. Branch while in the cabinet. A most bitter debate followed in which Mr. Branch urges an investigation of his records. His one term in the house was spent in debating this question, and in useless debates on the bank question, which Mr. Branch was anxious to have settled.
John McKinley was elected as a Jackson democrat in 1826 in place of Henry Chambers, deceased.
Owing to the immense amount of land in Alabama upon which the Indian title had not been extinguished - between 28000000 and 29000000 acres 1 - besides public lands both north and south of the Tennessee river, Mr. McKinley interested himself at once in the public lands questions. He believed that the state had a right to all public lands within her limits and that the United States 
1. Alabama has only about 33,000,000 acres.

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149 Mr. Branch while in the cabinet. A most bitter debate followed in which Mr. Branch urges an investigation of his records. His one term in the house was spent in debating this question, and in useless debates on the bank question, which Mr. Branch was anxious to have settled. John McKinley was elected as a Jackson democrat in 1826 in place of Henry Chambers, deceased. Owing to the immense amount of land in Alabama upon which the Indian title had not been extinguished - between 28000000 and 29000000 acres 1 - besides public lands both north and south of the Tennessee river, Mr. McKinley interested himself at once in the public lands questions. He believed that the state had a right to all public lands within her limits and that the United States 1. Alabama has only about 33,000,000 acres.