Signature
Mansfield, LA. Exceptional black ink signature: "J. B. Elam - Mansfield - Louisiana", executed on a 5.5" x 2.5" slip of paper. Fine condition. American politician who was a delegate to the Confederate Constitutional Convention, and who signed the Louisiana Ordinance of Secession on January 26th 1861. Elam was later elected Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives (Confederate States of America, serving from 1862-1864). More