Dennis Black.

• Position: People & Politics - Brief article

A receipt in a box of Civil War love letters led to the discovery of a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence in Iowa recently. Senator Dennis Black located the document, which had been stored at the state archives in obscurity since it had been donated to the state in 1947. In 1843, former President John Quincy Adams commissioned the copies (printed from a copper plate made by J.W. Stone, which is on display at the National Archives) to go in the pocket of a book in the series "American Archives." The Iowa copy was donated by the Rev. Mary Thornton. She is a relative of Mathew Thornton...