Lajos Kassuth This is an important ADS in which the famous Hungarian Lajos Kossuth authorizes a Charles Frederick Henningsen To Act as his Agent & Represenative

This is an important ADS in which the famous Hungarian Lajos Kossuth authorizes his representative and Secretary a Charles Frederick Henningsen to be able to act as his representative.

The document reads in full: “I hereby authorize F. Henningsen ass fully acquainted with my thoughts and wishes to act in my name and request those to whom he may address himself to consider him as so authorized, ‘  “ 24^th March , 1850. L Kossuth

With the help of his talent in oratory in political debates and public speeches, Kossuth emerged from a poor gentry family into regent-president of the Kingdom of Hungary. As the influential contemporary American journalist Horace Greeley said of Kossuth: "Among the orators, patriots, statesmen, exiles, he has, living or dead, no superior."

Kossuth's powerful English and American speeches so impressed and touched the famous contemporary American orator Daniel Webster, that he wrote a book about Kossuth's life. He was widely honoured during his lifetime, including in Great Britain and the United States, as a freedom fighter and bellwether of democracy in Europe. Kossuth's bronze bust can be found in the United States Capitol with the inscription: Father of Hungarian Democracy, Hungarian Statesman, Freedom Fighter, 1848–1849.

Lajos Kossuth, (19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman and governor-president of the Kingdom of Hungary during the revolution of 1848–1849.

Charles Frederick Henningsen (1815 – 14 June 1877) was a Belgian-American writer, mercenary, filibuster, and munitions expert. He participated in revolutions and civil wars in Spain, Circassia, Hungary, Nicaragua, and the United States. He has also written several works on the history of various European countries.

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