The Game Of Draw Poker: Including The Treatise By R. C. Schenck And Rules For The New Game Of Progressive Poker
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Speech of Mr. Schenck, of Ohio, on the bill to refund General Jackson's fine, in the House of representatives, January 8, 1844
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Robert Cumming Schenck was an American congressman, diplomat, a Union Army general in the American Civil War.
Background
Schenck was born on October 4, 1809 in Franklin, Ohio, United States. He was a son of Gen. William Cortenus Schenck and his wife, Elizabeth Rogers. The father, a descendant of Roelof Martense Schenck who came to New Amsterdam probably about 1650, had migrated from New Jersey to Ohio, where he served in the legislature and is said to have founded the town of Franklin. His father died in 1821, leaving the boy under the guardianship of Gen. James Findlay of Cincinnati.
Education
Robert graduated from Miami University in 1827, remained there three years longer studying and teaching.
Career
Robert Cumming was subsequently admitted to the bar, and commenced practising law in Dayton.
Robert Schenck's political career began in 1838 with a fruitless campaign for election to the legislature on the Whig ticket. More successful later, he assumed the leadership of his party in the Ohio House during the terms of 1841-43.
In the national House of Representatives, 1843-51, he proved himself a vigorous Whig partisan, and upon the expiration of his fourth term in 1851 he was named by President Fillmore as minister to Brazil. Here he served until October 1853, acting with John S. Pendleton, charge d'affaires of the United States to the Argentine Confederation, in negotiating commercial treaties with Uruguay (1852) and Paraguay (1853), which were never proclaimed, and two treaties with the Argentine Confederation, signed July 10 and 27, 1853. He failed, however, to secure from Brazil a treaty providing for the free navigation of the Amazon.
Appointed brigadier-general of volunteers May 17, 1861, he took part in the first battle of Bull Run, served under Rosecrans and Fremont in West Virginia, and was wounded at Second Bull Run in August 1862, his right wrist being permanently injured. On August 30 he was promoted major-general of volunteers. Eliminated from active fighting, he was assigned in December 1862 to the command in Baltimore, where his measures were not always popular. In December of the following year he resigned his commission in order to sit once more in Congress.
In the House he disapproved strongly of Lincoln's moderation as shown in the Hampton Roads Conference. He was chairman of the House committee on military affairs and later of the Ways and Means committee.
Failing of reelection to Congress in 1870, Schenck turned again to diplomacy. He was appointed, February 10, 1871, a member of the Joint High Commission between the United States and Great Britain and in that capacity signed the Treaty of Washington, May 8, 1871. On December 22 preceding he had been designated to succeed the discredited John Lothrop Motley as minister to Great Britain, and he traveled to his post in May 1871. In spite of his failure to conclude a consular convention with Great Britain and to persuade Derby to support the United States in its demands on Spain for concessions in its Cuban policy, his record in London seems creditable, but in February 1876 he resigned under a cloud.
He had allowed himself to be made a director of the "Emma" silver mine in Utah which in 1871 used his name in the sale of stock in Great Britain. He was reproved by the Secretary of State at that time, and the failure of the Emma Mine brought his resignation, which Grant reluctantly accepted. The committee on foreign affairs of the House, which investigated the incident, found no cause to impugn Schenck's integrity, but condemned such transactions by American diplomats.
After Schenck's resignation he returned to Washington to practise law, achieved a reputation as an authority on draw poker (he published Draw Poker in 1880), and died in that city in 1890.
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Politics
Firstly, Robert Cumming was a member of Whig party, later - Republican.
Schenck was one of the first to urge Lincoln's nomination and was an active Republican campaigner in 1860. He distinguished himself for the violence of his attack on such "Copperheads" as Fernando Wood, whom he called "a specimen of the snake family" and for his opposition to President Johnson.
He was a strong antislavery man.
Personality
Robert Cumming was a master of invective and vituperation.
Interests
Schenck was also an accomplished scholar, he was interested in international and constitutional law, political history, and familiar with the whole range of modern literature, English, French, and Spanish.
Connections
On August 21, 1834, Schenck married Rennelche W. Smith, whose sister was the wife of his brother James Findlay Schenck. Six children were born to the union, all girls. Three of them died in infancy. Three daughters survived him. His wife died of tuberculosis in 1849 in Dayton, Ohio.